Movies only available in alternate versions on BD?

[HD Goofnut]

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by tenebre6

personally i think the director's cut should be the primary version released. I feel it should be illegal to alter the cut at any stage which would eliminate such a thing as theatrical version.

If the movie sucks we then know to blame the director and not some random suit or even worse the totalitarian lunacy of the MPAA (which should also be abolished)

I always go for director's cut. in the event i dont like the directors cut i opt to not even own the movie.

Yeah, but the Blu-Ray for Amadeus is not the director's preferred version. He railed against the deleted scenes on the laserdisc commentary for the film, saying he thought they weakened Salieri and made him look silly. The longer cut - like Dances With Wolves and The Exorcist - was a marketing gimmick to sell the same movie twice. Friedkin went along with The Exorcist cut, Costner said he had nothing to do with the extended cut of Dances With Wolves, calling it a "studio thing".

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Yeah, but the Blu-Ray for Amadeus is not the director's preferred version. He railed against the deleted scenes on the laserdisc commentary for the film, saying he thought they weakened Salieri and made him look silly. The longer cut - like Dances With Wolves and The Exorcist - was a marketing gimmick to sell the same movie twice. Friedkin went along with The Exorcist cut, Costner said he had nothing to do with the extended cut of Dances With Wolves, calling it a "studio thing".

This may be true, but I still prefer the extended cut.

[JohnWayne]

Originally Posted by I KEEL YOU

Thank you. And looking at your avatar, I must say that I think it makes an excellent point!

You wanna, like, do it?

[tylergfoster]

Originally Posted by Seth F.

Dumb and Dumber is coming out as anniversary edition this year. As far as I know it will be the theatrical.

Was this actually confirmed? I knew it was rumored because they're talking about making Dumb and Dumber To, but I hadn't heard that it was confirmed in any way, although Warner has marked it down to $4 frequently.

EDIT: I see this was already covered.

[Ray_Rogers]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

This may be true, but I still prefer the extended cut.

I also prefer the Extended Cut but MGM should've made a 4K master and put the film on two discs. They used an older master for the Blu-ray. I'll import the UK Blu-ray eventually but put it before the USA release. Also will be adding a disc hub and putting the OST CD with the UK release.


Just to chime in it's my opinion all companies should also offer seamless branching or two seperate discs, if the alternate cut is too drastically different, for different versions.
Just mirror the releases for BLADE RUNNER, ALIEN Anthology, and GLADIATOR.

[Kentai]

Originally Posted by Seth F.

Manhunter - UK has directors and theatrical

Not sure if the Manhunt DC should count or not; it is technically included on Blu-ray, but only as an extra in SD PAL.

Originally Posted by wd40cloud

American Psycho (doesn't bother me)

Germany got the R-rated theatrical cut, but it's an open-matte 1.78:1 print. Ironically, this means you get on-screen Baleman wang that you can't see on the uncut scope prints.


THE EVIL DEAD had several minor digital alterations on both HD restorations to remove crew members and lighting equipment. Also, I'm almost sure THE EXORCIST has a digital dissolve on the "Theatrical" cut that wasn't on the film's original release, though I'm not going to complain too hard about it.

The Criterion release of SALO: 120 DAYS OF SODOM is missing footage that's included on the BFI Blu-ray. I can't speak for theatrical prints, though the scene was present on the Criterion LD back in the early '90s.

[Gieferg]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Original, theatrical version on blu. Director's Edition is only on DVD.

On the other hand, Last of The Mohicans has only some Director's messed up version on blu.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Gieferg

Original, theatrical version on blu. Director's Edition is only on DVD.

On the other hand, Last of The Mohicans has only some Director's messed up version on blu.

Would have been nice if we would have gotten both cuts of Star Trek and all three cuts of Last of the Mohicans.