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Andsom

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What a bunch of wankers. How about a trade in with our normal version then eh?

Fuckers :lol:

There is no way I am buying that purely out of principle. Great movie, shame about the fleecing tactics.

It's been pretty obvious from the very day they announced the first DVD edition that another would be along pretty soon after the US release. I doubt anybody was expecting it this quickly but still...

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This was good, but I don't get all the uber-praise some people seem to be lavishing on it. I enjoyed it, it had good mentions of Canterbury which was nice, and it was all very satisfying. But I don't want to see it again, I don't think I ever will, and if someone said 'What films did you see last year that were worth seeing?', this wouldn't even register.

Maybe what Eighthours said about second time round will be right. Someone'll have to convince me to try it, though...

Did you realise that the scene in the car was all done in one 12 minute take?

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For all you owners of the single disc DVD (me included) Universal are doing the right thing and letting us swap our discs for the two disc version. My copy of DVD Review turned up yesterday and this was a small news article in there. Looks like they knew they were chancing their arm over this.

We have to send the complete DVD to them at :-

PO Box 188

Woodford Green

Essex

IG8 7RW.

They also need a self-addressed JL size Jiffy bag with stamps to the value of 70p.

We have till the 30th of June to do this :lol:

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El Pibe

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I watched this a few months back and thought it was superb. Anyways, we took a flight to Thailand last month and this was one of the films on offer. I settled down for a re-watch and it was absolutely cut to shreds - they even took out Julianne Moore's death! The funniest part was when the woman that accompanies Kai and Clive Owen was in one scence and then vanished never to be heard of again. Awful. What a shame to think that many people on Gulf Air flights might have been watching that for the first time and thinking it was incomprehensible garbage.

Do they always cut films on planes, does anyone know? This is the first time I have watched a film that I've seen before!? Wondering if other films have been cut in the same way.

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I watched this a few months back and thought it was superb. Anyways, we took a flight to Thailand last month and this was one of the films on offer. I settled down for a re-watch and it was absolutely cut to shreds - they even took out Julianne Moore's death! The funniest part was when the woman that accompanies Kai and Clive Owen was in one scence and then vanished never to be heard of again. Awful. What a shame to think that many people on Gulf Air flights might have been watching that for the first time and thinking it was incomprehensible garbage.

Do they always cut films on planes, does anyone know? This is the first time I have watched a film that I've seen before!? Wondering if other films have been cut in the same way.

Tons of films are cut. Uually any references to air crashes or disasters are taken out.

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Also thought the little drops of blood on the camera during the long sequence in the camp was a great touch.

Hey, sorry to jump into a thread and quote something from page 7, but for me this bit of an otherwise excellent film was immersion breaking. I went from experiencing the events portrayed by the movie to plain old watching a film, and knowing I was watching one. It's like "Hey, there's blood on the camera. Oh, the camera...yeah. Well, jerk me back to reality why don't you". A shame, I feel. I just don't understand why that was done. I've seen it done in plenty of other, less mature, films, but here it just felt so wrong. Is anyone able to explain the psychological impact that touch was supposed to have? Having no knowledge of film-making, I'd assume it's supposed to draw one in further, not repel as it did with me.

It's a bit like lense flare in a first-person computer game. My character's eyes aren't a camera, why am I getting lense flare?

Apologies for mini-derail. As it is, I loved the film even though I only saw it on DVD ;)

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Hey, sorry to jump into a thread and quote something from page 7, but for me this bit of an otherwise excellent film was immersion breaking. I went from experiencing the events portrayed by the movie to plain old watching a film, and knowing I was watching one. It's like "Hey, there's blood on the camera. Oh, the camera...yeah. Well, jerk me back to reality why don't you". A shame, I feel. I just don't understand why that was done. I've seen it done in plenty of other, less mature, films, but here it just felt so wrong. Is anyone able to explain the psychological impact that touch was supposed to have? Having no knowledge of film-making, I'd assume it's supposed to draw one in further, not repel as it did with me.

It's a bit like lense flare in a first-person computer game. My character's eyes aren't a camera, why am I getting lense flare?

I thought the exact opposite. The blood on the camera made it feel more real - like a war documentary, which I think was clearly the intention.

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I thought the exact opposite. The blood on the camera made it feel more real - like a war documentary, which I think was clearly the intention.

I can understand that other people enjoyed and appreciated that touch, but again, a "war documentary"? That means there's a guy following the characters around with a camera. I feel like I need to know 'what' the blood was supposed to be 'on'. In watching the movie, I'm a disembodied entity following the characters around, "I" can't be physically affected by anything going on inside it.

Oh I how I wish I'd just gone "woah, blood splash, man this is intense!" when I saw it.

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I can understand that other people enjoyed and appreciated that touch, but again, a "war documentary"? That means there's a guy following the characters around with a camera. I feel like I need to know 'what' the blood was supposed to be 'on'. In watching the movie, I'm a disembodied entity following the characters around, "I" can't be physically affected by anything going on inside it.

Oh I how I wish I'd just gone "woah, blood splash, man this is intense!" when I saw it.

I think you are missing the point.

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Argh

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I think you are missing the point.

Aye, indeed I think I am which is why I asked the question. If I then can't "get" an answer, that's my problem still, isn't it ;)

It's not a documentary, and I'm not there. Why splash blood on something that isn't there? I've seen a figurative bucket load of blood thrown over the camera in some gore-fest movie, and just accepted it as part of the overall intended effect. Here, I just do not get the point.

I'm not attacking it mind, so I hope nobody feels the need to get defensive.

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Presumably, some fake blood did splatter onto the camera. Given how complex and logistically intricate those enormous takes must have been, it presumably wouldn't be cost-effective to re-shoot it.

Besides, is it really that hard to suspend your disbelief regarding a few drops of blood? You may as well sit there saying "you mean the filmmakers expect me to buy that there's this magic window in the corner of my living room, through which I can watch events from a supposed future? Talk about killing the sense of immersion!"

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