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[–] 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Set to release on Nov 22 in major markets for anyone else about to ask in the thread like I almost did instead of just looking it up.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I just know they are going to attempt the first 24 hour movie in my lifetime.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    24: The Movie

    Watch every second of Jack Bauer's day. Probably skip the first 8 hours, it's just a long sleep scene.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Probably skip the first 8 hours

    But then you will miss the great snore at 03:35 or the ass scratching at 05:21 or....

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Well now I want to wait for the director's cut to watch.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm still waiting for the DR of Prometheus where it all makes sense.

    Any day now...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The movie made sense IMO, its main issues are that so much of the crew are hollow. Their characters are threadbare, they're on screen for the express purpose of dying. Even if we don't pick up on it specifically we pick up on it subconsciously and they feel off. The geologist and biologist that die early on have basically one trait each (biologist is fake tough guy, biologist is nerdy-nervous). They don't feel like real people.

    I liked Prometheus a lot, but the very-real problems with it would in my estimation require way more than a director's cut to fix. Unless there's a lot of filmed character development out there, I suppose. The insignificant characters needed to be replaced with a far smaller number of significant characters to join the handful of existing significant characters. Basically requires a rewrite.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Me, an intellectual, wondering whether or not Josephine was the name of the llama, colorized:

    Spoiler alert: ::: spoiler The llama was named Tina :::

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Damn Napoleon going to be shorter than this cut of the movie.

    (Yeah yeah i know he was average height for his time)

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    A good response to historical inaccuracies found in the trailer from the Waterloo Association: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbXiYLi1ys

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Back in the day, the Soviet Red Army trained 16,000 troops in Napoleonic Era artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics. They were first used in the Russian movie 'War And Peace.' Hollywood hired them out for 'Waterloo' with Rod Steiger.

    If you want to see a great reenactment of the battle, watch that movie. I'm speaking specifically about military tactics.

    https://youtu.be/rt4mYUKjzn0

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I'm starting to think Ridley may have lost it.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    idk Ridley, maybe it's great but directors have a lot of hubris in thinking anyone would want to sit through a 4.5 hour film. at that point your best bet is to release it as a miniseries like the extended cut of Hateful Eight

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Releasing Napoleon as a short film would be wrong on multiple levels.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Wasn’t Kubrick originally going to make this movie?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There has been many Napoleon projects, starting with the 1927 silent epic. Kubrick researched a long time for his project but never had time to do it. Spielberg is collaborating with HBO to use that script for a miniseries though.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yea I remember seeing something about that. Wonder if the script ever ended up anywhere. Like how Spielberg ended up directing Ai which was a Kubrick script or idea? I can’t remember.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    4 and a half hours is too long

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How many hours of Stranger Things did you watch?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Tbf you don't need to watch a 4.5 hour movie in one go either. Many films used to incorporate intermissions for this very purpose.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe they could split it up into even more watchable bits, call them "episodes”. It could be like a series. Not like a whole series, maybe some sort of miniature series.

    It's OK to make a TV show, Ridley.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Why not make it two separate parts, released fairly close together, like a month apart? You'd build up hype and make people want to see the first one before part two comes out, then offer some double feature screenings alongside the normal release to encourage viewings of the second one. It would then also gain a surge in ticket sales as people finally went to see part onento get caught up.

    Effectively it would mean a single film taking up twice as many screens and pulling in twice as many tickets.

    All of that's assuming it's any good, of course. But I would think by this point with Ridley Scott that's a decent bet.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    For a theater, yes. But for home video, where people can and often do watch movies in chunks anyway, length doesn't matter as much.

    I'd love it if he just dropped it as two films, released a month apart. That would drive people to see the first part so that they can be caught up for part two.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Unfortunately that likely wouldn't work great. The only people that would be interested in watching part 2 are the people that watched (and liked) part 1. And business is often a numbers game

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Of course Ridley Scott has multiple different cuts.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Will it also be in black and white so you can't tell how bad the effects are?

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