Movies with major missing scenes

Kevin Roegele

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With the new (or original depending on how you look at it) version of Superman II finally to be released on DVD soon, let's take a look at other films which would be rather different without having large ammounts of footage chopped out.

Mimic - Almost a classic film. Released in the same year as Alien Resurrection, I consider Mimic a far more worthy follow up to the Alien trilogy. Atmospheric build up, doom-ridden atmosphere - and then generic action ending demanded by the studio and test audiences. The original showing of Mimic had a completely different finale - as the survivors escape through a manhole cover to the streets, they call for help to the people around them. Who aren't people....while they've been fighting the bugs below, the bugs have taken over above ground. How's that for a apocalyptic twist cliffhanger ending?

Directed by Del Toro, Mimic also has some really disturbing scenes - such the kid Choi being able to communicate with the bugs and telling them to kill someone - cut out. Choi was never rescued originally - he stayed with the insects in the tunnels, the race he could communicate with. Great stuff.

Del Toro and his fans are campaigning for a director's cut.


Superman IV - Sure you know about this, but Supes IV was originally two hours long, whereas the version you've seen is 90 minutes. There were initially TWO Nuclear Men, more stuff between Clark and Lacy, and more between Supes and the kid Jeremy.

Some of this will appear on the new Supes IV DVD.


The Wicker Man - The original 70's ilm is considered the best British horror film ever, and Christopher Lee regards it as his best ever movie - well, the original version that is. Unfortunetly no-one has ever seen the original version, Christopher Lee says it buried under a road somewhere in England.

http://www.steve-p.org/wm/script.htm - pictures of cut scenes, includes nudity
 
Daredevil-While the orginal theatrical version and the one played on TV is a rushed rather basic storyline with no emotion and connectivity. The director's cut has key scenes that better explain Matt's state of mind and connect to the past (his mother visiting him in hospital as a nun) and the whole subplt with Murdock defending Coolio. It doesnt make Daredevil Spider-Man and it remains a flawed film but nevertheless it's a major improvment and probably would have given it a cult status or small amout of crediblity
 
I believe the footage to Superman 3 and 4 is lost but I could be wrong. The one I wish I could see the most would be The Magnificent Ambserons but saddly Orson Welles original vision is lost forever, since I absolutely loved the book. My Bloody Valentine is a movie horror fans have wanted uncut versions of for the longest time.
 
i think the most obvious are terminator 2, the cinematic and the director's cut version where the biggest part of the film, the humanisation of t-800 from scracth and how john decides not to destroy the chip, rather reboot him and start him off from scratch is entirely left out of the original shoot.

I think it's such an important part of the film, it's makes arnie's last moments on screen THAT much more powerful.


in hindsight i can't believe they butchered terminator 2 like that for cinematic viewing, crikey...

:eek:
 
Um I think the thread is for movies that haven't had DCs and Uncut versions released...
 
There is a 5 hour workprint of Apocalypse Now that I'd kill to see.

There is also a version of Star Wars out there that is almost totallly different from what we have now.
 
November Rain said:
:confused:

i don't get that from the opening post.

:( It'd be a rather boring thread if it isn't since everyone and there grandma knows about the following films which people are bound to bring up:

  • Alien 3
  • Kingdom of Heaven
  • Daredevil DC

I mean at least bring up movies people haven't heard of like "Mr. Arkadin" which had a MULTITUDE of various releases since Orson Welles was locked out of hte editing room and there's plenty of footage to edit from. There's about 9 different version and Criterion just put out there own definate version of it.
 
SolidSnakeMGS said:
There is a 5 hour workprint of Apocalypse Now that I'd kill to see.

There is also a version of Star Wars out there that is almost totallly different from what we have now.

There's also supposely a 4 hour cut of the Breakfast Club :eek: And rumors of a R-rated TMNT was debunked but there is extra footage lying around.
 
The 13th Warrior.

I love that movie like I love taffy, but I'd like to see the original McTiernan version, and I know they have the footage lying around.
 
In The Wizard of Oz there is a scene where the Witch sends out a magic bug called the Jitterbug to take the fight out of Dorothy and Friends. They do an entire musical scene called oddly enough The Jitterbug.

What's funny to me is even after they cut it they left the line in the previous scene where the Witch says, "I'll send a little insect along."


:thing: :doom: :thing:
 
Franklin Richards said:
In The Wizard of Oz there is a scene where the Witch sends out a magic bug called the Jitterbug to take the fight out of Dorothy and Friends. They do an entire musical scene called oddly enough The Jitterbug.

What's funny to me is even after they cut it they left the line in the previous scene where the Witch says, "I'll send a little insect along."


:thing: :doom: :thing:


Did George Michael have a part in this scene?:confused:
 
Movies205 said:
There's also supposely a 4 hour cut of the Breakfast Club :eek


I WANT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
While some may consider these scenes minor I feel like they would add something positive to these films...

The Jubilee museum scene in X2

The scene in Padme's childhood home in Attack of the Clones
 
The Crow

The Skull Cowboy. He (not the bird) was really Eric Draven's guide in the movie and pretty much told Eric what he had to do. He also informed him that if he went away from his mission and attempted to help the living (Sarah) then he would lose his immortality and be vulnerable to attack (which explains why he was really hurt when Top Dollar shot him during the church scene). There's also a deleted scene of Eric getting attacked from behind by Funboy with a razor when helping Sarah's mom. This is why the back of his coat is ripped to shreds later in the movie. He also wrapped his mid-section, hands, and arms in black electrical tape to stop the bleeding. All of this was cut from the movie as well.
 
Movies205 said:
Um I think the thread is for movies that haven't had DCs and Uncut versions released...

Yeah, it's about footage that hasn't been seen.
 
hitmanyr2k said:
The Crow

The Skull Cowboy. He (not the bird) was really Eric Draven's guide in the movie and pretty much told Eric what he had to do. He also informed him that if he went away from his mission and attempted to help the living (Sarah) then he would lose his immortality and be vulnerable to attack (which explains why he was really hurt when Top Dollar shot him during the church scene). There's also a deleted scene of Eric getting attacked from behind by Funboy with a razor when helping Sarah's mom. This is why the back of his coat is ripped to shreds later in the movie. He also wrapped his mid-section, hands, and arms in black electrical tape to stop the bleeding. All of this was cut from the movie as well.


:D Skull Cowboy footage-!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP9wonGDDNk&search=the crow
 
Uhhh... Superman Returns! They cut out so much character development. I'd at least have liked to see Clark in the closet of the Daily Planet debating about whether Superman should return.
 
I wished they'd release the versions of Harry Potter that ABC Family shows on DVD. A lot of small, but important scenes are missing in the theatrical versions.
 
Unfortunately, the one that I most want to see was never filmed. Apparently, Psycho had a scene where Sam Loomis and Lila Crane realised they had lost someone and talked about it. To me, from the little bit of the scene I've read, it really held together the whole post-Marion phase of the film. If they had cut out the psychobabble at the end of the film and put this in, while Sam and Lila are waiting for the detective, I think the movie would be a masterpiece. As of now, it's a flawed masterpiece.
 
First X-men had soo many scenes that were cut because of money. Especially a Cyclops origin scene. They later used the set for a scene in X2. Damn fox
 
I'm sure X-Men 3 was missing about 1 hours worth of important scenes :(
 

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