azza200 wrote: ↑November 23rd, 2022, 3:59 pm Sorry for bringing this up again but after the recent Planes Trains & Automobile re-release with over 75 mins of deleted and extended/alternate scenes. I wish Sony would do something similar with GB 1 & 2. I know we have some scenes where that does not apply too but the with this release earlier some scenes were 30 secs long or cut up unnecessarily when we have seen some in context either in trailer footage or EPKs GB 2 this applies too more. I mean the footage of them outside the slime covered Museum why cant they just shows us it in full unlike the current form we have right now in a way to con us into thinking we are getting more deleted scenes when we are not. The hardymyer and Aykroyd mayor speech is done poorly when it should be one complete scene edit not the shoddy way they have released it on the 2 separate releases so far.
It's just frustrating
This is an old post I'm replying to, but while the editing of the scenes is definitely confusing and awkward at times -- when I was going through the set, for example, it was easy to tell that certain scenes were from certain home video eras, like any cut scenes that were lifted right out of the 2000s TV edit -- the reality is also that Sony does not necessarily
have the footage sitting around. In fact, the thing I just mentioned is evidence of it: you can tell that certain footage was discovered in the salt mines prior to the making of
Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and some of it they only have from other sources like an SD master, and so on.
I don't know the exact details, but my understanding is that the 75 minutes of alternate/extended footage on that
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles 4K UHD is from a single source, a tape found in Hughes' archive fairly recently. Since all of the footage comes from the same place, Paramount can release it all at once if they want to do pay whatever fees they'll have to cough up and jump through any legal hoops.
The reality is that if Jason hadn't wanted to go through the footage for the purposes of making
Afterlife, there is no guarantee any of it would've ever been found and scanned at all.