The Vicar wrote:Did Walter Hill approve that shit?
What in hell was he thinking?
LaDracul wrote:I'm disappointed that the "Annie" SE I'm watching is FULL SCREEN.
DinoDeLaurentiis wrote:LaDracul wrote:I'm disappointed that the "Annie" SE I'm watching is FULL SCREEN.
Iffa you donna wanna the SE, you can always get a the original release, no?
LaDracul wrote:I hardly order things online.
TheButcher wrote:The Vicar wrote:DinoDeLaurentiis wrote:It was a more like a they hadda the idea for a the game based onna the Rock-a-Star premise, anna so's a they hadda to re-release a the movie so as a to make a the game relevant inna the minds of a the buying public, eh?
A 'cos otherwise you gonna to have alla these young putzes saying "The Warri-Who?"
Those cutaways to "comic book panels" looked as shitty as Boll's video game screen inserts in his turd opus House of the Dead.
Did Walter Hill approve that shit?
What in hell was he thinking?
He was thinking:
Big Bucks,Big Bucks,Big Bucks, No Whammies
Crimson King wrote:I actually prefer the theatrical cut of Payback. I'm not saying the Straight Up version sucked, I just didn't think it was as good.
Chairman Kaga wrote:Never saw this cut of T2 I should go looking for it.
Spandau Belly wrote:I'll chime in with my support for the director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven in that I actually can't believe they ever released the theatical cut since it makes no sense. In the theatrical cut the main character has no motivation, he's just some dude who got pissed at priest, killed him, went fugitive, and became a hero. The director's cut really shows how the priest was his half brother who tormented him his whole life and was really menacing him when Orlando snaps and kills him. The theme of beign accountable to one's conscience is fully developed and Cybilla's descent into madness makes more sense.
Pacino86845 wrote:Spandau Belly wrote:I'll chime in with my support for the director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven in that I actually can't believe they ever released the theatical cut since it makes no sense. In the theatrical cut the main character has no motivation, he's just some dude who got pissed at priest, killed him, went fugitive, and became a hero. The director's cut really shows how the priest was his half brother who tormented him his whole life and was really menacing him when Orlando snaps and kills him. The theme of beign accountable to one's conscience is fully developed and Cybilla's descent into madness makes more sense.
YES! Another Kingdom of Heaven fan! Join us! :)
so sorry wrote:OK you two, take your LOVE for a Special Edition to another thread.
This is the HATED Special Edition thread you Orlando-loving pansies.
sonnyboo wrote:For me, I generally LOVE longer, extended, alternate cuts of movies. Occassionally, a few of these sucks ass.
For me, the extended cut of INDEPENDENCE DAY made the movie much worse. Not only did it NOT add anything to the movie, it made some elements even detract.
Obviously the SPECIAL EDITION of THE ABYSS had some great special and visual FX work, but that movie was NOT better than the theatrical cut.
Anyone else? What DIRECTOR'S CUT, EXTENDED EDITION, SPECIAL EDITION, EXPANDED EDITION do you feel was worse than the original version?
Spandau Belly wrote:I also never cared for the director's cut of Chinatown. I thought what Roman Polanski wanted to do with the picture was interesting, but I'm glad Robert Evans reeled him in and cut it down to what we saw in the cinemas and what has been available on DVD all these years.
Adding that character of Jack Nicholson's estranged teenage son as a cage fighter in Mexico is kinda interesting because it develops the theme of family relationships, but having him make a pinata in the likeness of his father and then burst out of it when he enters the ring was just a little absurd.
I also didn't care for the scene where Howard Hughes sings Sinatra type lounge music to his model of a plane, that just felt like we were losing focus of the main character. However I like the added scenes of Faye Dunnaway down on the pier building her own tug boat and the powerful scene we see one of the oil tankers John Huston owns ram it. And the scene where the goat witnesses a murder and Nicholson manages to get a confession out of him was kinda one of those character moments that probably made sense in the script, but when you see the complete movie we get that he's resourceful from other scenes. The line "Goat's never lie, except when they do. So don't drink their milk." was cute and noirish but felt a little too cute for this movie.
So overall I go with Chinatown: The Theatrical Cut, and I hope that you guys realize I'm just messing with you and this other cut doesn't actually exists.
Brocktune wrote:i dont know if anyone has seen the DC of "Apocalypse Now" or not, but i can tell you with all seriousness that i wish i had not. they should change the name of the film to "Apocalypse Nap".
travis-dane wrote:Brocktune wrote:i dont know if anyone has seen the DC of "Apocalypse Now" or not, but i can tell you with all seriousness that i wish i had not. they should change the name of the film to "Apocalypse Nap".
You mean APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX....
I liked it....
caruso_stalker217 wrote:I guess I like the extra shit in APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX, but it doesn't really add to anything except the running time.
RogueScribner wrote:I don't know about Amadeus, but the director's cut of Donnie Darko was pointless and was not as cool as the theatrical cut, IMO.
sonnyboo wrote:Strange, I've only ever seen the DIRECTOR'S CUT of Donnie Darko. Since that was my sole experience, I'd have to wonder if the movie even made sense any shorter.
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Do you think it's possible, not to invalidate anyone's opinion on this, but in a more broad sense that we ALL get tainted by whichever version we see first? Especially if we see it many times in a theatrical cut, then see an alternate version? Sentimentality swaying the overall analysis?
TheBaxter wrote:i think a lot of comedies suffer from extended cuts. timing and pace is so important in a comedy, just a few small changes can take a really funny movie and make it unfunny.
the extended cut of walk hard starts out really funny, but just gets less and less funny as it goes. something tells me the theatrical version was probably tighter and funnier.
caruso_stalker217 wrote:Well, he was being genuinely waxed. Maybe the normal response is "Fuck me in the asshole."
curiousgeorge wrote:caruso_stalker217 wrote:Well, he was being genuinely waxed. Maybe the normal response is "Fuck me in the asshole."
Um, no. He's a comeian, an artist, he says things a bit more than just 'normal'. Neither was he playing the normal card here. If you remember correctly, he already had lines 'pre-written' on a card for that scene that he was using to formulate a response, a more clever response, something more imaginative and funny, less predicatable. So your argument holds no water. Thank you for playing, but no thank you.
curiousgeorge wrote:I hated 40 year old virgin. Stve Carrel was so unfunny in it. The scene where he gets waxed. Couldn't he have come up with better lines that a kid could say but better? 'Fuck me in the asshole', 'I hate you'. Is that the funniest you can say when being waxed? Is that a comedian's imagination? If people are going ot pay you millions to come up with something a child could say, you might as well not pay you this or pay a child to do your job. Cue some Struggling Background Artist who's going to disagree with me here and come up with some bonehead apologetic excuse. That makes you a Struggling Background Artist.
TheBaxter wrote:curiousgeorge wrote:I hated 40 year old virgin. Stve Carrel was so unfunny in it. The scene where he gets waxed. Couldn't he have come up with better lines that a kid could say but better? 'Fuck me in the asshole', 'I hate you'. Is that the funniest you can say when being waxed? Is that a comedian's imagination? If people are going ot pay you millions to come up with something a child could say, you might as well not pay you this or pay a child to do your job. Cue some Struggling Background Artist who's going to disagree with me here and come up with some bonehead apologetic excuse. That makes you a Struggling Background Artist.
i don't see what any of this has to do with director's cuts or extended editions.
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