orangerunner

While going through my HD-DVDs I noticed the Miami Vice combo has the Unrated cut on the HD-DVD side of the disc with the original R-rated theatrical cut on the DVD side.

My Miami Vice DVD and Blu-ray only have the unrated version. I'm just curious if this HD-DVD is the only physical version that ever contained the original theatrical cut?

mwbmis

No, it's still available on DVD.

Bluelitespecial

You can find the theatrical cut on all digital platforms.

orangerunner

Thanks, I guess that would've been the logical first place for me to look! I'm surprised they didn't use the seamless branching and just make one unrated/theatrical version.

If I remember, I think Michael Mann mentioned the theatrical cut was his studio-rushed version and not how he really wanted it.

Goonies85

He should've shot it on film, not HD. He was once a great filmmaker but now is kind of a joke...Public Enemies should've ruled, given the awesome book it was based on and the subject matter but he f**ed but shooting it in HD....So many other filmmaker could've made that movie work but he just screwed it up...And I'm a giant fan of Heat...just wish he had done something similar but he was too lazy to do so...

Josh Z

Mann would say that about every movie he's ever made. He's an incessant tinkerer and makes changes to all of his old movies every time he looks at them.

E Unit

Shooting on film or digital has nothing to do with execution. I was very interested when I first read that he was going to shoot on digital instead of film. It was a breakthrough, but unfortunately he was cut short by the limitations of how good digital film could be at that time. Dark’s were absolute crap, then you magnify that on the big screen it made it even worse. Now it’s flawless, but then again he made the movie in 2006.

Yeah, there’s like 4-6 cuts of Mohicans. He jacks with cuts and all sorts of things in just about all of his films.