27 Scenes That Shouldn't Have Been Deleted
The best unseen bits from Dark Knight, Star Wars, T2 and more...
BY Apr 20th 2009 9:09AMFILED UNDER: Features
User Comments (9)
1. Super-lovin’
Hancock (2008)
Just like the film itself this is a scene of two halves – one a revolting/hilarious scat gag about super-powered ejaculate (Hancock throwing a woman to safety before punching holes in his trailer roof), the other a touching moment of loss and isolation...
“If you want, I could fly you…”
2. Search Warrant
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
Unlike the more famous discarded material from Cameron’s super-sequel (like the awful Sarah Connor playground post-script) this short sequence doesn’t disrupt the tone of the film.
Instead, it gives us further evidence of Robert Patrick’s brilliantly creepy T-1000, scanning John’s room like a human metal detector.
3. Bigging Up Tatooine
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Let’s be honest, when Biggs dies during the attack on the Death Star in the existing cut it feels like an emotional loss on the scale of forgetting where your car keys are.
Add these pre-adventure buddy scenes back into the mix, though, and you’re sitting on a teary-eyed timebomb. BIIIIGGS! Why, God, why!?
Print Comments (9)
1: joker16 says
I could listen to Tarantino talk for hours.
Posted: Apr 21st 2009 // 11:01PMAlert a moderator
2: eeyore1059 says
Now this is what Lucas should be including in the six film Star Wars boxset they say he's been working on for the past couple of years. This does add a little more depth to the story and makes a great film that much better.
Posted: Apr 21st 2009 // 11:47PMAlert a moderator
3: IGPNicki says
Not that T-3 was a good movie, because I pretty much like to pretend it ended after 2 (even if McG does make a good movie, i'll still gladly skip 3) but I disagree, that clip really is bad. It's a little too Paul Verhoeven, which doesn't really fit the theme of the movie. I can see why they left it off. Too bad they couldn't also leave off the bad maths and Arnold doing the talk to the hand thing.
http://www.igp-scifi.com
Posted: Apr 22nd 2009 // 9:57AMAlert a moderator
4: IGPNicki says
Not that I think T3 is a good movie (because I don't) but that clip is truly awful. It screams Paul Verhoeven which doesn't really fit with the movie. The Star Wars one however is definitely badly needed, unlike, say the wobbly CGI Jabba.
http://www.igp-scifi.com
Posted: Apr 22nd 2009 // 10:06AMAlert a moderator
5: timisstupid says
i could listen to tarantino talk for minutes before i neck myself. nothing wrong with his films (well MOST of his films), but he would do better being seen and NOT heard
Posted: Apr 22nd 2009 // 10:06AMAlert a moderator
6: LazyCartoonist says
You picked the wrong deleted scene from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." The one that truly should not have been excised is the one in which Raoul Duke drives up to a small country store run by Rance Howard. He finally discovers the American Dream he's been pursuing, and then ends up p**sing it away with his cynicism. It's the lynchpin of the entire story and I'll never figure out why it ended on the cutting room floor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f40Ye9CfgFo
Posted: Apr 22nd 2009 // 4:53PMAlert a moderator
7: Padman says
I just wanted to say; well done, this is a genuinely great little feature! Unlike some of the rather "we need to update the site, how about a feature about.. err... movie trainers?!" ones I've seen in recent months :-P
Posted: Apr 23rd 2009 // 7:39PMAlert a moderator
8: avoidz says
The Kill Bill deleted scene doesn't look like all the effects are complete (the three men standing after being sliced seem to be missing spurting blood; the lead guy with an Aussie accent not yet re-dubbed). The scene is not amazing either. Easy to see why it was cut. And Vol.2 was weak as p**s.
Posted: Apr 25th 2009 // 6:05AMAlert a moderator
9: NDitum says
IGP - point taken, but surely being a bit more Verhoeven would've been a good thing?
Cartoonist - the scene is strong, but tbh I don't even remember it from the book. Maybe scratched as it was too similar to the cafe scene?
Avoidz - well, the effects are supposed to be super-shonky, so it's hard to tell. Think we can probably agree it's better than the rest of Vol. 2 though, right?
Padman - cheers! Mostly :)
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