At both the Best Buy and Walmart near me they have the 2 disc Director's Cut blu ray in the $5 bargain bins. I picked up a copy. Great flick. I used to rent this on VHS, the Ma and Pa video store had the official Sergio cut, not the edited down version like Oak is talking about. They really butchered it with the editing. Was a two tape set. Longest movie I had ever seen. And I loved it. I used to have a birthday tradition of watching this every other year. Or having it on in the background while me and friends got shit-faced to be more accurate. Ha.
I remember everyone recommending it back in the 90s. I got this VHS 2 tape version at Blockbuster that made no sense. It was definitely a long version, like 4 hours, but I think the 1968 scenes with old Noodles that connected the flashback scenes from the 1930s must have been cut out. They were the first thing I noticed when I finally saw the correct version of the film on Netflix a couple of years ago. They are key to the film. This film was screwed with so much by the producers that a lot of people close to Sergio Leone believe it's what gave him a heart attack.
