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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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 Posted - 07/12/2006 : 2:03:34 PM
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Sometimes instead of advertising the inclusion of previously deleted scenes in their "Director's Cut" DVDs, I wish filmmakers would do us a true favor by deleting more scenes from the original cut so we'd never have to sit through them again.
This thought crossed my mind the other night as I was watching Austin Powers: Goldmember, which IMHO is crushed by countless deadweight scenes. Yeah, there's a lot of funny material there, too, but did we really need that Dr. Evil prison rap song to the tune of Annie's "It's A Hard Knock Life"? (I'm sure somebody in Development thought that was hilarious.) Or that entire Fat B*st*rd sequence? Is there anyone who would have stormed out of the theater in disappointment if F.B. had not made a comeback appearance in Goldmember?
But this thread isn't just about Austin Powers, it's about any movie you've ever seen where you thought, "If only they'd cut that scene" (or scenes) the movie would have been soooooo much better.
(*coughs*) Last ten minutes of Open Range. |
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ELOrocks17
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
131 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2006 : 2:53:59 PM
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Anytime there is an innapropriatly timed love scene. Like in the second underworld movie, right after they barely escape with thier lives from the head vampire. Selena and the werewolf dude retreat to and old werehouse. And instead of figuring out how to plan for thier next move...they start screwing like rabitts! Pardon me, but is that really the best time for this? Other examples include: "Maximum overdrive" where the chick utters one of the most painfull lines in cenematic history: "You even make love like a hero" (!)
"Oh my...that is quite toxic!"-Weyoun (DS9) |
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1126 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2006 : 6:06:45 PM
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Well, props to Oliver Stone then (never thought I'd ever say THAT!- he did just that with Alexander. Though A) I don't think it was really his idea, I think he caved to pressure, and B) I think he was wrong. I personally like the long version.
Also, there is the Coen's DC of Blood Simple. I don't think they cut entire scenes, but they tightened the editing and it does run shorter than the original release.
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1791 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2006 : 6:37:18 PM
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Man I was jsut thinking of this today!
I call the anti-cigarette scene in Attack of the Clones:
First, according to every source, it's SUPPOSED to be a cigarette.
Second, the guy calls it "a Death Stick". Hasn't he ever heard of MARKETING? "A Death Stick? EWWW!"
Third, lets throw the movie a bone and say that the "extreme sport" for the society is death or near death. But since NO ONE has died from smoking a single cigarette (Unless they are in front of a fireing squad) the sleazy guy's customers are going to be pissed that they only cough a little (Are they entitled to a refund?). Yeah, you CAN die from smoking, but you have to smoke about a dozen cigs a day for at least thirty years, so those "Death Sticks" are really misnamed.
And Fourth, wasn't sleazy guy SMOKING one?
SG: "Want to buy a Death Stick?"
JEDI: "If that's a REAL Death Stick, how come you're still alive?"
"The Queen is testing poisons." CLEOPATRA, 1935 |
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New Hinda
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Israel
469 Posts |
Posted - 07/13/2006 : 05:44:43 AM
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| Two scenes in MY COUSIN VINNIE that somebody should have taken a scissors to; they both go on for about a week, with 9,500,000 versions of the same joke, which wasn't all that funny the first time. When the boys have just been arrested, one of them is being questioned by a young Black cop. The cop keeps saying "Do you know what you're accused of?" meaning murder. The young fellow keeps saying "Yes," meaning stealing a can of tunafish. The same thing happens-9,500,000 slightly different versions of the same stupid joke-when Vinnie first comes into the cell and the young fellow thinks Vinnie is a homosexual. |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 07/13/2006 : 05:57:54 AM
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In Hostel... (spoilers follow)
...I would have kept the montage that shows what goes on that place and the scenes with the main character and the oriental girl running away.
The rest could have been easily scraped. |
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KurtVon
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - 07/14/2006 : 1:51:35 PM
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Pretty much every scene with Adam Sandler's coworker at the auquarium in 50 First Dates. As I've said before, it's actually a remarkably charming date movie that for inexplicable reasons is periodically interrupted by a gross-out comedy.
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Freschel
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
150 Posts |
Posted - 07/14/2006 : 2:08:36 PM
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The animal cracker scene in "Armageddon".
It's Coacoa Puffs, Bob. I have no idea why, but it fits the equation. |
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1126 Posts |
Posted - 07/14/2006 : 6:11:00 PM
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Originally posted by Freschel
The animal cracker scene in "Armageddon".
I'll see you that, and raise you every other scene in Armageddon. *g*
Coming soon-
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Mark Hawley
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
Canada
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Posted - 07/14/2006 : 8:01:46 PM
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Originally posted by Greenhornet
Man I was jsut thinking of this today!
I call the anti-cigarette scene in Attack of the Clones:
First, according to every source, it's SUPPOSED to be a cigarette.
Second, the guy calls it "a Death Stick". Hasn't he ever heard of MARKETING? "A Death Stick? EWWW!"
Third, lets throw the movie a bone and say that the "extreme sport" for the society is death or near death. But since NO ONE has died from smoking a single cigarette (Unless they are in front of a fireing squad) the sleazy guy's customers are going to be pissed that they only cough a little (Are they entitled to a refund?). Yeah, you CAN die from smoking, but you have to smoke about a dozen cigs a day for at least thirty years, so those "Death Sticks" are really misnamed.
And Fourth, wasn't sleazy guy SMOKING one?
SG: "Want to buy a Death Stick?"
JEDI: "If that's a REAL Death Stick, how come you're still alive?"
"The Queen is testing poisons." CLEOPATRA, 1935
Maybe it's a reference to a Dennis Leary routine regarding people who want to make the warning labels on cigaretters larger. Leary said it didn't matter as you could package cigarettes labelled with nothing but a skull and crossbone and call them tumors and people would still be lining up for them. |
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wdorr
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
USA
44 Posts |
Posted - 07/16/2006 : 9:58:27 PM
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Leon-The Professional: I would have cut the whole bit where the film straddled some sort of sexualized young girl/creepy semi-pedo stuff. For some reason, that is my only really big complaint with the film that keeps me from liking it too much.
I stopped watching Amelie with about 15 minutes left to go because it wasn't as good as I'd heard, not to mention the bathroom sex scene and the sex shoppe that felt like they got tossed in without any real purpose.
The funny thing is that I'm not a prude or anything, but Amelie really had the makings of being an almost family film if not for those bits. |
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1126 Posts |
Posted - 07/16/2006 : 11:30:27 PM
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Originally posted by wdorr
I stopped watching Amelie with about 15 minutes left to go because it wasn't as good as I'd heard, not to mention the bathroom sex scene and the sex shoppe that felt like they got tossed in without any real purpose.
The funny thing is that I'm not a prude or anything, but Amelie really had the makings of being an almost family film if not for those bits.
Yeah, I know what you mean. It doesn't bother me at all that it's in there, but it was a movie that my dear old mom would have probably liked a lot had it not been for that. It's Jeunet's prerogative to make the movie any way he sees fit but in context of the overall movie that stuff really did seem a bit gratuitous. Mom probably could have survived the sex OK but the dildos are a bit much. *g*
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Citizen Carrier
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
322 Posts |
Posted - 07/16/2006 : 11:32:45 PM
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The flashback scenes in Sleepy Hollow where Ricci's character is tormented as a younger girl by a mean old patriarchal type who is physically abusive because she's practicing "witchcraft". The mean man throws her to the floor and pushes her face into a Holy Bible so baroque and intimidating it looks like a copy of the Necronomicon.
Yeah, Mr. Burton. Okay. We get it. Established, organized religion (-read "Christianity")=bad. Cool, New Age, Wiccan stuff=good.
In case we didn't get it, the Wicca stuff is ultimately used to defeat the forces of Evil, not some heroic "Father Martin" figure. I guess the town minister was too busy somewhere self-flagellating because his mistress was forced to wear a scarlet letter "A" while he got off scott free... |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2006 : 03:17:24 AM
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Er... It wasn't exactly that way, Citizen Carrier, those flashbacks were about Johnny Depp's parents, and were supposed to explain why he refused to believe in witchcraft or anything supernatural.
Still, I agree that their message was somehow hamfisted. |
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Culfy
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
United Kingdom
113 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2006 : 11:48:22 AM
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Originally posted by Sardu
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Originally posted by Freschel
The animal cracker scene in "Armageddon".
I'll see you that, and raise you every other scene in Armageddon. *g*
Coming soon-
Eraserhead: The Musical!!
Other than the scene where an uptight member of the crew in his psychological assessment rants about "people who think that Jethro Tull is the name of the lead singer of the band"
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Citizen Carrier
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
322 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2006 : 12:02:54 PM
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Originally posted by Neville
Er... It wasn't exactly that way, Citizen Carrier, those flashbacks were about Johnny Depp's parents, and were supposed to explain why he refused to believe in witchcraft or anything supernatural.
Still, I agree that their message was somehow hamfisted.
Right, but making Depp's mother both beautiful and a practicioner of witchcraft makes the blantant political/cultural message I mentioned even more heavy-handed. |
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