I think you’ve got it backwards. The theatrical cut was the one that explained everything to you right at the start, not the director’s cut.

The Nuremberg trials were for people who committed war crimes. We don’t prosecute former cops for enforcing laws that are later deemed to be unconstitutional and struck down, no matter how morally repugnant we may find them.

Camera lenses show up on x-rays as big, black, impenetrable blobs. That’s why they’re always flagging them.

You’re overlooking the phrase “of the sort,” meaning magic that raises the dead. That’s what he’s talking about, not magic in general.

By almost all accounts, it is great. Yes, everyone’s entitled to their opinion and all that, but Germain is very much in the minority here.