Who prefers the original version?
It is hard to find now. FFC owns the film and has removed the original version from distribution. Even on cable ( now on showtime) they call it the final cut.
The added scenes were interesting but changed the way the audience viewed the main character in the film CPT Willard.
The original Willard was very cold and somewhat distant, obsessed with Kurtz. I don't think he smiled in the entire film.
This updated version, humanises him. He smiles jokes around, has a relationship with a French woman ..
The emotional distance that Willard had in the orginial made him a more compelling character, and in my opinion a better film.