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edited 9th Sep '15 12:08:31 AM by Anomalocaris20
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Jeeze, I didn't think the one little joke reason I added to my post to add a bit of levity would lead to creating director's cuts getting compared to killing people and destroying the world. That's an... odd stretch to make.
You asked why someone would make a director's cut. "Because they want to" is plenty enough reason. It doesn't hurt anyone or anything, as long as they have the money.
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."I am usually against alternative cuts, because I consider them cash grabs. And it is especially bad when something gets changed which doesn't have to be changed, like the question who shot first or the walkie talkies replacing weapons. But to every rule there are exceptions. For one, I am really, really happy that I have a cut of Beauty and the Beast from BEFORE the movie officially premiered, simply because it is an interesting study of animation (the extended scene cut is horrible, though, totally unneeded). The thief and the Cobbler is in no version a truly good movie, but the recobbled cut at least gives you an idea of what could have been. I would love to see I Am Legend with the originally planned ending, and not the one they put in theatres. The Donner Cut from Superman is also an interesting piece of cinema history.
There are exactly two movies in the MCU for which I would like to see a recut. One is The Incredible Hulk and the other one is Age of Ultron.
And one other Comic book movie I would love to see in a different cut: The Amazing Spider-man 2.
edited 9th Sep '15 1:43:18 AM by Swanpride
How have we talked about Director's Cuts for this long without mentioning the Daredevil one?
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.The Hulk Won't Appear In The Next Guardians Of The Galaxy Either
http://io9.com/nope-the-hulk-wont-appear-in-the-next-guardians-of-the-1729462615
...You know, I'd kill for a Planet of the Hulks movie. Then we can have Rise of the Planet of the Hulks and Dawn of the Planet of the Hulks.
edited 9th Sep '15 7:25:57 AM by Nightwire
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It all boils down to that. There are many reasons people have come up for why "it totally makes sense" for the Hulk to go to space but at the end of the day, people just want a film adaptation of one of the best Hulk stories ever written and don't care overmuch about the details for how we get it.
EDIT: I hope Captain America Civil War promotes Tony Stark to Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Stark was my favorite status quo for both Iron Man and S.H.I.E.L.D.
edited 9th Sep '15 7:30:34 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The same way Winter Soldier dissolved S.H.I.E.L.D.: overruling the show.
Coulson's awesome, but the relationship between the show and the films is fairly one-sided; the films declare things and the show races to keep up.
- COULSON: So, after all the hard work I've put into rebuilding the organization, the latest film just declared you're in charge. You'll excuse me if I have some reservations about this.
- STARK: You'll excuse me if I have reservations about the fact that you've been alive for two years and nobody saw fit to mention this in any of my movies. Seriously, the hell kind of continuity is that?
- COULSON: We've been doing our own thing just fine.
- STARK: You sure about that? I've read reviews of the first season. Seems like you didn't even pick up steam until you started aping the plot from Winter Soldier.
- COULSON: If by "aping", you mean expanding. The movies barely said two words about Hydra's infiltration before abruptly resolving it. We actually explored the ramifications—
- STARK: Whoa, hold on, I think we're getting off on the wrong foot. Tell you what, I'm planning to build an elite squadron of agents decked out in Iron Man suits like I did in the comics. Why don't we fit you for one of those? Then you can be a heavy hitter on your team, instead of relying on everyone else.
- COULSON: Please don't try to buy me off with extravagant gifts my effects budget will never allow me to actually use.
The same way Winter Soldier dissolved S.H.I.E.L.D.: overruling the show.
But at the time, the show was only about a small team of SHIELD agents. It was easy to say, "And then SHIELD fell!" With Coulson as Director, though, it becomes harder to say, "And then Stark became Director!" Because...how? There's almost a zero percent chance that Robert Downey Jr will show up on AOS.
But, I mean, if Stark still thinks Coulson is dead, he may think that there isn't any Director. And then he'll take over SHIELD in the movie and say, "I'm doing this job in memory of my buddy, Philip Coulson." And Coulson on the show would be all seething and saying, "I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about it."
Okay, I changed my mind, that totally has to happen.
edited 9th Sep '15 8:22:28 AM by alliterator
It wouldn't make any sense even if the TV show didn't exist, since in the movie verse SHIELD is dissolved save for a small group of agents lead by Nick Fury.
If we assume that Steve continues to lead the Avengers, Tony could lead a mirror organisation....as long as he does call his group REAL Avengers.

If I remember right, Xavier said in the first movie that he and Erik met when he was 17 or so, but then he was older in First Class. And there's also, yes, the more obvious issue of when exactly Xavier was confined to his wheelchair - though DoFP Hand Waved that by saying Xavier had a drug that could somehow fix his legs for brief periods of time.
But then X-Men Apocalypse is about to make another big stinkin' continuity error by having Jean be a teenager in the 80s when The Last Stand clearly showed her as a little girl when Xavier and Magneto were old people. I guess time travel can cause massive ripples in the course of history that changes when people are born in relation to each other.
Of course, the MCU hasn't brought in time travel, so things aren't quite that convoluted yet, but at the rate the MCU is developing, it's only a matter of time...
edited 8th Sep '15 8:03:28 PM by spashthebandragon
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.