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  1. Interesting, yet straightforward take on Bard's theme by french horns in the "this is the world of men" deleted scene.
  2. My edits definitely haven't been locked, and I expect I'll be tweaking them until the BoFA EE comes out. I mostly wanted to to DoS now, (and AUJ for that matter) so I could see if it was even feasible to do some of the things I wanted to do. Turns out I could! I fully expect to incorporate the EE material, and continue to mess with the pacing and soundtrack over the next year+. Never have, I'll have to go check it out. Thanks!
  3. I've lurked here before the premier of each film, and I first off want to say that I think that the best discussion of the Hobbit movies on the internet occurs here and in the individual movie threads. I've gotten so infuriated by some of the artistic license PJ took with the hobbit films that I took it upon myself to recut the films. I just completed recutting the EE AUJ and the theatrical version of DoS. EE AUJ edited down is 2:43:00, 2:52:30 with credits, so I removed roughly 20 minutes. I was never really concerned about its length, it was just that every time Azog appeared on screen I wanted to pull my hair out. I don't think I'll ever have that problem again. DoS edited down is 1:53:40, 2:03:30 with credits, 40 minutes removed. The wonderful thing is that Peter Jackson did over-film the movies, but the fact that he did makes it so incredibly easy to fix by taking a scalpel to his films. Most of my changes in AUJ involved eliminating Azog and any mention of him beyond the introductory history lesson. I realized that he would need to be introduced so we know who he is when we run into him in movies 2&3, but it just seemed so pointless to have him pursuing the dwarves throughout movie 1. Other changes involved cutting away the ridiculous cartoony action sequences in both films that were just over the top CGI abominations. All those complained about here, the run through Goblin Town, Legolas surfboarding on everything, Dwarves vaulting themselves every which way. Speaking of, I loved completely eliminating the confrontation between the Dwarves and Smaug. The entire sequence is so long and full of shots sans dwarves, by cutting all the pieces with the dwarves and some clever soundtrack manipulation, you can tell a story of Smaug chasing Bilbo through the furnace room, into the hall of kings, then going off to Laketown to murder everyone. The Kili/Tauriel/Legolas love triangle? Gone. The dwarves being left behind in Laketown? Gone. Tauriel and Legolas taking on Orcs during the confrontation in the mountain? Gone. But honestly, my favorite parts of the project was restoring everything I could of the original soundtrack Shore wrote to the movie. In some parts it was unfortunately not possible, just from the nature of the final movie mix, but in other scenes it worked like a charm. I especially enjoyed putting Bilbo's theme back in where I could. I also swapped the jarring Nazgul theme for the dwarven theme in Thorin's charge. I managed to make it look as if Thorin charges Azog's warg (you never get a good look look at Azog himself, he never appears in frame). Removing Azog from that sequence may have been the hardest bit of either of the projects, but Shore's soundtrack really ends up carrying it. I made it so the warg uses Thorin as a chew toy for a couple seconds then throws him away. I also really liked restoring Shore's score to the very end of the movies, as the way PJ decided to end both movies in silence was incredibly annoying to me. The score makes both so much better, even if in DoS PJ only removed some 5-7 seconds. I know if I ever shared my version of the films widely I'd probably get sued, but for me personally, it is such a relief to be able to watch and enjoy them after spending so long fuming about how they could have been so much better if PJ had just woken up, trimmed the fat from his movies and trusted Shore's instincts as a composer. How do you folks feel about fan edits fixing the perceived problems in the films? I'd never done any video editing in my life before this, and found myself devoting hours and hours of my time to learning final cut so I could actually enjoy the films for what they could have been.
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