Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – The Real Effing Deal
 a TRUE FANEDIT by Kevinicus
This is a version of REVENGE OF THE FALLEN that is pretty similar to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – The Kitten Calendar Edition, but intended to somewhat appease those who do not appreciate the comic genius that is The Twins. member ratings: |
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INTENTION:
The intention of this edit is to somewhat appease those who do not appreciate the comic genius that is The Twins. I don’t get it, and never will, but I realize there is a significant audience out there that despises them. So, for the most part this is an identical fanedit to the Kitten Calendar Edition, with significant cuts made to those characters. My intention outside of The Twins was to trim down the excess fat to speed up the pacing and hopefully increase the sense of urgency, and help the film not drag so much. I also wanted to remove the aspects that limited the scope to such a seemingly small period of time (relative to the Transformers lifespan). There were other various poor jokes, continuity errors, geographical mistakes that I tried to correct as much as possible.
EDITING DETAILS:
Basically looked closely and tried to cut anything I could of the Twins that wasn’t essential to the story. Some small lines aren’t essential, but I wasn’t able to remove them. For the most part just find what didn’t work and wasn’t necessary or was repetitive and remove it. Sometimes this required rearrangement of audio or video, and some fixes required cropping of scenes as well.
CUTLIST:
- *The entire introduction with The Fallen and prehistoric man.
- *All of Optimus’ voice over during the Shanghai scene.
- *Moved the title sequence to the end of the Shanghai scene.
- *Trimmed Sam & Parents at the beginning somewhat (and dogs humping).
- *Trimmed Bumblebee in the garage (crying).
- *Trimmed the last line from the Nest hanger.
- *Trimmed Leo’s roommates some as well as some of Sam’s parents.
- *Trimmed Sam/Alice at party and part of the car scene.
- *Trimmed Megatron/Starscream on Nemesis and trimmed middle and end of scene.
- *Trimmed classroom flirtation bit.
- *Trimmed Sam in his room and w/Alice.
- *Trimmed talk in the library.
- *Cut repeated footage of Soundwave.
- *Cut Sam’s parents with the mime.
- *Trim news bits after Decepticons arrival.
- *Cut Galloway shutting down NEST.
- *Trimmed meat shop (no more talk about teeth).
- *Cut Simmon’s ass.
- *Cut Leo shocking himself.
- *Trim Jetfire talking about his family being there for “centuries”.
- *Leo/Mikeala land in desert
- *Image of Autobots being loaded onto plane and Lennox comments about it being a mistake
- *Removal of Lennox and Epps discussing the phone call and location of coordinates
- *Removal of Checkpoint scene
- *Remove Galloway parachute scene
- *Change footage and trim end of Petra scene to remove Simmons viewing troops parachuting from so far away, and to add time lapse.
- *Remove Simmons pointing at flare right after Sam does.
- *Heavily trim parts of military scenes (mostly parts without robots).
- *Remove Galloway in desert scene
- *Remove repeat shot from first movie of Drone
- *Trim Simmons conversation with Captain of Aircraft Carrier
- *Crop shot of Simmons on walkie talkie to remove wrong pyramid from the background
- * Remove Devastator’s balls (the flagrant scene anyway).
- *Trimmed Sam’s meeting with the Primes (I refuse to call this robot heaven since that’s not what it is). I don’t care a lot for this scene, but I feel it is necessary. I removed the part about Sam’s destiny though, that isn’t necessary.
- *Removed a couple of repeated shots during The Fallen’s retrieving of the Matrix.
- *Removed the audio for “Give me your face!”
- *And I went back and cut out the 6 bogeys coming up from the water for those that feel it’s a continuity error.
- *various other small edits
- New Edits for this version:
- *Removed Twins from Shanghai sequence as well as a few second here.
- *Removed Twins upgrading
- *Removed some of Twins interaction with Leo after Decepticon’s arrival
- *Removed Police Chase sequence and Sam & company hiding
- *Trimmed approach to the Pyramids
- *Trimmed small bits of Twins during Devastator fight
Changes to version 2.0:
- Improved a few transitions
- Changed arcee/sideways scene to have better Arcee introduction.
- Trimmed a little of kitchen bots
- Trimmed most of parents from college scene
- Trimmed Wheelie in garage
- Cut Wheelie leg hump
ADDITIONAL COMMENT:
This IS the edit for those who hated the Twins, this is NOT for those who liked the Twins. If you liked The Twins (really, how can you not??) then The Kitten Calendar Edition is for you. This edit is 3.5 minutes shorter than the Kitten Calendar Edition.
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After seeing the first Transformers, I did like it a fair amount. There were things in it that bugged me, but the faneditors did a nice job of trimming the fat. (a hybrid of the Reave and Uncanny Antman versions would be ideal for me) Before I saw the sequel, I’d read a lot of negativity towards it and I thought ‘how much worse could it be? It’s pretty much the same thing, right?’ Well, the negativity was very well deserved. It’s like it took everything I disliked about the first one and turned the volume up to 11. It has everything I hate about modern filmmaking in spades! (irritating audio design, over-the-top action nonsense, stupid characters like Sam’s mother, gratuitous language, etc…) Even after all the cuts Kevinicus made, there’s still a long shopping list of stuff about it I don’t like. I don’t blame him, of course, and we all have different tastes in movies, but I kinda think I’ll watch Reave’s version of this film when he’s done, then that’s it. I can’t stands no more!
What I’ve just said is not a reflection on Kevinicus’ skills as an editor. He did remove a lot of stuff that was even worse than what’s left (haha) and made it a more enjoyable experience. And technically, it’s great! Video and audio quality are top notch and everything flows smoothly.
This edit really shows me how tough it must be to edit a movie like this, and for that, I will give it a 7/10. The movie itself with the cuts gets a 5.5 or 6. If I was rating the unedited movie, oh boy, I dunno what I would give it. 4? 4.5? :p
Review by Ripplin — December 29, 2009 @ 1:14 am
To start with this review i should mention that I loathe Revenge of the Fallen. While I enjoy Michael Baysplosion movies like Armageddon and Transformers 1, Revenge of the Fallen felt like other people described how they felt while watching Armageddon: nonsense all the way down.
Like many others I couldn’t imagine how TF2 could be worse than TF1 at least i thought i would enjoy the movie as much as the first one, but after the 2.5 hour torture I would have gladly watched “Disaster Movie” again instead of Revenge of the Fallen. During the movie i started mentally collecting notes for future faneditors where to trim but after a while I gave up. I will keep on looking for a Transformers 2 fanedit that might make me watch the movie, enjoying the effects without being constantly annoyed – sadly this edit is not drastic enough to achieve this.
While some fat has been trimmed there is still the huge amount of robots farting explosions and parachutes, Wheelie humping Megan Fox’s leg, annoying one-liners and everything I can’t stand about TF2. Not to mention that every seconds the Offenso-Bot Twins are onscreen it is tough to listen/watch plus the whole story made less sense than transporting a cube into a megacity to bring it to a military helicopter in the first place, so my cudos to everyone who can squeeze some sense in it.
Enjoyment: 1/10 – the experience sadly didn’t change
Technical Aspects 10/10
the cuts are not noticeable etc. the faneditor did a great job on the technical aspects especially when it comes to:
Video Quality: well… watching fanedits in Bluray is pretty amazing and this is the main scoring point of this edit – damn it looks way better than a normal fanedit, the file is HUUUUGE (20 gig) and I’m curious how long it will take for fanedits to go full bluray (but if i remember correctly there was a HD fanedit mashup of Superman and Batman, so technically this is the second HD fanedit
) but currently I don’t know if it will be a standard. The fanediting world can sometimes be very unpredictable and the greatest premise might become a movie you won’t watch again. Or you read through the cutlist, thinking how amazing this will be but the final product is interesting, but overall “meh”
)
but i can see a Bluray Fanedit future for fanedit jewels like “Revisited” (which Adywan already confirmed to be in HD or other fanedits that are great and so popular that the faneditor might go back a second time to give us the same great experience but this time HD (looking at Jorge for Dark Knight Revisited in Bluray
so this makes an overall 5.5
Review by Sunarep — December 31, 2009 @ 12:53 pm
This is a solid edit. I have seen the most recent version, and I’d like to say that most of the complaints have been addressed. Robot heaven is still in there, but given how much of the cheese has already been removed I’m willing to accept a little being left in (especially considering that the scene’s absence causes a bigger narrative rift than leaving it in does). If you are like me, and you enjoyed the first movie but were massively let down by the sequel, then this cut will make you happy. If you hated the original too, then I can’t promise any miracles, but as far as presenting a more dignified version of ROTF goes this cut gets the job done quite solidly.
I watched the Blu-Ray version of this cut on one of my school’s 60″ HD screens, and I must say it’s a feast for the eyes. This edit was very well technically executed and I did not notice any “seams” in the editing. The cuts were subtle, and I didn’t really notice any of the cuts until I thought back and remembered “oh yeah, there was some kind of toilet / sex joke in that scene before, wasn’t there?” This edit all around comes together very nicely, and it looks gorgeous on Blu-Ray to boot. With all that in mind, this is an edit that will make me not miss the official cut. I’ve now got a cut of TF2 that looks good enough to watch with the Blu-Ray of TF1, and for me is as fun to watch (I suppose your mileage may vary though, since depending on how much you liked the first film you may like it more or less, so I’m not sure).
All around, I reccomend giving this cut a chance. It’s technically quite well done, and it’s also a much more enjoyable version of the film. 9/10
Review by Timstuff — April 24, 2010 @ 5:17 am