Messing up a perfectly bad movie

[joflasher]

So I rented Legend on DVD the other night. Now don't get me wrong, I adored this movie when I was a teenager. A sexy guy, unicorns and a killer dress. Oh, and Tom Cruise wasn't bad either. Eventually I grew out of my Legend kick (don't ask about Labyrinth) and moved on to better things (I hope). But I had a free rental coming to me and the Boy had never seen it and *insert more excuses here*

I've seen the US theatrical version a million times, so I figured "why not" when I saw there was a director's cut version on the DVD. YUCK! So its a half hour longer and 90% of those extra minutes are just filler. No, really. 5 minutes of Lily crossing a field singing. WTF?!?! Bah. It wasn't a good movie to begin with and the DC was just terrible. I hate it when they do that to movies...make a DC just because that is what you are supposed to do. Double Bah!

Comments

[mj2q.livejournal.com]

I tried to watch Legend for the first time a few weeks ago and failed. Just kind of curled up and fell asleep. Maybe it was the jetlag, maybe it was because it was the director's cut. Who knows.

[starherd.livejournal.com]

The DC, however, is closer to how the film was originally released in Europe. For that reason I find it interesting. I like that, originally, people *sang* in this movie...
but it's probably part of why people generally *don't* sing in the current
LOTR movies, despite there being singing every chapter or so in
the books...

I *still* like Legend, but I'm a fairytale junkie.
However, I think I *do* like the US Tangerine Dream soundtrack more
than the original... possibly because it's what I grew up with, but
not only that... it really *does* keep the film from dragging.

If only they hadn't cut kissy-scenes from the end and stuck
them at the beginning. The whole *point* of the Jack/Lily relationship
was that he went and fought for her despite the fact that they
*weren't* lovers (yet).