When Are Director's Cuts Neccessary?

Vince and Captain Logan discuss director's cuts of movies, deleted scenes, and when extra cuts are neccessary.

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[DylanEagle96]

How did they not mention Daredevil? Just saying, it's pretty famous for being a poor movie made much better because of the Director's Cut. Maybe they restrained themselves from mentioning the obvious.

[Geekvolution]

@DylanEagle96 LOL I was thinking that very thing when I edited this. But yeah, I was avoiding getting into another big DD Director's cut discussion-- we've talked about that adnauseum. And it's one of the first Superhero Rewinds I did.

-CL

[JonKiwi73]

Hi Cap, one movie that stands out to me in this respect is Alien 3. The theatrical release doesn't make sense in parts because the studio made cuts. Entire parts of the story were left out and the tone of the movie changed. Some reasons for character actions were unexplained and it ended up being a slasher/chase movie. So, no wonder audiences were lost/dissatisfied. The extended version, in my mind, is superior to the poorly scripted, but visually impressive Alien Resurrection.

[Hyman74Roth]

I'm sorry Lord of the Rings is just as long and as complex as Watchman and deserves a 12 hour treatment (extended cut I'm talking about), just because you don't see LOTR as complex as a story other people might think its just as complex as Watchman....I hope this makes sense.

[booshman1983]

I don't really care how many versions of a film are released as long as they are easily differentiated from one another. I do hate it though when the theatrical version of a film is not available in the same quality as the directors cut. I prefer the theatrical cuts of "Hell Boy" and "Amadeus", neither of which are on bluray. It took them 6 years to release the theatrical version of "Superman the movie" on DVD after the extended version came out. Luckily both are now available on bluray.

[OMEGAROB246]

Troy theatrical cut is a 5/10. troy directors cut is a 8.5/10 nuff said

[Thrumm]

Directors cuts are necessary when they show that the original vision of the film was better than what was released in theaters. Daredevil is the perfect example of studio interference ruining a movie.

[MrEffectfilms]

It seems to me that alot of directors cuts today are really just extended cuts with the Directors Cut label on it. I could be wrong but I think that Hollywood ( or whoever puts DVDs out) wants to resell the movie but knows most aren't into extended cuts so they name them directors cuts.

[ManAboutTown1000]

As far as pointless scenes go I hate when a film has twenty alternate endings and they all look the same the ending they kept in.

[modbz]

I own the Watchmen (The Ultimate Cut) boxset and I do prefer it with the Tales of the Black Freighter subplot and other things, it makes it feel a tiny bit more complete, not to the level of Daredevil's Director's Cut where it made it complete in general.

[Sydpart2]

Cap, you need to watch some more fan edits

[OptimusCline]

A lot of the reason movies are cut for time is simply how many showing can a theater have in one day in relation to its budget. If it's a long expensive movie then there is a smaller profit margin.