The theatrical version should have been the entire fucking story.
Unfortunately any movie made in Hollywood these days is geared for ticket sales rather than story and the art of film making.
I watched The Right Stuff last night. It is a long movie, but I love it.
It's a Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World was over three hours and that was brilliant.
Amadeus had to have an intermission.
Today half of those movies would have only been seen that way on DVD, because the theater version is cut for the shit head who has trouble remembering what was happening to them 90 minutes ago.
Were being cheated at the cinema. Less movie, more money.
Don't you want to see the entire movie on the big screen, not just at home.
If not why not skip going all together?
This is why I say it shouldnt have been shorter. When I saw it at the cinema, while I did enjoy it, I was left with a feeling that key points from the original story were missing (like the death of Hollis).
If they cant do it as a proper movie, they should have done it in episodic form.
The fact that they tried to make it as faithful as possible, is appreciated, but by doing that, they only left the fans of the source material, wanting more.
