Recent content by Sean Richardson

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...