i just finished watching a divx of the uncut batman beyond: return of the joker (courtesy of cutemx). man, paul dini, timm, and garnett reeeeaaaally have their shit together. the movie rocked. it’s unfortunate that the version being released in december has been recut (6 minutes trimmed) in major way. ostensibly to remove unecessary violence, what it really does is rip out the core of what the story is about. imo, the stuff wb cut out hurts the movie tremendously.
also, the interesting thing about using cutemx is that 90% of the time, it seems that the search returns completely nonsensical, nonrelated, and random stuff. very weird. also, if you repeat the search, you end up with a whole new set of random results. very weird.
oh, did i mention that this movie is the best batman movie ever made? beats mask of the phantasm by a mile, and puts tim burton’s batman to shame. too bad most people will probably never see it, and even less people will be able to see the whole thing.