Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[billd91]

Care to elaborate?

I'm still salty about the American version of Brazil, which cuts out the last five minutes of the movie. Those five minutes completely change the movie.

The plan was for the US version to have a different edit and a happy ending (basically, the escape not being clearly a delusion because the footage of Sam still being in the torture chair would be cut). But I didn't think that version actually made it out to general theater release largely because Gilliam took his version of the film around and showed it behind the studio's back, got massive accolades, and shamed them into putting out an edit under his supervision.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The plan was for the US version to have a different edit and a happy ending (basically, the escape not being clearly a delusion because the footage of Sam still being in the torture chair would be cut). But I didn't think that version actually made it out to general theater release largely because Gilliam took his version of the film around and showed it behind the studio's back, got massive accolades, and shamed them into putting out an edit under his supervision.

OK. That makes some kind of sense.

I know the version I saw in the theater here in the USA did NOT have a happy ending.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

This discussion brings up an interesting question.

Director's Cuts that are worse that the theatrical cut.

To head off one issue- I will put discussion of Snyder and JLA off-limits. I think that the "Snyder Cut" was a better experience, but it also had a lot of new footage and runtime that could never be widely released in theaters.

Also? Let's not discuss Blade Runner.

Okay, here's my top three-

Apocalypse Now. Don't get me wrong. I love some of the extra footage in the various extended cuts. But as a movie, the theatrical release is the best one.

Donnie Darko. Nope. The director's cut is just not great.

And finally? Anything revisited later by Lucas and Spielberg. Star Wars and ET? Yep. It's not even that all the changes are that bad, it's more that there is a reason that people stop messing with a text when it's done.

 

[trappedslider]

drops

runs without looking back

 

[Ryujin]

This discussion brings up an interesting question.

Director's Cuts that are worse that the theatrical cut.

To head off one issue- I will put discussion of Snyder and JLA off-limits. I think that the "Snyder Cut" was a better experience, but it also had a lot of new footage and runtime that could never be widely released in theaters.

Also? Let's not discuss Blade Runner.

Okay, here's my top three-

Apocalypse Now. Don't get me wrong. I love some of the extra footage in the various extended cuts. But as a movie, the theatrical release is the best one.

Donnie Darko. Nope. The director's cut is just not great.

And finally? Anything revisited later by Lucas and Spielberg. Star Wars and ET? Yep. It's not even that all the changes are that bad, it's more that there is a reason that people stop messing with a text when it's done.

I want to speak on the first, but it's off limits. Same for the second but, then again, I was never one who raved over that movie. I preferred the novel it was based upon. Of your three:

1) Haven't seen the director's cut, that I know of. I read "Heart of Darkness" in high school and that put me off.

2) I'd actually like to see that one, but also haven't.

3) This I'll soundly agree with.

 

[Umbran]

drops
"You have the chance to delete something canon. What is it?"
runs without looking back

Gut reaction - the interplanetary transporters in the Kelvin-Timeline Star Trek.

I am sure there's a better choice than that, if I take time to consider it.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I want to speak on the first, but it's off limits. Same for the second but, then again, I was never one who raved over that movie. I preferred the novel it was based upon. Of your three:

Wait ... someone actually paid attention a rule I put in? Woah...

Seriously, it's the Pineapple Express. Write about whatever you want. I should have said that I wasn't going there.

 

[Ryujin]

Wait ... someone actually paid attention a rule I put in? Woah...

Seriously, it's the Pineapple Express. Write about whatever you want. I should have said that I wasn't going there.

OK, I can sum up my opinion of both pretty easily. Both were exercises in self indulgence and did nothing to improve on the original work. That anything failed to improve on the first is, quite frankly, an illustration of just what depths the director could fall to, as I didn't think that worse was possible.

 

[billd91]

Director's Cuts that are worse that the theatrical cut.

Aliens.
Technically, I'm not really sure it's an official "director's cut" but it is a version on the laserdisc with the cut scenes restored and that Cameron said he preferred. The cuts were good. The restored footage tends to make the xenomorphs seem dumber since they frontally charge the automated guns and take many casualties before they take an alternate approach. The theatrical edition cut that and had them taking the smarter approach from the start.

 

[payn]

This discussion brings up an interesting question.

Director's Cuts that are worse that the theatrical cut.

To head off one issue- I will put discussion of Snyder and JLA off-limits. I think that the "Snyder Cut" was a better experience, but it also had a lot of new footage and runtime that could never be widely released in theaters.

Also? Let's not discuss Blade Runner.

Okay, here's my top three-

Apocalypse Now. Don't get me wrong. I love some of the extra footage in the various extended cuts. But as a movie, the theatrical release is the best one.

Donnie Darko. Nope. The director's cut is just not great.

And finally? Anything revisited later by Lucas and Spielberg. Star Wars and ET? Yep. It's not even that all the changes are that bad, it's more that there is a reason that people stop messing with a text when it's done.

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