Cinematical

Put simply. They are idiots. You can't complain about the style the filmmaker uses. If you don't like the way scorsese shot the picture, than you don't like the picture. It is the same as all the morons who buy Standard, edited to fit your TV, dvds. Everytime I see this, I want to physically assault these people. Aviator was a beautiful film. I didn't like it, but, it was a very well made film.

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Physically assault over a movie? That's extreme.

In this day and age it's rather easy to produce multiple versions of the film for DVD release, so they could have produced a color perfect version to avoid people returning the movie because of "defects" that don't exist.

Then again, this offers them a chance to come back with a super, duper, extra special version of Aviator with a single color style.

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Why would Scorsese make a special color perfect version of a movie he intended to have that look. I am sorry, but, I have nothing nice to say about that. That is like making a version of Kill Bill without blood in it. That was the intention of the filmmaker. That simply is the film that he made. It would not be his film, were it not injected with some modicum amount of his own will. It is like producing a version of Traffic by Soderbergh without the many lense filters he used to differentiate the characters stories. It's like Schindler's List in color. That would just be wrong. Spielberg made it for black and white, if you don't like it in black and white, you don't like Schindler's List.

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Ash - if the movies are being returned to stores by ignorant customers who assume they are somehow defective that's costing somebody $$ money $$.

More importantly though, that's the trend anyway with DVDs. They release a first generation DVD that isn't as comprehensive and then later follow up with all the stuff they should have put in the first time around.

Doesn't happen in every case, but happens in many of them. Seen it happen many, many times. Want examples, go check out movies like T2, Running Man, Total Recall. All of them came out barebones on intial release and then were re-released with tons of extras. T2 has been released several times including the killer Windows Media version.

It's not a violation of the director's vision because he could still do his own director's cut and give the viewers a sanitized color version.

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However, this trend in super special ultimate galctic orgasmic edition dvds is aimed at advertisement and sensory overload. In the case of T2, there really was no point in any kind of "director's cut" because I am pretty sure that James Cameron had final cut on that one. And that is the directors cut. Besides in all 3 of those examples (strangely all Arnold Schwarzenegger movies), it is not as if those were by a particular auteur, or for that matter up for every major award imaginable. Also in the case of Aviator, the fools have a problem with color filters he used to reflect the style of filmmaking throughout time. If he made some neutered edition for people, it would be like, say, cutting off 30% of the picture on the sides because they want it to fit their square shaped TV. Like in Pan & Scan. That is voluntarily changing the look and feel of the film to suit complaints. In Total Recall they thought, "hey, if we put more scenes in where he kills more people, that would be cool" and it was. But it isn't as if it silenced the non-existent worldwide outcry for more violence in his pitures. It should be noted that I own all 3 films in question. But, it is not like people said they didn't like the way the TV stage was lit in Running Man, and it was fixed in the DVD version. They just put in more cool stuff. If Scorsese color corrected the film to have the same tone throughout for no reason other than to satisfy 5 idiots that don't deserve to have an opinion in the first place, I would be forced to shave off his unibrow.

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