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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 218 points 7 months ago (9 children)

I wish films became open source after a short period, that is, I want to see studios eventually release all their archival materials for every film so that fans can release their own cuts. Eventually it'd just be normal to see perfected versions of films. As cultural norms change the work can be tailored or lampooned to stay relevant and valuable.

[–] Seraph@kbin.social 96 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"But you have to experience this exactly as the Director intended!"

No, I fuckin don't.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 82 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I want to see how hard directors start working when they realize some sockfucker will do it better for free in ten years

[–] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago

Sockfucker

Stolen 🤣🤘🏽

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

I want in on this parallel timeline.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I want to see all the DC movies without Warnwr Brothers influence.

[–] NerfHerder@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

That would include an entirely new cast

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Is this not essentially the DCAU?

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

In reality they're scared of some custom spins damaging the brand.

[–] evranch@lemmy.ca 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

For example: Star Wars OT has been released so many times with different cuts that there are fan edits that pull scenes from all of them and discard the trash ones to make a superior movie.

These are now recommended by fans as canon for new viewers, instead of any particular Lucas release.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[–] evranch@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As well as the Despecialized Editions, there's the Custom Special Editions

https://ifdb.fanedit.org/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-custom-special-edition/

Which blend Despecialized and SE for the classic film with improved graphics and remastered colour, with bad CGI and added scenes removed. However some added scenes that fit the original narrative are retained for context.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you think we will we ever see darth jar jar?

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's not a story Disney would tell you. It's a meme legend.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

So we use AI text to video.

[–] yagrum@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

No disrespect for the despecialized and other awesome work out there but 4k77, 4k80, and 4k83 are 100% the way to go.

[–] Dalvoron@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Only one I'm aware of is the despecialised edition - a restoration of the OT using HD footage from newer releases (so han shoots first again among other things)

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wish George could just accept that he is bad at editing. It's been the bane of SW since the beginning.

[–] joe_cool@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Anything horrible George did pales when compared to Disney.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Copyright law is nobly protecting us from MAGA LotR 🤣

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

"... build a wall around Mordor and make Sauron pay for it..."

"Make Middle-earth Great Again"

"Thin Gondorian Line"

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I dunno about that. It's always easier to iterate on or 'improve' existing work. Creating it from scratch and having it be good is the hardest part. I think most creative people would be unhappy about that arrangement.

Not to mention that if you ask 3 people how to improve something you'll get 4 different answers. And I really don't have the time to watch 32 different versions of Aliens to figure out which one I like best.

[–] realbadat@programming.dev 11 points 7 months ago

And those 3 fan editors come up with 3 wildly different end results off the same video.

It is absolutely nuts, and they are fantastic.

https://ifdb.fanedit.org/ifdb/

Star Wars: The Coaxium Heist (Solo) is fantastic. Terminator Enhanced Edition cleans up the VFX impressively.

Whether you get one bit of pure gold in 10000 or not, that one bit of gold is worth it.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

It would be a bit of a crapshoot, but perhaps the intrinsic barrier to entry of doing massive amounts of unpaid video editing would filter out a lot of the less well intentioned

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I kinda love how many "unnecessary" scenes are in the hobbit films, which allowed a fan-made cut of all of them into one film and made it leagues better.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Tolkien edit? Yeah it was good, that's what I was thinking of when I came up with this idea

[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I know what I'm watching tonight, thanks!

[–] Glowstick@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And it doesn't have to take away from company profits, in fact it can add much MORE profit. Just make it so that all the individual uncut raw reels are freely available, but reassembled movies can only be uploaded and shown on the company's streaming service. This'll create a huge increase in viewer demand for the company's properties, with basically zero cost to the owners.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That takes away all the enthusiasm of the creators

[–] Glowstick@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Steve@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are you doing all this work to share with fellow movie fans for free, or are you working for paramount plus for free?

[–] Glowstick@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yes, there are a million zillion film people who are absolutely DREAMING of being able to do this. The idea of this isn't that someone else can take a film and reedit it to make money, that misses the point entirely. It's the same way how people write massive amounts of fanfic for free, because they're passionate about it and just want to do it and want to share it with other fans

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I want to see the 4 hour cuts of every Dune movie Denis Villenueve makes.

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Oh man I'd kill for an extra hour and a half of Sicario. I'd settle for another 30 minutes if it included another scene similar to the border crossing

[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That would be awesome. Supposedly there was a director's cut of Event Horizon that the studio redid because it was to brutal and they lost the original footage.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would watch the shit out of that

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 7 months ago

I'm proud to say that as a Grown Ass Man™, I would be watching that wrapped in a blanket through a slit between my fingers...

[–] gap_betweenus@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

No remix culture for movies is just dumb.

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Totally, and also if you're not home for 3 consecutive nights, it should be legal for me to enter your home and redecorate it. I have vision, after all.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

You wouldn't download my home, the spice drawer needs a deep cleaning