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Please see if you can notice if they use the original sound mix or the new one. I know Batman '89 screenings now use the new sound mix but I'm curious about Returns.

To draw a comparison, I find that people who have never met Cameron Diaz in person have no freaking idea whatsoever how beautiful she actually is. She GLOWS. And that smile of hers will melt your face off from clear across the room. Diaz IS impossibly beautiful.

In retrospect, it was a bit disappointing to see Diaz's strong debut performance in The Mask eventually relegate her to playing ditzy blonde roles, namely the Charlie's Angels films. It is indeed hard to pull off the natural quality she has. Malin Åkerman came pretty close when the Farrelly Brothers traded Diaz for her in The Heartbreak Kid, but Åkerman had nowhere near the lasting power Diaz has.

And as beautiful as Pays may be, she's not on that level. But what she DOES have going for her is some amount of beauty and an innate intelligence. You totally believe that she's a scientific wunderkind in the show because every aspect of her performance always relates back to her brains. You could picture a relative everyman like Barry dating her. It's not science-fiction.

Something quite noticeable in the progression of the series is that they attempted to make Pays more glamorous than she was intended to be. In the beginning, she dressed more conservatively and had a more naturalistic hairstyle. As they went on, she appeared to be more trendier and appeared to have changed hairstyles each week. It was perhaps an attempt to appease those who were wary about the show not pulling in the expected numbers on such an expensive show. Something very apparent in the early episodes of The Flash is the aesthetic Batman '89 took with the 40's meets the present vibe. Another example of that change was how the Megan Lockhart character had a perfect femme fatale hairdo that was reduced to a shorter 90's style for the subsequent Trickster episodes.

It appears that the original edition of The Godfather Part III is gone. At least, it's not available for purchase in iTunes. Now, you can find the new Coda version easily. But the theatrical cut is nowhere to be seen.

Is Coppola pulling a George Lucas here? I mean, if he is, something tells me he won't encounter as much resistance erasing the theatrical Godfather Part III as Lucas faced when erasing the original Star Wars trilogy.

But still, I don't like revisionism. Never have. If that's what Coppola is up to, then he's not being honest with himself, the audience or history. I do consider the Coda to be superior to the theatrical version. And just in this thread, it's clear that I'm not alone on that one. But that's not the point, is it? The point is that both versions should be allowed to exist.

For a comparison, Coppola has recut Apocalypse Now twice at this point. But afaik, the theatrical version has not been erased from existence. He's also recut The Outsiders. But again, the original version still exists.

So, he clearly has a history of allowing multiple versions of something to exist. Which raises the question of why he's so determined to delete The Godfather Part III.

Eh...

Both the original theatrical cut and the initial Final Director's Cut are available on the 4K Blu-ray Godfather Trilogy set.

Not my personal response, but a rebuttal of your statements.

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If you look at this shot towards the end of the alley fight, note where the unconscious goons are lying. Mac McDonald's goon is lying on the rubbish heap where Batman kicked him, but the positions of the other two goons don't correspond with where they fell in the finished fight scene.

This suggests to me that an entirely different version of the fight scene might have been shot with Keaton, McCabe and Newman, climaxing in the one-on-one duel between Batman and Bob, before the sequence was scrapped and reshot with Lea. Either that or the positions of the fallen goons are just a continuity error.

I think you're on to something there. The fact that one goon's position lines up, but the others don't would seem to suggest that the rest was redone. It's fascinating how little we know about deleted scenes from these movies, some were only revealed by 1989batman's still images.

Jon Peters recently spoke about this scene in an interview with Joe Rogan.

https://youtu.be/J17H6X5tBwQ

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Bringing this back since I've had the pleasure of seeing three classic Batman flicks in theaters again this past weekend for Batman Day. Of course I had to drive more than an hour because only Tinseltown Theaters were participating, but it was well worth it. The Mask of the Phantasm was a great primer, then the original Batman was the main event, and finally Returns brought it all home.

Never thought I'd enjoy spending an entire day at the theater that much. It wasn't too packed, but it was readily apparent that I was in the presence of fellow Bat-fans making the pilgrimage.

The original film has slowly became my favorite Batman film, and once again seeing it in theaters is the only way to do it proper justice.

Can you confirm if Returns had the new sound mix? I know '89's latest theatrical screenings have had it but I am curious to know if this is the case for Returns as well.

In the recently published Genesis Trilogy Anniversary Book there's an interview with Nicholas Meyer in which he's asked if he regrets not having a face-to-face confrontation between Kirk and Khan. Meyer answers no, saying that it would have been "cheesy, stereotyped and familiar" to have them duke it out like gladiators. Fun though it would have been to see Khan and Kirk fight in person again, I agree that it's better they didn't. Kirk shouldn't really be able to compete with Khan in physical terms anyway. The only advantage he has over Khan is his knowledge of 23rd century technology. There's a line to this effect in the Director's Cut, where after surviving their first encounter with the Reliant Kirk says something like, "The only reason we're still alive is because I know more about these ships than he does."

Always wondered if the fight between Kirk and Kruge in the subsequent film was added to appease Shatner, who I'm sure was all in for another brawl with Montalban. Judging from Meyer's prior interviews and commentaries, it sounded like he had his work cut out for him to make Shatner play Kirk the way he did in Wrath of Khan so that he didn't come off as his exuberant self, which is not what this Kirk is supposed to be. 

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/michael-keaton-batman-movies-bruce-wayne-1235330293/

They misspelled "PAYCHECK" as "WRITING."

A rather curious post by Snyder on VERO. Word has it the car he's driving is an Aston Martin, the same car model that Bruce Wayne drove to Lex Luthor's gala in BvS.

And we're supposed to be envious because?

So there is some evidence to suggest the parallels were conscious. I'd just like someone from the movie's production team to acknowledge it. But as TDK says, the parallels exist whether they were deliberate or not. And that's the important thing.

I'm sure in Waters case (as it is with many screenwriters adapting comics) would be writing out a basic plot line with appropriate character motivations and story details would be filled in with inspirations from selected comics from DC's archives, hence why there are a notable amount of similarities. It's been pointed out that Mario Puzo spent a lot of time reading through back issues provided by DC back when he was writing Superman. I'm sure this option was open for Waters and Hamm.

I can speak from personal angle that I've implored a similar method in my own adaptations. Similar to my analogy of writing school papers, it is a good idea to keep a list of sources so that we don't we commit an act of plagiarism, which was never very clear to me when I was in school. To me, plagiarism is directly copying and pasting some thing and claiming it to be your own. Adaptations are another animal all together as it is not using it the same dialogue or context. Waters likely reacted the way he did because he probably did see those panels and used them for inspiration and if you don't make a note of your source, it can become your own in your later recollections.

Writers also have to be careful in these areas because it could be used as citation for a lawsuit. James Cameron experience that with Terminator when he cited Outer Limits episodes as his inspiration and Harlan Ellison jumped on that with how his work closely resembled Cameron's. This was something Cameron made sure he acknowledged for Avatar and cited Dances with Wolves writer Michael Blake in the credits to avoid another similar situation.