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Cut the last ___ minutes off a movie to make it better
- Thread starter Prolepro
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But then you miss out on amazing character names like Albus Severus!
I think the Fury/Hill postcredits scene is a tantalizing enough glimpse of a post-snap world
Both of the films miss the point of the book completely. There's the Vincent Price adaptation, that does it much more justice.
Yeah and it sucked there, too lol
"Albus Severus" is the ultimate worst thing Rowling has put to print, and I've read (snippets of) the Cursed Child and Casual Vacancy
People want the Vader scene cut from Rogue One?! Are you guys insane?!
It's easily the best moment of an average film and one of my favourite movie scenes of the last five years.
My vote is Mr. Brooks, a movie where Kevin Costner is a serial killer. Take the last few minutes of "it was just a dream" off the end and you have a brutal ending that implies being a sadistic murderer is a genetic inevitability. It was brilliant until they copped out.
It's easily the best moment of an average film and one of my favourite movie scenes of the last five years.
My vote is Mr. Brooks, a movie where Kevin Costner is a serial killer. Take the last few minutes of "it was just a dream" off the end and you have a brutal ending that implies being a sadistic murderer is a genetic inevitability. It was brilliant until they copped out.
Any movie that needs to explicitly show you that everyone is okay and happy after the main conflict is resolved and that's obviously the case
i agree tbh, but it probably wouldn't have worked
...aaaand cut
they should've just put whatever happened after the snap as a mid credits scene or end credits scene
To be fair, if not for him, that man would not have lived either way. I know, still fucked up, but kinda a bit more stomachable.
Last 10 minutes of 10 Cloverfield Lane. Right after she escapes and realizes the air isn't toxic.
Oh, I'm not disagreeing. Totally could have been left off and no one would care.
What's to joke about? Serenity was terrible and it was largely due to the last third of the movie.
To everyone saying Infinity War should have ended after the Snap... No.
Because instead of the emotional scenes of watching everyone fade away one by one, we would anticlimactically know who survives the minute the first Endgame trailer came out.
Because instead of the emotional scenes of watching everyone fade away one by one, we would anticlimactically know who survives the minute the first Endgame trailer came out.
I love the film to death and dont really mind the ending, personally I'd have cut the 2 scenes containing
the actual Witch earlier in the film. The mystery and paranoia surrounding the film was slightly dulled by these scenes in my opinion.
Not really on topic but still.
That's literally the best first post one can give for that question. God DAMN, I'm pissed when I think about it. There was audible groaning in the cinema. And it was justifies as hell.I'm of the opinion that The Dark Knight Rises should've ended on this shot like a minute before the actual final shot.
You'd also miss out on the great
kid Gamora scene to tie up that plot
Lincoln was the first movie I thought of too. But I would have ended it on the shot where Lincoln is walking down the hallway. Sorry this is vague (it's been six years!) but it's near the end. I just don't see what the movie gained by having the assassination.
I really hate the ending of Arrival, and think the movie would've been better without the part where they basically explain everything, the last ten or fifteen minutes. In a movie about the power of language, let the power of cinema narrative explain the story (in other words, let people put the puzzle together themselves) instead of pushing it down their throat by explaining it as if we were idiots. Great movie otherwise though.
I Am Legend was my first thought, as well.
(Also the CG zombies look pretty baaaad especially by today's standards.)
I love The Dark Knight, but the movie goes on for too long and tries to cram too much into the third act. Unfortunately there's not a clean way to cut it. It would need a script rewrite in order to move Harvey's transformation into Two Face to the third film.
I'd cut the part where he does the little horse dance. Is that some reference or just Tarantino being weird?
The Suspiria remake is a good, but very bloated movie. Not only should it have ended after the batshit insane segment
, but it didn't need like a good hour's worth of footage in the 2nd act.
I remember when The Descent had the last 60 seconds cut from the original ending, and it brought the movie down many notches only to setup a terrible sequel.
when Suzie revealed herself to be Mother Suspiriorum and kills all of the witches
I remember when The Descent had the last 60 seconds cut from the original ending, and it brought the movie down many notches only to setup a terrible sequel.
Cut the scenes at the end of the credits in every movie, especially Marvel films with 10 minute long credits. Put the scene early during the credits or GTFO.
Fast & Furious 6. I thought it should be the last movie in the series, and had a nice ending and all that...but the post-credits really screwed that. I am still feeling that tying up Tokyo Drift between 6 and 7 wasn't a good idea. Not to me, at the least.
Don't make me barf.
She may as well ended the series with "And he never did anything of consequence ever again."
150%I'm of the opinion that The Dark Knight Rises should've ended on this shot like a minute before the actual final shot.
You can cut the last 30 seconds from Mann's The Insider and not lose much. Always thought the switch to slow motion seemed out of place from the rest of the movie.
The whole point of that movie was to find Luke Skywalker. That final scene is so incredibly satisfying.
Not to mention you'd be cutting off the awesome Jedi Steps music track if it didn't exist.
But I did say, earlier in this thread, that the final spinning shot of this movie is truly awful. And Rey and Luke making faces at each other in silence went on seconds too long also.
I would do the reverse for Carlito's Way. The intro to the movie spoils most of the end of the movie, should've cut that whole intro out imo. Some people like it, but I thought it was dumb.
I would cut everything after the first 47ish mins on Hancock.
People wanted asshole Superman, not. . .whatever the hell that movie turned into after that point.
People wanted asshole Superman, not. . .whatever the hell that movie turned into after that point.
I agree so much to this.I'm of the opinion that The Dark Knight Rises should've ended on this shot like a minute before the actual final shot.
COMPLETELY AGREE. He should have died in the tesseract, would have made the movie a thousand times better.
And I fucking love Interstellar.
The vast majority of people would just be talking about how stupid the ending was. In fact it wasn't an ending at all. It's a cliff hanger. It truly turns the film into a part 1. The ending would have become a meme, but not in a good way. People would have been making fun of how the biggest movie of the year turned into a cheap TV show cliffhanger.
You mentioned there would be audible gasps if the movie ended with a snap. There would have been boos if anything.
Good movies have a beginning, middle, and end. Your edit inexplicably cuts the ending of the film.
Shawshank should've ended about a minute earlier with Morgan Freeman on the bus. He literally says
Then they're like /hard cut/ "he made it, here you go. BYE!"
Then they're like /hard cut/ "he made it, here you go. BYE!"
Not quite the ending but I've always felt that cutting the penultimate 30 second scene in Contact would leave it a much stronger film. That scene subverts one of the central themes and tensions in the film. The audience should share in the ambiguity and questions that the characters are left with.