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The only thing about the ending that I like at all is Deckard's reaction. The way that he looks at it, takes it in for an almost angry beat, and then shrugs it off as if it doesn't matter. I like to think that moment is Deckard reacting to how stupid and arbitrary the twist is, and then deciding...

I don't see how anybody can argue with Ridley Scott; this cut makes it absolutely clear that Deckard is a replicant. Any sort of explanation as to how he might not be is not in the text, and, no matter how good it is, will always have a "No-Prize" feel to it. I mean, if I watch 'To Serve...

This will probably seem pedantic to some, but my understanding was that Ridley Scott gave them a list of things he wanted to do and approved the final product (which only did some of these things), but was not involved in the day to day editing and subsequently declared that that "director's...

Depends what you listen to. I've seen both 'Gladiator' and 'Black Hawk Down' re-releases referred to casually as "director's cuts" -- 'Gladiator' especially -- but the packaging (as far as I can tell) indicates "extended edition". Both of these, as far as I understand, are just deleted scenes...

is he expecting it to street before or after the 'Spy Kids' SE, the 'Spy Kids' box set, the 'Faculty' SE, and/or the 'Roadracers' SE? He confirmed all of those at least a year or two ago. To be honest, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure none of them has been released yet. And, unlike...

Post-'Killer's Kiss', this is basically true, although I'm pretty sure that '2001: A Space Odyssey' is officially credited as an original screenplay [which is somewhat based on Clarke's story, 'The Sentinel']; the novel '2001' is a novelization of the screenplay Clarke and Kubrick wrote together.

If you "got" it, then why are you asking people to explain the ending to you? Just so you understand, I think it's possible to get it and not like it, but if you're asking "How am I supposed to feel about the ending?", it does kinda sound like you didn't get it. (Which is also a reasonable...

I think people are annoyed when, after 10 minutes of ads, the lights dim further, and then there are 10 more minutes of trailers. For me, the annoying thing about trailers is when they're wildly mis-matched. Like going to see 'The Simpsons' and seeing four ads for a bunch of kiddie CGI...

I have no direct knowledge of the situation, of course, so don't take this as gospel... But I have worked in an office for many years. I would bet that what happened was, these conversations were had a higher level, but nobody included the people who actually physically do the DVD stuff in...

Are you suggesting that Criterion is able to get their product in major outlets? Unless you're counting stores that sell at full MSRP as "major" (in which case, those stores also carry most Blue Underground titles), I don't know what you mean by this. If you walk into a Best Buy or Circuit City...

I personally wouldn't want them to include "The Novel" in the same DVD set as the proper cuts, because it would force the set to be much more expensive, and I'm getting tired of studios releasing multiple cuts in the same package because multiple cuts market better than deleted scenes. There are...

A lot of vocal fans prefer the '99 Dean Cundey approved transfer.

Great, so I just have to make it over to England... :) Hopefully, the other "lost" footage is just as findable as this was. Thanks for the info.

Yeah, I don't expect it to be a superior cut (if it were, he would surely have made it the primary released cut, or spoken of it as his preferred version, or something). I'm just curious about it. The fact that Kubrick cut it that way himself makes it such a unique oddity. As Adam said, given...

I wasn't saying that the pie fight footage didn't exist. I was saying that when I heard about the BFI screening (thanks for the specifics, I didn't remember what/where it was), I initially dismissed it as BS because I had heard for years, from various places, that Kubrick had destroyed the pie...

I'm not saying that that is true or that it is not true. But people said the same thing about the pie fight in 'Strangelove' for years, and, from what I understand, that did screen somewhere shortly after Kubrick's death (I did not believe this myself until I read the playbill). So it's possible...

Terry Jones (and maybe Gilliam as well) has said that they prefer the DVD cut. Apparently, the DVD cut represents their initial cut, but there was a little joke cut out at the insistence of the studio, or maybe the other Pythons ("Nobody will get it") before they premiered it at some film...

They aren't as good as they used to be, because they've gotten stuffed with crap that won't sell, so the good stuff is harder and harder to find. I would say Mondo Kim's video, which is on St. Marks (8th st) between 2nd ave and 3rd ave. [There's also a small store called, I believe, Norman's...

It has been acknowledged in some way by the company (who, at different times, assigned the blame to everybody they could think of except themselves). It wasn't exactly public, but it was made public pretty quickly by various people. Gilliam has said they're working on fixing it, but nothing...

I have never seen this movie, but it already sends way better than 'Date Movie', 'Epic Movie', and, yes, even 'Scary Movie'.

that's interesting because I felt exactly the opposite. I felt like 'Planet Terror' was trying to have it both ways -- deliberately badly acted, deliberately written by the numbers, deliberately cheesy, etc. -- which seems to miss the spirit of the original grindhouse movies, where they were...

As I understand it, they're saying it was originally theatrically projected at 1.66, but that this was a compromise on Soderbergh's part, where the 1.33 is what he actually intended.

I am not familiar with the specifics, but is it possible that Romero prefers the full-screen transfer for that movie? I know he did for several of his other movies (although he has recanted on 'Martin', I still think the screencaps for the fullscreen look more right; he has stated a preference...

Does Peter O'Toole have two volumes worth of memoirs covering pre-"Lawrence" stuff, or is it just not chronological?

I saw a screening of that; it looked fantastic, but the sound was ugly. It seemed like nobody had done a clean-up on that. (I suppose it may have been the theater, but I don't think it was.)

Maybe I'm crazy, but I can't understand watching any of these four movies again. Of course, I saw all four, so I probably am crazy. Also, I own 'Battlefield: Earth'. My main beef with 'The Avengers', aside from everything everybody here said, was the utter waste of Eddie Izzard. Of...

True, but it signals the beginning of the new "Did they say when they're going to release it yet?" era. [Possibly preceded by a brief "When are they going to officially announce it?" epoch.]

How many stores are you talking about? If it's a bunch, it must be regional for some reason, but if it's just one, it sounds like the store is getting ready to close but not telling the employees yet.

Tarantino publicly lobbied for them to let him direct 'Casino Royale', starring Pierce Brosnan (my understanding is that he thought Brosnan was a great Bond but had not yet been used in a great Bond film), doing it like the book, stripped down of all the crazy stuff that has become synonymous...