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Eric R-L3
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 12:33 am |
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Currently editing the remake movie to remove any content that is not proper Robo. Things like jumping, Novak, China factory, drefys act etc. Triming Robo's dialogue too as he seems to talk way too much and try to show him with his helmet rather than the fullface.
The flashback to the cafe shoot out scene as been brought forward and is no longer a flashback with the narration removed.
Let us know what scenes you think should be cut and if this edit sounds interesting.
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ChAnOoD DC-L4
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:23 am |
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Good luck with that!
I was considering doing some kind of recut of the film, focusing on the silver suit, but sadly, Robo does NOTHING with it. I was shocked to know what he did with the silver suit (wake up, the Spiderman jump in China, running a little and the first test). The black suit does everything.
Anyway, do you have any proper way to isolate vocals from the rest of the audio mix? I wanted to do that with PD, but didn´t have any decent results. And I´m not that versatile to dubbed all the voices by myself
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RoboPimp PIMPY SUPREME
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Comment: "You dead wrong if ya think that pimpin' gon' die" - Snoop Dogg, P.I.M.P. (Remix)
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 2:00 am |
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I'm interested to see what you can come up... it sounds like the running time on you version will be about 30 min. Seriously though, this is something I would welcome. I don't think you need to cut out scenes of Robo jumping though, as those play into some of the better action scenes and don't really violate what we all expected for the remake. We knew they wouldn't go with such a clunky design, so trying to recut the movie so he behaves like the original is a losing proposition. What I do want to see cut out is pretty much any scenes involving his wife before he dies and the other, unnecessary exposition. Oh, and if you could try to make the second half have any sort of natural flow that would be great too.
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ChAnOoD DC-L4
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 2:32 am |
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RoboPimp : | What I do want to see cut out is pretty much any scenes involving his wife before he dies and the other, unnecessary exposition. Oh, and if you could try to make the second half have any sort of natural flow that would be great too. |
Speaking of the family, I hope the ending will be quite different from the original...
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Zentron :
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 2:41 am |
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I'd remove pretty much all of the family segments, especially the bit where he watches his son going to school and the press waiting all around!
Also, try to edit in some blood spatter! Man of Steel was PG-13 and yet you got to see jet plane pilots being turned into a bloody mush, the violence in this RoboFlop was way too PG! _________________ http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/1060/klfjustifiedancient.png
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Stan The Man Bah Concepts Division
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 3:43 am |
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I agree with Chanood - I think 'real' Robo in such context would be him with the silver suit, but as we know, he does dick-all with it in the film. That aside, if you take out a lot of the trite and bullshit and focus to a more badass Robo with minimal family interaction, minimal-to-no secondary OmniCorp and related crap (China, Dreyfuss act, etc), and less vocals from Robo.. The movie will easily lose something like half it's running time, if not more, even if you leave in some things like jumping and whatnot (I wouldn't mind it, anyway). I really think Pimp's 30 minute estimate may sadly be more true than funny.. Hell, I actually think the movie could have benefited from a few more minutes in fact, but that's something else..
That said, it will be a neat experiment if nothing else. I agree with doing anything you can to give it some kind of nice flow and actual progressing-feeling - the latter half especially just drones on, until the ending where it shifts to just short of ludicrous speed. :roll: Perhaps chopping out some bits could help that.
I also think Zen said it with putting in some violence in it. I don't think that's too doable really but would be nice to see the film have a little hair on its ass there.. Even if you're not into the Full Verhoeven Experience, you can't deny this film violent-content-wise was almost children's programming compared to a lot of other similar-type films, even with the same rating - Shit I've seen more violence in network TV shows.
..Bah, I'm going into crap I said plenty of before. Anyway, bottom line, I do wish you luck, and would like to see what you come up with. Might be something pretty neat. We could look at it more as something of a TV pilot than a feature film if it gets less than an hour, and that might be a neat way to consider it. Just a thought.
PS - Nice to see ya again, Eric. _________________ I don't wanna pay that, PhotoBucket. Now maybe you haven't heard, but I'm the guy in old Archive. So hows about you just shit snow for a year and I'll figure out something else. Sayonara!
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RoboFan_93 Would Buy You For a Dollar
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 6:59 am |
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Welcome back, Eric!
Might be a neat idea, but you really wouldn't have a whole lot to work with. Sequence order might be changed up as well, and for example, you could have him going to his family in the end, depending on how much you cut from the movie. The China scenes, I kinda like, since he uses the silver suit in those.
Bottom line is, I don't know if this will improvie the movie, but it's not likely to make it worse, even if it does become quite shorter and I'd take a look at it, once it's done. _________________ Anything you post can be used against you!
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RoboPimp PIMPY SUPREME
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Comment: "You dead wrong if ya think that pimpin' gon' die" - Snoop Dogg, P.I.M.P. (Remix)
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 9:15 am |
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I've been thinking about the length issue for a bit now and I think the solution might be to really embrace the fact that it would be shorter. My idea: instead of trying to recut it as a new movie, try recutting it as if it were the pilot for a TV show. I feel a lot of the acting and production values make it seen like TV anyway, and I think that wouldn't have been a bad route for this footage to go... the material in this film could probably make for a really interesting and exciting 45 minute TV pilot... well, 'interesting' and 'exciting' might not be the best choice of words, but it would at least be a fun exercise to see if this material really would be better suited for TV.
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Eric R-L3
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Eric R-L3
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:29 pm |
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ChAnOoD
I thought that maybe a Fan-Edit had already been done but I'm well into it now anyway. This edit I have cut the silver suit done to just basically the training suit, this enables the cutting of most of the China parts and the wall jump. Some of the silver suit was good but I decided to cut most if it showed things like running and jumping.
Im working from the DVD so isolating audio is not my thing as I like to keep as much of the original footage as is but instead trim/cut and reorder scenes. The worst thing I hate with new films is the use of flashback/flashforwards with narration instead of playing the story in order.
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Eric R-L3
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:40 pm |
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RoboPimp
Running time is around 43mins and thats with the end credits. I've cut Robo jumping only while in the Silver suit as that just looked like Iron Man, the jumps in the Black Suit look almost believable.
All scenes with the family have been dropped and any scenes featuring them have been trimmed. Robo should always want his family but can never have them, the remake felt like the viewer was living with them! Same goes for Lewis, cut where possible. It may have been the actor but the character just seemed to slow the film down, his line "Good Cop - RoboCop" was terrible.
My hands are tied as to the ending but I have moved a small clip to after the credits…
Your spot on with the TV pilot as all that is missing would the commercials and the story now features on just the creation of Robocop.
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Eric R-L3
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:46 pm |
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Zentron
Yep, all family scenes gone. I won't be trying Blood splatter as you have to be really good at it or just looks bad.
The PG rating really hits it hard, I think the only good splatter is a tiny shot to the shoulder of the corrupt cop where as Robo 87 had real effects every where! I guess shooting lots of robots in China and the drug house filmed in the dark was there to include plenty of guns yet with hits being seen.
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Eric R-L3
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:59 pm |
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Stan The Man
Hi Stan.
Agree here, all the secondary stories are gone and Robo's constant dialogue has been trimmed. Why did Robo have his visor up all the time? When the visor was down both suits looked superb. When Robo jumps on the ED209 and from the press conference it works but the Robo run and jump over the wall just looks like a cartoon, maybe if was a stunt rather than CGI it would be believable.
They tried to tell us that the PG rating would still have violence but I don't think anyone fell for that one - there is more gun play and blood in the new TV Hawaii 5-0!
Yes RoboPimp's 30 min estimate was not far off. 43 mins 24 secs to be exact!, thats around 74 mins thats been cut!
It really does lend itself to a TV pilot.
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Eric R-L3
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 2:14 pm |
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RoboFan_93
Thanks RoboFan, finally found my login instead of just reading the forums.
Sequence wise its pretty much in order only the cafe scene is played before Murphy tells the Chief about it. Turns out there is only 43 min to work with! I agree that the China scenes are good but they just seem at odds with the story. Why is Robo being built/tested in China then moved to Detroit, also the training room scene feels like a bit of a con really. We have Robo doing a great rescue with a shoot-out but in reality he's just standing there connected to a simulator and why does the line "I'll buy that for a dollar" get spoken, there is no set-up for it.
I'm just about finished but having some rendering glitches to work out, but it currently feels like a fast and quick way to watch RoboCop 2014. You can pop it on and happily watch it all without using 117 mins, it could I suppose act as a demo for the film and lets you know if your interested in seeing more. (contains spoliers of course)
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