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Jan 13, 2017 - 1:57 PM
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mastadge
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Obviously there have been many movies over time that have gone through re-edits, that have had directors lose creative control somewhere in the process. We've even gotten a number of movies -- the Exorcist prequel, Payback, Superman II, etc -- where we've gotten different cuts of the film from different directors. But this is the first year in my memory where the interference has been so obvious. Usually in the past the end result has at least been a movie: not necessarily a great movie, but a coherent and complete one.
But this year, in at least 3 movies I've seen (The Finest Hours, Suicide Squad, Rogue One), my concern is not so much that the movie has been extensively re-edited, re-conceptualized, whatever -- but that the final results have so much of a previous draft peeking uneasily out. Shots and beats that simply don't quite fit the current assembly of the film, that don't make sense in the flow of the final version.
Has this kind of thing been so evident in the past and I've simply overlooked it? Or have we finally achieved a new, post-continuity era of filmmaking?
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