[Vaquero]

this WAS a great movie...then came the dirctors cut...

I had not seen the movie in 30 years kind of forgot how it went...saw it again and could not figure out what the heck was going on...

it seems in the directors cut, they took out the Harrison Ford narration...making the movie for newcomers or those with CRS like me, unwatchable....

[Huck]

Wow. My view is exactly the opposite. The theatrical cut is totally unwatchable because of the awful narration. The studio execs forced him to add the narration so people like you wouldn’t get all confused by the subtlety. Thankfully he eventually released the Director’s Cut.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

it seems in the directors cut, they took out the Harrison Ford narration...making the movie for newcomers or those with CRS like me, unwatchable....

The director's cut of Blade Runner was the very first DVD I ever purchased, right along with the $1500 first-generation Sony DVD player. DVDs have gone the way of VHS but Blade Runner is still alive, apparently.

IMHO, the director's cut of Blade Runner greatly improved what was a flawed movie but didn't make it into a great movie. I loved the style but just never found the substance (what there was of it) very compelling. I still watch parts of it sometimes just because it's visually stunning.

[Williams]

There is a good reason why the original movies were cut as they were, subsequent “Director’s Cut” films are to make money and involve shoving back in a lot of deleted scenes which were deleted.

My God the longer version of Apocalypse Now is an abomination that destroys the experience of watching the original masterpiece.