Top 10 Movies Saved By Director’s Cuts!
Top 10 Movies Saved By Director’s Cuts!
How many times have we seen deleted scenes from their big screen re-added that left us asking ourselves how the heck they were taken out in the first place?
While it’s certainly not essential, the extended versions of The Lord of the Rings is a passion project for Peter Jackson. He redid all the edits when needed, got Howard Shore to compose more music and flesh out the world even more. Richard Donner was fired halfway through production of Superman II but has the original director of the first movie, fans wanted his vision. Many years later, in 2006, fans finally got to see that original version on home video. Another superhero film, 2003’s Daredevil has a director’s cut that makes the film much better than what we got in the theatrical cut, adding around thirty minutes of footage to the movie. It doesn’t make it a classic, but it does make it much better than the original cut.
Watchmen, benefitted by having a director’s cut that added some interesting scenes to the already faithful adaptation. Then we’ll head over to Sergio Leone’s crime epic Once Upon a Time in America, which was released as a two hour movie. The director’s cut is over four hours long. Apocalypse Now Redux is considered by many critics to be the best version of an already excellent film and adds almost an extra hour to the movie. Doctor Sleep is a more recent movie, having been released in 2019, but the director’s cut vastly improves the finale of the movie. Then we’ll finish with a double dose of Ridley Scott. His cuts of Blade Runner and Kingdom of Heaven are considered to be the very best director’s cuts ever made-and rightly so in our opinion!
