Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Covenant Edition

Overall a very good edit of KOTCS. I know this is one of TM2YC's first edits and he did a marvelous job. Edits are seamless and PQ/AQ are very good. Not much I can add to the other reviews. I do think a little too much was cut but that's a personal preference.

I haven't watched the original film in years, so I probably didn't notice ALL of the changes... but the biggest one I did notice was that this movie didn't suck as much as I remember it did. If you've never liked this film, but really want to, I think this edit will change your mind!

I have to say, pretty good edit in many aspects. The quality is good, and the edits are pretty seamless. KOTCS seems to be most of a disappointment for most people, but I was like in the middle. Didn't hate it, didn't love it. This edit cuts the correct things and makes an not too bad movie for me into yeah, really not bad at all. The narrative is a little hard to follow but it wasn't too bad for me personally.

But more importantly, this is the first ever edit I watched and I just want to thank TM2YC here for making an edit that sold me the idea of fanedits. Awesome work, TM2YC!

So like seemingly everyone, I hated KOTCS too, and to be blunt, this edit definitely improved my enjoyment of it. All the little, obnoxious, obviously late George Lucas-written moments are removed, and the movie definitely like a somewhat fitting and appropriate sequel to the original three.

The technical aspect of this edit was really perfect. The video quality was tremendous for 720p (I would've guessed it was 1080p), and the sound and video editing was completely on point.

However, I ended up watching this in conjunction with Q2's KOTCS edit, and I did find this version cut out a little bit too much of the first act. So much so, I kept rewinding, wondering why Indy was doing this, or why he was at a particular location. The movie still works to a degree, but when compared to Q2's, I found the latter to be much easier to follow and improved my enjoyment of the story even more -- unfortunately for me, the video quality of Q2's isn't nearly as good as this one.

Whilst I was too young to see the originals in theatres, I grew up with them on home video and they were my go to films, second behind the Superman series when I was looking for fun and adventure. I actually enjoyed Indiana Jones 4 when I first saw in the theatre. However on repeated viewings of the Crystal Skull I realised it was the experience of seeing Indy on the big screen that I enjoyed rather than the movie itself.

Could Indiana Jones 4 be saved? TM2YC's fan edit of the Crystal Skull seemed like a good place to start.

With 30 minutes cut this isn't a conservative edit. TM2YC felt the middle of the film had too much exposition, as a result extensive cuts are made. However I always found the drawn out action towards the end to be the real downer.

Despite a cool transition from the warehouse scene to Indy on the train I felt too much set-up was missing and that we arrived at the third act too quickly.

That said there's plenty to like in this edit. Most of what fans would call offensive has been removed, though I would have liked to see no monkeys and Jeep sword fighting and the post credits wedding scene felt a little tacked on.

Picture quality is great with improved colour design and less overblown saturation and the editing was pretty much faultless. Overall a very solid fan edit.