Saturday, January 23, 2010

(un) enhanced

I'd like to state for the record that the "director's cut" or "extended edition" of a movie or TV episode should NEVER be considered a "bonus" feature. Like we're getting something enhanced??

No. Quite the opposite. We're getting the sh*t version. We're being forced to sit through about 30 minutes of scenes that the director had decided weren't good enough to include in the final version in the first place.

Then they go, "I know! We'll put all those boring, un-funny scenes that we took out of the movie for a very good reason... and put them back!! People will love the fact that the movie is longer but not any better."

It's like when you're writing a paper for school. When you do your final proof read, you come across three entire paragraphs that 1) have a bunch of typos 2) don't fit in to the rest of the story and 3) are so boring you want to poke your eyes out. So you take those paragraphs out, save the file, and print it. But then, you put all those paragraphs back in, title it "enhanced" and give it to your teacher like you're doing her a favor.

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