Okay, tak. Længden på den danske udgave kan også forklare, hvorfor der ikke er noget kommentarlydspor på udgivelsen, da det varer lige så lang tid som "Director's Cut"-udgaven (
98m 41s), og:
In the excellent full audio commentary, director Ryuhei Kitmura and cult author Clive Barker (from whose early short story the film has been drawn) offer a spirited defence of these longer versions, on the grounds that they make better sense of the sequences in which they appear and, in the case of the sex scene, actually reveal something significant about the characters. And as Barker asserts, this was never intended to be "a soft horror movie" anyway.
Not that what we get here is quite a full director's cut. Kitamura, who first read (and loved) Barker's story back in 1987, when the future director was 17, makes clear that he was arguing with his producers about the film's tone and direction long before the censors got a look in, and that many of the more humorous, character-driven scenes have remained on the cutting room floor. While Kitamura was setting out to make what he describes as "not the typical Hollywood slasher", his producers apparently thought otherwise and struggled to understand their director's vision, so that his own cut, completed within just two weeks of the shoot finishing, was then subjected to six months of "producers' cuts". "Art", as Barker puts it, "isn't made of democracy." Fortunately, for the most part at least, Kitamura won out, not least because his preference for unconventionally long and complicated one-shots (without further coverage) left little room for tampering.
Selvsamme anmeldelse indledes med:
This DVD of The Midnight Meat Train (also available in Blu-Ray) has been dubbed the 'extreme edition', thanks mainly to the reinstatement of several gore scenes (and one sex scene) in their full, longer versions (after they had been cut at the insistence of the MPAA for the film's limited theatrical release).
Kilde:
http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/dvd_reviews ... m_id=14538Mere information om "Director's Cut"-udgaven:DVD Verdict skrev:The Midnight Meat Train arrives on DVD in the form of an unrated director's cut, which adds back in about two minutes of gore footage truncated from the film's theatrical cut...
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Perhaps the hand clapping should be saved for a cameo appearance by Ted Raimi who is involved with the film's giant early kill scene and it is an impressive endeavor as it involves Raimi's character getting hit in the back of the head causing his CG eyeballs to pop out landing on the camera and then onto the floor. This is proceeded by a young female slipping on one of the eyes, landing on her back as we get a shot of Vinnie coming at her from her perspective. Chop. The camera pulls back to reveal a glassy eye, a decapitated body and a river of blood. Listening to the commentary you realize a lot of this was cut out in the theatrical release, but it is all here now and it is gory and actually quite fun thanks to the work of Kitamura and his DP Jonathan Sela."
Kilde:
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/dv ... ctor-s-cut
Et billede fra den omtalte scene kan ses her:
http://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/mid ... lu-ray-dvd
Og her er der lidt mere detaljerede beskrivelser af et par af scenerne:
http://www.seanax.com/2009/02/11/new-re ... eat-train/
Jeg håber, at disse informationer kan være med til at opklare sagen.
: tors 27. aug 2009 10:47
