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08 December 2005

X3

I'm back from not posting and from a trip to Chicago. More on that later. For now, I just saw the new X-Men 3 trailer and I just about shit myself. Go Here and poop at the excitement of the final film in the X-Men trilogy. Originally, I was quite worried about this film being at all worth it. It has gone through 3 directors (first Bryan Singer, who understandably left to do Superman, and then Brett Ratner, who left, then some other guy, until Brett Ratner came back and did the film) and usually that is a sign that a movie isn't well put together. But the trailer makes me want it so much. Many people (in other words, me) consider The Phoenix Saga to be one of the most amazing miniseries in Comics history, and seeing it happen, including some other amazing storylines, will hopefully be a wonderful experience.

I will have less about the X-Men and more about my trip later.

posted by Monsterbeard @ 5:15 PM  

5 Comments:

  • At 11:33 AM, December 10, 2005, Blogger Seth said…

    Which deleted scene are you talking about? Is it on the DVD?

     

  • At 7:18 PM, December 10, 2005, Blogger Monsterbeard said…

    In the commentary they talk about how people just found it confusing and that they generally wouldn't understand it, which I can see because you really do think it's real.

    Some stuff they cut out because it was too graphic and would have pushed an R-rating. Mostly things like gorey killings at Wolverine's hands.

     

  • At 10:31 AM, December 12, 2005, Blogger Seth said…

    I agree--the technology should be there to recut the film automatically based on viewer preferences. This is how I think they should have done Star Wars. The special editions are interesting, but the theatrical releases are canon, not the other way around. It's shameful that these movies, for all intents and purposes, no longer exist as they did for the first twenty years after release. Since Lucasfilm is supposed to be on the cutting edge, how difficult would it have been to give viewers an option to revert to the original edit? If they have to create space on the disc for the additional material, they can probably ditch the director commentary--after Episodes I and II, no one wants to hear Lucas's thoughts on Star Wars anymore.

    Hmm. Sorry this turned into a rant. It ended up in a different place than I started it.

     

  • At 2:37 PM, December 12, 2005, Blogger Monsterbeard said…

    First- Go and get a copy of Die Hard: Special Edition, which has a bonus feature allowing you to edit a short scene of the movie. It's pretty cool although a bit primitive.
    Second- What you're asking is only kind of possible. On the one hand, you could have a director's cut on one side of the disc and original on the other, but it's impossible to put them both on the same tracks, simply because they are different. It's just like Zaireeka. You can't put all 4 discs on one without remixing, because that would be putting multiple layers of digital information together. If the scene in X2 was put in on the directors cut, the original cut would keep going, and the two would end up out of sync. I'm thinking you'd need a lot of RAM to do this at all. And I don't know how Die Hard even does it.

    But, I think the primary reason that director's cuts aren't included on original DVDs is money. Plenty of people will buy the original DVD, including people who loved the movie. Then, when the director's cut comes out, all the people who loved the movie will buy THAT too, and the distribution company just doubled their money by releasing two movies for the price of one. But on our end, we're getting one basic movie for the price of two.

    As for Star Wars, George Lucas didn't release the originals because HE DOESN'T CONSIDER THEM TO EXIST. As he said, the special editions were the movies he wanted to make but couldn't afford to, so now he's finally made the "real" Star Wars. To him, the only opinion that matters because he's in charge, the new editions are the new canon. There isn't even an old canon to compare it to. The only way to get the originals on DVD would be to copy them from VHS, and I'm sure that if Lucas could have all those destroyed, he would, because breaking hearts is apparently what he's about now.

     

  • At 10:41 AM, December 13, 2005, Blogger Seth said…

    Chris, what I believe your brother and I are thinking of is not two complete cuts on a disc, but a disc made up of all the building blocks needed to cut the movie either way. Then, instead of playing the movie linearly on a single track, the player would access all the applicable scenes in the correct order--both the standard scenes in common with both cuts and then the additional/alternate material unique to that particular cut. It would be akin to making a playlist of all the potential scenes in the movie and mixing it up to fit your preferences. I've seen DVDs that allow you to insert the deleted scenes into the movie--this would just be taking that technology to its next logical step.

     

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