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* The films ''Planet Terror'' and ''Death Proof'' were filmed with the specific purpose of cutting large chunks out of them, and were in their theatrical release bundled as the [[Affectionate Parody|faux]] [[B-Movie]] feature ''[[Grindhouse]]''. The DVD releases restore (most) of the scenes cut for the theatrical version. ''Death Proof'' in particular actually suffers from this, because the theatrical release takes a good 40 minutes before anything interesting happens. In the extended cut, it's a ''full hour'' before it picks up. And the lap dance doesn't count. It was [[Take Our Word for It|much more interesting when you didn't see it]]. Plus, the original theatrical cut of ''Grindhouse'' [[No Export for You|wasn't released overseas, and is only on DVD in Japan]] (it was released on Blu-Ray in America, though); the intermission's trailer spoofs (save ''Machete'') were dropped in the process. However, in the U.S. the pay-cable Encore movie networks have shown this cut.
* ''[[Army of Darkness]]'' is especially odd in that there are several cuts depending on whether it's the theatrical release, domestic television broadcast, overseas market release or the Director's Cut. Some include the original ending (which was the one preferred by director [[Sam Raimi]], but [[Executive Meddling|was changed at the request of the studio]], which considered it "too depressing"), some include the theatrical ending, some include the extended windmill scene (strangely enough, the television broadcast has it, but the theatrical version didn't), some change the dialogue between Ash and Bad Ash, and some include other minor differences. Fans could have a field day just editing in their favorite versions of each scene, though the theatrical ending, where Ash {{spoiler|confronts a Deadite in S-Mart}} usually ranks as just one more [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for fans of the series.
* ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]'' gets both a Director's Cut and an Extended Cut. Oddly, the Extended Cut was given a home-release months after the Theatrical and Director's Cuts. Both new cuts are pretty substantial. The Director's Cut adds pretty much everything that was shot, minus the Tales of the Black Freighter tie-ins on the street corner. It bumps up the running time to three hours, a full half-hour. It's definitely a better movie for it, featuring more character development and more scenes that were in the comic. The Extended Cut adds another half-hour (bringing it to three and a half hours), featuring the entire Black Freighter animated feature woven into the movie and the accompanying street-corner bits. Your Mileage Will Vary on that one, since the animated features are more heavy handed and feel dropped in (unlike the careful weaving present in [[Watchmen (comics)|the comic]]), while the new live-action segments show how normal citizens react to the events around them.
* [[James Cameron]]'s 1989 sci-fi epic ''[[The Abyss]]'' was cut down by Cameron himself from from around 2 hours, 51 minutes to about 2 hours, 26 minutes for its theatrical release, with short bits removed from many scenes throughout the film, and a massive cut near the end of the film that focused on the {{spoiler|aliens threatening mankind with extinction because of their worries over humans destroying the planet in a nuclear holocaust}}. Cameron said he did this because certain scenes that read well as screenplay didn't translate to film with the effectiveness he wanted. In a bit of Averted [[Executive Meddling]], he revealed that the 20th Century Fox higher-ups were actually, to quote Cameron, "horrified" when he told them he was cutting the end sequence differently. After the success of 1991's ''[[Terminator]] 2'', however, Cameron used some money from a new contract to go back and finalize ''The Abyss'' into its initial 2 hour, 51 minute form, and this was later released as the "Special Edition."
* The Director's Cut of ''[[The Butterfly Effect]]'' has additional scenes and a ''much'' darker ending: {{spoiler|'''pre-natal suicide'''}}.
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