Hicks27 wrote:
The difference is that the directors cut added insight, as the theatrical release already stood on its own two feet and made sense. The problem with Prometheus is that we need the extra 20 odd minutes to make sense of the movie which was all over the shop. So to keep those minutes back for the directors cut is taking the proverbial.
Why not make a movie that makes no sense at all, and then charge people loads of money to have to buy another version that makes sense....oh no wait, thats exactly what Ridley is doing
Yeah- I remember when a director had to make a film
1. Make enough sense to keep the audience sat down for the duration
2. Have a story with 3 basic components: a beggining, middle and end.
3. Had to make 1 and 2 fit into the running time and not rely on 3+hours of extras to explain what he/she was too dumb/disorganised/frightened etc to make fit into the standard running time.
I mean- you've churned out a nearly 3 hour summer blockbuster....You're telling me that there's not a couple of minutes of filler here or there which might've been cut and replace to make the thing make more sense?.....Nah, screw it: fill the DVD/BR release with as much filler and fluff as you can, call it 'special features' and let the consumer pick the bones out of it, while I count their cash.
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