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[Towlie]

33. There are good director cuts and bad director cuts.

An example of a good director's cut is Aliens, which includes good scenes about the colony before the alien invasion and more about the character Ripley, among many other things.

An example of a bad director's cut is Apocalypse Now, which includes a pointless sex scene with the Playboy bunnies and another at a French plantation, and an out-of-character scene where Captain Willard steals Colonel Kilgore's surfboard. Afterward the swift boat crew hide while the Colonel searches for them in his helicopter. In fact, in the regular cut you can see the surfboard behind Navy Chief Phillips, leaving you to wonder why it's there.

In the case of Apocalypse Now, the extended scenes seem like they were cut for good reason, but swept from the cutting room floor and stuffed back in.