Here's Slate's review of 50 First Dates which was the reason I watched it instead of The Mexican or whatever the latest Julia Styles Cinderella movie is called. It is more or less spoiler free and does a decent job hinting at how charming it is, and gives a good solid warning about the awful bits of it. With 10% of the scenes and a quarter of the characters cut from this movie it really would have been one of my favorite movies ever, but that 10% is pretty annoying. As the slate writer points out these were probably added after they got Adam Sandler and not in the original film.

Which leads to a question I was thinking about the other day in reference to the LOTR extended versions: How long until making ones own cuts of films becomes a popular internet activity? Especially with LOTR one could edit them down to the 2.5 hours that you really liked. This would be especially fun if anyone could ever be convinced to release huge extended versions with lots of extra footage. Do you folks think this will catch on when personal computer technology hits the appropriate point?