Avatar SE not so extended

[Hufwe ta'em]

Last week i went to watch Avatar SE for the third time, and i decided to calculate the running time of the movie.

That is the result from the Fox 21th Century logo to the Avatar logo at the end "when Jake open is eye's"
Running time =  2h44:47

That mean during the montage they squeeze some scene to put the new one.

[Ean Hufwetulyu]

what was the run time for the orignal movie

[Hufwe ta'em]

~ 2h50

[Ean Hufwetulyu]

so SE is about 5-6mins longer

[Hufwe ta'em]

kehe - is 2:45 and the original is the same time less the credit

[Ean Hufwetulyu]

dang but how was it thought

[Hufwe ta'em]

dang but how was it thought

They cut some existing scene to put the new one

[Carborundum]

According to IMDB the run-time of the original was 2:42, while the SE is 2:51.

[Hufwe ta'em]

According to IMDB the run-time of the original was 2:42, while the SE is 2:51.

Go have a seat in the theater take your chrono and calcule it your self   that give me 2:44:47:12

[Eyamsiyu]

Personally I don't care: we still have 8-9 minutes of new footage.

Just chill man.

[Carborundum]

According to IMDB the run-time of the original was 2:42, while the SE is 2:51.

Go have a seat in the theater take your chrono and calcule it your self   that give me 2:44:47:12

I would, except unfortunately for me the SE isn't shown in Sweden. I'll just have to wait until it's released on blu-ray.
I do have the original stored right here on my hard drive though, so I can tell you for certain that the PAL version is exactly 2:41:41 (including credits).

['Evan]

Runtime is officially calculated including credits, probably the problem right there.

[Hufwe ta'em]

That mean i have to watch it the normal version and calculate the time again

[Sіr. Ηaxalot]

In the original he opens his eyes at 2:35:02

45 - 35 = 10minutes.

[DutchNavi]

I have the  Dutch PAL-version DVD of Avatar with a run time of 02:35:05 or 9305 seconds (including 20th Century Fox intro & credits).

Note that the PAL-version (25 fps) runs 4% faster than the cinema-version (24 fps), so the original length was:
9305*(25/24)=9692.7 or about 2:41:33.

More info about movie to PAL conversion see 24p and PAL's 4% Speedup

A nice feature of this DVD is that you can turn off all subtitles (even for spoken Na'vi).

[Hufwe ta'em]

so that confirm is not 9 mins of extra footage

[Meuia te Stxeli Tstew'itan]

Agreed. It's probably why the movie just feels different too. They probably cut a few seconds of many scenes and made others run a frame faster just to make the new stuff fit in there. It's not really surprising.

[Eaite Randjam]

Well, I suppose there's only one definitive way of figuring out what's actually going on:  When the next DVD/Blue-ray disc comes out, play the original and the extended cut side by side.

[Syaron]

Eltu tirsaw si! (Is that how I say my brain hurts!)

Shara

[Maria TunVrrtep]

So you know, when I went last night I checked the running time on the SE and got 2:53:05.
That was from the company logo at the beginning to the end of the credits.