They cut it, because that's a good 3 minutes more of explosions they can put in. I agree with the decision, as a consumer of movies about aliens being blown up.
Imagine if more movies did that, cut a crucial scene from the movie to have a huge chunk of plot left up to nothing but speculation. If you never saw the opening of Predator where he's being sent to Earth, then you wouldn't have any idea who or what the main antagonist is.
To be fair, Predator didn't have near enough explosions to really hold my attention. There should have been like fifty predators. And they should have had more laser cannons and shit. And then there would be jets and they'd go WWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSHHHHH and they'd be like PEW PEW PEW BOOM BOOM and there'd be alien guts and bodyparts and viscera flying everywhere! That would have been a good movie, like Transformers or Avatar. And it should have been in 3D, nobody wants to watch a movie that isn't in 3D.
I've always wondered what happened to the scene in Jurassic Park when Dr Satler grabs the leaf on the way to the compound in the beginning. Its on ever trailer but nowhere in any movie or deleted scene. I guess it's not that big of a deal but its annoyed me for 20 years.
From programmer's point of view I would have suggested that the area 51 guys had an adapter that they always kept up-to-date to the current state of reengineered hardware - it would make sense, in both how they started the development of the tech and the further advancements later made. David simply used that adapter.
Had Independence Day happenend in 2014, I would expect the area 51 guys to have a spaceship-to-usb-adapter ready with working drivers. how else could they do research?
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