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Ok, someone help me out here: I heard that extra blood was digitally added for the special edition, so my question is does the blood look extra CGI-like/fake/whatever in the SE compared to the original? Because I just saw the trailer a few days ago, which i’m guessing was for the original version, and all of the blood in it looked pretty realistic. But when I saw the movie on the big screen at a university a few months back, it looked like it was something out of a video game. But i’m not quite sure what the answer is because the movie was shown from a dvd player instead of actual film, which might have been why everything looked like that.
So…somebody give me answers, please
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Yeah, in some of the action-scenes CGI-blood has been added. Wasn’t necessary, if you ask me, but I don’t care either. And yes, sometimes it looks a little like something out of a videogame, but the gushes were always so short, you won’t be bothered for more than 1 and a half second. It doesn’t spoil anything, but maybe your asking the wrong person here, I also thought, the CGI-blood in “Zatoichi” was fine. Besides that, the directors-cut of “Battle Royale” is the better version to buy, it adds more melodrama and gives a little more edge to some of the characters, especially Mitsuko. And there is no gush whatsoever, when Kitano pulls the knife from the students head.