Zeppelinrox, thanks for putting that up.
Boon, thanks for taking the time to watch and review the edit. I had a few comments regarding your review.
Boon23 said:
The removal of the Prendergast scenes made this for me an even stranger movie than it was before. Although his scenes were kind of dragging, I consider them the heart and soul of an otherwise very flawed movie,
That's an odd view of this movie. The film is clearly about D-Fens and his misguided frustrations regarding his loss of the American Dream. For me, Prendergast's retirement and his troubles with his wife are an unnecessary subplot, and certainly not the "heart and soul" of the movie. But to each his own.
Boon23 said:
Prendergast appears in the beginning, he appears again out of nowhere at the end
If he had only appeared at the end, I could understand how it would be "out of nowhere". By having him at both ends of the movie, the audience recognizes him as the cop from the beginning when we get to the end of the movie.
Boon23 said:
and mentions that he knows that D-Fens had been working for a rocket building industry.
Technically, D-Fens mentions that ("Did you know I build missiles?"), but Prendergast is not surprised by that fact.
Boon23 said:
So I clearly got the impression that he was on the case.
Great, that was the point.
Boon23 said:
His entire speech in the end makes it appear as if he was not there by accident.
Again, that's the point.
Boon23 said:
So I think his scenes on the case were needed or were missing from the fanedit.
Huh? You just said you got all you needed to know about him from his speech at the end. Why then have all the uninteresting redundancy of him working on the case? I think you need to give the audience a little more credit. They don't need to be babied along the way like that. When he shows up at the end, the audience knows he's a cop because of his appearance at the beginning. Even if they don't make the connection, he flashes his badge. And, like you said, from his speech we know he was working on the case the whole time.
Boon23 said:
The D-Fens scene collection, where he terrorizes people, fights for what he calls freedom, kills "bad" guys are partially so over-the-top that it could be a satire, yet it isn't one, or if it is, it is not executed like one, because the movie does have a serious tone for the most of it.
Well, it's certainly not a satire, at least not in the sense that A Modest Proposal is a satire. It's about the breakdown of American society in the early 1990s that is mirrored in the mental breakdown of the central character.
Boon23 said:
This could have been a lot better I think, if it was better constructed
Heh, cute.
Clearly you didn't enjoy it, and that's fine - it's certainly not for everyone. But I find your reasoning very strange.