The Director's Cut was advertised with 140 Minutes Runtime. The Cabal Cut is 145 Minutes. So I was thinking, this is almost complete! I could not wait!
Only to find when I played it, it had a run time of 120 Minutes. WOW!
Shout Factory never advertised the film as 140 minutes, so it isn't false advertising so much as websites like Amazon.com who apparently can't read. They just read "forty minutes of new/alternate footage" and slapped 40 minutes on to the old run time. Speaking of which, plenty of sites got the run time correct, and it was easy enough to simply look at Shout Factory's page to get your information since they are the ones that made it. Ever since this was announced back in July via specs for the release, it has been made clear that this was NOT the Cabal Cut and was instead the director's cut. All Shout Factory can do is put out the truth. If others can't be bothered to get the details right...
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Whose idea was it for the word LISP to have an S in it?
I'm looking at the cover of the LE set right now and it says 120mins. Maybe online retailers incorrectly listed the run time, but that's not Shout's fault. Also, the Cabal Cut is essentially a fan edit, whereas the DC is Barker's preferred vision. I sure don't feel ripped off. Quite the opposite, in fact.
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