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The extended cut of The Abyss is a MUCH more effective film than the theatrical release.
As are the extended cuts from Camerons Aliens & Terminator 2
And the directors cut (extended) of Kingdom of heaven by Ridley Scott is also superiour to the studios version.
With Aliens the story that was filmed got edited out, by putting them in the story made more sense and became fully rounded and filled up some of the plotholes and gave the bad cooperation even a more evil face..
With Terminator 2 it was the same story, more background than before giving the movie more gravitas.
And have you ever seen Kingdom of Heaven the studio version?- It is a poor movie. When the DC from Ridley Scott was released you saw a epic movie that got senselessy butchered by the Studios wishes. The DC was the movie that should have been released.
As far as the tension arc of each respectable film is concerned, I disagree with you on all those films. And here is where The Abyss is so special IMO, the tension arc stays intact in the dc. In fact it even gets better, because the theatrical cut didn´t give the characters any time to breathe.
I´m not saying those other dcs weren´t worth it, quite the opposite. But I tend to enjoy a clearly cut arc of a story, and that is most of the time the theatrical release.
I did have all three the Cameron DC's on videotape before the dvd arrived and have searched for all of them on dvd as well. If you have seen the longer versions you cannot go back somehow.
What I could try thought is restrict myself to one version for a few years, and then switch ;-).
The fact that the movie does not really featur the Alien we all know and love is easily explainable when you see how the AvsP has plundered too much from the possibilties for future Alien movies.
Instead Scott went for a movie about evolution of mankind and Alienkind and the pilots of the derelicts have a whole different view at the mankind of Earth. They actually see the human evolution as unwanted.
In Prometheus 2 I would like to learn why they wanted to destroy mankind and how the Alien actually evolved into the Penishead we know.
Don´t we know that already? It changed its form with every film so far, so it stands to reason that everytime it, er, makes new Aliens, it blends the victim´s DNA with its own.