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innerSpaceman · 11-14-2007, 08:48 PM

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

ARRARRRRGHGHJSKFFFGGHGGHGHGHGH!

Why Must They Frelling LIE?!?!?!?

Ok, I haven't watched the DVD yet ... but there's a handy comparison chart provided with the set. Handy, that is, if you don't mind outright FRAUD.

The fact that they bothered to print up a chart that lies about the two missing scenes and other changes pisses me off even more than if they just left that stuff off the DVD.

DON'T BUY THIS SET!

I will watch the movie anyway, but UGH. This is not good.

Most people who saw the film in 1977 don't remember the missing scenes. One of them is pretty inconsequential, and I can understand why no one seems to recall it. The other one is not really a big deal either - by itself.

But if you ask anyone who saw the film in '77 whether the Mashed Potatoes scene was hilarious the first time they saw Roy Neary carving the infamous "shape" in the spuds, they will undoubtedly recall that the joke was funny precisely because the man could not stop carving that shape.

The scene still garners laughs because it's just plain silly for him to carve mashed potatoes. But the real joke is lost, and the two prior scenes where Roy goes from merely seeing the shape to actually recreating it in his model train set are (apparently) still and (likely) forever missing.

In all subsequent and now existing versions of the movie, we don't see that Roy's been carving a mountain shape in his model train set until after he does it with the potatoes. Pardon me, but that's revisionist BULLSH!T and a crock of total fraud for them to put this out as the 1977 original theatrical version.

Arrrgh! One of the greatest movies ever made, and it existed for only two years and then was LOST to the annals of history. Bah and double and triple and infinity BAH!

I bet they have that insert shot of the UFO shadow over the truck, too.

And I bet they use the long shot of Roberts Blossom saying "They can run rings around the moon, but we're years ahead of 'em on the highway" from the cutting room floor instead of the close-up that was in the movie.

And I double-down bet they have the shots of the astronaut's pre-departure prayer meeting that were NOT in the '77 film.

Oh, here goes two hours of my life about to be wasted in frustration and wrath.

Sigh.

11-14-2007, 08:48 PM	#4
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Close Encounters of the Third Kind ARRARRRRGHGHJSKFFFGGHGGHGHGHGH! Why Must They Frelling LIE?!?!?!? Ok, I haven't watched the DVD yet ... but there's a handy comparison chart provided with the set. Handy, that is, if you don't mind outright FRAUD. The fact that they bothered to print up a chart that lies about the two missing scenes and other changes pisses me off even more than if they just left that stuff off the DVD. DON'T BUY THIS SET! I will watch the movie anyway, but UGH. This is not good. Most people who saw the film in 1977 don't remember the missing scenes. One of them is pretty inconsequential, and I can understand why no one seems to recall it. The other one is not really a big deal either - by itself. But if you ask anyone who saw the film in '77 whether the Mashed Potatoes scene was hilarious the first time they saw Roy Neary carving the infamous "shape" in the spuds, they will undoubtedly recall that the joke was funny precisely because the man could not stop carving that shape. The scene still garners laughs because it's just plain silly for him to carve mashed potatoes. But the real joke is lost, and the two prior scenes where Roy goes from merely seeing the shape to actually recreating it in his model train set are (apparently) still and (likely) forever missing. In all subsequent and now existing versions of the movie, we don't see that Roy's been carving a mountain shape in his model train set until after he does it with the potatoes. Pardon me, but that's revisionist BULLSH!T and a crock of total fraud for them to put this out as the 1977 original theatrical version. Arrrgh! One of the greatest movies ever made, and it existed for only two years and then was LOST to the annals of history. Bah and double and triple and infinity BAH! I bet they have that insert shot of the UFO shadow over the truck, too. And I bet they use the long shot of Roberts Blossom saying "They can run rings around the moon, but we're years ahead of 'em on the highway" from the cutting room floor instead of the close-up that was in the movie. And I double-down bet they have the shots of the astronaut's pre-departure prayer meeting that were NOT in the '77 film. Oh, here goes two hours of my life about to be wasted in frustration and wrath. Sigh.
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