Movies where the Director's Cut vastly improves on the theatrical release?

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I can think of a few

Kingdom of Heaven (I think this may be the biggest improvement from theatrical to directors cut)
Alien 3
Blade Runner

Are there any others? Strange that Ridley often falls victim to this.
Yup.

Aliens
T2 <---- arguable, but I'm on side that enjoys the directors cut
Superman II
LOTR trilogy
Watchmen
 

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The Wolverine
BladeRunner
Robocop
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Rambo
 

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Won't say it improves it drastically, but definitely makes it a whole different movie.

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The cop who is chasing Affleck and them goes on a date with the main chic in this version. that alone makes it a different story. especially when he comes through talmbout how affleck and his boys are the ones robbing banks.
 

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Yup.

Aliens
T2 <---- arguable, but I'm on side that enjoys the directors cut
Superman II
LOTR trilogy
Watchmen
I've had to have seen the T2 directors cut, I think I grew up on the directors cut as opposed to the theatrical version so I don't remember the differences, same for Aliens I believe. I still haven't peeped that Watchmen directors cut, I enjoyed the theatrical immensely though.
 

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I've had to have seen the T2 directors cut, I think I grew up on the directors cut as opposed to the theatrical version so I don't remember the differences, same for Aliens I believe. I still haven't peeped that Watchmen directors cut, I enjoyed the theatrical immensely though.
The Alien cut had the scenes where we learn about Ripley's daughter, and the sentry guns holding off a horde of aliens.

T2 had the first dream sequence with Kyle Reese, and where they manually reset the terminator's CPU by cutting his head open.
 

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Ferngully: the last rainforest
:dwillhuh: had no idea this even had a directors cut.
The Alien cut had the scenes where we learn about Ripley's daughter, and the sentry guns holding off a horde of aliens.

T2 had the first dream sequence with Kyle Reese, and where they manually reset the terminator's CPU by cutting his head open.
ohh yeah, I've seen the directors cut but I think i most often watched the theatrical. I'm gonna have re-peep these.
 
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