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I'm a huge Ridley Scott fan, and I've always felt Kingdom of Heaven was cheated -- the theatrical version was terrible, no question, but I've heard many reviews that the director's cut is incredible. Similarly, the Gladiator: Director's Cut is supposedly far superior to the theatrical cut. And, though I don't like to admit it, I want to see why people overwhelmingly prefer the director's cut of Daredevil to the theatrical version, though I have far less faith in that one turning out well.
But Netflix (apparently, unless I'm doing something wrong) doesn't have any of them! Neither does Blockbuster Online, and I doubt the retail stores would be any more helpful. Does anyone know how to suggest movies to Netflix?
quote:Originally posted by Lalo: [QB] I'm a huge Ridley Scott fan, and I've always felt Kingdom of Heaven was cheated -- the theatrical version was terrible, no question, but I've heard many reviews that the director's cut is incredible. Similarly, the Gladiator: Director's Cut is supposedly far superior to the theatrical cut. And, though I don't like to admit it, I want to see why people overwhelmingly prefer the director's cut of Daredevil to the theatrical version, though I have far less faith in that one turning out well.
I remember hearing a director (forget the name) say that he didn't like releasing "Director's Cut" versions of his movies because it implied that there was a much better version of the film that, for whatever reason, did not make it into the theaters.
All this time, I've been hoping he was wrong and that the "Director's Cut" label was just a clever advertising gimmick.
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GreenCine is a DVD-by-mail company that carries a lot of the more obscure DVDs. I think it's only got mailing centers on the West Coast though. I'd like to try it for at least a few months sometime so that I can get to see stuff like the director's cut of Almost Famous.
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quote:Originally posted by Synesthesia: There is a way. I suggested they get the extended Edition of L of the R and they did.
What a long shot that request was too. Surprised they didn't laugh in your face!
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Have you guys seen the load of Blu-Ray disks that are on netflix now??? When did this technology fall out of the sky into our lives? I'm really not ready to buy a new player right now, and my parents still have a VHS deck in the kitchen of their house! VHS!!!
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And nice, plaid! It has everything I've named except Gladiator: Director's Cut. I'm hesitant to give out my credit card too often over the Internet, but it might be worth it.
quote:Originally posted by Synesthesia: There is a way. I suggested they get the extended Edition of L of the R and they did.
What a long shot that request was too. Surprised they didn't laugh in your face!
:sarcasm ended:
Have you guys seen the load of Blu-Ray disks that are on netflix now??? When did this technology fall out of the sky into our lives? I'm really not ready to buy a new player right now, and my parents still have a VHS deck in the kitchen of their house! VHS!!!
I wouldn't get too worked up about Blu-Ray. Unless Sony's fortunes change drastically, the format's not coming anytime soon -- and with holographic media on the way in a few years, Blu-Ray's already outdated before it even hit the market. Besides, HD-DVD has backwards compatibility -- I don't care how many studios Sony has in its pocket, nobody's going to want to replace their entire DVD collections unless there's a significant upgrade in viewing experience.
It's going to be interesting watching Sony crash and burn, and again over a blinding need for a proprietary format. It's like Wile E. Coyote...
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quote:Originally posted by Lalo: [QB] I'm a huge Ridley Scott fan, and I've always felt Kingdom of Heaven was cheated -- the theatrical version was terrible, no question, but I've heard many reviews that the director's cut is incredible. Similarly, the Gladiator: Director's Cut is supposedly far superior to the theatrical cut. And, though I don't like to admit it, I want to see why people overwhelmingly prefer the director's cut of Daredevil to the theatrical version, though I have far less faith in that one turning out well.
I remember hearing a director (forget the name) say that he didn't like releasing "Director's Cut" versions of his movies because it implied that there was a much better version of the film that, for whatever reason, did not make it into the theaters.
All this time, I've been hoping he was wrong and that the "Director's Cut" label was just a clever advertising gimmick.
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I'll be damned if I can remember which movies they were, but all the director's cut versions of movies I've seen have been vastly superior to theatrical cuts. The only obvious example I can think of offhand are the LotR movies -- a great deal of the plot was cut out from the theatrical versions so all the action could be included within the time limit. I hated watching TTT in theaters.
They tend to be longer, but I'll suffer the butt cramps for the greater exposition. Besides, it's a good excuse to keep my woman on the couch with me.
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quote:Originally posted by Synesthesia: There is a way. I suggested they get the extended Edition of L of the R and they did.
What a long shot that request was too. Surprised they didn't laugh in your face!
:sarcasm ended:
Have you guys seen the load of Blu-Ray disks that are on netflix now??? When did this technology fall out of the sky into our lives? I'm really not ready to buy a new player right now, and my parents still have a VHS deck in the kitchen of their house! VHS!!!
I wouldn't get too worked up about Blu-Ray. Unless Sony's fortunes change drastically, the format's not coming anytime soon -- and with holographic media on the way in a few years, Blu-Ray's already outdated before it even hit the market. Besides, HD-DVD has backwards compatibility -- I don't care how many studios Sony has in its pocket, nobody's going to want to replace their entire DVD collections unless there's a significant upgrade in viewing experience.
It's going to be interesting watching Sony crash and burn, and again over a blinding need for a proprietary format. It's like Wile E. Coyote...
Are you kidding? Sony's proprietary formats have a history of being ubersuccessful, against all odds.
Look at CDs. Look at MemoryStick. Look at friggin' UMDs!
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quote:Originally posted by Synesthesia: There is a way. I suggested they get the extended Edition of L of the R and they did.
What a long shot that request was too. Surprised they didn't laugh in your face!
:sarcasm ended:
Have you guys seen the load of Blu-Ray disks that are on netflix now??? When did this technology fall out of the sky into our lives? I'm really not ready to buy a new player right now, and my parents still have a VHS deck in the kitchen of their house! VHS!!!
I wouldn't get too worked up about Blu-Ray. Unless Sony's fortunes change drastically, the format's not coming anytime soon -- and with holographic media on the way in a few years, Blu-Ray's already outdated before it even hit the market. Besides, HD-DVD has backwards compatibility -- I don't care how many studios Sony has in its pocket, nobody's going to want to replace their entire DVD collections unless there's a significant upgrade in viewing experience.
It's going to be interesting watching Sony crash and burn, and again over a blinding need for a proprietary format. It's like Wile E. Coyote...
Are you kidding? Sony's proprietary formats have a history of being ubersuccessful, against all odds.
Look at CDs. Look at MemoryStick. Look at friggin' UMDs!
Er. I'm not sure if you're serious here, but you're definitely inconsistent. Compact discs were massively successful (and definitely not proprietary), but the other two... weren't. Memory Stick is exclusive to Sony products and, in truth, a miserable failure in terms of storage-to-size-to-price proportion with SD cards -- SD quickly becoming the de facto default for flash memory, again because it's an extremely open standard. The only one that beats it, to my knowledge, is CompactFlash -- but those have quickly become irrelevant thanks to their relatively large size.
And UMDs are the laughingstock of the industry. Sony charges as much for them as they do for regular DVDs, and they've sold so miserably that, as I recall, Wal-Mart recently sent them back. Nobody carries them, nobody buys them, nobody wants them. And Sony's too pigheaded to open the standard so others might perhaps invest in and thereby expand the market for the technology.
Sony's edge in the HD war is that it has most of the movie industry in its pocket, and Toshiba's standing lonely with, I think, only one or two major studios. But they suffer from the fact that HD screens offer relatively little upgrade in exchange for their high prices, and Blu-Ray -- unlike the backwards-compatible HD-DVD -- forces consumers to replace their DVD collection entirely. I don't see Sony winning this. It might be that Toshiba will lose too, but I do not see Sony winning.
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