Has anyone else noticed how many scenes are in the trailer that weren’t in the movie? There seemed to be major plot differences. Anyone know what the cut scenes pertained to? Did they change the plot?
I have no idea.
However, this is fairly common. Trailers often have scenes not appearing in the “final cut,” and a lot of times have dialog dubbed in scenes where it didn’t originally appear.
I noticed there was scene in the trailer or commercial of the bad guy getting split in half and reformed, which wasn’t in the film.
I’ve seen several movies that had scenes in the commercial or trailer that did not appear in the movie. That’s false advirtising if you ask me!
Trailers are usually made long before the actual movie is done filming. That’s the reason why so many commercials on TV have the tag line: This film has not yet been rated by the MPAA. They don’t have the completed movie to submit for rating, but they have enough footage to make an enticing commercial. And as for it being false advertising, well then, every automobile ad is false advertising 'cause I’ve never seen cars skidding sideways on ice throwing up perfect curtains of water in slow motion during my commute. (At least not without incurring expensive alignment problems)
I won’t even get into why we’re even discussing this, as the best thing about the new ‘Highlander’ movie seems to be reading the reviews. The one in the New York Times was hilarious.
Funny, I was just reading alt.tv.highlander, where two women who were involved in producing the Highlander series hang out. They’re both familiar with the world of tv/movie production, and they said that the scenes in question (the portal and the guy getting quick-cloned by a sword) in the trailer were filmed specifically for the trailer–and that such shenanigans by the marketing department aren’t uncommon. The marketing guys aren’t answerable to the production folks (and vice versa). The marketing guys obviously thought that using such scenes in the trailer would lure more viewers to the theatre.
This doesn’t justify what they did, as the women wrote, but does explain it.
In the MI2 trailer, there’s a bit where Cruise greets Ving Rhames to Australia by saying “G’day Mate!” in a faux Aussie accent. Yet when I sat down to watch it in my Antipodean theatre, this scene was strangely absent…
Mind you, given the fact that a number of trailers appear to be thrown together before the movie is completed (Dinosaur, MI2, X-Men), it’s not really surprising the two don’t quite match up.
Some of the scenes that were not in the movie were that of the villian being cut in half, then forming two of himself, the two antagonists jumping through some kind of portal, the antagonist stopping a sword in mid air through some kind of supernatural powers, and another one where the bad guy had someone’s head in this bubble thing. All these scenes pointed towards some sort of supernatural abilities (well, besides being imortal), but the villian showed nothing of the sort, besides having the ability to kill people. If the scenes were produced soley for the trailer, I think that’s a bit TOO misleading. I kept waiting for all these spiffy scenes in the movie, and they never came.
And who the hell is Juan? In every movie, Christopher Lambert says “There can be only Juan!” I thought they would finally show who Juan was in the last movie…
One of the Terminator 2 trailers shows a bit of a scene and dialogue that were cut, and only crop up on TV or in the Special Editions.
-SSB
Did you ever notice in the first couple of Highlander films that Christopher Lambert is a Frenchman playing a Scotsman and Sean Connery is a Scotsman playing a Spaniard.
And you’re worried about discrepancies between the trailer and the film?!?
BTW- I really loved the confusion in Gladiator where Russel Crowe plays a Spaniard in Rome and uses his Australian accent. Made a hell of a lot of sense.
At the end of the first Highlander movie, Lambert was the last one, and got “the gift”, right?
Where the hell did all these other immortals come from?
Way back before production on Highlander 3 started, I remember reading that the main villain was supposed to have some kind of powerfull magic or psychic abilities, in addition to the usual immortal attributes. I’m wondering if there was a major re-write of the story during production. Like maybe he was so powerfull that McLeod couldn’t reasonably beat him, or the psychic powers were causing too many plot holes, so they pruned back the bad guy’s abilities.
Do you mean Highlander 4? In 3 Kain (Cain? Cane? Mario van Peebles) did have magical abilities he got from the Japanese sorcerer.
I’ll watch 4 when it comes out on video. Seems to me only the odd numbered Highlander movies are any good. 1 and 3 were good, 2 just sucked and made no sense compared to the others.