Terminator Salvation and other 'Director's Cut's

Galvasean

Was on HMV's website today and they are offering on BluRay the 'exclusive to HMV' director's cut of Terminator Salvation.
Just wondering what differences there are between the two versions and if it's worth picking up instead of the regular one?

Oh, and if anyone replies with "Who cares, the film sucked!" or similar responses their posts will be deleted so don't even bother.

BlitzKrieg

who cares the movie really did suck and google is your friend

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/08/26/mpaa-rates-terminator-salvation-directors-cut-r-for-some-violence-and-brief-nudity/

http://www.thehdroom.com/news/Confirming_Terminator_Salvation_Directors_Cut_Run_Time_on_Blu-ray/5764

iMax

It's Mod Vs Mod. Two Enter. One Leaves.

(there's about three minutes of extra footage including a nude scene & more blood AFAIK)

BlitzKrieg

It's Mod Vs Mod. Two Enter. One Leaves.

hmmm I'm trying to work out who's worse off, the one who has to leave or the one who has to stay behind and clean up after you lot?

qz

The one who saw the film in the first place, load of shíte!

BlitzKrieg

back on topic.

Dear Sir/Madam

I as a high up FOX executive have come to a wonderful conclusion. Since we have this thing called franchises which we regulary take our pants off and take a big sh*t about and we have these people who willingly eat it up in the cinema but will refuse the home edition. I propose we introduce a plea of artistic cry of defiance to convince them for second helpings. We will get whatever hack director who made the film to cry that his vision was squandered for the sake of ratings or us evil execs *ho ho ho* and those people who call themselves fans will willingly lap up the dvd, but not only that but we could stamp it on the *special edition* dvd/blu ray and make even more of a bundle, recovering from the damage of giving the franchise to such idiots in the first place. We have already let paul w.s anderson try this policy out a number of times promising that the *best scenes* were cut from his director cuts from some of the biggest franchises he has worked on and put the blame on us. It has proven to work and we wish to continue it with MCG today.


Your's sincerly

THE GUY F*CKING YOU IN THE ASS!

that sums up the whole affair nicely and is exactly what is happening. Dont bother.

Galvasean

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

who cares the movie really did suck

Cheeky monkey!

iMax wrote: »

It's Mod Vs Mod. Two Enter. One Leaves.

Only one Mods this forum

iMax wrote: »

(there's about three minutes of extra footage including a nude scene & more blood AFAIK)

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/08/26/mpaa-rates-terminator-salvation-directors-cut-r-for-some-violence-and-brief-nudity/

Kudos for the responses. Doesn't sound worth the extra pennies.

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Galvasean

Thread re-opened due to a very interesting PM I recieved. (try to guess who it was from)

Exar Khun

McG?

BlitzKrieg

Galvasean wrote: »

Only one Mods this forum
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only cause I was at the cinema when they offered the position


Anywho. Director editions tend to be scams more often then not. Especially with franchises like this.

Case in point I mentioned Paul W.S Anderson earlier

This is his defence of AVP when it was in the cinema:

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/863/paul-anderson-talks-avp-cut

"About the studio's cutting of the film, which he had no control over, he said, and I quote, "All of the best scenes were cut." Anderson was obviously very annoyed at the way the film was released. However, this was not purely because of the PG-13 limitation, which incidentally, the studio enforced THREE WEEKS before the release date! It was always going to be R until then.

Part of the reason for the cutting was that some of the effects were not ready by the time the release date came around. The effects team had very little time to do anything.

As far as the content that was cut, apparently we see all those who die, die on screen, but he also said that there is a sub-plot that we will have to wait for on DVD. Yes there will be an R-rated Director's cut DVD although they don't know the release date yet".

from the films wiki

John J. Puccio of DVD Town remarked that the extra footage contained "a few more shots of blood, gore, guts, and slime to spice things up...and tiny bits of connecting matter to help us follow the story line better, but none of it amounts to much."[40]

Anyone who has seen the director's cut of AVP know this is complete bullsh*t

And as much as I would love to rip on the studio system as much as any other stranger on the internet, there are many cases where it is used to excuse a sh*tty movie from a sh*tty director.

The problem with the internet is everybody reads it, even the sh*tty director.

Kipperhell

I can seem some director's cuts have value but it certainly has been a marketing ploy for a while now. Maybe we should start a thread with a list of director cuts worth seeing.

indough

it depensd on the director, obviously enough i suppose

someone like james cameron now id pay the extra

someone like michael bay or roland emmerich, not so much

indough

although i wouldnt buy their movies in the first place admittedly

BlitzKrieg

it depensd on the director, obviously enough i suppose

someone like james cameron now id pay the extra

James Cameron is notorious for director cuts. Aliens, terminator 2, the abyss, titanic all had immense director cut versions.

Oliver stone while not always good films, takes the notion of director's cut much more literal seeing as alexander got completely recut when he did it (twice)

and he tends to add 25-30 minutes onto his.

indough

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

James Cameron is notorious for director cuts. Aliens, terminator 2, the abyss, titanic all had immense director cut versions.

i actually like them though

what do you mean by notorious, i mean in what way?

BlitzKrieg

that they always happen. There's no point buying any of his films when they first hit dvd/vhs as a director's cut will show up and will most likely be better (he's not a chancer like MCG or paul W.S Anderson.)

indough

oh i see yeah, i always wait anyway haha

Galvasean

I saw the director's cut of T2 before the cinema released one. When I saw the latter I was thinking, "Wow, how could they have left those bits out?!"