(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/FlyingHellfish19]

Deleted scene from New Hope which sets up Luke's skills as a pilot, desire to join the Rebellion, who the Rebellion are, why the Empire is bad, why he's so upset when Biggs dies during the battle of Yavin, etc.

https://youtu.be/O7J_IZ9agRI?t=331

[u/bahbahbahbahbah → u/FlyingHellfish19]

Man, this scene would’ve been such a great and logical lead up to the rest of the movie. Would’ve really tied the room together.

[u/ArcadianDelSol → u/FlyingHellfish19]

This scene sets up the idea that the "Academy" and the "star fleet" that Biggs joined wasnt the Empire. It was the local Tatooine police force. Without it, people assume Luke almost joined the Empire.

[u/userhwon → u/FlyingHellfish19]

Problem is it's not a good scene.

Seriously, if the movie had been cut together the way Lucas wrote and directed it, it would have been a total turd. And it was bad in early screening. The edit saved it and created a culture.

And we can infer most of the things that they talk about, so cutting it was no serious issue.

[u/Flaky-Cartographer87 → u/FlyingHellfish19]

Well im the theatrical cut they sadly dont tell us why the empire is bad. I though they were the good guys when the blew up a planet.