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HERE IS THE FULL BREAK DOW OF CHANGES TO X MEN to get to V 3.21.

Scroll down if you just want the 3.21 changes
WRAITH

THIS IS THE DEFINITATIVE CHANGES LIST

NOTE Requiem WAR is based on the Tilogy edits so the following represents ALL change in the order they were made which was

TRILOGY v1
REQUIEM WAR v1
REQUIEM War V2
REQUIEM WAR v3
TRILOGY v3


CHANGES

Using techinques described by the Phantom Editor, I have recrafted the Xmen trilogy into a 2 different edits.

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X-MEN - TRILOGY V1
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X1

1. New Fox Logo
2. Hybrid new opening titles combining X1,2 and 3 plus deleted scenes and credits and all opening narations edited down.
3. Barn door custom open and new caption to Washington.
4. John Ottman Score added to speech opening.
5. Opening WW2 Flashback deleted, now told as a reveal in Magneto thread to mirrow Wolverene and enhance his anger.
6. Film opens with Jean Gray flashback from X3 since that is what all 3 films are about.
7. Washington speeech shortened removing telepathic reveal that is more dramatic in first Xavier/magneto chat
8. Washington sppech split with cut at correct script point to Rogue reveal.
9. Magneto Xavier first chat with new flashback to WW2. 1st of 4. No reveal yet John Ottman underlytin music X2.
10. Rogue reveal trimmed twice to keep dramatic tension and clipped early. Score segue from X2.
11. Switch to divided congresional speech with new music segue.
12. Wolverene fight dropped, but opening in Alberta re-editted to show he is fighter. Deleted cage fight. Reveal is more ysterious later when barfight breaks out and blades appear thus removing another duplication.
13. TV news trimmed to remove needless overexposition of Ellis Islan
14. Split Senator flight, moving first halfo to follow Mageneto "test"comment to speed pace. Chat trimmed in 2 places to remove duplication and redundancy.
15. Magneto flashback added to sabertooth chat. Sabertooth rendered mute for the whole film.
16. Interspesed with Xavier scoole reveal and baco to Chooper fight.
17. Wolverene examination set to X"2 music and duplication of Wolverene amnesia and powers removes with right head urn edit point (lucky)
18. POst toad eating bird, senators disgust editted out. Childish!
19. Repetative exposision removed and "who are you people" is he a complete idiot...he hates mutants...so the blue chick and geern fellow must be...???
20. Jean Gray telepathy on Wolverene incl extra shot of Striker to tie into X2
21. Wolveren Flash 2, insert xrays from X3 and another striker shot.
22. Rogue / Mystique garde chat moved up to follow liquide senator escape
23. Senator Transformation interspliced with final Magneto reveal
24. Slight reordering at whiteout to correct continuity error
25. Beach Liquid senator follow XAvier chat with Cylops, jellyfish close up removed (patronising)
26. Segue from Magneto jail to rogue
27. Motorcycle cheese speed up like batman cut down to credible shots only
28. Redunt rogue exposition removed on train and music segue added to maintain tension
29. Mother's patronisning line to kid on smiling at Cyclops removed. Preeching to kids in audience...NO WAY
30. SAbertooth line to Storm in station removed. Childis and more speeaking effective when Xavier controls.
31.Toads line to Sabertoot "quit playing around" removed. These are the bad guys not James bond
32. Magneto "young people"jibe removed. Makes him more ruthless.
33. Sabertooth and Mystique boat attack cut. Superflous and pacing. How boat is taken hinted at when Rogue sees dead crewman.
34. Magneto speech trim "small consolation". Out of place
35. Cyclops plan redundancy removed, and VFX swapped and wolverene stares at storm not cyclops
36. Musis X2 added to briefing to maintain tension, fades out in jet on "yellow spandex"
37. coast guard jibe about storm removed
38. Cyclops blasting toad goop off Jean deleted. Obviously added as after thought since overview sjhot she is still strugging. Clearly Cyclops peels off as you presume. This removes continuity error and speeds pacing.
39. Toads line to storm in fight removed
40. Ellis Island openning trimmed. One section removed and ref to USA removed. Superheroes are Global not just American.
41. Storms 2 lines to Toad removed. This is not James Bond and it makes her sadistic, which there has been no hint off. Save that for Jean Gray.
42. Mystique "storm" Q to Wolverene no useful. Removed. Then confusion is better set up for reveal.
43. "we saw the senator" cut. Leads nowhere
44. Terrible MAtrix style swing on the Statue spokes deleted.
45. Sabertooth "you owe me a scream" deleted. Now more menacing

X1 - X2 Bridge
46. Xavier asks Wolverene if saying goodbye, cut to Rogue but no news broacast with Mystique reveal. Reveal Later in Whitehouse
47. Xavier Magneto end chat trimmed and cut to Whitehouse tour.
48. Establishing shot of whithouse from Independence day flared and intercut to X2 Whitehouse log.
49. Tourguide intro removed for pacing
50. Entire museum sequence deleted. redundant, patronising, cheesy and Xavier new power more dramatically revealed at end of this section.
51. Additional Music cue from X 3 used to bridge sequence and flash plus sound added.

X2

52. Whitehouse Fight the same but new music bridge from X2 used to segue into "who attacked" at Xavier school which now follows whitehouse.
53. Xavier Chat cuts out early and stright to Striker intro. Knife punch hole scene used later to more sinister effect.
54. Chat cuts out early on "what do you have planned" to increase mystery and suspense. leaves an impled hole.
55. Segue to Wolverine at Alkalai lake with inserted deleted scene from X3 to establish trip. Avoids to quick a resolution.
56. Newly constructed Alkalai lake flashback removed on final edit.
57. Finger craking split, secon part here to reestablish Whitehouse and chat about X plane in school. Underscored with additional music
58. Scene with striker plan to raid school dropped to later point to creat more dramatic thrust later and increase mystery and sinister striker.
59. Iceman handshake trimmed to remove "call me iceman" His talent is obvious, and reveal is otherwise patronising.
60. Cerbro scene trimmed to remove redundant exposition with first filem overlap.
61. Cerebro slash in colour corrected to match latter part of sequence in Red.
62. Dialogue reposition and one scene plays in reverse to correct continuity.
63. Xaviers exposition of Logan's Skeleton removed as a repetion and redundant.
64. Washington Archive sequence deleted. No need to know about Cerebro 2 yet. magneto reveals later.
65. Deletion of this section also removes anomolous sub-plot with prison guard that leads noehere since Magneto escapes so Mystique attack in bar on guard also deleted.
66. Segue directly to extended jet sequence showing Jeans powers on increasing leading to X3. Music from X3 added. Dialogue fade from Thatrical to Delted scene
67. Deleted scene trimmed to remove humour which diminishes Jeans reinstated moment.
68. Cut to Boston to maintain momentum with new Washington pan shot from JFK.
69. Staiker plan intercut with nightcrawler would to establish connection and immenent attack on school
70. Wolverine and Insomniac kid scene deleted
71. Wolverine chat re: parents not knowing he is at Mutant school.
72. troops sneak in on Insomniac kid Cut
73. Attack begins with Helicopter appraoch and immediate gunfight.
74. Wolverine extended violent on camera scream added from deleted scenes.
75. Combined 2 driving escaper scenes to one and removed music mistake. Now beacon activation is deliberate.
76. Short interim troops crate drop in School basement dropped.
77. Mystique metal sequence ingection deleted. Scanner would pick this up. Only credible solution is AHemoglobin based magneto escape.
78. Magneto Escape moved up to allow time for him to be in the forset later.
79. Magneto escape deletes the reference to Mystique. Too much iron left in as sarcaastic sick humour which is how it plays anyway.
80. Clothes dressing at bobby's cut.
81. Jet sequence with nightcrawler moved up and end of Nightcrawler speech cut.
82. Remainder of sequence prior to attack at Bobby's unified and shortened. Cheesey lines deleted and tension increased by reodering.
83. Nightcrawler "could take close look" cut
84. After woods magneto speech segue to Alkalai Lake
85. First part of now split Stiker to xavier reveal with "controlling them" line from xavier crossfades to Wolverine to re-enforce Striker previous control of him
86. Cut to Wolverene and Jean, trim link and new audio segue to
87. Second half of striker xavier cut to mystique/or jet fly off
88. Jet Crash segues directly to Mageneto chat in forset cutting out rogur chat to Wagner
89. He's at Alkalai Lake segeus directly to Alkalai lake, relocating Logan/Jean kiss
90. Cut to first half of Strike/ Xavier interrogation now split into 2 segments. Segue to Control of Deathstrike to Wolverene implying relatinoship to striker.
91. Cut to second half of Xavier Striker deleting Mystique seduction which serves not plot prupose, only SPFX
92 Delet part of hologram exposition re inserting later dialogue to earlier part of sequence. Stroms line delivered over shoulder now.
93. Mageneto intervention on wolverene goinging deleted, keeping character firm and mystique shot cut but musin kept over Logan as if formulating a plan
94. Insert a shot not used due to earlier deletion of nightcrawler looking which no appears to be at Wolveren.
95. Shot playback reversed to get more affective headshake.
96. Wolveren apprach down spill way trimmed, and so is Strike view and dialogur in 2 places.
97. Insert cc TV reverse played to situate striker viewing.
98. Explosion at control room cut to commet that mutants have entered the base cutting out "sergeant" to improve audio segue
99. Cerebro entrance trimmed and reedited so no vocal speaking. They are supposed to be telepathic for crying out loud!
99. Cut to Magneto, Mystique and Jean on walk
100. Extended Deathstrike/Wolverene fight from Delketed scenes and not interuppted by Pyro walking off.
101. Control room discussion and Strike instructing Jason deleted for pacing and redundancy
102. Pryo leave plane moved to hear. "you laways do what you're told" cuts well to Xavier being controlled.
103. 2 mutant kill build ups combined. WE GET IT YOU KNOW!!
104. Magnetos levitation pointless in Cerebro 2 so cut. Plan is not exposed yet, scene trimmed early
105. Striker lostening altered. The 2 cerebro human kilss combined and not zoom to striker.
106. Striker zoom reversed and relocated.
107. President headache removed.
108. "kurt Wagner" line removed from climax
109. "hello" ends the entry to Cerebro 2, since Kurts line daft having just been told not to believe anything.
110. The 2 find humans combined and water gush moved up to remind of impending disaster and increas tension.
111. Wolverene / Striker end chat removed. Does not further this plot, and jet now goes to DC (deleted Scene)
112. Speech to president has redunandant " we are mutants" removed... DERR...we all know and so does the Commander in Chief by now.
113. End of Whitehouse sequence plays over music and looks down to notes and segues to the office

X2 - X3 Bridge (extensively revised for version 3.21 further down)

114. Music added to Xavier discussin Jean to give scene continuity to X3 bridge
115. End of X" in corridor now with Cyclops and Woverene, no cut back tp class room

X3 Trilogy
120. New "3 months" caption and music segue to Storm and Xavier in corridor discussing changes
121. Pissed off Storm removed. Classroom opening relocated for better use.
122. Pissed off Rogue moved to to hear, Cyclops mourning delayed to distance from end of X2
123. Hank introduced at the school to beeter effect, but "i hear you are quite an animal" removed.
124. announcement of cure and XAvier line removed. Cure announcement delayed.
125. Mourning cylops plays now over "dark phoenix" theme and cuts striaght to corridor walk-off making it more immediate.
126. Now cut to Mutant Affairs HQ straight to Mystiwue interrogation since we know she is already caprured due to Hank's comments to Xavier and Storm.
127. "homo sapiens" comment cut to relocated classromm scene with Xavier talking about responsible mutant power which workd better given relocated interrogation.
128. Mutant power speec has "telepathic" desctiption removed, too patronising, and "einstein" piece with class removed. The kid is precocious..is that a mutant power?
129. In order to justify Xavier being disctracted, "scitt" call from jean inserted which foretells the next Jean related scene.
130. Better use of Xavier scense than storm being pissed off which is deleted since scene was only to remind us of her powers.
131. Cut to Briefing at Mutant HQ, removing the line "good morning Mr President" since he is a different bloke. This will be done throughout.
133. Interrogation extensively reedited and restricted to Magneto and mobile prisons removing the cure refs which we already know about.
134. Mobile prisons comment cuts straight to mobile prison, which is dramatically more effective.
135. Mr President is anonymised with line removal and guard uses stronger language lifted from deleted scenes.
136. Cut to Worthington Labs and announcement using alternate view from DVD documentary to remove ahot of president in the Whitehouse.
137. Deleted scene where Pyro tells Magneto about cure added approach for bearded take, segue to clean shaven take
138. Relocated Angel cure sequence to extended Magneto recue gap. Sequence reedited at to allow music segue. Plus extra school shot
139. "who would want this cure" re-located to here.
140. As per movie to Mutant church sequence with new music underscore and removale of superflous refs to Magneto's power after he leaves stage.
141. Mutant Lab scene moved to hear, new audio and music segue constructed from Helicopter Audio from Dleeted X2 dream to make sequence and music work.
142. Cyclops at lake continues until Alkalai Lake superflous dialogue removed. "you don't want to be hear" and "i can take care of that"
143. Xavier's exposition about how Jean survived removed. POintless. We get it.
144. XAviers patronising explanation about Phoenix reduced and Logan's "what"confusion removed. He ain't that stoopid.
145. "cage the beast" comment by Xavier removed. ending retimed to allow segue to mobile prison, removing Logan's walkout.
146. Juggernauth release line "i waann pee" and Magnetow lead in deleted.
147. Whithouse scene with Beast removed. Superfluous and new president removal.
148. New Audio segue to Jean recovery.
149. Delete "back where we first met" etc by Jean
150. 2 vindicative Xavier lines deletd "what have u done" and I warned you.
151. Jeans house segues in and out of extended fight scene from deleted scenes, not using the juggernaut kick off provocation
152. Selected lines from the phsychic battle between Phoenix and Dr X mixed into fight
153. Funeral relocated to end of film, feels too much like and end at the wrong spot. A puase yes, but too final.
154. Music changed to more sombre not upbeat like a film end.
155. Sequence discussing school and Angel moved up as suitable mourning.
156. Booby and Kitty sequence kept in since it acts to lift the mood gradually.
157. Extended skating shown, since Rogue would only leave over a kiss, not a skating lesson. This also justifies her love and decision later to take the cure.
159. Rogue departue with Logan deleted, referred to in Bobby's Q&A
160. Continue with relocated Logan / Jean Telepathy and leaving school.
161. Delete first protest scene with Pyro and Bobby. Does not fwd the story, pointless, and not even good character moment. We see protests later.
162. New fade using deleted scenes footage from unused bearded magneto to segue to Magneto camp and magneto emerging from the bunker from deleted scene
163. Jean power sequence is a blend of the deleted scene with a metal mug and the theatrical "cure gun" with a new special effect converting the gun to molten metal so we see her next big power.
164. Pyro magneto chat re: xavier dleted to allow comment about "fight begins now" to cut to crowd shot of Wolverene.
165. Wolverene chase in forest removed, since added late in shooting. Evidenced by continuity erro re: reparing vest and jackes sleeve close up of claw extension when only in vest.
166. New bridge sequence from Magneto walking away from jean to give speech and continuity correct entry by Logan with editing implyin Jean senses him, which is consistent with Logan hearing her in the cementary.
167. New bridge using X2 unused Capitol sunset shot to magneto reeditted threat removing "first assualt" which is also deleted.
168. Dialoue of "magento wants a war" over pastic weapons delted scene integrated with exiting deployment shot
169. Rogue cure seek cuts to Xavier school in daylight which reveals a continuity error. Theatrical release goes ROGUE day FORST night, School Day Bridge night in 4 mins...thats 2 days. Placing in correct order allows ....
170. New segue to danger room intro stright to Magneto base loation and into deleted scene featuring beast phone call which only works if he knows...and the proof it was like that is the unbuttoned shirt in the deleted scene.
171. The split School sequence continues with dramatic music seugue too keep up drama and tension. Return to original music at "are you ready"
172. Interior Jet sequence deleted for pacing reasons. Cut stright too second jet shot and audio segue.
173. Pre-attack Magneto attack sequence joined to the later shot so single approach to Golden Gate
174. Juggernaught can't swim removed.
175. kids playin in car removed
176. Going to Stealth mode shots "removed" and replaced so invisibility not happening. plus 2 inserts of control panels to preserve audio
177. Storm creates a wave deleted scenes added to the Phoenix climax (jean scarred girl not added)
178. Repeated beat shot later deleted, as is a repeated Storm shot.
179. Fight Build up reorganised to accomodate.
180. Close up shot of 2 magneto henchmen replaced with Alt X men to facilitate previous deletions
181. Bobby Freezes Phatt
182. Kitty's Dickhead line removed. Keeps Juggies motivation firm. ("here's Juggy" not used here.)
183. Bobby Pyro fight has one line trimmed "stayed at school"
184. Reaction of Iceman Pyro fight also trims the response line
185. Insert of Logan lighting cigar from Danger Room
186. Movement to new location inserted to maintain continuity
187. "that was my last cigar" and lighting from open "danger room" insterted,
188. "we're getting killed out here" by Storm inserted from opening
189. Reconstruct second car run to ease back to continuity
190. Logan extended torture from deleted scenes
191. exttended Phoenix Destruction.
192. Segue to original Xavier Funeral as if for all 3
193. Insert 2 extra tombstones
194. Reverse pann shot to end on Xavier plinth
195. "You're back" line deleted Bobby to Rogue
196. Rogue "keeps her powers " as per deleted scene
197. Film ends as theatrical cut from here
198. New end Titles amalamating amjor credits from all 3 films
199. All 3 credit rolls sped up with cast removed
200. New audio sugue to Xavier in Body

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Using the above trilogy cut as the raw material here are the additional alterations for the REQUIEM WAR 1.0
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REQUIEM WAR V1.0
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X1 - Aditional changes

AS PER TRILOGY 1.0 WITH FOLLOWING ALTERATIONS

1. Different narration from unused X3 openning and graphics which cuts to senator in Helicopter sequence following TRILOGY opening. This sequence is trimmed to remove the island and unified. Giving the impression of travelling to a vote. The Mention of Jean is anticipatory now which connects to previous scene and increases curiosity.
2. Rogue romantic thread completely removed from this version, so next scene cuts to re-edited Alberta sequence,
3. First with Wolverene fighting only, with Rogue removed. Slight trim, and cheesy "don't kick him in the balls" removed. Trilogy scene of Rogue entering bar moved to hear. Split occurs in Truck to senate.
4. Cut to FULL unified senate speech with same additional music segue from TRILOGY but Senator assistant removed from scene since presumably dead from arlier attack.
5. cUT TO Alberta bar scene as re-edited for TRILOGY with Rogue entering POST fight, but trimmed further to remove reference to UN Summit
6. Continues to TRILOGY Magneto scene with additional removal of reference to UN Summit. Toad removed from post fight Magneto scene.
7. TRILOGY relocation of split Mystique attack removed and plays as in Theatrical release in Xavier School.
8. Xavier School re to Kitty removed since played by different actress.
9. Deleted Magneto interogation of senator. Serves no purpose since Mutator machine plot removed
10. Segue to Goodnight Jean scene as per TRILOGY with trimmed dream buildup and music underscore added.
11. Segue out to Jean scanning Logan, with Creepy romantic underscore to create sexual tension earlier.
12. Cut to Jean beifing as per TRILOGY with scnning sequence removed.
13. Liquid senator escape redundant since we know that Magneto is up to something so both escap and Beach scenes removed which include futgher Ellis Island refs.
14. Cut to Mystique Rogue sequence, which IS needed for her to run off, underscored by "Church of Magneto" and there is a mild hint earlier than she fancies Bobby, but that is the last thread.
15. Xaviers "I'm a atelepath you know" CUT....REDUNADANT
16. Cut to completely newly reconstructed Cerebro sequence blending the whit and red colour from X2 and that description.
17. Wolveren does not leave Cerebro during first briefing.
18. Location of Rogue reeditted awith new crash zoom and recoloured since she is a mutant, so therefore red.
19. Cerbro dialogue trimmed and underscored with X2 Cerebro music.
20. Discussion of Jean's power moves to outside Cerebro AFTER Rogue is found.
21. Post Cerebro scene trimmed and ref to deal with Logan removed. Sequence re-ordered and split to disguise Logan continuity issue of being outside when Xavier appears.
22. Wolvenene line about Roigue running re-enstated to give substance to their meeting.
23. Rogues ref to being told a the Prof was mad and Wolverense questionging removed in order to...boy
24. ...remove Mystique/ Bobby sequence from School which is redundant
25. Continue as TRILOGY removing Rogue Cerbro sabotage
26. Continues as per TRILOGY until end of Station fight where "what do you want her for" is deleted.
27. Shoot out changed so cars stay in the air.
28. Now Xavier with telepathy disables XAvier using sabretooth and control is lost on cars AND guns.
29. Close on lingering shot of Xavier and segue to 1st Whitehouse scene from rebuilt to fit new segue, but then as per TRILOGY
30. Rest of X1 is no deleted since Ellis island and buildup redunadant

X2
31 Cut to mauch later TRILOGY whitehouse scene to annoy viewers into thinking that authoritis on wrontrack and to bring in Senator and striker earlier removing registration act ref.
32. Libery Island incident reference removed and extended to include the inreoduction. Strikers registration act ref makes it clear that mystique is the senator. We also get the Plastic Prison refernce before we see it.
33. Cut to Xavier telling Wolverene about the base at Alkalai lake
34. Cut to TRILOGY whitehouse exit and Mystique reveal.
35. Cut to much earlier row with Storm (from X1) giving impression he is walking out pissed off.
36. Segue to TRILOGY exit with Rogue but sense is Wolverene pissed off.
37. As per TRILOGY with Magneto Jail Sequence to whitehouse attack
38. Xavier school attack post mortum still in relocated TRILOGY position but no longer split
39. Cut to newly constructed segue to Wolverene at Alkalai Lake then as per TRILOGY continues to interrogation of Magneto for Cerebro and cuts to Cerebro JEan deleted scene.
40. THIS IS A COMPLETELY NEW SCENE CONSTRUCTED FROM DELETED FOOTAGE, SHOTS FROM x1 AND x2, Music from X2 and X3 plus multiple audio and video filters.
(2 Days alone due to 16 track audio mix down and rendering issues)
CONSTRUCTED BY RE-TIMING COLOUR TO RED for opening, SINCE XAVIER LOOKING FOR NIGHTCRAWLER
CEREBRO FOOTAGE HAD ONLY PRODUCTION AUDIO SO ADDED BACKGROUND RUMBLE, FLASH EFFECT, DOORS, FOOTSTEPS, ECHO AND MUSIC
TRANNSITION IS REVERSED WHICH IS ALSO A 2 NEW SHOT FROM EXISTING IN REVERSE, WITH CRASH ZOOMS AND REVERSE DISGUISING RE-USED SHOTS TRIMMED EARLIER TO AVOIND REPEAT.
Dialogue trimmed to remove refernce to Jean losing control at senate hearing, and dialogue relocated to preceeds her "I know" to give contect to her comment
DUE TO DIALOGUE SYNCHORINISATION, IT WAS REMOVED, THE ABOVE DONE FIRST, AND LIKE IN THE REAL THING, ADR (ADDITIONAL DIALOGUE REPLACEMENT) PERFORMED AFTER USING SOURCE MATERIAL.
Cerebro Music and DArk Phoenix theme used.

41. Truncated Logan return with Rogue/Bobby Kiss Kiss prelude removed. Romantic element removed from scene and dialogue rearranged to accomodate removal.
42. Icy handshake and ref to Bobby being rogues boyfrien removed, cutting to Storm on stairs"look who's come back" which ties in nicely with Logans departuring row/ REALLY TOUGH ONE this.
43. Cerbro hunt for nightcrawler deleted since Jean just told Logan they found him.
44. As per TRILOGY until Magnet/XAvier 2nd Jail chat where sequence is unified and ref to Logans past removed since Xavier knowing leeads nowhere.
45. The 2 chats that Bobby and Logan have are removed and replaced by single shorter run into attack then as per TRILOGY.
46. Bobby looking for rogue removed.
47. Mansion fight timmed to removed excessive Rogue running with Bobby in 2 segements
48. Tunnel run of Rogue pleading with Bobby removed. this gives suprise to Logans resue.
49. Continues as per TRILOGY to Bobby's house, with police breaking into house cut, and Logan being shot quicker for shock value. Continuity error of Bobbys's brother getting up resolved with insert and audio of getting up relocated to hear.
50. Cheesy approach to jet removed, music now underscores Nightcrawlers line on Jet entry.
51. Cut to newly relocated Xavier Striker interrogation to extend tension and not delay striker for this edit.
52. Striker line about "sgreat illusionist" deleted as is "wife drill to temple". Illusionest line moved to next scene with Striker whic also explains how Jason works.
53. "Some who hate mutants" line delivered over Deathstrike image to tighten scene and de-cheesify.
53. Interrogations splits and cuts back to jet which is missing unecessary Storm line that jets are approaching.
54. Jet fight slightly trimmed...Tornado count dropped from 35 to 12, second jet still in.
55. jean no longer asks everyone if they are ok.
56. Storms line "there are two of them" re missiles, deleted. We can count and later she says there is one more anyway.
57. Shot of Jean removed
58. Crash the same except Magnetos line about flying removed and left with the laugh only. More effective, less cheese.
59. Jean "doesn't make any sense" deleted
60. Storms "oh my god " deleted
61. A series of shots replpace the view of a tied up magneto while preserving his dialogue since we do not see him tied or released.
62. Wolverene kiss jean scene removed we get he loves her and we need to move on.
63 As per TRILOGY the jet scene has Rogue bobby uniforms chat to Magnetos ref to her hair removed.
64. Ref to dorky looking helmut removed, then as per TRILOGY to truncated pre attack briefing
65. Continues as per TRILOGY until children found where the deleted rescue scenes from DVD are added back.
66. Next single shot of Wolverene in corridor removed. no point being there
66. Jean search for Cyclops trimmed for pacing.
67. Continues until Scott finds Jean, then Scene of Striker looking at Guages deleted, we know the danm is going to break.
68. In it's place the remaining deleted scene of the kids rescue Was to be added, but its tone clashed. SORRY
69. Extended Wolverene Deathstrike fight from TRILOGY intact.
70. Magneto/ Mystique change of plan trimmed at end of sequence.
71. Wolverene striker confrontation unified and trimmed for pacing.
72. "animal then...gave you claws" removed and susequent spillway comment. We know the dam blows.
73 "its too late" in relation to dam removed as is one spillway shot
74. Strikers offer to tell Wolverene everything removed.
75. TRILOGY shot when target switches to HUMANS and Target reversed now includes a colour change which has been added.
76. Ref to going to washington removed, and audio correction over prep takeoff.
77. Washington coda removed, it feels like the end of a movie and we need to Mourn asap.
78. So cut to school mourning and then segut to re-enstated Storm looking sad. We need to slow the pace here or its just too quick.

X3

79. Then segue to TRILOGY Corridor scene but remove reference to the President since that understanding scene from X2 is gone.
81. Scene with bobby and rogue arguing deleted.
82. Original theatrical scene order follows now to extend the end of mourning and bridge back to the plot, but with Hanks introduction being here, but as edited for TRILOGY to quickly justify Storms new hair.
83. Continues as Per TRILOGY until after Scott takes off which cuts straight to TRILOGY truncated version of briefing.
84. Post Hank briefing which cuts straight to mobile prison escape blending the 2 truck scenes as per TRILOGY
85. This cuts back to Xavier School as per TRILOGY scene therefor mystique fight scene removed, since it is a clear continuity error and her transfer froma clearly normal jail to mobile is niether present nor referred to.
86. Following is the cure announcement as per TRILOGY and runs per TRILOGY from here.
87. Entire Angel sequence removed But Hank briefing "the secretary" added back with ref to president removed.
88. Segue Mageneto being told of cure to Xavier school but now underscored with music.
89. Xaviers ref to Jean blocking thoughts and his power removed. patronising. An we know she is gone and strong.
90. Continues as per TRILOGY unbroken to Xaviers showdown at Jeans house extended and segue to Wolverene at memorial.
91. Angel school entry moves to end of movie.
92. Entire Kitty skate and Rogue sequence removed.
93. Logan at memorial when Jean calls includes a musical mis-lead to add to the shock value.
94. Protest scene deleted from TRILOGY is added back but with Bobby edited out since he is not looking for rogue
95. Plastic Weapons manufacture deleted, so that reveal in final battle more effective and a suprise.
96. New segue to danger room from Rogue trimming superflous intro stright to Magneto base loation and into deleted scene featuring beast phone call.
97. Danger room sequence removed Mr President reference and whitehouse shot.
98. New pan cross fade and music segue with full moon fade in to Forest operation.
99. NOT A CHANGE but the Forest sequence ends with Mr Secretary, which fits nicely
100. Approach to Magneto camp has swat dialogue removed.
101. Angels dad drop rescue removed. He now presumeable dies
102. New Funeral sequence with extensive re-edit to incorporate all 3 deaths.
103. Cut to "shall we keep school open " with Angel entering, but closing fly-by removed.
104. New ending from DELETED scenes with Hank on staff.
105. Cut to new panning close incorporating both Xavier and Eric reveals with re-editted music removing the sound of Angel flying.

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REQUIEM WAR v 2.5 (changes used, versions 2.1 to 2.4 are numbered for in progress tracking purposes only)
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Derived from RW V1

This involves major further deletions to version RW1
- Post Sabertooth attack discussion with Magneto
- Mystique as Bobby pissing off Rogue
- Rogue does not run away
- No search for Rogue
- No Hunt at train Station

Consequential changes mean an extensive re-ordering of the opeing.
Creation of a 2 new cerbro sequences and the insertion of further DVD deleted scenes.
Also re-insertion of a couple of previously removed scenes and moments for pacing and story reasons.


FINAL STATS for Requiem War V2
X1 was 100 min, used 26 min, cut 74 min
X2 was 128 min, used 71 min, cut 57 min
x3 was 99 min, used 58 min, cut 41 min
Deleted Scenes used 16 min
New/reworked scenes 20 min

TOTAL was 327 min
TOTAL is 193 min

1. Initial Wolveren shot includes an extra MC shot now and error removal from RW v1.0
2. Magento excised from Senate speech, and Charles shot reversed to he appears to look from senator to Jean, her shot now coming second.
3. Senate crossfades to Logan drive which is now a split scene
4. Post Snow fight now seges directly to Logan and Jean recovery with longer cross fade
5. Magneto lair removed. redunadant
5. End of School introduction now has 2 shots taken from deleted scenes and reverses a Logan shot to have him gaze Jean as Charles says "what you are looking for"
6. Strike at Whitehouse from X2 brough in here to establish the character earlier and to show that others know of the school, establishing peril much earlier on.
This also reveals that Magneto (who in previous sequence is mentioned as expecting a was) is also a terrorist and in Jail. We do not need to know why, since we also do not know why Charles now is in a wheelchair.
7. Scene here is slightly trimmed to disguise a continuity error and is bridged with an additional music que.
8. Cut to relocated 2nd Logan examination, so now its about experiments on Wolveren only being concentrated in viewrs mind and leads into X2 plot.
9. Cut back to secon session in Whitehouse with senator exit, new music segue to confirm Mystique and new segue to Mansion at night between Jean and Logan
10.Cut to relocated Magneto and Striker in Prison scene. Sets up Striker plot, and first glimpse of Magneto. New segue into scene
11. Scene cuts to the 4th new version of cerebro in which now Xavier sees Magneto to the words "you see Logan, we are not alone"...big reveal to Charles is that Striker is there. Scenes re-scored and recoloured.
12. This cuts to a new version of the Mystique search for Magneto and also finding cerebro plans.
13. Cut to new deleted scene from DVD of jean and Charles discussing Logans mind and honour before going into his dream sequence in bed and Rogue stabbing.Music is added
14. Cut to Logan's dream which is as per REv1 and Rogue
15.New scene from DVD Deleted scenes added between Storm and Rogue to establish her in lieu of original set up. Trimmed to remove irrelevant refs and music overlay addded.
16. Another new Cerbro scene to establish the deal between Logan and Charles plus his mind, but humour removed.
17.Cuts to Mystique and Mr Lorio Bar scene inserted back and trimmed to remove continuity error of "Dr Hank McCoy" on screen and refs to the registration act removed.
15. Bar scene split from toilet seduction to allow insert of Charles telling Logan about the base at Alkalai lake.
17. Cut to Alkalai lake discussion with Charles jumping back to the WC attack of Mr Lorio. We now know Magneto is coming out and Mystique is with him. Music Aded
16. Logans departure which combines footage of his running off after Rogue, is trimmed to remove refs to X men...this tones the anger down as well which would be inappropriate.
17. Closing jail sequence from X1 enhanced opening, and additionsal dialogue added from the deletd scene in the senate including Magnto's iconic closing lines establishing clear conflict vs Hope.
18 Cut to Whitehouse attack and runs as per RW v1.0 until new cross fade to complete new Cerebro sequence using Deleted DVD material as per RW v 1.0
19 Continues as per RW v1. until slightly altered final Charles visit to Jail cf RW 1.0 which now includes an additional piece from Mozart's requiem Mass (which is actually used in the attack on the whitehouse) I have added the lacrymosa, which is very apt.
20. From here as per RW v 1.0 with following minor changes
21. Shot of Rogue after cure announcement removed and deleted DVD scene of LAB added in, re-enforcing experimantation theme.
22. Jail break of Magneto re inserts ref to Mystique.
23. Mystique Jailbreak moved down 2 scenes.
24. Storms eye shot in the added deleted scene in final battle removed.
25. Magneto asking Jean for help added in from Deleted scenes but trimmed .
26. Telepathy voices from Jean and charles enhanced in battle at Jeans' house.
27. Jean noticing scared kjid in car and Magneto marching off bridge added rom DVD deleted scenes.
28. Pyro and Magneto chat on jet reinserts line about "dorky helmet" since xavier no longer mentions Magneto is shielding.
29. replaced stealth shot at end of film
30. Corrected end title error

LOADS of Audio tweaks

THANKS BOON23

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X-MEN REQUIEM WAR
VERSION 3.21 (derive from RW v2.5 (changes used, versions 3.1 to 3.2 are numbered for in progress tracking purposes only)
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This version seeks to correct the transition between X2 and X3, to smooth out the jarring change and allow for some passage of time.

Many thx to BOON 23 for his suggestions, and frankness which made me adress a structural issue in the first 45 min.

VERSION 3 of REQUIEM WAR AND TRILOGY
Following comments from various
RW 3.0
Original Scene order is as in RW v2.0 is numerical, actual order is as in new version 3 of RW
1.Jeans Death
9. Hank at Dept (dialogue tweak)
A. Mystique interrogation re-enstated
11. Xavier at school (tweake dialogue)
7. Bobby Grief
10 Mystique in Lorry
4. Storm Balcony
8. Bobby Leaves
5. Storm chat Xaveier (Dialogue re-instated)
6. Hank arrives
13. Cure announce (scene re edited)
14. Jimmy Lab
15. Magneto Lair
16. hank School
17. Chruch of Magneto
18. Hank and Jimmy
19. Bobby Lake re-cut and surprise
12. Jail Break cust to surprise
20. as per RW v2 but Rogue now leaves mansion, goes for cure, and returns at end addressing the issue of her dissapearance.
21. Cure cue and terrorist attack unified now...doing so acyually makes it clear from continuity within X3 that it was split for editting and pacing in the original X3...see below
Scenes deleted from RW v2.0 are
A: the post Jean death discussion and
B: Bobby and Logan corridor chat from X2.
This preserves the momentum better, and a caption "6 weeks later" establishes the passage of time.
The rogue bobby romance is still absent by clipping one line from the finale, and a line from Pyro to Bobby at the
protest in a newly constructed scene using the newscaster, rogues arrival and the attack, into a single better new scene.
TRILOGY v3.21
Wolverene fight at open established again and no other change. version used is from RW v 3.0 which is a trimmed version.

Further minor tweaks to audio and sync. Line trim in jet and line restored (spot it...try).
End Audio of closing scene and end credit typo fixed


THANKS BOON23

and for those that are interested, a few things I did not do......

UNUSED STRUCTURES AND IDEAS

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X-MEN - REQUIEM WAR

X3 Requiem War

118. 3 months later caption added.

119. Scen on capture re-ordered and reference to the old gut being president removed to maintain continuity with X2.

120. "do you know who she's been imitating" deleted. Its reminder for non believers who did not see X1 & X2

122. Mystique attack in normal prison during briefing cut since there to show of FX and tell viewer of her powers.

123. Scene reordered to remove the "viable" comment and ends on mobile prisons and cuts to relocated mobile Prison so

124 "do you you know who you are talking too" line in mobile prison deleted for continuity with X2.

125. Music and sound of helicopter landing at Alcatraz from Next scene kept but deleted scene and Audio from X2 of Xavier and Cyclops in Helicopter use to tie in.

126. Segue to Bobby and Rogue argument to maintain plot line but new segue to Beast briefing on cure

127. Line "impact on mutant community" relocated to here to allow cut to Xavier in churh

128. Segue cuts away from Xavier saying "Storm" giving impression Xavier sences the disgruntled Mutants following on from Beats line

129. Church scene now undescored with mucis from X2 added to entire scene.

129. "Back Off" & "I know you control Metal" deleted from Church sequence

130. Cut to Scott mourning Jean underscored by Dark Phoenix Music.
 

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no. the new one does not have a torrent release yet.
 

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So... any ETA on that? You don't have to say where, cuz I can find it myself.

Can't wait to check it out.
 

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it will be a few days. Stay patient. It will probably get an avi only torrent release for now.
 

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this is now available through Bittorrent as xvid avi on demonoid and mininova.
 

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X-Men Requiem War v3.21 by Wraith

review by boon23

Prologue:
It is the length of the movie with 192 minutes that kept me a long time from watching this, even though I promised Wraith to do it a long time ago. Now finally my bad conscience was strong enough to launch it and it took me 3 sessions to finish it, not because I was not entertained, but because I hardly ever have over 3h to spend for a movie.
The project itself was always fascinating to me, as it was such a huge undertaking to really turn the 3 X-Men movies into one consisting story. I watched an hour of the first ever release of this (which is another reason why I put it on hold for so long - and there were quite some inconsistencies, but the potential was already there for a great movie.
And with this probably final release I started again. It's X-Men time.

As for all my reviews: this is just my personal opinion of this fanedit. I cannot tell anybody else, if he or she will experience it in the same way or the opposite. So my review is not objective and does not reflect the opinion of fanedit.org.

!!!!This review contains heavy spoilers!!!

The edit:
From the very beginning it is perfectly clear that this is not just all X-Men movies united to one. The plot jumps from 1 to 2 and back and forth to really tell one story about the coming war between mutants and humans and that's about all this fanedit is about. There are hardly any sidetracks and the plot develops to the peak in the finale with quite a huge climax with the finale of X-Men 2.
What wraith did with the 3 movies is incredible. The fanedit has a completely new flow to it and so many well known scenes are presented in a truly different context. Wraith had an idea and he consequently put it to life with a lot of skill. So much effort went into this project and it really shows, starting with a great plot, very good edits and audio cuts. It really has the feel of ONE movie. And it's a great one.
It isn't perfect though. At various points scenes are referred to that have not been included, when for example Rogue says she saved Wolverine's life, when in fact she did nothing but watch in this movie. There is a Jean Grey scene, where she says she had lost control before, but nothing happened in the fanedit. Also the quality of the scenes varies, because some of the included deleted scenes were of lower quality.
Then there are some things about the plot that should be mentioned: The capture of Magneto is not shown and it is kind of missed. He suddenly is imprisoned and the first Xavier visit feels a bit out of place. I also had my difficulties believing that the war plans of the Magneto group were continuing without him. The X-Men 3 part felt a bit too long, especially the final fight.
However, it is the best version of X-Men I have ever seen - and I mean that for all 3 of them, especially the third one, which really gets a great improvement by the huge amount of cut scenes. For such a huge project I cannot say much else but: Bravo.
editing: 9 of 10,
entertainment: 8 of 10


Image and video quality:

The image quality was good, except for a few of the deleted scenes that were of a bit lower quality. Well done starting and end credits, though I think that one starting credit would have been better than two.
Video quality: 9 of 10

Audio editing and audio quality:
The audio editing was most of the time well done. There are some clicks and some scenes are a bit too loud in comparison or too quiet. Still: wonderful audio editing.
audio editing: 9 of 10
audio quality: 8 of 10

presentation:
The DVD comes with a still main menu on which 2 video screens are put. it looks a lot like tmpg dvd author and not realyl good. 25 chapter menus all with sound is kind of an overkill. The included extras are both bad quality. Cover art was attached, which is ok, but not great.
DVD menus: 4 of 10, cover art 6 of 10, extras: 3 of 10, existence of chapters, extras and cover art: 10 of 10

This results in a 6 of 10 rating from me for presentation.

Final result: 8 of 10.
A great fanedit, which I can highly recommend to anyone who likes X-Men or superhero movies in general. It is a huge improvement over the originals IMO.

if you also wish to rate this fanedit, do it here: http://fanedit.org/4787/
 

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Just so I understand what's happening here...

There are 2 versions of the X-Men trilogy edited by Wraith, correct?

new film name : X-Men: Trilogy v.3.21
New Runtime : 65min/91min/55min = 260 min

&

new film name : X-Men: Requiem War (XRW)
New Runtime : 196 min

So which is the definitive version? I want to watch this hopefully this weekend, and I just want to make sure I get the right one!
 

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they are very different. Trilogy is a condensed version of the movies and Requiem War is a new take, changing the plot so it all focuses on the War between humans and mutants.
 

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The first two films are so wonderfully combined they make one of the best superhero films ever. Sadly, it doesn't end there. The last part of this feels tacked on. Even though the theme of mutants and society is continued, it doesn't really feel like the same film. To Wraith's credit, this is largely due to Ratner's heavy-handed and uninteresting directorial style when put next to Singer's wonderful touches, but it's also story, time-jump and things like that. The first two can be put together with no problems. The last one not so much.

The story elements of the first two parts are so well reshuffled as to be virtually perfect. The biggest problem for me is that Mystique injecting the guard with iron in his blood happens too early, and the payoff comes too late. Also, just how did Marie save Logan's life? This might have been changed in version 3.21, I downloaded version 2 months ago.

There are more problems in part three, though. We never really get to know Kitty, and it feels like there are scenes lacking to tell the story properly. For a second, I thought they brought in a new actor to play Marie.

But the first two parts are absolutely thrilling, and had this ended with the second film, this would have been one of the greatest superhero movies ever and a solid 9, maybe even a 10. This is extraordinary work.


Story/Entertainment: 7
Originals: 8, 8, 4

Editing: 10
Sound: 8 (a couple of clicks, but nothing problematic)
Video: 9

All in all, this is extremely well done, but I would have preferred a nice two-hour film from the first two.
 

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I have started to watch your edit and for the moment, it's pretty good !

However, besides the obvious difference in quality between original footage and deleted scenes, as well as some sound problems, there is one moment in the film that doesn't work.

When Logan leaves to see the Alkali Lake base, he has some sort of argument with Storm ( you know the " you're sure you're on the right side ?" scene) and when he comes back, she's all friendly and says " hey look who's come back, you' re right on time !"

Pretty strange since the last time they saw each other they weren't on the best terms.

That's the only issue I have for the first hour of the film !
 

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Wraith, you are a man of great talents. Thank you for sharing this project with us all. I was absolutely blown away by your edit, and I'm now no longer embarrassed to have the official releases on my shelf. They will likely go sit in a box somewhere and collect dust (along with my Star Wars prequels and the ST:TNG movies). This fanedit will be burned to disc and put in their place. Totally stellar effort.
 

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I just watched it, it's great. I like that you moved Xavier's funeral to the end, but you should put Rogue's return befire that, since we see her at the funeral.
 
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