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Incredible visuals and scenes seemingly ripped straight from the panels of the graphic novel. Accompanying probably one of the best opening credit scene I ever seen, is a comic book movie that stays more or less faithful to the graphic novel. Some story elements are sacrificed in order to keep the movie at a reasonable run time and some story elements are changed to appeal to the modern audience. Most of the changes are welcome and understandable. Overall a really enjoyable film. The Director's Cut Steelbook unfortunately doesn't include the motion comic or The Tales of the Black Freighter like I hoped it would, but it does include Maximum Movie Mode which is a cool interactive alternative to a movie commentary. I personally think the artwork on the steelbook is just okay and could have been better.