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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 6124583" data-attributes="member: 32740">Sorry but no filmaker gets even the teensiest credit for scripts that were rejected or altered, scenes that were deleted, or all the other stuff which COULD have made an interesting or exciting film - but didn't.&nbsp; You get credit only for what you actually released to the theaters.&nbsp; Did it have potential to be better than it was?&nbsp; I have no doubt.&nbsp; But it doesn't matter.&nbsp; The movie that it became is still a steaming pile of incomprehensible stupidity.&nbsp; You can't expect moviegoers to care what happens to your characters if you don't get them to care ABOUT your characters on any level.&nbsp; You can't expect people to believe anything at all smart is going on under the surface if all your characters are doing the dumbest things imaginable.&nbsp; You can't expect them to appreciate anything you're trying to say metaphorically if you're relentlessly distracting them with plot holes the size of mountains and shallow, unappealing characters.Epic fail from someone who had until then been a reliable talent.&nbsp; I keep thinking about this movie too - but only in terms of how much more amusingly I could heap scorn and derision upon it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 6124583, member: 32740"] Sorry but no filmaker gets even the teensiest credit for scripts that were rejected or altered, scenes that were deleted, or all the other stuff which COULD have made an interesting or exciting film - but didn't. You get credit only for what you actually released to the theaters. Did it have potential to be better than it was? I have no doubt. But it doesn't matter. The movie that it became is still a steaming pile of incomprehensible stupidity. You can't expect moviegoers to care what happens to your characters if you don't get them to care ABOUT your characters on any level. You can't expect people to believe anything at all smart is going on under the surface if all your characters are doing the dumbest things imaginable. You can't expect them to appreciate anything you're trying to say metaphorically if you're relentlessly distracting them with plot holes the size of mountains and shallow, unappealing characters. Epic fail from someone who had until then been a reliable talent. I keep thinking about this movie too - but only in terms of how much more amusingly I could heap scorn and derision upon it. [/QUOTE]

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