I love this movie for thecombination of handdrawn animation, computer animation for the robot and other machines, the great story and classic storytelling! I am not against all CGI but I am against the american studios producing mostly CGI films and hardly any hand made ones! If you watch any of my handdrawn animated videos I made, BALDER'S EGG, THE MAGIC ARROWS, THE COLOSSEUM, THE BLACK WIDOW, etc. on my channelpage on youtube you will see my thousands of drawings and my love for handdrawnart!
Well, this scene would explain Dean's sudden character shift, going from hiding the Giant from the Army to fearing the Giant, telling Hogarth it's a "big gun that walks."
This movie is fine way it is. The addition of this scene though interesting would distract from the main focus of the film. The only way it could work and keep true to the theme of the movie would be to add one more scene at the end where the robot after reassembling himself would return to his home to convince his robot brothers that they too can choose not to be guns. Essentially a robot messiah. But that could get sappy very quick. Best to leave it as it is.
@nyarvideo Agreed. I think the not-so-subtle implication that the giant is a death machine that we see toward the end of the movie is good enough. Why would he have all the heavy weaponry if it were not for some destructive purpose?
Very interesting, but I think the movie was better off without it. It would be a major distraction from the main plot and greatly interrupt the flow of the awesome, awesome movie.
It would be nice to know more about the Giant though.
It would have been great if they.kept this scene. But I see why they wouldn't due to financial reasons. A sequel would be great, but I fear that it may be a pretty bad sequel unless they work years on it.
This scene is rather different from the rest of the movie as it gives off a feeling a such horror. An army of these robots, who knows who made them and why, built to destroy planets!
they should make a number 2 because at the end the giant was putting himself back together and the army of giants would come to earth and the giant would fight them so number 2 plz!!!!
I thouht it was funny when he woke up just to go back to sleep again. Something about that action just seemed so human to me. Anyway, where did you get this clip? I borrowed the DVD from my library and it didn't have any deleted scenes and the back of the case doesn't say it has deleted scenes either. Was this from a Special Edition DVD or something?
what i think was that the giant was 1 of many robots created by some other alien race to destroy planets, but the dent on his head when he landed made him forget his programming and he turned nice when he met hogarth, and he was scared when he became the destroyer because he didnt know why he was doing that
I think they made the right decision leaving the scene out. The big suprise with the guns and all that laser stuff in the end send shivers down my spine and still does today. Not that im into weapons or war, but it was so cool so he him going from this innocent robot to a monster that takes revenge.
@batmayn123 true, but this scene can be adjusted-done right, it doesn't real HE is the war machine-only that he saw them....it could work. and it is very ominous.
I would pay 14 dollers to see this movie again in 3D. someone should start a blog/vlog/make a second iron giant. if you thumbs up them maybe people will see this and it might happen. i hope.
When I saw the movie as a kid I didn't trust the giant. I understood that the bump on his head was the only thing that kept him from being a weapon. The part when he got defensive and resumed his original function got me really scared and intrigued at the same time and I wanted to know more about his original purpose. If this scene was in the movie most of my uneasy curiosity would have been quenched. It looks like the rock from the planet hit his head. Lucky hit.
@samo5566 Well, The Iron Giant is based on a book, but I was responding to a comment that compared The Iron Giant with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
Just out of curiosity, WHAT THE HELL OR WHO THE HELL IS OR MADE A PLANT OF ROBOT'S IN 1957?D8) I know this is just a made up movie but sereisly >:( Though I have to say this was a pretty good deleted scene and I would agree it being cut out of the movie because during the rest of the movie nobody talks about it their all just...silent about it...I think?
This makes sense. For an alien race to contruct a robot...or, obviously, and ARMY of these robots, with so many in-built weapons...they wouldn't construct it for a peaceful mission. We're just lucky the Giant damaged his main processor and got his memory wiped.
Just had to add another comment. Brad Bird gave the Warner Brother animaters a great story and the opportunity to show what they are really able to do with a great script! The point is you can be a great animater but if you work for people who produce crap you are going to make crap! And then moviegoers switch over to artless 3D CGI with 3D glasses which is more crap!
I watched this movie in theaters in 1999 and I felt it should have been a huge hit but the public went to the awful,overly hyped the Phantom Menace with Jar Jar Binks! Brad Bird should have stayed at Warner Brothers because the Iron Giant had great hand drawn animation made by american artists with the computer generated robot! I did not like The Incredibles on tv and Disney Pixar turns me off! Now the 3D CGI dominates the box office and now most animated movies are dumb and repeatative!
@PSshadow92 The characters look so commercial, Everything looks like a toy commercial, everything looks like bright florescent neon! And it so mechanical and long! The Iron Giant had great character development with hand drawn animation combined with the computer animated robot so it struck a healthy balance with computer and traditional. I have enjoyed drawing my animation by hand so I am against this cgi dominence and hype! Now their are less jobs for hand drawn animaters! That's why!!!
@jonhayashi1 So, even if a CGI movie has well-made characters and a well-written storyline, you would just write it off as crap just because it's CGI? Just wondering... ^^;
@bluebird1494 I felt the Incredibles are not well conceived characters and I felt they both look and are highly commercial! The Iron Giant has great hand drawn animation with characters that were well conceived and not cgi merchandising which the Incredibles I felt is! I admit I am not a fan of filmaking that is all cgi but when great hand drawn filmmaking like the Iron Giant and stop motion films like Fantastic Mr.Fox and Wallace and Gromit take a back seat to CGI hype I get tired of it!
@jonhayashi1 Instead of being so biased at the movie-making techniques, you should be looking at the genius that is Brad Bird. It doesn't matter if it's hand-drawn, CGI or real-life, Brad Bird's movies are ALL original, creative and mind-blowing with top-notch story telling and character development.
Almost everything he produces gets consistently top reviews by critics and the public alike. He directed Ratatouille and his latest movie Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol is also a massive hit.
@Xuvial Brad Bird IS a genius but even if you like the Incredibles which I don't, you should realise that it is NOT fair for the animaters that drew the human characters by hand to be out of work and not working for Brad Bird because the industry is unfair to traditional animaters and hypes CGI way too much!! I would not bother to watch a cgi rat movie because Fantastic Mr. Fox was ignored! Iron Giant was not a massive hit and I love it! And If I choose not to watch CGI movies thatis mychoice!
@afropaladin It is not easy to create hand drawn animation either and I know that because I have drawn thousands of drawings in my hand drawn animations including BALDER'S EGG which has more then 9000 drawings and 107 lines of dialog animation! If you read my earlier comments you would see that I like the combination of the Iron Giant robot and the hand drawn character animation! You can see my BALDER"S EGG on my channel page! You can see the amount of work in my video even if you don't like it!
@bluebird1494 To fully answer your question, I would not assume the movie is automatically crap if it is all computer generated, but I would still be annoyed if it has no hand crafted art. And it is easier to make "Cars" and" Cars 2" merchandise movies if they are computer generated!
@Rlghostz1 thumbs down sir, this movie doesn't need a sequel. The Iron Giant is pure gold, a childhood memory to cherish forever, a 1999 classic to be shown to future generations. I believe Brad Bird would also agree that a sequel would be pointless.
that really would have been an amazing scene, it really would have added to the depth. but i can see why they cut it out, it probably confused things a little
Hmm, they're right, that tiny little scene would have given even more depth to an already rich movie. Hope someday they might consider adding it... But it begs the question - was he accidentally blasted to earth when they destroyed that planet, or was he simply the first one sent out of thousands for a real invasion? O.o
It would have been interesting, but I don't think it would have added or subtracted from the film. The Iron Giant being a complete mystery made him a better character. Either way, it was obvious he was built for destruction but didn't follow his protocol because he suffered from amnesia.
@teencomment I don't think he was sent to conquer planets. As we can see from the "dream", he is shown crashing down on another planet, with several other Iron Giants. They were all programmed to DESTROY planets. I'm guessing he got lost from the group and forgot about how to destroy.
This, OR he was sent to protect the galaxy from dangerous planets because he only goes off to kill mode when he see's a gun. But again, this could just be a defense mechanism.
The way I see it he is something along the lines of Gort to both act as a passive and powerful police force that responds to violence and with the seemingly added function of being warriors when needed. I think he was either supposed to destroy Earth or was simply seperated from his kind in some way. Hitting his head possibly caused him to revert to his passive role of peacekeeper complete with capacity for morality. After all you dont want your police force to be evil towards your own people.
I love the concept of robot dreams as radio signals, and a scene utilizing that would have been a good inclusion. However, I'm glad they left this out. It's much more effective to have a mystery surrounding the giant's origins and purpose, then have the mystery begin to unravel when he shoots laser beams from his eyes. Then, when he transforms from the lovable giant to full-on alien war machine, you're left pretty stunned. Showing his war mode so early on robs the final scenes of their impact.
No, the giant was designed as a weapon. He was sent as a soldier in an army to conquer and destroy all other planets. He must have been sent to observe earth for an invasion but the dent in his head erased that memory.
@thewewguy8t88 Not really. It makes for good foreshadowing and that it's kinda in relation to the topic of can robots dream. I wouldn't say it would have been a big lipped moment. Nothing near it.
The Giant kind of reminds me of Gort from "The Day the Earth Stood Still",maybe a giant robot that enforces peace by the threat of total annihilation at the sight of any violence/warfare.
what i think is that when the giant's home planet was destroyed, the people(that is if there are actual people)of that planet must have been created the giant to go and destroy the planets that were responsible for the disaster.
@sonicrocks57 or maybe the giant was one out of tens of millions of robotic war machines constructed by an alien race during some kind of galaxy wide war to be used as the ultimate weapon against their enemies. however, after the war, the robots decided the aliens were to much of threat to themselves, so they destroyed their planet and decided to spread out and destroy any planets at their pleasure , with the giant that just happened to land on earth.
wow i would put that part in the movie it would give a back side the the movie to tell what the iron man was made for and the movie would be butter with it in the movie there with out it i and if you want to why wash the movie to see what the movie is a but in the first place
wow that should have been in the movie! i thought it was kewl before! but if they added that scene i thing bird was right, it would have beed better :o
@2Dzz Not necessarily. The sequels to The Brave Little Toaster were not as near good as the original and in my opinion that was also a really great classic 2D animted movie.
@CaptainBlueMoon There was a book called The Iron Man this movie was based on it. The aurthur (srry if i spell wrong) made another book called The Iron Woman. Maby there will be a sequel!
@XxFlamexHeadxX Meh, I think the the movie ended perfectly, no need for a sequel! Plus, the book was more of an inspiration for the movie, since they're really different storylines. I don't think there is even a kid that the Giant meets in the book! :D
No and no. This scene answers an unnecessary call about the giant's past life and his home planet. It's far better when the film only touches on who he is now, not where he was from. And also, there would be no way to make a sequel without destroying the original. Let's leave it in peace.
Whenever I see this clip I still think that the giant was created to be like the robot from the original The day the Earth stood still. Capable of destroying planets if they become a threat to other planets.
I laways thought the same thing. He's some sort of invasion machine. The fact that he was eating the power plant near the beginning of the film always gave me the impression that he was attempting to isolate the town, perhaps to clear a safe landing zone for more Giants? More probably don't show up because when he went good, he didn't transmit the "all clear signal" and whoever it is that builds the Giants thought "Oh, let's not mess around there."
My impression? When he landed there was a glitch in his landing, causing the bump, and wiping a piece of memory. Like anyone who is hurt, lost, and without memory the first thing we think of is food---he eats metal--but fails to recognize it is a POWER PLANT!
yeah that would be pretty good but i think it would be better if they made a movie out of this and explains more about the origins of the iron giant and the purpose to destroy the earth.
Well, in this case it's his memory. The TV's just happening to pick up on it's signal. It's like a recorded video being cuaght by the antenna of the TV, and then being played on the screen.
It can be called a 'dream' seeing as he was 'asleep' (presumably some kind of stand-by mode), and that's when it came.
Falcon, the Giants likely were created to be like, some alien version of a tank.
So likely, yes. The Giants were made to destroy worlds. I'm guessing the huge explosion that took out 3 planets (You see a second one explode as the first one is destroyed, and the blast expands, and the third would of been destroyed when it went all white.) Is combined fire, or self-destruct sequences going off at the same time.
ooohhh......so he WAS meant to be some sort of weapon? But because he met Hogarth he was able to gain a sense of humanity, after all, 'He is NOT a gun'
i think another key reason people left it out is because this was still early in the film and they wanted the audience to feel kindly toward the giant and sympathy for him. If they were to see he was a destructive menace of genocide, they might feel differently towards him, which is why they used his weapons at the end because he had then lost all that was dear to him and you understood why he went mad.
don't blame Brad Bird, he would have loved to put in this scene, but blame Warner Bros. they gave them a small budget for this film and fully animating scenes cost money so it's not the direcotrs fault
...........WHY!!!........no no no no no no....That was perfect, why did they delete that scene! This would have made the film more awesome then it already is.
I never did understand this dream scene, i mean trough out the movie they say that the iron giant only acts defensively. So does that mean that its real purpose was to find something and not to destroy earth?
He acts defensively only after he got the bump on his head. That probably messed up some stuff in his CPU, or whatever equivalent he had. Without the bump on his head, and probably the electric shock he also received, he probably would have done this to Earth.
It's very interesting. Some of you say that him and the rest of his kind go to planets and destroy them while others say that that was his planet that was destroyed. What ever the reason, he could be like the leader or something because he wasn't marching and I don't think the rest were formed. Or It's possible that he is a scout who goes out looking for planets that would be good for annihilation. Whatever it is I hope they make a sequel or even a live adaption. That would be cool.
I love this movie for thecombination of handdrawn animation, computer animation for the robot and other machines, the great story and classic storytelling! I am not against all CGI but I am against the american studios producing mostly CGI films and hardly any hand made ones! If you watch any of my handdrawn animated videos I made, BALDER'S EGG, THE MAGIC ARROWS, THE COLOSSEUM, THE BLACK WIDOW, etc. on my channelpage on youtube you will see my thousands of drawings and my love for handdrawnart!
jonhayashi1 3 weeks ago
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The lyon king and The iron giant are my all time favorite animated movies.
mrchibitix59 1 month ago
Well, this scene would explain Dean's sudden character shift, going from hiding the Giant from the Army to fearing the Giant, telling Hogarth it's a "big gun that walks."
WildWestSamurai 2 months ago
Damn, that would've been an awesome scene.
Sorflakne 3 months ago
This movie is fine way it is. The addition of this scene though interesting would distract from the main focus of the film. The only way it could work and keep true to the theme of the movie would be to add one more scene at the end where the robot after reassembling himself would return to his home to convince his robot brothers that they too can choose not to be guns. Essentially a robot messiah. But that could get sappy very quick. Best to leave it as it is.
nyarvideo 4 months ago 5
@nyarvideo Agreed. I think the not-so-subtle implication that the giant is a death machine that we see toward the end of the movie is good enough. Why would he have all the heavy weaponry if it were not for some destructive purpose?
solusumbra 3 months ago
ah that's cool they should have kept it
ROXDragonz 4 months ago
please please please make a second one
Ramonezs 4 months ago
Why is it that when I see the big guy sit up, I say softly, "It's fine, sweetie. Just go back to sleep." I must be weird.
I really need to see this movie. Why haven't I yet?
RunsWithWeasels 5 months ago
They should've kept this scene
FalconKPD 6 months ago
Very interesting, but I think the movie was better off without it. It would be a major distraction from the main plot and greatly interrupt the flow of the awesome, awesome movie.
It would be nice to know more about the Giant though.
MrBrooklynlouis 6 months ago
All these guys saying Iron Giant should have a sequel, it doesn't need one. It ended on a high note.
This would have been a cool scene, but I don't think we needed it. I like that the Giant's origins are left unknown.
Mitchal13579 6 months ago 35
@Mitchal13579 I still consider this his origins, even if it was a deleted scene.
Iwatchtrek 1 month ago
It would have been great if they.kept this scene. But I see why they wouldn't due to financial reasons. A sequel would be great, but I fear that it may be a pretty bad sequel unless they work years on it.
TheRandomm4 6 months ago
Great scene. I don't want a second movie though, not everything great needs a sequel.
yalinegurl1 6 months ago 7
Why not include this scene? It gives cool exposition for what's to come.
MarkArandjus 6 months ago
This scene is rather different from the rest of the movie as it gives off a feeling a such horror. An army of these robots, who knows who made them and why, built to destroy planets!
SamLoser2 7 months ago
they should make a number 2 because at the end the giant was putting himself back together and the army of giants would come to earth and the giant would fight them so number 2 plz!!!!
japod89 7 months ago
@japod89 God, that sounds like an awful movie.
Mitchal13579 6 months ago
He should totally fight a space dragon.
RiflemanIzzie 7 months ago
Wow! That's incredible. Wish it was in the movie.
MJPETTY7 7 months ago
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GuyFawkes501 7 months ago
1:27 OMFG! there's an army of iron giants!
H4xHer0 7 months ago
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O.O Okay, I *seriously* need to see this movie. NOW>
RunsWithWeasels 7 months ago
Reminds me of Clank from R&C
rankaratar 8 months ago
@rankaratar now that i think about it, Clank and the Giant sort of look alike O:
Kilimanjaro004 7 months ago
I thouht it was funny when he woke up just to go back to sleep again. Something about that action just seemed so human to me. Anyway, where did you get this clip? I borrowed the DVD from my library and it didn't have any deleted scenes and the back of the case doesn't say it has deleted scenes either. Was this from a Special Edition DVD or something?
fanime1 9 months ago
what i think was that the giant was 1 of many robots created by some other alien race to destroy planets, but the dent on his head when he landed made him forget his programming and he turned nice when he met hogarth, and he was scared when he became the destroyer because he didnt know why he was doing that
primal2020 10 months ago 5
I think they made the right decision leaving the scene out. The big suprise with the guns and all that laser stuff in the end send shivers down my spine and still does today. Not that im into weapons or war, but it was so cool so he him going from this innocent robot to a monster that takes revenge.
batmayn123 11 months ago
@batmayn123 true, but this scene can be adjusted-done right, it doesn't real HE is the war machine-only that he saw them....it could work. and it is very ominous.
Shotesu 10 months ago
I would pay 14 dollers to see this movie again in 3D. someone should start a blog/vlog/make a second iron giant. if you thumbs up them maybe people will see this and it might happen. i hope.
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I would pay 14 dollers to this movie again in 3D.
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millbillzztop 11 months ago
When I saw the movie as a kid I didn't trust the giant. I understood that the bump on his head was the only thing that kept him from being a weapon. The part when he got defensive and resumed his original function got me really scared and intrigued at the same time and I wanted to know more about his original purpose. If this scene was in the movie most of my uneasy curiosity would have been quenched. It looks like the rock from the planet hit his head. Lucky hit.
Isiloron 11 months ago
Do Iron Giants dream of destructive sheep?
taitai907 11 months ago 4
@taitai907 Haa haa. I actually get that reference. That book and this movie do have similar themes, once you bring that up.
fanime1 9 months ago
@fanime1 there is a book?
samo5566 8 months ago
Which one? "The Iron Man" A.K.A. The Iron Giant by Ted Hughes or "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" A.K.A. Blade Runner by Phillip K. Dick?
taitai907 8 months ago
@taitai907 both i heard of blade runner but i did not know that it was about stuff like this?
samo5566 8 months ago
@samo5566 Well, The Iron Giant is based on a book, but I was responding to a comment that compared The Iron Giant with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
fanime1 8 months ago
oh god, I cry everytime I see this movie Im such a big baby
Newyorkgurl20 11 months ago
Just out of curiosity, WHAT THE HELL OR WHO THE HELL IS OR MADE A PLANT OF ROBOT'S IN 1957?D8) I know this is just a made up movie but sereisly >:( Though I have to say this was a pretty good deleted scene and I would agree it being cut out of the movie because during the rest of the movie nobody talks about it their all just...silent about it...I think?
nicolegreen8 11 months ago
This makes sense. For an alien race to contruct a robot...or, obviously, and ARMY of these robots, with so many in-built weapons...they wouldn't construct it for a peaceful mission. We're just lucky the Giant damaged his main processor and got his memory wiped.
Gunganfan 11 months ago
A planet blowing up is much better than electric sheep.
bandofbrothersmovie 11 months ago
They need to make a second movie.
I want to see more.
The Iron Giant is a wonderful movie.
mcsdaver 11 months ago
That was literally EPIC! <3
TheAndyLoraProgram 1 year ago
great movie, completely underrated
TGram29 1 year ago 7
That part at 1:28 reminds me of Big O.
bearsaremyfav 1 year ago
i love that film 1999 i miss the old film in the 90s 2000s is ok
thekingofpopj 1 year ago
Just had to add another comment. Brad Bird gave the Warner Brother animaters a great story and the opportunity to show what they are really able to do with a great script! The point is you can be a great animater but if you work for people who produce crap you are going to make crap! And then moviegoers switch over to artless 3D CGI with 3D glasses which is more crap!
jonhayashi1 1 year ago
I watched this movie in theaters in 1999 and I felt it should have been a huge hit but the public went to the awful,overly hyped the Phantom Menace with Jar Jar Binks! Brad Bird should have stayed at Warner Brothers because the Iron Giant had great hand drawn animation made by american artists with the computer generated robot! I did not like The Incredibles on tv and Disney Pixar turns me off! Now the 3D CGI dominates the box office and now most animated movies are dumb and repeatative!
jonhayashi1 1 year ago 6
@jonhayashi1 How can you NOT like the Incredibles?
PSshadow92 11 months ago
@PSshadow92 The characters look so commercial, Everything looks like a toy commercial, everything looks like bright florescent neon! And it so mechanical and long! The Iron Giant had great character development with hand drawn animation combined with the computer animated robot so it struck a healthy balance with computer and traditional. I have enjoyed drawing my animation by hand so I am against this cgi dominence and hype! Now their are less jobs for hand drawn animaters! That's why!!!
jonhayashi1 11 months ago
@jonhayashi1 So, even if a CGI movie has well-made characters and a well-written storyline, you would just write it off as crap just because it's CGI? Just wondering... ^^;
bluebird1494 1 month ago
@bluebird1494 I felt the Incredibles are not well conceived characters and I felt they both look and are highly commercial! The Iron Giant has great hand drawn animation with characters that were well conceived and not cgi merchandising which the Incredibles I felt is! I admit I am not a fan of filmaking that is all cgi but when great hand drawn filmmaking like the Iron Giant and stop motion films like Fantastic Mr.Fox and Wallace and Gromit take a back seat to CGI hype I get tired of it!
jonhayashi1 1 month ago
@jonhayashi1 Instead of being so biased at the movie-making techniques, you should be looking at the genius that is Brad Bird. It doesn't matter if it's hand-drawn, CGI or real-life, Brad Bird's movies are ALL original, creative and mind-blowing with top-notch story telling and character development.
Almost everything he produces gets consistently top reviews by critics and the public alike. He directed Ratatouille and his latest movie Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol is also a massive hit.
Xuvial 3 weeks ago
@Xuvial Brad Bird IS a genius but even if you like the Incredibles which I don't, you should realise that it is NOT fair for the animaters that drew the human characters by hand to be out of work and not working for Brad Bird because the industry is unfair to traditional animaters and hypes CGI way too much!! I would not bother to watch a cgi rat movie because Fantastic Mr. Fox was ignored! Iron Giant was not a massive hit and I love it! And If I choose not to watch CGI movies thatis mychoice!
jonhayashi1 3 weeks ago
@jonhayashi1 Are you saying that CGI is not an art? It isn't easy to create animations in CGI.
afropaladin 3 weeks ago
@afropaladin It is not easy to create hand drawn animation either and I know that because I have drawn thousands of drawings in my hand drawn animations including BALDER'S EGG which has more then 9000 drawings and 107 lines of dialog animation! If you read my earlier comments you would see that I like the combination of the Iron Giant robot and the hand drawn character animation! You can see my BALDER"S EGG on my channel page! You can see the amount of work in my video even if you don't like it!
jonhayashi1 3 weeks ago
@bluebird1494 To fully answer your question, I would not assume the movie is automatically crap if it is all computer generated, but I would still be annoyed if it has no hand crafted art. And it is easier to make "Cars" and" Cars 2" merchandise movies if they are computer generated!
jonhayashi1 1 month ago
@PSshadow92 I am knocking the Incredibles not" the Iron Giant" just to make it clear!
jonhayashi1 11 months ago
the should make a sequel, this movie was one of my childhood favorite !! thumbs up if you agree
Rlghostz1 1 year ago 70
@Rlghostz1 thumbs down sir, this movie doesn't need a sequel. The Iron Giant is pure gold, a childhood memory to cherish forever, a 1999 classic to be shown to future generations. I believe Brad Bird would also agree that a sequel would be pointless.
Xuvial 3 weeks ago
It would of been a great scene but I think it's better than we get to imagine the past of the giant ourselves.
FaytHarkwindVids 1 year ago 3
that really would have been an amazing scene, it really would have added to the depth. but i can see why they cut it out, it probably confused things a little
basicallyemily21 1 year ago
...i didn't need to sleep anyway.
apusama 1 year ago
Wow! I would've wanted to see that!
RagamuffinBabyDoll 1 year ago
wow, i finally get to see the man behind this awesome movie(and some other cool ones)
would've been awesome to meet Brad
lotten16 1 year ago
Hmm, they're right, that tiny little scene would have given even more depth to an already rich movie. Hope someday they might consider adding it... But it begs the question - was he accidentally blasted to earth when they destroyed that planet, or was he simply the first one sent out of thousands for a real invasion? O.o
kettoshii 1 year ago
i was hoping for a special edition with this included. that would have been the cherry on top,
gaffneyyy 1 year ago 4
So he was built to destroy planets and is immune to all human weaponry yet somehow manages to get himself a memory-losing dent to the head?
Just kidding. Love this movie.
Tuckerscreator 1 year ago
OH how that would have been an excellent scene to put in!
Offlian 1 year ago
So,the Giant's home planet was....Destroyed?
RedNForcer 1 year ago
@RedNForcer Or he was built to destroy it!
Tuckerscreator 1 year ago
@Tuckerscreator I'm not sure to bet on that.
RedNForcer 1 year ago
when did he loose his memory?was it when he crashed on earth or when he got shocked at the power station?
deepdark876 1 year ago
wow this was... weird but still cool
stillkillingpeople 1 year ago
I think the movie would of been really good with this scene to clear up a bit of the giants past
nosecone33 1 year ago 2
I was just watching this tonight. I STILL always starrt to cry when he flies up and destroys the missle
SpartanShadow125 1 year ago
OH LOL!!!!HIS A DECEPTICON!!!!!HE WAS SENT TO DESTROY THE EARTH !!!!
TheYoungSkux 1 year ago
Dean would be worried, color T.V. was just becoming a common thing, they didn't have the technology to create effects like that. 8D
And that's what I find so enjoyable. =D
Tweedbit 1 year ago 2
It would have been interesting, but I don't think it would have added or subtracted from the film. The Iron Giant being a complete mystery made him a better character. Either way, it was obvious he was built for destruction but didn't follow his protocol because he suffered from amnesia.
daftrok 1 year ago 4
dude, If I was that guy seeing TV there, I'd be freak´d out! I mean, he just saw a PLANET EXPLODE!
Kurotaisa 1 year ago
@Kurotaisa althogh today that's actually a pretty common thing to see
personsom1 1 year ago
@personsom1
Yeah, but those were THE FIFTIES!
Kurotaisa 1 year ago
tumbs up if yu want a second movie :D !!!
The912jack 1 year ago 77
@The912jack I... am not sure I want to see a sequel.
You know the old saying: "Stop when on top."
I fear that the risk is too great for the sequel to jump the shark. It would destroy the genre before it would take off.
Maybe even drag the original down, too.
Atvishees 5 months ago
Even before I saw this scene, once I looked at the movie again I was thinking "Yeah, he was definitely sent here to conquer the planet."
teencomment 1 year ago
@teencomment I don't think he was sent to conquer planets. As we can see from the "dream", he is shown crashing down on another planet, with several other Iron Giants. They were all programmed to DESTROY planets. I'm guessing he got lost from the group and forgot about how to destroy.
This, OR he was sent to protect the galaxy from dangerous planets because he only goes off to kill mode when he see's a gun. But again, this could just be a defense mechanism.
CoyoteDeLosMuertos 1 year ago
The way I see it he is something along the lines of Gort to both act as a passive and powerful police force that responds to violence and with the seemingly added function of being warriors when needed. I think he was either supposed to destroy Earth or was simply seperated from his kind in some way. Hitting his head possibly caused him to revert to his passive role of peacekeeper complete with capacity for morality. After all you dont want your police force to be evil towards your own people.
dante277 1 year ago
i like it with out it how it was it was good. =)
XxANATAGASUKIxX 1 year ago
I love the concept of robot dreams as radio signals, and a scene utilizing that would have been a good inclusion. However, I'm glad they left this out. It's much more effective to have a mystery surrounding the giant's origins and purpose, then have the mystery begin to unravel when he shoots laser beams from his eyes. Then, when he transforms from the lovable giant to full-on alien war machine, you're left pretty stunned. Showing his war mode so early on robs the final scenes of their impact.
onehundreddollars 1 year ago 9
He kinda looks like one of the robots from castle in the sky
TheActualDude 1 year ago
No, the giant was designed as a weapon. He was sent as a soldier in an army to conquer and destroy all other planets. He must have been sent to observe earth for an invasion but the dent in his head erased that memory.
SMxSerbia 1 year ago
i like the mystery of the robot's origins and im glad they left this part out. this film is from Hogarth's point of view.
Antphoneigh 1 year ago
if they added this scene well it would have been conciderd a big liped aligator moment granted a really interesting one but still one never the less.
thewewguy8t88 1 year ago
@thewewguy8t88 Not really. It makes for good foreshadowing and that it's kinda in relation to the topic of can robots dream. I wouldn't say it would have been a big lipped moment. Nothing near it.
FlammaMan 1 year ago
He kind of reminds me of the robots from 'Sky Captain and the world of tommorow'
sander9399 1 year ago
@sander9399 both are inspired from science fiction works and illustrations of the period that both movies take place in.
if you like the stuff, look it up.
supernigger2000 1 year ago
@sander9399 except 'Skycaptain' sucked.
radarling 1 year ago
The Giant kind of reminds me of Gort from "The Day the Earth Stood Still",maybe a giant robot that enforces peace by the threat of total annihilation at the sight of any violence/warfare.
warpedwiselegoman 1 year ago
what i think is that when the giant's home planet was destroyed, the people(that is if there are actual people)of that planet must have been created the giant to go and destroy the planets that were responsible for the disaster.
sonicrocks57 1 year ago
@sonicrocks57 or maybe the giant was one out of tens of millions of robotic war machines constructed by an alien race during some kind of galaxy wide war to be used as the ultimate weapon against their enemies. however, after the war, the robots decided the aliens were to much of threat to themselves, so they destroyed their planet and decided to spread out and destroy any planets at their pleasure , with the giant that just happened to land on earth.
sonicrocks57 6 months ago
@sonicrocks57 so that means if they ever made a sequel it could be about the giant defending earth from others like him who didnt lose their memory
stormtrooper125 1 week ago
Can you please upload all the other deleted scenes ASAP? Thanks!
wildethang93 1 year ago
They should not have deleted this scene, it tells us more about the giant which most of us is wondering.
FireStormBaller 1 year ago 2
i think this sould have been added cause this would have made the part were the boy says "you have to be a gun " more powerful.
ultilinium8 1 year ago
@ultilinium8 Hogarth actually tells the Giant that he DOESN'T have to be a gun.
wildethang93 1 year ago
@wildethang93 when i said boy i meant Hogarth
ultilinium8 1 year ago
wow i would put that part in the movie it would give a back side the the movie to tell what the iron man was made for and the movie would be butter with it in the movie there with out it i and if you want to why wash the movie to see what the movie is a but in the first place
halobrandoncox 1 year ago
i wonder how much money it costs to build one of the giants ...
polloluis12345 1 year ago
they should have included this, adds a whole new dimension to the movie. the movie is still good tho
Skimur22 2 years ago
that would have been sooo cool if they put it in there
Gameday2159 2 years ago 4
sequel...
zimshowfan 2 years ago 4
wow that should have been in the movie! i thought it was kewl before! but if they added that scene i thing bird was right, it would have beed better :o
THEY NEED TO MAKE A SECOND MOVIE DAMNIT!!!!!! >:O
CaptainBlueMoon 2 years ago 118
I dunno about that..I mean the sequel to the book was about an iron women and wasn't anything like the first one.
I'd agree if they made a sequel to the film as a whole though
leftrightliars 1 year ago
@CaptainBlueMoon yeah because sequels to amazing movies are always as good!
2Dzz 1 year ago
@2Dzz Not necessarily. The sequels to The Brave Little Toaster were not as near good as the original and in my opinion that was also a really great classic 2D animted movie.
SilhouetteSymphonies 1 year ago
@SilhouetteSymphonies actully one sequel to the brave little toaster was awsome :)
thewewguy8t88 1 year ago
@CaptainBlueMoon
na it was good with out it.. =) it dint really fit in to it.. =P
XxANATAGASUKIxX 1 year ago
@CaptainBlueMoon
The fact that they only made one makes it all the more special.
Dimeinurear 1 year ago
@CaptainBlueMoon :
hell yeah they do.... its a shame this movie got the firefly treatment - it's one of the best
ginsengaddict 1 year ago
@CaptainBlueMoon
No, no they don't.
The entire thing would be cheapened by a sequel and I'm personally thankful it's just one film.
Apollomasque 1 year ago 4
@CaptainBlueMoon no they shouldn't, it whould probably suck, like most good movies that get a sequel, although the original novel had a sequel...
but it was all about saving the environment, wich is much less awesome then the cold war
personsom1 1 year ago
@CaptainBlueMoon There was a book called The Iron Man this movie was based on it. The aurthur (srry if i spell wrong) made another book called The Iron Woman. Maby there will be a sequel!
XxFlamexHeadxX 10 months ago
@XxFlamexHeadxX Meh, I think the the movie ended perfectly, no need for a sequel! Plus, the book was more of an inspiration for the movie, since they're really different storylines. I don't think there is even a kid that the Giant meets in the book! :D
silvermewtwo 7 months ago 4
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GuyFawkes501 7 months ago
@CaptainBlueMoon
No and no. This scene answers an unnecessary call about the giant's past life and his home planet. It's far better when the film only touches on who he is now, not where he was from. And also, there would be no way to make a sequel without destroying the original. Let's leave it in peace.
GuyFawkes501 7 months ago 3
is he
dh222able 2 years ago 4
so the giant is russian!
OMGZORS1 2 years ago
Whenever I see this clip I still think that the giant was created to be like the robot from the original The day the Earth stood still. Capable of destroying planets if they become a threat to other planets.
vjpearce 2 years ago 3
So after trying to eat the power plant, he kinda went rogue? In a good way?
I figured he must have been some sort of invader, from the end of the movie when he thinks Hogarth is Dead.
Spellcaster94 2 years ago 2
I laways thought the same thing. He's some sort of invasion machine. The fact that he was eating the power plant near the beginning of the film always gave me the impression that he was attempting to isolate the town, perhaps to clear a safe landing zone for more Giants? More probably don't show up because when he went good, he didn't transmit the "all clear signal" and whoever it is that builds the Giants thought "Oh, let's not mess around there."
So yeah, he goes rogue in a good way.
correctgrammer 2 years ago 7
I thought he only ate the power plant, because he was hungry.
1mangaguy 2 years ago 72
My impression? When he landed there was a glitch in his landing, causing the bump, and wiping a piece of memory. Like anyone who is hurt, lost, and without memory the first thing we think of is food---he eats metal--but fails to recognize it is a POWER PLANT!
Tigerman1138 2 years ago 3
Maybe if they make a second movie, they could put this scene in. I doubt it would happen but it would be nice.
vjpearce 2 years ago 2
yeah that would be pretty good but i think it would be better if they made a movie out of this and explains more about the origins of the iron giant and the purpose to destroy the earth.
godzillavskamehameha 2 years ago 2
Seems like he's a mass produced weapon to me, supposedly sent en-masse to another planet to wreak havoc on it, but was unexpectedly separated.
whop9 2 years ago 2
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
23rdcenturyboy 2 years ago 3
I don't know but supertoys last all summer long.
McSuperfly101 2 years ago 2
oh man!! that would've been totally cool!
wendlw 2 years ago
that would have made a cool scene.
comscar 2 years ago
Bah, they should of added it.
How his dream actually appears on screen is a brilliant concept, and it actually gives more of a hint of what he is and what he was created to do.
TWind 2 years ago 5
Do robots dream?
karoshimon 2 years ago
Well, in this case it's his memory. The TV's just happening to pick up on it's signal. It's like a recorded video being cuaght by the antenna of the TV, and then being played on the screen.
It can be called a 'dream' seeing as he was 'asleep' (presumably some kind of stand-by mode), and that's when it came.
Heroofcourage 2 years ago
Bitchin'. So the giants were designed to destroy worlds?
FalconKPD 2 years ago 3
Falcon, the Giants likely were created to be like, some alien version of a tank.
So likely, yes. The Giants were made to destroy worlds. I'm guessing the huge explosion that took out 3 planets (You see a second one explode as the first one is destroyed, and the blast expands, and the third would of been destroyed when it went all white.) Is combined fire, or self-destruct sequences going off at the same time.
Arbadour 2 years ago 5
Brad Bird!!! Didn't he direct The Incredibles??
PristineBattle 2 years ago 7
and Ratatouille
robcat2075 2 years ago 2
ooohhh......so he WAS meant to be some sort of weapon? But because he met Hogarth he was able to gain a sense of humanity, after all, 'He is NOT a gun'
razzamandias 2 years ago 4
I Love this Movie! XD
DaddlerTheDalek 2 years ago
this scene is Tits.
They Oughta make it for the 25th annyversary
juanmanimation 2 years ago
i wish they would of put a clip of his past that would have been pretty cool
beneatworld 2 years ago 5
i think another key reason people left it out is because this was still early in the film and they wanted the audience to feel kindly toward the giant and sympathy for him. If they were to see he was a destructive menace of genocide, they might feel differently towards him, which is why they used his weapons at the end because he had then lost all that was dear to him and you understood why he went mad.
TheGameInformer 2 years ago 4
Yep, it's really nice
Istojataachatearme 2 years ago
they should of put in the moie. it would make more sense to what the giant is.
RawrAMPLol 2 years ago
i realy hate the director it was perfect and why did he deleted the scene curesed u derector!!!!!!!
mightyhanzy 2 years ago
don't blame Brad Bird, he would have loved to put in this scene, but blame Warner Bros. they gave them a small budget for this film and fully animating scenes cost money so it's not the direcotrs fault
TheGameInformer 2 years ago 2
It's been rumored that "The Iron Giant" will have a limited theatrical release in honor of its 10th year anniversary sometime in 2009.
asaraullo05 2 years ago
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beneatworld 2 years ago
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coralin378 2 years ago
i hate dream sequences; they're the vices used for lazy writers. Good riddence I say!
Antphoneigh 2 years ago
Not all dream sequences are bad. This one was a good one.
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Snarg3000 2 years ago
...........WHY!!!........no no no no no no....That was perfect, why did they delete that scene! This would have made the film more awesome then it already is.
BGMLV 2 years ago
cuz it would've changed the ending.... when dean tells the general that he is friendly near the end wouldn't of happened...
MadDogMeh 2 years ago 2
I never did understand this dream scene, i mean trough out the movie they say that the iron giant only acts defensively. So does that mean that its real purpose was to find something and not to destroy earth?
Achilles6454 2 years ago
Well, it looked like the planet he was from was being attacked, so maybe he was built to act as a defense for that planet.
FrogandPrince 2 years ago
Or maybe it was made to destroy the planet....
TerrawindX2 2 years ago
@FrogandPrince Ah I think I would agree with you.
nicolegreen8 11 months ago
He acts defensively only after he got the bump on his head. That probably messed up some stuff in his CPU, or whatever equivalent he had. Without the bump on his head, and probably the electric shock he also received, he probably would have done this to Earth.
correctgrammer 2 years ago 5
fantastic movie. One of the most compassionate and original stories from Hollywood.
A live action would be amazing....especially since we've seen what can be done with cinematography and CG from Transformers.
An movie that was deff. understimated by the public.
SpartanDfnder 2 years ago
Idk, it would of been better :pP
MadDogMeh 2 years ago
Brad Bird. My Idol.
hall9111 2 years ago
Ah dude, that would have been awesome! They should have kept it in there!
zimchar 2 years ago
It's very interesting. Some of you say that him and the rest of his kind go to planets and destroy them while others say that that was his planet that was destroyed. What ever the reason, he could be like the leader or something because he wasn't marching and I don't think the rest were formed. Or It's possible that he is a scout who goes out looking for planets that would be good for annihilation. Whatever it is I hope they make a sequel or even a live adaption. That would be cool.
XXspiderhunter64 2 years ago