Great movie but I would've edited
921300
Great movie but I would've edited,shortened,tightened up the first 45 minutes.  Great Gore effects and music.  The director should do a re-edit and this could be a cult classic.
1995164
I love this movie- I think it is one of the sweetest movies ever. So when I decided that I needed a DVD after my old video finally croaked I was thrilled to find it here on Amazon. Unfortunately several scenes have been cut on the DVD including my favorite one, where Patrick Swayze's character delivers a much deserved thrashing to an abusive husband. The scene is about half the length it is on my old video & a couple of others are shortened as well. This is a wonderful movie & I hope to find an uncut one on DVD somewhere.
2063837
I loved the book but missed the movie when it came out. I put off buying the DVD because I couldn't see the lead actors as Russian. Finally I bought it and enjoyed the movie, except that William Hurt's attempt at sounding Russian was pretty bad. He sounded more British than anything else. A coach could have been used; or better yet, a Russian actor. Or no accent at all. If the movie was made today I bet they would have fixed that, but at the time Hurt was really hot and you have to sell tickets.

Anyway, enough of this; if you can suspend your disbelief about Hurt's accent, the movie is interesting and engaging, and it was a great story. I did think the detective solved the case rather suddenly; it might have been better to reveal the plot more gradually. But movies have to simplify things to be watchable.
4614841
This version has been edited!!!! I do love this movie and own the original on VHS. In this DVD version they have edited out the words "damn" (which is only said twice in the original). I felt like it was unnecessary to do so. I was a kid when I watched this movie on VHS, I certainly was not affected by hearing the word "damn". Just a little disheartened that they would edit the words out, felt like it really gave the UMPH the lines needed. Oh well. Still a great movie though.
572992
I read the book before seeing the movie, and I'm glad I did, because if I had seen the movie first I would have been really dissapointed by the book, which is much sadder. The movie was really well written and acted and I actually really like the changes that were made. The book was so, so good, and that made me concerned I wouldn't like the movie because I knew they had made some really pretty pronounced changes. But honestly, it's made so well and there's so much heart in what they did I'm glad I got to see what I'll call the "revised" version. Four stars for not sticking more to the source material just on principle, but I really did like it very much.
2328604
This was messed up in edit. The cinema screen was seriously chopped to fit a small TV screen. I can't imagine why anyone would make such a mess. So, I couldn't really assess the film. The problem was the transfer from movie format.
3440899
Supergirl has long been one of my favorite movies.  I'd catch it on TV when it was on and even recorded one version with my VCR.  But the one problem was that I was at the mercy of the TV channels, editing the movie as they saw fit.  Therefore, I'm glad that I bought this movie, the full 124-minute version, with all the scenes together, even ones that I don't think I had ever seen before.

The movie itself is great.  It's fast paced; it's inspirational, with a naive and scared teenager having to use her intelligence to save her people; it's got great acting, especially Faye Dunaway's inspired mad performance; and so forth.

The DVD contains the full version of the movie, as well as director's commentary--with director Jeannot Szwarc and historian Scott Bosco talking about the movie as it's playing.  It's an interesting take on it (particularly on the Phantom Zone scenes) and is obviously candid, since the director does embarrass himself a couple times.  Supposedly, there's also the theatrical trailer, which I'd love to see, but I can't access it with my DVD player (I'm sure it's just a problem with my DVD player and not with DVD itself).

Amazon does have an error, though.  Amazon claims this is rated PG; however, this version is unrated, because it's ten minutes longer than the PG-rated version.
1970476
Wonderful film, although, Dennis Quaid and Olivia Wilde's parts were completely unnecessary to the plot. Story would have been better without them. That is the only reason I give it a 4 instead of a 5. Other than that, fantastic.
3198745
Now having reread the book and watched the film, I felt the director did a good job overall modernizing the story (although the political undertones were somewhat overdone).  The biggest issue I have is that I couldn't get myself to watch the entire movie in one sitting.  As I watched, I constantly felt that some seconds could be trimmed here, a longer scene gone there... and in the end, I think you could cut the running time by at least 10 minutes (to possibly as much as 20) and it would have made much easier to watch.
1883232
The base story is quite good. I liked the movie in most of the scenes. Is a bit heavy on special effects, some overly spectacular/over done magic. However very short scenes with quick scene changes made it confusing and hard to follow. I rate the editing as C-. A re-edit would make this movie an A or 5 star.
1597246
This was a well done movie.  Effects were amazing.  The screenplay was really well done.  I would have given this 5 stars if I hadn't just read the book.  The changes necessary to bring this to the screen were just too fresh at this viewing.  I am sure that after some time, I will watch this again and Love It.  Next time I will wait until after I have seen the movie to read the book!
3481676
This is a great classic movie with a good story. It didn't need all the cgi of today's movies. I like the original just fine and all of the bonus features, but don't think it needed 3 different version disks with minimal changes.

They added a very minuscule scene of the spaceship interior. I could have done without it or they could have made it more interesting. I rarely agree that it is better to leave endings or spaceship interiors to the imaginations of the viewers, although I'm not saying every movie always needs either. I just don't sit around long after the movies elaborately imagining what I might see or what an outcome is or sit and draw up my own story, it's their story and ideas.

They discuss the size of the set being the largest of it's time and how they made mbay scenes and how they chose the cast.

That's all I recall at the moment.
4624537
Very well done film, gritty and probably very close to the truth of what happened and how information was obtained. However, the length of the film was problematic. I don't know how it could be shortened and they probably edited as much as they could without reducing the impact.
1115257
I have been a fan of this movie for years. I owned the 2 tape VHS version and was so happy when it was finally released on disc. For those who have never seen the film, this version will certainly suffice and Julie Andrews is irresistable. However - I was very disappointed to see how much of the original was cut. Interesting and important scenes are left out - Jerusha on her wedding day bidding her sister farewell - scenes aboard ship and when Abner was ill from the shark bite. Scenes that may not have been ultimately necessary to the plot, but leave spaces in the general storyline when left out.  Had I known that so much was missing, I would never have gotten rid of my VHS tapes. I would say if you have the means to play them, buy the tapes instead.
3686336
Donnie Darko is one of the most original and compelling films ever made.  I give the movie a firm 5 stars.  For details of the film, read the other reviews.  Suffice to say that it's a haunting, brilliantly cut film-noir with very interesting characters and superb acting by the entire cast.

The Director's Cut, however, lacks.  I firmly believe that director's cuts should add new footage, not change existing footage.  With 20 extra minutes, there's a new scene here and there, but the most obvious changes are in the way certain scenes play out.  The eyeball thing every time Donnie encounters Frank the rabbit doesn't quite seem to fit, and the time travel sequence at the end is just way to busy-looking to be enjoyed.  I much preferred the simplicity of the way that scene played out in the original.  A few tiny segments have been cut entirely, and that bothers me because in this movie, it's the little things that make it interesting.  The 5.1 surround sound has also been re-edited, and again, I prefer the original.  During the Sparkle Motion scene at the talent show, the sound quality of the Duran Duran song is terrible, but halfway through, it fixes itself.  The picture quality is far worse than the original cut.

All in all, I think the original is better.  The excerpts from the "Philosophy of Time Travel" book is a nice change though.  Rent this first before you buy.
1535731
it is a great movie I just wished the had joined it to put it all together instead of having part one and part two I mean come one I know it was a tv movie but when you take a movie and after 20 years finally release it foe sale to the public make it all one part that is very distracting to watch a movie and then have to switch to part two the is a bad thing.
1405158
This version was highly edited. I would have appreciated an uncut version.