clerks 2

[dubman]

Originally Posted by big screen satellite

i do like the directors cut of Clerks, and almost all directors cuts because i think thats how they originally intended the film to be, and i think thats how they should be shown...smoothing over cracks or imperfections just to suit theatre goers is kinda like soft censorship..."you're movie won't go down well if you leave it like that", thank god for DVD editions eh

i know some movies need to be changed because 'reactions' at test screenings are poor, but then if you've made a poor movie, tough, if the audience don't like a sad ending then @@$& them - that's what i'd say, redoing it changes how the original movie is perceived and it becomes something that the director doesn't want...

take the new Vince Vaughan and Jennifer Aniston movie, called "The Break Up"... apparently test screenings showed that the audience didn't like the ending where they broke up...WHAAAAT...its called "the break up"...thats the whole story ruined, apparently they had to refilm it with a happier ending... defeats the object kinda eh?

what about if you've just made a shitty film and you need to make it better.

i never really watched the original version again because i thought it was immensely shoddy of them to do that. "well, yeah, life is random and all that and sometimes it's not fair"

yeah, well, kevin smith didn't get shot. and i thought it was about how he thought his own job was.

this comments been festerin in the back of my head since i read it last week and i gotta say, i think vision and original intentions and blah blah is so ridiculously overrated. i think directors can go stuff it when they want to put some superfluous crap as if it were their own vanity project at the expense of the audience. mind, 90% of the time it actually is worth it because the extra scenes are great for fans, but i think the movie revolving around the director is a whole lot of overreverential bullshit.

changing the ending of the break up to suit audiences makes perfect sense because it's a buttload of pap anyway where the whole movie was just made to entertain audienes. there's nothing there you're messing around with artistically, you're just staying true to it's nature as a crowd distraction.

[negative1]

i'm sorry i watched this sequel..

i'm going to pretend that the first one was
the only one made....

there really was no point to it,
and it really didn't have any funny moments
in it..

i only watched out of curiousity, even
though i had a bad feeling about it..