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Batman v Superman Extended Edition trailer + details
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If you can't make a two hour and 30 minutes movie work like it should, then the problem is you, the director, not the studio.
Exciting.
Can already see how the new footage really informs and clarifies Clark's character in the film. The Africa sequence seems like it was completely fucked in the theatrical cut.
Can already see how the new footage really informs and clarifies Clark's character in the film. The Africa sequence seems like it was completely fucked in the theatrical cut.
It's a 3 hour movie and it was always meant to be. You can't remove 30 minutes of character and plot development without neutering the movie. See: Kingdom of Heaven, Watchmen and a few others
Marion Cobretti
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I'm a little skeptical that the extra footage will make the movie good, but I'm gonna get down on my knees and pray that it does.
Please let this extra footage make the movie above average at least
Please let this extra footage make the movie above average at least
Miles Quaritch
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It might make it flow better and seem less bloated?
If there's fewer scenes that abruptly end or suddenly jump to another scene, that can make a movie feel less bloated. Depends on the scenes though and what they add.
Bobby Roberts
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Nah, this isn't true. Plus the theatrical cut was Snyder's cut. He wanted it to play that way.
Mr. Poolman
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There is no force on this planet that can drag me to watch this disaster of a movie again.
I doubt it, given The Watchmen's Directors Cut.
esmith08734
Member
Anyone else watch the trailer and think, 'Yo, this look great!' and then remember you already saw this movie and it sucked?
MeBecomingI
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Super pumped for this! Can't wait!
NealMcCauley
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Can't help but think the trailer comes across as a little desperate. It's like WB is saying "Please watch this. Please."
I remember an interview with the editor where he said the first cut was arranged very differently so I wonder if this is based off that, or just a longer theatrical cut.
I remember an interview with the editor where he said the first cut was arranged very differently so I wonder if this is based off that, or just a longer theatrical cut.
Marion Cobretti
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Me :
Really hoping this magically makes the movie work, but man am I skeptical. Crossing my fingers though
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Nah, Snyder's said the theatrical cut of BvS was his call. He wanted it to play that way. That's the movie he wanted everyone to see.
That's why you advertise things
That's not how it works... at all. To his fault or the studios, the movie wasn't made to be 2.5 hours... should it have? That's a different question.
You make a movie, plain and simple and it comes out to however long the movie is. That's the movie. If you try gutting it, you lose connective tissue from scene to scene that flesh out elements.
Literally every movie trailer/commercial... way to project.
Undead Fantasy
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I'm in.
Could have easily removed some of the Knightmare scenes. Or some Lois scenes. The movie tries so hard to make her relevant.
2:30 is more than enough time to tell a good, coherent story in a movie centered on mainly two people.
Not at all, he calls it the "workable version" and confirmed it was cut at the last minute.
I think the Africa scene is the one most beneffited by this cut. Now it will make sense.
So liking a movie is trolling now?
While technically true that the theatrical cut is how he wanted it, being forced to do something doesn't really make it your decision.
I mean, that was when he was trying to get people to watch the movie. He could hardly say "the Ultimate Edition is really the experience I was going for".
Snyder literally himself said the theatrical cut "workable" and nothing more
He hasn't exactly gone out of his way to say it was what he originally envisioned or anything.
Its just like any blu-ray release......
Chances are if you didn't like the movie then this version won't convince you. The people who liked the movie wanted the this version so they're getting the version.
AmaterasuOni
Banned
I'd like to watch a 45 minutes shorter version. Without all that forced TJL stuff.
I don't think the guy who called the theatrical cut a "workable" version of the movie wanted it to play that way. This is a guy who defends Sucker Punch like its art basically telling people that the theatrical cut of BvS is shit.
broncobuster
Banned
I'm surprised the effects heavy scenes were cut out.
Is that Jena Malone in the glasses? Watching it on mute on my phone. What's she saying?
Is that Jena Malone in the glasses? Watching it on mute on my phone. What's she saying?
Donnie Darko, Aliens, and Battle Royale all had inferior director's cuts.
That being said, more of the warehouse fight is enough to sell me. That was the best part of the movie.
No it's not... we can't go around giving arbitrary time stamps to movies. If a movie needs more it needs more. 90 minutes is enough to be a good movie, should this movie be 90 minutes? Lol...
I expect it to be better.
I do not, however, expect it to suddenly become good.
Pixar's "Up" told in 10 minutes a complete story of two children who fell in love, established their bond and connections, their motivations and interests, their personalities and flaws, and chronicled their entirely lives together through the highs and lows of a transformative marriage that ultimately ended with loss and heartache, giving both leads a complete, solid, understandable story arc to follow and setting the stage for the adventure to come in the rest of the film.
Having watched BvS, they weren't able to clearly do this in over two and a half hours.
Adding 30 more minutes might help, but the fact they couldn't do it the first time, and yet there was so many boring, dull, pointless shots and slow-mo in the first incarnation, just tells me they didn't know how to tell a coherent story with believable characters with nearly 16x the runtime of Up's opening 10 minutes.
I do not, however, expect it to suddenly become good.
Pixar's "Up" told in 10 minutes a complete story of two children who fell in love, established their bond and connections, their motivations and interests, their personalities and flaws, and chronicled their entirely lives together through the highs and lows of a transformative marriage that ultimately ended with loss and heartache, giving both leads a complete, solid, understandable story arc to follow and setting the stage for the adventure to come in the rest of the film.
Having watched BvS, they weren't able to clearly do this in over two and a half hours.
Adding 30 more minutes might help, but the fact they couldn't do it the first time, and yet there was so many boring, dull, pointless shots and slow-mo in the first incarnation, just tells me they didn't know how to tell a coherent story with believable characters with nearly 16x the runtime of Up's opening 10 minutes.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Better how? For the audience? Absolutely not true. On an artistic level for the director? Yeah, I guess. But Director's Cuts are not always better viewing experiences, not even close. It's very easy to kill pacing with superfluous scenes.
And let's be real, adding 30 minutes to a movie like this isn't going to magically turn it into Oscar bait. It isn't like it was trimmed down to 90 minutes. The film is over 2 hours and 30 minutes already.
Father_Brain
Banned
I won't deny that I'm at least slightly curious about how/whether this is an improvement from the theatrical cut, but I can't bring myself to take three hours to find out.
Saint Gregory
Member
The only valid response to that post.
I'm not bothering to even watch the trailer for this but I will buy the Blu-ray once it hits because... why not, I'm sure I own stuff that's way worse than whatever this turns out to be.
I really am curious to see how this does in theatres though, I can't think of a situation where a director's cut of a movie was not only released to theatres but this close to the film's original run.
Vincent Grayson
Member
The longer cut of Aliens kills the pacing of an otherwise near-perfect movie.
CatalogDave
Banned
nah, they made it better by having bruce run away crying after that.
Yep. That, the africa part and the gotham investigation will make this movie a different beast.
flintstryker
Banned
I don't buy this, the theatrical cut of Once Upon A Time in America completely butchered the movie and Leone was an excellent director
TheCochese
Banned
Didn't see it in the theater, so I'm in. I like that they include both versions, I can show the theatrical cut to my kids.
Arbitrary? I watched the movie. There are scenes that could have been cut and nothing of value to the story would have been lost.
When I finished watching BvS, the thought, "it needed more" didn't go through my mind.
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