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Old 12-24-09, 05:55 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by goldorak View Post
Its almost always the case.
Theatrical versions always flow better than the so called "extended editions".
Not true. Often the theatrical releases are crippled versions against the will of the director, because producers fear the audience is too dumb to understand them, bringing revenues down. And this dumb version then is what fails to impress the crowds. "Kingdom of Heaven" on my mind as a very prominent example. Theatre version: bad; extended version: benchmark movie. Dirctor's Cut of Blade Runner sees the film being even shorter than the theatre release, and cutting the end scenes that against the director's will had been introduced to the theatre version to make the movie more digestable for the stupid crowd (it is footage Scott got from Kubrick, from Shining).

Regarding Alien, there was "Alien, and "Aliens" - and then nothing anymore. Third and fourth part simply were extremely bad movies.
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