I've just been thinking about this lately. I remember The Incredible Hulk and it's amount of scenes that were cut out of the "Norton Cut". The one scene above all the others that I would've kept was the suicide scene in it. It just made it a stronger film in my opinion. Especially if it was straddled w/ some of the other scenes cut out of the film. Some minor arguing with Ross' superiors etc. I love The Incredible Hulk but I would've loved some of those scenes back in.
Die Hard as well falls into this discussion, it's not much but it's an edit that's bothered the hell out of me. I'd insert back in the little scene where McClane gets his shirt dirty. I know...it's stupid but..it always bothered me. He's climbing the vents and gets in a bit.and later BAM dirty as fuck shirt. It just felt and looked weird to me.
I know there are some scenes where I'd cut it out of some films but I can't think of any atm.
Giles
08-19-09, 09:31 AM
I'd cut the shower scene from Twister - completely unncessary to the plot.
AnonomusBob15
08-19-09, 09:57 AM
Some of the deleted scenes from the Life Aquatic and Boogie Nights are priceless.
Giles
08-19-09, 10:08 AM
^ as are the deleted scenes from nearly all of Christopher Guest's films
- Waiting for Guffman
- Best in Show
- A Mighty Wind
- For Your Consideration
Ash Ketchum
08-19-09, 10:54 AM
I'd leave THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY alone. When they put in those cut scenes a few years ago and had Eastwood and Wallach dub their characters anew for scenes they'd never dubbed, complete with their raspy senior citizen voices, it ruined the rhythms of a great movie. I've still got my pre-"restoration" DVD and VHS, so I'm good, but I feel sorry for anyone whose first viewing of this movie was the so-called "restored" version.
Mabuse
08-19-09, 12:39 PM
I'd leave THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY alone. When they put in those cut scenes a few years ago and had Eastwood and Wallach dub their characters anew for scenes they'd never dubbed, complete with their raspy senior citizen voices, it ruined the rhythms of a great movie. I've still got my pre-"restoration" DVD and VHS, so I'm good, but I feel sorry for anyone whose first viewing of this movie was the so-called "restored" version.
I don't feel any of the added scenes hurt the film. The restoration claims to be the original version shown at the italian premiere. What don't you like about the restored scenes?
dogmatica
08-19-09, 12:54 PM
I think the Luke and Biggs talk could be a nice addition to Star Wars.
Mondo Kane
08-19-09, 01:52 PM
I'd leave THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY alone. When they put in those cut scenes a few years ago and had Eastwood and Wallach dub their characters anew for scenes they'd never dubbed, complete with their raspy senior citizen voices, it ruined the rhythms of a great movie.
I agree, but I would definetly still keep that extra Angel Eyes scene when he's at that Confederate compound. The movie is called "The Good,The Bad,and The Ugly" afterall, and without that sequence, the movie begins to morph into "The Good and The Ugly".
Probably the most frightening deleted scene I've ever encountered is on The Naughty Stewardesses. There's a scene with the 70+year-old Bob Livingstone in bed with a young, blonde hottie. But on the DVD, there's a very extended sex scene between the two.
Let's just say that if you had a morbid curiosity to envision how J. Howard Marshall/Anna Nicole Smith's honeymoon-night went, look no further.
UAIOE
08-19-09, 02:24 PM
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
The Fendi case scene.
When you see where it was cut in the released movie, the cut seems very jarring. Plus the scene is funny.
I'd also reinstate the Christian Slater scenes, but those have never appeared in any US release of AP, so New Line/whoever owns them now must hate Christian Slater.
Ash Ketchum
08-19-09, 02:39 PM
I don't feel any of the added scenes hurt the film. The restoration claims to be the original version shown at the italian premiere. What don't you like about the restored scenes?
Those scenes destroy the carefully worked-out circular rhythms of the movie. Three circles expanding outwards from each other, lines intersecting and separating and intersecting and separating until all three circles get closer and closer and come together at the corrida in the center of the cemetery for the final showdown.
Those added scenes just cut right into those circles as if someone tossed a heavy rock into a rippling pond. E.g. that whole scene where Tuco recruits the three other bandits to help him go after Blondie. We don't need a scene like that. We don't need to know how he got the help. He's Tuco, he gets what he wants. Just leave it at that. It's already a long film, don't slow it down to spell things out that don't need spelling out.
^ that really WAS a dumb unncessary scene wasn't it?
tellybox
08-19-09, 07:55 PM
I don't know if this is the same, but I'd switch the ending of Fatal Attraction to the original one that was cut when test audiences didn't like it. Sure, it might be a bit of a letdown, but it's just saw raw and a stunning ending!
gmanca
08-19-09, 08:41 PM
I do wish that some of the scenes in the Scarface script were shown, like fighting the Diaz Brothers or the scene of fake nuns mule-ing in coke via baby strollers.
CertifiedTHX
08-19-09, 08:50 PM
I think the Luke and Biggs talk could be a nice addition to Star Wars.
Definitely. Don't know why Lucas held that one back but added the scene in Docking Bay 94 with Jabba.
And speaking of that, the scene in Docking Bay 94 with Jabba is the scene I would cut from ANH. Adds nothing important, reiterates information we already received in the Greedo scene, ludicrous in the way it unfolds (Han walking over Jabba), and reduces the impact of the big reveal of the Millennium Falcon when Obi-Wan, Luke, and the droids enter a moment later.
There are many scenes early in the film that I would cut, scenes that were just sort of boring and slowed the pace, but the rave actually isn't one of them. It was a bit of an eye roller at first, but kind of works for me now. And I like the crosscutting between the rave and Neo and Trinity. But I don't care so much for the speech by Morpheus.
--THX
RocShemp
08-19-09, 09:42 PM
I would reinstate the Ben Hubbard scenes in Superman Returns. One of them features the only bit of acting Routh is allowed to do that isn't an emulation of Reeve.
Draven
08-19-09, 09:50 PM
I'd cut the last 5 minutes of The Iron Giant. Completely ruins an amazing and powerful ending.
To be honest, I'd have shelved the entire movie. I just don't get the appeal.
Solid Snake PAC
08-20-09, 12:15 AM
....Breakfast at Tiffany's, right? Yeah...I never really understood Hepburn's overall appeal btw. I never found her to be amazing or anything. Just a face, really. Kinda like Monroe..but she could act at least unlike Monroe.
inri222
08-20-09, 12:40 AM
Any movie who's original ending was changed by the studio because it was too much of a downer.
I would put that shit right back in.
Tom Creo
08-20-09, 01:23 AM
-I'd insert back the fight scene between Jack and Lovejoy in Titanic. It is shown briefly in the trailor.
-Take out the begining and the comic book scenes on the Warriors dvd and blu-ray. Completely ruins the reveal of the Furies.
DeltaSigChi4
08-20-09, 01:41 AM
Apocalypse Now; delete the entire Redux and just leave them as deleted scenes people can watch. They're so unnecessary.
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tanman
08-20-09, 04:01 AM
T2 Ultimate Edition scenes
All the scenes added very nice touches to the Terminator mythos. Including a deactivated Arnold and Sarah Connor almost destroying him. And a very complex scene showing the removal of his chip using Linda Hamilton's twin sister.
tanman
08-20-09, 04:01 AM
NUMEROUS scenes in Transformers 2. Several scenes in Indy IV.
Yup. "The robots are coming, let's PAAAAARRRRR-TTTTAAAAAYYYY!!!"
"Shanghai Noon" - all the cut scenes included on the DVD...place them back in the movie. There was a *MAJOR* plothole explained within those cut scenes.
CertifiedTHX
08-20-09, 04:57 AM
I would reinstate the Ben Hubbard scenes in Superman Returns. One of them features the only bit of acting Routh is allowed to do that isn't an emulation of Reeve.
I always wondered why they got James Karen, a fairly known actor, to play a character who was visible in only one shot, from a distance as he left the Kent farm, and had just one line. Makes more sense if other scenes exist.
--THX
Giles
08-20-09, 09:22 AM
I would reinstate the Ben Hubbard scenes in Superman Returns. One of them features the only bit of acting Routh is allowed to do that isn't an emulation of Reeve.
oh I thought you were going to say the deleted 'return to Krypton' sequence.
Solid Snake PAC
08-20-09, 09:25 AM
T2 Ultimate Edition scenes
All the scenes added very nice touches to the Terminator mythos. Including a deactivated Arnold and Sarah Connor almost destroying him. And a very complex scene showing the removal of his chip using Linda Hamilton's twin sister.
I'm at odds at this one. To be honest, I haven't seen the theatrical cut in a while. I do especially like all those T-1000 bits at the end for sure. It really adds more to the film I think. I'm probably going to watch the Theatrical cut now to make a comparison. Basing it off the Cameron commentary the scenes added in add more activities and layout of what they are doing for sure.
Also it's kinda sad that Cameron's little tease to the War is more compelling than Salvation was.
KillerCannibal
08-20-09, 11:49 AM
I can't believe I've even remembered about this film long enough to post on it, but the gay sex scene from Van Zant's Last Days felt so incredibly out of place within a boring film about some drugged-out suicide case that it's always bothered me.
leacha
08-20-09, 01:48 PM
My only two thoughts were the Rave scene (cut). And the deleted scenes from Open Range should be added back in.
I'm sure there are more but those were the first ones that came to mind.
mrhan
08-20-09, 02:57 PM
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-Take out the begining and the comic book scenes on the Warriors dvd and blu-ray. Completely ruins the reveal of the Furies.
They should of just added the beginning where they showed all of the Warriors in in front of the ferris wheel instead of the stupid comic book captions.
RocShemp
08-20-09, 03:13 PM
I always wondered why they got James Karen, a fairly known actor, to play a character who was visible in only one shot, from a distance as he left the Kent farm, and had just one line. Makes more sense if other scenes exist.
--THX
He also appears half off-screen when Martha Kent is standing outside of the hospital towards the end of the movie. You litterally only see part of his face during that shot.
oh I thought you were going to say the deleted 'return to Krypton' sequence.
Since I never saw the "return to Krypton" sequence, I can't say iff it were rightfully cut or not. However, based on the storyboards that were shown, it seems like a pointless extension that would have added nothing to the film we don't learn from Clark once he gets back to Earth.
frenchy
08-20-09, 03:27 PM
I always thought the shot in Ghostbusters with the ghost that unzips Dan Aykroyd's pants was dumb, I would ditch it.
Giles
08-20-09, 03:58 PM
the difference between the theatrical (shorter) version of 'The Lawnmower Man' and the director's cut which is some 32 minutes longer is quite startling in how better the DC works with all the footage put back in, who know's when an actual DVD will appear of the extended version.
likewise the three hour TV cut of 'Needful Things' is widely regarded being superior to the shorter theatrical cut of the film.
we could talk about the TV cut of 'Dune' in an entire thread, but I always thought the 'worm to water of life' scene was critical.
It's also hard to rewatch the theatrical cut of 'Fanny and Alexander' if you've seen the mini-series cut first, the flow of the story when trunscated is jarring at times.
although some of the alternate reedited footage wound up online, the reediting and cutting of 'The Golden Compass' is so blatant and hideous at times, scenes begin and end with no rhyme or reason, you can see why Chris Weitz is angry at the studio taking the film away from him and enacting inhouse editing without his input.
Numanoid
08-20-09, 05:03 PM
"Say Jim, that's a bad outfit. Whoa!"
RocShemp
08-20-09, 09:27 PM
although some of the alternate reedited footage wound up online, the reediting and cutting of 'The Golden Compass' is so blatant and hideous at times, scenes begin and end with no rhyme or reason, you can see why Chris Weitz is angry at the studio taking the film away from him and enacting inhouse editing without his input.
I really wish that movie did better business so that we could have gotten an extended cut re-release. :(
UAIOE
08-21-09, 04:28 AM
I always thought the shot in Ghostbusters with the ghost that unzips Dan Aykroyd's pants was dumb, I would ditch it.
I'd really like to see the "Haunted Fort" scene it was edited from.
Nicholas Vargo
08-21-09, 05:48 AM
The sequence I would put back into a movie is the infamous "Pig Head" sequence from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Call me crazy, but I don't like the jump cut between the moment Valient says he's going "Back to the office" and his door closing on Jessica Rabbit's silhouette. Even when I first saw the movie, I knew something had to be missing inbetween, and when I saw that deleted sequence on the DVD, I wished immediately that it was back in the movie. It makes perfect sense.
In the theatrical version, Valient comes out of the bathroom with the toilet flushing and to me that didn't make sense because he wasn't wearing his shirt. By seeing that deleted scene, it makes more sense that he just got out of the shower.
Sure the sequence is never mentioned in the finished film, but I thought it was quite a watch that would've added quite well to the final product.
milo bloom
08-21-09, 10:32 AM
we could talk about the TV cut of 'Dune' in an entire thread, but I always thought the 'worm to water of life' scene was critical.
Ever since getting the Special Edition release with the widescreen version of that cut, we don't watch the theatrical anymore.
Heck, I kinda hope if the rumored Peter Berg remake comes to fruition, Universal will go to the well again and really give it a good re-do, with all the deleted footage, and all the blue-eyes sequences fixed.
Also, I don't know how much was filmed, but there's tons of material in the Return of the Jedi novelization that would really help that film. Esp the supposed extra footage of the Rebel troops in the ground fight on Endor. Would help firm up the idea that the Ewoks were a distraction for the Rebel strike team to get at the bunker, and not completely responsible for taking out "an entire legion" of stormtroopers.
There's also some lines with Luke, Leia and Han trying to convince the Ewoks to help them after C-3PO's story doesn't sway them.
chowderhead
08-21-09, 10:36 AM
A.I. - cut out everything after the underwater scene in front of the "blue fairy" statue.
d2cheer
08-21-09, 01:34 PM
The surfing scene in Escape From LA. Campy fun but WTF were they thinking when they looked back on that and thought it added anything to the movie?
Giles
08-21-09, 03:47 PM
The sequence I would put back into a movie is the infamous "Pig Head" sequence from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Call me crazy, but I don't like the jump cut between the moment Valient says he's going "Back to the office" and his door closing on Jessica Rabbit's silhouette. Even when I first saw the movie, I knew something had to be missing inbetween, and when I saw that deleted sequence on the DVD, I wished immediately that it was back in the movie. It makes perfect sense.
In the theatrical version, Valient comes out of the bathroom with the toilet flushing and to me that didn't make sense because he wasn't wearing his shirt. By seeing that deleted scene, it makes more sense that he just got out of the shower.
Sure the sequence is never mentioned in the finished film, but I thought it was quite a watch that would've added quite well to the final product.
incidently for the tv cut of the film, the deleted Pig-head scene was put back into the frameline of the story.
Jon2
08-22-09, 08:59 PM
I'd put back everything deleted (from any movie made) that was deleted in order to fit as many showings as possible into a theater's daily schedule.
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