Happy new year! Those who are familiar with my Indiana Jones 4 edit will know what to expect: An edit to bring the movie in line with the first two movies in the trilogy.

Gone are Han Solo being Jealous, gone is Luke Skywalker's rediculous plan to give away his droids to the biggest jerk in the galaxy. Gone is Vader changing character since Empire. And a lot more!

In my view this movie suffers from a narrative which aims to tell a complex political and sociological aspect. By no way i condem this approach but it isn´t told in a proper way and jumps back, forth between narrative locations and merge at the end.

So how i want to tackle this in hope that the movie becomes more interesting?
My approach is similiar to @L8wrtr ´s in his American Gangster - Two Tales edit (definitely a recommandation!) amd inspired me to try the same, kind of. Telling two stories separately before they flow into each other.

From IMDB: A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.

I have a strange relationship with this film, I really enjoy the scenes in the warehouse, but get bored to death with the flashbacks. So, I've decided to remove them. The end result is a much tighter film.

"Do not be afraid. My name is Indrid Cold. In a place this size, Equator. 300. 300 will die. Wait for me. I will return. I will see you in time."

Experience the most underrated film ever made, now cut to 73 minutes of tightly paced story. No more dragging scenes, no more melodrama. Just pure cosmic horror.

A moderate edit that keeps the central themes intact but presents them in a less heavy-handed fashion. Some action sequences have been re-cut, FX shots tweaked, and bad/expository dialogue is kept to a minimum, with some scenes rescored to help create a more consistently ethereal atmosphere. Some tweaks for pacing have been made, but the nonlinear structure is retained. One flash forward is cut, another is incorporated as a voice-over, and most are trimmed. The lighthouse finale is left untouched. The 5.1 surround track is preserved and I have also put together an isolated score track.

Aping the style of early cinema, this fanmix is intended to be a short film with a mix of humour, sincerity and subversion. The focus is shifted entirely off the traditional protagonists of a superman film and instead onto the US military and how they deal with these events. The filmis presented like a B movie and intends to enhance the military's mistrust of the alien and the reporter. There is also emphasis on explosions by adding in very selective colour.