{"id":580,"date":"2003-09-18T16:15:51","date_gmt":"2003-09-19T00:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=580"},"modified":"2026-06-08T07:47:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:47:35","slug":"directors-cut-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Director’s Cut Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hmmm. I’ll grant that “Alien” is probably the best sci-fi\/horror hybrid movie ever made. Good lord is it scary. But now Fox is set to ruin it with a new “Alien: The Director’s Cut<\/strong><\/a>” coming out next month. If the added footage contains any<\/u> of the deleted scenes that were included as extras on the original laser disc<\/strong><\/a>\/dvd<\/strong><\/a> “Special Editions” then, man, is it gonna suck. Watching the deleted footage you could really see why it was cut from the movie. “Alien” is a tightly wound, very claustrophobic movie. I do think that “more” would make it “less.” Seems like we’re being dumbed down once again to re-visit a “re-imagined” classic … just like that ultra-crappy “Version You Have Never Seen<\/strong><\/a>” of “The Exorcist<\/strong><\/a>.” (Yes. I used a lot of quote marks in this post.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hmmm. I’ll grant that “Alien” is probably the best sci-fi\/horror hybrid movie ever made. Good lord is it scary. But now Fox is set to ruin it with a new “Alien: The Director’s Cut” coming out next month. If the added footage contains any of the deleted scenes that were included as extras on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-9m","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10964,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/10964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}