Kingdom of Heaven | Why the Director's Cut is Better

😮 why cut that part about the priest goodness

There’s a lot of shite out there in Hollywood. But every now and again a gem appears, the directors cut version. I tend to wait for director or Final Cut movies rather than the theatre ones. (If they release them)

👌spot on about story

There are so many books turned into movies or even series that are butchered by film studios/makers that in this day and age need to be stopped. The world has hopefully moved on from this practice.

Obama caint force me to worship no Salahadin Mujahadeen whatever that 9/11 fella's name is. You can tell them I'm rolling coal for Jesus Christ!

they are two different films, the son dynamic completely changes the story and adds a layer that suddenly makes the whole film extremely complex in human dynamics and politics. The film is a masterpiece, as Balian grows as a character, his comfortable old world comes tumbling down. Also there is a connection with the master gravedigger from the opening scenes that are improved in the director’s cut, so by the time Balian makes new knights from the civilian men of jerusalem in his “rise a knight” speech (the master gravedigger from France being one of the civilians present) it carries a ton of emotion in that speech. My mom was crying, whereas she’s seem the theatrical version many times and never cried. It’s a tragedy that the studio cut down the full vision.

It's definitely better. Whole other movie. Totally worth it, who ever took the decision to slaughter it for the theatrical version, made a huge mistake.

One of my favorite movies, beyond great

The only critique I have of the directors cut is it gives the audience the full information about what a scumbag both Guy and Reynolds are, so the audience is clammoring for his execution for treason and murder but it isnt quite clear that that information isnt available to Balian or King Baldwin to justify executing them regardless of the succession crisis

They had to cut 50 minutes for the theatrical release. Wow.

I have recently watched the director’s cut and found it superior to the original. Totally different take on a great storyline.

Kingdom of Heaven's Director's Cut is the best medievel movie of all time. It's criminally underrated.

It is exponentially better than the theatrical version.

Directors cut was amazing

I dont see how the Director's cut is any better. Does it fix the major problems ? No Bailin is still a blacksmith and a Bastard that rises to lord, master of tactics and agricultural practices in a couple of weeks. You cant make him a Marry Sue and a fish out of water at the same time. Also on side is completely vilanized . The history is all over the place too . Typical for a Ridley film.

My problem with Kingdom of Heaven is that it makes the crusaders seems like barbarous warmongers that just want to kill innocent people, while making the Muslims seem like peaceful, just, enlightened people that just want the marauding Christians to stop killing innocent people. I'm not even religious but there is certainly an anti-Christian and even anti-western theme to the movie that is pretty prevalent in Hollywood, even back then.

Still love this movie though.

I think that Kingdom of Heaven is one of the best films for me. I have watched it 5 times now and I love it. What's not to like about it?

I love LOVE Kingdom of heaven. t may not be the better film then Gladiator but it is far more complex and thought provoking. I have re-watched it far more then gladiator also.

I enjoyed the film and watched it several times…I was thrilled to see cut film. I thought the 6 large siege towers was a bit overdone.
Discussing film with others I find unless you have read your history most viewers don’t understand the different factions. They are confused early in film 😮

Such A Beautiful Review. I’ll Be Linking This When I Do My Own Review On Letterboxd

The directors cut is a much better movie, but I don't think it would have saved the film overall because it's the same skeleton of bad history and plot/character contrivances

This film is an absolute Masterpiece----------it it's true, Director's Cut form. ------MJL, 77 y/o

What's the point of getting a director with i great record and which would have obviously cost alot of money to secure if the producers and studio are just going to butcher the film?

The actor who played bailyan made this character very annoying to me

I have to say that when Baldwin showed up with shining cross to meet Aubi, it gave me goosebumps

I’m confused , she was married to the villain already wasn’t she ? So why she had to say he can have his wife if her son has his knights? Anyone can help clarify this ?

Bailyan character was a selfish sob, he had no problem with having sex without being married to her but when Baldwin asked him to marry her , his conscience woke up, what a prick

I'm not sure how you can say that having a man insult you saying: "No-one in this village wants you here, I tell you as your priest go to Jerusalem and pray for your wife's soul in hell. She is in hell as she was a suicide, but what she does there without her head I do not know," constitutes that the murder is invalid and unjustified. He stole from the dead, chopped off this woman's head who had just killed herself after losing her child, then went to the husband and openly insulted her, stomped on his grief (the structure of the film makes it seem it happened within the week), and told him he wasn't welcome in his (likely) childhood home, while wearing the cross he stole from this man's wife. I'd say that those reasons above would be enough for me personally and most men to act out in rage and fury.

This film does a hatchet job on the Templars,doesn’t seem to represent the Christians in any way other than the “ bad” guys and lifts up the Muslim forces. It’s historically inaccurate and is ideologically motivated to bash Christianity.

I just watched this film for the first time so I’ve only seen the directors cut.

Feels like a masterpiece. I’m blown away

Absolutely so! This is one of my favorite movies ever, because I know background story of Balian (including mention, that he already fought in wars and built siege machines, that’s why he’s also not only a blacksmith) and Sibilla.

People rave about this film but its pretty inaccurate from a historical standpoint,
Most of it is bollocks hollywood trash.
Missed a great opportunity to make something believable for a change.

This movie - the director's cut - is one of my all-time favorite movies. Def in my top 10, and it really got me into learning more about the crusades.

I was completely unaware of the Director's Cut until recently. I looked for the movie online and start watching not knowing it was the Director's Cut, and I was memerized. It made the movie so much better.

i recently watched this movie and i absolutely love it to pieces. From the story to the casting to the soundtrack is spot on.

Never cared for bloom, or irons much, but yea, they were very good in this film.

Amazing movie. Actually what I noticed from people who like this film is that they’re much more immune to the hatred spewed across modern propaganda (e.g. x religion are terrorists and y religion is righteous) aka warmonger ideology. Ifykyk. Peace!

sick

I saw it for the first time in a cave in Jerusalem… and it has been my favoriete ever since.

This is one of my favorite films of all time. I remember my dad showing it to me. He had the directors cut so it’s all I knew until I saw the theater cut on TV one day and was confused about the cut scenes.

It was a simple money calculation. Rather than put the longer version of the film and risk making less money as a result they decided to release the inferior version to maximize profits from theatrical release and then double dip in the home market with the directors cut. Ironically, they would've made more money by trusting Scott and releasing the complete film in theatres where it would have been better received and still made good money from DVD sales afterwards as well. Again just bad decisions made by producers getting scared about losing money. Typical hollywood.

Its weird to me that when people talk about this movie, they still pronounce Salahuddin wrong.

This movie is terrible. Balian de Ibelin was a real person. He was born in the Holy Land. Why make up some bs story. He was also married to Maria Komnene, who was previously Queen of Jerusalem. He couldn't stand either Sibylla or Guy, they usurped the throne.

Balian's life was far more interesting than what they made up. They did get his defense of Jerusalem and negotiations with Saladin correct. BUT, he was also at the Battle of Hattin with Guy and the entire army of Jerusalem. The idiot Guy made a huge error and got almost everyone killed.

He did do a great job with costumes and battle scenes. I got to hand him praise for that.

Downloaded the directors cut by mistake some 10/11 years after release and absolutely loved it. I couldn’t understand why a lot of people hate the film until I saw this video

does that mean we shouldn't judge Napoleon until we see a director's cut?

Syblla was prepared to sacrifice the lives of thousands in order to protect her own son. This is self-serving from a genetic point of view and can be classified as somewhat evil, magnified by then killing her own son.

I only ever saw the directors cut, lucky me.

Blade Runner is overrated trash

I was so excited to watch the directors cut because of all the hype around it, but goddam this movie was so fucking boring, and sags so hard in the middle. Talk about predating the preachy hollywood idealogy of the 2010s man. No respect for historical context, just Ridley Scott’s personal opinions on the crusades based of what i can only assume was him reading the big names of the 3rd crusade, cuz goddam, names are all that we have to even call this remotley a historical movie, and his personal opinions on christianity. Its gladiator with a bad script, and too many opinions

A big lost in the story is the absence of Almeric de Lusignan.... The brother of Guy....He should have his own movie anyway.... look him up