Has anyone seen this?
There are two alternate cuts doing the rounds, the 'Director's cut' and the 'Ultimate cut', the latter only available in the US.
I understand that the latter only folds in the Tales of the Black Freighter stuff, the animation style of which I hated so am not bothered about.
So, if anyone has seen the Director's cut, is it any good?
Probably worth pointing out that this is a fanboy question, I liked the theatrical cut but missed some of the scenes that were excised, particularly the death of the first Nite Owl. What I want to know from anyone that has seen the later cuts is, do they work better as films?
My main reason for curiosity is that the Director's Cut is BluRay only in the UK and I have been resisting Blu Ray on general principles. If the longer cut of this is worth it I might be interested though (I haz a PS3 so I can play it, I'm just not interested in replacing X number of DVDs where X is a ridiculous number. In fact, after having replaced pretty much all of my stupidly large VHS film collection with DVD and having decided to largely bypass Blu Ray, next format change I'm just going to download/steal it. Two format changes in one lifetime are enough from my POV (especially as: 1: 3D does not work with my monocular-but-sniper-friendly vision problems; 2: I'm already too fucking old to appreciate all these clarity benefits they are claiming for new TVs. These being the clarity benefits we lost after the switch from high quality CRT TVs)).
/preachy arse.
(if I'm going to buy anything on Blu Ray, it's going to be Blade Runner)
