games03

this from the official Boondock Saints newsletter:

PS... A special edition DVD will be coming out next year (probably Summer 2004) -- and will be incredible. Not like anything you've ever seen if we get our way.

Whooooooooooooo!

Rypro 525

uncut, uncut uncut or no sale.
R1 - ?m ?s - four edits to violence which include:
1) The hotel shootout: This scene has a cut about 7 seconds, showing bloody bullet hits, when the two brothers are hanging on the rope.
2) Rocco shoots the Mafia-Guys in the bar: The headshot and the shot in the chest are cut away on the DVD. You only see the blood coming out of the back of the bench.
3) Shoot out in the pool-room: one scene is cut which shows several bullet hits in the body of the guy who opens the door.
4) Poolroom shootout: The guy that's holding the phone, standing in the back left corner gets shot twice. The second bullet hit is cut out.

mikewendt

The only thing that will get me to upgrade is a UNCUT version.

RyoHazuki

Ouch.

Jericho

Anamorphic? That would be nice...

DonnachaOne

Hmm. Reissue of a Fox title...

... anamorphic, uncut and even, possibly, dts.

REL77

This is great news, Great Great News

PJsig08

Good flick

bis22

I sure hope it's the uncut version. Some of the edits are so obvious and bad it's just painful to watch IMO, especially the bar scene.

fumanstan

Great news. I'll get it

Matt969

I guess this is in preparation for the sequel due out?

Johnny Zhivago

No anamorphic transfer = no sale.

Stick the extras where the sun don't shine and release a proper transfer. That's all I'm interested in.

groovrbaby

I sold my copy of the original a while back. Didn't stand up to the scrutiny of multiple viewings. Strangely enough, though, I just might pick this up.

The Nature Boy

Wasn't that last release pretty well ballywhooed as a SE? I mean, we got commentary and some pretty fun deleted scenes, what more are they adding on to this one? I'll approach this as I do the new Donnie Darko, and definately rent before I buy. But there needs to be some compelling stuff for an upgrade in my book.

Will they be digitally removing the scenerey chewing "Rocco" from the film? Call me crazy, but I live in the heart of mob country, but I've never seen a connected guy who looked like Mick Foley.

EPKJ

No, it was not sold as a special edition. There was hardly any ad campaign for the release. It was word of mouth and the internet that sold it.

Yocke

You mean except for it being uncut and anamorphic? The last release was a misstake, and this is the time to make it right.

weargle

Well, I've only bought two versions of this thing so far ...

atimoc

It better be good, I'm still stuck with my R2 U.K disc that is cut, letterboxed, DD2.0 and has no extras or subtitles.

ArchibaldTuttle

the version I have already is special enough, whens the sequel coming out? I wouldn't be surprised if it went straight to DVD

B.A.

Well, I'm glad I have put off buying a copy of this for so long.

cbloss

Can anyone point me into the direction where to sign up for this newsletter? The cut scenes may not seem like a big difference but the uncut version is so much better.

shrike

Any word in the newsletter about the sequel?

games03

Hahaha! Oh man, you guys are nuts. The sequel is ramping up to be the super duper big all american penis full hollywood glitz and gory glory campaign the first one deserved but for the Columbine shootings earlier that week...

All the info on this and everything else is at the official site:
http://www.theboondocksaints.com/

fmian

Thanks for the heads up. I was literally about to buy the current version. I'll wait till I can see the specs on the new one first though.
Man I hope it hasn't all gone to Troy Duffy's head like it did with the Wachowski brothers.

jough

I guess this film is much loved?

Like Donnie Darko, I've never seen "The Boondock Saints."

Is the current DVD worth picking up or should I wait for the new SE?