bigbadwoppet Feb 23, 2019 @RyanP: Bad strategy from Sony. If the extended cut had been included on the regular BD more people would have likely updated, since it's only been released on SD. People tend to dismiss that cut as it's only 8 minutes longer than the theatrical but what's really interesting is that it wasn't created expressly for home video (as, say, Gladiator, which includes additional credits) but was released without much fanfare by Sony as it already existed. It is, in essence, a pre-release cut before the last pass of editing trims that brought the running time to under 2 1/2 hours (the subplot involving Tom Hardy and Ewen Bremner is located at a different point of the timeline) so Scott was clearly involved in it. The fact that he approved its inclusion on this release proves it. I find it interesting as the inclusion of these bits do not alter the overall pacing. Eliminating a complete scene that doesn't work as part of the whole film is easy to see but if people had watched this cut first, they wouldn't have been able to point their fingers at "obvious choices for deletion" as the whole film is made of intersected stories. The exchange of looks between Hartnett and Shepard at the end of the film is something that should not have been cut. I prefer the film with those 8 minutes in.