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Post #304858

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mcfly89
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Waterworld ABC Cut? A ton of info - see McFly's posts for details (Released)
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Date created
28-Dec-2007, 10:29 AM
I premiered the film for my friends (also watching the extended cut for the first time myself) and I noticed a few things. Number one is that ABC made the right choice cutting it into two nights, because it's LONG and the pacing is so messed up that it works better as a "mini series." That's why they cut so much for the theater. I'm also considering changing my half-way point "break." Right now it's where the Mariner "sells" Helen for 30 minutes.

While I indescriminately added in all the deleted material, there are a few shots which obviously were tossed in for padding and not designed to be there as part of the director's original vision, and those I may cut. Also, the VHS footage was obviously of lesser quality than the DV, so cuts were noticable (especially with the encore bootleg VHS, as compared with the theatrical VHS). Fortunately, there aren't too many of those shots. I may cut some. The DV stuff, while miles better than VHS, didn't look as crisp as a DVD, due in part to the noisey TV broadcasts and subsequent denoise filters. On a standard def TV, they'd probably be fine, but we were up close to a 56" HDTV.

The Logos, my biggest fear, were hardly noticable. There were logos from Telemundo, Sci-Fi, USA, Bravo, and WGN, as well as no logos on the VHS copies, and I didn't even catch the transitions.

I picked up on a few TV audio edits that I need to restore. If anyone knows the theatrical version very well, I'd love to send out a "Version 1.1" to make sure I got everything back in--the violent shots were easy, but there's no way for me to tell if I'm missing foul language besides memorizing the theatrical version.