the U.S. TV versions' run time on Scf-Fi channel has the film at 89 minutes. And in my opinion that should be added to the pages profile's running time.
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Treating a TV edit as the definitive U.S. version is silly when the uncut dub came out on DVD a year later. But I do have a copy of it, so it might be worth chronicling what Sci-Fi cut out; same for Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (which I don't have) and Rebirth of Mothra III.
GvMegaguirus runs for about 1 hour 46 minutes and 2 seconds/106 minutes and 2 seconds. (Wikipedia says 105, but mine shows otherwise).
Yeah, that needs changing. I... am not sure why you mentioned it here though.
I dunno. Just saw someone mentioning GMK and I came runnin'.
Be careful of runtimes from DVDs and Blu-rays released by TriStar. Except for GXM and GFW, I think the TriStar logo (20+ seconds) was attached to the beginning of every Godzilla DVD they released. That should count towards the runtime for versions created by TriStar (in this case definitely G2K & arguably their abbreviated original releases of the '90s films) but IMO it should be subtracted from DVDs of what are otherwise Toho's export versions (GMK through "Tokyo SOS" & their five Showa DVDs). Perhaps site policy is different but that's what makes the most sense to me.
Additionally, I think the initial "U.S. version" runtimes listed at Toho Kingdom for GXM and GMK were the ones I timed for them in 2004 or so. Their policy, at least at that time, was to use the first wide release of a film in the U.S. as the initial U.S. version. SciFi scheduled them twice each prior to Sony's February 2004 DVD releases. Not that my opinion carries much weight but FWIW I'm with Astounding: the edited-for-TV versions shouldn't constitute separate U.S. versions.
Good to know!
