July 4th Casa de Mousepod Screening©

innerSpaceman · 07-01-2008, 12:00 AM

No surprise, one of my favorite movies ever. OMG, when the Director's Cut came out on laserdisc, it was like an entirely different film.

Some of the restored stuff was a little lame (and not all of it is on the DVD), but most was great. Especially, of course, the fantastic and oh-so-freaking-bizarre musical number Cool Considerate Men ... which, legend has it, was removed from the film at the last minute at the request of then-President Richard Nixon, following a pre-release screening at the White House. The number is not incredibly flattering to the conservative cause ... but the show is so much weaker without it.

Alas, a few of the changes to the DVD version are not so great, and kinda mess up one of the other musical numbers at the end of the film. I keep wanting to screen a stop-and-go version for myself that preserves the best of the DVD and laserdisc versions, but I've always been too lazy.

As JW points out, it's not precise history ... but it's a fantastic dramatization of this pivotal point in Americana - - and, as flippy points out, miraculously manages to convey suspense with an outcome known from the get-go ... and make dramatic what is essentially a parlimentary procedure story.

Great, Weird, and Frelling Fantastic Film.

07-01-2008, 12:00 AM	#11
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	No surprise, one of my favorite movies ever. OMG, when the Director's Cut came out on laserdisc, it was like an entirely different film. Some of the restored stuff was a little lame (and not all of it is on the DVD), but most was great. Especially, of course, the fantastic and oh-so-freaking-bizarre musical number Cool Considerate Men ... which, legend has it, was removed from the film at the last minute at the request of then-President Richard Nixon, following a pre-release screening at the White House. The number is not incredibly flattering to the conservative cause ... but the show is so much weaker without it. Alas, a few of the changes to the DVD version are not so great, and kinda mess up one of the other musical numbers at the end of the film. I keep wanting to screen a stop-and-go version for myself that preserves the best of the DVD and laserdisc versions, but I've always been too lazy. As JW points out, it's not precise history ... but it's a fantastic dramatization of this pivotal point in Americana - - and, as flippy points out, miraculously manages to convey suspense with an outcome known from the get-go ... and make dramatic what is essentially a parlimentary procedure story. Great, Weird, and Frelling Fantastic Film.
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