Falcon and the Winter Soldier: The Spence Edit, The

I had a lot more fun watching this movie than watching the Disney+ miniseries. These Disney series give fan editors a good substantial amount of material to work with so they can really take the best parts and craft the cleanest version of the story. I feel for editors who try to fix a traditional 90-minute movie. You can easily just end up with an episode of a tv show. For example, a friend of mine made a fan edit of “Escape from LA” and ended up with a 50-minute movie. The 2 ½ hour Spence edit is similar in length to "Captain America: Winter Soldier," so it fits into the series well.

Speaking of that film the biggest criticism I can give to "FATWS" is that Captain America Steve Rogers isn’t in it! I’m sure I will say the same thing about the upcoming Captain America movie. There was obviously nothing that the showrunners or a fan editor could do about that. My second critique would be the main villain of the series (Flag-Smasher, played by Erin Kellyman) was not very well cast. The showrunners could have done better but for a fan editor, it would be difficult if not impossible to cut her out. I also am not a fan of gender or race-swapping characters. However, I liked the trims made in this edit and I didn’t hate her as much. Her cockney British accent was difficult to understand at times. This edit did not have subtitles but it did feature surround sound which is highly appreciated for those of us with a home theater. I did really like the other villains, Baron Zemo (played by Daniel Brühl) and U.S. Agent (played by Wyatt Russell).

I have not watched the series since it came out so I can’t comment too much on what was specifically cut, but I didn’t miss any of it. I remember when it was first released that one of the main criticisms was that, because it is basically a 5.5-hour movie, waiting a week in between episodes totally killed the momentum and lessened the pleasure of watching it because it’s easy to forget what happened last time. This is unlike “Wandavision” which was clearly set up to be a weekly series. You probably couldn’t do much better than this to make "FATWS" the movie it was intended to be. The only thing I may have trimmed or removed completely was when Falcon gets on his soapbox at gives a lecture about race near the end. He was just a mouthpiece for the writers and he goes on and on about it. But other than that I really enjoyed this edit and recommend it. The audio and visual quality were excellent and professional.

I always thought this series would have worked better as a movie and it sure does. It didn't feel rushed and every part of the story was clear. The editing and audio was super clean. If someone was to watch this for the first time they wouldn't question it as a TV show. Brilliant work, this is my favourite edit yet will definitely be watching this version as my go to from now on. My only issue I have is that there wasn't a second post credit scene and maybe include some more scenes of Lemar as we didn't really get introduced to his character but those are just minor things. 10/10

This is how I will rewatch FatWS from now on! I haven't seen the show in a while and I really can't remember most of what's cut. While I did miss a couple scenes, they really weren't important to the central plot and this movie does a good job staying focussed. I think you did the best with what the original story gave. My only narrative edits would be 2 things: the ending after the final fight drags on for a little bit too long and there's no second post credit scene! It's a marvel movie, there's almost* always something! Oh and audio note, mostly great job but sometimes the music in the first half was a little loud compared to the rest of the tracks. I don't think I had too much of a problem with it the second half but maybe I just got used to it. Awesome job on this one. Highly recommend everyone check this out

This was a very entertaining fix of a relatively boring TV show!

The most impressive part is that half of the show is missing but it didn't feel like anything was gone. The Zemo breakout was so well done, it was awesome. I loved that it just happened and that was it. I've seen a billion jailbreaks, I don't need a other one, so solid work there. Someone else mentioned her mask being on "instantly" but I'm happy to chalk that one up to "she put it on off-screen, which works perfectly for me.

I only threw a 9 in for narrative/enjoyment because there were a few things that went by very very quickly. Like the refugee vote felt like it came out of nowhere. Maybe it would've made sense to scatter that info throughout so that it wouldn't feel tacked on. I was also slightly confused at points, like "ok we're here, now we're here, now we go here, meet this girl/guy, that girl/guy dies, etc." That kind of pacing is great for a TV show, which needs one climax per episode, but a movie only needs one total, so it must have been hard to make it work.

Overall, a very good job and far far more enjoyable than the show was with twice the length.

Overall this is a really good edit! I imagine it is challenging to condense down a 6 part series into a movie format, but I'm glad this exists. The original was so drawn out and it just gets boring at times. There are a few story threads that are a little bumpy, but again when multiple threads are covered in shots it can sometimes happen when trying to remove the bad/undesired. So far this is the best edit of this series I've watched, and for now IT is the version I'll go to when I want to watch it again.