Ever wonder why some of the scenes get deleted?

I know it must be a time thing but most of the time when I watch them they make the movie make more sense!

I wish I could be able to play a DVD with deleted scenes included.

I'd rather that option than the Widescreen or Fullscreen option...

Am I the only one?

 

for some reason its a pretty big no no to have a movie EVER be over two hours, unless its a big epic type blockbuster. Most movies go by the standard 1 and a half hour standard. Now its not like they shot enough film to make exactly a 1 and a half hour movie, they had some extra stuff that they cut to get it to 1.5 or 2 hours or whatever. Thats usually the main reason why they get cut.

Sometimes...it gets cut because it sucks. I think apocalypse now redux demonstrates that amptly. They cut about an hour of total crap out of that movie in its original form, and it became one of the best films off all time because of it.

I watched "punch drunk love" a few days ago, i thought it was a really sweet and original movie, the best i've seen in a while. But i saw at the end they showed a cut scene of adam sandler at a supermarket methodically stuffing all this pudding into a shopping cart. It was kind of funny....but it just went on too long, thats why it got cut.

You might be refering to the new lord of the rings movie, and how alot of the things they cut out of it that make their way back into the extended edition dvds. It's good stuff too, really forms out the story. Pj says it distracted from the "pacing" of the film, so thats why he cut it. Such as in the upcoming Rotk, they will be cutting out all scenes with Saruman, because Pj felt that it was like "closing and old story at the begining of the movie, rather than starting a new one".

 

The more times a day a theater can run a movie, the more money the movie makes.

Your right though, it would be cool to "turn on" deleted scenes.

 

I bought a version of the Blues Brothers on DVD that had extra scenes automatically added. Apparently it was some version that was shown only once that like 12 people saw. The version I see on TV or that I have on VHS is different, it's shorter. On the DVD they added these scenes and I can see why they took them out! They sucked! I think they added like 20 minutes of crap to the movie. That was the first and last time I watched that movie on DVD. I went back to VHS. What a waste of 20 bucks.

Ok, it's nice to be able to go and check out the scenes... but they should give us the choice whether we want them integrated or not!

 

I agree with Monsta. I'd much rather have the option of seeing the whole movie, including the deleted scenes, that the wide screen version.

The Independence Day DVD had both the screen version and the longer version. The longer version was much better and now I know why that little kid was sick.

 

Terminator 2 has the option of playing the movie with or without the deleted scenes. With them added, the movie is 2 hours, 34 minutes long.

 

Speaking of widescreen, why is it that a movie in wide screen format, doesn't take up the entire screen on a wide screen TV? This causes me endless annoyance.

 

That gets me too. I thought that was the whole purpose of the wide screens?

 

i wondered that....thats why i never bought a digital tv. You can only get them in stretched format...and widescreen format. Which is stupid cause you'd use both of them...and i sure dont want to buy two of those suckers. I'll just wait till they figure out how to make a two in one deal

 

There are different ratios for widescreen movies.


The two most common ratios are:

16x9 or 1.85:1

and

2.35:1

16x9 is the ratio of a wide screen tv. Any movie that is in the 2.35:1 ratio will have bars on the top and bottom of the screen even on a wide screen tv. Some movies and most tv shows that are widescreen will use the 16x9 ratio.

Some movies use different ratios as well. Minority report uses a ratio of 2.39:1, so the black bars will be a little bigger on this movie.

Terminator 2 uses the 2.35:1 ratio and the original Gone in 60 Seconds uses 1.85:1. So, depending on the movie, the size of the black bars will change.