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It’s one thing to have a director’s cut because of studio meddling of the theatrical release, and it’s another to have one despite the director having creative control of both versions. What’s the point? Cash grab? A way to make an excuse if the film bombs? It’s not like his director’s cuts are any better. They’re meh at best.

Take Villenueve’s films. They don’t have director’s cuts because per him, the theatrical version IS the director’s cut and his vision of the film.

The original versions of Rebel Moon were a 4 hour snooze fest. I’m not wasting my time watching yet another 4 hours (or longer) of the same film that likely is the same quality.

I will get around to watching Rebel Moon but struggle to get enthusatic enough to do it.

I waited to for the director’s to watch this in the hopes it was better than the poorly reviewed original cut. Unfortunately so far it feels like he must have filled in all the extra runtime with more slow motion shots. Like so many slow motion shots. Maybe if he’d cut some of those he would have had less need for all the exposition dumps.

Like so many of his films Rebel Moon is a collection of beautiful moments with very little to hold them all together.

There's a huge difference between the detailed and believable world building that JRR Tolkien does, and having a bunch of mystery boxes you don't flush out.

I think the movie tried the lazy version of building an epic universe by lots of low effort references to things that aren't defined, but nothing feels like it's actually connected or thought through.

Well fuck now I have to waste another entire work day to watch the updated version and hate it even more

I really enjoyed both films despite their shortcomings. They definitely felt censored with lots of character buildup missing.

Just gotta find the time to watch these directors cuts!

This is the sort of movie that I'll watch only if it's free and only if it's on while I'm washing the dishes or mopping the floor or something.