Deleted Scenes you wish had been kept in movies/shows

[AGXStarseed]

It's a fact of making movies and shows that some scenes don't "make the cut" (be it for runtime, pacing, tone, time restraints for making the film/show, etc.), although sadly those scenes can sometimes be of great importance and can leave audiences who see them wondering "Why did you cut this out?!"
While sometimes we do get movies/shows with the cut scenes put back in (two examples I can think of been Aliens which had a fair few deleted scenes put back in - most notably Ellen Ripley sadly learning the fate of her daughter Amanda, which adds a lot to her surrogate mother-daughter relationship with Newt later in the film - and the Lord of the Rings trilogy having an extra 30-49 minutes of footage added to each film), there are times where we sadly don't get that and are restricted only to seeing the deleted scenes as extras on DVDs, Blu-Rays, etc.

Question is, are there any deleted scenes from movies/shows that you wish had been put back in?
I'll throw in two to start us off:

The Goonies - "The Octopus Scene"
My reason for this one actually comes from a line that Data gives at the end of the film when he and the other kids are been interviewed by the reporters about their adventure, stating that "the Octopus was really scary"; something that confused me as a kid when I watched the film on TV as my reaction was "What are you talking about? When was there an Octopus in this film?!"
It turns out, there was an Octopus - it's just the scene was cut from the film and the people making the film forgot about that until presumably after everything was finished (probably leading to a few facepalms), and I didn't learn about it until I got the film on DVD. While the Octopus scene is admittedly a bit silly, I think it should have been left in, but I'll let you guys decide:

The Incredibles 2 - "Gazerbeam's Memorial Service"
This scene shows Mr. Incredible not only delivering a eulogy for Gazerbeam but for the other superheroes murdered by Syndrome during the first film, while expressing his hope for superheroes been allowed to re-join society as it was their struggle to adapt to civilian society and their desire/need to be 'useful' that Syndrome took advantage of.
Honestly, I would have preferred for the movie to start with this instead of the Underminer fight - although part of that is because it retcons the game The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer and I loved playing that game, so it annoyed me to see it become "non-canon". Again, see for yourselves and see what you think:

So, do you guys know of any deleted scenes from TV shows or movies that you would have liked to have seen 'make the cut'?

 

[Judge]

Just learning about how much footage of a film routinely ends up on the cutting room floor amounts to a staggering number of films. Too many to recount.

Where reasons can be all over the place...from shortening a film to a more reasonable time limit, to altering the entire meaning of a film by selectively and sometimes cleverly editing a film.

Also reminds me of filmmakers like Michael Cimino, infamous for making overly-long movies. No telling how much footage even he probably leaves on that cutting room floor, or how much is influenced by the studio "suits".

 

[Shevek]

Lord of the Rings left out the whole story of Sharkey back in the Shire. Lacking magic, it was of more practical value to young readers.

 

[UFO]

First thing that comes to my mind is that I would have really wanted to like the first Suicide Squad. But it was a bad movie with one-dimensional characters (but still, one of the best DC-movies back then, which was worrying). When I saw deleted scenes and heard some rumors what was planned to be filmed (like Croc's background), I really thought "what were they thinking?" Even thought it wasn't much, those released deleted scenes added some flesh on the characters and would have improved the whole movie a lot.

 

[AGXStarseed]

First thing that comes to my mind is that I would have really wanted to like the first Suicide Squad. But it was a bad movie with one-dimensional characters (but still, one of the best DC-movies back then, which was worrying). When I saw deleted scenes and heard some rumors what was planned to be filmed (like Croc's background), I really thought "what were they thinking?" Even thought it wasn't much, those released deleted scenes added some flesh on the characters and would have improved the whole movie a lot.

Yeah, I find a fair few films in the DC movie timeline (Man of Steel onward) had some good deleted scenes that would have improved the films - only for them to not be put back in until the Special Edition Blu-Ray releases.

 

[Dagan]

I am well in tune with this. Being "part" of the industry puts you on the grapevine to sometimes every single whisper of news on things. I could make a novel length post of what I know, but this being October, I'll pick just a few (horror ones) that I hope eventually see the light of day.

CURSED (Wes Craven werewolf film). Practically the entire film was reshot with a half different cast, and Rick Baker's original, practical FX only werewolf was replaced by 90% CGI. The original footage is supposed to still reside with New Line / Weinstein...but the whole Weinstein debacle didn't help rights to reels in storage at all. Miss Lynn (Shaye) has talked about it some, as she and her husband, Bob Shaye (the more publicly known producer of New Line since the old days) do want to recover and restore the original film - it was supposedly more of a true horror film and not so PG-13. Oddly, even the reshot film wound up having a director's cut that restores quite more effective scenes and some gore that should have been left in the original release.

FRIGHT NIGHT 2 (the original sequel 1980's). Mr. Holland had quite a few different things going on in the original draft, but he had to change and reroute filming some things because the funds and rights and just everything got screwed up by a vile, narcissistic executive producer who not only rubbed the whole cast and crew the wrong way...he apparently was a horrible father / husband, and his sons killed him. The Menendez Twins, are how most know them. Yeah, that same guy, their father, he was majority stake holder of the film, and the atrocities of his fate almost had that sequel film scrapped completely. I'd love to see what was originally planned, especially because we have long lost Roddy McDowell already...but Mr. Holland has comic book follow ups for us, now, at least. We'll get to experience it in some fashion.

Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN. I personally wish that the "director's" cut / re-edit with completely different scenes along with additional footage was the version that everyone only ever viewed (in theaters...or at all). I have to just leave it at that because of NDA reasons (I think - not sure if everything is past legal amount of time, still). I prefer the redone, smarter scenes being in place, as the original script was all over the place and had holes.

 

[Metalhead]

I want the uncut Angel Heart to get a 4K release in the USA. That uncut scene was pretty freaky and added to the creepiness of that film.

 

[BloodyKun108]

Admittedly I don’t know of a whole lot, just not looked into much myself. The only one I can think of is Fire Walk With Me, and it being a Twin Peaks film I guess it is a bit debatable how important some of the scenes that were cut were. I’d have liked them but it is a bit long as is.