Just sounds like you're an old fuck, Ash.

Also... I got excited thinking we had some news on that longer and better cut.

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It all sepends on the movie. If a movie is good it does not feel long because you are absorbed by it. Not long ago I saw 2 movies that were long, 1900 (5hrs & 17 min) & Alexander (3hrs & 34 min). 1900 was so good it felt like a 2 hour movie while Alexander was so crappy it felt like a 10 hour movie. I have seen Once Upon in America 3 times and it does not feel like it is 3 hrs & 49 min. For me it feels shorter because of it's excellence.

Oh and by the way The Master is IMO right up there with There Will Be Blood as PTA's best film.

I heard there was a longer version and even though I loved the original long version I would buy a new dvd cut of this movie. I didn't like the flashbacks and if the new footage would fix that up. Like the movie ends on a flashback of DeNiro.

"Who are you people and where is my horse?"

I gotta remember that one at the next family gathering.

My years long search for the short version finally resulted in locating a copy of the VHS release on Ebay yesterday. I just about gave up on this title, since the short version is so obscure, and I've never run across a copy at various used media stores or Ebay, despite keeping an eye out for it. So since I hadn't looked up the title in quite some time. I did a simple search through the VHS section, and my jaw dropped when I saw the single copy of the short version available for only $7 with free shipping. It wasn't even listed as the short version or anything. So I just had to take a chance at viewing the auction since the box pictured looked smaller than the others and just 'different'. And sure enough, it's the one tape 139 minute U.S. version!

Well, I was at my "next" family gathering and I completely forgot this line. Thanks for bumping this thread after Thanksgiving.

I'm still waiting for this film will like over here. Looked like shit when they added the stuff to it.

i just watched the new dvd and the added scenes are o.k. the one new scene i liked is where does deniro go after he rapes elizabeth mcgovern.

I remember seeing the shorter cut on cable many years ago. I had seen the longer cut already at the time, so all I remember about the shorter cut is scenes were shown in a different, more chronological order and made the movie seem disjointed. The different scenes in the shorter cut just didn't flowed together very well.

I didn't think it was confusing, though, maybe because I had seen the longer cut and already knew the story.

Me, too. Just out of curiosity. Watching the extended cut last night I can't imagine that a linear edit would make as much sense. Events in the different time periods provide explanation and context that a linear edit wouldn't (not nearly as well).

But I finally watched this extended, "Director's Cut." I've seen the 229 minute version from the 2 disc DVD about a decade ago, but I hadn't watched this version until now.

I heard all about the color desaturization, etc, etc, on the Blu Ray. Supposedly, this was done in part to make the inserted (previously lost) footage less jarring. The desaturated color isn't bad. It's not like it barely looks like a color movie. The colors are actually somewhat more realistic this way. It doesn't look bad at all. The inserted footage? Looks like crap. Awful. I'm 100% sure that a frame by frame digital/computerized restoration could have made it better. But DAMN, that would be time consuming and expensive. And it still wouldn't look as good as the rest of the movie.

That extra footage - mostly dialogue and character development - makes this an even better movie. Don't forget, Leone filmed 10 hours worth of stuff for this one! He wanted to do a 6 hour, 2 part cut (told over two movies). I'm sure that would have been amazing. Sadly, I suspect all that footage is gone.

But if you like (or love) this movie, the extra footage really is good (aside from the picture quality issues).

This movie is a masterpiece. I had forgotten just how great it is.

i fucking love this movie when i first saw it. it was and is a masterpiece. i have yet to see the extended cut due to it's daunting run time, but i can't wait and has been in and out of my queue several times. i feel it is a Leone film that gets overlooked bc he is so known for his westerns, but this is a gangster classic.

Ahhhh...to come back to this thread after several years and the first post I see is this one.