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ChainsawAsh
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23-Sep-2018, 10:58 AM

Either theatrical or Director’s Cut. The Special Edition has a studio-mandated extended ending that’s garbage - it was forced on Spielberg as a condition for giving him the budget to shoot new scenes.

The theatrical cut is still good, but feels slightly incomplete. The Director’s Cut is the best, most balanced version IMO, taking the new material shot from the Special Edition, restoring some theatrical scenes that were cut in the SE, and restoring the theatrical cut ending. But it’s not like the material missing from the theatrical cut completely cripples the movie the way it does in something like Kingdom of Heaven, for instance.