Dick
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I am scratching my head here. This film is one of De Palma's strongest in a great long while.
It's a "bad movie" according to you, fine. I happen like it more than any De Palma film since its release. I don't expect answers. Like many such threads by many, many members here, this is hypothetical. Horribly sorry if my post offended you, sir, but your sarcasm is uncalled for...It's a bad movie, and I really don't know what kind of answers are you seeking for with these request threads? No one here works for WB.
There's parts of that movie that work for me but I love the book so I was let down by the movie as a whole. To be fair, they probably needed to do a page by page adaptation to have really satisfied me....The Black Dahlia (which people warned me to avoid they felt it was so awful) and I loved The Black Dahlia...
I couldn't believe how much better Raising Cain was in its "director's cut". I liked the movie in its original version (mostly due to Lithgow's performances and the usual DePalma cinematic flourishes) but I found the recut to be a much better movie. It shows how important editing can be....and the "director's cut" (which is really a De Palma approved fan edit) on the second disc of the new Raising Cain blu-ray set. The Raising Cain
"director's/fan cut" is a lot of fun as it reflects, according to De Palma and the guy who actually did this cut, how De Palma had originally intended to structure the film. It works and was like seeing the film for the first time.