movie that would of been perfect if they were longer or shorter

[IamtheRock3]

movie that were bad or good but could of been great if it was shorter or maybe long

me

40 year old Virgin- Good movie but WAY to long. Dragged on in parts..was like get some already. Shave off 20 minuts and save that for a DVD. It hurt the pacing being that long


King Kong- Should of got to the insland faster


Men in Black 2- could of been longer

Ultimate Avengers- An extra 30 minuts you could of developped the charctere more.

[DonC]

The Lost World: Jurassic Park should have cut the entire San Diego ending.

[Brian Cronin]

While it would have been a VERY short movie, if you ended Stripes at the graduation ceremony - cinematic classic.

-Brian

[BlairH]

Apocalypse Now: Redux could have been shorter. If only there was a shorter version of the film avaliable!

[i_mmmchocolate]

AI was too long. It should've ended when David and Teddy were looking at the Blue Fairy underwater.

[Buzz Dixon]

GOOD MORNING, BABYLON is a delightul, warm, funny movie about two poor Italian stone cutters who make their way to American in the early 20th century and end up working on D.W. Griffith's INTOLEANCE (Babylon in the title refers to the giant set Griffith built).

This is a lovely, lovely film, and affectionate look at the early days of Hollywood. I recommend it with the following caveat:

Turn it off after the world premiere of INTOLERANCE. 'Cuz the story spirals down into pointless, far-fetched tragedy after that and leaves a sour taste in one's cinematic mouth.

[Dr. Banner]

AI was too long. It should've ended when David and Teddy were looking at the Blue Fairy underwater.

Couldn't disagree more. If you're making an updated Pinocchio, then ending it there makes absolutely no sense.

King Kong could have DEFINATELY been trimmed. Peter Jackson desperately needs to hire an editor who's not afraid to trim the fat. And there's lots of fat to trim.

[i_mmmchocolate]

Couldn't disagree more. If you're making an updated Pinocchio, then ending it there makes absolutely no sense.

It was overkill and ridiculous. I liked the movie up until that point. Many people left the theater after that point.

[Jared]

Though still really good, Pirates of the Carribean felt long to me. The fights at the end just drag on and on.

[BoosterBronze]

Almost all of Spike Lee's movies are about 20 minutes too long at the end. I think Mr. Lee gets worried that he didn't make his point with the film, so he keeps tacking things on until it's impossible to miss.

[The Son of Arzonist]

i think silent hill should have spent a little more time in the editing room

[BlairH]

AI was too long. It should've ended when David and Teddy were looking at the Blue Fairy underwater.

Absolutely. The whole alien intervention thing was absurd. ABSURD I say! I just kept hearing an infomercial announcer proclaim "but wait! There's more!" during the ending of said film.

[i_mmmchocolate]

The whole alien intervention thing was absurd. ABSURD I say!

Leave it to Spielberg...he sure loves his alien-looking characters.

I don't think the original director would've ended it that way.

[BlairH]

Leave it to Spielberg...he sure loves his alien-looking characters.

I don't think the original director would've ended it that way.

Definately.
It's a shame that the contrast between the "Kubrick bits" and the "Spielberg bits" is so evident. Too bad, it could have been an awesome film had it been more cohesive.

[Toreador]

Wild Things, the last 10 minutes could have been cut off. It lost it for me when it was revealed that it was all planned out by Neve Campbell. They tried to give it too many twist endings.

[Dr. Banner]

Leave it to Spielberg...he sure loves his alien-looking characters.

I don't think the original director would've ended it that way.

Oy. First off, they weren't aliens, and I still can't believe people (you say alien looking, so this may not be you) think they're aliens! They're evolved Mecha.

And look at Kubrick's storyboards, seen on the DVD and available online. This was the way he had it ending!

How else does the Pinocchio story end?! With him at the bottom of the ocean hoping to be a real boy with Jiminy Cricket? What's so difficult to understand that this is an update, and it has to end the way it does. Pinocchio (David) HAS to get his wish.

[Guts/Batman]

I totally agree on Ultimate Avengers being longer than it is but not much longer. Say about 10-15 minutes at the most.

[Calamas]

I believe Open Range could have revived the Western if they had cut forty minutes--from the beginning. Howard Hawks proved years ago that you don’t need that kind of character development in a Western. Just start at the earliest moment of interest. Take Rio Bravo as an example. A drunken bad guy, played by Claude Akins, bullies various townsfolk and then shoots an unarmed man. Both protagonist, John Wayne and Dean Martin, are on the scene, though no where near on the same page. That opening sequence, about five minutes in running time, sets up your main characters and the entire thrust of the story to follow.

Start Open Range at chapter 7 or 8 and you lose nothing. And you’ll get one of the best gunfights ever filmed.

[Slappy san]

AI was ridiculously inconsistent and yes...I thought it was over when he saw the fairy. But....I liked the ending.

[blackdragon6]

war of the worlds should have been more epic than what it was.and it should have had multiple protaganist instead of just one dysfunctional family.

[Scorpion13]

The Godfather-I swear, they could have made it twice as long, and I would have kept watching. And before anyone says Godfather 2, I have to admit, I didnt like it near as much as 1.

[TCJohnson]

Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl. That movie was pure fun except the fight scenes were just way too long.

[The Foreigner]

Oy. First off, they weren't aliens, and I still can't believe people (you say alien looking, so this may not be you) think they're aliens! They're evolved Mecha.

And look at Kubrick's storyboards, seen on the DVD and available online. This was the way he had it ending!

How else does the Pinocchio story end?! With him at the bottom of the ocean hoping to be a real boy with Jiminy Cricket? What's so difficult to understand that this is an update, and it has to end the way it does. Pinocchio (David) HAS to get his wish.

Which is exactly why they shouldn't have ended it that way. Predictable, sappy, and pointless.

[Nate Grey]

Which is exactly why they shouldn't have ended it that way. Predictable, sappy, and pointless.

Which is seperate from everyone blaming Spielberg. He was following Kubrick's original script, Kubrick's ideas and vision. Kubrick's original ending was darker, actually, and Spielberg was the one who added that they BOTH die, and not just David WATCH her die.

Also, I've heard this before, that the ending is sappy. How is a child, real or not, willing himself to die, sappy?

[Nate Grey]

Oy. First off, they weren't aliens, and I still can't believe people (you say alien looking, so this may not be you) think they're aliens! They're evolved Mecha.

And look at Kubrick's storyboards, seen on the DVD and available online. This was the way he had it ending!

How else does the Pinocchio story end?! With him at the bottom of the ocean hoping to be a real boy with Jiminy Cricket? What's so difficult to understand that this is an update, and it has to end the way it does. Pinocchio (David) HAS to get his wish.

I agree 100% and liked where it ended. I thought it was very sad yet fitting. But I found this: http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/faq/index2.html#slot14

If you scroll down and read Sara Maitland's comments on it, you'll see, once and for all, why some people wish it had ended in the water and not the "extra" ending we got. I'll go ahead and quote it:

"He hired me because I knew about fairy stories, but would not listen when I told him, 'You can have a failed quest, but you can't have an achieved quest and no reward.' "

There it is. "'You can have a failed quest (stuck forever underwater staring at the blue fairy), but you can't have an achieved quest and no reward (one day of happiness, then willing himself to not wake up to make that day last forever).' " In a way, the latter can be construed as very cruel and hopeless. I myself liked the way it ended cause Kubrick DID envision a futuristic Pinocchio and the ending, I feel, works within that context. The Future Mechas couldn't make him real, so they made him real to an idealized version of the person he wanted to be real to in the first place.