About director's cuts, i think some ppl consent the circle of meaning process completed very early. It sounds somehow relegating the film to somewhere that it should be upper than that. Directors cut usually are not met with spectators. So if you think that film is completed when editing is finished though not seen by spectators yet, its an artist or artistic material oriented point of view but i think its a circulating communication process. And if even one of the integrated part of this process is ignored it could never be a "good film".