skyjedi2005 said:

I have never seen the longer cut of this film. Does it improve it in any way like the longer cut of the postman?

Firstly, where can I see this LONGER cut of The Postman? I'd love to see it!

To answer your question, it was tempting to do a fan edit and hack away the crap, but I opted to put everything in and leave the editing to others. I disagree with Jaiman in that I think it is uneven to watch the three hour version, which is probably why it was created as a "Two Night Event." It's flow is impaired by the fact that they wanted to make it as long as possible. By the time they see dryland, you just want the movie to end (even in the theatrical) but it just goes on and on...

You'd do fine to watch Disc 1 today and then Disc 2 tomorrow, so you're still interested by the time you get to the end. The padding in the action scenes is silly, and I'd rather watch the theatrical for those. Where the extended version really shines is in character development and in placing us in the environment and letting us see the people who live there and how they live. It's a post-apocalypse movie, so this is KEY! Probably more than 50% of the scenes that make me laugh were cut from the theatrical! We get much more of Dennis Hopper being outrageously over-the-top, and a number of minor characters who prove to be amusing. One such character moment opens my final trailer, where Kevin Costner has just run over one of the Deacon's men on a jet-ski. This is the response: