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Director's Cut? Uncut?

posted 19 years ago by maakar
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I bought this and Guyver 2 on DVD a few months ago, and noticed the first one was HEAVILY edited to PG-13 rating rather than R if I remember correctly. I popped in an old VHS copy of Guyver 1 and saw all of the unedited scenes. What are they doing? I know its been mentioned before, but where can I get an unedited copy on DVD? Without it being a crappy bootleg from overseas? I want a legit copy that I can be proud of...well, as proud as I can be of a cheesy sci-fi flick (:)

Can anyone help? I was disgusted when I saw this. Anyone have any ideas why they did this? What are your opinions?

[–] Chrispy_G 19 years ago

I am sorry I cant help you but they also added in some extra cheesey stuff that was not in before such as the opening crawl, the scen where two zoanoids talking about going to brazil(like zoanoids would ever be allowed any time off any way) some cheesey stuff in the ally scene where sean is mugged and become the guyver like the guy he wrestled with saying he doesnt scare me i have seen him fight then then they all have a retarded group laugh and then mimic seans stance. Also I think the worst of them all is the crappy scene transitions where the screen splits in half to reveal the next scene while playing awful music

[–] dpsycho-1 19 years ago

Yes.... alas I too noticed the recent release of The Guyver on DVD has been cut from R down to PG-13. But why???? Guyver 2 dvd was released the same day with it's original R rating. And whats more, why label it as THE GUYVER DIRECTOR'S CUT? Its nice that small scenes and dialouge were added to give it a longer runtime (92 min as apposed to its original 88 min), but why remove the violence?? That was the best part. They sould have rubbed Brian Yuzna's name of the cover while they were at it.

So the question is... Where do i find an unedited copy??? It's not avilable in the UK. Are there other contries that might have it?????? Please help me, it's not the same without blood and guts :(

[–] Chrispy_G 18 years ago

havent seen an unedited copy, we should start a petition to get it uncut.

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[–] evildead01 18 years ago

Damn so its true then.. My friend got the directors cut dvd and we knew something was differant but we couldent put our finger on it.. I can't believe they toned the violence down. The extra footage makes it even cheesier and I was gonna let a friend borrow it but i'm going againced it now, considering he won't like it anyways, he won't even get to see the good stuff. Why would they change it thats so horrible.

[–] bbwibb02 18 years ago

Wait, I'm confused. I thought the movie was always PG-13. When I first saw the Guyver on HBO when I was little, it was PG-13. When I rented it a few years after that, it was PG-13. When I bought the VHS tape, that I still own, it was PG-13.

...???

[–] slapnutz777 18 years ago

Same here... i remember watching it on VHS with my cousins years back and was suprised to find that imdb had only a PG-13 rating.

I thought it was weird how a movie with "clear head squishing/crushing footage" would be PG-13.

Oh well time to find the VHS at old video rental shops.

[–] AMH57 17 years ago

I wnt on ebay to find the vhs version, and the vhs version is also 92 minutes same as the dvd, is there and earllier vhs?

[–] NaturesMistakes 17 years ago

Yeah, when I was a little kid, I would rent it once in a while (back in 1994). It was always PG-13, although I remember it being pretty violent for that rating (lots of arterial spray). Guyver 2 was much bloodier, and was/is R-rated. If there is a bloodier version out there, I'm all for it.

[–] keith66-1 17 years ago

The version that I've always watched on vhs is 92 minutes long (I'm looking at the box right now.) It also says nothing about a directors cut on the box so I don't know exactly what the director's cut is supposed to be. Anyone have more info on this?

[–] Lightman42 17 years ago

Just watched this thing last night... hadn't seen it in years. What an awful movie. God, could there be a worse way to handle this material? In regards to "the dirtector's cut" I'm not sure about violence. You have to wonder why they would take an ultra-violent concept and make it a PG-13 mess. The answer is of course Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This movie was trying to piggy back off TMNT's success, and they didn't want to eliminate a huge part of their potential market. After all, we all saw it when we were kids... though I would have seen more had it been an R rated movie... and had it been good, it would have made a bigger impact, had a bigger following, and made more money. Hollywoood sucks. I think the annoying transitions with the poorly mixed awful music were added... yea, that fixes everything.

[–] keith66-1 17 years ago

I loved the Guyver when I seen it as a kid, but same as you, years later I found that it was terrible. The suit looks sweet and that's about it.

[–] AMH57 17 years ago

Does anyone know if the 88 minute version is available on VHS anywhere? Or has it always been the 92 minute release?

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[–] glukens1 17 years ago

There is no uncut copy and there never will be. It's always been the same. All the blood and guts that was there before is still there,just as it always was. For example when Sean regenearates as the Guyver inside the jeffery combs monster he uses his elbow blades to cut through him with blood spraying in the process. Just the scene of him ripping out of the zoanoid is enough for an R rating in my book. Chestbusting alien anyone? The death of Dr.Segawa is still in it's full headcrushing glory. One more gory tidbit is when the Guyver rips Michael Berrymore's monserhead clean apart showing the brain inside,with blood shown clearly inside his skull cavity. It wasn't released to theaters for very long so the producers must have tried to sell it by releasing on video with a PG-13 rating. This film alone is more violent and disturbing than any PG-13 film to date in my opinion. Watch it again. More closely this time and you'll see my reasoning.

[–] Chrispy_G 17 years ago

no, no, no, the VHS I used to rent from blockbuster may have had the Pg-13 rating on it, but it had much more gorier footage on it, I am not making this up, I recently rented the VHS from the blockbuster again, and watched it on my TV, while watching the 'director's cut' on my laptop, there is less cheesyness and more violence in this VHS, now about the running time, I forget

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[–] glukens1 17 years ago

It's still the same! Whether you want to admit it or not! The original running time was 88 mins this one is 93 mins only becuase cut scenes were added and transtion scenes. I ask you to watch it again. But there is no difference between these two copies of The Guyver except a few scenes. Overall i don't give a flying *beep* anyway! it's a fun film that is exciting or not whether it's changed or not. I respect your opinion but i'm just giving the facts Only 5 mins were added. The film is rated PG-13 because it follows the ratings board. if it didn't it would be unrated or R. The ratings board is involved in home video releases too not just theateratical releases. would htey lie to you? No becuse they can't. Again it's a good film nonethless but it's no Guyver 2.

[–] Chrispy_G 17 years ago

well, I know there is more violence in the vhs, whether it has the same rating or not, you see more blood splash when the head is crushed at the beginning, you see the one zoaniods arm get ripped off and neck get broken, and you see the female zoanoids throught get slit

doesnt it seem a bit strange that it always cuts short when violence is about to happen? because the film was cut, believe me, I am not saying a pg 13 version on chs doesnt exist, but I am saying that a more violent cut was released on vhs, there is no arguing about it

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[–] keith66-1 17 years ago

The pg-13 rated vhs shows the head crush, the arm getting ripped off, the neck break, and the slit throat. None of it is very graphic and and it is kind of cartoonish, which is why it got by with a pg-13 rating. There is no unrated or R rated version on vhs. Whether or not there are differences in the directors cut dvd, I don't know cause I haven't seen it, nor do I want to.

From MPAA website:

Title: Guyver (1991)
Rating: PG-13
Distributor: New Line Home Video

Title: Guyver Director's Cut, The (2004)
Rating: PG-13
Rating Reason: Rated PG-13 for violence.
Distributor: New Line Home Entertainment
Other: Edited Version

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[–] raggeddruid 15 years ago

Just so everyone in this thread knows, the original Guyver movie has always been PG-13. It was cut for the DVD release because the original version was given an R when submitted for re-rating.

[–] Laserdome-AMH 14 years ago

For those who want to see the movie uncut:

The Japanese version (English dialog, Japanese subtitles) which was released
on VHS and laserdisc back in the days does contain the longer edit of the movie (including the longer dialogue scenes from the so-called "Director's Cut") and has all the violence intact (as is almost always with Japanese releases).
It still is the way to go, plus the Japan LD by KSS Media easily tops the New Line DVD for picture quality.

[–] ilon 8 years ago

Just so everyone in this thread knows, the original Guyver movie has always been PG-13. It was cut for the DVD release because the original version was given an R when submitted for re-rating.

They could release the old VHS cut with the PG-13 rating and the gore in, isn't that the case? In fact now (and back when the DVD came out) they could put both cuts in a disc and still have it all rated PG-13, which is weird. The MPAA is dumb and this is the perfect example.