Thanks for the uber-:iSm: alerts, but of course that's not one of the two missing scenes I'll go to my grave insisting were in the original. (And once I go to my grave, they will be erased from all recorded and imaginary history).

That's a scene that was never in the film, and not even one of the more interesting ones. Close Encounters is really marvelous for what was judiciously left on the editing room floor. In particular, Spielberg seems to have filmed every second of Roy Neary's travels on the night of the electrical blackout. That he edited this down to one of cinema's most arresting segments is quite a feat.


(My favorite deleted scene is a garden party that the Nearys have the afternoon after Roy's close encounter. It's a total hoot. Great DVD extra.)

I knew it wasn't either of your oft mentioned scenes, which is why I put it on high atomic alert. It wasn't clear from the post whether or not it was a newly surfaced find or not so I thought you'd want to know, just in case.

I really appreciate that, truly.


Sigh, I hate being (apparently) the only one on the planet who KNOWS those two scenes were in the original movie.




Well, me and that other Steven ... but I guess he's not talking.

What are the two missing scenes?

(If one of them is a building with U F O in window lights, I'm there with you.)

I'll just ditto everything LS said about Julia & Julie (the movie, not the books on which its based since I haven't read those).

District 9 is original and amazing, emotional and intelligent, heart racing and heart stopping. There were times when I was actually at the edge of my seat biting my fingers, and I was not the only one. One dude to our left kept scooting closer and closer to the screen. It was a very well written and substantial story. As said elsewhere by Jesse (or friend of Jesse), most alien movies are about what they would do to us; this movie asks what we would do to them.

I'm sure it had an outlined script but my understanding is a lot of the work was improvised. They filmed a ton of footage, much of it landing on the cutting room floor. Really looking forward to the DVD extras. I like that the scene from the teaser trailer wasn't in the movie, though I suspect it's some of the footage that was shot for the film and later cut.

Was so moved and convinced by the lead alien character I couldn't see it ("it" because I don't think gender was defined) - or any of them - as anything other than very, very real. So impressed that they were able to accomplish something like that with only CGI and sound effects.

Can't really sing praises loud enough for Sharlto Copley.

I watched The Conversation on TCM and it appeared to be in tact. Also, Mississippi Burning played right after it and I guarantee the movie is uncut. The f's and the n's are all there. (Wow, what a powerful film. I forgot that Frances McDormand was in it.)

Just watched it ourselves. What a GREAT movie.

The Conversation is the first 70's drama I've seen that doesn't bore me. (Yes, that includes The Godfather, so sue me.) Starts intriguing and remains so throughout. Damn, Hackman was amazing. Great costuming, sets, photography, casting.....near-perfect movie making.

Inglourious Basterds surprised me. I won't say it is a great film though it does have several Tarantino-standard dialogscenes that are worth the money. Particularly the opening prelude and then another scene later in a bar.

Considering that the only thing most people are talking about is the brutality and explicitness of the violence I was suprised as just how little of it there is in the movie (though it is matter of factly brutal when it does). The greatest thing about it though, as someone who sees a lot of movies, is that I had absolutely no idea where it was going and so truly was just along for the ride.

That's not a feeling I get very often.

Also liked that they didn't shy away from the language issues a movie set in European WWII should have when most of the characters is French or German. The result is that much of the movie is subtitled but that doesn't bother me at all. Christoph Waltz had to speak four languages through the movie and it is my understanding that only the Italian was faked.

Also liked that for the most part everybody, good or bad, was treated as intelligent beings. And that everybody, good or bad, were treated as somewhat couragesous.

Son of a bitch, why has no one mentioned the heavy use of shaky-cam in District 9.

Had to bail after about 30 minutes, for the sake of the other theater goers who, I presume, would not appreciate the smell (and possibly feel for an unlucky few) of vomit. :(

Does the shaky cam stop at some point?