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Albert Pyun's Director's Cut version of Cyborg


Well having now seen Mr. Pyun's last cut of the film I can say I am kind of torn. There are things about his last cut that I prefer and things about the theatrically released cut I prefer. First off Mr. Pyun's last cut made a little more sense as far as storyline goes. The cut we all saw before and loved or hated always felt a little disjointed and vague. The Director's Cut has more dialog and feels a little more whole. Though to be honest it still seems a little vague. The music in the Director's Cut is progressive rock from the late '80s. Either you like that or you hate it. Personally I am as torn about the music as I am about the movie. I prefer the music in the Director's cut at times, in places, certain tunes. But honestly it was a bit overdone at other times and actually a bit annoying. Yet with the Theatrical version the synth style music I liked some of it and thought it worked well but also found some of it annoying as well. I suppose in the end I prefer the theatrical music simply because I didn't find it overdone at any point as I did with the Director's cut. OK moving on from the music and the extra dialog revealing a bit more story. The Director's cut was shot with a few more flashback moments (But not new scenes we haven't seen) making more sense to the story at times. Ultimately though I'm not sure I like this any more then the theatrically released version. Personally if they find this in studio archives and can put it on bluray I would wish to have both theatrical and director's cut versions for the bluray.

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A director's cut on this obscure film! Gotta give the director credit for this! Although the only thing this movie got going for it is the outrageusly bad dialogue,story and that extremely gay ending fight scene! Had to watch it 3 times since my eyes teared so much!

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How can Pyun make a Director's Cut without MGM granting him the rights? It goes the same for the Captain America D.C. I know he was the director of both films but, shouldn't rights be the issue here?

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As part of his severance-package from the film production, Albert Pyun received full and total personal ownership-rights to his Director's Cut version of the movie, which allows him to release it independently of MGM if he so chooses (which he ultimately did).

While for decades this version appeared to be lost forever, it finally resurfaced thanks to his composer, and he was able to release it on Blu-Ray and DVD for the very first time a few years back.

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