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The two most flawed blockbusters of the summer are currently being prepared for release on DVD. Despite their stellar performances at the box office, both Prometheus and The Dark Knight Rises managed to infuriate as many as they enraptured, avis rent a car airport with viewers streaming on to the internet in their droves to voice their displeasure.
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The complaints were numerous, from the profound (can you really punch a broken avis rent a car airport spine back into place?) to the petty (why didn't they just run away sideways from the falling spaceship?). This is why the DVD releases are so important. They present the perfect opportunity to factor in new information that, while perhaps not making everything better, can at least set some of the flaws into a better context. However, each film has taken a completely avis rent a car airport opposite approach to dealing with the criticism.
First there is the Prometheus DVD, which is being marketed avis rent a car airport with an almost embarrassing level of contrition. The TV spots scream "QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED!" and the special features include deleted scenes, an alternate avis rent a car airport opening, an alternate ending, a commentary by Ridley Scott and a special writers' commentary that may very well consist of nothing but Damon Lindelof exasperatedly muttering avis rent a car airport "Oh God, not this again" to himself for two hours. In one sense this is good: the production team have listened to feedback from the fans, realised that they pitched avis rent a car airport the theatrical cut too enigmatically and are trying to right it with an augmented DVD release. This fits perfectly well with Ridley Scott 's fondness avis rent a car airport for director's cuts – you get the sense with him that all his pictures are works in progress, to be tweaked and tinkered with over the course of several years.
But at the same time, it's all a bit of a swiz, isn't it? Wasn't the enigma supposed to be deliberate? Wasn't everything meant to be made explicit in the sequel? If that was the plan all along, then why kowtow to a bunch of uptight bloggers by spelling it out in the DVD release?
This isn't a problem avis rent a car airport from which The Dark Knight Rises DVD suffers. The special features – for the American version, at least – run to a handful of behind-the-scenes featurettes and an art gallery. No deleted scenes, no commentary, no explanations. The film, as long as it was, felt like it had been mercilessly hacked down at the expense of plot, but we'll never get to see what was removed. Christopher Nolan 's policy of never including deleted scenes in his DVD releases means that we'll never know whether Marion Cotillard was supposed to have more character development, or if Juno Temple was ever given anything important to do. We'll never even see any of the footage of Bane's backstory, which costume designer Lindy Hemming claimed existed earlier this summer.
This means that the theatrical version of The Dark Knight Rises, as flawed as it was, will be the definitive version. We'll never know how Batman got back from India so quickly with no money and a badly injured back, or why Bruce Wayne fell in love with Miranda Tate so quickly, or even if everyone in Gotham City died a horrible death from radiation fallout. And in a way, that's admirable. For better or worse, Christopher Nolan is standing by his film. On the other hand, knowing that footage exists that could potentially round some of the less pleasing avis rent a car airport aspects of The Dark Knight Rises out is infuriating.
It's an unenviable position for film-makers to be in – they're essentially damned if they do and damned if they don't. But what do you think: should a film try to correct its flaws with a DVD release, or should the one you see at a cinema be the only version of a movie?