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Rebel Moon the director's cut Zack
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Snider's director's cut I saw both
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movies both director's cuts of Rebel
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moon in a
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theater at a special event which I
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purchased a ticket for where Zack Snider
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was in attendance um we have an
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interview for the members only it's a
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full onehour Q&A after um on for our
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Members Only I filmed the whole thing it
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was they did this thing they showed
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first D the part one director's cut
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which is over three hours by the way
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there was a reception in the middle then
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they showed part two director's cut then
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uh Zack Snyder did a Q&A it was an all
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day event I was there from 1 in the
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afternoon till like 910 at night it was
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crazy crazy event but here it is I'll
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show the video here of uh from
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that but it was really um I when I
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bought the ticket I didn't know I did
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not know that it was going to be um that
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it was going to be a whole event but
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let's take a look here real
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quick
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as before we go into this discussion I
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have these three hats sorry I found in
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my office they're the hats I made for uh
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the crew uh for me anyway the why of it
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is that the that there is this Universal
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sort of truth that you know and and abs
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and well said through all the heavy
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metal Insanity you know you can you can
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with some sort of laser focus find this
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kind of burning Ember at the heart of it
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and and you can warm your hands um um
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that righteousness if you are of the
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correct iron metal uh that you can get
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to it and I think that that that's
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really what you know I think all the
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great myth all the Joseph campbellan
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kind of Heroes Journeys and you can talk
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about it forever but that really at its
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core is what it's all about is so you
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can watch the whole you can watch the
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whole thing on I was say is he Kamala
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Harris's speech writer by the way you
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can watch the whole thing and the
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members only section there's a lot we
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post videos there every week um I
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thought it was interesting I'll say this
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the director's cuts are better
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they are they're what I'm saying is the
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movie as I saw the first versions those
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are for kids those are like a three and
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the the director's cuts are like a four
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or maybe a four and a half but here's
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how they are better and what the
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differences are to to be to real quick
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on this um they are
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R-rated the when when they use laser
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blasters people's heads get blown up
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bodies uh uh dissipate in Blood and Guts
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partial people's heads get blown away it
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really is inspired by the violence of
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heavy metal there is also full frontal
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nudity yes I thought that and I'm I'm
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surprised to even hear myself say this a
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lot of the nudity I thought was
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unnecessary what exactly it was unne
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like it's it's a very first scene of
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part
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one uh the the lead you know antagonist
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is Conquering a world and in so doing
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they round up women which they strip
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naked and then they um they uh like they
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br them they brand they brand them on
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their breasts it's a ater upper chest
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not a not upper chest okay yeah but
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attakus Noble is the character he's
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actually a very good villain and there
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are more scenes with him I thought it
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really it really did expand on the
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characters more but it's a mixed bag
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it's like heavy metal but they're
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wearing ties it's like it just it was
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like a lot of things that didn't go
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together and the opening scene of part
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one which I think is a way better
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opening there's no paragraph there's no
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robot telling you what's going on it's
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just they land on a planet they they've
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conquered the planet and they are going
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after the leader of that planet and
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killing his family it's really hardcore
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but all the scenes are dragged on too
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long it's like a rough assembly you
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could have taken the opening 10 15
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minutes and cut it down to five minutes
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with all the relevant info that you
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actually needed so while it is improved
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and for adults it is way too long-
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winded in a way where it it actually
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hurts it more but I'll say that this the
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expansions of the characters I liked
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better better I liked what I liked about
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it was the heavy metal stuff but my God
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it's a movie I I actually think that
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Zack Snider is a decent director when
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he's working with IP that is already
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widely known like Watchman or
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Superman and he has other creatives
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involved meaning a strong
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Editor to take like Dawn of the Dead or
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whatever and make it into something
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so I I really thought I was going in
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like oh man this is going to be really
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disappointing and I actually found stuff
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to like but there were I'll just say
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this to put it mildly there were a lot
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of opportunities to go to the bathroom
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so I always look when I'm when I'm
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watching a film I'm like when can I go
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to the bathroom this seems like a boring
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scene I don't need this info I'll just
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go to the bathroom there were so many
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chances for me to relieve myself during
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it but um in the end there there I it
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won't be really good if a fan could cut
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the nearly six hours of this into one
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three-hour movie that's tightly edited I
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actually think it would not be terrible
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the film is uh a need of a real editor
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was no reason for this this director's
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cut and and that's what I have to say
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so yeah I I started watching the first
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EP or the first part and uh and once
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Sophia patella had sex uh I was like
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okay I I got what I needed out of the
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show right right but even even that
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scene the sex scenes dragged on it was
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like okay usually get I almost feel like
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for sci-fi give me suggested nudity give
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me Ornella MTI princess Aura in Flash it
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was suggested you never saw anything but
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damn she was sexy other sci-fi films
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have had sexy but you don't need actual
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scenes with her naked having sex and she
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gets on top of them takes her top off
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you see her breasts I thought it was it
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went too far for me and I like that
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stuff so apparently uh I I mean
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apparently I like it more than you did
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uh go I dragged on sure let it drag on
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fine because that just that just uh you
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know puts off the rest of the movie um I
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don't know I I the more I think about
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all the Zack Snider films I've seen I'm
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just not the biggest fan of his uh and I
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think you're right I think he does much
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better with other IPS but I mean this
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one honestly and look uh you and I are
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are different on this I'm not a fan of
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the SNY cut of uh of Justice League um I
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love it love it yeah definitely not a
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fan of Man of Steel
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uh and the and the other ones uh just to
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me the guy feels a little self-indulgent
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uh a little
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bit yeah it's like my my don't
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stink and so you're going to have to sit
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through and watch all of it watch it all
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come out and um that's just how I feel
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about the guy uh I you know look he
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visually it's stunning I like the look
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of it um this one I think he went a
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little overboard on the visuals didn't
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didn't quite kill for me um
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I I I I do not ever look forward to
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seeing a Zack Snider film but I I will
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say I'm glad I went there it's like
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seeing something like seeing the five
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hour cut of Apocalypse Now you know so
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glad I watch 100% seeing it on the big
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screen would have been much better than
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seeing it on on my television it
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actually was better on the big screen
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you could really see the the what went
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into building the world world and it is
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it's more inspired by heavy metal than
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Star Wars when you see it on the big
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screen at the same time I will never see
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this movie again yeah I'm I'm I'm good
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with it I'm good with it yeah one of the
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big I'll say one of the biggest problems
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I have with part one the of the 20
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minutes I saw of it the first 20 is we
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we talked about this with trap it's the
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changing protagonist you know that that
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first opening scene was not about the
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main characters you know I start with
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the main character the person you it set
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the opening of part one director's cut
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set up the story better with the
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introduction of the villain I thought it
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was better it was way dragged out yeah
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that scene that scene could have been
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half as long and more impactful yeah but
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the thing is I I understood that about
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the villain in in the original right
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you're just showing that he's he's uh
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more you know more vicious than before
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and and that is more graphic than before
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that's the only thing you get you you as
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as an audience we understand yeah this
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guy's bad he's sadistic we don't like
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him uh it did nothing to improve that
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make him worse make him better um and
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and you know that's exactly the same
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thing I felt about the SNY cut of
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Justice League it's like all all I felt
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like he added was just nothing but
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backstory and I kind of understood all
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this backstory the only thing good about
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uh the Justice League SNY cut was uh was
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the final fight that was so much better
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than than uh Jos weeden's version here
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even from uh this is borbs from Paul
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tassia I watched Zack Sander's Rebel
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Moon director's cup part one that's
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probably enough and that's how I feel
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and he he basically I was gonna read
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this article but he really just Echoes a
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lot of the stuff that I just said like
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and I I just saw the story so um we
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don't need to go through it but I I I
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just feel like you don't like I'm good
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I'm good but um there's a better version
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if you're trying to learn editing maybe
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get these
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two I'm being serious yeah you could cut
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an ultimate like three-hour version of
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both our rated cuts it was better I like
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the violence was intense and it was it
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worked so um you know uh I I I think
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that uh he he he achieved what he wanted
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to achieve lastly one last
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comment is that I saw this movie in a
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the the screening sold out in 10 minutes
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I saw this meaning this screening in a
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room of all Snider Bros I understand
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they laughed at everything they
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applauded everything they were like like
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they were Zealot I mean they were so
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into it it made them watching it more
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fun that it was like oh these people are
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I I could still objectively look at it
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and go you know not not for me but uh I
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did the parts that uh I was surprised at
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the violence and nudity and I applaud
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him for that so there you go
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