What where they thinking?

Dude's Burrymaxxing

Before when they made a movie they would film 5 or 6 hours and then cut away, chip away until you had a really good tight 2 hour movie, 2.5 hour max.

Now, they take those 5-6 hours of footage and instead of chipping it down to 1 movie, they just slice it in half and release two movies! Pee Pee Poo Poo Part 1; next year or so sees the release of Pee Pee Poo Poo Part 2. How many franchise have done this? Shit, the Hobbit went even further and made THREE movies out of their footage bank.

So why are they doing this? Greed, laziness, and no integrity.

Before when they made a movie they would film 5 or 6 hours and then cut away,

that never happened

I can't even sit through 10 minutes of any of these films, how do people deal with them?

I don't think greed is the source, merely an aftereffect. The whole "unable to edit a film or write a proper screenplay" I imagine derives from turboautists.
People who think more art = better art, not understanding diminishing returns and not being able to focus on an overarching theme.
So you get these lunatics directing/writing, and AFTER comes producers who realize they spent $300,000,000 on 90-120 minutes, despite having 400 minutes of footage. Fuck it, they say, just cut two films regardless of content/quality/continuity/filler.
The less footage on the floor, the better the director.

That’s exactly how they make movies. They don’t have perfectly film 2 hours worth of movie then call it a wrap. They film *everything* that could possible go into the movie and then cut-and-paste stuff together after the fact.

guy has aged 20 years in the past 5

Not him, but that's also a bit of an oversimplification. They can have upward of three films worth of footage, but that includes multiple takes, so a lot of the cutting and pasting is finding which takes work the best together, not to mention individual scenes that may have been shot two different ways.

Movies should and will soon be filmed this way. It's a fucking waste of time to have to deal with imperfections. Imperfections will soon be totally eliminated.

True, but in the past we had deleted scenes and directors cuts and special editions, you could see where the extra footage was going (although you can assume that not all the extra footage was released). We don’t have any of that anymore, where an hour of extra footage magically appears from the vault. All that shit gets used now, all that shit gets folded into another movie, a “Part 2”. Before the industry had internal standards but they realize “well we just need to throw together a trailer and we have a saleable product here.” No integrity, so you get two shit movies instead of one good one

Deleted scenes and director's cuts are usually not that much unique footage. You said they could make an entire new movie with it lmao

sounds like he’s the antichrist or something

If you're ever bored, read the book Sex and Rockets

it entirely depends. first of all I said not everything gets released, but you know it’s in there. Three musketeers for example had so much extra footage they literally made a sequel out of it. That’s just normal for movies, to have that much footage. You say deleted scenes are not significant?
Lord of the rings has almost THREE HOURS of deleted scenes. Add up the footage from the extended versions and it’s almost an entirely new movie. Now, if they had to they could have easily gone back and converted LOTR into a quadrilogy (which is what would have happened today if it came out).

Lord of the rings has almost THREE HOURS of deleted scenes

too bad none of it uses tolkien's actual verbiage. guy was a philologist and they decide to invent new dialogue. crazy that jackson and walsh's shit gets praised despite the fact that christopher tolkien, whom the series was written for, said it was garbo

that’s fine, but not relevant to our subject. the fact is that extensive directors cuts and extended versions are a thing of the past- today, they just get made into a new product. It’s pure quantity over quality

The last one was awful.

yeah sorry for the left turn there i just get so angry sometimes i can't help it

they needed to squeeze in 8 plot twists no one can remember afterwards instead of 6

I associate MI with Fast and Furious. Great starts but just turned into dumb trash

It’s ok, on second thought your comment was not irrelevant because you were saying that extra stuff is garbage anyway, which means that converting it into a “new movie” would be very egregious, and that’s basically what happens today. So your comment does touch on quantity > quality because in the past that stuff was a secret/bonus material- today it would be a saleable product. We might look at the entire hobbit trilogy as an example

movie franchises should get 3 movies tops then put to rest.

That a a a lot of imax film stock

alternate takes and b-roll do not count as "5 or 6 hours of a movie"

you're very gracious

Based Cruise.

he is dating whats her name now, the cuban one

if you need any proof just see how few deleted scenes there are for most movies.

I was gonna call you stupid but after actually thinking about it, you're absolutely right

Hector Salamanca is Peruvian you idiot.

Remember when action movies were 79min?

He isn't dating her retard. She's already in a relationship with some prince

That's just some publicity flack. Something for fan-dweebs to rant about for a week.
They are going to pare it down.

His 'do in Vanilla Sky is god tier

You can't stay vaguely 40 for 20 years. I pray to god this is the last one and he stops with this doing your own stunts thing and co stars in a small drama film