pheadx wrote:Donnie Darko. The director's cut makes the film worse and pathetic.
Maui wrote:pheadx wrote:Donnie Darko. The director's cut makes the film worse and pathetic.
Wow, my sentiments exactly. In the original film they left a mystique about Frank - it was ultimately your call on how you wanted the movie to end. As well they changed the opening song, when Donnie is riding his bike in the beginning of the movie. They had "The Killing Moon" by Echo and the Bunnymen which was so appropriate for the start of this movie, then changed it to INXS, Never Tear us Apart.
They really ruined the film with the cut - it was much better with the original soundtrack and the mystery surrounding the future and Frank.
tapehead wrote:Maui wrote:pheadx wrote:Donnie Darko. The director's cut makes the film worse and pathetic.
Wow, my sentiments exactly. In the original film they left a mystique about Frank - it was ultimately your call on how you wanted the movie to end. As well they changed the opening song, when Donnie is riding his bike in the beginning of the movie. They had "The Killing Moon" by Echo and the Bunnymen which was so appropriate for the start of this movie, then changed it to INXS, Never Tear us Apart.
They really ruined the film with the cut - it was much better with the original soundtrack and the mystery surrounding the future and Frank.
There was some discussion on the subject back in April here: http://tinyurl.com/3xrmvu
tapehead wrote:it was my first and perhaps biggest disappointment in watching the DC of Darko (still prefer the theatrical cut).
Killing Moon just seemed more dark, portentous and foreboding - for me a much better tune as well.
Vegeta wrote:Wow, you're all making me incredibly glad I've never seen the Donnie Darko Director's Cut.
tapehead wrote:I think on the commentary for the DC Kelly says it was always his plan to use the INXS song, and use the Echo and the Bunnymen somewhere else in the movie but he had some kind of clearance or permission problems. It was so much better in the original. Editing has always been my big problem with that movie, and they were much closer to getting in right in the theatrical cut - the DC extras are just pretentious and silly.
tapehead wrote:Actually, I had a two disc special edition of Donnie Darko which was released a year or two before the DC. It has some really interesting deleted scenes that don't appear in either version of the film, plus it includes a lot of the promotional materials for the movie that were incorporated into the website for the movie preceding the film's origianal theatrical run. This is my favourite version of the film; the theatrical cut, plus these extras (including the pages from the fictional book 'The Philosophy of Time Travel' by Roberta Sparrow) and a great commentary by Kelly and Gyllenhaal.
tapehead wrote:on wiki - http://tinyurl.com/2dgvxj
I don't like the eyeball macro shots.
edit: actually I just checked the one I've got - it's just a single disc, but it does have those extras, the 'Cunning Visions' infomercials as well as heaps of concept art and production stills.
sonnyboo wrote:
Anyone else? What DIRECTOR'S CUT, EXTENDED EDITION, SPECIAL EDITION, EXPANDED EDITION do you feel was worse than the original version?
dislexsickNik wrote:the ones that really get me are those silly unrated cuts they do of pretty much every teen and oddball comedy now
TonyWilson wrote:Ok, controversial one here. After many people in the Zone raved about Kingdom Of Heaven director's cut I went out and rented it, I'd seen the original at the cinema and found it to be a turgid, boring, borderline racist mess. I found the Director's cut to be an even longer more ambitiously turgid, boring, borderline racist mess only with more of the characters motives explained in a turgid, boring, borderline racist way.
Fried Gold wrote:Donnie Darko - art thriving on restriction
Donnie Darko Director's Cut - directors don't always know best.
St. Alphonzo wrote:I actually bought the DC version of Donnie Darko some time ago for $9.99. It's sitting on my shelf, in its shrink-wrap, right next to the theatrical version (which has been played many, many times).
Guess I won't be opening up that DC anytime soon!
Maui wrote:St. Alphonzo wrote:I actually bought the DC version of Donnie Darko some time ago for $9.99. It's sitting on my shelf, in its shrink-wrap, right next to the theatrical version (which has been played many, many times).
Guess I won't be opening up that DC anytime soon!
Do a comparison if you want.
See what you think. You may like it - you may not. I like the uncertainties that the theatrical version had. Too much seemed to be spelled out in the DC.
unikrunk wrote:I would not say the director’s cut of this sucked, but I like the studio cut better - Bladerunner -
The VO work was great, and lent a real gum-shoe sensibility to the film.
I prefer it to the director's cut, and will probably like it better than the Ultimate cut or whatever-the-shit they are calling the latest version.
tapehead wrote:unikrunk wrote:I would not say the director’s cut of this sucked, but I like the studio cut better - Bladerunner -
The VO work was great, and lent a real gum-shoe sensibility to the film.
I prefer it to the director's cut, and will probably like it better than the Ultimate cut or whatever-the-shit they are calling the latest version.
I agree with you regards the voice over - it added the noir and pulp elements Scott was aiming for. However, without going into spoilers, don't you mind the fact the the DC has a totally different (and in my opinion, much better, if stark and depressing) conclusion?
pheadx wrote:tapehead wrote:uni krunk wrote:I would not say the director’s cut of this sucked, but I like the studio cut better - Bladerunner -
The VO work was great, and lent a real gum-shoe sensibility to the film.
I prefer it to the director's cut, and will probably like it better than the Ultimate cut or whatever-the-shit they are calling the latest version.
I agree with you regards the voice over - it added the noir and pulp elements Scott was aiming for. However, without going into spoilers, don't you mind the fact the the DC has a totally different (and in my opinion, much better, if stark and depressing) conclusion?
I dont think that Scott was aiming for pulp elements but I agree with the noir. Though, it the VO doesnt do much for me. This was a restriction from the studio and Ford sound pretty uninspired in the VO. Personally for me the theatrical and director's cut are two different worlds. can't wait to have the 5-disc set with EVERY version
Pacino86845 wrote:I'll agree that Blade Runner doesn't suffer from the voice overs, as tapehead said, due to where it draws its source material... still, I preferred the director's cut.
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