(movies)(fun) Finally saw the Alien 3 Assembly Cut, which is the film restored t

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Finally saw the Alien 3 Assembly Cut, which is the film restored to close to original director’s intent. And a bad movie became a good one. The studio massacres so many movies.

While Orlando Bloom was an odd choice of leading man, Kingdom of Heaven must be seen in the director’s cut – in which it’s a totally different movie.

Blade Runner must be seen in the director’s cut as well, without the voiceover.

I would love to see 13th Warrior restored along the same lines to McTiernan’s original vision. That would be legendary.

This whole philosophy of ‘cutting to the minimum’ is an artifact of a period in time, and is not the absolute truth we take it to be, and I would like to see that removed from both literature and film. Your sense of character building in the editing room is not the same as our sense of character building as a member of the first-view audience. More is better. Very rarely are cut scenes as disposable as the editor believes.

We know that the success of the animated children’s movies is in their emphasis on characters. Special effects are only as interesting as the characters and their journey. Good films will require two things to occur:

(a) less global targeting of blockbusters, which dilute the moral message that can be contained in movies.

(b) exhaustion of special effects of the digital age and return to character development.

Both of these should happen as the studio system continues to fail.