Wednesday, May 31, 2006
"Blade Runner" Replicated On DVD- Again
One thing that’s always annoyed the piss out of me is seeing a “Director’s Cut” of a movie. They usually, if not always, do nothing more than make the movie suckier. What most directors don’t understand (due to their freakishly large egos I suppose) is there was a reason that the 75 minutes of extra footage didn’t make it into the movie in the first place. "Apocalypse Now- Redux" is a pretty good example of a great move gone bad, and don’t even get me f**king started on George f**king Lucas and what he did to the original “Star Wars” f**cking trilogy. Ridley Scott did the same with the DVD of “Blade Runner” putting in a craptacular amount of extra (and un-necessary) footage that just make the movie mind numbingly boring and unwatchable. Unfortunately it’s also been the only way you can watch what is by all other accounts, one of the greatest Sci-Fi movies ever made.
Welp, they’ve done it again… the movie will now be re-released in a ultra re-done and re-mastered DVD with the (oh dear God) new Definitive Director’s cut, the old Director’s cut and (thank you) the original theatrical version.
Whew.
Really the only reason why Hollywood does the Director’s cut thing is to squeeze out a few bucks anyway, seems now they’ve pushed the blood out of a turnip a little farther and are charging for what we wanted to see in the first place. It’s a growing trend- Lucas will re-release Episodes 4-6 in its original, fantastic version (if he could just take out all the crap from Episodes 1 and 2 I’d be able to sleep at night). It’s a slimy way to make a few extra bucks from someone who is mind-bogglingly rich anyway, and it pisses me off to no end that I have to jump through all his hoops, yet for whatever reason I’ll be the first in line to buy it.
Damn my geekieness, damn it all to heck!!
Welp, they’ve done it again… the movie will now be re-released in a ultra re-done and re-mastered DVD with the (oh dear God) new Definitive Director’s cut, the old Director’s cut and (thank you) the original theatrical version.
Whew.
Really the only reason why Hollywood does the Director’s cut thing is to squeeze out a few bucks anyway, seems now they’ve pushed the blood out of a turnip a little farther and are charging for what we wanted to see in the first place. It’s a growing trend- Lucas will re-release Episodes 4-6 in its original, fantastic version (if he could just take out all the crap from Episodes 1 and 2 I’d be able to sleep at night). It’s a slimy way to make a few extra bucks from someone who is mind-bogglingly rich anyway, and it pisses me off to no end that I have to jump through all his hoops, yet for whatever reason I’ll be the first in line to buy it.
Damn my geekieness, damn it all to heck!!
