THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: border on November 28, 2009, 04:33:57 AM
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Saw this the other night and was pretty disappointed. It feels like some mid-level Hollywood writer couldn't get his sitcom pilot picked up, so he just decided to string together a bunch of random scenes and vignettes from unfinished scripts. The narrative is threadbare at best, and exists only to connect those scattered scenes and scenarios into something resembling a motion picture. There's a cast of wacky characters, but none of them seem to get enough screen time to flesh things out. Apparently the original title of the movie is/was "The Boat That Rocked", and it was a far more apt name. The film isn't about rebels and their conflict with the British Government so much as it is about a bunch of music-loving dudes screwing around on the high seas. I'd say it might have worked better as a sitcom except for the fact that you couldn't get such a great bunch of actors together for a low-budget TV project. The actors are the only ones holding things together here though.
Actually, Nick Frost wasn't that bad -- mostly just under-utilized (as is Phillip Seymour Hoffman). Still it's always nice to see that dude from Coupling get acting work. :)
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American version has footage cut and had its name changed. Dont plan on seeing it, bought the R2 DVD instead.
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What was cut out of the US version?
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I've got the UK Blu-ray on order.
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What was cut out of the US version?
20 minutes. Although, the British version had about 40-50 minutes cut out of the original cut, which was nearly three hours.
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What was cut out of the US version?
20 minutes. Although, the British version had about 40-50 minutes cut out of the original cut, which was nearly three hours.
I wonder which version I saw. It was long, but I don't think it was 3 hours.
I thought the movie was fairly good based on the version I saw.
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What was cut out of the US version?
20 minutes. Although, the British version had about 40-50 minutes cut out of the original cut, which was nearly three hours.
I wonder which version I saw. It was long, but I don't think it was 3 hours.
I thought the movie was fairly good based on the version I saw.
The 3 hour version was never released in theaters, but most of the scenes surfaced again as deleted scenes on the British DVD/Blu-ray.
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Looks like most critics bashed the movie for being too long, and that's why the US release was cut......and even then US critics really didn't care for the length. I was certainly checking my watch in the last 30 minutes.
That said -- if the movie had some kind of coherent narrative, a 2 hour run time would not be at all objectionable. Instead it does feel a bit like a 2 hour sitcom. I can't imagine what the 3 hour cut of the movie must be like.
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Who actually thought this movie would be good?
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Who actually thought this movie would be good?
I had my hopes.
Does the UK Blu-ray version play on american players? IE the PS3? I don't know much about regions.