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Can you think of any movies where they could've cut about an hour of crap out of it and still have a movie? 'Cause when I do, I immediately think of Michael Cimino. Deer Hunter One of the first American movies to critically look at the Vietnam War (I think the first one was Coming Home which came out the same year). It starts with a wedding scene that goes for fifty loving years. Sure, it tells us about the characters, but you could do it in about ten minutes. Ken Miyamoto argues here that it had to be that long but he's full of loving poo poo. I nearly didn't watch the movie because I was waiting for it to start. gently caress off, Ken. Heaven's Gate Has a god-drat graduation scene in the beginning which I think literally goes for half an hour (that's a long time to watch people throw paper and dance around trees) and does as much as the wedding scene in Deer Hunter, ie gently caress-all. I don't even care what Miyamoto thinks about this one, I stopped watching after fifteen minutes. You won't do that to me twice, Cimino. So, post your movies that could've used more editing time here. I haven't seen a super hero movie in a while, but I understand there's a few 'director's cuts' versions of them that didn't need to get made. Heaven's Gate. Jesus Christ I'm glad I didn't see it - just look at this scene, it looks like loving Plan Nine!
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The interminable docking scene near the start of 2001. Cool, zero g airlines, great. But I think I could handle a little bit less spaceship porn and still get the general gist of it. One of the Star Trek movies (I think it's The Motion Picture) does something similar. That at least has the fallback of "well no one had seen it in x years and we want to play on their sentimentality!"
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Feb 17, 2018 18:24
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The entire first hour of Downsizing could have been cut out and the movie would have been better for it.
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Feb 18, 2018 17:55
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Both of those are much better than The Godfather, and about the same length.
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Feb 18, 2018 21:37
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mercenarynuker posted:One of the Star Trek movies (I think it's The Motion Picture) does something similar. That at least has the fallback of "well no one had seen it in x years and we want to play on their sentimentality!" TMP has several parts that just draaaaag, particularly the Enterprise-in-drydock scene (I was a fanboy at the time and still wanted to shout "Get on with it!" by the end) and the flying-over-V'ger sequence. It made me even more embarrassed to be a nerd than I already was. From the opposite end of the spectrum: Transformers: Age of Extinction. Oh look, another chase sequence. Oh look, another explosion. Heh. I'm sure being entertained by this.
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Feb 19, 2018 19:58
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Godfather 2's the best example of an already good movie I can think of where it wouldn't even come close to effecting the actual plot of the movie.
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Feb 20, 2018 07:18
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mercenarynuker posted:The interminable docking scene near the start of 2001. Whoa this movie sounds a lot more hardcore than I remember
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Feb 23, 2018 18:51
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Zodiac. it's one of two movies i've walked out of the theater for in my life, the other being First Kid with Sinbad (and i was a kid when i saw that). after the first 15 minutes or so, absolutely nothing happens, and the suspense didn't keep me interested. it deserved to be an Oscar snub that year fight me, bitches. this is the hill i've chosen to die on
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Feb 25, 2018 08:20
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GonSmithe posted:The entire first hour of Downsizing could have been cut out and the movie would have been better for it. Same except the last hour. Just end it when he gets shrunk and brutally owned while his wife runs off. The end.
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Mar 6, 2018 23:58
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can't think of one at the moment, sorry OP
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Apr 13, 2018 16:04
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Just saw Annihilation
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Apr 14, 2018 05:48
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So many 70s movies could be half their length and wouldn't suffer at all
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Apr 15, 2018 03:29
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The Dark Knight Rises is so goddamn bloated, holy poo poo.
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Apr 17, 2018 17:38
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gandhi. had two take this baby on in two separate sessions wtf my pandici
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Apr 28, 2018 18:09
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EL BROMANCE posted:Same except the last hour. Just end it when he gets shrunk and brutally owned while his wife runs off. The end. Seriously, take out the first hour and you could probably replace shrinking with any other scenario and not lose anything except a couple crappy sight gags that only exist to remind the audience it's a film about tiny people. The ending though, that was peak wokeness. The underclass have a better life because he's helping ferry the table scraps the rich graciously give him.
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May 24, 2018 11:24
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Could the Lord of the Rings movies be cut down or do they need all of their runtime...and can still be interesting? I always seem to catch Desolation of Smaug midway through on cable channels and it never hooks me in.
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May 26, 2018 07:54
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Heriditary. Someone out there could cut this thing down to 70 minutes and nothing of value would be lost.
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Jun 17, 2018 08:55
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TV Zombie posted:Could the Lord of the Rings movies be cut down or do they need all of their runtime...and can still be interesting? I always seem to catch Desolation of Smaug midway through on cable channels and it never hooks me in. That's The Hobbit movie series, they're all bad, don't bother. The LOTR movies OTOH are fine, just skip the extended cuts and watch the shorter (but still pretty long!) theatrical cuts.
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Jun 26, 2018 17:32
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sean10mm posted:That's The Hobbit movie series, they're all bad, don't bother. Just watch the scene at Bilbo's house and stop there.
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Jul 15, 2018 11:56
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banned from Starbucks posted:Heriditary. Someone out there could cut this thing down to 70 minutes and nothing of value would be lost. Apparently the original cut was over 3 hours long
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Jul 15, 2018 14:01
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The Dark Knight Rises would have been a better movie if the first hour after the opening plane scene had been trimmed to maybe a few minutes. I'm convinced that Christopher Nolan just released it "as-is" without finishing the edit. It really does come off as a rough cut . I'm hoping someday Peter Jackson tries out a recut of The Hobbit as one 3 1/2 hour movie. I know someone did a bootleg cut along those lines, but it's weird how I can watch all 12 hours of The Lord of the Rings extended cuts and not feel like it's one second too long while the theatrical cuts of The Hobbit films are a chore.
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Jul 26, 2018 14:20
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Cut the entire second half of Full Metal Jacket, expand on the first half and just make the whole movie about the awful process of dehumanization that military training puts you through.
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Jul 26, 2018 18:37
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WampaLord posted:Cut the entire second half of Full Metal Jacket, expand on the first half and just make the whole movie about the awful process of dehumanization that military training puts you through. Are you serious
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Jul 27, 2018 10:38
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WampaLord posted:Cut the entire second half of Full Metal Jacket, expand on the first half and just make the whole movie about the awful process of dehumanization that military training puts you through. Lol
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Jul 29, 2018 18:27
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im going to go see Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles this week, can't wait.
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Jul 29, 2018 18:28
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In Training posted:im going to go see Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles this week, can't wait. they should have cut all the parts where shes doing dishes or cooking and replaced them with lightsaber battles.
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Jul 29, 2018 19:54
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ol yeller posted:they should have cut all the parts where shes doing dishes or cooking and replaced them with lightsaber battles. Lol
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Jul 29, 2018 19:57
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*said really loudly in the theatre in hour 3 of the TV cut of Fanny and Alexander* Guess this guy never hired an editor huh.
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Jul 29, 2018 19:58
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oh this movie has subtitles? *finger inches closer to the boring button on my homer simpson soundboard*
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Jul 29, 2018 20:05
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WampaLord posted:Cut the entire second half of Full Metal Jacket, expand on the first half and just make the whole movie about the awful process of dehumanization that military training puts you through. 
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Larry Parrish posted:Are you serious I'm serious in that I think the first half of the movie is much much better than the second half
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Aug 7, 2018 16:19
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E: Doubleposting in the dead subforum is bad, makes people think there's more activity than there is.
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Aug 7, 2018 16:19
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Hotter take: remove the entire first half of the film and expand the second into a full fledged action film
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Aug 7, 2018 21:07
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it's been forever but i do think the second part had some really worthwhile scenes. the whole thing with the sniper and adam baldwin was p good. it's been forever since i've seen the film and i dont remember the second half as weel so i am having diffculty contextualizing it from memory alone. might have to watch the movie again soon
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Aug 7, 2018 21:21
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WampaLord posted:I'm serious in that I think the first half of the movie is much much better than the second half You have aids my man
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The second half is really the second 2/3rds which is why you have trouble remembering it specifically. But every scene it has is great, from the mass grave after the Tet Offensive to the door gunner, the director filming the advance like it's a Hollywood movie, etc etc
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Aug 8, 2018 17:38
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Larry Parrish posted:The second half is really the second 2/3rds which is why you have trouble remembering it specifically. But every scene it has is great, from the mass grave after the Tet Offensive to the door gunner, the director filming the advance like it's a Hollywood movie, etc etc It just blends into every other war movie I've ever seen, while I can distinctly remember everything about the training part.
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Aug 9, 2018 17:30
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In making sure my 12-yo son understands pop culture references of the movie that still exist to this day, recently he and I sat down to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey. At the end he said, "Wow, that was a really good 1 hour, 20 minute movie."
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Aug 21, 2018 21:59
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Blind Sally posted:Hotter take: remove the entire first half of the film and expand the second into a full fledged action film this but about andrei rubilev
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WampaLord posted:It just blends into every other war movie I've ever seen, while I can distinctly remember everything about the training part. Like every Kubrick movie is suffers from lesser directors aping it constantly. It did also have similar shots to Apocalyse Now, which is also constantly referenced. But of course Apocalypse Now is played for horror and FMJ is more of a gallows humor thing except for a few spots
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