Apocalypse Now

[Brads70]

This is one of my all time favorites.  I thought I'd watch it again as it's been at least 10 years since I've seen it. I have Kodi and watched it on that. I was shocked to see it was over 3 hours long and never knew there was different/alternate versions of this movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/alternateversions

Makes me wonder what other movies are like that? 

[soundcontrol]

Great movie, gotta watch it again, been a while. Cameron did an extended directors cut of "Aliens", have not seen that one though. And Sergio Leones "Once Upon a Time in America" is also excellent, there is a 229 minute directors version of it.

[soundcontrol]

And there is also a directors cut of Death Proof, have not seen that one either, gotta find it, Tarantino is one of my favorite directors.

[Burdar]

I think it's fairly common to have different cuts. If a director cuts his own movie(not all of them do), that is his vision of what he wants the movie to be. At that point it goes out for test screenings. If the test audience doesn't like it, the movie is edited/changed to appeal to a brouder group of people.

The directors cut of The Butterfly Effect is really good. The theatrical cut is dumb. They dumbed down the ending and made it happy. The directors cut is the proper way for that movie to end. I thought the ending was obvious...my parents didn't get it. I guess that's why it was changed.

[Bills Auto Works]

One of my top ten all time movies. I was hyped when "Redux" came out. Funny thing though none of my wives or girlfriends enjoyed watching it with me!
Bill

[jimynick]

"Funny thing though none of my wives or girlfriends enjoyed watching it with me!"  LOL! Did one beget the others there Bill? 

[cataclysm80]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind has at least 3 different versions.

[ChallengerHK]

I think it's fairly common to have different cuts. If a director cuts his own movie(not all of them do), that is his vision of what he wants the movie to be. At that point it goes out for test screenings. If the test audience doesn't like it, the movie is edited/changed to appeal to a brouder group of people.

The other way this can work is that a director can be approached later to create a new vision of the film; this may or may not have anything to do with the original vision.

Personally, I think George Lucas should have been prevented from ever touching the original Star Wars trilogy and Ridley Scott should have been kept far away from the original version of Blade Runner. On the other hand, I watched the Richard Donner cut of Superman II a while back; this is a film I've always thought was lame, but the Donner Cut was far superior. If he had been able to complete the film, I think it would have been on a par with the original.

[HP_Cuda]

Funny I was going to mention Blade Runner