The director's cut is complete garbage
Finally got around to seeing it the other night and what a load of crap.
To begin with they cut out the opening narration. Such a perfectly blackly hilarious piece of voiceover. Meaning there's nothing to laugh about until Willie pukes outside the bar.
Then it abruptly cut out random parts like the "You people" scene or the scene where he teaches the kid to fight.
I get that Zwigoff claims he wanted it to be a "deeper" movie but just how deep does a movie with jokes about boning fat chicks, pissing yourself on the job or bullying kids need to be.
Ignore if you haven't seen it. The "Badder Santa" cut is my favourite; glad the blu-ray has both instead of limiting it to the DC, though I'd have preferred if it had the theatrical cut on it with the Badder cut.
"But the truth is, the years pass by just like trains, I wave but they won't slow down..."