I wanted to put up a thread so people who've seen my fan-edit can talk about it, tell me what they liked/disliked, etc. I won't be providing links or anything of that nature on here. Again, purely for discussion about the fan edit for those who've already seen it. I'll be discussing it in detail, so spoilers are a foregone conclusion.
Did you guys like it, overall? Where there any changes that you agreed with, any you didn't? The hardest edits were the ones changing dialogue in one take, because there was no way to cut out the phrase (sometimes just one word) without making the footage look "choppy." Still, I had my reasons for doing it, mainly because certain things characters said were either redundant -- Prometheus had a lot of things being said twice or even three times, just reworded -- or they went against how I felt the character was supposed to be represented (a bad character saying "good" things, or vice versa); I wanted less ambiguous, more clear-cut characters, either as heroes or villains, but not both.
I've also cut out certain things that might seem odd, at first, but everything was cut for a reason. For example, after David is decapitated, I cut out everything with him in the movie, right up until he speaks to Shaw when she's lying outside after the Engineer is dead/dying. I did this because I wanted it to be more of a surprise, and I wanted Shaw to face the Engineer alone (not to mention, I disliked how David spoke to Shaw while she was hiding from the Engineer after he had warned her that the Engineer was coming to kill her).
The movie also had several jump scares that didn't work very well in the theatrical cut, because the shots went on for too long. Editing is very important with jump scares, or with comedic relief, for that matter. Depending how a shot ends, it can be either funny or scary or just plain ineffective, and with different scenes in the movie I tried to have them cut to the next scene in such a way that they would be what they were originally intended to be but weren't in the theatrical cut, because of the sub-par editing.
Anything that "spoiled" key plot points I cut out, such as the opening sequence (that way, when they remove the decapitated Engineer's helmet, it's at least something of a surprise). Or, the scene where David is talking to Weyland in his hypersleep capsule, which didn't really do anything in my mind except imply very strongly that Weyland was on the ship, making his reveal after Shaw's surgery much less of a surprise.
And so on...
I could go on about it, but you get the idea. Any feed back would be appreciated.
Did you guys like it, overall? Where there any changes that you agreed with, any you didn't? The hardest edits were the ones changing dialogue in one take, because there was no way to cut out the phrase (sometimes just one word) without making the footage look "choppy." Still, I had my reasons for doing it, mainly because certain things characters said were either redundant -- Prometheus had a lot of things being said twice or even three times, just reworded -- or they went against how I felt the character was supposed to be represented (a bad character saying "good" things, or vice versa); I wanted less ambiguous, more clear-cut characters, either as heroes or villains, but not both.
I've also cut out certain things that might seem odd, at first, but everything was cut for a reason. For example, after David is decapitated, I cut out everything with him in the movie, right up until he speaks to Shaw when she's lying outside after the Engineer is dead/dying. I did this because I wanted it to be more of a surprise, and I wanted Shaw to face the Engineer alone (not to mention, I disliked how David spoke to Shaw while she was hiding from the Engineer after he had warned her that the Engineer was coming to kill her).
The movie also had several jump scares that didn't work very well in the theatrical cut, because the shots went on for too long. Editing is very important with jump scares, or with comedic relief, for that matter. Depending how a shot ends, it can be either funny or scary or just plain ineffective, and with different scenes in the movie I tried to have them cut to the next scene in such a way that they would be what they were originally intended to be but weren't in the theatrical cut, because of the sub-par editing.
Anything that "spoiled" key plot points I cut out, such as the opening sequence (that way, when they remove the decapitated Engineer's helmet, it's at least something of a surprise). Or, the scene where David is talking to Weyland in his hypersleep capsule, which didn't really do anything in my mind except imply very strongly that Weyland was on the ship, making his reveal after Shaw's surgery much less of a surprise.
And so on...
I could go on about it, but you get the idea. Any feed back would be appreciated.