I think both versions of both last LoTR movies were a mess. I wish I had the editing wherewithal to bother with my own version. I can't bear to watch any of them.
But I'm pretty much with Alex. If your director's cut is 5 hours long, then release a five-hour long movie or don't release it at all. It's an insult to money-spending theater-goers to expend time and money seeing a feature the director considers sub-par to some other imagined version of the piece.
Bah on that.
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