Every film ever made will have had to make great sacrifices over the course of its production in order to keep costs down in the screenplay stage, or the time closer to the desired 100 minutes when finally reaching the big screen. Most of the time, scenes that are cut from movies should have been cut- and if you are like me and like to sit through all the deleted scenes that are bundled onto the disk when you buy a DVD you will know that 90 percent of the time the deleted scene had no place in the final film and the right decision was made.
That said, for the remaining 10 percent of the time you are just left baffled as to why a film would delete a scene which would have been among the greatest scenes from that movie had it remained. In honour of those scenes, I have collected here 10 great deleted scenes from 10 great movies that would have only added to the greatest of the movie, and in my opinion should never have been left on the editing room floor.
Note that this list is not ranked, and if you know of any other great scenes I haven’t included I would love to be informed of them in the comments section so I can go ahead and watch them.
Enjoy…
10. The Avengers: Captain America Adjusts to Modern America
I have said many times on this site that I consider The Avengers to be the greatest and most thrilling film of the year so far, but even I wouldn’t call that film perfect, in fact far from it. If there is something that was desperately missing from The Avengers, which Joss Whedon usually piles onto his creations, it is heart, and this deleted scene was The Avengers heart. For the life of me I can’t figure out why they’d delete this scene, and in doing so effectively rip the heart out of a great movie. This movie could have been fantastic, and this deleted scene, which shows Captain America’s emotional state adjusting to a new world, and realizing that most of his friends are dead except for his love Peggy Carter would have made a brilliant addition.
Instead of showing Iron Man spending half an hour fixing the Helicarrier, how about making room for just three minutes of this?
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Completely agree with the Avengers, Terminator:ROTM, LOTR. Especially the Captain America scene that would have added more emotional depth to the movie.
I don’t really agree with the others, it’s either a meh, or I’m glad they didn’t put it.
Would add the rumored Dark Knight Rises deleted scene with Bane if you could ever get a hold of it, Harry Potter 7 part 2 with Tonks and Lupin, HP 7 part 1 with Harry and Dudley, LOTR: TT with wormtounge and Saruman, and Star Trek with Nero and the Klingons.
But that’s my opinion…
Thanks for writing articles and opinions, usually interesting…with some exceptions
Thanks for commenting. Personally I think the Bridesmaids scene here and the Kill Bill scene are probably my two favorite but you are entitled to your own opinions obviously.
I am glad you have been (mostly) enjoying my articles… though I’m sure in order to enjoy them all you’d have to have all of the same interests and opinions as I do- so clearly there are some you will dislike.
Yeah, we don’t agree socially, but that doesn’t mean we can’t both recognize and form opinions on good media…
Hmmm… that “we don’t agree socially statement” has really made me question you and your opinions. I hope you are not a bigot, because if you are I really don’t have time for you and I have zero respect for your opinions. If you are not I apologize. But if you are referring to what I get the feeling you are referring then I really have nothing more to say to you.
Forgot to mention the kill bill one, but never saw bridesmaids so that’s probably why.
BTW also forgot to mention the xmen last stand probably should have all been a deleted scene and never released, because it was worse than daredevil in my opinion due to my utter disappointment.
It’s “extended EDITION” not “extended additions”. Hopefully you’ll fix it.
Including the CA clip would have required some sort of follow-up later in the movie, (as in ‘did he call Peggy or not?’ ‘And if not, why mention her at all??’) and that would have made the movie longer. But as a Tony/Steve fan I thought it was interesting that he almost went to Stark Tower.
Thanks for reading. I actually read the scene differently than you. To me it seemed obvious that he considered ringing her but then changed his mind. You could see the internal conflict in his head. Personally, I would have liked them to have included this scene to show that not only hasn’t Captain America gotten over or forgotten about his past life, but just to tell the audience that Peggy is still alive. Personally, I would really like to see Peggy as an older woman at least briefly in the sequel. I just thing this whole scene would have made us care a lot more for Cap as a character than we ended up doing, and I just don’t see why they cut this particular scene when there was a lot from the rest of the movie that could have easily have been trimmed down.
One deleted scene I would have loved to have seen would be the custard pie fight from the end of Dr. Strangelove. I don’t think film of it exists any more, although there are some stills that can be found.
What about the deleted scene from Return of the Jedi?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ayT0EZwbks
I like this article but I disagree on what you said about Kill Bill… I hate the fact that you used the word ‘boring’, to me the second movie is a better experience everytime because there’s more interaction with David Carradine and his wonderful character. I’m not much for hyper-violence at all, I don’t mind this being cut because of the exact same reasons I think you mentioned, I think Bill is more vicious, much more mysterious or even mystical to us because we never really get to (or need to) see him in action, we can create those experiences ourselves, in our imaginations. Plus, I think Thurman and the script also deliver the threat of Bill to us quite clearly.
These are good points. Bill may have been more threatening because you don’t see him do anything all that violent in the films, but personally I never really considered him all that much of a threat… and in the end he really wasn’t. You may be right though, I think had this scene been included, Bill would have likely have been a much less mystical character.
Also, I’d like to point out that although I love Kill Bill Vol. 1 (it is one of my all time favorite films)… I also love Kill Bill Vol. 2- just personally could have done with another scene like the Crazy 88 scene in that movie.
I can see why they didnt include the in bruges one…. It doesnt seem like it fits in with the rest of the movie and is WAY too ridiculous and tongue in cheek… It was one of those moments where the filmmaker gave off the appearance of trying too hard t be like Tarantino or just to make the film look “cooler” in general…. I imagine removing the scene didnt take a lot of arguing as not including it also made the weight of Gleason’s characters burdens more personal and real instead of cartoonish and overdone…….