https://www.starwarsuncut.com/
Which I now realise I never watched in full...
While this is coherent with each movie's tone itself, and perhaps with the time each "demaster" was made (I don't know, I didn't check), I feel like this is most coherent with how each movie is viewed by the community:
- Star Wars is a beloved movie, with a huge honest fan base. Thus, it was remade with love and attention to detail.
- Shrek is a beloved movie, but doesn't take itself seriously in the first place, and is also a meme. Thus it was remade with love, but trying hard to look like it's a troll.
- Bee Movie is mainly a meme, isn't AFAIK a beloved movie, and its fan base is mostly made of memers and trolls. Thus it was low-effortly remade at this non-flattering image.
All you had to do was add one more 'e'. What a senseless waste of a pun…
But there's only so far you can get with a story of a bee breaking out of his natural programming,followed by a bee-human romance, followed by said bee suing humanity for stealing bee-kind's honey. You can't even truly explain the plot without breaking it down into 3 episodes.
It's a surprisingly good benchmark to ask "is it better than Bee movie" when measuring other Dreamworks movies against themselves.
Agreed. Star Wars Uncut exists because devotees wanted to set the record straight regarding controversial changes in later versions, and their efforts were laudable. Still, the image and sound quality cannot match the latest, greatest studio versions, so watching Uncut versions on the newest home theatre gear means accepting the warts and all.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's remaster was also a labour of love but with a different purpose (image clarity and upscaling):
Note that this isn't really a fan-remake as it's professional actors but with the spliced scenes but it's pretty entertaining.
Worth a watch with friends present: https://vimeo.com/85903713
I had a blast watching that! thank you for sharing.
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Progress near the end was really fast, as lots of people had caught on and were racing to get as many frames in as possible.
I really don't think this concept has been worn out yet, and someone could make their own version of this with a small review step and then we'd get some fun, actually watchable hand-drawn movies :)
I just tried making some frames for the dune remake. The editor is so hard to use. I can only draw a one pixel line with no smoothing. It’s really laggy/glitchy. I can barely even make out what the original frame is because it’s in grayscale with an overlay. I got one frame that could have been a landscape of snow and rocks, or it could have been sand dunes, or water. I have no idea, it was just gray and white blobs.
I get that they are going for a retro style, but even MS paint had different size brushes.
It’s such a cool idea, I wish the tooling was better.
You could build a version of the best frames every year and watch it progress.
This is a mildly interesting experiment that largely just looks like a failure at the moment.
It would probably end up needing moderators, harassing people for funding, and pay for political purposes as well as its core reason for existing :)
I’m as equally curious as you, just on the other side of the horseshoe.
It's a fascinating tech/social experiment. It belongs on HN because it was done and the outcome is what it is.
If you actually want to watch the Bee Movie then watch the original. I doubt generating a watchable alternative was behind anyone's motivation in this.
For what it's worth I too prefer the plausible deniability of Georgia O'Keefe's outrageous lies. It's a more sensible chuckle.
It's literally unwatchable - It's 85% scribbles and "jokes."
I admit that it’s low brow but it hits my fascination the exact right way. To me there is something special about so many people being organized around something so mundane.
The Free Movie - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36687399 - July 2023 (100 comments)
One of the first things users did was to emit the entire transcript of the Bee Movie:
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