Kevin Roegele
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With the new (or original depending on how you look at it) version of Superman II finally to be released on DVD soon, let's take a look at other films which would be rather different without having large ammounts of footage chopped out.
Mimic - Almost a classic film. Released in the same year as Alien Resurrection, I consider Mimic a far more worthy follow up to the Alien trilogy. Atmospheric build up, doom-ridden atmosphere - and then generic action ending demanded by the studio and test audiences. The original showing of Mimic had a completely different finale - as the survivors escape through a manhole cover to the streets, they call for help to the people around them. Who aren't people....while they've been fighting the bugs below, the bugs have taken over above ground. How's that for a apocalyptic twist cliffhanger ending?
Directed by Del Toro, Mimic also has some really disturbing scenes - such the kid Choi being able to communicate with the bugs and telling them to kill someone - cut out. Choi was never rescued originally - he stayed with the insects in the tunnels, the race he could communicate with. Great stuff.
Del Toro and his fans are campaigning for a director's cut.
Superman IV - Sure you know about this, but Supes IV was originally two hours long, whereas the version you've seen is 90 minutes. There were initially TWO Nuclear Men, more stuff between Clark and Lacy, and more between Supes and the kid Jeremy.
Some of this will appear on the new Supes IV DVD.
The Wicker Man - The original 70's ilm is considered the best British horror film ever, and Christopher Lee regards it as his best ever movie - well, the original version that is. Unfortunetly no-one has ever seen the original version, Christopher Lee says it buried under a road somewhere in England.
http://www.steve-p.org/wm/script.htm - pictures of cut scenes, includes nudity
Mimic - Almost a classic film. Released in the same year as Alien Resurrection, I consider Mimic a far more worthy follow up to the Alien trilogy. Atmospheric build up, doom-ridden atmosphere - and then generic action ending demanded by the studio and test audiences. The original showing of Mimic had a completely different finale - as the survivors escape through a manhole cover to the streets, they call for help to the people around them. Who aren't people....while they've been fighting the bugs below, the bugs have taken over above ground. How's that for a apocalyptic twist cliffhanger ending?
Directed by Del Toro, Mimic also has some really disturbing scenes - such the kid Choi being able to communicate with the bugs and telling them to kill someone - cut out. Choi was never rescued originally - he stayed with the insects in the tunnels, the race he could communicate with. Great stuff.
Del Toro and his fans are campaigning for a director's cut.
Superman IV - Sure you know about this, but Supes IV was originally two hours long, whereas the version you've seen is 90 minutes. There were initially TWO Nuclear Men, more stuff between Clark and Lacy, and more between Supes and the kid Jeremy.
Some of this will appear on the new Supes IV DVD.
The Wicker Man - The original 70's ilm is considered the best British horror film ever, and Christopher Lee regards it as his best ever movie - well, the original version that is. Unfortunetly no-one has ever seen the original version, Christopher Lee says it buried under a road somewhere in England.
http://www.steve-p.org/wm/script.htm - pictures of cut scenes, includes nudity