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Thursday, December 01, 2005

Un-fascinating

Flipping through the On Demand movies in an effort to find something to take up some of my Thursday night, I found this incredible information:

The regular version of Fever Pitch is one hundred and four minutes.

The un-edited version of Fever Pitch is one hundred and five minutes.

Is your mind as blown as mine right now? It must have killed the Farrelly brothers to leave so much on the editing room floor. "It doesn't make any sense cut down like that! You can never truly understand the characters!", they must have protested to those uncaring studio honchos. "No," sniffed those unfeeling bastards who only understand the language of money. "It'll tank at the box office if it's that long." Thank God for DVDs and cable television, so we can finally see this work of art the way it was intended.

Long story short, The Return of the King is on.

6 comments:

doug said...

Ha! I noticed that too! Well, we watched the "long" version of Fever Pitch - cute, but don't expect it to be anywhere near like the book in any sort of fashion what-so-ever. Maybe the short version is.

PeeKay said...

speaking of ondemand.
have you checked out that HBO show Extras? oh my. it is funny. huh, huh, have you have you?

i demand you watch it.

Anonymous said...

If you only watch one scene of Extras, watch the scene with Patrick Stewart in the finale (the scene in his trailer). You won't stop laughing for a week.

I guess the unrated version of Fever Pitch contains a one minute long nude scene. Or the editors were just on crack. I Netflix'd the dvd recently and noticed that the trailer for the movie contained scenes that weren't shown in the movie, not even in the long version. Anyway, funny how they keep setting the Nick Hornby movies in the U.S. instead of England. I guess Red Sox fans are the closest American equivalent to British soccer hooligans.

m.a. said...

Wait...who did they cut out? And I would be so upset if I were on the cutting room floor.

doug said...

If you only watch one scene of Extras, watch the scene with Patrick Stewart in the finale (the scene in his trailer). You won't stop laughing for a week.

You should also not miss the first episode scene of Kate Winslet doing sexual mimes while dressed as a nun.

Anonymous said...

I enjoyed seeing Fever Pitch in the theater. As for the Directors' Cut...I really could have done without that Johnny Damon/Manny Ramirez sex scene.