tylerdurden389 said:Been meaning to watch this for probably close to a year. Watched it just now. I LOVED it!! The new opening is a great way to get the story going. The new ending was also a great way to get to the conclusion faster. The commercials are what did it for me. It was definitely cool seeing commercials for stores based in NYC since that's where I'm from.
My only dislike was presenting this in black and white. I was really looking forward to see the grainy-ness and color deterioration. Now, I understand that since the original is in black and white, maybe that's what you were going for. Then again, I was born in 1984, so I obviously can't connect with what you're aiming for from a nostalgic viewpoint. However, what attracted me to this fan edit is my obsession for nostalgia. I loved Grindhouse. I can still remember the commercials and tv station logos for movies I watched as a kid that my mom taped off of tv. Also because this is one of my favorite movies of course.
Anyway, overall this was a great edit. 9/10.
You mean as an alternate version ?tranzor said:I am in the workings of making a sort of companion piece to this in the same style.
NewDeli said:You mean as an alternate version ?
Well, if you ever plan to do a straight update, I might have some suggestions (some were already stated by other members, I'll rephrase them if you don't mind) :
- Less grain and noise, I don't mind some speckles here and there, but I didn't like the vertical lines every other second*
- All kids games / toys / venues advert removed as well as the knitting machine one, other ads gathered as an intermission
- Get rid of the Fright Night still; Instead, insert an animated logo such as youtube.com/watch?v=vl_SAxsx_5s (ignore the hanging rope frames) right before and after the intermission
* HPLHS Studios did just that with their first film the Call Of Cthulhu (2005), and I found it equally distracting
Your TV edit is brilliant just as it is, there are merely ideas that crossed my mind while watching it. This said, they should be easy to implement and faithful to your initial vision, I believe. Lastly, I didn't mention switching everything to black and white, as the viewer has a lot of options to do it by himself, dunno may be you could give it some (more) thoughts:decision:.