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There's this little thing called branching that DVDs can do. I really wish the studios would look into it a bit more closely. The Buckaroo Bonzai DVD has this feature where you can watch the extra and extended scenes in the film, or just watch the original cut. I would love to see that with STII. It is my favorite movie from ever, and I really hope they don't decide to add some scenes just because they have them. There's a reason why those scenes were cut originally.
I'm the proud owner of the pre-Special-Edition widescreen SW trilogy Laser Disc box set, and that's the only version I can watch because Greedo shooting first makes me so mad.
If the new scenes are just Kirk pinning a medal on Sulu's chest and a little Preston pre-barbeque sympathy kitsch, then I don't think that necessarily needs to go back into the movie. I'd still love to see the scenes, but I'd hate for the pacing and intent of the original film to become diluted in the process.
Anyone here see the Apocalypse Now Redux? The plantation scene was interesting, but the film really didn't need it at all. And suddenly Duval's mythical Killgore is comic relief?
I think TWOK is one of the best movies ever made. I'd really hate to see the original cut suffer for just a couple of scenes that weren't good enough to make it into the original. If they want to do the branching thing, I'd be way into that...
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Well, it is a real "director's" cut by Nick Meyer himself, not just a random extended version hastily thrown together. I'd have to assume that anything he chooses to re-insert (or remove) will be because he's thought it through first. They can still have the unaltered scenes on the disc, like they did with TMP.
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Obviously, if anyone's going to make a director's cut, it ought to be the director. 'Apocalypse Now Redux' was a director's cut with one of American cinema's greatest living directors in charge. The first thing I did after seeing the new version was to go out and buy the older DVD. I'm drawn to the extras, but I probably won't buy the Redux. But just think if it were a branching DVD. You could have it both ways. Of course, then they wouldn't get to charge you for both. Putting the original scenes on the extras disc just seems backwards to me.
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Redux definately improved upon the original. Yes, it no longer made the film commercially viable in the traditional sense (which is why the studio kept it trimmed initially) but Apocalypse Now isn't really the sort of movie that needs to charge forward at a breakneck pace and get everything wrapped up in less than three hours. The plantation scenes (plus the further adventures of the Playboy bunnies) were interesting vignettes, IMHO.
But damn, I wish Copolla digitally changed the carpets on the boat. I mean, honestly, the colourscheme on that thing was awful.
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And @Woodside Kid: You're right. I messed that one about the warpcore scene up. It was in TUC.
I wonder why branching isn't used more often on DVDs.
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I think it presents some technical difficulties. Not ones impossible to overcome, to be sure, but they may make it unprofitable in most discs.
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Great. I already have the TNN version and the ABC version on tape, the regular DVD. All the money wasted...
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why does member #818 keep changing handles???
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quote:Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: I'm the proud owner of the pre-Special-Edition widescreen SW trilogy Laser Disc box set, and that's the only version I can watch because Greedo shooting first makes me so mad.
People can watch the news, filled with death, poverty, starvation, and ugly people with no feelings whatsoever. George decides to make Han Solo a bit less cool, and fans want to kill.
For fuck's sake, get out more.
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For some reason, I always thought that Greedo did shoot first, but the VFX were just screwed up in the original. Kinda like when Obi-Wan fights Vader and his lightsaber effect disappears a couple times. Except that they forgot to fix that one...
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Even worse. You buy the DVD, and there's "an inside look at the Special Extended DVD Edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" on it.. why the hell would you want to buy the Mediocre Short Boring Version You Actually Saw In The Cinema?
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