As any DVD aficionado would attest, scenes are usually expunged for good reason. Sometimes the acting is stilted, the scripting redundant, or the potential placement detrimental to the narrative flow of the film. Yet occasionally, one comes across a choice offering that engenders variations of, "WHY WASN'T THIS IN THE MOVIE?!?!" My pick: The Godfather The greatest film of all time happens to boast rejected material every bit as good as the end product. In fact, several scenes, involving Sonny's reaction to Vito's injury and Michael's immersion into his family's business, were arguably essential. If only there was an option to inject these three or four scenes back into the film.
Nero's imprisonment on the Klingon penal planet in the 2009 Star Trek movie. Without it, it makes you think he and his men sat on their behinds and twiddled their thumbs for 25 years waiting for Spock Prime to show up. EDIT: Plus, Victor Garber as a Klingon!
Not really, but it would have made more sense to include it, since the theatrical cut simply forgets about Saruman altogether.
Easy Money - when Rodney Dangerfield dreams he's at a boxing match and his larger breasted neighbor is dressed like a nun and reveals her major bewbage.
Goes a long way towards explaining the marksman skills of the majority of Rick's group in S3 and explaining how Carl started in going to where he went at the end of S3.
Doc Holliday drunkenly reciting the last lines of "Kubla Khan" while finishing his flask in Tombstone. One of the best scenes of the film, no idea why they cut it.
After having Peter Jackson yank the chain about by having upteen-thousand goddamn endings to Return of the King, why would ANYONE subject themselves to an even longer version of that movie? If anything they should have cut out the "Sam marries one of the extras to prove he's not gay" ending and put in Saruman's death at the beginning. Hell get rid of all of the extra endings. Throw the ring into the pit, defeat the army, and end with Viggo becoming King. That's all you need.
The Storm Shelter sequence and the original ending for MST3K-TM. Both scenes were really funny, but got cut because $%^#@$^&*(%$ Universal/Grammercy decided they didn't fit with the "story arc" or some such nonsense. And, to add insult to injury, they didn't include them on the DVD release. I just hope Shout! Factory can get the rights to the movie and do it right. "Mike, did you hit the Hubble again?"
You could argue that nothing could change X3 - The Last Stand from being a poor film but if some of the deleted scenes had not been taken out of the final cut then it would have lessened the impact of some of the bizarre decisions that Ratner made. Can't think of any stand-out deleted scenes that I would consider my favourite though...
One of the few scenes where this could have worked as a very good alternate ending to the episode in question and I think one that I would have preferred over the real ending scene.
Here's another one... Aliens - Drone gun sequences I generally didn't care for Cameron's expanded Aliens cut--the Ripley-as-grieving-Momma subplot a bit too on-the-nose for my tastes--but the two drone gun sequences are the exception. The scene in which the creatures storm the corridor, expending the ever-dwindling rounds, is unbearably suspenseful. Why this was cut from the theatrical version is beyond my comprehension.
1. The aforementioned Saruman thing. 2. Finding out what happened to Gothmog. 3. Gandalf and the Witch-king. 4. The Houses of Healing. 5. The Mouth of Sauron. 6. SKULL AVALANCHE!
Pretty much all the deleted scenes of "The Boat That Rocked". Especially "Radio Sunshine", "The Meaning of Life" and "Spike Seattle and the Beatles".
The Mouth of Sauron scene from ROTK is really great up until the last 5-10 seconds where Aragorn does something completely and hilariously out of character.
