The biggest problem is that it feels like it is missing half the film. I would have rather had a 2 hour and 40 minute film. They did a very very good job on it and I am looking forward to part 2.
shareI would've prefered one big film. Course cutting it in two is how they get you.
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But by making it 2 films, they can get you to pay double. Would you have bought one film for $50? You're more likely to buy 2 films for $25 each.
They probably will in the future release one set with both movies- to try and get you to buy it a third time.
It would not have been 50 if it was on one DVD
...and twice as rushed. We would have never gotten a faithful adaptation, but a highly condensed one instead.
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It wouldn't have been rushed or condensed. He means one movie as in one two and a half hour long movie, not the whole story squished into 75 minutes. If anything, we probably would've just had to wait longer to see it.
But it would be cool if both were edited together in the future and given a special screening somewhere.
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It wouldn't have been rushed or condensed. He means one movie as in one two and a half hour long movie, not the whole story squished into 75 minutes.
I know what he meant. That is not what we would have gotten. We would have still gotten one 70-minute movie made on a $3.5 million budget. However, it would have had the entire graphic novel squeezed into it. Instead, WHV will probably see if it can get us to double-dip and pick up a combined collector's edition with added bonus content.
A single, longer adaptation would flow better and be preferable to seeing the story split up. Even better would be a production budget that would allow for better and smoother animation (will full, cell animation being the gold standard).
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Once both DVDs are out people will make Fan Edits putting them together.
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