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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 928785" data-attributes="member: 515">Are you talking about the studio version of "Sicilian," or the director's cut? Because the director's cut is a decent movie -- not great, but worth seeing.The movie's director, Michael Cimino, had a contract with the studio that said the movie had to be less than two hours in length. This was because of all the trouble with his "Heaven's Gate" (shooting overruns, cost overruns, longer than the studio wanted, died at theaters because of undeserved scathing reviews, but that's another topic for another thread <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /> ).Anyway, Cimino's version was close to two and a half hours. The studio said, "We aren't going to release this unless you trim it to less than two hours."The studio wanted him to cut out some of the character development and story. So he cut out some action scenes instead, thinking the studio would never release it with the action scenes missing. They called his bluff and released it. It gave savaged by the critics, and did poorly at the box office.The director's cut got good reviews and did decent box office in Europe, and many people who have seen it agree the director's cut is much better.It's sort of like how the studio screwed up the American theater versio of Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in America." The American release is a piece of crap. The director's version, which was released in Europe, is great. Many European critics pick it as one of the best movies ever made. American's who have seen both agree that the director's cut is much, much better.So anyway, if you get the chance, check out the director's cut of "The Sicilian," it's better than the original version.</blockquote>

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