Extended Movies... (was: Re: Ordering UK version ...)

[Steve]

---  OctobersChild48 at ... wrote:
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> In a message dated 2/8/07 12:03:15 PM Eastern Standard
> Time, taguem at ... writes:
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> 
> > Anyone know how to get all the longer versions of 
> > the movies... like when you watch them on TBS or 
> > something they include scenes that aren't in the
> > movie releases... just curious..
> > 
> > 
> 
> Sandy responds:
> 
> You can't buy them that way. All they have done is 
> added the deleted scenes that are on the extras disc
> of the two-disc sets. I taped SS and COS off the 
> Family Channel with the added scenes, and now watch 
> the tape more than I do the DVD's. I especially like
> the extended version of SS. It's too bad they don't 
> put the deleted scenes back into the DVD's.
> 
> Sandy


bboyminn: 

Off on a wild tangent here. For one of the HP movies
I added to the total run-time of all the relevant
deleted scenes and it was something like 10 to 15
minutes. Is Warner really so stupid that they think
us poor movie going souls will collapse from 
nervious exhaustion or go into hysterics if we have 
to sit 10 minutes longer to see a movie? If these
deleted scenes had been put into the movie, it 
would have had much better continuity. The whole 
movie would have made immensely more sense? 

So in reality they sacrificed the quality, continuity,
and integrity of the movie just so it could be 10
minutes shorter. Really? What sense does that make?

I remember in the good old days when you got the cut
down version on TV and the extended version in the
Theater, and the even more extended version in the
Director's Cut DVD. Now we get the extended version
on TV and the crappy version in the theater and on
DVD. The world is turned upside down.

For every HP movie I've been to in the theater, which
is all of them, there isn't a single one where the 
audience wasn't dying to see more movie. There wasn't
a single person at any showing I've been to that
wouldn't have love 15 minutes more movie. Better yet
30 minutes more movie.

On this issue of cutting the heart out of the movie
for no reason other than needing to make it LESS THAN
2-1/2 hours, I think Warner is hopeless foolish and
completely misguided.

As Roger Ebert once said, no good movie can be too 
long and no bad movie can be too short. 

Simply make a good movie and we will sit there as long
as it take to tell the story.

Just one man's opinion.

Steve/bboyminn