The director’s cut of Free Willy (as watched by Homer Simpson) was highly entertaining.
I just got back.
I meant that the movie would have been better if they’d left the cut scenes in. You can view them now, on the DVD “extras”, but it would’ve been better, I think, if they’d re-incorporated them into the film. As ity is, you still can’t see them in the correct place in the movie. Not unless you do a lot of back-and-forth with the DVD controls.
I’m one of the few people who prefers The Professional over Leon; why would you want a cheery version of what was one of the great dark films ever?
But anyhoo, my contribution is the deleted scenes from Spy Game. They were going to have it so that Robert Redford had dated the British chick at some point in the past–which was just dumb. I was so immensely, inordinately exhuberant that they did not put that in the film, when I saw the scenes in the extra section of the DVD.
I saw the director’s cut of Blade Runner first, and I far, far prefer it to the narrated version. The first time I saw the narrated version was by accident: I didn’t realize there were two different versions, so I just rented the movie from the store, got home, and started yelling at Harrison Ford to shut the hell up whenever he came on with his inane voiceover.
I’m a big fan of film noir, Raymond Chandler, Dashiel Hammett. The voiceover done well can be superb. Ford’s voiceover in this was just agonizing.
Daniel
Dude, you are being very charitable. They are some fucking excruciatingly unfunny shit.
Maybe if they’d record it in dobbley…
Stranger
How about a love/hate nominee?
I think the extra scenes and added effects were great for the original Star Wars Trilogy. For the most part. There are a couple of obvious exceptions:
-the music in the bar at Mos Eisley - changed! I was a pro at imitating the original song sung by the chick with the long mouth…I feel I have been robbed.
-the musical number at Jabba’s palace was changed - not for the better.
-the music at the end of ROTJ - changing that song was a betrayal to all geeks everywhere.
-gratuitous shot of Boba Fett in ANH - making that his first appearance rather than in the Star Wars Holiday Special).
-Han shot first, dammit!
-Boba Fett now has an accent that makes him sound faintly like a New-Zealander.
-the sarlac pit now looks like the plant from Little Shop of Horrors - WHY WHY WHY?
Looking over this post, it seems that I am complaining rather than complimenting. I’d like to point out that the Mos Eisley and Cloud City scenes looked great, the explosions and other effects looked better, and I prefer seeing Hayden at the end of ROTJ. I also liked the Emperor’s new look in the holograms. The monster on the Rebel Base planet at the beginning of TESB looked much better.
I guess I really feel that the added special effects in general were great, but almost don’t make up for the parts that sucked.
crawls off to weep over the Sarlac Pit
I’ve yet to see a deleted scene that shouldn’t have been deleted. The closest was in “Singin’ in the Rain” where Debbie Reynolds sings “You Are My Lucky Star” to a picture of Gene Kelly. It bookends nicely with Kelly singing the song to her at the end, but really doesn’t tell us anything new about the character.
Okay, here’s one that’s not come up yet: the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Spoilers ahead; if you’ve not seen the movie, you really oughtta, because it’s creepy and great.
The original version of the story starts with the protagonist returning to his childhood home, everything sunny and innocent; and it ends with him on the highway, yelling hopelessly to onrushing traffic about the alien horror that’s destroyed his town and will soon destroy all humanity, and you know it’s gonna suck.
But the studio execs decided that this was too much of a downer ending. So they required a last-minute shooting of a framing story. The movie now begins in a police station, with the protagonist recounting his story to the cops; and it ends with the cops believing him, and setting out to contain and destroy the threat. It feels very tacked on, and it’s dumb. The movie is far better without those additional two scenes.
Daniel
That’s cos’ he is now: they went back and Tem Morrison, who being Maori is about as NZ as you can get, re-voiced his lines.
Unfortunately, he sounds ludicrous to any Kiwi, since Tem used to play an idealistic surgeon in the long running Kiwi hospital soap Shortland St, and will always be fondly remembered for the line, "You’re not in Guatemala now, Dr Ropata!
That and his truly scary turn as the abusive husband Jake in Once Were Warriors guaranteed that whenever he turned up onscreen in Star Wars here, he was greeted with hoots of “You’re not in Guatemala now!” and “Trouble with you Jedi is you’re too damn lippy!”
For the Last of the Mohicans DVD, Michael Mann cut several of the most memorable scenes along with some of my favorite music from any film, ever. Nothing in particular was added. Total butchery, and the theatrical cut is not available on DVD in North America.
Re: Last of the Mohicans. 
They actually released a DVD that doesn’t reflect the theatrical version? And you can’t get the theatrical version.
That’s incredible.
Anyhoo…
The “uncut” version of Anchorman is a complete waste of time; it includes a scene of Will Ferrell eating dog poop. We didn’t need to see this.
This is probably a hijack, but I felt those re-dubbings and re-enactments were classless on Lucas’s part.
Feed Me!
Feed me Jabba, feed me all night long
that’s right, boy, you can do it…
(on second thought, that could be taken the wrong way, puts a rather…unpleasant image in my mind…)
MUST…BLEACH…BRAIN!!!
One or two of the Serenity deleted scenes were cheesy and best left out. But the rest would have really added to the film. Especially the scenes that fleshed out Inara, and her and Mal’s relationship.
In Attack of the Clones, 75% of Padme and Anakin’s budding romance is in the deleted scenes. And their best scene of all together is in the screen test.
I know some peopel don’t think it exists :rolleyes:
But The Directors Cut of Alien 3 is a very good movie. Most of the flaws of the theatrical cut are gone. Yes
Newt and Hicks are still dead
but that really never mattered to me as space is supposed to be a cruel unfair place. You actually get to know the characters and their no longer just a bunch of bald guys with British accents. There are a few suprises and the ending is less goofy
The alien doesn’t burst out and get a cuddle from Ripley, she simply disapears into the flames of the furnace… not convincingly though, but it has one less goofy addition.
The thing is you can see where the film was supposed to go and it is disapointing where the producers actually went with it.
Japanese cut!? :eek:
I completely agree.
I hated Alien 3 when I first saw it (in the cinema no less), but really, really liked the unauthorised Director’s Cut.
It has much better pacing and now has an exciting middle-part!!
I saw the director’s cut of The Butterfly Effect on DVD and really liked it, especially the ending. It recently aired on HBO, so I made Mr. singular watch it with me. I was shocked at the theatrical cut - was a wimpy, watered-down ending! Ruined the movie for me!
singular1, could you spoil the other ending of Butterfly Effect for me? I just brought the DVD back to the store, and the version I saw ended with
Evan using the home movie to go back to he and Kayleigh’s first meeting. He scares her off so she never becomes his friend and they never see each other again. He, his mom and Lenny all end up ok, and as he’s walking down the street years later he bumps into what looks like Kayleigh, dressed like a successful businesswoman.
The imdb’s alternate version section just says “alternate ending.” How was the director’s cut darker?