These days, scenes are left out in purpose to sell the movie later on DVD.

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Originally Posted by starwarsagent

I don't want to SHOCK YOU! But I think you guys already knew this?

In the old days...it was that directors actually had to cut out scenes because of budget issues, problems with editing etc. And the deleted scenes looked really bad.

These days, scenes are left out in purpose to be put into special features in the DVD. More footage is shot than ever before. Now directors shoot scenes for the release movie and the DVD features at the same time.

I bring this up because of this.
http://omg.yahoo.com/news/confirmed-...director/60267

neeson has been cut from the Hangover part II. Most likely a stunt to sell the DVD with the scene back in.

A good example these days is Avatar...Obviously, Cameron shot all the earth footage and left it out in purpose so he could make a special cut. because whats a DVD without new content?

And this is happening more often these days...


What do you think? false advertising?



EDIT: Ok, how many of you think that Peter Jackson actually shot those extra scenes, and never planned to put them out on an EE DVD? How many of you? LOTR's. Obviously, he planned the whole thing before he shot the movie.

Well, considering A LOT of the extra footage was filmed for the LotR EE during pickups AFTER the Theatrical Run of the movie, that's not completely true. But yes, Jackson had an EE in mind before the movies were released.

And of course scenes are cut from a movie and left out on purpose. It's called editing. Many times scenes will be filmed but to put them in the film would bump it up to a higher rating i.e. PG-13 to an R, so to maximize profits studios will tell the director that he/she cannot leave it in there but they can put it out on the DVD/BD release. It's not shocking, its been happening for YEARS now.

I don't mean to offend, but maybe there should be a little research on a topic before you start something that could be seen as a thread just to get people arguing. Just my thought.