Best and Worst Director's Cut / Extendes Edition

Film buffs and dvd lovers, what are your favourite and least favourite cuts of films.

Favourites

Aliens Special Edition - adding more to a perfect film, seeing the colony before the horror, the fate of Ripley's daughter, the sentry guns, newts family.

Alien 3 - basically a new version of the film, but this time it's good.

WORST

Dawn of the Dead 1978 - international cut , take a perfect film and edit it to strawberry float.

Robocop - ITV Edition - I stayed up past news at 10 for this?

Return of the Jedi - the added Noooooo ruins one of cinema's greatest moments.

Best: Blade Runner Final Cut

Especially compared to the cinema release with the narration!

I can honestly say I’ve never watched a directors cut I enjoyed.

Kingdom of Heaven is by far the best Director's Cut I've ever seen, in terms of how it utterly transforms the film. Turns it into Ridley Scott's 3rd best movie behind Alien and Bladerunner for me. (I even prefer it to Gladiator)

The worst? Maybe Terminator 2. All the unused scenes are almost universally terrible and should have stayed on the cutting room floor. Theatrical edition all the way for this one!

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good - the version of beauty and the beast with human again added in

I hate the Leon director's cut. Adds a pretty uncomfortable romance dinner date between Leon and Matilda as well as an out of character for Leon hijinks scene of extreme knock a door run.

Literally adds two scenes that do nothing but damage a perfect film.

George Lucas always seemed to make his films worse the more he tinkered with them.

Best: LoTR trilogy

Worst: Does George Lucas strawberry floating around with his old films count?

Good
The Abyss extended cut
Apocalypse now redux - only version i have seen tbh

Donnie Darko Director's Cut: I'm not sure if this is consensus opinion but I already liked the film, but remember finding the (sightly less obtuse) DC more effective and affecting

Probably doesn't quite count but: Macross Plus the Movie is a sort-of director's cut of the 4-part OVA and - partly because of a beautiful, elegance final fight/scene with Gould - transformed it into a personal fave. Recommended if you like Top Gun or Anime or Shinichiro Watanabe or Yoko Kanni!

LotR - obviously hard to say if the EEditions are better than the tighter theatrical ones, but they're obviously fantastic feasts. Also Aragorn's Irish accent when he calls for the lord of the black gate is iconic to me

Zilnad wrote:hijinks scene of extreme knock a door run.

You mean Knock down Ginger ... Right?
Need a spin off thread for this.. "what do you call the game/prank where you knock on someone's door and run?"

LewisD wrote:
Zilnad wrote:hijinks scene of extreme knock a door run.

You mean Knock down Ginger ... Right?
Need a spin off thread for this.. "what do you call the game/prank where you knock on someone's door and run?"

We've had that thread, and it's Knock Knock Ginger. You ain't knocking over old grannies, matey.

Wait, I bet you know we've had that thread and you be taking the piss.

Pedz wrote:
LewisD wrote:
Zilnad wrote:hijinks scene of extreme knock a door run.

You mean Knock down Ginger ... Right?
Need a spin off thread for this.. "what do you call the game/prank where you knock on someone's door and run?"

We've had that thread, and it's Knock Knock Ginger. You ain't knocking over old grannies, matey.

Wait, I bet you know we've had that thread and you be taking the piss.

Knock Out Ginger.

deathofcows wrote:Donnie Darko Director's Cut: I'm not sure if this is consensus opinion but I already liked the film, but remember finding the (sightly less obtuse) DC more effective and affecting

I prefer the theatrical cut of Donnie Darko its better paced then the Directors Cut

floydfreak wrote:
deathofcows wrote:Donnie Darko Director's Cut: I'm not sure if this is consensus opinion but I already liked the film, but remember finding the (sightly less obtuse) DC more effective and affecting

I prefer the theatrical cut of Donnie Darko its better paced then the Directors Cut

Agreed. We watched the directors cut the other day and didn't really enjoy most of the changes. The naff time machine type effects were terrible too.

Lotr extended editions are amazing :wub:

Imrahil wrote:Kingdom of Heaven is by far the best Director's Cut I've ever seen, in terms of how it utterly transforms the film. Turns it into Ridley Scott's 3rd best movie behind Alien and Bladerunner for me. (I even prefer it to Gladiator)

Definitely this, the directors cut of Kingdom of Heaven is amazing!

Zack Snyder's Justice League really transformed the film and the general perception of it; it was quite a turnaround from the original presentation and it probably stands as the "real" version of that film in most peoples' minds.

+1 for Kingdom of Heaven.

jawa_ wrote:Zack Snyder's Justice League really transformed the film and the general perception of it; it was quite a turnaround from the original presentation and it probably stands as the "real" version of that film in most peoples' minds.

I just don't think any film should be 4 hours long.

Zilnad wrote:
jawa_ wrote:Zack Snyder's Justice League really transformed the film and the general perception of it; it was quite a turnaround from the original presentation and it probably stands as the "real" version of that film in most peoples' minds.

I just don't think any film should be 4 hours long.

It may be 4 hours, but it is a hundred times better than the Joss Whedon version.

I just watch it in two parts.

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