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NEWS: Japanese Highlander Director's Cut Promo Videos Posted




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GATSU



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:15 am Reply with quote
I hope we get the double-dip soon...
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:22 am Reply with quote
What? A Highlander remake? But there can only be one... Laughing

I didn't know this existed, this looks interesting.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:51 pm Reply with quote
They have a lot of work to do if they are going to remake that last Highlander anime. It had great art, but the story was extremely weak.

Why couldn't they do something like the old Highlander cartoon from the lat 90's, that IMO had good story and art!
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:53 pm Reply with quote
Any word on what has been changed or added?
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:11 pm Reply with quote
I hope they change their whole "vengeance" approach. A trained monkey would have become a better fighter faster than MacLeod did in this film. You'd think with the two thousand year difference, he would at least get a little better.

"I brood with generic rage."
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:43 pm Reply with quote
prime_pm wrote:
I hope they change their whole "vengeance" approach. A trained monkey would have become a better fighter faster than MacLeod did in this film. You'd think with the two thousand year difference, he would at least get a little better.

"I brood with generic rage."


Well, he did get better. Besides, he had 2,000 years to get better, which means his enemy also had 2,000 years to get better.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:10 pm Reply with quote
Lowlife187 wrote:
They have a lot of work to do if they are going to remake that last Highlander anime. It had great art, but the story was extremely weak.

I was going to say, you'd have to do more of a director's rewrite than a "cut" to make this movie anything more than utterly generic. The sword fight on the plane wing was admittedly cool, though, and I liked the overabundance of stereotypical Scottish accents in the dub. Razz
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:01 pm Reply with quote
Lowlife187 wrote:
They have a lot of work to do if they are going to remake that last Highlander anime. It had great art, but the story was extremely weak.


You are overreacting, this is supposed to be a B movie. Nobody wants to watch Evangelion in this kind of anime, it's all about blood and action.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:28 pm Reply with quote
Oh God, just stop it already. I usually find Kawajiri's movies decent to pretty good, but I can say that this is one that I actually loathed. I don't think any amount of cuts put back in will save it. Move on, make another Vampire Hunter D movie or something.
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Veoryn87



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:32 pm Reply with quote
I don't really understand the hate for this movie myself. I don't think the story is any worse than your average action movie. But I don't really agree with ANN's low score of the movie or IGN's high score. Somewhere around the middle.

Dargonxtc wrote:
make another Vampire Hunter D movie or something.


That would be more preferable. They're wanting to do another adaptation for volumes 7 and 8 of the novel series. Let's hope it actually happens.
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jdnation



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:59 am Reply with quote
I'm pretty pissed off about this. Had I known that a director's cut was coming I would've held off on buying the version that's out now. If they going to do something like that they should've at least let us know sometime in advance. It was not even a week later when they said that a director's cut was coming...
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:55 am Reply with quote
The director's cut was mentioned back in January. This pagewent up at the same time as the standard edition. I actually ordered it during a buy two get one free special. Since it was the cheapest of three items it was the free DVD. I recently got a "order placed on: Jan 24 2007, item status: Cancelled by manufacturer or per your request, more information" message about my order status so sadly I bought two DVDs and got none free!

This doubly sucks since I also bought the Ghost in the Shell Blu Ray release on January 24th as well and it's status is "Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society BluRayDisc 0.00 On Order From Manufacturer" since it was the cheapest of three DVDs I bought from that set. I wonder if I can get $70 MSRP credit instead of two free unavailable discs here? If only those two discs were not my cheapest choices I would probably have gotten away with a buy one get one free deal instead.
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GATSU



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:18 am Reply with quote
As I mentioned in another thread, Rightstuf does not do accurate information.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:56 pm Reply with quote
jdnation wrote:
I'm pretty pissed off about this. Had I known that a director's cut was coming I would've held off on buying the version that's out now. If they going to do something like that they should've at least let us know sometime in advance. It was not even a week later when they said that a director's cut was coming...

I'm pretty sure it was mentioned in several interviews and articles about the movie back when it first came out in the US. In fact, at the time Manga Entertainment was hoping to have the Directors Cut out by Christmas.

Anywho, I hate double dipping but I'm pretty curious as to what was cut from the original release. Looking forward to it at any rate.
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