Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Synopsis: "After his TV star girlfriend, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell), breaks his heart, Peter (Jason Segel) wants nothing more than to enjoy his vacation in Hawaii. But there are two big problems: No. 1, Sarah's vacationing at the same resort; No. 2, she's bringing her new beau. Mila Kunis, Paul Rudd and Bill Hader also star in this madcap relationship comedy from hit producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, Superbad)."
(Synopsis compliments of Netflix)


Edit summary: Cut a lot of the loud or cringey slapstick comedy bits and transformed it into more of a subtle romantic comedy.

Ver10: Remastered
Knocked Up
Synopsis: "Rising journalist Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl) hits a serious bump in the road after a one-night stand with irresponsible slacker Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) results in pregnancy."

Edit summary: Cut a lot of teen humor and some of the more stereotypical tropes to make a more heart-felt story.

Ver9: Remastered
Auggie
Synopsis: "After he is forced into an early retirement, a man's relationship with his wife and daughter becomes strained when he falls in love with an augmented reality companion."

Edit summary: Remove the wife's affair and any other scene that doesn't include the main character to make the story more focused and less "balanced".

Ver10: Remastered
Imaginary Mary
Synopsis: "Alice's imaginary friend she played with as a child returns and tries to help her with the transition from a single woman to a stepmother of three children."

Edit summary: I decided to publish this older edit because the editing isn't bad, it fixes a lot of problems with the show - so if you actually want to watch the show this is the way to do it. On the other hand, there are a ton of much better shows you could spend your time watching. This edit turns this one season rom-com into a movie, dropping a few bad or unnecessary episodes and trimming/rearranging the others to give it a proper plot arc, and stripping out some of the more cringey scenes, moments, and dialogue. The show is still a bit cringey even when fully cleaned up though.

Ver6: Remastered
Atypical Family
Synopsis: "Bok Gwi Joo's family has supernatural abilities. He can revisit happy past moments. Depression causes him to lose this power. His family also loses abilities due to modern issues. Do Da He joins their household, instigating change."

Edit summary: This changes the ending and rearranges the flow of the story a bit. Originally I wanted to bring the show down to movie length, and although it is easy to cut quite a lot of time off due to the slow pacing, it isn't really possible to get it down to the 2-3 hour range without losing a ton of good scenes due to the non-linear nature of the story.

Ver2: Remastered
House
Synopsis: "Using a crack team of doctors and his wits, an antisocial maverick doctor specializing in diagnostic medicine does whatever it takes to solve puzzling cases that come his way."

Edit summary: This heavily culls the episodes down to the most interesting cases, as well as smoothing out the overarching plot and cast changes. Disposed of the antagonistic cop, billionaire, most of the romance plots, some of the new team recruitment, hostage plot, etc. The ending is also completely different since this edit focuses far less on House's drug addiction.

This brings the series to a svelte 18 hours, and although it's a heavier cut than I normally do at only 14% the length of the original, I think it does a good job at reducing the procedural feel and making it more of a quality and enjoyable rewatch.

Ver7: Remastered, added a few Cameron romance clips back into earlier eps to make the narrative smoother
Ransom Canyon
Synopsis: "Passions run deep in a small Texas town, as three ranching dynasties fight for their land, their legacies and the people they love."

Edit summary: This edit keeps three main plots - the overarching romance with the messy love triangle removed, the cop's investigation, and the conflict between the brothers without so much pipeline conspiracy. The teen dating and drama is removed, a lot of the light sexual situations were dropped, and much of the drama around the land for the pipeline is cut along with the bartender-ranchhand romance. This leaves a more Hallmark-style movie-length ranch romance, rather than the messy soap opera of the original plot.

S2: Cut all the manufactured drama with the dad, as well as basically all the other side characters, just keeping the main romance plot as a very pared down and rearranged version of the season.

Ver2: Added S2 and remastered S1
Hanna
Synopsis: "A sixteen-year-old girl who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives."

Edit summary: This edit removes the coming-of-age story with the two girls going on dates, etc, and gets rid of the "more than human" subplot. It also cuts most of the Grimm fairytale stuff to keep it more grounded.

Ver3: Remastered
The Mandalorian
Synopsis: "The travels of a lone bounty hunter in the outer reaches of the galaxy, far from the authority of the New Republic."

Edit summary: This creates a movie from the Mandalorian, mostly using the first three episodes of Season 1, but also borrowing a bit from Season 2 to round it out and create a self-contained plot. The intent is to lean more into the space-western flavor of a solo bounty hunter.

Ver4: Fix small gap in video
Upload
Synopsis: "A man is able to choose his own afterlife after his untimely death by having his consciousness uploaded into a virtual world. As he gets used to his new life and befriends his angel (real world handler) questions about his death arise."

Edit summary: Cut the minor gay and transgender side-plots and characters, clean up a few other cringey scenes, and condense the show into a long movie.

Ver8: Remastered
Atlas Shrugged
Synopsis: "Railroad executive Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden form an alliance to fight the increasingly authoritarian government of the United States."

Edit summary: Cut the affair and tweaked the moral to be less heavy-handed. Also made a bunch of minor cuts in an attempt to improve the flow and dialogue, although some of it is still pretty rough.

Ver10: Remastered
The Gorge
Synopsis: "Two operatives are appointed to posts in guard towers on opposite sides of a classified gorge."

Edit summary: This has some small trims for quality and brevity - but mainly it removes the adventure into the gorge, which is the weakest part of the film in my opinion. This does leave a couple action sequences, but primarily it becomes a character-focused romance rather than an action film.

Ver5: Moved part of Gorge firefight to fill in the narrative gap toward the end of the film left by cutting out the Gorge adventure
Operation: Endgame
Synopsis: "A battle ensues among groups of government spy teams in an underground facility after their boss is assassinated."

Edit summary: Removes the overarching plot and just allows the B-movie comedy violence to speak for itself. A few slow parts have also been trimmed, along with almost all the faces and reactions from the control room that often interrupt unnecessarily.

Ver4: Remastered
Don't Say A Word
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.

Ver5: Remastered
Drops of God
Synopsis: "A woman discovers the world's greatest wine collection that's left by her estranged father and competes against his protege to claim her inheritance."

Edit summary: Cut this into a film length, strengthening the ending which felt quite scattered, removing one of the competitions, the blackmail, along with most of the flashbacks and most of the romance and affairs that had a rather dominant flavor over the whole show. This gives it more of a laid-back feel with a focus on wine, family, and the competition itself, removing the dark underbelly of the story.

Ver4: Remastered, and changed ending slightly, using a bit from the end of the second season