Like that will stop people talking about it.
This is more or less the playbook for AAA game publishers these days, so not that far-fetched. That would be a pretty miserable development. On the other hand, that's an awful lot of extra moving parts to what is already a complex process in an industry with more unions than game development. And considering the way word of mouth can sink a feature, it might be considered too much risk for not enough reward.
You have to remember Cats came to cinemas with unfinished CGI and had to be patched.
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The most powerful thing in Culture is potential. Anything that could be or could have been is almost always far better then what we end up experiencing. Yes, there's the very rare experience where the thing ends up meeting or exceeding the anticipation/potential(not counting when expectations are super fucking low so just not shitting the bed gets applause) but normally what you had in your head as the perfect thing will never be what you actually get. Especially considering everyone's idea of what makes a thing "Perfect" is different.
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You mean the Theatrical cut of the Original Trilogy and not the Special Editions of 97?
I...don't necessarily feel that's the best possible comparison to draw. Dune being one of those written works that has so much going on in the background and so many moving parts, especially when it comes to how crucial the link is between exposition on Arrakis' ecosystem and the books' greater narrative, that adapting it to an audiovisual work and being coherent alone is a Herculean task of which most writers wouldn't be capable. The best we've gotten, and the best we're likely to get counting the movie currently in projection (about which I am not optimistic), was the 2000 miniseries and that clocked in at five hours.
Yeah, that was the best example I could think of an extended cut that adds a lot more running time but doesn't really help the movie. Maybe the Apocolypse Now Redux owuld have been better?
Well, fans ARE toxic a lot of the time regarding these properties. Harassing, abusing, and threatening other human beings for the ATROCITY of making a fictional story in a way they didn't like.
You mean like Marvel 'fans' did to Joss Whedon?
I didn't say I was talking about only the fans who want the snider cut. I just said fans in general can be toxic, which they can be. And yes I know we don't know the story, which is why i covered my statement with "this is speculation" warnings. But it's not out of the realm of possibility, given we have documented cases (one just a week ago of a female wrestler on some reality tv show) of people being driven to suicide due to social media harassment, and we know teenagers are especially susceptible to it, and we know that nerds can be incredibly hostile to people they think had any connection to something they feel was "ruined". All 3 of those being together in one situation isn't that big of a stretch to me. Again, I don't know it for sure, but considering OTHER people in similar nerd franchises, were harrassed to the point of near suicide and social isolation/mental instability, it's hardly a crazy speculation.You mean like Marvel 'fans' did to Joss Whedon?
The people who want the Snyder cut likely aren't the ones who harassed his teenage daughter (if she was being harassed, we don't know the full story)
You know, for all that behaviour is just appalling, juvenile (I'm honestly shocked there's no mention of the bike sheds after school), and would probably be below contempt for the average school debate huckster; by my count about half of them are basically surprised pikachu about certain character turns in the movie. Others are sarcastic chancers under the delusion they're funny. A fair few are questioning Joss' own self-described credentials as a feminist writer in the context of aforementioned character turn with Black Widow and I count at least one example of what we in the Transformers fandom refer to as "RUINED FOREVER".You mean like Marvel 'fans' did to Joss Whedon?
The people who want the Snyder cut likely aren't the ones who harassed his teenage daughter (if she was being harassed, we don't know the full story)
Sure it seems banal, but the problem is quantity. I've heard people who are a social figure discuss this very topic. And it's not JUST that the comments can be hurtful, and sure, maybe you can shrug off the occasional "you're an asshole" comment from a random stranger. But when it's THOUSANDS of them, EVERY DAY, without any end in site, that's very hard for any human to just easily shrug off. Rantasmo, a youtube content provider, had a whole video about it, as have others, but his is the one I've seen most recently. But bottom line, sure one person making one comment is easy to ignore, but when it's an unending tide from every quarter, that effects the average human psyche. That kind of constant negative reinforcement is how people end up thinking "maybe I am a piece of shit. I mean everyone seems to think so, and they never stop telling me."
I agree, they should all fuck off if they did it. And again, I don't know if they did, or if it had any impact on her making her choice to do that. But it's not without precedent. And it doesn't have to be literal lines of "you should kill yourself because your dad made a shitty movie". That's not how harassment works for people. It's a cumulative wave of negative reinforcement, that morphs in the person's head into a negative personal view, that often makes them decide to kill themselves, to not bother people anymore. Frequently the last messages from people on social media that commit suicide is some form of apology, in fact this kind of cryptic message is often what makes people take notice and go check on them, to find them dead. And when the person is a social figure, or even just tangentially tied to a social figure, it's not that big of a surprise to learn "oh look, her social history has a ton of people constantly giving her shit." And we have documented proof that fans of comics and other nerdy things, are more than capable, and happy to harass anyone, including children, if they feel "their childhood" was ruined, or some other such bullshit rationale.
