I'm surprised with all the chatter on this one, Martin Blythe's never been asked in chat. Never saw it before, but 'cause of this thread picked one up at Wal Mart for 9.99 CAD. Pretty much the price of a rental.
Holy flying shit. This will scare me half to death if ever a 'Director's Cut' is released. Good thing I got used to the scares in the Theatrical Cut. I'm in for it now...
That interview with Briggs was basically just a hatchet piece perpetrated by Briggs. His draft of AvP was over a decade old, and it had been praised for years, so he's basically just bitter over the movie he wrote not getting made.
I think Anderson is a hack with a good eye for visuals, but Event Horizon was pretty solid, and the directors cut was confirmed to have existed right around the time of the films release, namely from test screenings of it. The cut scenes are said to mainly flesh out the characters and put some meat on the story.
Anderson has said he prefers the theatrical cut, probably because it has a minimum of that pesky character development.