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A 4 hour JFK? The 3 hour, 26 minute Director's Cut is not worth watching, but it is the only version available on disc. The digital releases are the only way (outside of the original VHS ans the Laserdisc) to watch the much, much, much better theatrical cut, which is 17 minutes shorter. The extra footage adds absolutely nothing of note and is awkwardly shoehorned into the film.
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Apr 12, 2015 - 6:16 AM
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OOps... maybe I got carried away, OK, 3.26 hrs. ;-) Nevertheless, I'd happy to watch an 8 hour cut. I could never get enough of all the mysterious facts, the details, the clothes, the visual style, the cars, the hairdos etc. But pardon me, sir, you gotta be joking. The intimidating scenes at the airport? John Larroquette's slimy TV show host, which was totally absent in the theatrical cut?
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OOps... maybe I got carried away, OK, 3.26 hrs. ;-) Nevertheless, I'd happy to watch an 8 hour cut. I could never get enough of all the mysterious facts, the details, the clothes, the visual style, the cars, the hairdos etc. But pardon me, sir, you gotta be joking. The intimidating scenes at the airport? John Larroquette's slimy TV show host, which was totally absent in the theatrical cut? Yeah, the scene in the airport seems so amateurish and the Larroquette-as-Carson sequence is compromised because of the forced-fictionalization of the event.
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Well I guess some people might have seen Nixon as a monster. And Anthony Hopkins characterization is quite an interesting one. Nixon wasn't a monster, but became the prime American example of monstrousness in the pursuit and exercise of power because he operated under the delusion that some Americans are "real" and some are not. He was happy to exploit historical trends in race and class relations for his own benefit, and all modern American politicians of all stripes feel forced to employ these tactics. We see far too many examples of his legacy in current political discourse and application. In a sense, Richard Nixon is the most "real" of Americans in his inner contempt for contending political agendas excepting his own, and his belief that only his agenda mattered.
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For as much as I love the movie, I barely remember the deleted scenes at all, outside of the alternate framing of the X scenes.
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