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[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

The true hero. Preempting your own well-earned laziness to spare us all the same effort. I thank you.

[-] lou_profile@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

The normal cut btw, not the long one mentioned in the title. In case someone, like me, thinks the long will be released in November. Not to downplay your comment though

[-] Roundcat@kbin.social 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 26 points 10 months ago

24: The Movie

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

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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....

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

My favorite part is when he gets up seventeen times to use the bathroom.

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Prostate problems are a removed.

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 24 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Montagge@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago

Just like Kingdom of Heaven

[-] ours@lemmy.film 6 points 10 months ago

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

Any day now...

[-] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months 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.

[-] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago

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

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

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

That fat lard.

[-] Jaywarbs@artemis.camp 7 points 10 months ago

A 4.5 hour cut of Napoleon Dynamite directed by Ridley Scott? I’m in.

[-] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, like, I had questions but I definitely wasn't complaining

[-] CarlsIII@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

Make yourself a dang quesadilla!

[-] potterpockets@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago

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

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

[-] panchzila@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Akchua.... Dammit.

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

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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[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Christ, if the video is an hour long how long is the trailer??

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Aha, three minutes I think? There is so much history in that period, that even the appearance and the fact that there is a speaking part for one person in the trailer gives those in the video hope for the movie.

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[-] kingthrillgore@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

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

[-] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

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

[-] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Wasn’t Kubrick originally going to make this movie?

[-] LeberechtReinhold@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] brsrklf@compuverse.uk 3 points 10 months ago

What is it with Spielberg finishing Kubrick's stuff? No disrespect to either, but it's not like their works are very similar.

[-] LeberechtReinhold@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Because they were friends (or at least knew each other).

[-] johnthedoe@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months 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.

[-] ScorpionFrog@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

4 and a half hours is too long

[-] Zibobwa@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

How many hours of Stranger Things did you watch?

[-] regular_human@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago
[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] Shalakushka@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

The key words being used to. We need to bring it back, but I fear that's unlikely

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 1 points 9 months ago

That's fair. But presumably the same number of people would watch part 1 as would watch the whole thing. And maybe even more, because of the lower time commitment.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 3 points 10 months ago

Of course Ridley Scott has multiple different cuts.

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

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

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