Movies that don't cover up their editing well

The Theatrical cut of Once Upon a Time in America has pretty bad hackery.  That one was infamous for the film being locked, and then the studio had the Assistant Editor for Police Academy 2 go in and cut time out.

Watching the 743 versions of Blade Runner you can get a real sense of just how much things had been shifted around.  And there's a schlocky 60's film called, "The Girl With the Gold Boots,"
(no, NOT a Lisbeth Salander prequel) that was featured on an MST3K collection I own.  It's a wide shot of two people sitting at a coffee table eating breakfast conversing when their friend, no shit, jump cuts into existence.  Servo responds with a hilarously appropriate, "I'M HERE!!!" but really, it needs no added joke.

haha, wow. I've never seen that episode. I'll have to see if it's on google video or netflix.

I was gonna mention Blade Runner as well. The scene with the snake salesman was clumsy in the older edits, but the latest cut makes that scene work a lot better. And speaking of anime, Warriors of the Wind is a pretty well butchered version of Nausicaa, but even the full cut of the movie feels like they ran out of time or money and couldn't finish some stuff.

There are a lot of movies that just feel like the editor cut out any sort of pauses in the dialogue and action. As soon as someone stops talking they'll cut to the next scene, or they'll do it the instant an action sequence ends. Eragon was like that. A lot of bad action movies are like that, really. Not really cutting things out, but cutting things way too close together.

In Blues Brothers 2000, the new brothers slip into the county fair by repainting their car and disguising themselves. Then in the next scene, they've somehow gotten into the flaming loop-the-loop car in their black suits. The film makers seem to have edited out a gag as to how they changed vehicles.

The weird thing is, if they had just edited out the disguise part, they could have gone all the way from "How are we gonna get past the cops?" to entering in the flaming loop-the-loop car.

Also, I hear that in 2010: Moby Dick, there's a dude trying and trying to catch up to Ahab's submarine, then all of a sudden, he's on the sub. No explanation.

Man, *snort* I hope somebody got fired for that one.

I'm often surprised at editing mistakes, from putting characters in suspended animation for a few minutes in a multi-thread story (Transformers climax), repeating a motion across shots (ROTK has a bit where the same rider starts his move in 3 shots!), head 'bobbing' on reverse shots that are out of sync with the audio (FOTR and others), or coming into the shot too early (Saving Private Ryan has an awful moment in its climax when a german gun opens up on some sfx dummies atop a tank).

There are some scenes in 13th Warrior which seem abrupt or truncated, a subplot about the King's son evaporates into thin air the moment the monsters turn up; so happens there's a much longer cut out there. The theatrical cut of Kingdom of Heaven also feels like it's missing parts.

Well, I just got back from a screening of Superman 2: The Donner Cut, which is the first time I'd ever seen it. And for the most part, storytelling wise, it's far superior to the theatrical version. But there's one bit towards the end that jumped out at me as really awkward ending.

After Superman has defeated Zod et. al. in the Fortress of Solitude, Lex Luthor instantly starts sniveling and brown nosing towards Superman. It literally cuts away from him mid sentence as he says: "I have a proposal for you - "

More baffling is the fact that the scene we cut to is Superman and Lois on the ice with the Fortress of Solitude on the horizon. Superman turns around and burns the place down with his heat vision. Lex Luthor is not with them. They are in the Arctic middle of nowhere. Where the hell did he go?

But, still, I'll take that over the cellophane "S" any day of the week.