Most Disappointing Omissions from Movies That We Saw in Their Trailers

Let's face it, not everything can make it into the final cut of a movie. There must be a hundred things that need to be taken out for various reason, be it because of change of story, publicity concerns, or the fact that some things were never meant to be included at all, but used as a teaser instead. For better or worse, things change from the time the trailers are first released and we see the film on the big screen. Here are five that were clearly for the worse.

Big Hero 6- My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark

     We'll start off with a more recent entry, Big Hero 6, which everyone (myself included) loved. The soundtrack to this movie is pretty good, as most all Disney films are, but I think everyone felt a little cheated when Baymax finally took to the skies without us hearing "So light em' up, up, up! Light em' up, up, up! Light em' up, up, up!(I'm on Fire!!!)" Not a big deal story wise, and the score they came up with fits nicely also for their first flight, but in an age where we watch trailers over and over again on the internet, I think we all felt a little deceived.



A Bug's Life- Baba O' Reilly

     Like Big Hero 6, this song was featured prominently in the trailer, and you could hear the words "out here in the fields" as you saw Dot on top of a flower waving to Flick. While not relevant to the film, it still made the trailer that much better, and i really wanted to have heard it played in the final cut of the movie.


Home Alone- "You still are, Marv."

     I didn't watch the trailer for Home Alone in theaters, instead, I saw it on the home video release of its sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and man, when I saw all they omitted from the final cut, it was almost a different movie. While not terribly important or missed, this other cheap shot at Marv's intelligence would have been a nice addition to the final cut of the movie. I'll never quite understand the benefit of cutting this out, I mean, it is literally two lines, like three seconds long, but they felt it necessary. I still think it would have been funny to see.




Hitch- "You see someone you know, I don't want none of this."

     This scene, is truly the most baffling of all, because it is but a split second, and it's removal served ZERO purposes! The face Will Smith makes as he's teaching his student how to dance cool is priceless and when i first saw the movie, I thought I had just missed it for some reason, because it was funny, and yes, seeing it in the trailer was a huge selling point for me.


Spiderman- World Trade Center spider web

     Riding off the success of the original X-Men 15 years ago (yeah, it's been that long), Fox released Spiderman, arguably one of the most well known superheroes, and all in all, a very good movie. From the time the trailer hit theaters (that's right kids, we didn't always have YouTube), everyone was pumped to see the web-slinger in action, and no scene sold the movie better than the one where Spiderman spun a web between the two towers of the World Trade Center. We can debate all we want about the practicality of the web or how he knew the bank robbers would fly through there, but the fact remains, it was an AWESOME scene! For obvious reasons of sensitivity, the entire scene was cut from the movie, and I don't think anyone will argue that at the time it was the right thing to do. But those of us who remember the excitement of going to the movies and arriving early enough for seating and catching the latest trailers will remember the excitement of the Spiderman trailer, as well as our ultimate disappointment at not having that scene play out in the movie.