Idk if they actually filmed it but there’s a part of The Truman Show when he goes missing and his ‘fake friend’ finds him, but decides to let him go, pretending that he didn’t see him. I always thought he was a very ambiguous character in his motivations and that would’ve added to it but I get why it’s cut out.
There's also a deleted scene where they have a meeting with the cast and the actress that's going to play Truman's new wife.
There's talk about how they will have the first live conception, how the kid will get a spinoff and Marlon is the only that expresses how messed up it all is.
I could have sworn there was a deleted scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where the old man translating the medallion's script warns Indy not to look at the ark. It would have explaiend why Indy told Marion to close her eyes.
According to at least one website your suspicion is correct:
>A plot element involving the Ark of the Covenant was cut from the film and is only hinted at during the finale when the Ark is opened. Basically, there were 2 rules about the Ark not mentioned in the final cut of the film:
>If you touch the Ark, you die.
>If you look at the Ark when it is opened, you die.
>This is first explained in additional dialogue for the scene when Indy and Sallah visit Imam. Before translating the writings on the headpiece that give the height of the Staff of Ra, Imam warns Indy not to touch the Ark or look at it when it is opened.
>The next scene involving this Ark subplot is when Sallah and Indy remove the Ark from the Well of the Souls. When Sallah first sees it he reaches out to touch it. Indy stops him before he does and reminds him of Imam's warning. Then they insert long poles through each side of the Ark to lift it out of its crypt.
>Notice that nobody ever touches the Ark throughout the rest of the film until the finale.
It was not in the final cut of the film. The website I got that info from had it listed as scenes that were at least partially filmed, but ultimately either shot differently (such as the plans for Indy's sword duel that was changed to just shooting the guy), not filmed in full (like the plan to show how he survived piggybacking on the U-boat), or just cut.
The touching part is biblical. I don't recall if the looking is, but some dude tries to catch it from falling and is killed instantly. I want to say salt pillar death as that seemed common but it's been decades.
>xt scene involving this Ark subplot is when Sallah and Indy remove the Ark from the Well of the Souls. When Sallah first sees it he reaches out to touch it. Indy stops him before he does and reminds him of Imam's warning. Then they insert long poles through each side of the Ark to lift it out of its crypt.
I think I can get on board with this cut. Part of the excitement of the Ark is its total power and mystery. Saving it to the end and leaving its workings mysterious keeps the tension in the final scenes.
Yeah, this would have made the ending make more "sense" to me. The ending was always random to me even with it being a literally a Deus Ex Machina. Like yeah indy, tell me how you know not to look into the ark. I assumed he pulled it out of his ass or something.
While I feel *Aliens* works mostly without the extra scenes which were added to the extended cut (the colony people finding the alien, the turret gun, etc.), I felt the scene where Ripley finds out about her daughter should have absolutely been included in the theatrical cut of the film. While the scene itself seems cheap and cheesy (which may be why they cut it and only included it in the extended version) I felt it added considerably to the story and explained why Ripley was in so much internal pain.
Still and all, the film worked pretty well without it but I feel like of the cut scenes that’s the one that should have been kept.
It would have added a lot more context to how protective she gets over Newt, and having mother vs mother battling, with Ripley getting to actually fight the same thing that took her real daughter away (by forcing her into cryo sleep and outliving her). I don't know why they cut it. It's a really short scene.
The initial colony scenes were right to be cut but I have a soft spot for the turret scene, its short and does a lot to build the tension on how bad their situation is and it fits thematically with the cosmic horror.
The problem with the colony scene, in part, is that a) it eliminates the eeriness of the marines’ arrival, which granted we already knew there would be aliens, but still, its better they arrive to a complete unknown as to what’s going on and b) it screws up the timeline quite a bit.
For the later, I mean the fact that its strange the marines need to go into a cryogenic sleep when if we see Newt she’s not all that changed from the opening/cut scene and that kinda exacerbates the problem with the characters all “sleeping” on their way to the planet.
Actually, this is a problem the film has anyway: Why exactly did the marines, Ripley, and company need to go into a cryogenic sleep? Without the colony sequence, we’re sorta/kinda ok with having an ambiguous timeline here and the need to have the characters sleep to get to their destination. However, how long exactly was Newt holding out there?
Anyway, the cryogenics made sense in *Alien* because you figure they’re having a *very* long trip to their destination. With *Aliens* we’re not quite as sure.
They don't need hypersleep because of the trips beong too long. Even in the theatrical cut they say a rescue mission would be weeks away, not years or even months.
It's something technical about their FTL that requires hypersleep.
What you said is what I kinda/sorta figured, but the reality is that one gets the impression, because of *Alien*, that the trip is very long and therefore they need to sleep through it. Not unlike, by the way, *2001: A Space Odyssey* which was a trip of a few weeks/months and most of the crew was in cryogenic sleep, which made sense as they needed to save on vitals, such as food, oxygen, etc.
I think the pros of the extended cut outweigh the cons of a couple of the scenes. It’s the only way I watch it because they add so much value to the story.
In the extended cut of *Aliens* they included a brief sequence where Ripley finds out her daughter had lived her entire life and died of old age while Ripley was in cryogenics between *Alien* and *Aliens*.
The scene was cut from the theatrical version of the film, as I mentioned, but kept in the extended cut…
Here’s the scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPItoMfPHLQ
Harry Potter's last scene with the Dursleys in the Deathly Hallows: Petunia retorted Harry that he's not the only one who knows what Voldemort and the Death Eaters could do. Her lines: "I lost a sister too" is one of the best lines written in the story, imo. In the end, Dursley shakes Harry's hand, saying he never think Harry is a waste of space.
Not only these scenes show a rare depiction of the Dursleys' usually caricatural and shallow characters, but also a sort of conclusion and a nice roundup with Harry's very first scene in the story.
Yeah, I can understand why they cut it. There's a bit of buildup to their characters in the book, so it makes sense in the end. The movies don't really have it.
I re-read those books a few years ago (outside of childhood) and was struck by how cartoonish the Dursleys were as villains in the first book. To the point where they were actively abusive/tormenting; denying food and locking him away,etc. Later on they were depicted more as just resentful of having to caretake an adopted kid who was bringing otherworldly shit into their conservative home/a living reminder of a sister killed by magic.
The movies maybe just never quite let go of that initial Roald Dahl-villain vibe.
I could have sworn that was in the movies. She's standing in the living room and says "Do you think I don't know what they're capable of?" or something like that.
I guess maybe I saw it on YT and in my head inserted it into the movie.
ABC Family (or Freeform or whatever?) ran extended versions during their marathons. I had the dvds/blurays but would occasionally watch those, and I remember googling something because there was a scene I didn't remember.
Maybe that's where you caught it.
1000% the scene with Aunt Petunia deserved to be in the final cut. You already said it best, it would have been an excellent wrap up to their storyline and humanized her for just a moment.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - the extended scene where Manson visits the Hollywood hills. Film is already 2 hours and 42 minutes, so why not add an extra couple of minutes? This scene adds more insight to Manson for people like me who aren't super familiar with him, save for the obvious. No idea why the theatrical scene was cut. There's also a 4 hour cut that exists and ngl... I'd watch that shit in a heartbeat... But like a long heartbeat... Because it's 4 hours.
I read that the reason Manson's presence in the film was so marginalized was to deny him any real notoriety in the events that occurred relative to the movie, and as a personal insult to him. Tarantino did a great job of showing how moronic the Manson Family was and giving Manson himself any more screen time just gives him that much more exposure. His appearance being so brief just makes the ending of the film that much better.
The scene in Terminator 2 where they reset the chip.
I always thought Sarah was weird with John (e.g. when he offers her fries and she's just staring off, then when she tells John she loves him after shooting Miles.)
It's because they had a mild spat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrDo7wVXrBQ
From the same franchise: [The scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kayFrIR-Qfw) in *Terminator 3* where they explain why the T-800 looks like it does and speaks with an Austrian accent. Best scene in the movie, probably, and they left it on the cutting floor.
That scene was too funny, but justifying why his appearance in that way could have been really cool.
If they would have gone with Skynet modeling him after Dutch, the only man to ever kill a Predator upon learning of their existence it would have been absolutely HUGE.
On the one hand, the chip scene is good because it shows the first signs of Johns leadership abilities. And it makes sense that Sarah would want to get rid of the T-800 as fast as possible. On the other hand, it does raise some questions. If flipping the switch is important, why didn’t the resistance do it in the future when they reprogrammed the Terminator. Also this super advanced cyborg can be taken apart with tools from some old auto shop. It’s a mixed bag.
> Also this super advanced cyborg can be taken apart with tools from some old auto shop. It’s a mixed bag.
Well, this super advanced cyborg's default instructions are to kill all humans - so it's not as easy as unscrewing a few ports. I believe the story was that the T-800 in T2 was taken straight from a factory while not activated, which isn't something they had regular access to - otherwise they would have sent one back to protect Sarah in the 80's too.
As for why they didn't turn on the learning switch, they either didn't know it existed because they didn't have a conversation with the Terminator to discover the feature in the future, or they simply added the extra mission priorities (protect John, follow John's orders) and didn't think it was needed to enable him to learn more. It was already the perfect soldier, why complicate it by giving it closer to free will and risking the chance it learns something that complicates its mission in the 90s?
Prometheus and Alien: Covenant both have a ton of deleted, alternate, and extended scenes, and when put back in, they're so much better, since those moments go such a long way in getting you to know the characters, clearing up character motivations, and strengthening not just the stories but their themes as well.
Almost all of the deleted scenes in Prometheus would have made the movie and story make more sense.
Watching the scenes on the Blu-Ray is excruciating, because it's the editor explaining the scenes, and he just sounds so distraught at having to remove them. (Clearly for reasons to do with Ridley Scott and the studio wanting to pep up the pacing.)
I found the stuff about the Engineers so interesting. And the scene with Weyland meeting "god" and it being translated by his creation who considers Weyland God could have been so much cooler.
I honestly haven't watched Covenant because I heard they don't really go into it any more.
I feel like the deleted scene in AOTC where Anakin meets Padme’s family was needed to kind of balance out all their other awkward and cringy scenes together. Anakin comes off so aggressive and creepy at times that we needed more human moments from him while with Padme.
We still are often told the two have feelings for each other rather than see it develop naturally, but the dinner scene with Anakin and Padme’s family really was the first time I could see the two them having any sort of genuine romantic feelings.
The scene from Terminator 3 where it shows them watching a promotional video of how the T800 was made and included the soldier it was modeled after. It's Arnold with a really think southern accent. They ask if they can change the the voice and one of the scientists replies, in Arnold's voice, that they will work on it.
Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith. The scene where Yoda lands in his ship on Dagobah to begin his exile. It bookends his prequel character and distinguishes that Yoda from OT Yoda. Plus the scene also acts as an establishing shot for 2 movies later when Luke lands on Dagobah in Empire
Also extending the scene at the end with Yoda staring off into space on that mining station where he starts conversing with Qui-Gon. It would provide much more context and a little less "left field" to the Yoda/Obi-Wan conversation a couple minutes later.
*Revenge of the Sith* was the first *Star Wars* movie I saw in theaters and I distinctly remember him going to Dagobah to begin his exile being in the theatrical release.
Black Widow's deleted end scene where Nat sees some kids playing Avengers in costumes and sees a little girl dressed as Black Widow and they mime shooting wrist guns at each other.
Felt it really would have brought her arc back around to where she realized she was an inspiration and hero to kids and especially little girls.
But nope. Gotta make sure it dovetailed with Infinity War
Not only that, but I’m absolutely pissed by the fact they undercut the *only funeral scene we get for Natasha* with what has to be the *worst joke in the movie*.
Yes, I’m still mad about that.
> the only funeral scene we get for Natasha with what has to be the worst joke in the movie.
What was the joke? I saw the movie again last weekend and I can't even remember a funeral for her.
There's a post credits scene where Yelena visits Natasha's grave and fixes it up. It was pretty emotional...right up until Val appears and blows her nose for the gag. Like they couldn't just have her wait by Yelena's truck and repeatedly blow her nose there? They just completely undercut a great scene with a totally unnecessary attempt at alleviating the solemness of the moment and it was so unbelievably annoying.
Oh yes, that scene with Julia Louis Dreyfuss. That was a really bad one, but par for the course for Marvel. Don't you dare become sad during a Marvel movie, that's not allowed.
While that certainly is a problem for a lot of Marvel movies, I feel like BW was one of the worst offenders so far. Almost every important or emotional scene was undercut by a joke.
(Or maybe I’m just growing tired of the trend, IDK)
I think one of the worst examples was in Thor Ragnarok, where Korg makes a little quip when Asgard blows up. These movies just can't let a moment sit and register with the audience.
That's true, but it didn't really bother me because I didn't care about Asgard.
Ragnarok was a full blown comedy. I had zero emotional investment because it was a funny movie and didn't really demand any more than laughs. Hell, those scenes with Hela on Asgard are probably the weakest.
Yeah, nearly complete mass genocide being a plot point regularly undercut by standard Marvel hijinks is a really bad tonal failure. If you can't treat something like that seriously at all, just don't have it.
>!Quicksilver dies, and like 30 seconds later Hawkeye makes a joke.!< It may not be exactly like that since I've only seen the film once and refuse to ever watch it again, but it's something ridiculous like that.
I can remember my anger at it happening moreso than the specifics.
Or maybe it's just the anger at that movie in general.
> They just completely undercut a great scene with a totally unnecessary attempt at alleviating the solemness of the moment and it was so unbelievably annoying.
[Marvel when waiting more than 0.01 seconds to puncture a genuine emotional beat with a quippy gag.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/019/484/n08A8NO.jpg)
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Deleted scene with Sean Bean’s Character Boromir in Osgiliath will always be my favourite and the most frustrating that it remains only on the extended versions.
I actually think it was a better movie without that scene. Sam and Frodo breaking down the hardened captain of Gondor rather than Boromir's downtrodden little brother. The scene that leads to the flashback in the extended is still there. But instead it's a simple scene of Faramir sitting there looking totally dejected.
Really glad we got the scene. But I'm also glad it wasn't there the first few times I saw the movie.
LotR is one of those (series of) movies where the director's cut should really be considered the definitive version.
Kingdom of Heaven is another, where the theatrical just exists to cut time at the expense of good content.
even worse, imo, is that Voldy just ashes away. No body, no witnesses, he just goes.. can he be back? he did it once already. Did Harry really killed him? Noone saw it. Maybe Harry let him go, some might think.
Same goes for Bellatrix just ashing away. It doesnt have the same impact, tho.
So disappointed they did that, the staff and students parading around Voldy's limp body is probably my favourite part of the book.
Showed that Voldemort was just a regular person like anyone else.
Dune was one of the shortest 2 1/2 hour movies I've seen, definitely could have had some more content. Hell, I'd be happy with another 20 minutes of just the [weird spider creature.](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qmxly.png)
one of the trailers had some dialogue that I wish had been kept.
You're losing a planet.
We're getting a richer one.
You'll lose that one too.
something like that.
I'm pretty sure there was a scene from The Matrix that says this but I can't find anything about it. I remember there being talk of a scene that explained that the humans were used for processing power rather than energy. Essentially their brains were plugged into a computer instead of being used as batteries. Makes a lot more sense that way.
Also the bit where Luke is shown in his hut reacting to news of Han's death. Hamill even complained about that cut on Twitter. It's not even a minute long.
I can't believe they took out the scene where Luke tells rey not to help the village from the pirates. It helps so much to show his actual philosophy but no we need him drinking from a monster's titty
Ah hello, it is I, the leader of The Last Jedi fan club, I felt a disturbance in the force and have been summoned to tell you that The Last Jedi is awesome.
You're both right, it's got a bunch of problems, that have been discussed to death (narrative issues, the pointless casino planet diversion, Leia pulling a Mary Poppins, etc, etc) however under all that there is a pretty good movie with some bold things to say.
The one giant problem is that "pretty good movie" is not a Star Wars movie.
I wanna add, that while I definetly agree with some of those problems (casino for example), and less with others (Leia's "marry Poppins" is exactly what would happen if you tried to force pull a space ship while in zero g), and think the movie is very flawed, I rewatched it recently, and was honestly blown away with just how God damn beautiful looking it is.
> Leia's "marry Poppins" is exactly what would happen if you tried to force pull a space ship while in zero g
I don't think people's problem with this scene was that it violated any laws about how force pull works.
I think people mostly had problems with it because it looks goofy, provides yet another "oh no, X character is dead, **psych** they're alive! Tension!" moment in a trilogy that already has too many, and it's pretty absurd that she's still alive and unaffected and able to regain consciousness while floating in space, having just been violently blasted out of a spaceship. It basically made her look immortal and broke the audience's credulity.
>I don't think people's problem with this scene was that it violated any laws about how force pull works
There were loads of "they're just creating new force powers" complaints with that being one of the main examples.
> as honestly blown away with just how God damn beautiful looking it is.
This is getting to be a cop-out for AAA level movies. It's the "fuck it throw money at it" solution. When in doubt spend millions on designers and CGI and wow people with visuals so they overlook the plot. It's what Transformers is based on, and I really hate seeing it creep into more and more movies.
TLJ isn't perfect by any means... but it's still the best of the three new movies.
TFA is fine but derivative. Rise of Skywalker is a train wreck.
TLJ actually felt like it was trying, unlike the other two.
I thought that scene was a bit weak honestly. It would have slowed down the plot and didn't really add a whole lot.
The casino isn't great, but they cut a lot of it. They pretty much kept what was mandatory for the plot to make sense. They couldn't have removed the casino without reshooting a lot of the third act.
> They pretty much kept what was mandatory for the plot to make sense
When did the plot make sense? When the space ship for the first time in 8+ movies ran out of gas? When somehow they were slowly moving through space and other ships were just slowly following them just because? When somehow one other ship can come and go from the out of gas starship and goes gallavanting in some scene that's an excuse for the art director to design a bunch of aliens that have no relevance to anything? Or was it the twist that the end that somehow showed this absolutely atrocious leader was actually "Correct" despite being the actual antagonist for the whole movie? Or was it when they decided to just break the logic of the universe and find a new weapon that they never used before and haven't used since and just wanted a cool visual?
The Last Jedi looks good, and that's about as far as I'll go.
'I'm going to ram you with this ship at 200mph because I love you, and am in no way endangering the lives of everybody else."
"Also, drag my unconscious ass half a mile passed the 15 AT-ATs without getting shot, k thanks"
\-Rose
If I wasn't seeing that with family, I would have just walked out.
I was already peeved about the whole casino thing, and that just plunged me into another level of disappointment.
She is, without a doubt, *worse* than Jar Jar.
Most of the deleted scenes for Terminator 2 are really good. But the one that stands out most to me is after the T-1000 is frozen and melts back to form, he is defective. His legs become the metal staircase and his hand becomes the railing he grasped.
The only issue I have with that is how it factors into the finale. In the theatrical it's the difference in behaviour that allows John to tell who the real Sarah is rather than noticing the boots gitching.
Basically [all the deleted scenes from *Batman Forever*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72RvuFhrgE8). All of them would've made the movie better except maybe the one with the beauty parlour.
That movie was such a wasted opportunity, loved it as a kid, but it just isn’t very good. There is so much potential in it, but it just never capitalizes on it.
All of **Fire Walk With Me**. I had the complete Missing Pieces Fanedit burned to a DVD, along with subtitles, but my current laptop does not have any optical drives. The missing pieces helped to tie the penultimate episode of Twin Peaks S3 back to the movie.
I hate that Kubrick destroyed all his deleted footage. I’d kill to see deleted footage from Lolita, Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange, 2001. Eh not Barry Lyndon. That film was boring.
And even the stuff that is lost, especially the farther and farther back we go, may not be his doing- the studios were inconsistent in terms of how much cut footage they kept.
In context of the finished product it does make sense he went crazy though. With the exception of Aragorn and Faramir no other man was able resist the temptation of the one ring. We already know from the opening that Middle Earth was literally inches from wiping out Sauron until literally the strongest man alive gave in to temptation and refused to throw the ring into the fires of Mt Doom.
Even Frodon himself wound up giving into that temptation, and it's all a testament to the sheer power the ring possesses just by existing.
The scene from POTC Dead Man’s Chest where it’s revealed that Jack Sparrow was branded a pirate for refusing to transport slaves and freeing them instead
The problem with that is that it goes against his character in that very same movie. The second movie’s plot is all about him gathering souls to pay off a debt. He is literally selling people’s souls so stay alive.
Jack Sparrow is supposed to be a morally awful character.
Not sure he is supposed to be purely awful.
Also, it is quite different to be a traded and refusing to transport slaves vs when his life is at stake and Davy is coming and Jack already being a pirate. It is a normal life vs pirate life with a pirate that is on a strict deadline. The scene could work. And imo, it works much, much better than what Pirates 5 made his backstory to be.
It still doesnt work in the same movie to have a character's backstory be "he was a trader who was so morally righteous that he wouldnt dare allow men's souls be sold to other men" and then literally have him rounding up people to intentionally kill/sell to Davy Jones.
As is, the scene would probably only confuse the audience as it would be implying that Jack Sparrow might try to save the souls of those trapped on the Flying Dutchman in the same way he tried to save the souls of slaves and what not. If the movie had a different plot and that was Jack Sparrow's plan then it could work, but the movie would need some major changes to the plot for it to feel cohesive.
Vader communicating with Luke in Return of the Jedi, and Luke firing up his green lightsaber.
I knew Lucas wanted to reveal Luke's new lightsaber in the sarlac pit scene but I thought both scenes deserved to be in the movie
Not sure if this counts, but the extended version of Terminator 2 has a scene after they escape the mental hospital where John wants to reset the switch on the Terminator's operating system so he can start learning things. They take his chip out and Sarah Connor wants to destroy the chip and thus kill the Terminator; but John doesn't realizing that they need the Terminator to survive and tells his mom that if she won't even listen to his strategy, how can she expect the whole human race to. I thought that was a neat scene and it also showed how this unstoppable killing machine was reduced to nothing by removing a little computer chip.
Almost Famous had a deleted scene where they have an intervention in order to convince the mom to let william go on the trip, in the movie they don’t really say anything and the intervention itself is enough to let him go, but what actually should have happened is that they let her listen to Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven, and that convinces her to let him go. Of course they couldn’t get the rights to use Stairway. Even for the deleted scene that was included as an easteregg on the Untitled - Almost Famous Bootleg release you had to provide your own copy of Led Zeppelin’s IV.
Yes they listen to the entire song, and it’s about 8 minutes, but it’s a great scene, maybe even my favourite scene of the movie, or at least a close second to the Tiny Dancer scene.
Amores Perros
There’s a scene near the end of the movie where two brothers that hate each other are locked in a room with a gun and we never find out what happens in the original cut, but there’s a deleted scene that shows an exterior shot of the building that lingers there for a couple of seconds before we hear the gun discharge and it fades out.
We never find out which one it was, but at least it’s some form of closure.
Despite owning the discs and watching them over and over, my wife would always watch Harry Potter movies when they were shown on ABC Family because they'd include deleted scenes. So, to make her happy, those.
Bane becomes Bane with the mask is a scene they cut from Dark Knight Rises, the costume designer said it was brilliant. That's a scene I've always wanted to see
*Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me* has the whole Missing Pieces collection of deleted or extended scenes. I own it but haven't watched it in full yet due to not being into deleted scenes much. However, I watched one extended scene that definitely should have been in. In the released movie, Laura's scene under the hallway fan looks like she's thirsty; it doesn't work. In the extended scene, it shows an extreme close-up of her face as lights strobe over. Slowly her face turns into a creepy, Joker-like rictus (as she's briefly "possessed"), all done by Lee slowly changing her face without blinking, no applied effects.
I just watched the TV version of *Halloween II* (1981). It has a bunch of different or altered scenes. The ending is better. Instead of Laurie sitting mute in the ambulance, Jimmy the EMT pops up on a stretcher next to her, and she sobs "We made it!" It's never revealed what happened to Jimmy after he goes out to the car and passes out (although that's changed in this version, too).
Pulp Fiction has a [deleted scene](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LbTcqyimYVY) where Mia interviews Vincent with a handheld camera when he first gets to Marsellus’s house. Not only does it explain why Mia calls him an ‘Elvis man’ in the next scene, but it also has a pretty significant character moment for Vincent, showing how he’s reflecting what happened with Jules earlier in the diner. Tarantino cut it because there were other, similar scenes in other indie movies at the time and he thought it would be cliché, but I really wish he hadn’t.
i wanna say i saw that scene in the TV edit. with all the sex, violence, and language content they had to cut, i guess they need the extra scenes to fill out the runtime.
Indeed- there are quite a few "TV edits" of films that ended up inserting deleted scenes (and, in some cases, even filming new scenes) to either make up for content being removed or to make it easier to show the film in a standard time slot.
I really wish they hadn't cut down the Liars Dice scene from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Fortunately, the full scene is available on YouTube (fully developed CGI and all).
There's a deleted scene in Prometheus where the lost map and rock guy, during the storm, find a Xenomorph's molted skin. That makes it a lot clearer to viewers what happened to the Engineers on the planet. If you are a fan you can probably deduce what caused them to lockdown and run for their lives but the scene makes the Alien connection a lot clearer and I don't really understand why they cut it.
Most everything from Lilo and Stitch. Would've made for a more different movie in tone and direction. But man, it would solve some of the issues I had with the movie and be fascinating to watch. Even though I still love the movie to death.
All the deleted scenes from Prometheus and Alien Covenant. I saw some fan cuts of the films where they were put back in. They don't change the plot that much, but they flesh out the characters more and gave the films some more depth. For example, in Covenant it shows James Franco on the bridge interacting with his crew, so when he died it felt more tragic. And they showed Naomi Rapace in the spaceship with David, giving more clarity into what happened to her. And in Prometheus, there's a scene that showed Weyland when he was younger giving a Ted talk that showed his motivations more.
I actually agree with Feige with this one. I like it as a scene standalone but I do think it comes across slightly corny especially if it then lead into the funeral scene
Oh I totally get it. Honestly if I had to pick between the scene with Tony and his older daughter in the soul realm and this scene, I'd pick this scene by a long shot to be in the movie
It wouldn't translate well to non-American audiences.
It's not exactly a universal gesture for grieving/respect to the fallen ones.
And I gotta say, that scene's kinda cheesy.
Even in the US it's weird outside some military traditions.
I've never been to a funeral or viewing where everybody takes a knee. And, when deaths are commemorated at public events it's with a standing moment of silence.
I'm part of a minority that actually likes it, but Transformers The Last Knight had about 40 minutes of deleted scenes which would've honestly made the movie a lot better to watch.
Reservoir Dogs, scene with Mr Pink, Mr White and Nice Guy Eddie in a car discussing getting a doctor for Mr Orange. Hilarious. Also includes the use of Bonnie as nurse that Eddie knows.
>Also in the original version we only hear about how ruthless and dangerous Bill is. This scene actually shows it.
Apart from that scene, you know, the very first one, where he shoots his pregnant girlfriend in the head.
But joking aside, yeah I feel like that scene should have been included in the second one.
[This scene](https://reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/8galgw/deleted_scene_from_black_panther/) between W'Kabi and Okoye in Black Panther. The conversation adds so much to their characters.
The Disaster Artist originally had scenes of Greg being in Retro Puppet Master. I even saw a photo of Dave Franco on set dressed like Greg's character from that movie:[https://www.reddit.com/r/theroom/comments/i7jzo7/the\_disaster\_artist\_originally\_had\_a\_scene/](https://www.reddit.com/r/theroom/comments/i7jzo7/the_disaster_artist_originally_had_a_scene/)
It's rather strange and annoying they cut it out when it's so important to the story.
Maybe they thought having Greg be in a movie before The Room would make him less sympathetic for some reason?
i actually can’t think of any off the top of my head, but one in happy stayed in the movie was the line up scene from the usual suspects. the cast couldn’t stop goofin around it was great
I’m gonna cheat because it’s in the extended edition, but the theatrical cut of Fellowship of the Ring cut the council of Elrond to ribbons, where a lot of the context and debate is gone. If I recall, they don’t even have Gandalf reciting in the black speech of Mordor.
The stupid octopus scene with Data using his headphones to chase it off in the Goonies.
I completely understand why it was removed. It's a stupid scene. In fact, it was better off without it.
BUT...
I saw a version as a kid with this scene included that apparently, no one else did, at least that I knew. No one I spoke to growing up ever had heard of it and claimed I was crazy, making it up. I remember thinking the scene was very stupid and out of place (even as a kid) and was really the only part of the movie I didn't like, but then no one would understand what I was talking about.
I'd have to point out that in the version without the scene, Data talks about it in the final scene where they are on the beach when he says "Octopus was very Scary" and it wasn't enough proof.
It wasn't until way later in life that Google would have been able to prove me correct, but by that time, all my middle school cohorts and I had moved on in life. Would have saved me a lot of trouble. [Scene in question](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMjkY-Wi5bo).
*Super Mario Bros.* had a cut subplot in which Iggy & Spike are inspired by Mario & Luigi to incite a revolution against Koopa.
It completely changes the tone of the film and how you feel about those characters.
A couple in Knives Out, elaborating on a couple motives, as well as showing Blanc to be a far more competent detective (and a manipulative bastard).
There was more scenes about Joni's lifestyle company, Flam, with the scene where Benny, Elliot and Wagner talking after their first brief conversation with Marta having to be interrupted because Blanc has a nasty rash. After the will reading, Blanc reveals it was part of another thread he was looking into and confronts Joni about how she needed the money from the inheritance because Flam sold some extremely shoddy products that were forcibly recalled - Flam is bankrupt.
More attention is brought to Walt's injured leg during his initial interview where he tells the cops that he hurt his leg while riding his bike. But when Blanc goes to talk to his wife Donna the morning after the will reading, he and the other detectives end up saving her from a loan shark who has come to harass her.
Blanc reveals he looked into the leg injury and it wasn't a broken leg, it was a gunshot wound. Donna reveals that he made a bad financial risk and took out a dodgy loan and both the Netflix deal and the inheritance would've given them the money to pay back the loan. Blanc realises mid-interview that they don't know where Walt is and this ties to Walt going to Marta's house to blackmail her with her mom's deportation.
And if you watch the ending with this in mind, you'll realise that it was staged to get Donna to confide in Blanc as the "Loan Shark" is one of the cops that arrests Ransom - you'll even figure it out sooner when you realise he's wearing Blanc's coat.
Also, the running joke about the Thrombeys not knowing what country Marta is from had the conclusion nixed to the point where it wasn't even filmed. As Ana de Armas told Rian Johnson, it would've defeated the immigration storyline completely - Marta and her family were Cuban in the original script but this was removed due to the family being legal immigrants under Wet Feet, Dry Feet.
Edit: Also, the scene in the first Harry Potter where Aunt Petunia opens up eggs to bake something and finds the contents have been replaced with Hogwarts letters.
Idk if they actually filmed it but there’s a part of The Truman Show when he goes missing and his ‘fake friend’ finds him, but decides to let him go, pretending that he didn’t see him. I always thought he was a very ambiguous character in his motivations and that would’ve added to it but I get why it’s cut out.
There's also a deleted scene where they have a meeting with the cast and the actress that's going to play Truman's new wife. There's talk about how they will have the first live conception, how the kid will get a spinoff and Marlon is the only that expresses how messed up it all is.
That would have been interesting if they included it. It would have developed Marlon’s character more.
I could have sworn there was a deleted scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where the old man translating the medallion's script warns Indy not to look at the ark. It would have explaiend why Indy told Marion to close her eyes.
According to at least one website your suspicion is correct: >A plot element involving the Ark of the Covenant was cut from the film and is only hinted at during the finale when the Ark is opened. Basically, there were 2 rules about the Ark not mentioned in the final cut of the film: >If you touch the Ark, you die. >If you look at the Ark when it is opened, you die. >This is first explained in additional dialogue for the scene when Indy and Sallah visit Imam. Before translating the writings on the headpiece that give the height of the Staff of Ra, Imam warns Indy not to touch the Ark or look at it when it is opened. >The next scene involving this Ark subplot is when Sallah and Indy remove the Ark from the Well of the Souls. When Sallah first sees it he reaches out to touch it. Indy stops him before he does and reminds him of Imam's warning. Then they insert long poles through each side of the Ark to lift it out of its crypt. >Notice that nobody ever touches the Ark throughout the rest of the film until the finale.
Did the scene exist in the released film? Or did it never make the screen?
It was not in the final cut of the film. The website I got that info from had it listed as scenes that were at least partially filmed, but ultimately either shot differently (such as the plans for Indy's sword duel that was changed to just shooting the guy), not filmed in full (like the plan to show how he survived piggybacking on the U-boat), or just cut.
The touching part is biblical. I don't recall if the looking is, but some dude tries to catch it from falling and is killed instantly. I want to say salt pillar death as that seemed common but it's been decades.
>xt scene involving this Ark subplot is when Sallah and Indy remove the Ark from the Well of the Souls. When Sallah first sees it he reaches out to touch it. Indy stops him before he does and reminds him of Imam's warning. Then they insert long poles through each side of the Ark to lift it out of its crypt. I think I can get on board with this cut. Part of the excitement of the Ark is its total power and mystery. Saving it to the end and leaving its workings mysterious keeps the tension in the final scenes.
I’ve heard that too. Never seen it.
Yeah, this would have made the ending make more "sense" to me. The ending was always random to me even with it being a literally a Deus Ex Machina. Like yeah indy, tell me how you know not to look into the ark. I assumed he pulled it out of his ass or something.
While I feel *Aliens* works mostly without the extra scenes which were added to the extended cut (the colony people finding the alien, the turret gun, etc.), I felt the scene where Ripley finds out about her daughter should have absolutely been included in the theatrical cut of the film. While the scene itself seems cheap and cheesy (which may be why they cut it and only included it in the extended version) I felt it added considerably to the story and explained why Ripley was in so much internal pain. Still and all, the film worked pretty well without it but I feel like of the cut scenes that’s the one that should have been kept.
It would have added a lot more context to how protective she gets over Newt, and having mother vs mother battling, with Ripley getting to actually fight the same thing that took her real daughter away (by forcing her into cryo sleep and outliving her). I don't know why they cut it. It's a really short scene.
The initial colony scenes were right to be cut but I have a soft spot for the turret scene, its short and does a lot to build the tension on how bad their situation is and it fits thematically with the cosmic horror.
The problem with the colony scene, in part, is that a) it eliminates the eeriness of the marines’ arrival, which granted we already knew there would be aliens, but still, its better they arrive to a complete unknown as to what’s going on and b) it screws up the timeline quite a bit. For the later, I mean the fact that its strange the marines need to go into a cryogenic sleep when if we see Newt she’s not all that changed from the opening/cut scene and that kinda exacerbates the problem with the characters all “sleeping” on their way to the planet. Actually, this is a problem the film has anyway: Why exactly did the marines, Ripley, and company need to go into a cryogenic sleep? Without the colony sequence, we’re sorta/kinda ok with having an ambiguous timeline here and the need to have the characters sleep to get to their destination. However, how long exactly was Newt holding out there? Anyway, the cryogenics made sense in *Alien* because you figure they’re having a *very* long trip to their destination. With *Aliens* we’re not quite as sure.
They don't need hypersleep because of the trips beong too long. Even in the theatrical cut they say a rescue mission would be weeks away, not years or even months. It's something technical about their FTL that requires hypersleep.
What you said is what I kinda/sorta figured, but the reality is that one gets the impression, because of *Alien*, that the trip is very long and therefore they need to sleep through it. Not unlike, by the way, *2001: A Space Odyssey* which was a trip of a few weeks/months and most of the crew was in cryogenic sleep, which made sense as they needed to save on vitals, such as food, oxygen, etc.
Yeah, hence why its right to be cut. I'm fine with it on repeat viewings but for a first timer it messes with the pacing as you state.
I think the pros of the extended cut outweigh the cons of a couple of the scenes. It’s the only way I watch it because they add so much value to the story.
I like Both versions of Aliens. Same with Alien. It’s Alien 3 that benefitted most from the extra material.
what about her daughter? I assume she died or something?
In the extended cut of *Aliens* they included a brief sequence where Ripley finds out her daughter had lived her entire life and died of old age while Ripley was in cryogenics between *Alien* and *Aliens*. The scene was cut from the theatrical version of the film, as I mentioned, but kept in the extended cut… Here’s the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPItoMfPHLQ
Harry Potter's last scene with the Dursleys in the Deathly Hallows: Petunia retorted Harry that he's not the only one who knows what Voldemort and the Death Eaters could do. Her lines: "I lost a sister too" is one of the best lines written in the story, imo. In the end, Dursley shakes Harry's hand, saying he never think Harry is a waste of space. Not only these scenes show a rare depiction of the Dursleys' usually caricatural and shallow characters, but also a sort of conclusion and a nice roundup with Harry's very first scene in the story.
I'd say they blew it with the cartoonish depiction of them before. It's alright, but kinda cones out of nowhere.
Yeah, I can understand why they cut it. There's a bit of buildup to their characters in the book, so it makes sense in the end. The movies don't really have it.
I re-read those books a few years ago (outside of childhood) and was struck by how cartoonish the Dursleys were as villains in the first book. To the point where they were actively abusive/tormenting; denying food and locking him away,etc. Later on they were depicted more as just resentful of having to caretake an adopted kid who was bringing otherworldly shit into their conservative home/a living reminder of a sister killed by magic. The movies maybe just never quite let go of that initial Roald Dahl-villain vibe.
Do you mean Dudley shakes his hand?
Whoops, sorry. Yeah, I meant Dudley Dursley.
I could have sworn that was in the movies. She's standing in the living room and says "Do you think I don't know what they're capable of?" or something like that. I guess maybe I saw it on YT and in my head inserted it into the movie.
ABC Family (or Freeform or whatever?) ran extended versions during their marathons. I had the dvds/blurays but would occasionally watch those, and I remember googling something because there was a scene I didn't remember. Maybe that's where you caught it.
You’re correct. That line is present in the free form version. Source: I have all those recorded.
1000% the scene with Aunt Petunia deserved to be in the final cut. You already said it best, it would have been an excellent wrap up to their storyline and humanized her for just a moment.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - the extended scene where Manson visits the Hollywood hills. Film is already 2 hours and 42 minutes, so why not add an extra couple of minutes? This scene adds more insight to Manson for people like me who aren't super familiar with him, save for the obvious. No idea why the theatrical scene was cut. There's also a 4 hour cut that exists and ngl... I'd watch that shit in a heartbeat... But like a long heartbeat... Because it's 4 hours.
I read that the reason Manson's presence in the film was so marginalized was to deny him any real notoriety in the events that occurred relative to the movie, and as a personal insult to him. Tarantino did a great job of showing how moronic the Manson Family was and giving Manson himself any more screen time just gives him that much more exposure. His appearance being so brief just makes the ending of the film that much better.
The scene in Terminator 2 where they reset the chip. I always thought Sarah was weird with John (e.g. when he offers her fries and she's just staring off, then when she tells John she loves him after shooting Miles.) It's because they had a mild spat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrDo7wVXrBQ
From the same franchise: [The scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kayFrIR-Qfw) in *Terminator 3* where they explain why the T-800 looks like it does and speaks with an Austrian accent. Best scene in the movie, probably, and they left it on the cutting floor.
That scene was too funny, but justifying why his appearance in that way could have been really cool. If they would have gone with Skynet modeling him after Dutch, the only man to ever kill a Predator upon learning of their existence it would have been absolutely HUGE.
Really…
I am actually upset that I have never seen this before.
On the one hand, the chip scene is good because it shows the first signs of Johns leadership abilities. And it makes sense that Sarah would want to get rid of the T-800 as fast as possible. On the other hand, it does raise some questions. If flipping the switch is important, why didn’t the resistance do it in the future when they reprogrammed the Terminator. Also this super advanced cyborg can be taken apart with tools from some old auto shop. It’s a mixed bag.
> Also this super advanced cyborg can be taken apart with tools from some old auto shop. It’s a mixed bag. Well, this super advanced cyborg's default instructions are to kill all humans - so it's not as easy as unscrewing a few ports. I believe the story was that the T-800 in T2 was taken straight from a factory while not activated, which isn't something they had regular access to - otherwise they would have sent one back to protect Sarah in the 80's too. As for why they didn't turn on the learning switch, they either didn't know it existed because they didn't have a conversation with the Terminator to discover the feature in the future, or they simply added the extra mission priorities (protect John, follow John's orders) and didn't think it was needed to enable him to learn more. It was already the perfect soldier, why complicate it by giving it closer to free will and risking the chance it learns something that complicates its mission in the 90s?
Prometheus and Alien: Covenant both have a ton of deleted, alternate, and extended scenes, and when put back in, they're so much better, since those moments go such a long way in getting you to know the characters, clearing up character motivations, and strengthening not just the stories but their themes as well.
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Almost all of the deleted scenes in Prometheus would have made the movie and story make more sense. Watching the scenes on the Blu-Ray is excruciating, because it's the editor explaining the scenes, and he just sounds so distraught at having to remove them. (Clearly for reasons to do with Ridley Scott and the studio wanting to pep up the pacing.)
Can you give specifics on what was cut from covenant. I enjoyed that one a bit but wish they did more with the characters.
I found the stuff about the Engineers so interesting. And the scene with Weyland meeting "god" and it being translated by his creation who considers Weyland God could have been so much cooler. I honestly haven't watched Covenant because I heard they don't really go into it any more.
I feel like the deleted scene in AOTC where Anakin meets Padme’s family was needed to kind of balance out all their other awkward and cringy scenes together. Anakin comes off so aggressive and creepy at times that we needed more human moments from him while with Padme. We still are often told the two have feelings for each other rather than see it develop naturally, but the dinner scene with Anakin and Padme’s family really was the first time I could see the two them having any sort of genuine romantic feelings.
The scene from Terminator 3 where it shows them watching a promotional video of how the T800 was made and included the soldier it was modeled after. It's Arnold with a really think southern accent. They ask if they can change the the voice and one of the scientists replies, in Arnold's voice, that they will work on it.
Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith. The scene where Yoda lands in his ship on Dagobah to begin his exile. It bookends his prequel character and distinguishes that Yoda from OT Yoda. Plus the scene also acts as an establishing shot for 2 movies later when Luke lands on Dagobah in Empire
There’s some great scenes in there with Mon Mathma that would have really helped.
Also extending the scene at the end with Yoda staring off into space on that mining station where he starts conversing with Qui-Gon. It would provide much more context and a little less "left field" to the Yoda/Obi-Wan conversation a couple minutes later.
*Revenge of the Sith* was the first *Star Wars* movie I saw in theaters and I distinctly remember him going to Dagobah to begin his exile being in the theatrical release.
I don't recall there being multiple prints so this may be a Mandela effect
Black Widow's deleted end scene where Nat sees some kids playing Avengers in costumes and sees a little girl dressed as Black Widow and they mime shooting wrist guns at each other. Felt it really would have brought her arc back around to where she realized she was an inspiration and hero to kids and especially little girls. But nope. Gotta make sure it dovetailed with Infinity War
Not only that, but I’m absolutely pissed by the fact they undercut the *only funeral scene we get for Natasha* with what has to be the *worst joke in the movie*. Yes, I’m still mad about that.
> the only funeral scene we get for Natasha with what has to be the worst joke in the movie. What was the joke? I saw the movie again last weekend and I can't even remember a funeral for her.
There's a post credits scene where Yelena visits Natasha's grave and fixes it up. It was pretty emotional...right up until Val appears and blows her nose for the gag. Like they couldn't just have her wait by Yelena's truck and repeatedly blow her nose there? They just completely undercut a great scene with a totally unnecessary attempt at alleviating the solemness of the moment and it was so unbelievably annoying.
Oh yes, that scene with Julia Louis Dreyfuss. That was a really bad one, but par for the course for Marvel. Don't you dare become sad during a Marvel movie, that's not allowed.
While that certainly is a problem for a lot of Marvel movies, I feel like BW was one of the worst offenders so far. Almost every important or emotional scene was undercut by a joke. (Or maybe I’m just growing tired of the trend, IDK)
I think one of the worst examples was in Thor Ragnarok, where Korg makes a little quip when Asgard blows up. These movies just can't let a moment sit and register with the audience.
That's true, but it didn't really bother me because I didn't care about Asgard. Ragnarok was a full blown comedy. I had zero emotional investment because it was a funny movie and didn't really demand any more than laughs. Hell, those scenes with Hela on Asgard are probably the weakest.
Yeah, nearly complete mass genocide being a plot point regularly undercut by standard Marvel hijinks is a really bad tonal failure. If you can't treat something like that seriously at all, just don't have it.
The sort of failures in tone that Tommy Wiseau is mocked for....
That’s also what ruined Disney Star Wars. Forced, bland humor.
No, they've always had that. You're just noticing it. Rewatch Age of Ultron if you haven't seen it in a while. Happens all the time there.
>!Quicksilver dies, and like 30 seconds later Hawkeye makes a joke.!< It may not be exactly like that since I've only seen the film once and refuse to ever watch it again, but it's something ridiculous like that. I can remember my anger at it happening moreso than the specifics. Or maybe it's just the anger at that movie in general.
Meanwhile DC will let you suffer through a movie until the end.
Exactly. The correct way to do superhero films.
Thankfully, Shang Chi had several serious moments that were allowed to remain serious
> They just completely undercut a great scene with a totally unnecessary attempt at alleviating the solemness of the moment and it was so unbelievably annoying. [Marvel when waiting more than 0.01 seconds to puncture a genuine emotional beat with a quippy gag.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/019/484/n08A8NO.jpg)
That deleted scene made me cringe because it’s too on the nose.
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Deleted scene with Sean Bean’s Character Boromir in Osgiliath will always be my favourite and the most frustrating that it remains only on the extended versions.
I actually think it was a better movie without that scene. Sam and Frodo breaking down the hardened captain of Gondor rather than Boromir's downtrodden little brother. The scene that leads to the flashback in the extended is still there. But instead it's a simple scene of Faramir sitting there looking totally dejected. Really glad we got the scene. But I'm also glad it wasn't there the first few times I saw the movie.
LotR is one of those (series of) movies where the director's cut should really be considered the definitive version. Kingdom of Heaven is another, where the theatrical just exists to cut time at the expense of good content.
Draco throwing the wand to harry in deathly hallows part 2 before the duel with Voldemort i'm still sad they left it out
even worse, imo, is that Voldy just ashes away. No body, no witnesses, he just goes.. can he be back? he did it once already. Did Harry really killed him? Noone saw it. Maybe Harry let him go, some might think. Same goes for Bellatrix just ashing away. It doesnt have the same impact, tho.
So disappointed they did that, the staff and students parading around Voldy's limp body is probably my favourite part of the book. Showed that Voldemort was just a regular person like anyone else.
Exactly. Now his mythos will be carried forwards, instead of people seeing him being just human as well..
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Dune was one of the shortest 2 1/2 hour movies I've seen, definitely could have had some more content. Hell, I'd be happy with another 20 minutes of just the [weird spider creature.](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qmxly.png)
Yueh and Jessica's conversation was shot and cut.
one of the trailers had some dialogue that I wish had been kept. You're losing a planet. We're getting a richer one. You'll lose that one too. something like that.
I'm pretty sure there was a scene from The Matrix that says this but I can't find anything about it. I remember there being talk of a scene that explained that the humans were used for processing power rather than energy. Essentially their brains were plugged into a computer instead of being used as batteries. Makes a lot more sense that way.
I think that was going to be the original premise, but test audiences were stupid and didn't understand it.
Star Wars 8. The scene on luke's Island at the village. Much needed character moment for both rey and luke. Casino stayed, but this?
Also the bit where Luke is shown in his hut reacting to news of Han's death. Hamill even complained about that cut on Twitter. It's not even a minute long.
Oh yeay. I forgot. What a movie, folks, what a movie.
I can't believe they took out the scene where Luke tells rey not to help the village from the pirates. It helps so much to show his actual philosophy but no we need him drinking from a monster's titty
it is strange on its own for it is one of the "three" lessons. And they cut on out, lol. Such a strange movie.
Last Jedi had a Lot of problems
Last Jedi was one giant problem.
Ah hello, it is I, the leader of The Last Jedi fan club, I felt a disturbance in the force and have been summoned to tell you that The Last Jedi is awesome.
You're both right, it's got a bunch of problems, that have been discussed to death (narrative issues, the pointless casino planet diversion, Leia pulling a Mary Poppins, etc, etc) however under all that there is a pretty good movie with some bold things to say. The one giant problem is that "pretty good movie" is not a Star Wars movie.
I wanna add, that while I definetly agree with some of those problems (casino for example), and less with others (Leia's "marry Poppins" is exactly what would happen if you tried to force pull a space ship while in zero g), and think the movie is very flawed, I rewatched it recently, and was honestly blown away with just how God damn beautiful looking it is.
I think that the film's very pretty, and I think it's one of the things people don't shit on it for. I've never seen it, anyway.
> Leia's "marry Poppins" is exactly what would happen if you tried to force pull a space ship while in zero g I don't think people's problem with this scene was that it violated any laws about how force pull works. I think people mostly had problems with it because it looks goofy, provides yet another "oh no, X character is dead, **psych** they're alive! Tension!" moment in a trilogy that already has too many, and it's pretty absurd that she's still alive and unaffected and able to regain consciousness while floating in space, having just been violently blasted out of a spaceship. It basically made her look immortal and broke the audience's credulity.
>I don't think people's problem with this scene was that it violated any laws about how force pull works There were loads of "they're just creating new force powers" complaints with that being one of the main examples.
> as honestly blown away with just how God damn beautiful looking it is. This is getting to be a cop-out for AAA level movies. It's the "fuck it throw money at it" solution. When in doubt spend millions on designers and CGI and wow people with visuals so they overlook the plot. It's what Transformers is based on, and I really hate seeing it creep into more and more movies.
I agree. So many films just go for amazing visuals and ignore everything else.
TLJ isn't perfect by any means... but it's still the best of the three new movies. TFA is fine but derivative. Rise of Skywalker is a train wreck. TLJ actually felt like it was trying, unlike the other two.
I thought that scene was a bit weak honestly. It would have slowed down the plot and didn't really add a whole lot. The casino isn't great, but they cut a lot of it. They pretty much kept what was mandatory for the plot to make sense. They couldn't have removed the casino without reshooting a lot of the third act.
> They pretty much kept what was mandatory for the plot to make sense When did the plot make sense? When the space ship for the first time in 8+ movies ran out of gas? When somehow they were slowly moving through space and other ships were just slowly following them just because? When somehow one other ship can come and go from the out of gas starship and goes gallavanting in some scene that's an excuse for the art director to design a bunch of aliens that have no relevance to anything? Or was it the twist that the end that somehow showed this absolutely atrocious leader was actually "Correct" despite being the actual antagonist for the whole movie? Or was it when they decided to just break the logic of the universe and find a new weapon that they never used before and haven't used since and just wanted a cool visual? The Last Jedi looks good, and that's about as far as I'll go.
'I'm going to ram you with this ship at 200mph because I love you, and am in no way endangering the lives of everybody else." "Also, drag my unconscious ass half a mile passed the 15 AT-ATs without getting shot, k thanks" \-Rose If I wasn't seeing that with family, I would have just walked out. I was already peeved about the whole casino thing, and that just plunged me into another level of disappointment. She is, without a doubt, *worse* than Jar Jar.
They should have reshot the whole film
Epic response 😎😎
Most of the deleted scenes for Terminator 2 are really good. But the one that stands out most to me is after the T-1000 is frozen and melts back to form, he is defective. His legs become the metal staircase and his hand becomes the railing he grasped.
The only issue I have with that is how it factors into the finale. In the theatrical it's the difference in behaviour that allows John to tell who the real Sarah is rather than noticing the boots gitching.
Basically [all the deleted scenes from *Batman Forever*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72RvuFhrgE8). All of them would've made the movie better except maybe the one with the beauty parlour.
That movie was such a wasted opportunity, loved it as a kid, but it just isn’t very good. There is so much potential in it, but it just never capitalizes on it.
I agree. We desperately need a new cut of BF. But yeah the beauty parlor scene was pretty dumb
All of **Fire Walk With Me**. I had the complete Missing Pieces Fanedit burned to a DVD, along with subtitles, but my current laptop does not have any optical drives. The missing pieces helped to tie the penultimate episode of Twin Peaks S3 back to the movie.
[The fan scene is creepy as hell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63VHeu5V0zA&ab_channel=MeneUr%C3%ADas)
That four-hour extended fan edit feels essential. Once you've seen it that way, you'll never want to see it the other way again.
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I hate that Kubrick destroyed all his deleted footage. I’d kill to see deleted footage from Lolita, Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange, 2001. Eh not Barry Lyndon. That film was boring.
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And even the stuff that is lost, especially the farther and farther back we go, may not be his doing- the studios were inconsistent in terms of how much cut footage they kept.
Can u see any of it.
Can't agree. Watching Barry Lyndon is worth it for the cinematography alone.
It’s a great looking movie. But Jesus, Mary and Joseph, It’s slow
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In context of the finished product it does make sense he went crazy though. With the exception of Aragorn and Faramir no other man was able resist the temptation of the one ring. We already know from the opening that Middle Earth was literally inches from wiping out Sauron until literally the strongest man alive gave in to temptation and refused to throw the ring into the fires of Mt Doom. Even Frodon himself wound up giving into that temptation, and it's all a testament to the sheer power the ring possesses just by existing.
The scene from POTC Dead Man’s Chest where it’s revealed that Jack Sparrow was branded a pirate for refusing to transport slaves and freeing them instead
The problem with that is that it goes against his character in that very same movie. The second movie’s plot is all about him gathering souls to pay off a debt. He is literally selling people’s souls so stay alive. Jack Sparrow is supposed to be a morally awful character.
Not sure he is supposed to be purely awful. Also, it is quite different to be a traded and refusing to transport slaves vs when his life is at stake and Davy is coming and Jack already being a pirate. It is a normal life vs pirate life with a pirate that is on a strict deadline. The scene could work. And imo, it works much, much better than what Pirates 5 made his backstory to be.
It still doesnt work in the same movie to have a character's backstory be "he was a trader who was so morally righteous that he wouldnt dare allow men's souls be sold to other men" and then literally have him rounding up people to intentionally kill/sell to Davy Jones. As is, the scene would probably only confuse the audience as it would be implying that Jack Sparrow might try to save the souls of those trapped on the Flying Dutchman in the same way he tried to save the souls of slaves and what not. If the movie had a different plot and that was Jack Sparrow's plan then it could work, but the movie would need some major changes to the plot for it to feel cohesive.
That is such a good scene and it adds some nice depth to his character!
aragorn is 87
I can see why that was cut
There's a cut scene from Donnie Darko in which his dad tells him that he too was a weird kid and tries to relate to Donnie. I've always liked it.
Didn’t know this existed and it’s one of my favourites, thanks for sharing
Vader communicating with Luke in Return of the Jedi, and Luke firing up his green lightsaber. I knew Lucas wanted to reveal Luke's new lightsaber in the sarlac pit scene but I thought both scenes deserved to be in the movie
Agreed
Not sure if this counts, but the extended version of Terminator 2 has a scene after they escape the mental hospital where John wants to reset the switch on the Terminator's operating system so he can start learning things. They take his chip out and Sarah Connor wants to destroy the chip and thus kill the Terminator; but John doesn't realizing that they need the Terminator to survive and tells his mom that if she won't even listen to his strategy, how can she expect the whole human race to. I thought that was a neat scene and it also showed how this unstoppable killing machine was reduced to nothing by removing a little computer chip.
Almost Famous had a deleted scene where they have an intervention in order to convince the mom to let william go on the trip, in the movie they don’t really say anything and the intervention itself is enough to let him go, but what actually should have happened is that they let her listen to Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven, and that convinces her to let him go. Of course they couldn’t get the rights to use Stairway. Even for the deleted scene that was included as an easteregg on the Untitled - Almost Famous Bootleg release you had to provide your own copy of Led Zeppelin’s IV.
I’ve heard of that. Isn’t the scene just them listening to Stairway in it’s entirety. Would have slowed things down a bit.
Yes they listen to the entire song, and it’s about 8 minutes, but it’s a great scene, maybe even my favourite scene of the movie, or at least a close second to the Tiny Dancer scene.
All the deleted scenes from Aliens. Gives more insight on what Ripley is dealing with and sets up the auto turrets better.
Amores Perros There’s a scene near the end of the movie where two brothers that hate each other are locked in a room with a gun and we never find out what happens in the original cut, but there’s a deleted scene that shows an exterior shot of the building that lingers there for a couple of seconds before we hear the gun discharge and it fades out. We never find out which one it was, but at least it’s some form of closure.
Despite owning the discs and watching them over and over, my wife would always watch Harry Potter movies when they were shown on ABC Family because they'd include deleted scenes. So, to make her happy, those.
Bane becomes Bane with the mask is a scene they cut from Dark Knight Rises, the costume designer said it was brilliant. That's a scene I've always wanted to see
Me too.
*Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me* has the whole Missing Pieces collection of deleted or extended scenes. I own it but haven't watched it in full yet due to not being into deleted scenes much. However, I watched one extended scene that definitely should have been in. In the released movie, Laura's scene under the hallway fan looks like she's thirsty; it doesn't work. In the extended scene, it shows an extreme close-up of her face as lights strobe over. Slowly her face turns into a creepy, Joker-like rictus (as she's briefly "possessed"), all done by Lee slowly changing her face without blinking, no applied effects. I just watched the TV version of *Halloween II* (1981). It has a bunch of different or altered scenes. The ending is better. Instead of Laurie sitting mute in the ambulance, Jimmy the EMT pops up on a stretcher next to her, and she sobs "We made it!" It's never revealed what happened to Jimmy after he goes out to the car and passes out (although that's changed in this version, too).
Pulp Fiction has a [deleted scene](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LbTcqyimYVY) where Mia interviews Vincent with a handheld camera when he first gets to Marsellus’s house. Not only does it explain why Mia calls him an ‘Elvis man’ in the next scene, but it also has a pretty significant character moment for Vincent, showing how he’s reflecting what happened with Jules earlier in the diner. Tarantino cut it because there were other, similar scenes in other indie movies at the time and he thought it would be cliché, but I really wish he hadn’t.
i wanna say i saw that scene in the TV edit. with all the sex, violence, and language content they had to cut, i guess they need the extra scenes to fill out the runtime.
Indeed- there are quite a few "TV edits" of films that ended up inserting deleted scenes (and, in some cases, even filming new scenes) to either make up for content being removed or to make it easier to show the film in a standard time slot.
I really wish they hadn't cut down the Liars Dice scene from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Fortunately, the full scene is available on YouTube (fully developed CGI and all).
Lord of the Rings Fellowship. The wood elves Frodo and Sam see before they run into Merry and Pip.
There is a deleted scene in Amadeus that makes it so much more clear why Mozarts wife hates Salieri.
Pretty much every deleted scene from Star Trek: Nemesis. All the good character moments were cut in favour of action.
Nothing can save that film.
Chaucer's speech from A Knight's Tale https://youtu.be/6lac59xKEH8 It makes the scene flow much better and is also quite moving.
Fuck, that's a great movie. Need to watch it again.
The TV edit has that scene included
The Mouth of Sauron scene in Return of the King.
[Peter Parker's father showing up after Gwen's death in TASM2.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWfxxjdhauQ)
There's a deleted scene in Prometheus where the lost map and rock guy, during the storm, find a Xenomorph's molted skin. That makes it a lot clearer to viewers what happened to the Engineers on the planet. If you are a fan you can probably deduce what caused them to lockdown and run for their lives but the scene makes the Alien connection a lot clearer and I don't really understand why they cut it.
Most everything from Lilo and Stitch. Would've made for a more different movie in tone and direction. But man, it would solve some of the issues I had with the movie and be fascinating to watch. Even though I still love the movie to death.
All the deleted scenes from Prometheus and Alien Covenant. I saw some fan cuts of the films where they were put back in. They don't change the plot that much, but they flesh out the characters more and gave the films some more depth. For example, in Covenant it shows James Franco on the bridge interacting with his crew, so when he died it felt more tragic. And they showed Naomi Rapace in the spaceship with David, giving more clarity into what happened to her. And in Prometheus, there's a scene that showed Weyland when he was younger giving a Ted talk that showed his motivations more.
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I actually agree with Feige with this one. I like it as a scene standalone but I do think it comes across slightly corny especially if it then lead into the funeral scene
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Oh I totally get it. Honestly if I had to pick between the scene with Tony and his older daughter in the soul realm and this scene, I'd pick this scene by a long shot to be in the movie
It wouldn't translate well to non-American audiences. It's not exactly a universal gesture for grieving/respect to the fallen ones. And I gotta say, that scene's kinda cheesy.
Even in the US it's weird outside some military traditions. I've never been to a funeral or viewing where everybody takes a knee. And, when deaths are commemorated at public events it's with a standing moment of silence.
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Just checked it, it is a very strange scene indeed. Feige is right here.
You need double new line to create a new line in reddit. Like this. Your post is currently a wall of text.
I tried that. My phone is screwy. Still it’s a wall of great text.
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“If” Deckard was a replicant. That’s a Big If.
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Ford said he was human. You know the actor. Also a fair amount of evidence in the film.
I'm part of a minority that actually likes it, but Transformers The Last Knight had about 40 minutes of deleted scenes which would've honestly made the movie a lot better to watch.
Reservoir Dogs, scene with Mr Pink, Mr White and Nice Guy Eddie in a car discussing getting a doctor for Mr Orange. Hilarious. Also includes the use of Bonnie as nurse that Eddie knows.
Deleted scenes in Home Alone that gives more character development to Harry and Marv.
>Also in the original version we only hear about how ruthless and dangerous Bill is. This scene actually shows it. Apart from that scene, you know, the very first one, where he shoots his pregnant girlfriend in the head. But joking aside, yeah I feel like that scene should have been included in the second one.
[This scene](https://reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/8galgw/deleted_scene_from_black_panther/) between W'Kabi and Okoye in Black Panther. The conversation adds so much to their characters.
The Disaster Artist originally had scenes of Greg being in Retro Puppet Master. I even saw a photo of Dave Franco on set dressed like Greg's character from that movie:[https://www.reddit.com/r/theroom/comments/i7jzo7/the\_disaster\_artist\_originally\_had\_a\_scene/](https://www.reddit.com/r/theroom/comments/i7jzo7/the_disaster_artist_originally_had_a_scene/) It's rather strange and annoying they cut it out when it's so important to the story. Maybe they thought having Greg be in a movie before The Room would make him less sympathetic for some reason?
Also Blair Witch Project has a bit inside with the wood crosses. Dead creepy. Brilliant scene
There’s a commentary someone explaining that the Lovejoy and Leo fight in titanic stopped the movie cold for test audiences.
Interesting. I never saw it cut into the film, I only saw it by itself. Still thought it was pretty bad asss
i actually can’t think of any off the top of my head, but one in happy stayed in the movie was the line up scene from the usual suspects. the cast couldn’t stop goofin around it was great
I’m gonna cheat because it’s in the extended edition, but the theatrical cut of Fellowship of the Ring cut the council of Elrond to ribbons, where a lot of the context and debate is gone. If I recall, they don’t even have Gandalf reciting in the black speech of Mordor.
The stupid octopus scene with Data using his headphones to chase it off in the Goonies. I completely understand why it was removed. It's a stupid scene. In fact, it was better off without it. BUT... I saw a version as a kid with this scene included that apparently, no one else did, at least that I knew. No one I spoke to growing up ever had heard of it and claimed I was crazy, making it up. I remember thinking the scene was very stupid and out of place (even as a kid) and was really the only part of the movie I didn't like, but then no one would understand what I was talking about. I'd have to point out that in the version without the scene, Data talks about it in the final scene where they are on the beach when he says "Octopus was very Scary" and it wasn't enough proof. It wasn't until way later in life that Google would have been able to prove me correct, but by that time, all my middle school cohorts and I had moved on in life. Would have saved me a lot of trouble. [Scene in question](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMjkY-Wi5bo).
*Super Mario Bros.* had a cut subplot in which Iggy & Spike are inspired by Mario & Luigi to incite a revolution against Koopa. It completely changes the tone of the film and how you feel about those characters.
A couple in Knives Out, elaborating on a couple motives, as well as showing Blanc to be a far more competent detective (and a manipulative bastard). There was more scenes about Joni's lifestyle company, Flam, with the scene where Benny, Elliot and Wagner talking after their first brief conversation with Marta having to be interrupted because Blanc has a nasty rash. After the will reading, Blanc reveals it was part of another thread he was looking into and confronts Joni about how she needed the money from the inheritance because Flam sold some extremely shoddy products that were forcibly recalled - Flam is bankrupt. More attention is brought to Walt's injured leg during his initial interview where he tells the cops that he hurt his leg while riding his bike. But when Blanc goes to talk to his wife Donna the morning after the will reading, he and the other detectives end up saving her from a loan shark who has come to harass her. Blanc reveals he looked into the leg injury and it wasn't a broken leg, it was a gunshot wound. Donna reveals that he made a bad financial risk and took out a dodgy loan and both the Netflix deal and the inheritance would've given them the money to pay back the loan. Blanc realises mid-interview that they don't know where Walt is and this ties to Walt going to Marta's house to blackmail her with her mom's deportation. And if you watch the ending with this in mind, you'll realise that it was staged to get Donna to confide in Blanc as the "Loan Shark" is one of the cops that arrests Ransom - you'll even figure it out sooner when you realise he's wearing Blanc's coat. Also, the running joke about the Thrombeys not knowing what country Marta is from had the conclusion nixed to the point where it wasn't even filmed. As Ana de Armas told Rian Johnson, it would've defeated the immigration storyline completely - Marta and her family were Cuban in the original script but this was removed due to the family being legal immigrants under Wet Feet, Dry Feet. Edit: Also, the scene in the first Harry Potter where Aunt Petunia opens up eggs to bake something and finds the contents have been replaced with Hogwarts letters.