Red Tails Redux

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Red Tails Redux
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Original Release Date:
2012
Original Running Time:
121 minutes
Fanedit Release Date:
Fanedit Running Time:
90 minutes
Time Cut:
31 minutes
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Brief Synopsis:
Red Tails Redux strikes a more serious tone than the theatrical cut. This version of the film eliminates two poorly received subplots, the 'Love Story' and the 'Prison Escape'. Red Tails Redux also features trims to most of the juvenile humor and on-the-nose dialogue as well as several editorial fixes to improve structure and pacing.
Intention:
Being a lifelong fan of George Lucas and the Tuskegee Airmen, I was disappointed with the theatrical cut of this film - finding inconsistencies with the tone and choices made in regard to the editing. Frankly the theatrical cut felt like an assembly of all of the scenes filmed during production without that final editorial pass to restructure, recut and disregard the parts that are just standing in the way of what the movie really is. It's my intention with Red Tails Redux to give the film that final editorial pass - and by doing so make the movie more consistent with honoring the Tuskegee Airmen rather than exploiting their story for the sake of awe-inspiring visual effects.
Other Sources:
Red Tails: Originial Motion Picture Soundtrack by Terence Blanchard
Clear and Present Danger: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by James Horner
Negro Pilots (1943) - U.S. Public Domain
Special Thanks:
TM2YC
Release Information:
  • DVD
  • Digital
Special Features
DVD-5 with Editor's Commentary
Editing Details:
Retail blu-ray ripped and transcoded to ProRes422, edited in Final Cut Pro 6, mixed in Soundtrack Pro.
Cover art by SeventhWard (DOWNLOAD HERE) image

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9.6
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Discovered the film through this site, never seen the original and (going by what others have said) I have no wish to.

From the positive reviews I was expecting a decent experience but was surprised at just how much I enjoyed it, in spite of the comparatively light tone (for a war film) and larger-than-life aspects I found it properly engaging with the story kept grounded by the cast and free of distractions by the faneditor.

Against other films with broadly comparable in setting and story I would rank this edit over many that have been theatrically-released, thank you SeventhWard for your work!

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I originally planned to see this when it cam out but due to poor reviews I gave it a miss. Now having seen it for the first time and not knowing the original I was very impressed. I didn't notice any changes or any hard cuts or evidence that it was an edited film and the story flowed well and I enjoyed it as a straight up WW2 film without any extra fluff added in.
The only thing that prevented a perfect 10 was the music, maybe this was added or was original, but I felt the techno mix distracting and inappropriate for period piece movies like this. But maybe that was a Lucas original.
Also I would love to see a list of complete changes in the changelog too.

A great edit and I look forward to seeing what other films you're going to tackle.

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Watched this with my wife and son, neither of which have seen the original.
At the end they had no idea they had just watched a fanedit.
The pacing is superb and the story does not feel like anything is missing.
Without a doubt this is the film as it should have been made, no time wasting sub-plots and completely focused on the pilots.

This is definitely now my go to version.

Excellent work SeventhWard I look forward to your future edits.

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WOW is all i can say about this edit. this is what fan editing is all about, making a bad movie an awesome one. i love this movie now (i hated the original). SeventhWard has cut all the dragged out sub plots and baggage this movie carried, making an awesome fun movie that we should have got originally.
i could not give enough praise for this fan edit.anybody after a fun highly entertaining WW2 movie should check this out.

PQ: good but will be getting the DVD.

AQ: perfect

Editing: perfect i was so engrossed in the movie i did not notice any hard cuts or audio pops.

Entertainment: highly entertained its a must see.

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The theatrical release of Red Tails was, to me...disappointing. You would think that the world's richest independent filmmaker would be able to at least do a good job with his own swan song vanity project.

The original version was disjointed, cliche ridden and beat you over the head with its morality.

Sadly, Lucas dropped the ball yet again--Fortunately, SeventhWard grabbed the ball, cleaned it up, and ran it in for a touchdown.

This is the movie that Lucas should have made. Suddenly, I was emotionally invested in the characters, something which simply did not happen during my original viewing. The action scenes put punctuation to the dramatic elements, instead of trying to carry the movie.

Now, instead of being ashamed to own it, I'm happy to watch it again. Thanks SeventhWard for giving us the film that we needed, instead of the one that Lucas forced upon us. :)

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