Waterworld ABC Cut? A ton of info - see McFly's posts for details (Released) — Page 16

Those look beautiful! Suggestions:

1) I'm having a hard time with the guy with the telescope on the back, a complaint made worse by the fact that it was MY IDEA! I think it was better without him.

2) I just added another Special Feature (sorry!) For both discs: "Subtitle Track that informs which scenes were deleted"

3) Also, I used the font Copperplate Gothic Bold on all my menus, so if we're going for unity, you could toss that in (though really I think it looks fine the way it is). It's really a nice cover.

Also, if anybody wanted to include (in whole or in part) my "About" writeup from the DVD menus, here it is:

Waterworld: The Ulysses Cut is a fan-made preservation of the extended cut of Waterworld which has been aired on television but never released on home video. Waterworld is a film notoriously re-cut by the studio after locking the director out of the editing room, and this preservation is an attempt to show some 40 minutes worth of material that was exised. 

To do this, a number of television broadcasts were compared and compiled with the goal of presenting the most complete version so far, including the extended television scenes as well as the original theatrical obscenities.

This two-disc set has been made possible by the Original Trilogy forums (www.originaltrilogy.com), with particular contributions from ReverendBeastly, shepp74, and Jaiman Tuckuh.

Before owning this, you should have already purchased the Theatrical Cut from Universal. This extended version should be freely distributed and shared until such time as Universal decides to fund and release a proper Director's Cut. If such a thing ever comes to be, this disc should be recycled in the pit.

Nice work edskizzorhands, I like it.

Well done Mcfly89 for finishing this one, I just looked back through the thread and I last posted nearly 2 years ago asking for a copy of this before you got involved. I can't wait to get a copy, not that I know when I'll get the chance to watch it.

Thanks for all the hard work.

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:

cant wait for this. also will postman extended be comming up next because i never knew there was an extended version but i would love to see it.

great covers, all of you!

edskizzorhands, do you have back covers as well?

Shouldn't the covers include some unseen images?

hi everybody,

the past 30 minutes where pretty exciting as i was reading trough the many postings of this thread. since i heard of the extended version broadcasted in the us i was eager to have a look at it myself. but unfortunatly back here in germany whe are as always at the bottom of the entertainment food chain and so i propably will never see it... but now as i've discovered your impresive work there is again hope and a ray of light in my otherwise hopeless existence :)

so what the hell am i supposed to do to get my fingers on a copy of that??? and yes, i actually do own a original copy from universal on dvd, so this shouldn't be a problem :)

anyway, i'd like to thank you in advance for the promising work you've done for this in my opinion much underated sci fi flick. it may not be art, but sometimes i like to be 12 years old again and go for an adventure.

good day

Heyho,

Really exciting! Thank you very much for this great preservation! I hope it will be released soon :)

Any update on this?

Sorry--double post

BigFood said:

Any update on this?

I'm waiting on edskizzorhands for his completed cover. If I don't get it within the week, I'll just post the torrent as-is and viewers can download his cover separately. I know you guys have waited a long time!

Dang it.  I had the TV version of Braveheart on VHS for years.  I recently moved and tossed it because I haven't watched it in years.  Sorry. It's gone.

mcfly89 said:

BigFood said:

Any update on this?

 

I'm waiting on edskizzorhands for his completed cover. If I don't get it within the week, I'll just post the torrent as-is and viewers can download his cover separately. I know you guys have waited a long time!

edskizzorhands said:

mcfly89 said:

BigFood said:

Any update on this?

 

I'm waiting on edskizzorhands for his completed cover. If I don't get it within the week, I'll just post the torrent as-is and viewers can download his cover separately. I know you guys have waited a long time!

 

I sent you the cover over a week ago ;o)

Well, I never recieved them, so I'll PM you my email address again.

Can't you put it up on ebay for sale?

crocky said:

Can't you put it up on ebay for sale?

..... Don't you think that's illegal bud?!....