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Occasionally, a movie turns out good. [[
Kinds of Recuts:
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Beyond that, things can get very confusing. The inclusion of one or more Recuts is often one of the selling points of a [[Limited Special Collectors Ultimate Edition]].
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== [[Anime]] ==
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## During the party, some guys in Devo flowerpot hats show up, and ask to be let in. Lisa asks the guests what they think. The guests vote to toss 'em, but Lisa lets them in anyway.
* One of the earliest examples is ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''. After the film's successful initial release in 1977, [[Steven Spielberg]] convinced Columbia Pictures to re-edit the film and shoot new footage for scenes he never got to finish -- though in exchange, he ''also'' had to shoot a sequence that took place inside the mothership, and that became the focus of the 1980 promotional campaign. For years this was the official final cut until the 1998 Collector's Edition, which includes most of the new footage and adds shots cut from the original release, but drops the inside-the-mothership ending. A list of the various cuts and the differences between them is [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0075860/alternateversions here].
* Spielberg later caught some flack from his re-cut of ''~E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial~'', which like the ''[[Star Wars]]'' special editions, have redone special effects (mostly CG expressions added to the E.T. puppet) and some cut scenes. Fans were especially upset that the FBI agents [[Family
* Disney made Special Editions of both ''[[Beauty and The Beast (Disney)|Beauty and The Beast]]'' and ''[[The Lion King]]'' for IMAX theaters (and prepared ''[[Aladdin (Disney)|Aladdin]]''). Along with remastering the films for the larger IMAX format, each film got an additional musical number; in both cases the songs were taken from the stage versions, although ''Beauty'''s "Human Again" was really a [[Cut Song]] from the movie. Unlike ''[[Star Wars]]'', Disney had the foresight of making both the original and special editions included on the DVD releases, although neither "original" one was the original animation. (In the case of ''Beauty and the Beast'', a third version was added, a work-in-progress print shown on the New York Film Festival prior to the film's release, previously available as a separate laserdisc.)
** ''[[Pocahontas]]'' also had a special edition, although it was not released theatrically. It added "If I Never Knew You", a [[Cut Song]] that did poorly in test screenings but better-establishes the lovers' relationship as the film's climax approaches.
*** That was a [[Cut Song]]? This Latin-American troper's old VHS copy (bought when the movie was first released) ''does'' have it.
* The broadcast premiere of ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'' had an extra scene cut from the theatrical version. Eddie is caught snooping around in Jessica's dressing room and is taken to Toontown, and the next morning he wakes up with a toon pig's head painted on top of his own. The scene is included as an extra on the DVD.
** The removal of this scene causes a slight plot hole in the released version. With the scene intact, we see that Eddie returns to his office to shower off the pigs head, which is when Jessica arrives. When he exits the bathroom, he has very clearly just been taking a shower (he's soaking wet). But because [[Viewers
* Terry Jones was never happy with the original version of ''[[Erik the Viking (Film)|Erik the Viking]]''. Some years later he supervised a re-edit that was carried out by his son, referred to as the "Director's Son's Cut". However, the quality of the recut is up for debate among fans, many of whom consider the recut to mangle the film and remove most of the funny non sequiter scenes. Definitely a YMMV.
* The films ''Planet Terror'' and ''Death Proof'' were filmed with the specific purpose of cutting large chunks out of them, and were in their theatrical release bundled as the [[Affectionate Parody|faux]] [[B
* ''[[Army of Darkness]]'' is especially odd in that there are several cuts depending on whether it's the theatrical release, domestic television broadcast, overseas market release or the Director's Cut. Some include the original ending (which was the one preferred by director [[Sam Raimi]], but [[Executive Meddling|was changed at the request of the studio]], which considered it "too depressing"), some include the theatrical ending, some include the extended windmill scene (strangely enough, the television broadcast has it, but the theatrical version didn't), some change the dialogue between Ash and Bad Ash, and some include other minor differences. Fans could have a field day just editing in their favorite versions of each scene, though the theatrical ending, where Ash {{spoiler|confronts a Deadite in S-Mart}} usually ranks as just one more [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for fans of the series.
* ''[[Watchmen (Film)|Watchmen]]'' gets both a Director's Cut and an Extended Cut. Oddly, the Extended Cut was given a home-release months after the Theatrical and Director's Cuts. Both new cuts are pretty substantial. The Director's Cut adds pretty much everything that was shot, minus the Tales of the Black Freighter tie-ins on the street corner. It bumps up the running time to three hours, a full half-hour. It's definitely a better movie for it, featuring more character development and more scenes that were in the comic. The Extended Cut adds another half-hour (bringing it to three and a half hours), featuring the entire Black Freighter animated feature woven into the movie and the accompanying street-corner bits. Your Mileage Will Vary on that one, since the animated features are more heavy handed and feel dropped in (unlike the careful weaving present in [[Watchmen|the comic]]), while the new live-action segments show how normal citizens react to the events around them.
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* The R-Rated director's cut of 2003's ''[[Daredevil]]'' totally combined this with [[Better On DVD]], restoring 30 minutes cut from the theatrical version, which included a completely removed subplot where Matt Murdock must prove the innocence of a man played by Coolio ([[Better Than It Sounds]]; honest), extra helpings of blood, and a couple more nods to the source material. It also altered the rainy-rooftop/screams-for-help scene between Matt and Elektra, making Matt more heroic by leaving Elektra to save a life instead of bedding her as the screams die off. Although it does retain some of the more divisive aspects of the theatrical cut such as the playground fight and the nu-metal soundtrack, general consensus is that the director's cut is a legitimately good movie (compared to the lukewarm response of the TC).
* The Director's Cut of ''[[Dark City (Film)|Dark City]]'' makes many changes to the theatrical cut, most of them minor, but one major change is the removal of the [[Opening Narration]] which [[Spoiler|explains the entire mystery]] that they were [[Executive Meddling|forced to put into the theatrical cut]]. The Director's Cut is universally regarded as a better film.
* The Director's Cut of ''[[Donnie Darko]]'' greatly alters the pacing of the film, adding deleted scenes and new special effects, and switching the soundtrack of the movie around. Author Richard Kelly regards this version not as a director's cut (this title was the publisher's idea) as he considers the theatrical version just fine in its own right. Instead, to him the new version is a special edition of sorts. Since the new version alters the original, loved movie a great deal, [[Broken Base]], [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]] and [[Your Mileage May Vary]] ahoy.
* Originally produced as a five-hour [[Miniseries]] for German television, ''[[Das Boot]]'' was edited down to 150 minutes for its original theatrical release. In 1997 Wolfgang Petersen made a new Director's Cut edit for a theatrical reissue, which clocks in at just under 210 minutes. Both the miniseries and 1997 versions have been released on DVD.
* In 2001 ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' was re-edited by [[Francis Ford Coppola]] into a new extended version titled ''Apocalypse Now Redux'', which adds almost an hour of additional footage and is regarded by the director as an entirely different film (and held by most viewers and critics to be inferior to the original).
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** ''[[Kamen Rider Double|Double]] and [[Kamen Rider Decade|Decade]]: Movie Wars'' gets an important revision in its Director's Cut. In the theatrical version, the ''Double'' segment comes between ''Decade'' and the team-up. The problem here is that the finale has more to do with ''Decade'', meaning the ''Double'' segment breaks the narrative flow. The Director's Cut rectifies this by putting the ''Double'' segment first.
* In the theatrical version of ''[[The Return of the Living Dead]]'' "Fuck You" is embroidered across the back of Freddy's jacket. In order to be able to show the movie on television, scenes were reshot with a jacket that reads "Television Version."
* ''[[The Thief and The Cobbler (Animation)|The Thief and The Cobbler]]'' was first conceived by [[Richard Williams]] (who would eventually become animation director of ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'') in 1964, but spent almost 30 years in [[Development Hell]]. Williams eventually signed a deal with [[Warner Bros]]. in 1990 to release the film, but they had no faith in it since the film took way too long to release, plus Disney was about to come out with their version of ''[[Aladdin (Disney)|Aladdin]]'', so they pulled out. Then, the Completion Bond Company bought the rights to it in 1992, and a year later, producer Fred Calvert with Majestic Films released it in South Africa and Australia as ''The Princess and the Cobbler''. Many of the scenes from Williams' workprint were cut, plus new dialogue, songs, voices ([[Suddenly Voiced|where there really weren't any before]]), and scenes ([[Off
* The films directed by [[Orson Welles]] post-''[[Citizen Kane (Film)|Citizen Kane]]'' were a magnet for [[Executive Meddling]], and as such can be found in several different cuts on home video. The official DVD releases of ''[[Touch of Evil]]'' and ''Mr. Arkadin'', for instance, each have three different cuts in the set. A similar release is allegedly planned for his ''[[Othello]]''.
* ''[[Salt]]'' saw two additional cuts on DVD, both with different endings that cut the [[Sequel Hook]]: a [http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=117156 Director's Cut] (where {{spoiler|[[The Bad Guy Wins]]}}) and an [http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=54639 Extended Cut] (where {{spoiler|Salt goes to Russia}}).
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* Despite the reputation directors' cuts have for being self-indulgent and bloated, Stanley Kubrick considered the UK cut of ''[[The Shining]]'' to be the definitive one (as opposed to the US cut, which is twenty minutes longer).
* The original release of ''[[Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade]]'' had a scene where [[Big Bad|Walter Donovan]] bribes the ruler of Iskenderun with "Precious valuables...[[Blatant Lies|donated by some of the finest Jewish families in Germany.]]". The word "Jewish" would be removed in all subsequent releases. In light of ''[[Schindler's List]]'', it's possible that [[Steven Spielberg]] saw the original line as an [[Old Shame]]. It's meant as a horrifying line and a sign Donovan is a [[Complete Monster]] aware of the beginning of the Holocaust. Which is probably why they toned it down.
* ''[[Star Trek:
* The Blu-Ray releases of the first two ''[[Harry Potter (Film)|Harry Potter]]'' films include both the theatrical cut and an extended cut. The extended cuts basically just re-incorporate the same [[Deleted Scene|Deleted Scenes]] which were extras on the original DVD releases. The Blu-Rays of the third movie onward only include the theatrical cut.
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