Not just for South Park, but for using South Park to influence Hollywood. Specifically influencing Spielberg and Lucas to release the Indiana Jones movies without “digital enhancement”.
Moviemakers, take note: Stop messing with OUR movies. Ok, upgrade the sound to Digital 5.1. Enhance the color balance. Make it look and sound better, but STOP ADDING THINGS AND CHANGING THE WAY THE MOVIE WORKS.
My first taste of a movie “remix” that didn’t sit well with me was the “Director’s Cut” of Aliens. Aliens is one of my favourite movies, but including the scene where Newt and her family are sent out to investigate the alien ship completely blows the mystery of Newt later on in the movie. Sure, the “autoguns” are cool, but they’re not necessary and I’d much rather have a copy of the DVD that doesn’t include this stuff (I haven’t even checked to see if one exists! If it does, I’ll be grabbing it and giving away my director’s cut, or possibly burning it in effigy).
There are times when the director’s cut is very cool. Bladerunner’s cut is excellent, but it’s a completely different movie from the original release. I miss the hard-boiled detective voiceover and I’d love to have that in my DVD collection.
Then there are the small additions to a movie, like “The Morning Report” song in the new Lion King DVD. It’s awful. Thankfully, Disney got a bit of a clue prior to release and you have the option of watching the movie with the original spoken morning report, in all its Rowan Atkinsony glory.
Here’s hoping Hollywood takes a longer ride on this “clue train” and stops adding on to what are already excellent movies.
I agree. If it was a box office smash… why are you fucking with it? There’s this whole idea in movies these days that if 5 minutes of ocmbat was cool, 15 would be even cooler! *Wrong!* Always leave ‘em wanting more. And leave out the stupid add-ins. Usually they were cut for a good reason.
Power, brother!
It’s hard to cover this kind of topic with a sweeping “good” or “bad” blanket.
For example, Fellowship of the Ring rocked, but the extended version was even better! The story was so rich that it required a full 3 hours for that part of the trilogy. However, with that movie we have the choice of buying the theatrical or extended version. Being forced into a director’s cut because there was no other version on DVD would suck.
Terminator 2 Director’s Cut: better than the theatrical version.
Highlander 10th Anniversary: Good and bad.
Star Wars Special Edition: Greedo did NOT shoot first, damnit! Nice computer-generated Mos Eisley scenes, though.
i know, right?!!?!?!? i dont watch many movies, but if any of my adam sandler movies or south parks, i would kill the director with extreme prejudice. except matt and trey. id ask them for an autograph. then id kill em.
i like south park
Many new episodes have gotten innapropriate for young viewers (SOUTH PARK) I am 1 of them and so are my friends who r in 6th grade.The concepts are fine and swears you hear everyday but i have to draw the line when two cartoons doing what we learned in health class. ew ew ew ew ewwwwwwwwwwwww. So the show wasn’t meant for children but the show is great so mant people watch it. That is how people really act towars each other like saying ur fat and stuff but you must be aware of young audiances who will not be aloud to see it if thre parents see the innapropriate parts of the show.