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[RockinDMG]

Dont u dare talk about Kenneth that way ! Thor looks like the sh** and u no it....(u no if u havent seen the leaked comic-Con trailer)

All he said was that Paramount is pressuring directors to post-convert their big blockbuster movies to 3D if they weren't being shot in the format.

And YES, Thor looks like a freaking epic film! The leaked trailer was so cool and Branagh's direction is awe inspiring.

[hasdi]

having read the spec-script (THE GREEN EFFECT) the R rating was in the material.

Fox thought the same thing with actual script for The Happening even though M.Night was planning to shoot it as a PG-13 - I recall him saying that to that effect in the "Hard Cut" 9-minute documentary. I have to get back to you on this while I look for my DVD - I can't find that 9-minute documentary online but there is a mention of it on dvdtalk.com:

"The Hard Cut:
Nine minutes are concentrated here to M. Night's feelings on making The Happening an R-rated film. It mainly centers on assembling a hard scene that involves violent death regarding a few children - one of the many scenes that pushed the boundaries of the film. He brings up Fox's motives in pushing him to make it an R-rated film, which does help a bit in explaining the uneasy tone. "

Also, having spoken to Night directly about how the whole 3D thing went down, he made it seem like it his decision.

Yeah, he seem to do that a lot. Is it just me or is this a typical Asian way of owning up for your boss' actions? For the sequel, do you know if M.Night is looking into filming directly in 3D? I am kinda dissappointed with the results of post-processed 3D...

Dont u dare talk about Kenneth that way ! Thor looks like the sh** and u no it....(u no if u havent seen the leaked comic-Con trailer)

The answer you seek will be yours once I claim what is rightfully mine...

[NightBender]

The very first announcement of The Happening, made on March 6, 2007, mentions the movie is planned to be an R-rated feature. So this is wayyy before filming, thus rendering your "order came down from the studio to make R-rated right in the middle of shooting" line completely false.

I understand that you misunderstood the facts and were not deliberately lying.

[canta2009]

Whatever. It looks like I am going to have to rip my DVD and create my own playlist. I may post the playlist here when I get the chance. Or maybe someone will release torrent of the extended cut somewhere.

Am I the only one who feels that this won't work? We don't know where the scenes were meant to go. Also, they may not be very long scenes or they may not make sense in the final cut of the film.

The theatrical cut is what it is. It isn't as terrible as people make it out to be nor is it the best that it could have been - note though that we don't know precisely what else was supposed to be in the film or how much was left on the cutting room floor.

We need to accept M. Night's judgment that, right or wrong, this is what needed to be done for the film and was part of his final vision. I'm not a film maker and I don't know what decisions needed to be made in the forge of post-production. However, what I do know is that moaning and complaining about it is not going to change the final cut.

[Knight_Gambit]

The only thing that will piss me off in the deleted scenes:

if the "Talking to the Dead" deleted scene is where Aang talks to Avatar Roku! I WILL BE PISSED!!!!!!!!

[hasdi]

Straight from the horse's mouth, this link has the corrected times for the featurettes and deleted scenes.

DISC 1
– Discovering The Last Airbender (9 part documentary) (TRT 57:20)

1. Inspirations (5:37)
2. Spirituality (4:40)
3. Heroes (5:47
4. Greenland (8:00)
5. World (5:21)
6. Action (7:01)
7. Effects (9:51)
8. Music (5:34)
9. Finale (5:29)

– Siege of the North (18:30)
– Origins of the Avatar (7:12)
– Katara for a Day (5:35)
– Deleted Scenes (TRT 11:11)

1. Talk to the Dead (6:03)
2. Water Teaches Us Emotion (1:25)
3. Water Tribe Battle (1:46)
4. Field Ablaze (1:57)

– Gag Reel (4:27)
– Avatar Annotations (select scene PIP)

DISC 2
– DVD Feature (English Only)
– Digital Copy

Rating: PG
Genres: Action, Adventure

[theCharmed1]

Awesome tip.

[Crystal<3]

– Deleted Scenes (TRT 11:11)

1. Talk to the Dead (6:03)
2. Water Teaches Us Emotion (1:25)
3. Water Tribe Battle (1:46)
4. Field Ablaze (1:57)

–

So altogether about 11 mins? eh, thats good, i feel like there's more he could give us but whatever

[hasdi]

The very first announcement of The Happening, made on March 6, 2007, mentions the movie is planned to be an R-rated feature. So this is wayyy before filming, thus rendering your "order came down from the studio to make R-rated right in the middle of shooting" line completely false.

OK, I stand corrected on this one. It took me a while but I finally got a hold of the DVD and went over the "Hard Cut" featurette again. I think my memory neurons got crossed on this one , as M.Night's and co-producer Jose Rodriguez comments were interleaved and overlapped in middle of the shooting of the ranch scene.

Anyhow, Fox also thought the Green Effect spec script had R material in it. Even though M.Night intended to shoot the movie as a PG-13 (e.g. by panning away the camera, abrupt cut, etc, etc), Fox wanted to him to shoot it as an R. Other studios... I guess weren't as interested.

They actually called me... when i sold them the script they said, "we want to make this movie but we have one requirement, that we make it hard-R, that we really go for it" and I was like, "WHAT??!! I'm Mister PG-13..."

When I thought about it over night and then I called back and I said, "I'm in... I'm in... I see how this is going to kill... literally."

With all that in mind, I went "wow, this is they way how it should be made" it was very easy to kind of then open my mind, how do I shoot this if I don't have to pan away... sometimes I do pan away because that was the scariest thing to do...

Anyhow, the point I was trying to make is that M.Night is no James Cameron... he does not have that much clout over the studios... to make a movie the way he truly intended it, especially after Lady In The Water. Paramount didn't approach him to do Airbender - he asked Paramount if he could do it, which did not give him much leverage. The theatrical cut IS his director's cut - that is his vision... under the studio-imposed running time constraints. I can't imagine any director wanting less time to tell an epic story.

If he were given at little more time... like over two hours instead of less... like other epic movies like Narnia, Harry Potter, Star Wars, LOTR, etc, etc... what would he have kept? I always thought the characterisation were rushed, not given enough emotional depth as done with his past movies. That's all.

[TophBeifong]

Straight from the horse's mouth, this link has the corrected times for the featurettes and deleted scenes.

DISC 1
– Discovering The Last Airbender (9 part documentary) (TRT 57:20)

1. Inspirations (5:37)
2. Spirituality (4:40)
3. Heroes (5:47
4. Greenland (8:00)
5. World (5:21)
6. Action (7:01)
7. Effects (9:51)
8. Music (5:34)
9. Finale (5:29)

– Siege of the North (18:30)
– Origins of the Avatar (7:12)
– Katara for a Day (5:35)
– Deleted Scenes (TRT 11:11)

1. Talk to the Dead (6:03)
2. Water Teaches Us Emotion (1:25)
3. Water Tribe Battle (1:46)
4. Field Ablaze (1:57)

– Gag Reel (4:27)
– Avatar Annotations (select scene PIP)

DISC 2
– DVD Feature (English Only)
– Digital Copy

Rating: PG
Genres: Action, Adventure

oh ok cool