It’s probably worth pointing out that the original theatrical release of what we today call A New Hope was just released as Star Wars, wasn’t even called episode four, didn’t have a title crawl, and included that scene with Jabba but instead of it being Jabba it was some guy in a fur suit, so it’s going to depend on which directors cut you’re talking about.

I would say the musical choices are better in the theatrical cut as well.

How does it differ from the original movie? I tried looking it up but I couldn’t find any notes on that. The “International” version seems to be longer. Of course, one of the top results is a Reddit thread where I scroll down and immediately see an “um akshully it’s ephebophelia” comment, which is on-brand for Reddit.

The director's cut of Alien is terrible. All they do is put in more shots of the xenomorph and that ruins the movie in two ways:

1. The reason Alien works so well is you barely see the alien at all. The build up to the end is incredibly good, and

2. The shots that were inserted make it clear it's just a dude in a rubber suit. The alien changes from something to be feared to something to be laughed at.

Speaking of Ridley Scott, Bladerunner had many different versions iirc. Might be a candidate

I didn't know there was a director's cut of any Deadpool movie. I knew there was the PG-13 version of Deadpool 2 called "Once Upon a Deadpool" that featured Fred Savage like in Princess Bride

And sadly, the theatrical cut is hard to come by (impossible?) in HD format.

The theatrical cut is available on the 4K Blu-ray.

The latest one "The final cut" is supposed to be the directots cut. It's really good.

Rebel Moon was already a zero. I'm curious how he made it worse, but I really couldn't be fucked to watch that garbage again.

“Directed by William Shatner” basically tells you all you need to know.

And anyone brave enough to watch the director’s cut, is boldly going where no man has gone before…and returned with their sanity intact.

It's a Roland Emmerich film. He makes stupid but exciting movies. Stargate is hugely stupid, but it's exciting. Made for the basis of a great TV series too.

I don't know as to whether Rex was really a villain. He was just an arsehole.

Mitchell, however, was a prick from top to bottom.

TIL there was a director's cut of Empire Records...

I must have watched that movie a dozen times when I was younger and absolutely loved it. Just goes to show that not every movie needs a director's cut.

I swore that was the case but i honestly didn't by find much on it.

Iirc there's also a different release between the US and Europe separate from a director's cut. I remember the plot being way different between the versions I watched, and not just via music choice.

shit, i need to look into this because I remember loving Legend back in the day

I remember seeing a print release of the Clerks and Chasing Amy screenplays that had an intro by Kevin Smith. He talked about how the reception of Mallrats was really disappointing because the general thrust of most reviews was “how dare he sell out like this?” But there was one review that said “it’s clear Smith loves slapstick comedy but he just doesn’t know how to direct it.” He felt like that was a review of the movie and not of the movement he was imagined to be part of.

And now you can only find the garbage extended cut as a download online. I had to download like 12 different torrents just to watch the real movie.

It's funny I was gonna mention Mallrats and came across your comment.

100%, I didn't even know this existed and it took a long time to find the right version again

The theatrical Justice League has two things going for it: brevity, and Batman's "just save one" mentor moment with The Flash, which was nice.

Everything else about Snyder's cut is better. It looks better, it sounds better, each scene in isolation plays better, it has fewer cringy jokes. Most importantly, it retains Cyborg's story arc, which it turns out was the heart of the whole damn movie.

If I may, I'd like to recommend the animated movie Justice League: War (2014). It's basically a shorter version of JL17 and ZSJL, all three films are adapted from the same comic. Of the three, this is the best.

How??? The Snyder cut wasn't anything to write home about but the theatrical cut was terribly boring.

Just putting this here.

I also prefer the theatrical cut of Aliens. The relationship between Ripley and Newt is just enough. The director's cut mashes the maternal relationship button too hard. Seeing a little bit more with the colonists is nice, but doesn't make up for the other imbalances.

I prefer The Assembly Cut

All versions of this movie suck.

The director's cut for Blade Runner is a massive improvement on the theatrical version because it removes the narration the studio forced in. A lot of director's cuts include a few scenes that make a movie work when they were cut or changed to meet some silly studio meddling.

I'd argue that James Cameron's "The Abyss" director's cut is superior to the theatrical. The extra 25min introduces some extra plot details in the climax that really flesh out the ending

What about watching a directors cut unknowingly and loving it?

The theatrical cut of Dark City assumes the audience is an idiot and spoils the movie's plot twist with an unnecessary opening narration.

/end of thread!!!