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Summary: You like the movie? Get the soundtrack.
Review: I love the extras, I tried to watch the euro version, but I guess I am the classic american they talked about. Having to change and change just to get people to appeal to it. Either or, it's a great movie for anyone who still believes in magic, unicorns, good, and evil. I give it 5 stars.
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Summary: BORING, BORING, BORING
Review: I was stunned to see that this movie was averaging 4 1/2 star ratings from the online reviewers...then I started reading some and realized that the bulk were coming from female viewers. These are no doubt those who colelct angels and unicorns. Hey, nothing wrong with that at all and it makes me realize why they liked the movie. Unicorns do figure prominently and it is one of those sappy romantic pieces of drivel that housewives love to fantasize about. But let's make it clear that this is NOT a man's movie. It's long, slow, lacking in action, and Tom Cruise is horribly miscast. Or perhaps he's not miscast since he's quite obviously no Conan the Barbarian. I'm not sure why this movie deserved an "ultimate" edition. I guess it has develped a cult following among those I've mentioned above. But one viewing was more than enough for me.
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Summary: Not a film, a LEGEND
Review: I'm french. I've never seen the US theatrical version before. It's pathetic ! Burn it and cherry the director's cut for eternity. It's one of my favourite films, simply a masterpiece.
All is magic and beautiful, Tim curry is fanstastic and Rob Bottin's work is terrific. Enter the Legend !
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Summary: Worth the Purchase
Review: The expanded version of the film addsa lot of little things that make the movie make just a little bit more sense. Despite the other reviewer's praise for the original score, I wasn't all that impressed. It just sounded... unpolished. As though the composer had rushed it.
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Summary: A Legendary Fairy-Tale
Review: It took a lot to get me to want to watch Legend with my friend when he bought it in 2002. The movie appeard by the looks of the DVD case to be a classic example of corny 80s fantasy. I was instantly turned off, refusing to watch it. This is the feeling that many people get when they think about watching this movie. However, appearances and conjecture can be deceiving. When it comes down to the kernel of Legend, it is a fairy-tale. That is what it was intended to be. It wasn't meant to be an epic fantasy. It truly was written as a fairy-tale. It is precisely for this reason that people dislike it but in the end find a love for it(almost as though they are embarrassed to admit it). From our youth we have been brought up with fairy-tales, depicting a world more blissful and truly unrealistic than our own. Legend touches at the very heart of this love we have for fairy-tales and their worlds. However, this type of story is almost too embarassing for "mature" teens and adults to watch. However, watching Legend that night at my friend's house made me go out and buy it as soon as possible. This "mature" adult has found that Legend is not too "kiddy" for him. Instead, its simple, graceful story delivers to the best of our memories. I definitely recommend it to non-Fantasy fans as well as fans of Fantasy.
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Summary: Good Flick
Review: I have loved this movie ever since i was a kid. and now that i have gotten this ultimate dvd, it is even better when i'm all grown up. I think this movie catches that virtue of the unicorn, in which is one of my most loved creatures in the world. Therefore, I believe that "Legend" was and very much still is my favorite movie ever.
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Summary: Important info about the Directors cut
Review: I have a review many pages back already but I thought it was important to note this as many folks seem purplexed by the difference in the two versions of the film and how some scenes from the original US release are missing or different.
The edit is NOT a new edit it isn't even the same edit as the original European release. What we have here is an actual honest to goodness, found original edit of the film. It was discovered and decided that it was better than doing a new directors cut.
So what you are seeing is in fact one of the first versions of this film, before any of the "Suits" got a hold of it!
This also explains why some scenes are similar but different too and why some scenes like the Unicorn horn scene from the end of the US version are not in this cut.
Just thought you'd all want to know this.
Excellent excellent film.....
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Summary: What a disappointment
Review: I purchased this DVD based on the reviews for it here on Amazon - and must admit to being perplexed as to how this movie could possibly have gotten the kind of reviews it did...for either version! It moves at a glacial pace, plot line is poor, and many of the scenes are so dark and poorly lit, that much is lost. If you haven't seen this movie, think twice before purchasing it unseen.
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Summary: Less is more?
Review: If you already love this movie, then you'll no doubt appreciate the extra dialogue in the uncut version. However, if, like me, you've had trouble deciding if you like this movie, I don't think the longer version is going to be of any help. My problem is that it never quite knows what it wants to be: is it a kid's Saturday matinee, a horror film, or a sword and sorcery flick for adults? It has elements of all and succeeds as none. Every time you start to get scared, there's a cute joke. Every time you start to laugh, it gets gruesome. I don't think there are any new scenes in the directors cut, just longer versions of the old scenes with more dialogue. There is NOT, as one reviewer said, a different ending. There's just a long unnecessary scene where Tom Cruise says goodbye (for now) to Mia Sara. None of the extra dialogue helps the scenes, and much of it seems redundant. So if you aleady have the original release of this, and aren't crazy about it, I wouldn't spend the money on the deluxe edition.
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Summary: The Good with the Bad
Review: Fantasy is a strange genre. Whether in literary or cinematic form, one must not only evaluate each piece (whether book or film) as a single unit, but also gauge its worth according to specific ideological contributions that the work may make to the genre as a whole. This is because fantasy, although rooted in traditional story and narrative, transcends the page or screen and is ultimately a part of our imagination. Isolated fragments of ideas, even if embedded in an otherwise dismal and/or flawed story, can enhance our way of looking at elements of the genre. This is an especially important point to keep in mind when viewing a movie like Legend. I say this because, although the movie does not deserve the title of "great" or even "good" as a whole, certain parts of the film offer an interesting take on the "fairy story". Indeed, the first 3/4 of the movie, although easy on the eyes, is typical to the point of absurdity. Two forest dwellers (Cruise and Sara) fall in love but end up getting themselves and the whole realm in trouble after endangering the last unicorns in existence. The dark lord (Curry) captures the last unicorn in an effort to destroy it and all the good in the world. This is the classic tale of evil vs. good. The interesting part about Legend is in the way it depicts the sole arbiter of Evil as a direct participant in the battle against Good. Although the force of Good is partially embodied in the unicorn, its specific nature remains elusive and diffuse throughout the film. This is typical as the force of Good is almost never incarnated directly in an intelligent being. But here the tables are turned and we the viewer end up looking mainly through the lens of evil. We even come to sympathize with it. Sure, we feel sorry for the unicorn and the other nice creatures but the lack of a strong protagonist in the storyline prevents any real attachment to the "good" side. Cruise's character Jack is so naïve as to empty it of any real importance and instead our attention momentarily shifts to his companion: a wide-eyed neurotic sprite with the voice of an 80 year old woman (Bennent). But in the end it is Tim Curry's role that overshadows all else. His is possibly the most excellent cinematic display of classic satanic magnificence in the setting of a fantastic realm. He is powerful yet elegant, sly yet noble, and uses reason to argue in favor of the inevitable existence of evil alongside good, an argument familiar to religious thinkers and philosophers throughout the ages and especially relevant in our modern era where moral absolutism struggles against relativism. And we see his evil weave its way seductively into the heart of the innocent character played by Sara. This film leaves me wanting to explore the darker side of fantasy and its possible connections to archetypal religious elements. Indeed, this movie has much potential beyond what it is and it's a shame Scott didn't explore the deeper and darker side of the story. Curry's last lines left me wishing for much more: "There can be no good without evil, no light without dark."
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