26. "RE: true but there are so many narrow minded people" In response to In response to 19
>plus, being a person who saw the trailers and then read the >book for the first time, and was blown away by it, never >expected much of the shit that went on in the novel. How deep >the character development was, the subplots, all the >intertwining- so much stuff. I think dropping a giant squid >in New York would be too big of a mind fuck for the average >movie goer. >>>>
WHy do we keep saying this? Did everyone up and lose their imagination? Does Harry Potter not move tickets? Lord of the Rings flopped? Since when can the American audience not handle an alien?
>going for just the hardcore audience is never a smart move, >especially in hollywood. cuts had to be made a this being it >is something fans should be thankful for. If it wasn't for >Synder the movie would have lost a lot more
This wasn't a cut Synder made. "Synder tells Dark Horizons that the squid was not in any draft of the screenplay he saw, but that he and the screenwriters found an "elegant solution to the squid problem that I kind of embraced."