Have you ever encountered a joke edit of a movie while sailing the high seas?

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I have been thinking about the Cerveza Crista edit of Star Wars: A New Hope that sporadically splices in beer ads and the Toy Story 3 edit alternate ending where they fall into the incinerator and it made me wonder if people have come across these kind of joke versions, in full, in the wild.

It seems like a majority of the time it's just short clips being made and reposted.

I'm not talking about the edits of movies where they do things like decrease the speed of the audio so it gradually desyncs from the rest of the movie or when they replace the entire movie with the Limewire Bill Clinton ad.

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In Chile there is a movie called "el rey de los huevones" (the king of stupid people). When the movie appeared on theatre they flood torrent sites with an archive that contained the actors sitting in the bed that appeared in the movie and telling you were the king for falling for it and for trying to steal it

I can imagine myself downloading that while high and paranoid and losing my mind.

Oh man... Have you ever heard of Wizard People, Dear Reader?

I found this genius interpretation of the first Harry Potter film by Brad Neely probably about 15 years ago via some random torrents. It has lived rent-free in my mind ever since.

I was always disappointed Neely never did a follow-up, he had claimed to be working on a follow-up in the same style but doing Jurassic Park instead.

In Wizard People, Dear Reader, Neely's writing ranges from simple childish mockery, to criticism of the acting and set design, to awkward metaphors, to over-dramatic philosophical speeches. Harry himself is repeatedly referred to as a god, references are made to the "stockpiles of nuclear-level energy" that are his powers, and so on. At one point, Harry calls himself a "beautiful animal" and a "destroyer of worlds". He also repeatedly affirms that he is "Harry fucking Potter". Numerous references are made to characters taking out unseen flasks or drinking alcohol, and Harry is mentioned as being "drunk every day before noon."

That is definitely an interesting one.

The CDs must be played simultaneously with a DVD of the first Harry Potter film, preferably the North American DVD, muted or at low volume.

I thought it was just going to be a mash up of clips. Can you really just replace the audio track with it?

This also reminded me. I think I have a copy of the Harry Potter with guns edit Harry Potter and the Deadly Weapons around somewhere.

Back when it was released, you had to match up the audio to an official DVD so Neely could avoid being sued.

Multiple fan edits that overlay the new audio on the DVD rip exist at this point. No more needing to match them up.

But yeah, it's essentially the full movie dubbed over with someone reading aloud as though it was a audiobook.

That's a neat approach. I suppose I have seen it done to a lesser extent with YouTubers doing Mystery Science Theater style commentary now that I think about it.

In Italy there was an entire genre of redubbed movies with funny voiceovers.

https://youtu.be/TDLGg_YrG00

https://youtu.be/duoZ3r6hXPM

https://youtu.be/f3Wy1BGZ6og

https://youtu.be/k66ius0CFCE

There are extremely funny edits of Harry Potter by a german Youtuber (Coldmirror) from many years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrhObGqK5SU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq2OGLUel0M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGrSEp9oTFY

Even an Audiopodcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9T6o5O_X7c

She absolutelly loves harry Potter so she even madr her own content with the original material as base, since the copyright rules wouldnt allow for what she did originally anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDvBqWb1UAGeXy9QXbG0qhmX1BeMQShb0

Love everything from Brad Neely but haven't been able to find this since reading about it several months ago. Thanks for reminding me I'll have another look.

Not sure if this counts but Starwar Backstroke of the West is 10/10

What was that?

A reverse translation of a Chinese bootleg translation, full of nonsensical lines.

Original movie was "Revenge of the Sith"

Not one I've encountered, but actively looked for.

There is a british quiz show called "The big fat Quiz of the " which always features a spread of panelist, mostly comedians but sometimes just random celebrities. In one of the episodes Mel B from the spice girls was on and her performances was generally regarded as terrible. So some dude edited her out of the show. But he didn't just cut all the scenes where she was in, no. He literally edited her out of all the frames where she's in when someone else is talking. It's just brilliant and hilarious that someone went through this effort.

I downloaded that version and put it as the episode on my plex server.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4mUCRAPLas

I keep coming back to this thread because each time I do, new gems have dropped. This one is amazing, thank you.

You're welcome, and yes, it is. I'm not trying to be smug but thinking about it, this is just such a small obscure show, I thought it was silly to even bring it up. I didn't even hate on Mel B when I watched this originally. But when I found the video it was just so funny. Then, 8 years later or so, I get back into piracy and selfhosting and I download the show again and immediately though of this edit. And it was still so funny.

Now, almost 10 years later when I was asked for "funny edits" I had to bring it up. And now looking at it again, it's so still funny.

Not the movie itself, but once I downloaded 28 days later, and found Finnish subtitle for it cause at the time I still needed those. In the subtitles word "fuck" was translated to "hole bread" in Finnish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruisreik%C3%A4leip%C3%A4 Also at the end it said "Subtitles by your Dad"

Other time I downloaded Children Of Bodom's Blooddrunk before release and got Bullet For My Valentine's Scream Aim Fire instead with file names renamed as Bodom's track names. IDK why but now I like both bands.

I downloaded 28 Days Later and got half an hour in before I thought things like "this is taking a while to get going" and "I didn't know Sandra Bullock was in this".

I'd got the wrong film. It was 28 Days.

Oh damn, 28 weeks is far better movie IMO though. Scarier, and the concept of rebuilding after zombie outbreak and having another outbreak despite safety measures is much more interesting than traditional zombie story.

The best metal comes from Finland. Saw Beast in Black live last year. Going to see Battle Beast later this year.

Hell yeah. Saw Bodom live like 5 times before Alexi died.

I missed them. Went to a festival several years ago and they were supposed to be playing on one of the smaller stages, but we got there late and missed all of the other sets except for the headliners. It was my first concert and I wasn't the one who planned the trip. That was the only band I was disappointed that I missed though.

The cerveza crystal edit wasn't a meme edit. Iirc it was a totally legit copy of the movie aired in Chile decades ago when they got the rights to air the movie on their local TV. They wanted to make extra money and that company paid the TV station to do in movie product placements. They're hilarious.

It wasn't an edit of the movie. The beer company just paid the TV station to put the ad breaks at specific places of the movie, and for their ad to be the first ad of the ad break, allowing them to make it look like part of the movie. But it was still just an ad break, and other ads followed the beer ad.

Yeah if you check the post you'll see that I linked to an article about it that explained how it came to be and has a few example clips.

It's a bit like "Turkish Star Wars". It wasn't intended to be a joke or a meme but that's kind of legacy it's stuck with.