There are some actually incredibly interesting conversations to be had around the Lord of the Rings movies and how we approach the theatrical vs the extended cuts and the merits which both exhibit but unfortunately Internet Nerds have made it so that if you say anything other than "The extended cuts are the only true way to experience these movies" you just get called a heretic
@witchfynder_finder i have lots of opinions about the lord of the rings movies and still haven’t seen the extended cuts tbh
@Lady That's basically the truth about both of these movies as a whole, nobody wants to admit it is all =P
@Lady Both of these sets of movies**
You know what I mean
@witchfynder_finder honestly i wish more things did multiple cuts like sometimes you want to dive really deep into things and sometimes you want a nice story which is easy to wrap your head around
@Lady Yeah, like, sometimes I want to get lost in this amazing cinematic world PJacks has created and sometimes I want the story to please pick up the pace just a little bit
@witchfynder_finder and like games do this sometimes with difficulty settings or making gameplay aspects optional but i think it would be interesting if they did that in ways which did not have any gameplay consequence whatsoever; like instead of [skip cutscene] and [view cutscene] having like, “press Y for segment with expanded lore”
@witchfynder_finder but the important thing is that you have to actually *design* for the shorter version and making it make sense on its own, it can’t just be the longer version with bits chopped out
@Lady You know who could do this is Kojima
Give us Death Stranding Extended Cut
@witchfynder_finder like i think the theatrical version is The Version of Lord of the Rings; the extended version is like, “okay but we’re all really big Lord of the Rings nerds so we really just had to shoot some of this extra stuff”
@Lady Yeah that's basically it, the extended cuts are Just For Nerds
But of course the nerds that it is for are also the ones who would go online and have Opinions so
@witchfynder_finder and like i participate in fandom!! i write things!! i get loving all that stuff!!
but it’s also extra, like, your first priority as an artist is always to make a good art. if you don’t make a good art nobody will care about your extended cut. like imagine somebody asking for an extended cut of justice league
(this is a joke)
@Lady It's a shame that most movies that come out with multiple cuts are just for different ratings and don't really endeavour to change the structure or add depth
@witchfynder_finder there’s blade runner but
@Lady Blade Runner is like "We made a good movie and we know it's in here SOMEWHERE but we gotta find it, please hold"
@Lady You should! They're absolutely phenomenal pieces of filmmaking that take the already-masterful original cuts and expand them in really interesting ways.
But also you should do this over maybe a long weekend because if you try to do it all at once that's 12 hours of movies
@witchfynder_finder i definitely should i just never had access to them growing up which is when i was liable to watch the lord of the rings, we only ever had the theatrical cuts on DVD
@Lady Alright just come over at some point we'll make a whole event of it
@witchfynder_finder i’ve listened to the extended soundtracks though
but i wouldn’t say that they’re necessarily better than the ordinary soundtracks, each has its own strengths