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What version/score you prefer?

posted 11 years ago by Nick7080
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Personally, i like theatrical version better then director's cut. I'm not sure did Albert Pyun really wanted to release movie in version that is his director's cut back in the day, but since it's mostly just some lousy workprint i can't really say that it was his intention.

As for the score, i really don't like music in theatrical cut. While workprint/director's cut has in my opinion better score it's badly edited with what is happening onscreen, but like i said, it is workprint so maybe there was still some editing to be done before movie was to be released. But on its own original score by Tony Riparetti and Jim Saad is quite good. I specially liked original opening theme and fight scenes tracks.

Anyway, that's my opinion about versions of the movie and scores for them. If anybody would like to give his commments about this, go ahead.

[–] SeasonalAffective 11 years ago

I prefer the theatrical score and cut. I understand Kevin Bassinson's score is considered cheesy and "cheap"-sounding, but I think one of the reasons this movie has such great atmosphere is because of it. It's actually quite effective.

[–] Herreken 11 years ago

I've only seen Pyun's cut once so I can't decide which one I like better...because I honestly don't remember what was different about Pyun's cut except for Fender's death. But I do remember the theatrical cut having a better score. Other than the music used in Pyun's opening (which I really liked) I didn't think the score was that great.

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[–] wantutosigh 11 years ago

I still have yet to see the director's cut. But I love the score of the theatrical version. It really creates such a thick distinct atmosphere.

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[–] Gmork76 9 years ago

The theatrical version. Slinger has some value for the new scenes but as a whole it's crap with the change of storyline.

[–] Leto II 9 years ago

Yeah, theatrical cut all the way. While Pyun's director's cut does feature maybe one or two interesting new bits (namely, the added scene involving the discovery of the basketball-kid's gnawed corpse), Pyun inexplicably neutered much of what made the movie so interesting and entertaining.

For instance, completely deleting the attack on the fishing-settlement, not showing Gibson's blade exiting from that one dude's back, and most of all the much vaguer questline involving Pearl (changed from finding a plague-cure in the theatrical print to the much fuzzier and less-specific goal of "restoring technology" in the director's cut...WTF?).

The theatrical version has a clearly-defined, concrete, tangible goal, whereas in the director's cut, Pearl and Marshall might as well have been sightseeing the Statue of Liberty ruins while in NYC for all the reason they were actually there. To say nothing of Pyun's repeated trimming-out of much of the gore and violence that the "R"-rated theatrical cut gives us.