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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I think the movie could've benefited from extensions here and there totaling 15-20 minutes' worth, but if all the cut scenes were just exposition as opposed to meaningful interactions and the like, then I'm not so sure I'm as excited for the full version.
At any rate, I don't think he meant to say the whole hour consisted of just Infinity Stones talk and the Thor subplot. There probably were some good development scenes and maybe something to make the Hulk/Widow subplot less jarring left on the cutting floor.
edited 12th May '15 5:02:04 PM by AlleyOop
I want to see someone do one of his trademarked 'entire speech in the process of one jump' things.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYou guys do know that editing is usually just chipping away at individual scenes until you've got each one down to an acceptable length, right? An extended cut is going to be, like, an extra minute of Tony talking Bruce into Ultron here, lengthening the existing Natasha/Bruce stuff a bit...usually only one or two entire scenes just up and vanish from a film.
The Thor stuff is likely going to be the biggest bricks to be put back in place, but it'll be, like, a half-hour, tops. The rest of that hour is coming from sequences that are maybe a minute long each and largely fit inside what we already saw.
That's why it's the only readdition that's mentioned in news pieces. It's hard to get folks hyped for the rest of it.
edited 12th May '15 5:14:10 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
I'm hyped for the rest of it, because it means that the film might get a chance to breath. I liked it fine, but I can't help but feel that, for what we got, the 75% rating on RT is pretty darn accurate. If it paced itself better and expanded on it's scenes just a bit more, it might have gotten a good 85%, if not higher. The Extended Edition might just be the Ao U we should've gotten in the first place, and I can't wait to nab it when it comes out.
edited 12th May '15 5:26:53 PM by kkhohoho
Oh, me too! But it's the sort of thing where I can understand why a news site might omit it.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.I above all wants to know...is there a scene in which Tony interacts with the Twins? Or one with Steve and the Twins? What is missing from the farm scenes? How did Steve get back to the tower from Asia without a jet? Was there more to the conversation between Black Widow and Ultron?
edited 12th May '15 5:28:29 PM by Swanpride
The first one is one of my issues with the movie - for all that they say in one scene the the twins have an enmity with Stark and Scarlet Witch talks about knowing his faults and making him suffer, besides a single snarky comment Quicksilver makes in a scene between Tony and Ultron the twins and Stark ultimately get no real face time with each other.
edited 12th May '15 5:37:32 PM by KnownUnknown
He even had a moment where he just watched the bomb, terrified that it might go off, before it did.
Now that I think about it, Stane is probably more responsible for their parents' death than Tony is if I'm reading the situation in their homeland correctly.
edited 12th May '15 6:41:06 PM by KnownUnknown
The moral of the story is: "If you're an arms dealer for profit, don't paint names on bombs or one day evil speedsters and witches will come after you. Don't make fun of nerds either, that will also go badly."
edited 12th May '15 7:09:52 PM by KnownUnknown
Mirroring Tony and the twins' experience is a good idea - I hope they did that in the cut scenes.
Going back to the funeral scene for Civil War, maybe it'll be like the Kobayashi Miru from Wrath of Khan - they filmed that scene because it was leaked that Spock would die in the movie, so that people would think that Spock's "death" was just a training exercise in the beginning of the film, so they would be surprised when he died for real at the end. Maybe here they decided that since some people are expecting Cap to die in this film, they film a funeral scene (which gets reported), then have it be Peggy's, so that people don't see Cap's death coming later on.
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Indeed... With our memorization of the Evil Overlord List, WE'LL BE... I was going to say invincible but that would violate rule 24. Bad idea.
edited 12th May '15 7:27:49 PM by Tuckerscreator
The more I see the trailer for Ant-Man, the more certain I am that the guy in the Yellowjacket suit is going to be a Disc-One Final Boss.
Ava DuVernay as in Selma? Nice! She's really shown her directing chops with Scandal and then Selma.
http://mcuexchange.com/10-directors-for-blackpanther/
Also found this interesting article about other black directors who could possibly helm Black Panther, and I see that John Ridley is on there. Doing something for the MCU is definitely a great boost in terms of visibility, assuming Executive Meddling doesn't drive them out.

I don't see any proof that scene takes an hour.