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Article: Business Insider Talks Fanedits

Neat article...although including none's edit is a bit silly. I wonder who the writer is and how he's seen all these.
 
Thank you for sharing Q2! You should be proud they included two of your own works, and I'm loving the appreciation for The Silent Menace and Pulp Empire.
 
Here is another recent article about fanedits, this time from What Culture. They list 10 Films That Totally Transform Famous Films. Read it here.
 
23 out of the 30 total views for my 'Fear and Loathing in SW' edit (Since I re-uploaded it), are from the 4 hours since the article :lol:
 
TV's Frink said:
Neat article...although including none's edit is a bit silly. I wonder who the writer is and how he's seen all these.
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Ask him.
 
I don't care that much. ;)
 
Very cool. MOAR press about fanedits! MOAR!

Now I officialy ask the RedLetterMedia guys to make a special video about them watching fanedits.
My beer is ready.

MCP said:
Here is another recent article about fanedits, this time from What Culture. They list 10 Films That Totally Transform Famous Films. Read it here.
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Wow, they talked about Cosmogony in this one. Totaly unexpected and cool.
 
TMBTM said:
Very cool. MOAR press about fanedits! MOAR!

Now I officialy ask the RedLetterMedia guys to make a special video about them watching fanedits.
My beer is ready.
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That'd be great!


Wow, they talked about Cosmogony in this one. Totaly unexpected and cool.
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And it's NUMBAH ONE!
 
I'm all for the publicity. It looks like it gave the site a good boost and helps legitimize the art form. Although, I'm curious as to why BizInsider since there is no money to be made here.
 
Wow.... is that me in there.... :D yes, I believe it is! Nice article.
 
Both of those were great articles, although (as Frink noted) including the Star Wars AARRSSTW-WTSSRRAA is an odd choice in the first article, and including The Phantom Edit as #2 in the second article was disappointing.

I have tremendous respect for Mike J Nichols; he's a smart guy and this was one of the first well-known fan edits ever. But time has passed, and a number of other editors have done even better prequel edits than this. Also, the article is supposed to be about edits that transform a film. Just taking 15 minutes out of TPM isn't really transformative, not when compared with things like Pulp Empire or War of the Stars II: The Future in Motion. Those edits radically rework the original films and definitely make the viewers see them with new eyes. The Phantom Edit should maybe get a honorable mention; it definitely shouldn't be as high on this list as #2.

Anyway, it's good to see fan edits getting positive notice all the same. :)
 
I'm really surprised to see Bateman Begins on both those lists. For some reason, it's far and away my most popular edit despite a lot of mediocre reviews and, well, the fact that it's pretty mediocre. It was the first edit I ever attempted and really rough. *shrugs*

In any case, it's nice to see fanediting get some positive press.
 
Regarding Bateman Begins, I haven't seen it yet, but I suspect that the bold concept alone grabs outsiders' attention, rather than execution or final product, and it's quite possible that authors of these articles don't watch every single edit that they list and rely on other factors including reviews, IFDB listings, creative originality etc.. to create a rounded list. But even as someone who has done primarily Star Wars edits, I'm glad to see that for the most part Star Wars edits are did not dominate either article... The Phantom Edit is noteworthy from a historical standpoint, but it is certainly far from remotely being even one of the top 5 TPM edits, let alone Star Wars edits of all time. Star Wars was a huge primer for getting Fanediting off the ground, but as IFDB shows, there is soooooo much more to it than just SW, and I'm also always glad to see when articles don't focus on SW edits.
 
aweshum. good to see fanedits getting sweaty, grunting love!

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