Elektra Director's Cut coming in November.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/el...ws.php?id=3070

No big surprise there. ANd I don't mean simply because there was a director's cut to Daredevil. It was obvious that a lot got left on the cutting room floor with this one. I'll keep an eye out for this one but with mild interest, as I doubt its director's cut will be a fantastic improvement the Daredevil director's cut was. (Now if Rob Bowman would push Touchstone to release a director's cut to Reign Of Fire.)

Exactly. I am not surprised one bit. Haven't seen this movie, but the "R" rating has made me want to see this.

wow.

color me surprised.

Fox has done it again! I'll need to think twice now before picking up their new releases.

Expect Sideways to get an anouncement pretty soon. Even heard talk about What the bleep do we know to get the SE double dip treatment.

yeah... insanity.

I am glad I did not trust Fox enough to purchase the previous edition. Fox blatantly lied about the deleted scenes and what was actually filmed.

I actually wouldn't mind that.

You know, Hollywood is wondering why people aren't going to the movies much anymore -- We all read the whining: ticket sales are slumping a certain percent, blah blah blah-- So, my question is: if the 'theatrical' cut of a film isn't the version the Director had intended to be shown in the cineplex, why bother with the hassle of going to the movies at all if it'll be out on DVD less than a year later complete and intact?

I don't get all this hypocrisy from Hollywood and the MPAA. It gets me angry that Director's Cuts/Expanded Editions are becoming more prominent on DVD than ever...and, damn, I forgot my point...but you get the basic idea.

Well no, you make a good point. A more recent example is Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven, where an over and hour longer director's cut was talked about even before the theatrical release. So why go spend [whatever amount] at the theater for an incomplete movie, when later on down the line the complete version comes out on DVD for not much more than the movie ticket.

These days, when we go out, my wife and I go to concerts and live shows.

Movies wait until the DVD comes out, and we rent them from Netflix.

More and more the only DVDs of theatrical films we actually buy are special editions. I never even considered buying the initial version of Elektra, but based on seeing it as a rental I might well buy the SE.

I don't know what the movie industry can to to recover ticket sales. It was bad audience behavior and poor projection quality that drove me from the theaters, not concern about seeing an "incomplete" version of the film. It's still pretty rare than a longer cut turns a movie from bad to good. If it was bad to begin with, I'm probably never going to be interested in a "director's cut."

RichC

That's an excellent example.I planned to go see this when I first heard about it,but once I found out about the longer cut coming to DVD I decided to pass on seeing it in the theater.

The day the studios double dip on movies like Gigle or From Justin to Kelly, the end is near.

Anybody pick this up? I held off when I saw it on sale today because the runtime is only 99 minutes (the theatrical cut was 96 minutes). I was hoping maybe the bulk of the new cut was in alternate footage but the review here says different. But one thing I find really curious is that the back of the box claims they remixed the audio for this edition (which is a good idea since the theatrical cut only sounds adequate) yet the review says the audio mix of the DC sounds exactly like the audio of the TC. Is this the same experience of those who bought this new cut?

Had this movie been made in the 20's, I could see the audio needing an upgrade. However, this is probably just a ploy sucker in DVDphiles to double dip. There really wasn't anything wrong with either track on the original.

No, the audio was not bad. It was just dull compared to most recent action films. When I saw the info on the back of the box I assumed they were remixing it to something closer to the awesome sound mix of Daredevil. Oh well.