That’s where director Taika Waititi comes in. His latest highly-rated adventure Thor: Love and Thunder just dropped, and people are already talking about a potential director’s cut. Being someone who scarcely lets an opportunity pass to let his own comments be heard, Waititi has given several interviews addressing the idea. But while such a re-release seems like a no-brainer for many people, this director’s viewpoint on the matter is decidedly less charitable.

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In an interview with NME, Waititi didn’t mince words. “I’ve been thinking about director’s cuts. I watch director’s cuts of a lot of other directors. They suck,” he said when asked about Thor: Love and Thunder’s hashtag campaign for such a recut. “Director’s cuts are not good. Directors need to be controlled sometimes, and if I was to say, ‘ah, you wanna watch my director’s cut? It’s four and a half hours long!’ It’s not good, at four and a half hours. There’s a lot of cup-of-tea breaks in there, you don’t even have to pause it.”

Thor: Love and Thunder has been a bit divisive so far, with some still claiming that Thor: Ragnarok is the better movie. But even so, Waititi’s comments probably come as an unfortunate shock for anyone looking forward to a director’s cut. But the director himself didn’t come to this conclusion in a vacuum. It turns out he actually knows exactly what his own director’s cut would look like, and he’s not a fan of it. Even the film’s star Chris Hemsworth seems to agree.

“It was about four hours,” Waititi explained about his original unedited cut of the movie in an interview with Collider, “you’re like, ‘This is the greatest thing that anyone’s ever filmed in the history of filming things.’ And you get into the edit. You’re like, ‘I still kind of like it.’ And then, after about six months of it being in the movie, you realize it was fun on the day but it doesn’t have any business being in the movie.” Hemsworth, who was also part of the interview, gave his own 2 cents as well. “[It’s the most] Batsh*t crazy, wild, four-hour cut I’ve ever seen,” the actor added. “It was about four hours. It was like a Monty Python sketch… I wouldn’t call it a movie… the story was sacrificed for jokes.”

So as enticing as a Thor: Love and Thunder director’s cut might sound in concept, maybe it’s best that it remains in pieces as part of the home release’s special features. Comedy can be an important part of a movie, but when it distracts from the story, then things start to fall apart. But hey, this is still a Waititi production. Even the theatrical version is chock full of yuks, so no laughs have been lost.

Thor: Love and Thunder is now playing in theaters.

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Source: NME, Collider