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Greed has been hailed as a cinematic masterpiece by some critics, it was based off Frank Norris's McTeague. Apparently, from the shooting script written, Erich Von Stroheim was very meticulous in adapting the novel, and even added a few of his own touches to the narrative which was lacking from the book. The end result was a half million dollar film(in 1920's money), with no grand sweeping battles, or luxurious ball room sets, with a running time of 8 hours. Von Stroheim cut it down to 4 hours with the intention it be released in the theaters at that length, and then without his oversight the film was chopped again down to 2 hours, the editing was a hack job, and made the film look poorer than it was meant to be.

It's preferable to watch the surviving 2 hour cut over the "extended" 4 hour version. Just watch the movie with the frame of mind that Von Stroheim did shoot everything scene that was in the book and did justice to all the characters, and that the edit job was done by careless studio hands.

Also Watchmen, was made into a good film. The adaptation was nearly flawless. My only gripes are that some details were put in the movie without any adequate explanation, such as the purple tiger, which looked like it belonged in a cartoon. The soundtrack should have been worked over as well. Still I would give it a 85 to 90%

There are three versions of Watchmen that I know of, I prefered the theatrical version because it explains everything it needs to explain to the average viewer that hasn't read Watchmen, and it doesn't suffer from inconsistent things like bad acting(especially from the group of thugs that pay Hollis Mason a visit).