Unrated/Uncut Version MUCH BETTER!
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rogerday1 — 16 years ago(January 21, 2010 08:48 PM)
I believe the 70 minutes extra was just a rumor. They may have had 70 minutes worth of extra footage, but not usable material to properly edit and add.
The 11 minutes extra in the uncut is a significant difference. It is like an alternate ending, or alternate 4th quarter of the movie. So it wasn't just 11 minutes of extra movie, it was all the changed footage of the movie plus 11 minutes of extra footage.
I was very disappointed how this movie got cut short due to the corporate heads putting a stop to letting this movie get completed. Unfortunately, they were going way over budget and were already like 2 years behind schedule with getting it out. So they ended up just having to take what they had and throw it together in a movie for it to hit theaters.
What is that about FilmInformer.com something big is coming? I'd love to find out the director figure out a way to film the rest of the movie and come out with a true version of what it was intended to be! I even bought the book just to read to be able to make sense out of all the gaps they had. -
Chrispy_G — 13 years ago(April 02, 2013 08:56 AM)
The difference is more than 11 minutes. Altogether, it's 11 minutes longerbut it also removes certain moments from the theatrical cut and replaces it with other stuff. I know for example some bad moments and lines are dropped in favor of new/alternate material.
I would venture to say that the ACTUAL difference is more in the 15-20 minute range.
"Today we are cancelling the apocalypse!"
Pacific Rim
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spannungsbogen — 16 years ago(January 25, 2010 08:35 PM)
The uncut version is FLAWLESS(except for the skidoo backflip)
10 out of 10
one of the most intense Sci-fi movie of this decade!
Mathieu Kassovitz is a god, he managed to turn a beep 3/10 theatrical cut to a 10/10 masterpiece! -
Luckz — 14 years ago(December 24, 2011 06:19 PM)
The fighting scenes were beep ridiculous. Like the "your father sent us"-mercenaries who hop around like monkeys what's wrong with those kids? The whole segment involving them was embarrassing. And there's no convo about that with Darquandier later.
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datrax — 11 years ago(May 16, 2014 09:34 PM)
That's to signal to viewers that the "Parkour kids" aren't there to harm them, probably not to upset or anger Aurora (being that she is a superintelligence), and not to mention, following the film's own logic, that Toorop is not someone whose wrath you'd want to invite. In reality this Parkour bit might not make too much sense, but in the film's internal logic it does work.
I sort of agree with spannungsbogen that this film (the uncut version) is a minor if not a major masterpiece. When I saw the theatrical cut years ago I felt there was something wrong, it felt like a studio-butchered movie ham-fisted into a summer blockbuster film, but now I've seen the uncut version it's
completely different
. All scenes suddenly make sense, feel coherent and interesting, and the important scenes are given adequate time to develop. And to top it off this makes the action aspect of the film much more interesting too.
I don't understand what made Fox butcher the theatrical version, perhaps someone high up of whom we know to be extremely religious and conservative didn't like some of its message or how religion is represented, or something bizarre like that. Because I think certainly considering the massive differences between the two cuts,
something
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crescentcomics1 — 15 years ago(April 12, 2010 10:16 PM)
I've seen the uncut/unrated version annnnnddddit's STILL garbage. I'm ashamed to say that I actually paid money to buy the DVD. I'd stomp on it, but well, I don't want to get s#!t all over my good shoes
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fourthdisciple — 15 years ago(October 20, 2010 09:02 AM)
any idea where i can find the uncut version, the one i can find is on amazon.co.uk under the title of 'harder cut' but the product info running time shows 87mins which is the same as the theatrical version? so im confused if this is directors version with the optional version of both or just the theatrical ?
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oldboilerhouse — 15 years ago(October 26, 2010 05:00 AM)
It's 'raw and uncut' the longer version. I think all the blu-rays are the raw and uncut too.
Apparently the longer version is shown in Europe and the US one is the heavily chopped up one, however I was looking at a comparison of both versions and the version shown on Sky Movies in the UK is the shorter edit, same as the US theatrical. The ending isn't quite what it discribes though, Aurora dies in both it's only in the uncut version Toorop narrates that she is a vessel designed for immaculate conception and not to last, then she dies as you hear the babies cry and Toorop closes her eyes. In the shorter one, you know she's dying and Toorop has a tear in his eye as Aurora asks him to look after the twins, but instead of the nurses coming in to deliver the twins it just fades to the twins playing and Toorop takes them back into his house, Aurora still dies, it's just that you don't see it in the cut version. -
BoSox10 — 15 years ago(December 08, 2010 02:10 PM)
ha i've only seen the uncut version and was surprised at how many people were bashing on it cause i thought it was actually really good. so i guess i lucked out and now have no desire to watch the thatrical version
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Myau76 — 15 years ago(December 26, 2010 03:35 PM)
Stop, stop, wait a moment, please. I saw the movie in tv brotacasting and I can NOT believe it is really like that. They fail to broadcast big parts of it, it can't be really so stupid. All that mess and the whole thing finish with a car chase? How they found them in the forest? What about the evil priestess? I hope the uncut version seems more like a real movie, because this is not. It's a bad joke.
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raistian77 — 15 years ago(January 08, 2011 08:33 AM)
This may help it shows where all the changes were made for the Fox brodcast version.
http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=363040
The original European uncut version is much much better and makes much more sense