Solid Snake

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

I'd cut the shower scene from Twister - completely unncessary to the plot.

AnonomusBob15

Some of the deleted scenes from the Life Aquatic and Boogie Nights are priceless.

Giles

^ 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

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

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?

story

I think the Luke and Biggs talk could be a nice addition to Star Wars.

Mondo Kane

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

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

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.

Tarantino

Rave scene. 'Nuff said.

Giles

^ that really WAS a dumb unncessary scene wasn't it?

tellybox

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

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

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

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

I'd cut the last 5 minutes of The Iron Giant. Completely ruins an amazing and powerful ending.

NoirFan

Doctor Gonzo

The Phantom Menace

chop everything after the opening crawl

RocShemp

To be honest, I'd have shelved the entire movie. I just don't get the appeal.

Solid Snake

....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

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

-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

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

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.