I don't like the Seydor cut at all except for the scene with Garrett's wife. I made an edit combining them myself but the two videos are different resolutions and the edit is very noticeable. I'm a beginner at video editing. Are there any well-done fan edits combining the Turner cut with the Seydor cut's wife scene?
shareI'm going to meet with a guy soon who supposedly has a cut full of alternate takes. We'll see what that's like!
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That sounds awesome! You'll have to post a review! I can't wait to hear about it!
shareI do like that scene.
shareI've been meaning to do a fanedit for a few years now. Thanks for inspiring me to finally do it.
Looking at the two versions I noticed the restoration is far more colorful because the saturation is too high. It looks a bit ridiculous. If you're hoping to make the scene with Pat's wife match the Turner version better you'll want to decrease the color on that scene. Also, the music warbles terribly at the end of the Turner cut, which is something I aim to fix, if possible. Man, do I hate that restoration! If someone cool had been in charge of assembling it we'd likely have the very cut we're forced to assemble ourselves, and in outstanding quality.
Exactly. That warbling soundtrack made me wonder if the audio was left that way (though the sound on my old VHS tape wasn't warbly at all) intentionally, as if to steer folks toward the cleaned-up 2005 version (which has so much wrong with it, I can't bring myself to sit through it again).
If they release the film on Blu, they need to clean up the 1988 Turner Preview Cut and forget the Seydor version. Seydor's speculative editing choices turned one of my Top 5 favorite Westerns into something far less remarkable.
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I used to have the MGM laserdisc of the Turner cut and there weren't any audio problems there either. Your theory about the DVD quality of that cut being intentionally lousy worries me about the possibility of an upcoming BD. I hate to sound like everyone else, but it's time for Criterion or BFI to intervene.
It's cool though, I'm sure the longest cut will surface on Blu the same day as RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY and McCABE & MRS. MILLER. Seriously, what's Warner doing? Outside the Western genre they're holding onto some other classics too, obvious money-makers like KLUTE and BLOWUP. C'mon, Warner.