Miscellaneous Movie Musings

innerSpaceman · 09-15-2008, 08:48 PM

I think my head would explode.

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On another front, I'm really disappointed with the "director's cut" of Dark City. The much ballyhooed restored opening is a bit better for the lack of spoiler voiceover the studio insisted on ... but it's more than countermanded by the loss of the terrific hook of Everything Stops at Midnight that punches you into the title card. Bleh.

It's not even the "restored" opening anyway, since they keep the cool footage of outerspace and Keifer Sutherland intro ... which was filmed in re-shoots specifically for the voiceover and was not part of the original director's cut at all. (Proyas' cut opened with the zoom into the hotel room where Murdoch is revealed in the bathtub.)

As for the rest of the film, there are about a dozen slightly extended scenes. Most of these are good, a few are kinda awful. So once again, a director's cut that not only isn't as good as the theatrical release, but contains just enough cool differences that I'll be missing them whenever I watch the generally superior theatrical release from now on.

And now both versions have sucky openings.

Thanks Alex Proyas and your ego project.

Fail.

09-15-2008, 08:48 PM	#11
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	I think my head would explode. * * * * * * * On another front, I'm really disappointed with the "director's cut" of Dark City. The much ballyhooed restored opening is a bit better for the lack of spoiler voiceover the studio insisted on ... but it's more than countermanded by the loss of the terrific hook of Everything Stops at Midnight that punches you into the title card. Bleh. It's not even the "restored" opening anyway, since they keep the cool footage of outerspace and Keifer Sutherland intro ... which was filmed in re-shoots specifically for the voiceover and was not part of the original director's cut at all. (Proyas' cut opened with the zoom into the hotel room where Murdoch is revealed in the bathtub.) As for the rest of the film, there are about a dozen slightly extended scenes. Most of these are good, a few are kinda awful. So once again, a director's cut that not only isn't as good as the theatrical release, but contains just enough cool differences that I'll be missing them whenever I watch the generally superior theatrical release from now on. And now both versions have sucky openings. Thanks Alex Proyas and your ego project. Fail.
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