Edit Donnie Darko Showing all 7 items. Also the sequence as he leaves the house is extended slightly. Donnie's friends also have another opportunity to bully Sharita Chen, calling her Porky Pig, and saying "I hope you get molested. This also fixes the continuity as all the previous names on the list are called before Donnie.
Before the emergency PTA meeting Mrs. Farmer and Karen Pomeroy exchange words about Mrs. Farmer's intentions to get The Destructors banned.
Behind this transition there is a short new scene where Donnie sits down next to Gretchen and she asks him why he has blood on his neck. Their opinions are wildly different, and they joke about getting divorced. The seminar now goes on longer, with extra scenes before Donnie steps up to the mic.
This scene is overlaid with chapter 4 from the book, the Artifact of the Living. His dad tells him that no matter how crazy he thinks he is, he should always say what's on his mind. Gretchen and Donnie argue in the class about the meaning of them. In removing that mystery, Kelly made his film much less interesting. Payback is a solid crime film that stars Mel Gibson as a criminal who is betrayed by his former colleague.
He then goes on a relentless mission of revenge up the hierarchy of mobsters to recover the small sum of money that was stolen from him. While the theatrical cut is entertaining, the director's cut from Brian Helgeland offers a pretty different movie.
It is grittier and less comical with Gibson's protagonist portrayed less sympathetically. It offers a nice dirty alternative to those who felt the theatrical cut played things too safe. Director Walter Hill is an action movie, but perhaps his most beloved film is his film, The Warriors. The movie is set in New York City and focuses on a gang who has to make their way across the city as the rest of the gangs hunt them down.
When revisiting the film for his director's cut, Hill made some pretty awful stylistic choices. The recut of the movie featured strange comic book page transitions between scenes. It's a strange choice that makes the director's cut rather annoying to watch. The Coen Brothers have long been able to make films in their own unique style. But with their first film Blood Simple , the brother decided it was worth recutting to suit their original vision of the Texas-set noir thriller.
Unlike most director's cuts, the new version actually comes in a few minutes shorter than the theatrical version. The Coen's expertly edited the film to feel faster and more engrossing. They also added in their original song choice of the Four Tops' "Same Old Song" which proves to be the perfect choice. A lot of directors choose to revisit their older movies when technology allows them to make changes that weren't possible at the time. Sometimes this can be an improvement and sometimes it's totally unnecessary.
Steven Spielberg saw the advances in CGI as the perfect opportunity to tweak his classic science-fiction adventure , E. Richard Kelly made every mistake a director can make in revisiting his work. He inserted scenes that explained his take on a lot of the film's mysteries, which had been much more ambiguous and fungible for theatrical audiences. Of course, this is Kelly's film, and in his mind Donnie Darko followed a very specific plot thread that could be explained, especially if you explored the film's supplemental materials, many of which were included on the film's website and original DVD.
But crowbarring it into his director's cut made for a lesser movie. Michael Mann's adaptation of his own TV series got a very mixed reception in theaters, but it certainly had its fans, especially among critics. The film version dropped you in the middle of a tense scene as Crockett and Tubbs tried to deal with a panicking CI; the DVD director's cut opened with an interminable boat race in an attempt to clear up plot details.
But Miami Vice was not a film that lived on plot details. Its success was in atmosphere, and much like Richard Kelly, Mann made the confusing choice to sub out some excellent musical cues with some terrible ones, like Nonpoint's horrendous cover of "In the Air Tonight" for the climactic action scene.
The result was a film that didn't even appeal to cult fans but did nothing to broaden Miami Vice 's audience. Terry Zwigoff's black comedy was one of the biggest surprises of , a surprisingly cute and dark little number about a drunken mall Santa that, from the poster, looked like your typical R-rated dirty joke-fest but actually had a beating heart and a very wry wit. Zwigoff was certainly responsible for much of that success, but his director's cut which actually made the movie three minutes shorter took out a lot of the funny material, as if he didn't think the audience realized Bad Santa wasn't just a comedy.
It feels like a studio butchering, but the director actually did it himself. James Cameron is the master of adding unnecessary padding to his films for DVD editions. The over-long The Abyss is hilariously turgid in its minute Special Edition.
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