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It was on my list because of the soundtrack, so when I didn't hear the iconic track at all during the movie I looked it up.
Turns out that there is a re-scored version with a completely different soundtrack, and that was the version we got...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04p5k25
. Featuring an exclusive new soundtrack curated by Zane Lowe.
I will be watching this movie again next weekend, with the proper soundtrack
Was over someone's house and they wanted to watch a comedy. They were like, "We both like Robin Williams. This should be a funny movie.".
Jakob the Liar It was a movie set during WW2 Holocaust at a camp. Not very many laughs.....at all.
Actually, if you look at Robin Williams repertoire of films, he does a lot of very depressing movies. Like the ratio of funny movies to depressing movies is extraordinarily lopsided.
Yeah, but this was like 1999 and we didn't know the wide range of talent that the man had. I saw 1 hour photo and what dreams may come later.
The behind the scenes for 1 Hour Photo has perfectly normal Robin Williams goofing off and it's just jarring going from watching the really serious and depressing movie and just seeing him on the set goofing off and making everyone around laugh
Off the top of my head, What Dreams May Come and One Hour Photo are two wildly different types of movie, both kinda bleak in their own way, and neither what you'd turn to if you wanted a Robin Williams comedy. To some extent World's Greatest Dad as well, though that one actually is pretty funny.
It took me a good fifteen minutes to realize Grand Moff Tarkin wasn't in the Universal version of the Mummy.
wtf the music and colors and photography made that movie. a real hero is a fantastic track.
When I was a kid, I downloaded Grand Theft Auto from g'nutella (kazzah). To avoid fakes, I usually downloaded the biggest version.
Well the reason this one was bigger than the rest was because there was a video file buried somewhere in the game's directory structure. The video was Debbie Does Dallas, the next generation.
Besides that one time I pressed 'play' before 'eject' on the VCR and stumbled on my Dad's porn, that was the first time I watched porn. And I watched it a lot. It taught me that promiscuous sex in college stairwells is normal and that most college women dont wear panties under thier short skirts.
Its one of the reasons I strongly believe that we need to teach kids about consent and sexual norms at a very young age. Otherwise they learn fucked up things from pornos.
Some of the first porn I ever saw was some amateur porn sharing galleries someone linked me to on AIM. Lots of normal people having normal sex. I am somewhat thankful I was introduced to porn this way, rather than some sort of hardcore S&M shit. It was nice looking at something somewhat realistic. Like I had an idea that I would have a chance to do these things someday (spoiler: I would).
I watched the movie Hush, a horror movie about a deaf woman, on mute without knowing until after it was over. I thought it was a really creative artistic choice
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I had a similar thing happen to me with Dark City. It took me 30 minutes to realize that the contrast on my TV was turned all the way down and that in fact, you were supposed to see something that wasn't just really, really dark.
I spent longer than I care to admit waiting for David Bowie to show up in Pan's Labyrinth, does that count?
I'm waiting for David to show up in most media I watch. He tends to refuse, though.
How is no one mentioning why there are two versions of a movie only differing in soundtrack..? Seems bizarre to me
A lot of TV shows had their music replaced when they went to streaming because of song licensing crap, so it wasn't super surprising that it happened to a movie too.
NBC and owners of scrubs were the worst for it. Scrubs had an iconic soundtrack that picked songs for the exact mood of the story, but then licenses expired and they just chose cheaper songs. I don't care how much it costs, when "I will try to fix you" comes on I immediately start tearing up.
Edit: Found this - https://www.reddit.com/r/Scrubs/comments/2lmf7h/ive_made_a_list_of_dvdnetflix_song_differences/
So many in there that are obvious just cheap replacements. This one made me legit angry:
- My Ocardial Infarction (S4E13) - end scene; JD takes a deep breath as per Elliot's advice, and handles trainwreck patient very well
- DVD song: "All Kinds of Time" by Fountains of Wayne
- Netflix song: Unknown instrumental
I accidentally watched A Quiet Place with the sound off. It wasn't until the waterfall scene about 45m in that I realized something was wrong.
I watched the first half of "Nightcrawler" before I questioned why Jake Gyllenhaal didn't have a German accent and the X-Men where nowhere in sight.
I watched 90% of a movie with "narration" turned on, and thought that "this movie is really fucking annoying. Yes, I see that the actor just did that, you don't need to tell me."
I never thought it happened to anyone else! Happened to me in Montreal few years ago.
Went to the Bell centre to watch the Habs, get drunk, and then back at the hotel, Apollo 13 was on tv. Classic Tom hanks movie so I had to watch the Whole thing.
It had narration mode turned onβ¦. In French. The most confusing movie Iβve ever watched. And Iβve seen Apollo 13 a dozen times.
Watched the boys season 2?
Title
Where Kimiko meets her brother
Having a full conversation in thier language and no subtitles. "Ok. We are not meant to know they are saying because mystery/suspence". Untill they started crying. "Ok. Lets go back now..."
I acquired the new Ted Danson/Mike Schur show, A Man on the Inside a few days ago. Given that it's spy-coded I didn't think it unusual when the opening scene supposedly filmed in the early '80s was in a foreign language. Figured that maybe Danson's character is ex-KGB or some shit and that there were no subtitles because we're not really supposed to know what he's saying.
Yeah, no. I'd somehow managed to strip out all language files but Turkish when transcoding it from MKV to MP4.
I confused Arrival with Annihilation. Both are good movies but I was wondering why I didn't see any linguists
I stumbled on a Harry Potter book that was leaked early. Read the entire thing, several hundred pages.
The actual book came out and it was completely different. I had read a fan-fiction.
Could never get back into the series as I had a ton of false memories from that book.
Crash. In high school my buddy brought out all the weird horror and b-movies he could find, including crash, a movie about people who get busy after dangerous or injurious automobile incidents. Cut to a few years later, when my friend's parents are telling me a how they thought crash was so powerful and everyone should see it, and how it was nominated for a bunch of oscars, I was completely perplexed.
Crash is a 1996 Canadian erotic thriller film[5] written, produced and directed by David Cronenberg, based on J. G. Ballard's 1973 novel of the same name. Starring James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Elias Koteas, Holly Hunter and Rosanna Arquette, it follows a film producer who, after surviving a car crash, becomes involved with a group of symphorophiliacs who are aroused by car crashes and tries to rekindle his sexual relationship with his wife.
A group of strangers in Los Angeles grapple with issues of race, class, family and gender in the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks in New York.
The fact that caught ny eye is that the 1996 movie gas the score by Howard Shore.
That's what caught your eye? Not that it's a 1996 film that happen to reference the "September 11 terror attacks in New York."
I think the seperate paragraphs are meant to refer to the two moves of the name respectively.
That, or Cronenberg did 9/11.
Yup, I hoped it would be obvious. Alas
I watched District 9 without subtitles.
Any necessary subs should be hard coded.
Well, it's better to have them decoupled. For example, let's say you're trying to watch The Godfather in French, you wouldn't want the scenes in Italy to have hardcoded English subs.
I did the same with The Wolverine. I thought the non-subtitled Japanese parts were an impressive artistic choice. I didn't need to know what they were saying thanks to tge acting and other context clues.
It wasn't until a couple of lengthy flashbacks that I started to suspect something wasn't right.
Me and my friend watched the same movie remotely. They were watching "into the wild", I was watching "No county for old men". I understood I was on the wrong one when they commented about the great soundtrack, since the second one has no music ;D definitely after thee first quarter, probably after half. By chance they were talking about the van in the scene where there's a van smuggling drugs so I did not notice
There's also the Nicolas Cage classic The Wicker Man. A version exists without his "Not the bees!" scene and let me tell you, that's a disappointment.
I am not sure if this counts but my mom put on Alien for me on Hulu, and it had some weird cuts in it. Turns out I had Hulu w/ Live TV so it was probably a cable edit of the film.
I ended up giving it an 8/10 but I bet I would have rated it higher if the cuts weren't so strange. I'll need to buy it on 4K and watch it properly at some point.
I watched an hour of the fake interviews on the Blair witch project when it first came out thinking that was the movie, was not impressed
I watched full metal jacket waiting to see the boats and the crazy dude by the cave . Tunes out that was apocalipae now..
Listening to the real soundtrack now, I'm so disappointed that my first watch was with... that version
Ah, the joy of sitting through about 45 minutes of 28 Days, before realising I'd downloaded the wrong movie when the zombies failed to show up.