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Thor: Ragnarok - Trimmed Edition

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Source:
iTunes 1080p MP4
Thor: Ragnarok FYC Soundtrack

Tools/Workflow:
Video: iTunes>TunesKit M4V Converter>Vegas Pro>
Audio: iTunes>TunesKit M4V Converter>Audacity (ffmpeg plugin)>5.1 wav files
Art: Official Posters>Gimp

Release Format:
1080p MP4 5.1 Surround

Progress: COMPLETE
Video Editing: ■■■■
Audio Editing: ■■■■
Artwork: ■■■■
Trailer: ■■■■

Next Steps:
Audio transitions
Disclaimer
Credits
Poster/Case Art
Trailer (possibly)

Original Run Time:
130 mins

Edit Run Time:
117 mins

Time Cut:
14 mins

Time Added:
1 min

Intent:
Trim down the overly ridiculous humor and some of the more over the top cgi fights in conjuction with rb's awesome GotG2 Pruned Edition.

Edit List:
  • Removed Thor spinning and interrupting Surtur's exposition
  • Removed awkward pause when Thor mistimes Mjölnir's arrival
  • Removed Skurge with the shake weight
  • Trimmed Loki death play
  • Removed Thor and Loki in New York and all scenes with Doctor Strange
  • Added aerial shot of cliffs to establish that Thor and Loki went straight to Norway
  • Trimmed Hela's initial assault on Asgard
  • Removed Thor's high pitch scream when he is about to meet the Grandmaster
  • Removed the Grandmaster banter between Scraper 142/Valkyrie & his assistant and rearranged scene
  • Removed the Grandmaster executing his cousin
  • Removed awkward pause when the Grandmaster doesn't explain why time is different on Sakaar
  • Removed Hela walking through Odin's treasure and her comedic comments
  • Removed Korg's paper, rock, scissors joke
  • Removed Korg chasing Loki's ghost and kicking the wall
  • Removed Korg complaining about the dirty weapons
  • Removed Korg's awkward misunderstanding of Thor flying with Mjölnir. Thor now simply says he flys with it, it returns to him, and Korg mentions that it sounds like an intimate loss.
  • Removed Thor saying it's about time and thumbs up to Valkyrie about an all woman elite squad
  • Removed Thor pleading and yelling to not have his hair cut
  • Removed Thor's lines about knowing Hulk from work
  • Removed Thor telling Hulk about losing his hammer and Loki being alive
  • Removed Loki yelling "Yes! That's what it feels like" and "Sorry, I just love this sport"
  • Removed Thor telling Hulk, "you're embarrassing me. I told them we were friends."
  • Removed Hela's continuing lines about executioners. She now transitions straight to "it's an honor..." after saying "..execute their vision"
  • Cropped and sharpened the image to remove Hulk's cheeks
  • Removed Hulk's medicine ball bouncing back and hitting Thor in the face; Added What Heroes Do from the soundtrack to remove the audio dropout
  • Removed the "access denied" forced gags
  • Removed Banner grabbing his crotch and complaining about Stark's pants being too tight
  • Removed all references of "the devil's anus"
  • Removed Thor talking about the time Loki stabbed him after being a snake when he was eight
  • Removed Korg talking to Miek about eggs
  • Removed Korg's awkward lines after he first ask "who's asking" to Valkyrie
  • Removed the Grandmaster's lines about being insecure about the word slave
  • Cut the "get help" scenario/scene
  • Removed Valkyrie telling Thor & Banner the ship was used for orgies and their responses
  • Removed Banner announcing they are approaching the devil's anus
  • Removed Banner talking about Asgard when they arrive
  • Removed Skurge's line about bad things after he announces there will be consequences; used soundtrack to rebuild surround track
  • Removed Banner impacting on the rainbow road as it would have killed him (though everyone should have died based on their injuries in this movie...)
  • Rearranged scenes of Hulk fighting Surtur and Thor's response 
  • Rearranged Surtur destroying Asgard to removed Korg's lines about preserving Asgard if the foundation holds and his lines after it blows up
  • Removed Thor's lines about not knowing where they should head. Now he looks at Heimdel and back towards the camera and simply says earth.
Other possible edits:
Lessen Valkyrie's drunkenness
Rework Korg's character

Special Thanks:
My wife who wanted to watch the movie so I "pre-screened" it for her :)
rb for his awesome GotG2 Pruned Edition which spurred this on
To my other two projects that are giving me a headache and the fulfillment this brings at actually completing a project again
You for reading all of this ;)

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So this is probably the worst split/continuous shot I've seen. Skurge breaks these two shots up with his shake weight thing. Too bad they couldn't have just rendered the same background or at least have some continuity with the floor.....
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Thanks for doing this edit, I've been hoping someone would tackle this since the idea of trimming the excess humour was first floated on the forum. All sounds great, though I don't know if cutting all the Dr Strange stuff will be problematic for future MCU continuity. Perhaps have two versions, one with Dr Strange left in?
 

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I'm not so sure about the words "Removed the Grandmaster..." in your cutlist :D . "Added the Grandmaster..." would be better. But seriously I guess I'll have to buy myself a copy of Thor3 to watch your edit. The humour definitely went to far at points (e.g. the shake weight) so a pruned edition style edit will be welcome.
 

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stferguson78 said:
Thanks for doing this edit, I've been hoping someone would tackle this since the idea of trimming the excess humour was first floated on the forum. All sounds great, though I don't know if cutting all the Dr Strange stuff will be problematic for future MCU continuity. Perhaps have two versions, one with Dr Strange left in?

I'm struggling to see where the scene with Strange might be relevant in future; it felt very crowbarred-in to me and was made worse by then adding nothing of consequence (though I did like the joke about Loki falling for thirty minutes or however long it was :) ).
 

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I was planning my own edit of Thor 3 for a while. Only ever did the very end of the film, but it looked pretty good. 


None-the-less I'll be looking forward to this edit as the other ITW one seems to be dead. Strange's scenes being cut makes sense as he adds nothing but a video game style checkpoint, but it did have some good laughs (Thor's umbrella and Loki falling). 

Are you planning on doing any regrading? It looks beautiful, but just a tad flat. A bit of contrast and saturation would fix it I think.
 

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That One Guy said:
stferguson78 said:
Thanks for doing this edit, I've been hoping someone would tackle this since the idea of trimming the excess humour was first floated on the forum. All sounds great, though I don't know if cutting all the Dr Strange stuff will be problematic for future MCU continuity. Perhaps have two versions, one with Dr Strange left in?

I'm struggling to see where the scene with Strange might be relevant in future; it felt very crowbarred-in to me and was made worse by then adding nothing of consequence (though I did like the joke about Loki falling for thirty minutes or however long it was :) ).

You might be right, but I suppose there's a chance that in avengers 4, Thor & Dr Strange have an encounter & already know one another
 

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stferguson78 said:
That One Guy said:
stferguson78 said:
Thanks for doing this edit, I've been hoping someone would tackle this since the idea of trimming the excess humour was first floated on the forum. All sounds great, though I don't know if cutting all the Dr Strange stuff will be problematic for future MCU continuity. Perhaps have two versions, one with Dr Strange left in?

I'm struggling to see where the scene with Strange might be relevant in future; it felt very crowbarred-in to me and was made worse by then adding nothing of consequence (though I did like the joke about Loki falling for thirty minutes or however long it was :) ).

You might be right, but I suppose there's a chance that in avengers 4, Thor & Dr Strange have an encounter & already know one another

Even if they do, it seems unlikely that it would be confusing to an audience unless those scenes were kept in Thor 3.

(Though I readily admit I'm generally uninterested in continuity porn minutiae like this, because for me it doesn't add anything to the stories - more often than not I feel that the MCU's habit of introducing secondary characters into films comes at the expense of each film's pacing and runtime, so for me less is more).
 

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Interesting. I think I'll check this edit out. I own the Blu-ray, so maybe this'll inspire me to do my own edit. :)
 

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That One Guy said:
more often than not I feel that the MCU's habit of introducing secondary characters into films comes at the expense of each film's pacing and runtime, so for me less is more

I agree. 


Dear MCU Continuity, 

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And yet another cgi background (and eye too) reused shot that I can't (easily) splice together...
 

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Sorry I'm not understanding this "splice together" issue.
 

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I remember thinking that eye makeup was bad when I watched it.

He just looks like he's squinting from a bad face paint.
 

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TM2YC said:
Sorry I'm not understanding this "splice together" issue.

It looks like the physical elements were filmed in a single shot which was then split into two shots during editing, but early enough for the post-production process to allow a lack of consistency in the CGI background elements. So if you want to reconstruct the original single shot (for pacing, to allow removing certain lines, etc) you've got to deal with inconsistent CGI elements at the transition point.
 

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^ This. The only difference between the shots is that the first they zoomed in and changed the eye and background. It just makes it kind of bothersome for switching scenes around that should have been one continuous shot.
 

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These are alternate takes, or deleted scenes? or they are one take (with no frames missing) that have a shot in between that you want to take out?
 

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TM2YC said:
These are alternate takes, or deleted scenes? or they are one take (with no frames missing) that have a shot in between that you want to take out?

They were filmed continuously in front of a green screen and then probably separated during the editing process. VFX was most likely added afterwards by different individuals. My hope was to combine them back together, but I found a workable solution that removes the one of them.
 

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What about cutting as many instances as possible of Asgardians referring to themselves and each other as gods and goddesses? It annoyed me, since it's inconsistent with the first two movies and makes the characters feel more arrogant (which is fine for Hela, but not so great for Thor and Odin). 

In "Thor", Loki briefly mentioned the idea of humans worshiping Asgardians as gods in a dismissive way, as if to imply that humans who thought of them as such were silly and naive. Then, in "Thor: The Dark World", Loki once mentioned that he wanted to rule Earth like a benevolent god, to which Odin rebuked him by saying, "We are not gods. We're born, we live, we die, just as humans do."
 

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Well, Norse mythology calls Thor and Odin gods, so I don't really have an issue with it. Besides, if you read the synopsis on the back of the first Thor it says, "The world has many heroes...but only one is a god." Loki's definition isn't the same as Thor or Odin's definition of gods.
 

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The god thing is pretty heavy, psychologically. But I'm speaking as someone who knows nothing of clinical psychology, of course. Not a doctor!

My point though: if people call you a god for a few thousand years you might start to believe it, even if you know in the back of your head that's not really technically right.
 
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