These lads of course have every right to fiddle to their hearts’ content with pictures they’ve made, but it’s getting out of control now. I don’t even know how many different versions of Blade Runner (1982) there are (I’ve only seen one), I hear there is now another edition of Apocalypse Now (1979), and I was yesterday informed that The Godfather Part III (1990) is now being re-released this month but with a completely different structure and with an alternate title. What is going on?
For me, the art that was produced at a specific stage is what it is (for lack of a better phrase) and all it will ever be. I have no time for tweaking, chopping, changing, re-editing, and periodic revisionism. Stop trying to fix what was at that moment your best or worst effort, move on, come up with a new idea. It’s got something to do with grasping for perfection, but the problem is that the films I’ve mentioned are far from perfect. Even the films I rate as ‘transcendental’ (The Third Man, Vertigo, Lawrence of Arabia) have giant flaws but that just adds to the appeal; I hate to appropriate an Oasis song, but true perfection has to be imperfect.
Dear directors, just STOP IT.
Give us something else.
Wanderings and ... wonderings. 
Good luck fixing Godfather 3, that’ll need more than just a re-edit…
I always found the film completely without a point to make. It simply doesn’t work on any level.
Agreed. And yet there are clearly compromised films out there that would be better candidates for tampering with, like the one below. My guess is that Coppola wants to do…something, and to get his way, has to put out a new version of one of his older films. But Godfather 3 would have to be completely reshot to be any good, there’s central casting flaws for a start…
Thanks for the link to that. I’ve yet to see this movie and I couldn’t find it anywhere when I last looked.