A savage and unsentimental a film. Except for an embarrassingly sentimental, sappy prologue and epilogue. This is a version without schmaltz that does not pander to the audience.

More grit, Less 80s humor, some scoring tweaks and more credible.

The full story of Katniss Everdeen but told in the mini-series format which contains many surprises, deleted scenes and new music and score by many different artists.

This isn't a heavy edit, it's mostly a restructure. The 10-minute 'Second Battle of the Somme' sequence, which occurs 3/4 of the way through and does not feature Joey, derails the movie. So the Somme sequence is shifted to the start, to form a new flashback/prologue and is now in black & white with an added old-fashioned vignette, further separating it visually from the main body of the movie, suggesting something of the past about it and creating a contrast with the vibrant colourful countryside of the first Devon scenes. The fact that the Somme sequence already featured no score, unlike the lushly orchestrated John Williams scenes that follow it, was a bonus distancing factor. We will now not really see Albert again until the end of the film, just a brief glimpse of his face, lit by the guns that Joey is dragging, only informing us that Albert has joined up. The 2-minute cutaway back to Albert in England disrupted the otherwise entirely Joey focused narrative, so that is simply deleted. There are a few more minor cuts to massage the new continuity and to slightly delay certain aspects of the story. On-screen chapter titles are added (in the same style and font as the existing time/place titles), acknowledging the episodic nature of the story and who owns, or cares for Joey in those episodes.

With his mother dead and his father at war, Seita takes it upon himself to protect and raise his younger sister Setsuko during WWII.

The warrior Guts decides that he must part ways with his group, the Band of the Hawk, but the group's leader Griffith has other ideas.

I felt there were 2 unanswered questions in this movie. Both answers were found in deleted scenes. So I added the 2 deleted scenes back in.

'Where Rebels Dare' takes an already decent Star Wars movie and makes it a bit more Star-Warsy. We now open with a traditional crawl and scene wipes are used. The amount of "fan service" is reduced and the plot is reordered.

This is a 91 minutes version of Saving Private Ryan. The difference is that there is no search for a Ryan. It's cut to an adventure full action war movie with other colors and music overdub. Der Untergang is more now to the character of Hitler in the bunker and the war on the streets of Berlin

When I first watched "The Hunger games" I felt it was a bit too similar to the japanese movie "Battle Royale". But after rewatching I changed my mind, because despite the similarities "The Hunger games" had enough of its own themes, ideas and tone to make it worthwhile, and the sequel which I liked even more proved that to me. So when the final chapter was about to hit, I was looking forward to it. But I didn't like the fact that it was to be released as a two parter, with a year in between. So I waited until the second part was in cinemas before watching the first part. After watching both parts I was glad I waited, because even though I liked both parts, imho it should have been told as a single movie. The separation imho weakens both parts, the first part lacking the climax and resolution and the second part lacking the buildup and characterization.
So I turned them into a single movie of a little over three hours.

Key Improvements and Changes:
Improved character performances (Katniss' emotional breakdowns largely cut, Gale relationship moments cut)
Improved narrative including powerful and exciting new beginning and more emotional thought provoking ending
Altered score allowing for new scenes and transitions that would otherwise not be possible including new Hanging Tree track
171 minute runtime (goal was 160 minutes, catching fire runtime was 146 minutes)

A faster cut of the Deerhunter.
Also the Third one in the vietnam trilogy after The Horror and Born to Kill