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Gets better every time I see it. Incredible visuals and amazingly compact story for such an epic novel. It’s so compact I can see how on first viewing you think it left out tons from the book, but it really didn’t. Might be confusing to people who haven’t read the book — watch it more than once to understand all the nuances. A classic.

This was the extended DVD Special Edition — with like an hour of extra footage (as if the original wasn’t long enough). Still excellent, though most of the extra footage toward the middle wasn’t noticeable (you’d never know if the booklet didn’t tell you). But the ending was dramatically different — I liked it much better (I always thought the original had a bizarre ending), though James Cameron’s anti-war preaching (in all his films) gets a little tiresome. (As if there are people who are pro-war?)