Yeah I'll be checking out the longer cut. Hopefully there's not more of *that* scene.
― ryan, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 23:48 (ten years ago) link
this was terrible imo. everyone in it is miscast, save maybe penelope cruz. the dialogue is the major problem, a brisk no thank you sir to the extended cut
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
More like michael miscastbender and javier boredom and brad shit in this one, thanks for nothing boremac mcsharty
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
so who has watched the expanded version, and...?
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 July 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
Eszterhas scripts are better.
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 30 August 2014 02:30 (nine years ago) link
Four-hour commentary track.
― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 03:25 (nine years ago) link
HBO Max has the extended version (20 minutes longer), though you have to search under extras to the page to find it. Much better than the original cut.
Reminds me structurally of Gomorrah as far as a collage of how many people have jobs to make a smuggling operation happen.
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Friday, 5 August 2022 04:24 (one year ago) link
Yes, that was the most canny thing about the movie: the way that the scenes of abstract philosophical speech were interspersed with scenes of people going about the operation with minimal or functional dialogue, a really striking contrast.One of my least favourite things in this is the trope of the powerful evil guy who says, "I know you don't want me to do this evil thing, but fate makes it inevitable". There's a lot of interesting stuff in this movie, but I'm not convinced its moral compass is any more evolved than Mötley Crüe's "Dr. Feelgood".
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 5 August 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
I love this movie. I own the director's cut Blu-Ray. I don't need an evolved moral compass from a movie whose entire message is "fuck around and find out."
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 5 August 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
I should rewatch this.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 5 August 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
I watched the 138 minute cut. Somehow I had completely blanked on both the movie and McCarthy's connection -- total "wait, what?!" when his name appeared.
Cormack McCarthy filmed as a big, expensive capital-G Giallo sure sounds like a great idea, but every director eventually misses threading that needle of misunderstood masterpiece or camp classic. It's manic and feeds off of its own energy now and then, but I think I like the writing about this more than I do the actual film. "Bardem looks like John Cassavetes in a fright wig." -- I miss Morbs.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 07:46 (one year ago) link