Favorite Deleted Scenes In Movies

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The coming release of the Snyder cut of the Justice League movie has got me thinking about deleted scenes in movies.

Are there any deleted scenes in films that you love and wish had stayed in the movie?

For me, I really love this scene in Alien where we see how it creates new eggs from its victims. I like it because it is horrifying, gives a reason for the aliens actions, explains its life cycle and gives us an idea of what happened on the alien vessel. It really brings the film full circle in my mind.

 

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When NBC re-edited the Godfather films into a mini-series that went entirely in chronological order, a number of smaller scenes were inserted to provide more background, especially in Vito's early years and at the start of his rise. It did make the whole sage flow a little smoother. When Sergio Leonne made "Once Upon a Time in America" it was butchered in to gibberish by the distributor who cut hours off the film. Several years later Leonne began trying to restore it and I think 3 different versions wound up being made - each one better than the first release.
 
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There's a scene in the first X-Men movie that would have really helped explain the plot. I noticed a number of critics didn't get why Magneto was trying to turn the anti-mutant activist into a mutant:

"How a machine could create a desired mutation within a generation is not much explored by the movie, which also eludes the question of why you would want to invest your enemies with your powers."
X-Men movie review & film summary (2000) | Roger Ebert

In a deleted scene, Storm was teaching history and noted that the Roman empire went from persecuting Christians to almost entirely Christian nation and asked if anyone knew why and Jubliee says because the Emperor became a Christian.
X-Men (2000) - Trivia - IMDb

I don't know why they cut the scene, it explains the whole movie.
 

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There's a scene in the first X-Men movie that would have really helped explain the plot. I noticed a number of critics didn't get why Magneto was trying to turn the anti-mutant activist into a mutant:

"How a machine could create a desired mutation within a generation is not much explored by the movie, which also eludes the question of why you would want to invest your enemies with your powers."
X-Men movie review & film summary (2000) | Roger Ebert

In a deleted scene, Storm was teaching history and noted that the Roman empire went from persecuting Christians to almost entirely Christian nation and asked if anyone knew why and Jubliee says because the Emperor became a Christian.
X-Men (2000) - Trivia - IMDb

I don't know why they cut the scene, it explains the whole movie.

Yeah, sometimes they cut really important stuff.

When NBC re-edited the Godfather films into a mini-series that went entirely in chronological order, a number of smaller scenes were inserted to provide more background, especially in Vito's early years and at the start of his rise. It did make the whole sage flow a little smoother. When Sergio Leonne made "Once Upon a Time in America" it was butchered in to gibberish by the distributor who cut hours off the film. Several years later Leonne began trying to restore it and I think 3 different versions wound up being made - each one better than the first release.

Showing the Godfather in chronological order would almost have to make it a totally different experience. Was it just the first two films or did they include the third film as well?
 
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Yeah, sometimes they cut really important stuff.



Showing the Godfather in chronological order would almost have to make it a totally different experience. Was it just the first two films or did they include the third film as well?

At one point if finally included the third film, which was honestly pretty poor, but you're right - it did make the experience different, almost new. There was a DVD set released with the NBC version in it, I don't know if it is still available.
 

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I'm a big proponent of filmmakers having their visions showcased, so I love it when directors get the chance to finally present a film the way they want after the studio previously farted out a committee approved version.

Another recent example of a Snyder Cut type situation is The Current War by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. While I never saw the original cut that Harvey Weinstein slapped together for festivals a few years back, I really enjoyed Gomez-Rejon's director's cut which was released last year. He was apparently totally distraught over the Weinstein version, and it sounds like being able to complete his film to his liking was extremely cathartic for him. Like Snyder with Justice League, he was allowed to go back and completely rehaul the film with new scenes, vfx and music score.
 

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The coming release of the Snyder cut of the Justice League movie has got me thinking about deleted scenes in movies.

Are there any deleted scenes in films that you love and wish had stayed in the movie?

For me, I really love this scene in Alien where we see how it creates new eggs from its victims. I like it because it is horrifying, gives a reason for the aliens actions, explains its life cycle and gives us an idea of what happened on the alien vessel. It really brings the film full circle in my mind.


I'm going to disagree and I'm glad they left this out. Not only did it make it more scary to not know what the Alien was doing with it's victims, but this scene changes the whole premise of the second movie with the introduction of the Queen.

I much rather have seen the deleted scenes from the second movie been included in the theatrical release. The scenes with Newt's family was particularly compelling and helped foreshadow what was awaiting the marines once they landed. Additionally, by including the scene where it was revealed Ripley had a daughter whose life she missed out on while in hypersleep, would have done much to explain why she felt so close to Newt and risked everything to save her.
 

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I'm going to disagree and I'm glad they left this out. Not only did it make it more scary to not know what the Alien was doing with it's victims, but this scene changes the whole premise of the second movie with the introduction of the Queen.

I much rather have seen the deleted scenes from the second movie been included in the theatrical release. The scenes with Newt's family was particularly compelling and helped foreshadow what was awaiting the marines once they landed. Additionally, by including the scene where it was revealed Ripley had a daughter whose life she missed out on while in hypersleep, would have done much to explain why she felt so close to Newt and risked everything to save her.

I recently rewatched Aliens and do agree with you that the scene where Ripley talked about her own daughter was desperately needed in the film. It adds a lot of dimension to Ripley's character.

I disagree on Alien. If you don't see what is happening to its victims, your assumption is just that it's eating them. If it is turning them into eggs, that is to me much more horrifying and disturbing. That is just my opinion, though. It does destroy the potential of the queen in the second movie, but is that a bad thing? Like I wrote before, I recently rewatched the second movie and although it is a very good film, I think it is a little bit overrated. It feels kind of unnecessary to me. They do great stuff with Ripley's character, but Ripley's story really didn't need to be continued. They gave us more information about the alien, but the more you see of them the less scary and interesting they become and turning them into giant insects complete with a queen just lessens them to me. What I would have liked for the second film, was for there to have been a completely different cast and alien. Keep it in the same universe, but this time have it be some other alien creature. I think that would have created a much more interesting and sustainable franchise.

The Alien franchise peaked at Aliens, or Alien depending on your point of view, and a big part of that was the insistence on always using the same monster and protagonist. If they had used a different cast and alien in every movie it would changed the focus from Ripley's one woman war on an alien species, to a greater story of human beings venturing into a bizarre, dangerous universe and horrors that they encounter. I personally would have found that much more interesting.
 

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I'm going to disagree and I'm glad they left this out. Not only did it make it more scary to not know what the Alien was doing with it's victims, but this scene changes the whole premise of the second movie with the introduction of the Queen.

I much rather have seen the deleted scenes from the second movie been included in the theatrical release. The scenes with Newt's family was particularly compelling and helped foreshadow what was awaiting the marines once they landed. Additionally, by including the scene where it was revealed Ripley had a daughter whose life she missed out on while in hypersleep, would have done much to explain why she felt so close to Newt and risked everything to save her.

I agree with you fully here. And interestingly enough, the first four alien films all have two released versions but just because some of these versions are labeled "director's cut" doesn't make it so.

Alien - the original theatrical cut is still Scott's preferred version and he only crafted the "director's cut" as a favor to the studio for its anniversary rerelease (so the egg deleted scene isn't really canon to the franchise any way you slice it)

Aliens - the extended Special Edition is Cameron's preferred version

Alien3 - Fincher never got to finish a director's cut to his liking, but the restored Assembly Cut is the closest thing to it

Resurrection - another case where the original theatrical cut is the director's preferred version, and the alternate cut released as a bonus feature is just a curiosity for anyone who wants to see more/different footage