Thank you.

At least one person in these comments prefers the voiceover in Blade Runner. And I've met a few others who do. It's a head-scratcher for me as well. The Director's Cut is so much better (plus it doesn't have that horrible happy ending cobbled together from outtakes from the opening of The Shining).

With Apocalypse Now, I pinball between preferring one version over another. The last time I watched one with the French plantation sequence (the recent so-called final cut, which leaves out the extra Redux version material that you're objecting to), I felt it really added great surreal contrast. Then last week, when I showed it to my youngest for the first time, I opted for the short version. I think that version has a better conclusion to the Kilgore segment, with his "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" monologue. Whereas in the longer versions, we get that silly bit where Willard nicks his surfboard.

In the end though, whichever version I watch, I always come away from that film with the same sense of shock, feeling as though I've descended into hell and looked at the evil in the soul of man. The rotten corruption that's probably been there since the Garden of Eden. It's profoundly disturbing. "The horror" indeed.

By the way, you've probably already seen the extended version of The Shining, because it was released that way in the US. It was only here in the UK (and perhaps in Europe) that we got the shorter cut originally (though the extended cut has since been released here - I saw it in the cinema a couple of years ago). :)