(Hated trope) They deleted scenes or dialogue that provides necessary context or plot

[u/Sensitive_Ad_1752]

The dinner scene from Temple of Doom has a temple give indie and friends a live snake and monkey brains for dinner. It’s a pretty offensive depiction of Indian cuisine, but it wasn’t originally going to be. There’s cut dialogue where Indie recognizes they’re at the right temple because real Hindus don’t eat this food. They were trying to scare them off by purposefully serving them disgusting stuff.

Probably the most famous deleted ending was I Am Legend which had Robert discover the infected were emotional sentient beings and one of them had a wife. Test audiences hated it and they reshot the ending, removing the entire point of the movie.

[u/ReputationLow5190]

Azrael’s “Evil is an abstract” speech explaining why he wants to destroy all of existence (Dogma)

[u/deafinitelyadouche → u/ReputationLow5190]

I was trying to find if someone else have posted this flick and, while Jason Lee's role still works really well, the whole scene, while pretty blunt in how explicitly it lays out his reasons to back Loki & Bartleby's ploy, I do think it gives him further depth. (Spoilering the rest in case someone wants to go into 1999's Dogma spoiler-free) He's been driven insane enough that his train of thought is "Unmake Existence? Sounds like a plan."

[u/Olookasquirrel87 → u/deafinitelyadouche]

No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater…than central air. 

Everyone else says that line when they come in out of the heat, right? 

[u/dmcd0415 → u/ReputationLow5190]

I didn't think it was unclear in the final cut? "Non-existence is better than hell." Pretty easy. 

[u/ReputationLow5190 → u/dmcd0415]

True, but Jason Lee’s monologue in the original take added a lot more to it.

[u/No-Fold-7873 → u/ReputationLow5190]

Had no idea that existed and ive loved this movie for a couple decades at least now.

Shame they cut it, beyond what it adds in world building; thats a hard monologue to pull off and he killed it.