ROTTEN TOMATOES: American Theaters Getting Shorter Cut of Babylon A.D.

American Theaters Getting Shorter Cut of Babylon A.D.

U.S. to retaliate by creating shorter "European cut" of Alvin and the Chipmunks.

by Jeff Giles | November 08, 2007

Oh, those greedy Europeans. It isn't enough that they have universal healthcare and the Alps -- now they're getting longer cuts of our movies, too. Will they stop at nothing?

Twitch reports (via the production's MySpace blog) that Babylon A.D. -- the Mathieu Kassovitz-directed adaptation of Maurice Georges Dantec's Babylon Babies novel that debuts on American screens February 29 -- will be released in two versions. Look, it's all right here:

There will be two versions of the movie : A shorter version for the US cinemas and a longer director's cut for the European moviegoers!

According to Twitch's source, the European cut will be two hours and forty minutes long -- giving Europeans that much more of Michelle Yeoh as a nun, not to mention precious extra minutes of the long-awaited acting summit between Vin Diesel and Gerard Depardieu. The world is grossly unfair.

Source: Twitch
Source: Babylon A.D. MySpace

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Gimy writes:
on Nov 08 2007 05:04 AM

its because us fat americans don't have the attention span for this kind of...uh...wait, wha?

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xenogears writes:
on Nov 08 2007 05:16 AM

But we have plenty of movies that are that long here in america......ok, well a few. American gangster is asbout that long and held my attention the entire time.
o well. I'll just download the euro version then.

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Elixor writes:
on Nov 08 2007 05:31 AM

WTF, It's not like the long version is four hours long, it's only two hours and forty minutes.

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lonechicken writes:
on Nov 08 2007 06:33 AM

"Bang go the bells! And all is well!"

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jeremyd4 writes:
on Nov 08 2007 07:03 AM

would this be for censorship reasons?

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Astr0creep writes:
on Nov 08 2007 07:05 AM

How long is the North American version?

2h40?

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Metafact writes:
on Nov 08 2007 08:41 AM

Vin Diesel's new brainless action flick is two hours and forty minutes long?!? Maybe the Europeans are the ones getting screwed...

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Heath H. writes:
on Nov 08 2007 08:56 AM

Wasn't 'Spider-Man 3' four hours long? What's the big deal?

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MattBaerFTW writes:
on Nov 08 2007 09:22 AM

i thought spiderman was like 10 hours long...thats how long it felt like it was when i was sitting at the midnight showing.but no if the euro version is that much better (which is highly debatable with a movie like this) then yeah just dl it....im a sucker for action so i will probably check it out

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Hamboner writes:
on Nov 08 2007 10:11 AM

Perhaps Europeans don't care about extended edition DVDs the way we Americans do, and it therefore is not as financially justifiable to develop this film as two seperate products. In America, I am sure they are planning the theatrical relase as a DVD set and also an extened edition/Director's Cut. It makes money when they do that here (think X-Men 1.5 and LoTR) and they're probably looking to create demand for the DC earlier than usual (hence there are articles and reports on it).

To me it is all a mute point because this film doesn't seem very promising. I haven't liked Vin Diesel in anything but Saving Private Ryan and Pitch Black

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highdough writes:
on Nov 08 2007 10:28 AM

Apparently Canada isn't getting a version at all! Strange. We've got universal healthcare, we should get the longer cut. Seriously though, Canadians always seem to get screwed and get the US cut even though our Canadians aren't nearly as prudish as American audiences supposedly are.

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devine622 writes:
on Nov 08 2007 11:10 AM

Who cares, this movie is gonna suck anyway

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Behind The Wall writes:
on Nov 08 2007 02:35 PM

Lonechicken, don't forget about that rockin' masterpiece "The Kid Goes Wild" from another masterpiece, Robocop 2. Best band evah.

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Behind The Wall writes:
on Nov 08 2007 02:40 PM

I used to have their cassette but my headbanger girlfriend at the time got mad at me for sleeping with her sister. She broke it and threw it on her front lawn along with my Whitesnake tape. Man, those were the days.

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lpbreeze writes:
on Nov 08 2007 03:44 PM

I was going to write a comment but I forgot what I was going to say

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Bane Of Anubis writes:
on Nov 08 2007 11:03 PM

I love the universal healthcare slant... Anybody ever been to a V.A. -- b/c that's what universal healthcare in the U.S. might amount to... Unfortunately (which I'm sure HD would agree) we ain't Europe (can we say extended vacations) and we ain't Canada.

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fresh25 writes:
on Nov 21 2007 09:09 PM

sucks hope the movie is tight

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OldeThom writes:
on Aug 06 2008 12:28 PM

The true villian behind this is not Hollywood, Europe (or the rest of the world), the industry, or politics, it is a US public that has allowed itself to be duped into thinking they should not sit long enough to watch a film as it was intended (but sit through the commercials by all means.) The whole idea behind this is get to them in quick, out quick and on to the next thing, whatever it is. Consume, dispose, consume, dispose, ... like lab rats moving from one piece of cheese to the next in a not so elaborate maze. Collectively the US public (me included) is just one big commercial experiment and the majority don't care. So, we wait for the DVD director's cut ...

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dontknow252 writes:
on Aug 22 2008 10:18 PM

In reply to this comment (#1264184)
Hmmmm...I don't know about everyone else, but when I pay to see Vin Diesel, I want my money's worth, anything less than 6 and a half hours is a rip-off!
(Don't hate on me, this comment was a joke, its hard to lace the comment with sarcasm with just text)

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