No, but it works both ways. I am also irritated at some of the crap they choose to include instead of what they leave out. Donkey Kong .. er King Kong was way too long. We get it. Kong is a bad-ass. An extra 30 minutes of him fighting some freakin' dinosaurs isn't going to make him even more bad-ass in our minds. The Star Wars movies also suffered from this. We don't need an underwater monster chase, or a 20 minute pod race, or a pointless romp through an asteroid field to be filler because the writer/director couldn't be bothered to concentrate more on character development and meaningful dialog.
That being said, the HP movies can't be long enough. There is just so much going on. I don't see how they are going to cover everything in Half Blood Prince, or the last one. It will be interesting/frustrating to see what gets left out. Rise of the Silver Surfer .. what the heck? I don't think it is possible to make it any shorter. I am sure anyone not familiar with the silver surfer storyline was like, "huh?". I don't remember seeing anything in the way of extra footage on the DVD. Was that it? Lord of the Rings got it about right. The original movies stood on their own, but the extra content on the DVD was enjoyable still. I also agree with you about Aliens and The Abyss. Those movies were served greatly by putting the 'extra' stuff back in. PT ----- Telling Hollywood to quit screwing up the movies, for a better tomorrow. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Rawlins - Think Blue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 12:21 PM Subject: RE: Blade Runner For Christmas!! > Seriously though, this Blade Runner stuff has got me very excited, I've > not > seen the director's cut before, it'll be interesting to see all the > additional filler, it always amazes me how the studios butcher these > movies, > like Alien, or The Abyss, I can't believe how much they chop out to > conform > to that defacto standard movie length of 1hr 30 minutes, the movies almost > don't make any sense without the additional footage.... Am I the only > person > who gets REALLY irritated about that? > > Rob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:244220 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
