Extended cut
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Darcsyde01 — 14 years ago(January 26, 2012 07:18 AM)
Maybebut I recall the ad saying it was a "extended version" of the movie which, if it was the original theatrical version, they, as a movie channel wouldn't say. And I've never known a pay channel to round the time of a movie up that long. The original version has since run on the same channel several times and it was never advertised as such, nor was the time rounded up.
And, as I've said, my friend in Tampa (who use to run a rare VHS rental store) remembers having it as a "European cut".
So, who knows?
I'll keep looking at conventions, etc. because one never knows what one will find there.
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ekmyers — 14 years ago(January 26, 2012 08:29 AM)
Though I remain sceptical, I wish you luck in your search. Please keep us posted. I hope you come back to tell me I was wrong!
ekm
Writer/Director ROULETTE
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laurence01 — 14 years ago(January 27, 2012 04:26 AM)
What is in the extended cut that is not in the regular cut?
You miss the point of my reply. If what I said is true (and I do mean if because it was only a guess) then there is no extended cut, just the theatrical cut and the shortened one. -
Darcsyde01 — 14 years ago(January 27, 2012 07:16 AM)
please read the whole thread.
I saw this listed in the TV guide playing on Encorea pay movie channelNOT regular TV so there would be no reason to air the "shortened version" seen on regular TV.
Also the listing clearly said "extended version" to list it as such and then to show the theatrical version would be false advertising, and in all the years since, when they show the theatrical cut, they don't list it as the "Extended version".
Lastly, A friend of mine who use to run a rare VHS rental store use to have it as a "European Cut" but his tape had long degraded as to be unwatchable, so, to date, I haven't found it and don't know what the difference is aside for it being slightly over 3 hrs long.
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koppmeier_kevin — 14 years ago(January 27, 2012 07:40 PM)
I found this on wikipedia:
According to Boorman, the film was originally three hours long; among scenes that were deleted from the finished film but featured in one of the promotional trailers was a sequence where Lancelot rescued Guenevere from a forest bandit.
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jh66 — 14 years ago(February 11, 2012 09:01 AM)
According to Boorman, the film was originally three hours long; among scenes that were deleted from the finished film but featured in one of the promotional trailers was a sequence where Lancelot rescued Guenevere from a forest bandit.
I'm in the UK where they don't usually cut films like they do in the US, and have never seen this version with that trailer clip. We have the long 2hrs 20mins version.
I don't even know why it was cut from the final.
If the c.3hrs version ever did exist, I'd like to hear about it here? This was the debate about
Caligula- many supposed versions and now it is not banned but out on dvd?
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preppy-3 — 13 years ago(April 19, 2012 06:37 AM)
I talked to a friend who knows all about "Excalibur". He said the original cut was three hours BUT never released. The director himself cut it down to 140 minutes and he said the material he took out either didn't work or slowed the movie down too much. So there WAS a 3 hour version but it was never released and the director is happy with the 140 minute version. Maybe Encore thought they had an extended version but didn't. They're made mistakes on the running times of their movies before.
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jandrbailey — 13 years ago(April 22, 2012 11:53 AM)
Watched the blu-ray this morning with Boorman's commentary. He said what your friend said most of the stuff cut from the initial version was from the wastelands section of the film. He felt the trimmed down 140 minute final cut was much better.
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charles-bailey — 13 years ago(February 10, 2013 01:18 PM)
Please SEE the "Production" portion of this Wiki on the making of the film http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excalibur_(film)
-Charles W. Bailey
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thomas998 — 13 years ago(September 13, 2012 11:32 AM)
I think the problem may simply be that the movie was 140 minutes, which is exactly 2.5 hours it was not unheard of in the day for a movie on encore to extend beyond the normal hour or half hour cut off time by as much as 15 minutes if a movie had over played by 15 minutes and ran until 7:15 it is then entirely possible that the TV Guide could list Excalibur as starting at 7:00 and ending at 10:00 Now look at someone how is writing the mini reviews in the TV Guide he isn't going to look at the actual time of the movie he is likely going to just look at the grid which makes it look like a 3 hour movie.
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Darcsyde01 — 13 years ago(September 14, 2012 08:33 AM)
Again..I recall the ad saying it was a "extended version" of the movie which, if it was the original theatrical version, they, as a movie channel wouldn't say. And I've never known a pay channel to round the time of a movie up that long. The original version has since run on the same channel several times and it was never advertised as such, nor was the time rounded up.
And, as I've said, my friend in Tampa (who use to run a rare VHS rental store) remembers having it as a "European cut". But it might have been a bootleg of the original 3 hours versionI have seen more than a few movies like that floating around
So, who knows? .
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usafa93 — 13 years ago(August 19, 2012 08:40 AM)
I would wager at least half of the people reading this post have scoured the Net for any trace of the elusive "extended cut." If it ever existed it would have been, by definition, a bootleg. It also would have been found and accessible. I think this extended cut (or European cut) is a false memory. No offense to the OP, but all the evidence (lack of) points to that conclusion.