I wish films became open source after a short period, that is, I want to see studios eventually release all their archival materials for every film so that fans can release their own cuts. Eventually it'd just be normal to see perfected versions of films. As cultural norms change the work can be tailored or lampooned to stay relevant and valuable.
For example: Star Wars OT has been released so many times with different cuts that there are fan edits that pull scenes from all of them and discard the trash ones to make a superior movie.
These are now recommended by fans as canon for new viewers, instead of any particular Lucas release.
I dunno about that. It's always easier to iterate on or 'improve' existing work. Creating it from scratch and having it be good is the hardest part. I think most creative people would be unhappy about that arrangement.
Not to mention that if you ask 3 people how to improve something you'll get 4 different answers. And I really don't have the time to watch 32 different versions of Aliens to figure out which one I like best.
It would be a bit of a crapshoot, but perhaps the intrinsic barrier to entry of doing massive amounts of unpaid video editing would filter out a lot of the less well intentioned
I kinda love how many "unnecessary" scenes are in the hobbit films, which allowed a fan-made cut of all of them into one film and made it leagues better.
And it doesn't have to take away from company profits, in fact it can add much MORE profit. Just make it so that all the individual uncut raw reels are freely available, but reassembled movies can only be uploaded and shown on the company's streaming service. This'll create a huge increase in viewer demand for the company's properties, with basically zero cost to the owners.
That would be awesome. Supposedly there was a director's cut of Event Horizon that the studio redid because it was to brutal and they lost the original footage.
Totally, and also if you're not home for 3 consecutive nights, it should be legal for me to enter your home and redecorate it. I have vision, after all.
Batty from Fern Gully is no exception, and the sound guys can't stop laughing while the director keeps cutting in to remind him to rein it in. Again. And again. And again. 🤣
Back when Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg used to do Comic Relief together every year, there was a year where the other two made a bet with Robin Williams that he had to give some large sum, $5000 or something, to Comic Relief every time he grabbed his dick.