The Rock – Thermalized
by CBBIt seems like Alcatraz was just reopened – but this time as a true action ride. The Rock minus lame jokes, minus goofy moments, minus incredibility = full throttle action.
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(18 votes, average: 9.22 out of 10, rated)
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tagline: The Rock rocks, finally!
original film name: The Rock
new film name : The Rock – Thermalized
film studio name : Hollywood Pictures
edit crew name : CBB
Date Original Film Was Released : 1996
Date Edit Was Released : August 2007
Original Runtime : 136 min.
New Runtime : 125 minutes
Amount of time Cut/Added : 11 minutes cut
Cuts removed/added/extended :
Plenty of scenes were altered, too much to mention, but most of all these 5 scenes were really changed or even completely deleted:
- 1. The stylist scenes: I reduced his gay behaviour and a lot of flat jokes that came with it. He still seems gay and special, but his appearance is a lot shorter and will not leave much of an impression.
- 2. The Cable Car scene: What I did is, I deleted the cable car owner form the movie. His acting is so over the top and he is just not funny, but he spoils a cool car chase action scene.
- 3. Stanley goes to vomit scene: Well, he still does, but this scene is much shorter. What was supposed to be funny, was not so much. Now he is more of a man.
- 4. The Rollercoaster Mourge Ride scene: The entire scene was unrealistic to the max, so I tried to reduce the size of the cave and get rid of the wagon drive scenes. It worked pretty well.
- 5. The thermite plasma explosion: Thermite plasma is not your usual bomb or explosive. It is hot like hell and causes a HUGE explosion. And because Stan could never survive to be blown away by that, I changed that, so now he escapes the explosion. I am very proud of this editing work.
Fanedit details:
- 125 minutes NTSC 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen with AC3-5.1 audio and a vbr of 4.000KB/s using a 3 pass encoding with CCE.
- LANGUAGES : ENGLISH, GERMAN, SPANISH, RUSSIAN
- SUBTITLES : ENGLISH, SWEDISH
- MENUS : most are animated with sound
- SCENE SELECTION : yes
- TRAILER, TEASER : no
- DELETED SCENES : yes, an all in one 12 minutes deleted scenes mix
- COMMENTARY : yes, for the 12-minutes deleted scenes mix
- CBB OVERVIEW : yes, for all 21 fanedits
- SPECIAL FEATURE : FE Quizshow
- COVER&Disc ART : yes, on DVD-Rom part
Your intention for this fanedit:
- THE ROCK is still one of the most successful action movies of all time and it ranks very high in my personal ranking of great entertaining movies, just because the action scenes were so well edited, the score is so great and the actors are just brilliant. Connery – Cage are a great couple. Too bad there never was a part 2. But as I watched the movie again and again, the annoying things about it became more and more obvious, which made me hardly enjoy the movie anymore. Lame jokes, most of the time by people which are unimportant for the plot, and way over the top scenes, which became so embarrassing, spoiled the fun. So I decided that something needed to be done, to make this the movie I could watch over and over again, and I think I succeeded 100%. This fanedit is not so much shorter than the original, but the number of cuts is immense. Hopefully you won’t realize a single one of them.
Your way to achieve your intention:
- By eliminating the thread. Search and destroy.
Hardware and software information:
- Ulead Media Studio Pro
- ProShow Procoder
- Vegas Video
- DVD Lab Pro
- Cinema Craft Encoder
- Virtual Dub
- Cool Edit Pro
- DGPulldown
- Belight
- Avisynth
- Jasc Paint Shop Pro
Additional Comment:
- I am very proud of this fanedit. What started so small became more important all the time and the final result is far above what I actually wanted in the first place, when I just meant to remove a few goofy scenes.
Time needed for the edition:
- 4 weeks
persons involved: me and some friends to preview. Thanks to Heinrich, Winnie, Nono and everyone else involved in this.
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Connery. Cage. Who would’ve thought the pairing of these two men on-screen would’ve amounted to anything but Connery looking bored? In 1996, audiences were feeling the exact opposite. THE ROCK was a surprise runaway hit, giving Micheal Bay’s directing career a MAJOR kick in the pants forward and well beyond BAD BOYS. Now, BAD BOYS was smart fun but THE ROCK was a whole lot smarter and faster. When Criterion chose THE ROCK as one of their titular “special editions” many classic film lovers scratched their heads and asked “Why?”
Boon23’s THERMALIZED edit answers back. And how!
As I mentioned previously, THE ROCK was smarter and faster than it’s predecessor BAD BOYS but as time eventually shows us all there were still elements that would slowly take away the original WOW! effect the movie had way back in 1996. Micheal Bay can shoot loads of action and make it spectacular, but it can lack substance. Everything is usually simmering so high that it eventually boils over and soils whatever is nearby. Boon23’s edit chucks out the extra fat elements from the movie (see his list of edits to know what I mean) and then he manages to place the lid back on the movie so well that you won’t be so certain if you should take the DVD out or not by the end because it just might explode. Ok, it won’t but you probably will want a second viewing almost right away because you just won’t believe how great this movie REALLY is. If Micheal Bay could show even a fraction of restraint that Boon23 manages in THE ROCK – THERMALIZED edit, I promise you all the “baysayers” (aka naysayers) would shrivel up and die from lack of critique against him.
Criterion was right, just ask Boon23. It seems like Alcatraz has just reopened….
Review by InvisibleWolfMan — December 2, 2007 @ 7:54 pm
i’m in the camp that has an enormous amount of dislike for mr. cage. how does he play the same f***ing character in EVERY movie? WTF? …perhaps i am too biased to give this a proper review…
anyways, as for editing, audio and video this is great as always from CBB. i just think more drastic measures need to be taken to make this a thoroughly enjoyable movie, but obviously this is a very subjective element. clearly a LOT of people like this movie.
CBB-ishness is a 5/5
entertainment is a 3/5
4/5 …and i can easily admit that if you LIKE nicholas cage this will EASILY be a 5/5 for you…
Review by joebshmoe — February 13, 2009 @ 7:08 pm
Finally got round to watching this last night and just want to say that this is a very, very good edit of a great movie with some terrible bits. This removes those bits and makes it much more dramatic. The editing of the underground trolleys/buckets is top notch and a VAST improvement on the original. Worth seeing just for this.
Review by Metrostar — December 6, 2009 @ 3:34 pm
I agree with much of what joebshmoe said, especially the part about more trimming needed (mostly stupid dialogue) – though I used to really like cage but now I’m sort of indifferent to him.
The only part that I didn’t like about cage’s performance was when he was in the cell – specifically, the very last part of it.
9/10
Review by zeppelinrox — December 13, 2009 @ 6:49 am