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Most pointless Director's Cut ever


Rename the title, rotate some scenes, and add a few more speaking lines that add nothing to the movie. Theatrical cut all the way.

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I've never seen a movie improved by the DC. For all that it sometimes fixes, it always messes up a bunch of other stuff.

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Daredevil was greatly improved by the DC

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Yes, Blade Runner as well.

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DC's don't necessarily have to improve a movie. Aliens and Superman II were just different.

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LMAO DAREDEVIL

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Check out Bloodrayne. Useless stomach chopping. Nuff said

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Blade Runner, and all of the Alien films were improved by the directors cut.

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Blade Runner and Alien 3 were. I'd also make an argument that Apocalypse Now (the final cut) was also better.

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Watchmen was improved even if on its own it was great. Butterfly effect got better, once upon a time in america, Alexander, jfk, alien 4, and some more

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The Professional is better in its original, Léon version.



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I think Stallone only did the director's cut to make it a bit more of an action/drama. The theatrical version is basically an in your face ultra violent combat film. I only saw the Director's Cut once but from what I remember Stallone toned down the gore to some degree.

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You watch the directors cut to see what the director wanted. I am a big Stallone fan, so it is worth it to me.

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The whole concept of a director's cut is so overplayed today that it's basically become just a sales gimmick. Every once in awhile you come across a director's cut that really changes the film, but its incredibly rare and only getting more so with each passing year. I actually prefer the theatrical cuts with most films now.

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amen

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Funny thing is i watched the blu ray with sly's commentary and he said the theatrical cut was the director's cut because he was sure the first submission to the MPAA would come back NC-17, but it didn't.

Reminds me of the south park episode where the boys try to stop director's from changing their movies. How right they were.

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First of all, it's not the Director's Cut but an EXTENDED Cut, and that a difference. When a Director's Cut comes out it means that it is the version that the Director originally intended, but for some reason (usually either MPAA or studio interference) was forced to remove some scenes / tone down the violence etc. But it was not the case with this movie. This version is basically restoring some scenes that were not included in the theatrical cut, because the Director himself decided that they not essential to the movie's plot in the first place.

Therefore, it was hard to expect that these scenes will drastically change the movie (for better or worse). Having said that, I still believe that Stallone was able to do a pretty good job trying to make the extended cut 'different' from the theatrical, but you really need to WANT to notice that difference. It's very subtle, but in my opinion, quite noticeable. The extended cut is more like a personal Rambo story, than just a story WITH Rambo in it. Scenes that were restored tell us more about his character and about his internal struggles. Also, some of the shots were changed in such way, that even the same events now look more like observed from Rambo's perspective, than just from a neutral one. For example the scene with mercenaries on the boat does not focus individually on each mercenary, instead it shows us their conversations from Rambo's point of view, while removing the focus on their characters by cutting out some of their dialogue).

Whether it's pointless or not, its up to debate. Personally, I like some scenes better from the Theatrical Cut, and some better from the Extended one. I own both version and I've done a 101 minute hybrid cut (it's basically the extended cut with violence from the theatrical version restored and order of scenes changed a bit) that for me is the ultimate cut the movie.

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Also there was a little less gore.

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The one I hate is the Watchmen director's cut. Three hours and it's the only version available on bluray.

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The one for Friday was pretty unnecessary too. They add some extra adlibs which totally messes up the flow of certain scenes.

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The one I hate is the Watchmen director's cut. Three hours and it's the only version available on bluray.


I don't hate the DC, but the Theatrical Cut did a great job of cutting out the fat and is therefore an all-around more effective film.

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Wrong. The Extended Cut is far superior. It explores Rambo's motivations for helping the missionaries and is altogether a better movie.

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