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Hiya all! (edited Oct 14, 2017)
Edit 1: Very new to this all. Thank you!
Edit 2 (9/3):Audio cue was off, gap was created in re-edit, fixing frames, republishing. Fixed!
Edit 3 (9/5): Updated with gazza's poster idea.
Edit 4 (9/6): Updated based on feedback, fixing final errors. Pretty close to done!
Edit 5 (9/8): Woohoo. I think this baby is complete.
Edit 6 (10/13): Submitted for approval to IFDB; promo video
GotG2: Pruned Edition is about 16 minutes shorter than the official film. It's a respectful effort to streamline a highly enjoyable if slightly overlong story about unkillable space adventurers. My opinion is below the surface, like a second onion layer, there's a snappier, smarter telling of the same story in the same order with the same humor. It just needs the tiniest bit of pruning.
So! Here you will find a wonderful movie but with slightly trimmer action and banter, mildly reduced beats in dialogue, and so forth, hopefully never at the cost of real feels or jokes -- it aims to enhance what's there, nudging things forward where they otherwise tend to linger (before they spoil the feels and jokes they set up so well). Don't get me wrong, I love a dick and poop joke as much as the next goofball, and I preserve many (most) silly moments. This isn't a humorectomy, although that would be an interesting project. The edit considers the overall rhythm and makes frequent, small, hopefully not glaring reductions, scene by scene, of a few lines to sometimes just a few frames. I feel like the flow is improved in aggregate, and would like to share.
Approx. 150-200 edits. Some noticeable changes:
- No prologue. (See Note 1)
- No Stan Lee. (Update, feedback: Stan Lee reinstated!)
- Various quips / reactions removed.
- Gamora steps on more of Quill's lines.
- Drax, Mantis, Taserface come off a bit less obtuse.
- Fewer cartoon physics moments.
- Microedits in action to punch up and / or move along.
- Slightly less Baby Groot.
(Note 1) Do we need the omniscient flashback? I say no.
I believe the story is better served by the ambiguous arrival of the antagonist. We get to know him along with the heroes instead of waiting for them/the film to catch up to details that are Checkov's gunned before the opening credits. Sans prologue the movie kicks into gear faster, and feels more open-ended: it's comic book deep space, let it play in real time and modern day. The exposition-heavy second reel more than covers everything to satisfaction... and if it doesn't, I'd argue neither does an extra two minutes of god's eye narrative set 30 years earlier. The director's vision is intact. The movie has better momentum by introducing the antagonist at "protagonist speed".
Thank you again!
Edit 1: Very new to this all. Thank you!
Edit 2 (9/3):
Edit 3 (9/5): Updated with gazza's poster idea.
Edit 4 (9/6): Updated based on feedback, fixing final errors. Pretty close to done!
Edit 5 (9/8): Woohoo. I think this baby is complete.
Edit 6 (10/13): Submitted for approval to IFDB; promo video
GotG2: Pruned Edition is about 16 minutes shorter than the official film. It's a respectful effort to streamline a highly enjoyable if slightly overlong story about unkillable space adventurers. My opinion is below the surface, like a second onion layer, there's a snappier, smarter telling of the same story in the same order with the same humor. It just needs the tiniest bit of pruning.
So! Here you will find a wonderful movie but with slightly trimmer action and banter, mildly reduced beats in dialogue, and so forth, hopefully never at the cost of real feels or jokes -- it aims to enhance what's there, nudging things forward where they otherwise tend to linger (before they spoil the feels and jokes they set up so well). Don't get me wrong, I love a dick and poop joke as much as the next goofball, and I preserve many (most) silly moments. This isn't a humorectomy, although that would be an interesting project. The edit considers the overall rhythm and makes frequent, small, hopefully not glaring reductions, scene by scene, of a few lines to sometimes just a few frames. I feel like the flow is improved in aggregate, and would like to share.
Approx. 150-200 edits. Some noticeable changes:
- No prologue. (See Note 1)
- No Stan Lee. (Update, feedback: Stan Lee reinstated!)
- Various quips / reactions removed.
- Gamora steps on more of Quill's lines.
- Drax, Mantis, Taserface come off a bit less obtuse.
- Fewer cartoon physics moments.
- Microedits in action to punch up and / or move along.
- Slightly less Baby Groot.
(Note 1) Do we need the omniscient flashback? I say no.
I believe the story is better served by the ambiguous arrival of the antagonist. We get to know him along with the heroes instead of waiting for them/the film to catch up to details that are Checkov's gunned before the opening credits. Sans prologue the movie kicks into gear faster, and feels more open-ended: it's comic book deep space, let it play in real time and modern day. The exposition-heavy second reel more than covers everything to satisfaction... and if it doesn't, I'd argue neither does an extra two minutes of god's eye narrative set 30 years earlier. The director's vision is intact. The movie has better momentum by introducing the antagonist at "protagonist speed".
Thank you again!