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I don't know, I feel that scene adds a lot to the movie, along with the extended mars scene WHICH ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE in that cut.

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what scene would you have cut in it's place?

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

I'd have to see the movie again for proper judgement.

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I really loved the Hollis scene. It made it look so much better in the movie, it honestly made me really happy when I saw that.. Except that the last part when the music stops pisses me off. Overall one of the greatest scenes IMO.

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"I will never reveal my identity. Anyone who knows me will refer to me as Hooded Justice

"What happened to the American dream? It came true! Your lookin' at it."

I've got it! since they basically dropped the entire knot top plot anyway, might as well just replace one knot top segment with another - take out Laurie and Dan's alley fight and instead use hollis' death.

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I've only had one dream in my life with kids in it that didn't involve me gnawing my feet off, and it had to do with kids doing my laundry.

it's been a while so i'm not entirely sure, but isn't that scene kind of important in establishing the knot tops in the first place, and also for the Dan/Laurie relationship and reaction to violence etc?

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

I thought it was essential to their characters.

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I'll be right back. I gotta go see a man about a mule.

yeah, as i thought, you're taking away something that's important for the sake of replacing it with something that's a good scene, but not really important.

it's a moot point anyway, we got the directors cut, and we've seen it, it's not our problem what the theatrical cut was any more.

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

precisely.
you and I are on the same wavelength here

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I'll be right back. I gotta go see a man about a mule.

I think it punctuated how pathetic and pointless his death was in sharp contrast to what came immediately before with him valiantly fighting back.

Which is a good thing.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

wouldnt work, as manhattan's voice-over goes along with their fight.

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Keep the voice-over, drop the fight. I mean it's obvi a moot point that doesn't make it any less interesting for us to discuss how we would have done it if it were us. And personally, I never thought that scene added that much for the Dan/Laurie relationship. Maybe in the GN, but definitely not in the movie. They already have their whole deep discussion, the fight in the alley, while definitely underscoring the place of violence in their lives, isn't really necessary - especially because that gets underscored anyway when Dan can't get it up until they handle the tenement building and then totally get it on (with the boots on, DAMN) in Archie.

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I've only had one dream in my life with kids in it that didn't involve me gnawing my feet off, and it had to do with kids doing my laundry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYEbebg9U-Y

Here's the book trailer for the anthology I've got a story in. This is the easter egg laden tale I mentioned a few weeks ago. I mention this and provide the link because one of those eggs is in the trailer and folks here might recognise it.

Hit the link and keep a sharp eye out.

Was it the dude getting hit by the pitcher, he looked a bit like Rorschach. Or was it the Gunga Diner?

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It was!

the first or second?

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Nope. Another hint: between minute one and two...

I agree it was essential to the characters. It definitely helped Laurie and Dan decide if they wanted that life or not.. Kinda. Idk lol.

I haven't found the Easter egg yet.

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"I will never reveal my identity. Anyone who knows me will refer to me as Hooded Justice

"What happened to the American dream? It came true! Your lookin' at it."

So did you finish the book yet?

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

What is everyone's feelings about the Ultimate Cut? I myself think the DC was enough as the Black Freighter takes away from the film a little. In the comic it added to the story but as part of the movie it detracted from the pacing despite it being more accurate to the GN.

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