I was being facetious. I meant the parts (in the art museum and during the parade) when the plot stops dead for minutes at a time so the Joker can cavort to the Prince songs on the soundtrack.
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I was being facetious. I meant the parts (in the art museum and during the parade) when the plot stops dead for minutes at a time so the Joker can cavort to the Prince songs on the soundtrack.
Thanks for clearing that up for me!
Transformers... the dialogue parts.
Transformers. Any shot that isn't of Megan Fox.
Pearl Harbour - The Doolittle Raids.
-The Matrix Reloaded: Rave scene (everyone has always hated this scene, I swear). They also needed to lose that incomprehensible Architect scene which was parodied endlessly.
-Return of the Jedi: Everything on Endor as mentioned before. How the hell does the mighty Empire get beaten up by a marketing concept???
-Total Recall: The part where Arnold wears that old lady suit with the computer animation that has aged horribly, and of course the end where everyone's eyes are bugging out due to lack of oxygen. That aged even worse.
-Return of the Jedi: Everything on Endor as mentioned before. How the hell does the mighty Empire get beaten up by a marketing concept???
-Total Recall: The part where Arnold wears that old lady suit with the computer animation that has aged horribly, and of course the end where everyone's eyes are bugging out due to lack of oxygen. That aged even worse.
How was it incomprehensible? I had no trouble understanding it.
To the OP, there's certainly a lot of cheese in Superman that you need to get used to. But I've grown pretty accustomed to it. Lex Luthor's ruse is puerile and has zero chance of working in real life but it kinda works for me. The bits that truly try my patience are in the Richard Donner cut of Superman II.
- Miss Tessmacher looking for the bathroom in the Fortress of Solitude.
- The end of the film when, after Clark Kent gets his powers back, he goes back to the diner and beats the shit out of Rocky. This sequence is a delicious (if petty) piece of payback in the Richard Lester cut. But it doesn't work in the Donner cut because, in the Donner cut, Superman turned back time, so Rocky never beat up Clark in the first place.
Agreed. Also:
I'll also agree with the guy who mentioned Chris Nolan's bizarre need to remind us a billion times that "It's gonna blow!" in Batman Begins.
But I kinda like the Prince music in Batman (1989).
- Miss Tessmacher looking for the bathroom in the Fortress of Solitude.
- The end of the film when, after Clark Kent gets his powers back, he goes back to the diner and beats the shit out of Rocky. This sequence is a delicious (if petty) piece of payback in the Richard Lester cut. But it doesn't work in the Donner cut because, in the Donner cut, Superman turned back time, so Rocky never beat up Clark in the first place.
Agreed. Also:
- Spock maroons Kirk on an ice planet. Starfleet doesn't maroon people! Don't you have a brig? Or even just a closet you could lock him in?
- During the big Kirk/Spock fight on the bridge, no one tries to pull the two men apart. There is a terrible lack of military discipline among Starfleet in general in this movie.
- During the big Kirk/Spock fight on the bridge, no one tries to pull the two men apart. There is a terrible lack of military discipline among Starfleet in general in this movie.
I'll also agree with the guy who mentioned Chris Nolan's bizarre need to remind us a billion times that "It's gonna blow!" in Batman Begins.
But I kinda like the Prince music in Batman (1989).
The bit towards the end of Spider-Man 3 where the butler has to damn near draw a diagram to prove to Harry Osborn that Spider-Man didn't kill his father.
The special edition of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back where they felt the need to include this whole extra sequence of Darth Vader getting on his shuttle, flying to, and boarding his Star Destroyer. It was fine before. We can deduce for ourselves how he managed to get there.
I love V for Vendetta to death. But there's one bit while Evey is in prison, where the story comes to a halt to give us this sub-story about a lesbian actress that was persecuted & imprisoned by the Sutler administration. It just feels a bit out of sync with the timing of the rest of the movie. I think it may have been better if they had broken up the story a little bit and crosscut with another plotline involving V or the detectives or Sutler yelling at people.
The special edition of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back where they felt the need to include this whole extra sequence of Darth Vader getting on his shuttle, flying to, and boarding his Star Destroyer. It was fine before. We can deduce for ourselves how he managed to get there.
I love V for Vendetta to death. But there's one bit while Evey is in prison, where the story comes to a halt to give us this sub-story about a lesbian actress that was persecuted & imprisoned by the Sutler administration. It just feels a bit out of sync with the timing of the rest of the movie. I think it may have been better if they had broken up the story a little bit and crosscut with another plotline involving V or the detectives or Sutler yelling at people.
The Return of the King (Extended Edition): In the theatrical cut, when Aragorn beseeches the Army of the Dead to fight for him and break their curse, the scene cuts away and we don't find out what happens until the Corsair ships show up at Minas Tirith. In the extended edition, the scene continues with the King of the Dead laughing, and the Dead Men vanishing, and then Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli flee the Paths of the Dead before they're buried beneath a million skulls. The trio emerges outside, and Aragorn laments that he failed, and then suddenly the King of the Dead shows up and says: "We fight." And then we actually see them intercepting the Corsairs and taking their ships, which robs that whole storyline of any dramatic tension.
WTF? What was the point of all that? While I generally prefer the EEs over the TEs, in this instance the theatrical cut was superior.
WTF? What was the point of all that? While I generally prefer the EEs over the TEs, in this instance the theatrical cut was superior.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
- Any scene with Mos Def in it.
- Any scene with Mos Def in it.
Good example. The RotK EE is the only one of the trilogy where I felt most of the scenes added in detracted from the film rather than added to it.
I think you were watching it wrong. That was the best and most powerful scene in the entire movie.
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Probably no one will agree, but...70% of Gollum's scenes in The Two Towers and Return of the King. They were a bit too in love with their CGI creation, and by RoTK the character becaming grating.
The quasi-racist native village scene in Jackson's KING KONG...except I didn't love that movie.
Yeah, the water department guys in Batman Begins. I agree with that.
Also, most of the restorations to Apocalypse Now Redux hurt the movie more than helped. But it was good to see them in an official release.
The quasi-racist native village scene in Jackson's KING KONG...except I didn't love that movie.
Yeah, the water department guys in Batman Begins. I agree with that.
Also, most of the restorations to Apocalypse Now Redux hurt the movie more than helped. But it was good to see them in an official release.
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I love that scene!
It also helps that I'm a fan of whenever Jack Nicholson acts nutty and I like Prince.
By far.