20 Film Adaptations That Left Out the Best Part

When you adapt a book or other media for the big screen, it’s inevitable that stuff is going to end up on the cutting room floor. Like, have you seen how long books are? Double-digit hours, some of them. No one’s going to sit that long for a movie unless they’re a sub for Scorsese, so adaptors have to walk a fine line between trimming the fat and preserving the flavor of a story.

Aaaaand sometimes, they biff it. “The Hunger Games really got me a few times,” user suestrong315 told r/AskReddit. “The way Thresh kills Clove was a serious injustice for the first movie, but when they left out Haymitch’s Quarter Quell video with his interviews and then how he won, I was extremely disappointed. They glazed over his character development like he was a burden to be there at all… and fucking Suzanne Collins signed off on that!”

They then asked, “What scene was left out of a movie adaptation of a book that made you say ‘WTF, why?!’” This is how their fellow Redditors responded…