Post by rizdek on Aug 26, 2020 16:51:50 GMT
Aug 26, 2020 16:35:48 GMT _ said:
That reminds me. I really like the movie Groundhog Day, with Bill Murray. I had the dvd and it had 'outtakes'... scenes which didn't make the final cut. I edited MY version so those are now part of the movie I watch. All of the outtakes were interesting and I think it made the movie more enjoyable.
I enjoy a made for TV movie called Supernova 2005 starring Peter Fonda and Luke Perry. The main story...the sun emitting matter/energy and it striking the earth and the struggle to deal with the damage and other reactions such a series of events might result in was fascinating (to me). But it had a whole 'side story' of some psychopath who was after Dr Richardson's (played by Perry) wife. To me...it was totally irrelevant and I went through and extracted just about every scene which was about that side story. The movie flows just as well and I don't have to continually see the parts that, frankly, I didn't find entertaining.
I did the same thing with another tv miniseries called Meteor 2009 starring Christopher Lloyd which is a totally unrealistic (but interesting) movie about a huge meteor that is headed for earth. It had a rather vicious side story about a cop and ex cop which I didn't find to be at all necessary for the main story. I digitized the video and cut out all the scenes about that and the movie is just as 'watchable' and nothing is lost.
The list goes on, but I do it quite commonly. Of course if someone didn't enjoy diddling with video files, they might find that tedious, but it's kind of a hobby for me so it's a win-win.
When I am editing, it relaxes me.
Very calming.
I have too many examples to mention, but here is one:
I like the film DEEP IMPACT (1997) and one time I added the NYC flooding scenes from the film DAY AFTER TOMORROW (2004)
Neat. I haven't tried folding in disaster scenes from other movies...that would work.
That reminds me...I have the movie Spanglish starring Adam Sandler and Tia Leoni. In that movie, Tia plays Sandler's wife and is 'a piece of shit' to put it mildly. So I edited the movie and folded in the scene from Deep Impact where she is standing with her father on a beach and the massive wave hits her. A fitting way for such a b____ to die. And I have John ending up with Flor even though that isn't how the movie ends.

