What Is The Difference..

[Bigbad]

...between a film that was shown at cinemas, and the directors cut?
If you have a choice of either, which one would you watch?

[mccfluff]

directors cut generally has scenes included that were edited out for general release, i don't know why, commercial reasons i guess, so directors cut tend to be longer and can change the film a little - its the directors vision of how they film should run not the producers. If you're really into films then i guess you'd want the directors cut

[Old_Geezer]

Never known what a director's cut is. Thought it was to do with circumcision.

[Arksided]

The directors cut, usually is longer which includes parts that were edited out, which are usually deemed not to push the story forward.

[Bigbad]

I bought the 1975 film Picnic At Hanging Rock, as I just “didn’t get” the recent TV series!
Had to buy a 3 set DVD, which includes original and directors cut.
I’m not a filmy-type person, so which would you filmy-type folks watch?

[jackthehat]

I'd watch them both......that way you can work out which bits were excised.

[mccfluff]

if its something i'm really into and a book i've read, then the directors cut, otherwise i probably wouldn't bother.

[Arksided]

Directors cut for me, when I first watched 'Aliens' they was a scene cut where Helen Ripley (The heroin) is told what became of her twelve year old daughter after an unexpected extended hypersleep. A scene I saw later which is quite integral to the film and her affection for 'Newt' the young girl she saves.

[Bigbad]

etahnjr. I think I’d struggle to find a cinema showing a 1975 film!

There is no running time listed on the discs.
Perhaps I’ll put them both in the DVD player and see if there is much difference between the length of the 2 versions.
I get bored too quickly to watch a film without a couple of breaks.

Thanks everyone.

[Prudie]

I'm a big fan of the film The Abyss and have seen it several times. In the last few years they have often televised the director's cut version which had a long scene near the end when Ed Harris is down with the aliens that shows real newreel shots of man's inhumanity man, a moral message. It was never in the original, undoubtedly not commercial enough.

[Arksided]

Prudie, another James Cameron film (afore mentioned Aliens) much better seeing the full version of his in particular vision, I've only seen the version of The Abyss you've described.

[andy-hughes]

There is a 'director's cut' version of the Stephen King novel The Stand.

Using the same principle as cinema releases, the original was cut by almost a third because publishers didn't think Mr King's fans would read a book that long.

Once his massive popularity was established, the novel was re-issued with the missing sections, and is all the better for it.

[Stephen_G]

If it's The Warriors { https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warriors_(film) }, I'd rather watch the original theatrical version, over the "Ultimate Directors Cut" that I bought on DVD. There were no extra scenes, and bits of the film were cut out and replaced with a comic-book style end to the scene instead.

[kvalidir]

Director's cut every time, it's how to Director originally envisioned the work before it was often killed stone dead in the Editing Suite.

[Bigbad]

The cinema version was 8 minutes longer than the directors cut, so I watched that.
I still don’t “get it”!

[jno]

I don't think it was ever mentt to be "got".

The director's previous fiolm was a cheapo black comedy called The Cars that Ate Paris, so I'd been expecting a completely different sort of fil.