HOT FUZZ: The Actually Rather Funny Edition
by GhostcutWhat is it about? Making HOT FUZZ a leaner, tighter, funnier film.
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(8 votes, average: 7.00 out of 10, rated)
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Tagline A Truly Arse-Kicking Cop Movie.
Original film name Hot Fuzz
New film name HOT FUZZ: The Actually Rather Funny Edition
Film studio name Universal Pictures/StudioCanal/Big Talk/Working Title
Edit crew name Ghostcut Pictures
Date original was released 14th February 2007 (UK)
Date edit was released 20th August 2007 (iPod version on RapidShare), 11-13 November 2007 (DVD on RapidShare), 24 November 2007 (DVD on BitTorrent)
Original runtime 2h 0m
New runtime 1h 43m
Amount of time cut/added 16m 4s cut, 1m 15s added
Cuts removed/added/extended
- Heavily cut titles.
- Janine (played by Cate Blanchett) is cut.
- Speeded-up some montages.
- Angel does not go to Somerfields’ and accuse Simon Skinner of the
murders. An extra line from the deleted scenes was added to make
it appear that Frank Butterman won’t let Angel accuse Skinner of
anything, let alone act on it. Angel just goes back to the hotel. - Extended fence jump scene.
- Also cut some unfunny jokes & unnecessary lines.
- Some scenes were trimmed.
- Credits heavily edited, “Solid Gold Easy Action” song removed.
Cut Scenes
00:01:47.14 CUT – Scene with Nicholas’ ex, Janine
00:00:04:19 CUT – Outside of pub
00:00:14:15 CUT – Autograph for the breakfast
00:07:32:00 CUT – Colleagues losing confidence in Nicholas
00:02:53:13 CUT – Most of end credits.
Shortened Scenes
00:00:27:34 CUT – Cut beginning titles, amped up what remains
00:00:02:00 CUT – Shortened bed scene after first night
00:00:06:13 CUT – “The greater good.” / “The greater good, precisely.”
00:00:02:20 CUT – “It’s a requirement.” / “In the city, maybe.”
00:00:01:09 CUT – Long pause from 11:30 bar scene
00:00:14:05 CUT – Stab talk from 11:30 bar scene
00:00:04:00 CUT – Cut down beginning of first NWA scene
00:00:02:13 CUT – Wipe to Blower’s car – “stop writing” scene
00:00:13:02 CUT – I have to water my peace lily scene
00:00:04:23 CUT – Angel grabbing phone after Blower’s “accident”
00:00:03:42 CUT – Translation for “I does for this one!”
00:00:12:19 CUT – “You don’t switch off, do you?” / etc until “What made you want to be a police officer?”
00:00:01:15 CUT – Shortened little drunk scene, added line without lengthening scene
00:00:03:18 CUT – “Statistically, Sandford is the safest village…”
00:00:00:14 CUT – Removed reference to cut scene
00:00:01:03 CUT – Trim to last NWA scene
00:00:04:05 CUT – Trimmed down scene before Lurch attacks
Speeded Up Scenes
00:00:01:46 SQUEEZE – Speeded up travelling montage 1
00:00:00:18 SQUEEZE – Speeded up travelling montage 2
00:00:03:08 SQUEEZE – Angel walks into his room for the first time quicker than normal
00:00:02:02 SQUEEZE – Fast beer/loo montage
Added/Extended Scenes
00:00:09:14 ADD – Exacerbate joke
00:00:10:09 ADD – Office in the street joke
00:00:16:08 ADD – Extended Fences scene
00:00:03:14 ADD – “And what’s more, I know who did it”
00:00:07:00 ADD – “I Do Hope You’re Not Going To Say What I Think You’re Going To Say”
00:00:30:10 ADD – More credits
Your intention for this fanedit: HOT FUZZ was too long. So I felt I should cut it down to a more leaner, somewhat faster-paced and funner film.
Hardware and software information:
- DVDx
- K-Lite Codec Pack
- Sony Vegas 7
DVD specifications:
- Video: PAL
- Audio: Dolby 5.1, DTS 5.1, Stereo 2.0
- Mostly Animated Menus
- Scene Selection
- Easter Egg
- Private Joke
- iPod Version (Dual Layer DVD only)
Time needed for the edition: 4 weeks Images:
IMAGES:
artwork by UseYourIllusionII (DOWNLOAD HERE):
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The edit:
Overall good. There were no hard cuts, no flaws to the image or the plot which I did notice, the plot was complete and had a nice flow to it. The edit comes with 3 audio choices and only the third one works on both my PC and my DVD players. Also the background noise and music on the third audio track is noticeably to loud at times. The buttons on the otherwise nice menu are not highlighting for me at all, which means navigating by lucky guess. This for sure is a very nice fanedit and it improves the movie a lot IMO. On the entertainment level I enjoyed the movie this way a lot more than the original (although that one was also quite good), still the ending is for my taste to long to over-the-top.
editing: 5 of 5,
entertainment: 4 of 5
Image quality:
The image quality is perfect.
video quality: 5 of 5
Audio quality:
As I mentioned it before, there are 3 audio options, but only the last one (2.0) works on both my DVD players and my PC. Also the audio had a strange problem to it, that the background noise and music were to loud at parts, which made understanding of what was said almost impossible, especially in the beginning. Other than that, all audio transitions worked really well, no flaws there, good work. But I would hope for a version with corrected audio.
audio: 2 of 5
The DVD:
The DVD comes with a nice animated menu, but the buttons are not highlighting for me, so I have to choose by lucky guess. No artwork is attached.
DVD: 2 of 5
resulting in a 3 of 5 overall rating from me. This is a very good fanedit and definitely a huge improvement over the original, but the audio issues were distracting and the DVD menu does not work. I recommend this to be recreated, still it is an improvement over the original version, can be enjoyed a lot
Review by boon23 — November 28, 2007 @ 11:27 pm
As mentioned previously, there are a few quirks with the audio, but this is a technically excellent edit. It flows better than the original, but I find it to be less enjoyable.
Actually Rather Funny? Certainly. Leaner and tighter? Definitely. Funnier? Not really.
Review by ryancorven — December 1, 2007 @ 4:06 am
How do I open the iPod version?
Review by LinkTGF — December 6, 2007 @ 9:33 am
It’s compressed as a 7-Zip archive, so you can use 7-Zip (Windows) or p7zip (Mac/Linux) to extract the files.
Review by Ghostcut — December 6, 2007 @ 9:59 am
sweet, thanks!
It’s a shame this is only in PAL on dvd though
Review by LinkTGF — December 6, 2007 @ 5:50 pm
Hey, I am finally going to start downloading some of these fan-edits! lol, I figured I’d start with this and the Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Harder one since these were two I’m really looking forward too…and I’d like to put this on my iPod!
I’m loving that cover by the way, who made it again?….oh wait…ha
Review by UseYourIllusionII — January 16, 2008 @ 1:42 am
I am no longer seeding the torrent, but according to the last check by Mininova (which was less than 3 hours ago) there are still two seeders in the swarm. Whoever they are, THANK YOU! It is very much appreciated.
Review by Ghostcut — January 20, 2008 @ 12:34 pm