It's playing at Nova which has 15 screens and the management likes to use their surplus screens to push films/distinguish themselves. Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind played there for over a year.
― Jedmond, Thursday, 12 July 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
So, I watched the extended cut. I never saw the 2 1/2 hour version, but loved this movie. It sucks that it's so hard to see it correctly.
― polyphonic, Friday, 13 July 2012 07:44 (twelve years ago) link
extended cut turned Edelstein around something fierce: http://www.vulture.com/2012/07/edelstein-dont-miss-margaret-directors-cut.html
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Friday, 13 July 2012 07:44 (twelve years ago) link
damn.... looking fwd to this
― just sayin, Friday, 13 July 2012 09:15 (twelve years ago) link
can't wait to see the extended cut
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Friday, 13 July 2012 09:41 (twelve years ago) link
So it's an extended cut and not a director's cut, right? That is, the best they can do? Did Lonergan supervise its, er, extension?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 July 2012 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
well it was probably an earlier cut of Lonergan's or one that was submitted with his approval. The studio are hardly going to ask him to recut the entire movie to his desired version at this stage given all they they have already lost financially. plus he could take another year to do it, i dare say.
― jed_, Friday, 13 July 2012 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
can't wait to see the extended cut of this. criminal that it was only released on one screen for 2 weeks in the UK
― stet, Friday, 13 July 2012 13:18 (twelve years ago) link
Does the longer cut shed any more light on the scene where Paquin tells Damon she's had an abortion? Unless I missed something, I think the shorter cut leaves it ambiguous as to whether this is a lie.
― Jeff W, Friday, 13 July 2012 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
According to that Edelstein review it does
― Number None, Friday, 13 July 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
i kinda liked that ambiguity.
― ryan, Friday, 13 July 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
It started out with that run, but ended up extending to many other screens when it was such a sell-out at the Odeon Panton St (where it played for a couple of months I think)
― Alba, Friday, 13 July 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
Does the longer cut shed any more light on the scene where Paquin tells Damon she's had an abortion? Unless I missed something, I think the shorter cut leaves it ambiguous as to whether this is a lie.― Jeff W, Friday, 13 July 2012 14:57 (1 week ago) Bookmark
― Jeff W, Friday, 13 July 2012 14:57 (1 week ago) Bookmark
Having now watched the extended cut, i preferred the ambiguous version
― Number None, Friday, 20 July 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
and Edelstein is way off base about the new running time suddenly turning it into a masterpiece or whatever. There's some nice little added moments in there but all the truly great stuff was already present
― Number None, Friday, 20 July 2012 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds sort of like the similarly wrong reaction to the extended cut of "Almost Famous." Some nice stuff put back in, but most of the good stuff was there already, and some of the stuff put back in makes the good stuff not as good.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 July 2012 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
im v curious 2 watch the shorter cut - feel like i'll give it some more time tho, i just watched the extended cut a few nights ago - i dont think it's a masterpiece but there'er a lot of great scenes - number none, i think you're the 1st person ive read of that prefers the shorter vers
― johnny crunch, Friday, 20 July 2012 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
Lonergan was on the radio the other day saying it wasn't true that he intended for it to be longer in the first place – claims that this longer cut just comes from him being asked if he wanted to do one, and thought that it would be interesting to explicitly show some of the stuff that he chose to hint at in the theatrical cut.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kkr4n
― Alba, Friday, 20 July 2012 08:51 (twelve years ago) link
Full cut playing here!
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 August 2012 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
So the existing (150-minute) cut is a mixed success. The last half hour made me look away several times.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
look away from what? the only thing I thought that misfired completely in the last act was Jean Reno's resolution.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 August 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
the Damon-Paquin relationship, the resolutions -- a mess
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 August 2012 03:51 (twelve years ago) link
I sisn't think the Damon thing was gonna go there it's true, but I like his "You stupid..."
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 August 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah that felt like the good sort of ad-lib (whether it actually was or not)
― Simon H., Sunday, 12 August 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
LOL, the conspiracy to keep this from people's eyes continues: Now selling for $999 on Amazon.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 21 August 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
Link
― Eric H., Tuesday, 21 August 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
Amazon's exclusive and stock ran out. The reissue isn't happening until October.
― Hut Stricklin at Lake Speed (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
Huh. Glad I got my copy then! Still haven't had time to watch it.
― Romney's Kitchen Nightmares (WmC), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
It's on Netflix (DVD & Bluray, no streaming).
― Hut Stricklin at Lake Speed (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
only the shorter version
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, that's what it looks like - there's no mention of the extended cut in their listing
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it looks that way. Which is interesting as the theatrical cut is Blu-only on the commercial release.
― Hut Stricklin at Lake Speed (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
maybe I'll order up the DVD and see what I get
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
will sell my r2 extended cut for £700
think i actually prefer the shorter, pretty much - only one of the additional scenes is enriching in a big way, i think (iirc, anyway - i'm talking about a discussion in a cafe in which the sound design switches around a lot (even by the standards of the new sound mix (which is a real improvement, i think)), though it's possible i just don't remember it from the cinema).
― very sexual album (schlump), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
no, i'm pretty sure that scene wasn't in the theatrical
― Number None, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
FYI the netflix DVD is the 150 minute cut
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Friday, 24 August 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I think the Redbox one is the same. Only way to see the extended is to buy the Blu-ray.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Friday, 24 August 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
...and the only legal way to see the theatrical at home if you don't do Blu is rent it.
Oh Fox...
― Hut Stricklin at Lake Speed (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 24 August 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
looks like amazon is taking backorders now with new stock available on august 27
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Friday, 24 August 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
just saw the three hour cut. half good, half kinda shit. basically starts to dry up and fall apart once Lisa begins her bizarre, "moral" quest to stick it to the bus driver. scenes seem to be awkwardly jammed in all over the place. it's messy and erratic enough to render a lot of the HEAVY SAD SHIT* almost comical. so much time spent detailing legal minutiae while rapid fire tragedy is just casually flipped through. manages to feel both bloated AND rushed.
*also, when you pack this much HEAVY SAD SHIT into a film, it starts losing its weight. it was approaching the absurd and by the end any emotional involvement i had was gone.
thought the stuff centered around the kids was a lot more compelling than most of the adult drama. wished death upon the blunt but "TRUTH DROPPIN'" friend-of-the-deceased nearly every second she was on the screen. liked Damon and the Culkin kid quite a bit. Broderick sipping his orange juice and taking quick, flustered little bites of his sandwich during class discussion was hilarious.
PERSONAL INFO: i witnessed a horrific, fatal pedestrian accident a few weeks ago so some of this was obviously extra difficult to sit through. almost turned it off during that bus scene but persevered because i didn't want that image burned into my brain for the rest of the day. absolutely harrowing, borderline panic attack.
― circa1916, Sunday, 26 August 2012 07:05 (twelve years ago) link
that sounds like a terribly difficult watch, circa. my instinct was to argue w/you over the ratio of legal-minutiae/rapid-fire-tragedy, because for me the pairing of & dynamic between those was really powerful - how frustrating the labyrinth of irrelevant legal shit was, & the treatment of the relationship between a horrific accident & its dry, bureaucratic resolution, paired as if they were some kind of natural balance. the lightness of the circumstances in which the accident happened felt appropriate, to me, but i can't imagine watching it with any personal frame of reference, so.
so much time spent detailing legal minutiae while rapid fire tragedy is just casually flipped through
― very sexual album (schlump), Sunday, 26 August 2012 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
thought the stuff centered around the kids was a lot more compelling than most of the adult drama
^^^ on this. First half of the movie is pretty incredible, but thought that the Jean Reno-as-Snidely Whiplash subplot diluted what could have been pretty compelling.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 14 September 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
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need to see this new edit
― very sexual album (schlump), Friday, 14 September 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Hungry4Ass, Friday, 14 September 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
whoa armed bus driver
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 September 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
extra half hour of footage in which it turns out ruffalo shot janney
― very sexual album (schlump), Friday, 14 September 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
wheres that pic from
― Hungry4Ass, Friday, 14 September 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
"GREAT MOVIE"
― jed_, Friday, 14 September 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
No Transfer for Old Men
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 September 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― Irwin Dante's Towering Inferno (WmC), Friday, 14 September 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
I found this film maddening, tbh. There were interesting things about it
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Friday, 14 September 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link