I'm perfectly satisfied with the original Blu-ray of this film and based on this review it looks like I will be for years to come. But the continued inclusion of multiple versions here makes the existing Blu-ray of Bedknobs and Broomsticks even more unforgivable.* If they revisited this film on Blu-ray, will they do the same for this, and if so, when? And will it just be a rehash of what we already got or something to really do it justice?
*This fall, IgerCorp is treating the butchered travesty that is the 117-minute theatrical cut to two 45th anniversary screenings in SoCal, which is about as many as the restored version, the only one with any moral right to exist, has gotten in 20 years. Once you see where stuff has been cut and how that cutting created continuity errors and loose ends, you can't unsee it. Why should we be forced to? Normally a repertory screening of this film is a cause for celebration, but not only will I not be at these screenings, I told them why on Twitter at @elcapitan. I told them that my boyfriend and I would gladly have made the trip down for the uncut version. But for the short version? Nope. I saw it enough times already when that was the longest version that already existed, but if anything longer than that had existed, I would have watched that. Shorter is NOT better if it creates story problems that weren't there before.
*This fall, IgerCorp is treating the butchered travesty that is the 117-minute theatrical cut to two 45th anniversary screenings in SoCal, which is about as many as the restored version, the only one with any moral right to exist, has gotten in 20 years. Once you see where stuff has been cut and how that cutting created continuity errors and loose ends, you can't unsee it. Why should we be forced to? Normally a repertory screening of this film is a cause for celebration, but not only will I not be at these screenings, I told them why on Twitter at @elcapitan. I told them that my boyfriend and I would gladly have made the trip down for the uncut version. But for the short version? Nope. I saw it enough times already when that was the longest version that already existed, but if anything longer than that had existed, I would have watched that. Shorter is NOT better if it creates story problems that weren't there before.
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