Originally posted by: ocpmovieI could ignore continuity on falling into the hole. The main reason for keeping the Zigzag/Tack fight was stubbornness and the fact that I like some of it.

Also, frankly the film needs SOMETHING to break up the Thief material at the end. The workprint's attempt to keep Tack and Yumyum in the picture was halfhearted at best. There are several places where the Thief material stops for a little break, and it's clear that the workprint wants to go to something else at that point, but there isn't much to go to.

I'll see.

Hey, like I said, personally I would like to see the end fight scene. It sounds pretty interesting. My only concern is on a larger scale--the fact that a lot of people that worked on the original incarnation of this film are probably going to wind up seeing this restoration. It'd be nice if they could have an alternate version.

Aside from this, I want to re-emphasize how excited I am to see what you're doing with this. I know I have a tendency of nitpicking and asking a lot of questions, but that's how you know I care.

I knew nothing of this film before you started restoring it, but having seen some of the footage from this film, I'm awed by it. It puts anything that Disney and Warner Bros has done to shame. I cannot fucking believe that:

1) Practically no one in the general public knows about this film.
2) It's only available in a few crappy ass DVD and VHS releases, all of which only exhibit one hack job or another (Matthew fucking Broderick and Jennifer Beals?!).
3) That with the advent of DVDs, and more recently, high-end special edition releases (Criterion, Lord of the Rings), nobody has gotten their shit together and tried to restore this thing and release it with an assload of extras and newly produced documentaries.

Right now, it looks like you're the only one who has their shit together.