Natural Born Killers, Directors Cut?

Everywhereasign

Haven't seen Natural Born Killers in years, probably saw it first when it came out in the mid 90's and I'm interested in seeing it again.

Both the original and the directors cut are available in the store, which one is worth my money? I don't really feel like renting them both and watching them, and I can't recall the original movie enough to only rent the directors cut and form any sort of opinion.

Anyone seen them both?

vonPoonBurGer

Apparently the director's cut restores footage that Oliver Stone was forced to cut in order to get the movie released with an R rating. Before making the changes, the MPAA was refusing to rate it, as they felt some of the scenes were gratuitously violent. While I don't quite buy into Oliver Stone as an auteur filmmaker, I loathe censorship in all its forms, so my vote would be for the director's cut.

starmanbrand

I have the director's cut. The cool thing is that the director's cut has the normal theatrical release and the Director's Scenes are deleted scenes. So you can watch the normal movie. And also be able to see the deleted scenes.

I have never tried, but I am unsure if you can set it so the scenes play as a part of the movie.

Cauld

starmanbrand wrote: »

I have the director's cut. The cool thing is that the director's cut has the normal theatrical release and the Director's Scenes are deleted scenes. So you can watch the normal movie. And also be able to see the deleted scenes.

I have never tried, but I am unsure if you can set it so the scenes play as a part of the movie.

I think I have this version too. If I recall, some of the scenes could have been included and have little/no violence. I believe he mentions the length of the movie as the reason he removed the scenes... but maybe those were just the deleted scenes. I liked some of the aspects they brought, usually I don't watch the deleted scenes unelss I liked the movie, but in this case I thought they definitely added to Stone's thought process/reasoning.

supabeast

The director’s cut restores about four minutes of especially gory footage cut to get an R rating—looking through a hand after a hole is shot in it, a severed head tossed around, stuff like that. It doesn’t really impact the plot, and some of them are poorly shot, so you aren’t really missing out on anything. It also includes (as extras, not part of the film) scenes from deleted plotlines that were cut to make the film shorter and less incomprehensible. The downside is that the director’s cut DVD is letterboxed into an aspect ratio that widescreen TVs can’t properly scale to fit, and the quality of the video compressing pretty poor. Unless you really love the film, it’s a rental DVD at best. If you want to buy it there’s now an excellent Blu-Ray theatrical version with the plot cut extras (but not the gore cuts).

Pheezer

The gore cuts are kind of silly anyhow. The plot cuts mostly colour in the story to allow for less literal interpretations of certain script elements. I like them in. If you can watch it on blu-ray, go for that version.