Have any Postal 'haters' seen the Director's Cut?

I grabbed "Postal" from Hollywood Video (ah, the memories) a number of years ago as more of a curio than an exciting blockbuster since: 1) I had enjoyed the game when I was younger, but couldn't possibly see it as a semi-decent movie and 2) I had heard Uwe "Worst Director in the World (even though I'd never seen a single of his films)" Boll was behind it, thus making it doublely interesting to see the results.

I was relatively entertained by the majority of the movie, but found too many disjointed, poorly set-up scenes and random interactions to really get much out of it. I dismissed the flick with a modest 4/10 and left it, never planning to return.

Fast forward 2 years: One of my friend's thrust upon me an "18-minute-extended director's cut" of the film which he hailed as being vastly superior to the cut I had viewed. While I couldn't imagine a mere twenty minutes could turn a 3rd-rate Team America rip-off into a masterpiece... it nearly did. The film was entirely coherent, the punchlines actually paid off, the giggles were far less forced, and almost every single 'error' in the 100 min. cut of the film was absent(!!!). I simply couldn't believe what I was seeing. The film even LOOKED far better, since it was cropped to its intended 2.35:1 aspect ratio, instead of the studio enforced 1.85:1. And while the film was only about 20 minutes longer, there were several alternate takes to the American cut which were... surprise, surprise... miles funnier. Perhaps THIS is why the film did so surprisingly well during its festival run, yet turned out to be such a mess.

For those of you who assumed, as I did, that the DC was simply a bunch of scatological or anti-American jokes added in to an amusing but disjointed mess, know that it's really just the film the way it was intended.

Please watch the Director's Cut before you lambaste the film.

An easy 7/10.

It disheartens me to see so few posts about the vastly superior director's cut, and when there are... they're merely in reference to the "hand" scene. Sigh.