Bean

So I've been thinking about it, and it seems that since the popularity of DVD's has topped VHS, that a trend in Hollywood is the "deleted scenes" on special edition dvds. The upcoming Matrix trilogy set will have them, the special edition Trek films have them, and LOTR turns into a new movie with the extended editions.

I love this, it's a great way to stay true to the director/writers desires without making a three hour movie for casual fans.

The problem I see, is how long do you think it's gonna take, for Hollywood to start cutting scenes neddlesly in hopes of putting them on the DVD? Or one step further, writing entire scenes that have no hope of actually making it into the movie, in the hopes of bolstering DVD sales?

Can you imagine if they had cut half of the space battle at the end of TWOK just so they could release it later as some kind of bonus! I can't help but envision a board of directors sitting around a table dissecting a script for the best scenes to cut out.

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Stag

Oh, I think they are probably doing it right now...

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Brikar

Guillermo del Toro has said that scenes were cut from "Hellboy" that he deliberately intended to put on the DVD. He said that those scenes were good scenes, but they slowed the movie down, and that you had to think about how watching a movie in the theatre is different than watching a movie at home. You have a lot more freedom at home to have a long movie, but audiences (and, more likely and often, theatre managers) tend to get annoyed about long movies. On average, longer movies tend to make less money in a weekend because theatres have to schedule fewer showings. Of course, you get the ones that buck the trend like "Lord of the Rings" which were good enough movies that people didn't mind sitting through them time and time again for months.

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Bean

Actually I remember reading that about Hellboy, but perhaps that's not quite what I meant. I'm talking about the studios forcing crappy scenes to be written just so they can have some extras. Or, cutting out scenes that have no busines being cut to save them for the DVD.

LOTR's extended scenes were cut for a good reason. The above mentioned differences between home viewing, and theatre viewing. And the movies as a whole didn't suffer as a result of the cuts. The scenes cut were really only appreciated on the ext editions by hardcore fans. As is the same with Hellboy I would imagine (not being a fan myself).

I/m just wondering how long it is before we see a theatrical release that's an just over an hour long, with a special edition that winds up to be twice as long.

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Brikar

Ah, I gotcha. I would hate that.

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Stag

I think they are doing that with porn movies now

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