Well, I meant the ending - which may or may not be a cutscene depending on your definition.

If you include the ending as a cutscene, then cutting out even that would be interesting, I suppose, since every single Metroid game has had a pretty involved ending (up to and including the first).

Not meaning to intrude or anything, but I saw your bet with Demotruck, and was curious to know how long you made out the cutscenes to be, and whether or not you think it'll beat Corruption...

Cutscenes are somewhat less than two hours, and I have a feeling I'm going to end up conceding the second half of the bet in a few weeks.

I thought it was slightly less than two hours. I wouldn't say that just yet, we're coming up to Christmas, and hey, miracles DO happen, especially when the Wii is involved...

We didn't officially time it, but yeah, it was probably a close thing. Definitely above 90 minutes, but not likely to reach 2 hours.

That bet was a lot closer than I was comfortable with.

Nice- I was always intrigued about the whole thing, due to there being a theatre mode aparantly...

Also, how much did Corruption sell in the space of time? 

I checked that at some point; if I remember, it's in the neighborhood of 1.37 million copies.

So...you're not expecting Other M to beat it then?

Not at all, no.

END-GAME SPOILER, DON'T READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T BEATEN THE GAME:

I think the funniest thing about Samus's reaction to Ridley is how differently Anthony reacts. Samus sees Ridley, freezes up, has to be saved, can't summon up her suit in time to save Anthony.

Anthony is falling to his death but is still clear-headed enough to freeze a lava monster and use it as a platform to survive certain death.

I think we know who the real hero of this story is