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#192707
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FAN EDIT REQUEST THREAD - Post your dream Fan Edits Here!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192707/action/topic#192707
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I have a feeling that I'm going to get raked over the coals for this but here goes anyway...

UNBREAKABLE
The ending that I had in my mind for UNBREAKABLE would have actually catapolted the film into a more comic book arena -- showing how far Mr. Glass's "psychosis" had gone. Would have loved to have had a different ending to the final confrontation wherein a big glass box fell from the ceiling and started filling with water over the Bruce Willis character -- kind of like Superman finding the box of Kryptonite in Lex Luthor's lair. Then Mr. Glass bidding Willis adieu and making an elaborate escape. Of course, "Mr. Unbreakable" would escape/survive, leaving the film more in the realm of the fantastic and perhaps even opening it up for a high brow comic book sequel. It just petered out at the end as if M. Night wanted to get to that twist and didn't know where to go with it afterwards.

THE MASK
THis one definitely could have been edited for pace and it felt like it needed another subplot to kick it in the ass. It's been a while since I've seen this one but remember jotting down those extra scenes after I saw it -- back when I had visions of being a professional "script doctor". LOL.

NEW WAVE HOOKERS
Again, going to get crucified for saying this, but I think that it'd be nice to see a preservation done of this one to have it back in its original, albeit illegal, form. Would be great to have the option of seeing the "non-Traci Lords" version and the original cut all on one DVD with professional menus and the like. I got so excited with NEU WAV HOOKERS (not a type) came out recently. There was a package that touted that it carried "the original" but, bah, it was the re-cut Traci-free version. Gotta be careful throwing around words like "original", eh?

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#192703
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Idea: The Proposition
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192703/action/topic#192703
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Yeah, I"m definitely in the minority on this one. I have to say, though, that the violence was great and this movie reallly has stuck with me. I was discussing it with another critic a few months later and could vividly recall most of the film. That has to count for something. The "lashing scene" will forever be burned in my mind.

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#192405
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Idea: The Proposition
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192405/action/topic#192405
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Not me. I found little to like about this one.

I never knew that there were so many flies in Australia. THE PROPOSITION has a cast of millions, all of them insects. There isn't a scene where we don't see or hear a bevy of buzzing bugs. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get used to seeing Guy Pearce or Emily Watson acting completely nonchalant as a fly crawled around on their lips.

While John Hillcoat's film is about racism, fraternity, and justice, I found the flies more interesting. THE PROPOSITION is something of an Outback Horse Opera and plays like a good first act of a grand Spaghetti Western. Yet, first acts are typically a half hour long at most, not 114 minutes! In other words, the film started out just as it was ending, and it took far too long to get there. Everything should have been paired down into twenty-some minutes.

The plot of one brother (Guy Pearce as Charley Burns) sent to kill his mad dog (yet oddly philosophical) older brother (Danny Huston as Arthur Burns) to ensure that their youngest babe in the woods brother (Richard Wilson as Mikey Burns) will not be hanged on Christmas Day was stretched painfully thin. Even the subplot of lawman Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone) trying to maintain law and order in a "savage land" as he's sandwiched between ignorant bureaucracy, brutality, and an imported sense of British Propriety is tenuous at best.

One of the largest problems with his "looks great, less filling" film stems from our inability to sympathize with Guy Pearce as our foil. He invites sympathy but acts like a somnambulist, simply traveling from one locale to another. Even when he's run through with a spear, he appears nonplussed.

Written and scored by Nick Cave, the music in the film adds to some of the tedium. We hear the same ten-note refrain repeated throughout the movie. There's one noisy bit on the soundtrack that works well and seems to signal that the film's finally getting into gear but, alas, it ends before it begins too.
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#187617
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FAN EDIT REQUEST THREAD - Post your dream Fan Edits Here!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/187617/action/topic#187617
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What happened to the super Close Encounters edit with every bit of footage reinserted?


I second that one.

Though I'm not overly passionate about these films, it might be fun to see a combined version of EXORCIST DOMINION / THE BEGINNING and a complete EXORCIST III.

I would love to see an "ultimate WATER WORLD" version -- all of the footage from the workprint and TV version nice and clean and put back into the film. I know, it's a dumb film, but I'm a sucker for it.

If we're talking "dream projects" as in "I dream of the day I can see this... " then:

SWING SHIFT (Jonathan Demme Cut)
MARRIED TO THE MOB (Complete Version)
FIRE WALK WITH ME (Full Version)
PARKER (Helgeland's version of PAYBACK)
EATERS OF THE DEAD (Workprint of THE 13TH WARRIOR) -- I can't even find the workprint!
SMOKEY IS THE BANDIT -- apparently SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT III was originally filmed with Jackie Gleason in the Bandit role but audiences found it too confusing. I think I might find it too surreal and godawful. But I want to see this!