Midnight Meat Train - Page 3 - Blu-ray Forum

thecroshow · 02-18-2009, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by t0nythebeat

What a douche ... ruined the ending for anyone who hasn't seen it.

Anyway, picked it up at BB for $24.99 and ofcourse I love it. No surprise there.

can you report to mods? i'm afraid to click on this thread, i want to read stuff but saw some dude posting the ending WTF who does that?? =(

Offender_Mullet · 02-18-2009, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by liuu

Are there two versions of this film? On amazon.ca there is one for director's cut and the other is unrated director's cut.

the cover is almost the same for the two except for the difference i just mentioned.

Is it a mistake and one is an old cover that wasn't used?

Director's Cut

Unrated Director's Cut

According to this site, the U.S. "Unrated Director's Cut" is 103 minutes. The U.K. "Extreme Edition" & Canadian "Director's Cut" discs clock in at 100 minutes.

SDon1969 · 02-18-2009, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by thecroshow

can you report to mods? i'm afraid to click on this thread, i want to read stuff but saw some dude posting the ending WTF who does that?? =(

I believe the spoiler post has been removed or edited, I don't see anything revealing about the ending.

Anyway pretty decent horror flick. Loved Vinnie Jones in his role, he's quite the menacing figure. Horror fans will probably like this blu-ray...gotta love the 7.1 audio track, too.

blu-mood · 02-18-2009, 02:06 PM

Just watched this last night. Good movie, not great, but better than a lot of the horror dreck that was released last year. As reported before, a lot of the CGI effects were obvious and terrible. Worth a rental, but I'm glad I didn't buy it.

Dust Devil · 02-18-2009, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Offender_Mullet

According to this site, the U.S. "Unrated Director's Cut" is 103 minutes. The U.K. "Extreme Edition" & Canadian "Director's Cut" discs clock in at 100 minutes.

Ordered mine from Playusa that cover said "Unrated Director's cut" but today I received the "Director's cut" ??
This one has on the back a running time of 100 mins. and I believe the unrated cover also has on the back a running time of 100 mins. mentioned.
Does anyone have a copy that says "Unrated director's cut" ??

It makes no sense to call it "director's cut" if there's also a "Unrated Director's cut".
One of them can't be the director's cut then or am I just stupid?

Dust Devil · 02-18-2009, 03:27 PM

After a little searching I think that there's NO difference between the "Director's cut", "Unrated director's cut" and the UK "Extreme edition".

Untill anyone else can confirm......

liuu · 02-18-2009, 05:48 PM

As much as I want to see this movie, I'm gonna wait until this director's cut and unrated cut confusion is cleared up.

ThriceBB · 02-19-2009, 02:17 AM

here is the one i received from amazon. it is the unrated cover and the run time is 100 mins.

koreyman · 02-19-2009, 04:13 AM

LOL when I first saw this title I thought it was Porn

t0nythebeat · 02-19-2009, 05:03 AM

The Unrated Director's Cut is the only version available next to the Theatrical Version.

Dust Devil · 02-19-2009, 05:08 AM

But there hasn't been a theatrical version released on any disc or is there?
I think in the US they have the banner with "Unrated director's cut" in Canada they have the "Director's cut " banner and in the UK "Extreme Edition", but they are all the same cuts. So all UNRATED....that's what I think.

nekromantik · 02-19-2009, 10:55 AM

In the UK MMT was released in cinemas for a short period. That version is 97mins while the UK DVD is 98mins. Now if you consider speed diff between theatrical versions and dvds then you can see its about 5 or 6 mins longer then the theatrical as dvds are usaully 3 or 4 mins shorter.

snoman_99 · 02-19-2009, 06:46 PM

got this in today! we'll be checking out later tonight yay!!!

I too thought it was a porn flick. Jason told me he ordered a movie for us called Midnight Meat Train, and i said wtf hahahaa.

He had to prove too me that it was a horror movie and not a ***** movie hahahaaa.

Jen

Offender_Mullet · 02-19-2009, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by liuu

As much as I want to see this movie, I'm gonna wait until this director's cut and unrated cut confusion is cleared up.

Picked it up from Best Buy today. Same cover as the picture ThriceBB posted & on the backside the run-time is 100 minutes, so no worries.

Dust Devil · 02-19-2009, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by snoman_99

got this in today! we'll be checking out later tonight yay!!!

I too thought it was a porn flick. Jason told me he ordered a movie for us called Midnight Meat Train, and i said wtf hahahaa.

He had to prove too me that it was a horror movie and not a ***** movie hahahaaa.

Jen

Could you (or someone) who has the US "Unrated Director's cut" check the exact running time of it? So complete with end credits.
Then I'll check my Canadian slated "Director's cut" to compare if they are the same cut. Then this is cleared.

Minimejer05 · 02-20-2009, 12:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Dust Devil

Could you (or someone) who has the US "Unrated Director's cut" check the exact running time of it? So complete with end credits.
Then I'll check my Canadian slated "Director's cut" to compare if they are the same cut. Then this is cleared.

1 hour and 43 mins. Complete.

Dust Devil · 02-20-2009, 02:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Minimejer05

1 hour and 43 mins. Complete.

Thanks!

The Canadian "Director's Cut" 1 hour and 42 mins. and 57 seconds to be exact

So?.........it's the same unrated cut.

neo_reloaded · 02-20-2009, 03:46 AM

In the UK, you aren't allowed to release any movie that says it's "Unrated" - so instead studios release UK flicks with taglines like "Director's cut" or "Harder Cut" or "Extreme" or whatever. That explains the name difference.

The second issue is the time. For DVDs, US releases are NTSC, and UK releases are PAL. PAL operates at a different framerate, so there is a slight speedup. That's why UK versions of movies on DVD are a couple minutes shorter - those fractions of a second aggregate over the whole film, resulting in slightly shorter runtimes. For Blu-ray, there is no concept of NTSC vs. PAL - almost everything should just be 24 frames per second on the disc (or 30/60 for interlaced sources). But many UK sites and distributors still put the UK DVD time on the UK Blu-ray packaging - either so things look standard and people don't wonder why the Blu-ray is longer, or just because they don't pay enough attention to these really small details on the packaging. But when you actually play the UK Blu-ray disc, it should be the exact same amount of time as the US disc (minus different MPAA or BBFC warnings at the beginning and end of the film).

As for why the Canadian release is labeled differently, I'm not sure. May just be the whim of the studio, as I'm not aware of any regulations preventing "Unrated" from being in the title up there.

Dust Devil · 02-20-2009, 11:28 PM

I think it's just because the US loves to use the word "Unrated"

Even if there's just a couple of minutes more dialoge then there was in the theaters they put a big "unrated" on the cover.

lugesingle · 02-21-2009, 04:02 AM

A lot of the times the unrated cut of a movie is whats played in theaters up here in Canada. Maybe that's why it is not on the Canadian cover?

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02-18-2009, 02:06 PM	#44
blu-mood Active Member Member since:Jan 2008 Location:Ridgewood, NJ 4K collection:121 Blu-ray collection:390 Trading Score:7	Just watched this last night. Good movie, not great, but better than a lot of the horror dreck that was released last year. As reported before, a lot of the CGI effects were obvious and terrible. Worth a rental, but I'm glad I didn't buy it.

02-18-2009, 03:27 PM	#46
Dust Devil Senior Member Member since:Aug 2008	After a little searching I think that there's NO difference between the "Director's cut", "Unrated director's cut" and the UK "Extreme edition". Untill anyone else can confirm......

02-18-2009, 05:48 PM	#47
liuu Member Member since:Nov 2007	As much as I want to see this movie, I'm gonna wait until this director's cut and unrated cut confusion is cleared up.

02-19-2009, 02:17 AM	#48
ThriceBB Senior Member Member since:Oct 2008 Home Theater Gallery:23 Blu-ray collection:261	here is the one i received from amazon. it is the unrated cover and the run time is 100 mins.

02-19-2009, 04:13 AM	#49
koreyman Active Member Member since:Aug 2007 4K collection:12 Blu-ray collection:717 Blu-ray reviews:1	LOL when I first saw this title I thought it was Porn

02-19-2009, 05:03 AM	#50
t0nythebeat Special Member Member since:Sep 2008 Blu-ray collection:211 Blu-ray reviews:38 Trading Score:2	The Unrated Director's Cut is the only version available next to the Theatrical Version.

02-19-2009, 05:08 AM	#51
Dust Devil Senior Member Member since:Aug 2008	But there hasn't been a theatrical version released on any disc or is there? I think in the US they have the banner with "Unrated director's cut" in Canada they have the "Director's cut " banner and in the UK "Extreme Edition", but they are all the same cuts. So all UNRATED....that's what I think.

02-19-2009, 10:55 AM	#52
nekromantik Blu-ray Ninja Top contributor Member since:Dec 2008 Location:Bristol, UK Home Theater Gallery:4 4K collection:4 Blu-ray collection:549	In the UK MMT was released in cinemas for a short period. That version is 97mins while the UK DVD is 98mins. Now if you consider speed diff between theatrical versions and dvds then you can see its about 5 or 6 mins longer then the theatrical as dvds are usaully 3 or 4 mins shorter.

02-19-2009, 06:46 PM	#53
snoman_99 Expert Member Member since:Sep 2008 Location:Your Momma, Oklahoma 4K collection:524 Blu-ray collection:3423 DVD collection:48	got this in today! we'll be checking out later tonight yay!!! I too thought it was a porn flick. Jason told me he ordered a movie for us called Midnight Meat Train, and i said wtf hahahaa. He had to prove too me that it was a horror movie and not a ***** movie hahahaaa. Jen

02-20-2009, 03:46 AM	#58
neo_reloaded Banned Top contributor Member since:Jan 2008 Blu-ray collection:416 Trading Score:72	In the UK, you aren't allowed to release any movie that says it's "Unrated" - so instead studios release UK flicks with taglines like "Director's cut" or "Harder Cut" or "Extreme" or whatever. That explains the name difference. The second issue is the time. For DVDs, US releases are NTSC, and UK releases are PAL. PAL operates at a different framerate, so there is a slight speedup. That's why UK versions of movies on DVD are a couple minutes shorter - those fractions of a second aggregate over the whole film, resulting in slightly shorter runtimes. For Blu-ray, there is no concept of NTSC vs. PAL - almost everything should just be 24 frames per second on the disc (or 30/60 for interlaced sources). But many UK sites and distributors still put the UK DVD time on the UK Blu-ray packaging - either so things look standard and people don't wonder why the Blu-ray is longer, or just because they don't pay enough attention to these really small details on the packaging. But when you actually play the UK Blu-ray disc, it should be the exact same amount of time as the US disc (minus different MPAA or BBFC warnings at the beginning and end of the film). As for why the Canadian release is labeled differently, I'm not sure. May just be the whim of the studio, as I'm not aware of any regulations preventing "Unrated" from being in the title up there.

02-20-2009, 11:28 PM	#59
Dust Devil Senior Member Member since:Aug 2008	I think it's just because the US loves to use the word "Unrated" Even if there's just a couple of minutes more dialoge then there was in the theaters they put a big "unrated" on the cover.

02-21-2009, 04:02 AM	#60
lugesingle Member Member since:Oct 2008 Location:Edmonton, AB Blu-ray collection:8 Trading Score:6	A lot of the times the unrated cut of a movie is whats played in theaters up here in Canada. Maybe that's why it is not on the Canadian cover?

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