• @[email protected]
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    Set to release on Nov 22 in major markets for anyone else about to ask in the thread like I almost did instead of just looking it up.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      The true hero. Preempting your own well-earned laziness to spare us all the same effort. I thank you.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      The normal cut btw, not the long one mentioned in the title. In case someone, like me, thinks the long will be released in November. Not to downplay your comment though

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    I just know they are going to attempt the first 24 hour movie in my lifetime.

    • @[email protected]
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      261 year ago

      24: The Movie

      Watch every second of Jack Bauer’s day. Probably skip the first 8 hours, it’s just a long sleep scene.

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        Probably skip the first 8 hours

        But then you will miss the great snore at 03:35 or the ass scratching at 05:21 or…

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          11 year ago

          The movie made sense IMO, its main issues are that so much of the crew are hollow. Their characters are threadbare, they’re on screen for the express purpose of dying. Even if we don’t pick up on it specifically we pick up on it subconsciously and they feel off. The geologist and biologist that die early on have basically one trait each (biologist is fake tough guy, biologist is nerdy-nervous). They don’t feel like real people.

          I liked Prometheus a lot, but the very-real problems with it would in my estimation require way more than a director’s cut to fix. Unless there’s a lot of filmed character development out there, I suppose. The insignificant characters needed to be replaced with a far smaller number of significant characters to join the handful of existing significant characters. Basically requires a rewrite.

  • @[email protected]
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    171 year ago

    Me, an intellectual, wondering whether or not Josephine was the name of the llama, colorized:

    Spoiler alert: ::: spoiler The llama was named Tina :::

  • @[email protected]
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    161 year ago

    Damn Napoleon going to be shorter than this cut of the movie.

    (Yeah yeah i know he was average height for his time)

    • @[email protected]
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      121 year ago

      Back in the day, the Soviet Red Army trained 16,000 troops in Napoleonic Era artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics. They were first used in the Russian movie ‘War And Peace.’ Hollywood hired them out for ‘Waterloo’ with Rod Steiger.

      If you want to see a great reenactment of the battle, watch that movie. I’m speaking specifically about military tactics.

      https://youtu.be/rt4mYUKjzn0

    • TWeaK
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      51 year ago

      Christ, if the video is an hour long how long is the trailer??

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Aha, three minutes I think? There is so much history in that period, that even the appearance and the fact that there is a speaking part for one person in the trailer gives those in the video hope for the movie.

  • AlicePraxis [any]
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    71 year ago

    idk Ridley, maybe it’s great but directors have a lot of hubris in thinking anyone would want to sit through a 4.5 hour film. at that point your best bet is to release it as a miniseries like the extended cut of Hateful Eight

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          Maybe I’ve just always had the wrong read on them, but extended directors cuts have always felt like they’re primarily for people who are huge fans of the movie anyway. There’s definitely a subset of people who would watch the full extended cut.

    • LeberechtReinhold
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      91 year ago

      There has been many Napoleon projects, starting with the 1927 silent epic. Kubrick researched a long time for his project but never had time to do it. Spielberg is collaborating with HBO to use that script for a miniseries though.

      • @brsrklf
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        31 year ago

        What is it with Spielberg finishing Kubrick’s stuff? No disrespect to either, but it’s not like their works are very similar.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yea I remember seeing something about that. Wonder if the script ever ended up anywhere. Like how Spielberg ended up directing Ai which was a Kubrick script or idea? I can’t remember.

  • Alf
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    41 year ago

    4 and a half hours is too long

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          Tbf you don’t need to watch a 4.5 hour movie in one go either. Many films used to incorporate intermissions for this very purpose.

          • Shalakushka
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            Maybe they could split it up into even more watchable bits, call them "episodes”. It could be like a series. Not like a whole series, maybe some sort of miniature series.

            It’s OK to make a TV show, Ridley.

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              Why not make it two separate parts, released fairly close together, like a month apart? You’d build up hype and make people want to see the first one before part two comes out, then offer some double feature screenings alongside the normal release to encourage viewings of the second one. It would then also gain a surge in ticket sales as people finally went to see part onento get caught up.

              Effectively it would mean a single film taking up twice as many screens and pulling in twice as many tickets.

              All of that’s assuming it’s any good, of course. But I would think by this point with Ridley Scott that’s a decent bet.

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      21 year ago

      For a theater, yes. But for home video, where people can and often do watch movies in chunks anyway, length doesn’t matter as much.

      I’d love it if he just dropped it as two films, released a month apart. That would drive people to see the first part so that they can be caught up for part two.

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        Unfortunately that likely wouldn’t work great. The only people that would be interested in watching part 2 are the people that watched (and liked) part 1. And business is often a numbers game

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          11 year ago

          That’s fair. But presumably the same number of people would watch part 1 as would watch the whole thing. And maybe even more, because of the lower time commitment.

  • Zorque
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    Will it also be in black and white so you can’t tell how bad the effects are?