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Best Deleted Scenes

post #1 of 33
8/12/02 at 3:29pm
Thread Starter 
Not another one of those list threads. Anyway, this is supposed to be a poll for Chewers to list scenes that were deleted but should have stayed in a movie.

I'll start:

The 'Stairway' scene from Almost Famous. Gives me goosebumps every time I see it.

About half of the Spy Who Shagged Me deleted scenes. These would have helped the film tremendously. Hopefully Goldmember will have deleted stuff this funny.
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post #2 of 33
8/12/02 at 3:32pm
The AP2 deleted scenes are very funny.

My fave would have to be the Chasing Amy and Jay and Silent Bob ones.
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post #3 of 33
8/12/02 at 3:59pm
There's a deleted scene on the Spinal Tap DVD which is even funnier than the "this goes up to 11" scene. It involves Nigel Tufnel giving Marty a lesson in "the western music of the United States."

Priceless.
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post #4 of 33
8/12/02 at 4:37pm
The deleted scenes from Chasing Amy which show Banky's money-grubbing side, the Fat Albert sequence from Dogma, and some of the deleted scenes from J&SBSB.
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post #5 of 33
8/12/02 at 4:46pm
I'd say pretty much all the deleted scenes from Spinal Tap. There's an entire sequel's worth of stuff in there. My favourite is the scene with the chauffeur getting stoned and singing Sinatra.
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post #6 of 33
8/12/02 at 4:51pm
Biggs and Luke talking on Tatooine in [/b]A New Hope[/b]. A fantastic scene that I so wish had been left in. I hold faith he'll put it in the Archive Editions.

Qui-Gon Jinn destroying the Sith Probe Droid just before dueling with Maul on Tatooine in The Phantom Menace. Great scene, and showed why him and Anakin were running.

Martin Riggs shooting a schoolyard sniper in Lethal Weapon. Thankfully, this was put back for the DVD Director's Cut.
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post #7 of 33
8/12/02 at 4:52pm
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Eight Legged Fett:
Martin Riggs shooting a schoolyard sniper in Lethal Weapon. Thankfully, this was put back for the DVD Director's Cut.
That scene has also been in it the last few times I caught Lethal Weapon on TV.
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post #8 of 33
8/12/02 at 5:04pm
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Daddy Whitehead:
I'd say pretty much all the deleted scenes from Spinal Tap. There's an entire sequel's worth of stuff in there. My favourite is the scene with the chauffeur getting stoned and singing Sinatra.
YES!! my work done for me
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post #9 of 33
8/12/02 at 5:04pm
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Eight Legged Fett:

Qui-Gon Jinn destroying the Sith Probe Droid just before dueling with Maul on Tatooine in The Phantom Menace. Great scene, and showed why him and Anakin were running.

I totally agree. They should have left this scene it...it took like, what, 30 seconds? if that? The scene really helped later continuity.
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post #10 of 33
8/12/02 at 5:45pm
If we're gonna list Chris Guest's Spinal Tap deleted scenes, how about the scenes from Best In Show that didn't make the final cut... some of the funniest shit I have seen in a long time... Harland Pepper riding in the RV... he must just make that shit up as he goes... pure genious...

"Turtle Woman, I love you!"
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post #11 of 33
8/12/02 at 5:49pm
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B3:
If we're gonna list Chris Guest's Spinal Tap deleted scenes, how about the scenes from Best In Show that didn't make the final cut... some of the funniest shit I have seen in a long time... Harland Pepper riding in the RV... he must just make that shit up as he goes... pure genious...

"Turtle Woman, I love you!"
I agree. Fuckin' funny stuff.
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post #12 of 33
8/12/02 at 5:50pm
Disturbing Behavior and American History X.
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post #13 of 33
8/12/02 at 5:50pm
B3, you rule.

How about his beach ball collection?

And yeah, the drive was hilarious- "And right up here is phantom hill, and it's funny because it's not a hill, and there's no phantom."
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post #14 of 33
8/12/02 at 5:51pm
Even though they're not technically deleted scenes anymore because they've been put back in the movie, I love the stuff they added back into The Abyss. Makes the movie so much better and gives it so much more depth. I don't understand why they kept all of that out of the original release.
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post #15 of 33
8/12/02 at 5:54pm
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Prying open Guyute's third eye:
Disturbing Behavior and American History X.
What are the Disturbing Behavior scenes?

It is funny you mention American History X. Great flick, but directed by one of the most insane people to ever grace Hollywood. "I want to be the Beatle's of film directors," Tony Kaye said in an interview for AHX. He showed up at New Line a week before the film was to be released with a Rabbi, a Buddhist, and a priest--he said he wanted to reshoot the entire film and give it a more spiritual emphasis. He then proceeded to insist he could be credited as "Humpty Dumpty" in the credits. That is all 100% true, I shit you not.
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post #16 of 33
8/12/02 at 7:07pm
Bwaaahahaha... I forgot about the Beach Ball collection... Chris Guest rules.

And the part where he compares a NASA rocket to a Bloodhound's nose...

"Well, you can't really compare a rocket with a nose... but if you could compare, in terms of... air speed... I'd say a rocket would be up here, and the bloodhound's nose would be around here."
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post #17 of 33
8/12/02 at 7:14pm
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Prying open Guyute's third eye:
Disturbing Behavior and American History X.
What were the deleted scenes in Disturbing Behavior, pray tell? That movie is one of my guilty pleasures.
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post #18 of 33
8/12/02 at 7:15pm
Sex scene with Holmes is all I remember.
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post #19 of 33
8/12/02 at 7:50pm
I never actually saw any of this, but I think half the fucking movie is deleted out of Disturbing Behavior. It got a luke-warm reaction from a test screening audience, so the studio cut alot of shit out. Then it got an even worse reaction, so they cut even more stuff out. At the third round of test screenings it did a little better (but still not as well as the first round), so they went with that cut and released it as a 37 minute feature, much to the director's chagrin. He said something to the effect of "they cut out any scene that didn't have a teenager in it, then they cut out every scene that didn't have something scary happen in it."

My guess is that something similar happened to MIB2.
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post #20 of 33
8/12/02 at 7:56pm
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Z-Man:
I never actually saw any of this, but I think half the fucking movie is deleted out of Disturbing Behavior. It got a luke-warm reaction from a test screening audience, so the studio cut alot of shit out. Then it got an even worse reaction, so they cut even more stuff out. At the third round of test screenings it did a little better (but still not as well as the first round), so they went with that cut and released it as a 37 minute feature, much to the director's chagrin. He said something to the effect of "they cut out any scene that didn't have a teenager in it, then they cut out every scene that didn't have something scary happen in it."

My guess is that something similar happened to MIB2.
The funny thing about it is, John McCain used these test screenings to show "what is wrong with Hollywood." Apparently the average age in all these test screenings was 12.
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post #21 of 33
8/12/02 at 10:31pm
I love the deleted scenes from The Abyss, Aliens, and T2. Cameron shouldn't be so quick to cut this stuff out.

As for Disturbing Behavior, the deleted scenes on the DVD (-- 20 minutes or so) definitely improved the film. There was no reason to cut any of them, especially when the theatrical release was only 85 minutes long. The alternate ending was also better.
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post #22 of 33
8/12/02 at 10:55pm
I love the deleted scenes in "Best in Show", the Christopher Guest scenes were so funny.
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post #23 of 33
8/12/02 at 11:30pm
More Spinal Tap deleted scenes where we see the band watching some apes at a zoo and the conversation turns to what they're like in the wild - "They're primarily bread eaters in the wild...Breads and Soups..."
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post #24 of 33
8/13/02 at 1:47am
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I love the deleted scenes from The Abyss, Aliens, and T2. Cameron shouldn't be so quick to cut this stuff out.
Save me some typing. Thanks.
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post #25 of 33
8/13/02 at 1:07pm
Just another boring vote for the Spinal Tap deleted scenes. There are about an hour of them, and they're just as funny if not funnier than the stuff that was left it. It's like having a whole other Spinal Tap movie!

My favorite of the hour of deleted ST scenes is probably the zoo scene. "I think just because the gorillas in the zoo eat bread, that doesn't necessarilly mean they're...I don't know, a bread-eating species..." (paraphrased) God, for me that's up there with te Graceland scene from the final cut. Okay, maybe not quite, but still.

And the hot tub stuff. Sweeeeeeet.
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post #26 of 33
8/18/02 at 7:26pm
The Royal Tenenbaums, when Angelica Hustons hair catches on fire and Kumar just pulls one hand over it to put it out. Kumar Palana is the coolest old actor/juggler alive!
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post #27 of 33
8/18/02 at 8:03pm
Training Day had a cool deleted scene in which Denzel tells a really screwed-up story from the streets about a white drug dealer who paid a black guy to beat his dog so that it would learn to hate black people.

The Godfather Part II has a few cool scenes, most notably one where Michael finds Fabrizio again and has him murdered in a very graphic car bomb outside his pizza parlor.

Spy Game had a whole deleted subplot in which we find out that Redford's Muir actually had a relationship with the McCormack character before Pitt did. The test audiences and Redford himself thought it was too cruel for his character to then commit her to prison after having been with her.

JFK had a few good ones such as a conspiracy theory that Jack Ruby was poisoned in prison and an extra dimension as to the originators of the plot as we see a group of rich old men sitting in a dining room discussing what they should do.
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post #28 of 33
8/18/02 at 9:10pm
I loved the deleted scenes from Toy Story 2. Intentionally added just to make them seem like real actors. Very cute.

I loved Best In Show!! One of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

I was upset in regards to one deleted scene in Chasing Amy which I felt was critical to the movie. There's the scene in the bar when they are playing darts and Alyssa not only explains to Holden what the difference is between true and fleeting love, but it goes on to show the softer side of Alyssa which was the reason that Holden may have fallen for her in the first place. You don't really get a feel of the initial attraction in the film. I felt it was a faux pas to have deleted it.

I also was glad in a way that they cut a scene in The Mexican where Roberts and Gandolfini are sitting in the restaurant because it shows how sinister and cold he truly was. He came off as a teddy bear in the movie and I was glad they left him that way.

Well, I only mentioned one movie of deleted scenes I liked. I'll add more as I think of them.
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post #29 of 33
8/19/02 at 2:06am
The drug freak-out scene in Jacob's Ladder. Hands down the best and most involved deleted scene I've ever, umm, seen.

Not sure if it was necessary for the completed film, but damn it's a must-see nugget on its own.
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post #30 of 33
5/20/11 at 9:11am

No matter the season or episode, THE OFFICE never fails to make me laugh with one of its deleted scenes. Lots of gold there and it must be tough as an editor to keep out such consistently good stuff.

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post #31 of 33
5/20/11 at 11:02am

I dunno about "best," but it's weird that the scene I remember most vividly from reading High Fidelity (the visit to the woman selling her husband's collection) turned up as a "deleted scene."

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post #32 of 33
5/26/11 at 3:49pm

I like that record collection scene in HF a lot, too.  I had only ever seen the movie on DVD until recently, and was disappointed that it wasn't in the theatrical cut-- forgot that I'd watched it as a deleted scene.

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post #33 of 33
5/26/11 at 8:54pm

A few from Any Given Sunday that didn't make it onto the DVD.

 

Jim Cavaziel as Coach D'Amato's estranged son: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoo7iNsH2uY

 

Randall "Tex" Cobb as a tattered ex-Shark who tries to pass some wisdom onto Jamie Foxx: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1PB-eaZ2qo&feature=related

 

Jim Brown warms up the crowd before Coach D'Amato: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3jBA6i8oMQ&feature=related

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