Although there's no way I will double-dip on this disc, I'm curious to see how this "director's cut" turns out.

Same here.

100% agree :thumbsup:

If the price is right.........sure ill double dip. I loved this move, one of my favs

The one scene that may or might not have been trimmed for an R-rating is actually part of the deleted scenes montage where one of the fighters in the ring is impaled on the wall, it's a more graphic extended scene as the theatrical cut depicts.

I'll wait 'till I hear more details before I make a conscious decision.

I think people are being a little ambitious by thinking that they're going to start limiting their purchases *by next year* because of HD-DVD. Maybe I'll be proven wrong, but I think it's going to be a hell of a long time before that format takes off in any real sense (with reasonable price/decent selection of titles/etc.)

By next year? Nope.

They might be trying ti tie it in with Tripoli?

Is there going to be a DC of Matchstick Men too :-)

GI Jane - The Director's Cut

Gladiator Redux money grab.

The deleted scenes are on the initial release, why bother, give
your money to charity instead.

Cheers

maybe you're right.

but the last thing i remember reading in the hollywood reporter was that they were in talks about a prequel style film. however, that might have changed recently and i missed the article.

Come on, a director's cut of Gladiator? It won Best Picture, apparently Scott did something right. No need to fix something that wasn't broken in the first place.

What we really need is a Special Edition of Blade Runner: The Director's Cut.

He's busy doing Kingdom of Heaven, so I doubt he'll have to time to participate in any DVD releases.

Possible Gladiator 2 Storyline
http://www.countingdown.com/movies/2...tem_id=3278746

Director Ridley Scott on Plot
http://www.countingdown.com/movies/2...tem_id=3198770

those are newer articles than the ones I was thinking of. what i remember reading said that although it was in the works, it was entirely dependent on russell crowe signing on. so i guess he didn't want to do it then.

whatever the case, i'll still be in line to see it.

The "Director's Cut" thing strikes me as a marketing gimmick. I remember hearing Scott say in a commentary or something that he had no intentions of doing an extended version of Gladiator (and possibly other films) . I thought it was on the Gladiator commentary, but can't find it.

The video and audio is already stellar though I wouldn't object to more extras since the original is kinda light. It's got as much as the usual release has these days. Commentary, deleted scenes, HBO special, TLC gladiator documentary, and a featurette on music.

i agree with you on that.

Sony/Columbia said that they want to release pre-recorded HD movies in Blu-Ray by the end of 2005. For me, I am buying a D-VHS deck soon and will just wait to record it off HBO-HD or SHO-HD.

I'm in Melbourne, Australia, and one of our local networks showed the Gladiator : Director's Cut about two months ago. I didn't watch it (wasn't gonna watch that pan and scan crap), but I know I definitely saw an ad for it and read in the paper it had reinsertions of the DVD deleted scenes. Don't know if there were any other changes... it's weird, I've never heard anything else about it and I don't think there is any note of a Director's Cut on IMDB.

don't believe anything that IMDB denotes or doesn't know, there is a lot of inaccurate info from them.

I like the idea of this, but I'm pretty sure I'll take a pass on it. A Blade Runner multi-disc SE however... Now that I'm interested in.

Does this movie seriously need any more fight scenes?


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Ahh, yes . . . another guilty pleasure movie. :D

Depends on how many more minutes they add (or delete). If it runs the same length, forget it man.

No coocoon please.

And i think Matchstick Men Director's Cut should be shorter. No epilogue.

Actually, the extended cut of Alien was released into theaters on Halloween of last year, before the boxset release.
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While some say I am wrong, I think this is becoming more and more common with DVD.