8 Recent Movies Most Obviously Ruined By Bad Editing

Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters was fine. Not amazing, not terrible, just fine. And given the amount of internet ink spent harping on about it, there’s something rather humorous about that.

At the time I said being almost two hours long meant there couldn’t be much more extra material, but, as the existence of a longer edit on the Blu-Ray attests to, this was indeed another movie where studio scissors just had to give it a bit of trim. And rather than shaving down, it looks like certain bits were just exorcised; look at the lack of a proper villain backstory and whatever made Kristen Wiig leave the team ahead of her third act return.

Worst Moment: The wasted dancing set-up.

Once he’s taken over Kevin, big bad Rowan begins his plot to destroy New York, but first takes care of the army, using his powers to possess the whole lot and put them in a dance pose. And then… nothing. While the Ghostbusters punch ghouls the soldiers just stands there posing.

This was clearly meant to be the setup for a big dance number, one that we do see in heavily truncated form over the end credits, which was probably cut because it is admittedly a bit silly. But if that's the case, why go as far as explicitly establishing it?