I have this edit for months but now i finally saw it. and what can I say...
It is absolutely brilliant!
That is one of the best (if not the best) fanedit I ever saw!
Remixed by Jorge - and a remix it was! Jorge took the raw material (the original movie) and built a completely new movie with a completely different tone and a better pacing. it is now centered around John.
Watching the original at the theatre I had the same problems with it as most other hellblazer fans. It just felt like the big budget attempt to assimilate (not adapt) a great comic book and make a rather dissappointing movie of it. There was just too much that didn?t belong in it. The spirit was gone.
Now Jorge couldn?t turn Keanu into an english bloke (as it was meant to be) and yes he still uses the embarassing gun but ?Hellblazer? the movie felt much more like the comic books.
This fanedit wasn?t about taking out a scene here and making another scene shorter. Pretty much was completely rearranged without having the feeling to watch some handicrafted 35minutes something (like another of those ?give me all death scenes of ?putslashermovienamehere? in twenty minutes).
NO. This edit feels like really good work by somebody who knows his tools and (most important) knows what he?s doing.
I bow to the immense amount of absolute target-oriented creativity which was put into this edit.
So we have final numbers that go as follows:
video: 5 of 5
topnotch quality, no errors, glitches whatsoever)
audio: 4 of 5
good audio, no errors noticed although I like my edits nowaddays in 5.1
fanediting: 5 of 5 + 1 resulting in a total 6 of 5
(the one extra point came from the off topic moderating team after a few hours of discussion)
I watched an absolute masterpiece of the fanediting art. Everybody who thinks about doing a fanedit should watch this movie to see what is possible and how heavily a movie can be changed to its own good.
Thanks KBM for giving me great evening entertainment. The only reason I?ll consider to pull out the original from the shelve is to show somebody the difference to the fanedit...
... oh
and: nice job on this disco scene with the subtitles - great idea!
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and I still hate it that JC quits smoking. Too bad that you couldn?t do anything about that...
my wishlist for the revised version:
1. 5.1 audio
2. english subtitles
