Class of '07 
Synopsis: "An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a ramen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master."
Edit summary: This focuses the story mostly on the ramen shop, only keeping enough of the side characters and plot to add some light outside interactions for the main character. Some of the scenes are also rearranged to create a more natural flow to the story.
Edit summary: This focuses the story mostly on the ramen shop, only keeping enough of the side characters and plot to add some light outside interactions for the main character. Some of the scenes are also rearranged to create a more natural flow to the story.
Synopsis: "A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fantastical vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land."
Edit summary: This edit significantly cuts down the musical numbers (only kept You Two, Candy Factory, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and King's Birthday), tones down the slapstick a bit, reduces the creepy childcatcher scenes, and various other trims to bring down the rather chunky length to something that doesn't require an intermission break. The only one I'm sad about losing is the carnival dance song (the song is silly but it was fun to watch as a kid), but that sequence really breaks up the flow of the early story and is an easy cut to save time without impacting the plot.
Edit summary: This edit significantly cuts down the musical numbers (only kept You Two, Candy Factory, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and King's Birthday), tones down the slapstick a bit, reduces the creepy childcatcher scenes, and various other trims to bring down the rather chunky length to something that doesn't require an intermission break. The only one I'm sad about losing is the carnival dance song (the song is silly but it was fun to watch as a kid), but that sequence really breaks up the flow of the early story and is an easy cut to save time without impacting the plot.
Synopsis: "A group of young and spoiled rich kids turn into vampires after a night out, changing the course of their lives and driving a wedge between them all."
Edit summary: Removed the father flashbacks and made small tweaks to the romance plot - but most of the edit is just heavily trimming to speed up the flow of the film and clean up a bit of the dialogue. There are a lot of very slow sections in the original and I wanted more of a consistent pace.
Edit summary: Removed the father flashbacks and made small tweaks to the romance plot - but most of the edit is just heavily trimming to speed up the flow of the film and clean up a bit of the dialogue. There are a lot of very slow sections in the original and I wanted more of a consistent pace.
Synopsis: "Aaron Sorkin created this HBO drama, which centers on a cable news channel trying to return credibility to journalism despite plenty of resistance. Jeff Daniels stars as the ambitious anchor of a nightly news show, and Sam Waterston plays his boss."
(Synopsis compliments of Netflix)
Edit summary: Removed the Maggie/Jim romance subplot and cut large swathes of season 2 and 3 to remove the Snowden-type conspiracy plot, trimming it down to a show about people wanting to bring back real news, without any grand conspiracies or dramas.
(Synopsis compliments of Netflix)
Edit summary: Removed the Maggie/Jim romance subplot and cut large swathes of season 2 and 3 to remove the Snowden-type conspiracy plot, trimming it down to a show about people wanting to bring back real news, without any grand conspiracies or dramas.
Synopsis: "When a lethal flu virus ravages the global population, Abby Grant (Julie Graham) begins a search for her missing son, and soon becomes the leader of a small group of survivors trying to live in a world thrown into chaos. As Abby follows clues to her boy's whereabouts, her band must compete for scarce resources with violent gangs, a strange cult leader and more. This remake of the 1970s British TV drama of the same name co-stars Max Beesley."
(Synopsis compliments of Netflix)
Edit summary: Removed most of the sci-fi or supernatural elements and focused on the realistic pandemic storyline of the first season - most of the second season is cut.
Ver7: Remastered as 1080p edit
(Synopsis compliments of Netflix)
Edit summary: Removed most of the sci-fi or supernatural elements and focused on the realistic pandemic storyline of the first season - most of the second season is cut.
Ver7: Remastered as 1080p edit
Synopsis: "Ruthless crook Patrick Koster (Sean Bean) and his partner kidnap Jessie to force Jessie's therapist father, Nathan (Michael Douglas), to help coax a mysterious code number from a traumatized teen girl (Brittany Murphy)."
Edit summary: This edit cuts back on the mother, daughter, and police woman scenes in favor of a quicker and less interrupted suspenseful ride. The police scenes in particular feel like a third wheel until late in the film, and the mother/daughter scenes don't do much beyond belatedly fleshing out the characters a bit more.
Edit summary: This edit cuts back on the mother, daughter, and police woman scenes in favor of a quicker and less interrupted suspenseful ride. The police scenes in particular feel like a third wheel until late in the film, and the mother/daughter scenes don't do much beyond belatedly fleshing out the characters a bit more.
Synopsis: "The colorful son of the richest man in the world must save the day when scheming henchmen try to take over his family's vast business empire."
Edit summary: This edit cuts the Mount Richmore plot and other over-the-top silliness, for a shorter, darker, and more linear story. It becomes a short film about Richie finding friends rather than the original villain plot.
Edit summary: This edit cuts the Mount Richmore plot and other over-the-top silliness, for a shorter, darker, and more linear story. It becomes a short film about Richie finding friends rather than the original villain plot.
Synopsis: "A shy small-town Ohio girl who loves movies but dislikes reality, discovers the delightfully bizarre films of Federico Fellini, and sets off on a strange, beautiful journey across Italy to find him."
Edit summary: Recut and rearranged into a short film - the original attempts to be a full-on Fellini film, and the edit is more of a linear story with hints and overtones of Fellini throughout.
Ver2: Removed the wall break at the end to change the meaning a bit and keep it fully in the present.
Edit summary: Recut and rearranged into a short film - the original attempts to be a full-on Fellini film, and the edit is more of a linear story with hints and overtones of Fellini throughout.
Ver2: Removed the wall break at the end to change the meaning a bit and keep it fully in the present.
Synopsis: "Follows Vince, a desperate former popstar who dreams of making a comeback. An impromptu jam session with autistic young drummer Stevie sparks an unexpected friendship between the two misunderstood musicians."
Edit summary: Trimmed a bunch of the drum circle and music industry scenes to make the film more character and relationship focused.
Edit summary: Trimmed a bunch of the drum circle and music industry scenes to make the film more character and relationship focused.
Synopsis: "Simon Baker (in his first Emmy-nominated role) stars as Patrick Jane, a rogue detective and case-cracking consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation -- a far cry from his last gig as a semi-famous "psychic medium" with no paranormal abilities. Despite his bogus past, Patrick's charm and powers of observation endear him to the CBI team -- except for Senior Agent Teresa Lisbon (Robin Tunney), who doesn't care for his antics. Tim Kang and Amanda Righetti also star."
(Synopsis compliments of Netflix)
Edit summary: Cut the majority of the cop procedural episodes that had no relevance to the Red John plot, keeping only a handful of the more interesting ones, and streamlined the RJ storyline. Some episodes are rearranged and altered to create a better overall flow with the much shorter series length.
(Synopsis compliments of Netflix)
Edit summary: Cut the majority of the cop procedural episodes that had no relevance to the Red John plot, keeping only a handful of the more interesting ones, and streamlined the RJ storyline. Some episodes are rearranged and altered to create a better overall flow with the much shorter series length.
Synopsis: "When a group of mercenaries attack the estate of a wealthy family, Santa Claus must step in to save the day (and Christmas)."
Edit summary: Stripped out all the silly dialogue aimed at teens and cheap laughs, and as much of the overacted family drama as possible, focusing the film primarily on Santa and the little girl. Small cuts to remove the shots that telegraph upcoming action, and removed the overly-long Tinkerbell sequence at the end.
Edit summary: Stripped out all the silly dialogue aimed at teens and cheap laughs, and as much of the overacted family drama as possible, focusing the film primarily on Santa and the little girl. Small cuts to remove the shots that telegraph upcoming action, and removed the overly-long Tinkerbell sequence at the end.
Synopsis: "Obsessed gamer Arisu suddenly finds himself in a strange, emptied-out version of Tokyo in which he and his friends must compete in dangerous games in order to survive."
Edit summary: The first season is left mostly intact, just removing some bad cgi and a lot of unnecessary backstory flashbacks that are supposed to give characters depth or meaning but just end up feeling like a waste of time.
The second season is a much deeper cut, fixing a bunch of poor dialogue and the super heavy-handed plot-hinting, and removing numerous slow sections to match the pace of the first season. It feels like they started trying too hard to be deep and it just doesn't come across as genuine without a heavy edit to strip and trim it. Also significantly changed the ending to remove the fanservice.
Edit summary: The first season is left mostly intact, just removing some bad cgi and a lot of unnecessary backstory flashbacks that are supposed to give characters depth or meaning but just end up feeling like a waste of time.
The second season is a much deeper cut, fixing a bunch of poor dialogue and the super heavy-handed plot-hinting, and removing numerous slow sections to match the pace of the first season. It feels like they started trying too hard to be deep and it just doesn't come across as genuine without a heavy edit to strip and trim it. Also significantly changed the ending to remove the fanservice.
Synopsis: "Star Wars is a space fantasy that follows a group of characters with special powers who participate in the struggle for the fate of the galaxy, with the Empire trying to seize control and crush the Rebellion. The series is split into three trilogies, Episode 4-6 were created first, then a prequel trilogy (Episode 1-3) was released, giving the origin story for some of those characters. Finally episodes 7-9 basically reboot the series and poorly recreate the main plot from episodes 4-6 to "continue" the series with new actors in a cash grab for a new generation."
Edit summary: Ep1: Cut a ton of Jar Jar Binks scenes and some bad CGI, heavy trims to the pod racing to improve the pace of the film.
Ep2: Cut some Jar Jar Binks scenes, some bad acting moments, a bunch of droid slapstick, and streamlines other scenes for pacing.
Ep3: Cut the missiles and buzz droids in the intro, the back half of the General Grievous fight, streamlined some of the lightsaber fights to be a little less "dramatic", and trimmed quite a bit of bad acting and dialogue.
Ep4: Cut a little bad CGI, lame lightsaber moments, lightsaber jump cuts, and a long unnecessary droid scene, plus a few trims to fix some plot holes.
Ep5: Cut the random yeti plot, the cave, and Yoda acting crazy. Trimmed a couple iconic but poorly acted moments.
Ep6: Cut some bad CGI, and some parts of the Ewok battle.
Ep7-9: Trash bin
Edit summary: Ep1: Cut a ton of Jar Jar Binks scenes and some bad CGI, heavy trims to the pod racing to improve the pace of the film.
Ep2: Cut some Jar Jar Binks scenes, some bad acting moments, a bunch of droid slapstick, and streamlines other scenes for pacing.
Ep3: Cut the missiles and buzz droids in the intro, the back half of the General Grievous fight, streamlined some of the lightsaber fights to be a little less "dramatic", and trimmed quite a bit of bad acting and dialogue.
Ep4: Cut a little bad CGI, lame lightsaber moments, lightsaber jump cuts, and a long unnecessary droid scene, plus a few trims to fix some plot holes.
Ep5: Cut the random yeti plot, the cave, and Yoda acting crazy. Trimmed a couple iconic but poorly acted moments.
Ep6: Cut some bad CGI, and some parts of the Ewok battle.
Ep7-9: Trash bin