HueyRamone wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2024 7:47 am
Not sure I can put up with this one.... unless you found a way to edit it to not make it boring, inept, and awful.
here’s the description. Watch the first 5 or 10 minutes and see what you think…if you’re an old-school fan, I think you’ll dig it.
Last summer, I rose to the challenge raised on a KISS message board of creating a fan edit of KMTPOTP/AOTP that attempted to make the film a little less "cheesy". I initially scoffed at the idea, but after a second thought I decided to take a stab at it.
What is this version:
The film is completely (nearly shot-by-shot) re-edited using virtually every frame (and bit of dialog) from both KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park and Attack of the Phantoms. The vast majority of the footage is taken from the Attack DVD in KISSOLOGY 2, which has been upscaled to 1920x1080 (HD). I have also kept the original ratio this time (which is a bit wider than the standard 16:9 format). Everything else comes from the best source of KMTPOTP I could find. No amount of color-correction, AI or filtering will ever match the Attack footage, short of an actual film transfer, but I've done my best to make it less distracting than it would be if I just dropped those shots in here and there.
I ultimately decided to remove all the non-film live sequences I had added to the Halloween version. This was comprised of Largo 77, the A2 promo film and various 8mm clips. I originally wanted to give it a bit more of a concert film feel, but decided it was too distracting and a bit much for the flow of the story. I DID however use not only the original film(s) live footage, but also most of the Valencia outtakes which actually were filmed for the movie. This means we get a short "Love Gun" sequence and a bit of "Firehouse" to give the fire-beathing context.
ALL of the music has been remixed for the live sequences (with tracks isolated and then remixed to match the film performances). Rather than studio lip-syncs of everything except for a very rough version of "ISYL" we have all live music for the concert sequences. "ISYL", "SIOL" and "LG" use remixes of the A2 versions, "RARAN" is from the LA Forum 77, with "Black Diamond" ending and "Firehouse" using remixes from Alive!. The intro/credit sequence uses a brand-new mix of "RARAN" I did using Double Platinum, DTK and Alive! which features the full arrangement including the Ace solo from Alive! to make a studio version of this version. Along with all of the original video from the film it also uses most of the Alive II promo footage. The ending credit sequence uses a remix that is comprised of drum tracks from DP and Alive! to create a new "studio" version with beefier guitars and live vocals. The footage used is Largo '77, various 8mm '77 clips, Land of Hype and Glory footage, etc.
Most of the background sound FX were also re-done using various samples and clips I grabbed from YouTube. With a couple exceptions, all of the fight sequences and other non-live scenes use various remixes I did from isolated tracks to create (mostly) instrumental versions of songs from Destroyer thru the '78 solo albums. As mentioned in previous posts, "Beth", for example, is a brand-new version I created using a finger-style guitar part combined with live vocals rather than the (acoustic) studio track that appears in the original films. "Rip and Destroy" uses a remix that uses "Alive! and the film's vocals, along with many more mistakes, feedback, etc to create what, to me, is a more realistic version of "Robot KISS" fit for the anger and boos it receives. And yes, I was tempted to use a "current KISS" backing track as a little inside joke but decided '70s KISS was a better choice. Other songs accompany various character and work as their "themes" (not lyrically necessarily). Sam and Melissa have "Easy Thing", Devereaux has "I Can't Stop the Rain", Gene has "Man of 1,000 Faces" and various versions of "Almost Human" accompany the robots throughout the film. I really did want to include WAY more KISS music than the original film, since music is a huge part of KISS. Rather than shoe-horn in solo tracks that didn't particularly fit the scenes (and especially after I removed the additional live sequences) I looked for creative ways to include a good sampling of (mostly) their '77-'78 era catalog. The soundtrack for this new edit includes (if only in part) these songs...
"Almost Human"
"Baby Driver"
"Beth"
"Black Diamond"
"Christine Sixteen"
"Easy Thing"
"Firehouse"
"Fractured Mirror"
"Got Love for Sale"
"Hold Me, Touch Me"
"I Can’t Stop the Rain"
"I Stole Your Love"
"Ladies Room"
"Love Gun"
"Makin Love"
"Man of 1,000 Faces"
"Ozone"
"Plaster Caster"
"Rip and Destroy"
"Rock and Roll All Nite"
"Shock Me"
"Shout it Out Loud"
Enjoy!
\m/ I spent a shit-ton of hours putting this all together a couple years ago and most fans seem to enjoy it.
