Same. There’s oodles of content that this film generated that would be perfect for special features. I just hope the DVD crowd gets a fair taste of all that… Though I am prepared to buy the BluRay, seeing as I got the 35th anniversary special edition.
In the same interview it’s also revealed Gozer’s eyes were red originally but changed to black in post-production.
Yeah, that’s my thinking, too. Maybe make a section in the original post for things like that. Even though they’re not true alternates, I think it’s worth noting anyway.
I had not noticed that. Good catch, Alex. Just for reference, I found that shot in the crappy bootleg (at the 31:05 mark) and matched it to the shot in Trailer #2. Although the bootleg is extremely poor quality, so it was hard to ensure an exact frame match, I used the position of her hair against the radiator in the background and her back against the books to line it all up. I also cropped the top and bottom of the trailer image to better match the bootleg, which has some of the movie image cropped at the top and bottom.
Started one after my previous reply. 
Another thing to add to the “altered to avoid spoilers” section, if it’s not already there: There was no Muncher on the fire hydrant in the first trailer, and then in the later trailers, there he was.
This one needs to be researched a little more because there’s a lot of footage of videos playing on laptops in the movie. In the first trailer, we see the thumbnails on the right side of other videos, although they are blurred because they didn’t pay to use them outside of the movie. The thumbnails are, from top to bottom: (1) GB1 matte painting shot of the Shandor Building with an arrow pointing to the people in the lower right side, (2) Casual shot of Bill and Dan outside the firehouse, (3) Ray Parker Jr. music video. I don’t think the Ray Parker Jr. thumbnail was actually in any of the laptop shots of the movie.
OMG! I’d love to see that scene!!
And that easter egg…sneaky sneaky!!
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I suspected as much. It’s a shame, because including tat scene would have made the popcorn bowl gag land. But it must have slowed the pace of the film down too much. It would have also needed a “hey, where do these stairs go” moment for Phoebe to leave the lab and emerge in the corn.
Venkman’s cards!!! 
I just remembered another easter egg from a different deleted scene, on Adam Savage’s tour video you could see the big glass full of popcorn kernels that Louis smelled in the first movie, it was next to an old Cheez-Its box. That’s probably where Phoebe got the popcorn from.
Given that the scene with podcast was the first time she fired it how would it make sense she had this popcorn scene as well?
Because the Podcast scene was the second time. Hence how she knew how to do it. She even says her grandpa showed her how yesterday.
In that scene she already knew how to use it and said that Egon teached her, maybe that’s what happened in this scene.
Ah thanks I must have missed some of that dialogue.
It does seem redundant to have them show the off the proton pack twice so I can see the justification of the cut. Although it would have made the popcorn scene so much better.
Alex
This may be a bit off-topic but I just noticed that the filter they used in the movie makes it look more like GB1, the first thing that comes to my mind whenever I think of GB1 and GB2 are the color schemes, the daylight scenes in GB1 look kinda yellow it kinda looks like when the day is cloudy and the clouds look shiny because of the sunlight but on GB2 it looks kinda looks red, it’s not just because of the scenes with Mood Slime like the museum or the Pneumatic Transit System scenes, everything is just darker. I’ve seen it on other movies they just look darker and everything has a red tone. The Muncher scene from the trailer kinda looks a bit red like GB2 but on the actual movie it looks yellow like GB1.
Prior to the movie opening, I had been working on a best-guess linear version of the trailer clips. I had the trap and PKE discoveries in the wrong order because they’d erased that little detail. When I saw it in the theater for the first time, I thought, “Oh, very tricky.”
So everytime anyone has complained that the trailers gave away too much, I’ve assured them that they actually employed a few methods to keep us guessing, such as alternate takes and spliced audio from different scenes.
And that reminds me of another thing I noticed back when editing those together.
There are two versions of the shot when Phoebe slides the last floor tile, to see the trap.
In trailer 1, she opens it left-handed. In trailer 2, she opens it right-handed.
This is an older video I made and sent to friends on Facebook at the time. I think the third trailer to depict this shot went back to the trailer 1 version.
Alex
I kept an eye out during Callie and Gary’s date scene and the small snippet of it during the Muncher chase, and I spotted someone stood seemingly shock-still just out of frame holding some plates that are just visible in-frame.
That seems to be where the slimed waitress would’ve shown up in the film, but was likely cut because it slowed down the chase sequence.
An interesting thing movie companies should do in the future is put a lot of extraneous scenes in trailers and tv spots so those of who see them a few times already know the information going in, and while we won’t see them in the movie we will already have them in the back of our mind. Or even make a 20 minute special with background scenes. I like that stuff.
It’s a little frustrating when we see proper segments of scenes that’re in the trailer but end up on the cutting room floor in the final theatrical cut… It shouldn’t be necessary or common practice to use the trailer to plug whatever gaps might arise in the final edit of the film.
The point of the trailer is to tease people, and to raise their interest in the movie.
Save the unused scenes for the home release special features.
Could be way worse. Like knowing about 15-45 minutes of edited footage or 15+ cut scenes (not alternate takes) that were shown in trailers, photos, BTS videos and the shooting script but were never released on any kind of medium…in almost 10 years. That’s frustrating.
Seems to be an emerging pattern with Jason Reitman. Arjen Tuiten mentioned in his interview with the Interdimensional Crossrip podcast that the Miner Ghost was originally going to use his left hand for the cup but on the morning of, Jason decided to go with the right hand instead.