I did a fan edit of Batman and Robin. I removed all mr freeze puns, ass shots, nipple shots, bad acting, in fact removed all bad scenes. The movie opens with the logo...then cuts to credits

If you watch Jaws backwards its about a shark that keeps throwing up people until they have to open a beach

The Maple Films edit of The Hobbit is worth mentioning. It significantly cuts scenes that don't add to the story or drag out the run time for the sake of extending action scenes. So... no sub-plot with Sauron, no romance between Tauriel (who now has been reduced to a single line) and Kili, and Legolas' screen time is drastically cut. It does create a few plot issues, though.

Nice list! I've been in the fanediting community for 10+ years now, trying to help in small ways. I did a bit of dialogue editing on War of the Stars, but much more on his Silent Star Wars edits. To people looking for more, I highly recommend the following: - TMBTM's "War of the Stars II: The Future in Motion" (obviously) and Silent Film versions - slark's "Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze - Detarnished!" (most fun I've ever had collaborating with everyone for an edit) - ADigitalMan's "Superman Redeemed" (very impressive mashing up of Supermans III & IV) - TV's Frink's "Ridiculous" Star Wars prequels - Adywan's "Star Wars Revisited" (of course) - Tranzor's "The Thing: Late Night TV Edit" (perfectly emulates the hard censored TV cut style that was partly frustrating, partly amusing) - Jorge's "Hulk Remixed" (tighly-paced and shortened version of the 2003 Hulk film) - Jack Marshall's "Star Trek Phase 2: In Thy Image" (Star Trek V reimagined as an unmade Phase 2 pilot) - Jambe Davdar/Jamie Benning's filmumentaries (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jaws, etc...)

The Hobbit Tolkien Cut is superior to the studio forced trilogy, it cuts the movies into the proper telling of the 300 page book and gives you a tidy story in just under 4 hours I do believe.

This list would have been better if you had links to some of these so we could judge for ourselves if we haven't seen some of them

my favorite fan edit is Star Wars Neon Noir. you can watch the whole thing on KZfaq, it takes the prequels and cuts them into one movie in the style of a Nicolas Winding Refn film

I wouldn't mind seeing cuts of the Whatculture "How They Should Have Made" movies :)

I've made a fan edit of all Simon's videos that don't get something wrong: "Hi I'm Simon from WhatCulture //snip// Thanks for watching"

The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled is perhaps the most important fan edit in that it's the version of the movie which should've been released.

the grindhouse star wars is pure gold

I can recommend two others: Pulp Empire (A version of Empire Strikes Back edited in the style of a Tarrantino film) and Heavy Star Wars: Star Wars with heavy metal music. Good crowd pleasers :D

Let us not forget The Thief And The Cobbler: The Recobbled Cut. I guess it's less of a transformation than a restoration, because different studios transformed this one with rushed animation to get it finished, while fans broke their backs to get it as close as possible to the epic it was meant to be. This is Richard Williams we're talking about here, the guy who make "bumping the lightbulb" a trope.

Dune ;The Alternative Edition (Fanedit) is one I stumbled across. It truly helps to clear up a lot of things and brings the actual book story line back in to play.

I think the Star Wars De-Specialized Edition deserves at least an honorable mention.

Andy Dick:"Morpheus, what can we expect at this orgy?" Morpheus:"Machines!" Always catches me off guard.

I've seen multiple 3-hour fan edits of the entire hobbit trilogy in which all three movies are condensed into one long movie. They cut out the unnecessary filler that was added and brings the story closer to that of the book. I found them to have better pacing and be overall more enjoyable to watch.

Howard the Duck: Re-plucked is fantastic. The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Edits is also great. Superman: Redeemed does a great job combining Christopher Reeve's Superman 3 and 4 into a much better singular film. Adywan's Star Wars movies are must-sees as well. New Hope and Empire are done... he's working on Jedi.

LOST did not take place in purgatory. The island was the real world and everything happened. The reveal was that the "flash-sideways" is season 6 WAS purgatory and was actually a flash-forward to after they all died and needed to find each other again. Still stupid IMO, and that's why the fan-edit changes that. And there's still magic, but it's handled better. Thanks for the mention on the list, though! Much appreciated! - DriggyDriggs

Lost wasn't set in purgatory at all. the final season had the characters ending with them being dead, but everything on the island happened.

Great list. Always good to find new cuts. I'll hopefully be adding some more star wars edits soon...

The Hobbit: There and Back Again! Combining all 3 movies and cutting as much non-book fluff as possible, it's the only fan edit I've actually kept saved

but sand man is my favorite part of spider man 3. He had the best scene in the movie.

Where do you find these fan edits?

The Phantom Menace with 100% less Jar Jar? That would be like the Dark Knight with 100% less Joker.

What about The Thief and the Cobbler: The recobbled cut? It's amazing and is the movie as it was ment to be.

Imagine being uncultured enough to think Spider-Man 3 is “awful”

Rogue One: The Battle of Scarif

The fan cut of Cloud Atlas (puts it in the same order as the book) is just the way to experience that story.

What about the edit of Passengers? It makes it SO much better

The Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows fan edit is closer to the director's original cut before the studio mangled it by trying to make it a teen horror flick. It's basically a completely different movie and is actually quite good.

When Simon does a video, it seems like 90% opinion, 10% fact.

There have been several fan edits of The Hobbit trilogy as one film. My favourite edit so far has been J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit edited by Dustin Lee at Maplefilms. I still want to see the edit There and Back Again but I haven't been able to watch that one.

Surprised you didn't mention the Hobbit edits. Apparently there are several edits out there that cut out the parts that weren't in the book (white orc, Gandalf side quest, etc) and made one movie. I want to watch a good edited version because I can't imagine sitting through that entire trilogy again, even if there are some good moments.

I would have included "Doc Salvaged". It is a fan edit that removes all the camp from Doc Savage and returns it to what it should have been in the first place. Worth tracking down.

I'd like to see an edited version of "The Hobbit" that just shows what was in the book.

What about The Hobbit: The Tolkien Edit or The Hobbit: There and Back Again? Both fan edits reduce the Hobbit trilogy to a single movie.

cant wait to watch some of these.. good list

The tolkien edit of the hobbit is probably the best way to watch the hobbit

We need a The Amazing Spider-Man series fan edit *NOW!*

Perdition's Flames, a fanedit of Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan is the only version I watch. Paced much more like a ST:TOS episode, and it is much more from Kirk's viewpoint.

Im really surprised that the fan edit that broke down the 3 hobbit movies into 1 wasn't on here tbh

i love this channel so much 😛

Even better than Star Wars edit is Jaws the Sharksploitation Cut, by the same editor. It re-edits Jaws adding in deleted scenes and some bits from Jaws 2 with a new score. It really makes it a whole new movie.

Simon looks high in all of his pictures

great list! well done, ... well done in deed...

star wars de-specialised edition is a fantastic fan edit

Very interesting stuff, thank you!

If fans recut and re-edit TERMINATOR :SALVATION and Terminator :SEGA GENESIS ,with usable material left in the film,they will the shortest 2 minutes per film ever,ha!

While admittedly shameless self-promotion.. There and Back Again Vol1 and Vol2 is a pretty snazzy fanedit of all three Hobbit films. ;)

I once attempted at fan edit of Peter Jackson's King Kong, mashing it up with that Doctor Who episode where The Daleks are at the Empire State Building. No one other than me would probably find it enjoyable, but I thought it was an improvement at the time lol.

There's an edit of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame that cuts out all of the non-plot-essential appearances of the gargoyles (which turns out to be all but one small scene). It makes the movie much darker overall and vastly improves it in my opinion.

Wow this doesn't even have the Tolkien Edit of the Hobbit movies... The greatest fan edit ever made. It turned three garbage movies into one amazing book accurate movie

Okay time for unmentioned personal faves- Batman Begins: The Dark Cut - removes lots of little jokes, changes katie holmes voice - Batmobile drives itself during the 3rd act because it's fucking awesome and fits in with the remote controlled version from the 2nd film. Adds a bit of dialogue from the videogame to help cover up the fact. Darkly Dreaming Dexter: takes the first season and cuts out most of the side characters silly stories, most of the focus is on Dexter and him catching the Ice Truck Killer, with a little Doakes for good measure. Indiana Jones: Skull Kingdom mystery: removes most of the silliness, Lebouf is 2/3rds less annoying, no fridge handled perfectly and no UFO ending. I I can't remember but I think some music was restored from earlier films to help it feel in line - a worthy follow up to a decent trilogy. Star wars episode III: I forgot which edit it was that I absolutely loved because I had a hard drive crash, but they condensed the obi-wan v anakin fight and pretty much omitted yoda vs palpy, they also removed "higher ground" so Anakin somersaults immediately after Obi-wan and gets cut up a a result of his rashness. There's no noooooooooo and I think most of the setting up of Ep IV is gone. Most ep III cuts are decent to be fair as they tend to trim Palpatine goading Anakin to bad things so Anakin usually makes the choices for himself. Final mention: Aztec's Silent Hill Restless Dreams: takes the first movie and cuts out sean bean, also removes lots of boring parts in the middle that slow the film down, the absolute kicker, you can pick between 2 endings on the disc - one is the good ending where Radha mitchell leaves town with her daughter and the other is a specially created Bad End. It turns a pretty crappy adaptation of a game with a faithful soundtrack into one of the best videogame adaptations submitted to celluloid (not including Takeshi Miike's Ace Attorney film)

There's a 4 hour Hobbit movie. No added nonsense. Just the original Hobbit story. :)

There is a Fan edit Called Star wars adywan revisted and its the best!!!!!!!!!

This was a really cool list.

the Phantom Edit is not a edit of the first prequel its really a edit of all 3 prequels and turns them into 1 hour and a half long film that literally stars with Quigon Dying and Obi "Killing" Darth Maul

Passengers where instead of starting off hearing Jim's story you skip to aurors. Makes the film much creepier and once you watch till when she learns the truth you go to Jim's story

So here's a compelling question: Why are these people not hired? They clearly have a far better idea of anything cohesive then Hollywood does nowadays.

It's a very hit'n miss list. Star Wars: Revisited by Adywan is my favourite (though I also like the Q2 & L8Wrtr prequel trilogy edits), Batman v Superman: No Justice is marvellous, Star Trek: Vengeance is fabulous, Terminator: Extended Edition is great, there are also good edits of Dune, Alien 3 & Cloud Atlas. As for your list ... T3: The Coming Storm is probably the one I enjoyed most.

I actually liked Sandman in Spider man 3. He had some potential.

I remember when I first watch the Star Wars: Despecialized. It felt so right and nostalgic!

@WhatCulture A nice nod to a few of many who have done great works. Any plans to make a video highlighting more fan edits? Might you be inclined to make a follow-up highlighting more works, perhaps even good movies which were made better through the great works of fan editors?

love your vids guys

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Here's one for another list of made. Dune: Alternative Edition Redux

I was expecting Auralnauts' Star Wars, but that was a fandub/abridged series. A hilarious one at that.

The Original Star Wars Trilogy: The Despecialized Editions - A fan editor taking the recent, high rez versions of the original Star Wars films that have been drastically altered by Lucas over the last couple of decades and basically reconstructing high rez versions of the original trilogy as they had been when they were released in theaters by borrowing bits and pieces from various sources, removing the CG and returning the model effects, and removing the elements that drastically changed what fans loved about the original trilogy (such as Greedo firing at Han while in the cantina, because everyone knows Han shot only).

That one Simpsons edit that took all the Rainier Wolfcastle scenes and made it into a movie

You missed Batman Forever: The Red Book Edition

Shout out to resurrection F super cut if you're a dragonball fan. keeps all the great animation and removes all the plotholes

Totally forgot the fan edit of Jacob's Ladder! So good an edit, the film's director actually chose the fan edit version to be the official directors' cut release on Bluray!

Two faves of mine are 'Superman: Son of Jor-El' which combined 'Superman The Movie' and 'Superman II' and 'Superman: Redeemed' that combined 'Superman III' and 'Superman IV'. And no, they're not by the same Faneditor.

1:53 Looks like Markiplier's Wilford Warfstache

Where on earth do I get my hands on these? :O

There's an edit of the Hobbit Trilogy called the Biblical cut, with all movies combined in one and without anything that isn't in the book

There's a Tolkien Cut of the Hobbit that trims the 3 films down to 4 hours.

Star Wars I-III (anti cheese edit) was on youtube for a longish time. Dunno if it's still there. It was really better.

this video need a part 2

I thought about maybe trailer edits, made by fans or even changed scenes when I clicked on this video...well, you can guess how surprised I was.

Great list and all but where do we find any of these fan remakes?

Lol, I always watch that minimal-Jarjar edit when I rewatch the lot of 'em!

I love the fanmade Madness of King Scar animated sequence for Lion King. Nice addition for Scar and Nala

Jordan Hanzon edited inside out so it was just the "outside" scenes. It's 15 minutes long and is incredible.

There's a pretty decent fan edit of Star Trek: The Motion Picture called "In Thy Image" which tries to cut it down to its original length (2 "tv hours"),to imagine what it may have been like if it stayed the pilot for "Star Trek: Phase II".

Star-Wars: despecialized edition

The best one I saw was a re-editing of the Star Wars prequels. Basically only 15 minutes of the first film is included and the love story between Padme and Anakin makes much more sense.

The Star Wars prequel "Anti-Cheese" edits. These were cuts that were similar to the "Phantom Edit", but spanned the entirety of the PQ trilogy, changing the Neimodian and Jar Jar's voices and subtitling them with slightly changed dialogue so they sounded like credible alien instead of moronic comic relief, removing most of Anakin's stiff and cheesy dialogue with Padme, removing the nonsense of midichlorians, and even going so far as to remove the announcers in the pod race so the scene has a certain degree of tension and less comedy. The changes to the other two prequels are more minimal, but the slight changes do improve the experience. Sadly, as they can no longer be found (Thanks, Disney), it's hard to view and enjoy these great fan creations that are, in my opinion, the PQs that we, the Star Wars fans, really wanted... or, at least, the closest thing to them we could have had.

The Phantom Menace one looks very interesting

Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame without the gargoyles. I need that in my life.

Auralnauts did a pretty good job with the Star Wars prequels and A New Hope. Super funny.

Heard of one that turned the three hobbit movies into one movie that actually seems like its based on the book

Harmy's Despecialized Edition?

Agent 9 has a better fanedit of Prometheus called the 'Special Edition'. He adds in the Weyland TED talk, puts in some 'Alien' soundtrack, streamlines the story, and somehow makes Fifield and Milburn tolerable. It's a far better experience than the theatrical cut.

There's one for passengers that shows it from Jenifer Lawrence's perspective it make Chris Pratt look like an evil psycho for the first like 45 mins

For Star Wars fans the "star wars anti cheese edits" are well worth looking for. All three prequels edited to perfection. Piratebay or some likely place to find them

That old Lost argument that isn't true. They weren't in Purgatory all along. Purgatory is just where we all wind up after we die, and it's sort of a bus station where Jack can meet with old friends before they all shuffle off to wherever they're going in the afterlife. That bit at the end is just wrapping up what is known to be true: everyone dies at the end of their lives. Where can I get my hands on Cosmogony?

Star Wars: The Dark Knight Rises pretty good. C3P0 with Johnny 5's voice might be the greatest thing to happen... ever

Okay but the ending of LOST didn't say they were in purgatory all along. They were in purgatory for 50% of the last season, they emphasized over and over that everything on the island actually happened.