10 Movies Weirdly Changed (Nobody Knows Why)

When films gets changed for no clear reason.
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[@sharkgurl13]

I literally just watched today.....the first Terminator movie! DAMN GOOD FILM!

[@schmeedpeterson9627]

For this reason alone I like to collect dvd copies from when they release rather than being at the streaming platforms' mercy with their subsequent changes that may affect the whole feel of the story depicted.

[@TheBourn1ad]

The ET change of guns to walkie talkies was really weird.

[@ragabashmoon1551]

Oh yea, fans to this day mostly hate that change.

[@marccadec6978]

The original is available

[@nickbrutanna9973]

Beat me to it. Only justification is that Speilberg's insanely ridiculous hatred of guns is "Fans know why". He's played fast and loose with things he did not like in historical dramas, too -- the most obvious being at the end of Schindler's List, where you see Schindler's Jews casually waiting for soldiers. In *reality*, Schindler armed his Jews, so they could resist any depredations that came, such as a platoon of SS troopers. But... guns. So... ***_No! No! No! No!_* The other case is Amistad (no, no guns here)... the end has his protagonist, Cinqué, going back to Africa. In reality, there is strong evidence that he actually moved to the West Indies and became involved in the slave trade himself. But that doesn't fit the narrative of "blacks were only the victims of slavery, never participating in it" -- even though the first chain in almost all transitions to slavery usually derived from fights between black tribes and the captured, losing tribe becoming slaves of the winners -- and, once the transAtlantic slave trade opened up, had them being sold into slavery in the Americas -- _by their black captors/owners..._

[@griffith211]

Spielberg later came back and said “yeah that was dumb” and changed it back

[@CosmicGoku529]

Not as weird as Yugioh changing them to just pointing fingers at people.

[@marajackson9026]

The first of the Brendan Fraser/Jon Hannah movies. When released in cinemas and the first DVD release had “three months later” between O’Connell’s initial escape from Humanaptra and Evie’s introduction. Its now “three years later” which means certain lines no longer make sense, including the line about Beni not having kids, Alex’s age in the second film and the trio of minor bad guys saying that it was 10 years ago that the original film took place

[@sneakykamon]

THAT explains why I could never go back and rewatch any of The Matrix movies. The green color grade always felt overwhelming for some reason and I never understood why it affected me so much.

[@ThornOfSociety]

I remember when the second and third Pirates Of The Carribean films went more green almost as if to copy the Matrix sequels and it threw me off as the first film had a more golden tone to it so made it feel like a separate film. My original thought was there were more scenes at sea so they were reflecting that but I am unsure.

[@jayluck8047]

The Fifth Element When Corbin is being recruited for his mission to save the universe, his “Wife” is presented to him. He exclaims, “I’m not going.”, but the original line (now only found on VHS) was, “I’m not going with that.”, after assessing his partner’s appearance.

[@TOOTIREDTOARGUE]

I had to check my vhs against my bluray version. it is as you say. can't believe I missed that

[@jayluck8047]

@@TOOTIREDTOARGUE - It’s comforting to know that I’m not imagining things. Better yet, it’s comforting to know that there’s a functional VCR, with a viable tape still out there.

[@TOOTIREDTOARGUE]

@@jayluck8047 the tape is worn out badly but one can still watch it with all the static interference. if one felt nostalgic. personally still surprised my Samsung CXJ1352 13" TV/VCR combo unit still works

[@nerdocrat]

Thanks! I thought I imagined it.

[@TotalDec]

Nice hat

[@abeston8025]

The worst edit I’ve ever seen was an airline version of “Almost Famous”. They cut the entire ‘turbulence freak-out’ scene (for obvious reasons) from the movie. They just showed them getting on the plane being all happy then cut to them walking off the plane all quiet and upset. The problem was that scene in particular was pivotal for a number of characters and left a gaping hole in the movie.

[@enoraskye6020]

As they said, sometimes home release is the made from TV or in flight movie version. That sounds like it may have been an in flight version, since airlines typically have scenes depicting any kind of flight issue removed. That being said, I was on a flight back from Japan, and the in flight movie was an uncut version on Cast Away. XD

[@sLiCkSoSiCk]

@abeston8025 Plus it's like one of the best scenes in the whole movie, if not numero uno

[@luisrizo8813]

Save the tapes.

[@mikeadams8027]

I have "bootleg" versions of the original Star Wars. I think it is from a laserdisc release. Han shot first.

[@manuelcarlino]

Gremlins. I remember watching it on VHS in 1989 and there were lots of scenes were the inventor father is at the convention. Never saw them again

[@Jalbesbe]

I still have it in my copy luckily, and yes there are 4 scenes where it randomly cuts to him, mostly phone calls

[@SingularityOrbit]

A lot of the background details of those bits still aren't in the public domain. It's likely that they bought rights to show things from 1950s sci-fi films, but didn't include having the rights for those elements on TV. Yeah, I remember watching _Gremlins_ on TV years ago and, upon finishing, realizing that Robbie the Robot wasn't in there anymore.

[@manuelcarlino]

@@Jalbesbe I remember those and never saw them again.

[@waxmandr]

The Director's Cut of Heat. As far as I'm aware, it's identical to the theatrical version apart from the small Al Pacino line "ferocious, aren't I?" I have absolutely no clue why this was left out by Michael Mann.

[@jjfloris4883]

I always love Whatculture's "Tell, don't show" approach...

[@Jalbesbe]

In this video it is shown multiple times with different movies. Only the things you could see. Not the things you'd have to hear.

[@skipper4126]

lol led zepplin wanting royalties for a song they ripped off is just hilarious.

[@BeardOfRiker]

I only saw The Notebook on Netflix and didn’t know about this change to the ending until right now. 🤯

[@klmaracle3062]

It's an older movie, but Erik the Viking had a number of trims in the DVD that were noticeable, and not in a good way.

[@joshuachassereau9560]

Wasn’t it mentioned shortly after initial release that Spiderverse was intentionally changed many times to emphasize the multiverse and mixed timelines?

[@ProfDanielVargas]

I don't think so

[@WinchesterxNL]

Yes it was. There were multiple versions in theatres too

[@niagargoyle]

I distinctly remember there being at least two theatrical versions. I don't remember the official explanation, but it had something to do with multiverse shenanigans.

[@WinchesterxNL]

@@niagargoyle The official explanation was pretty much "Because multiverse shenanigans." lol

[@AzraelThanatos]

@@WinchesterxNL Yep, they tried to pull a Clue

[@ryanworkman3032]

You can do awhile whole episode just on trailer shots not in the finale movie.

[@Shorty_Lickens]

That No Stairway To Heaven gag wasnt made up. A producer actually saw a sign like that in a real guitar store once. The employees and owner were sick of hearing it all the time, so they banned it.

[@dhenderson1810]

Now everyone just plays "Smoke On The Water" instead.

[@Komicklepto]

@@dhenderson1810 or Seven Nation Army

[@Brasc]

"Anyway, here's Wonderwall."

[@sonicpsycho13]

I just play the A-minor pentatonic scale.

[@Shorty_Lickens]

@@sonicpsycho13 Thats the least likely to anger the music store employees.

[@Daigohji99]

Shin Godzilla. There are only two shots changed between the cinema and home versions: one close-up of Godzilla's head is changed to a different angle, and a shot of CG helicopters has heat haze added. Depending on which region of home release you buy, you can end up with either version.

[@nak3dxsnake]

I think I remember hearing the MIB version that was like that once and thinking I had a mini stroke.

[@RH1812]

The removal of Loki’s spear point when he kills whatshisface in The Avengers.

[@joels5150]

Phil Coulson or Agent Coulson, if you prefer.

[@RH1812]

@@joels5150yeah. Him 👍

[@lasarith2]

They removed it and added in the Swarma scene at the end .

[@ThornOfSociety]

@@lasarith2 The Shawarma scene was in cinemas releases though.

[@lasarith2]

@@ThornOfSociety it wasn’t in the initial release, I saw it on day one and it wasn’t in the movie , they added it to the home release ( idk if they added it to later cinema showings)

[@ragabashmoon1551]

While I myself do not remember what they were so many years later, my cousin always insisted that the Buffy the Vampire movie had some insults changed. Apparently she and her friends loved the insults and were saying them to each other all the time when the movie came out, so much that she definitely noticed their removal in the home video release.

[@eddycruz2071]

The green color shift in The Matrix was approved by the Wachowskis. It's noted in a letter to the fanbase in the supplement features on the 2nd bluray release. And yes, it was done to match up with the 2nd and 3rd movies.

[@jjaaamm]

I'm making a rule for these types of videos, you are not allowed to put in stuff like the changed gunshot sounds in Terminator unless you go to the effort of getting both examples to play in the video, smileyface

[@anothergamingchannel2656]

I concur. Start a petition and tell me where to sign sir

[@frankrevelation293]

The change with the ending in The Notebook is more to the actual ending in the book. Ellie and Duke doesn't die in the book ending. Nicholas Sparks wrote a sequel to The Notebook called The Wedding. In the sequel, a few years later, Duke is still alive and living in the nursing home. He does attend the wedding of his Granddaughter.

[@montywh]

i just had a conversation like this a couple nights ago. the Director's Cut version of Spawn cuts out a few seconds of one scene that also removes context of what's happening. towards the film's climax, Cyan (the young girl) was watching a shadow moving along the walls and ceiling as it got close to the fireplace, before screaming out for her dad's safety. in the DC, they removed her observation entirely, and gave the impression she just screams out of nowhere before the demon pops out of the fireplace

[@YoDronez]

I haven’t finished the video yet, but I’m sure Greedo shooting at Han first is on this list. If it isn’t, it should be, because what is that edit? 😂

[@LS-wc6mr]

We know why that one was done, though. It was supposed to portray Han shooting in self-defense rather than murdering Greedo.

[@zyourzgrandzmaz]

The remastered star wars are a sin against cinema. And by now they have aged like a bucket of ice cream left on the counter. The CGI is so terrible the Disney versions available are unwatchable.

[@canuckaccountability785]

You should take up the movie 2 minute warning(1976)...... There is a dramatic difference between the original movie and when it was "edited" for television...... Let me change dramatic to movie changing.. it went from an unseen sniper at the super bowl to a jewel heist on the television release

[@purejank5066]

They changed the coffee can holding Donny's ashes from Chock Full of Nuts to Folgers in the Big Lebowski.

[@SimplyJohann]

I recently watched The Name of The Rose on a streaming service and the sex scene is no longer there. they discuss it afterwards which is awkward considering it doesn’t happen now.

[@Vim-Wolf]

If you want to do another one of these, start with what the mouse did to Pixar’s ‘Knick Knack’ short.

[@beesleep23]

i always liked the original desaturated + Eurythmics version of 1984 (that i guess the director hated as done against wishes)... so was pretty surprised with my DVD copy that had neither of those things! i had also always watched the American dub of original Mad Max when i was a kid so was also pretty surprised by the quite different original Australian version on my DVD.

[@dinomonzon7493]

There was a shot from a trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming where Spider-Man & Iron Man are seen swinging and flying together, presumably either to deal with crooks, or perhaps as a teaser end shot; it wasn't seen in the actual film.

[@johnbogg7395]

It’s not a home video edit, but the cable version of Sudden Impact removes a murder that was shown in the thesaterical. It was restored for video though.

[@trinaq]

It's harder to watch "The Notebook" nowadays, knowing that Gena Rowlands is suffering from Alzeimher's in real life.

[@akaidatenshi]

😭😭😭

[@ToucanSonofSam333]

That would make it even funnier in my opinion

[@carastone3473]

@@ToucanSonofSam333guess you’ve never watched a loved one’s personality slowly disappear as the disease slowly takes over. It’s incredibly sad and painful.

[@ProfDanielVargas]

​@@ToucanSonofSam333 No matter how you intended it, that's a terrible, insensitive and hurtful comment to make.

[@sharkgurl13]

How did you not know that?

[@alimfuzzy]

Depending on what version of gremlins 2 you have, hulk hogan makes an appearane and theres a looney tunes cartoon clip.

[@enoraskye6020]

What's funny about the Splash edit is, they left in the brief nipple flashes when Madison was looking at maps in the sunken ship. On a side note, I don't understand why, in Inside Out, when Riley's mom calls her, in the theatre, I clrealy recall seeing the mom's picture on the phone, along with "Mom". But, in the home release, the picture is gone and just "Mom" remains.

[@graveprophet]

Strangest change for me was the original Paranormal activity. In Theatre it had a scarier ending as default and it had some extra lines. Then home release they are cut I don't know why.

[@noman6041]

But..what about the OTHER butt scene in 'Splash!' where she climbs over the railing onto Liberty island? I've never heard anything about THAT scene being altered, and it DOES show her full behind, without hair. People always talk about the beach scene, but the other scene is never mentioned.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Good thing too or Disney would change that as well.

[@Zed-fq3lj]

1984 coming to your lives (those who rely on streaming)

[@SteveBrandon]

What about replacing the Pointer Sister's "I'm So Excited" with June Pointer's "Little Boy Sweet" during the scenes when Christine Brinkley is driving the Ferrari 308 GTS in National Lampoon's Vacation? The official explanation is something like "Little Boy Sweet" was on the Vacation soundtrack album but it wasn't in the initial theatrical release so Warner shipped out a second set of prints with "Little Boy Sweet" while Vacation was still being shown on the big screen in 1983 (this was back when successful movies still played on screens for months on end). The interesting thing is, on DVD, the audio tracks for French and Spanish still have "I'm So Excited" playing during the Ferrari scenes. I like both songs but I think "I'm So Excited" works better in the context of the scenes.

[@kevinsims3936]

I remember Valdez is Coming's ending was changed, but I can't remember the original, but the worst offender is the TV version of Brazil, where the ending was completely changed and all the scenes with Jonathan Pryce wearing wings and fighting different creatures was removed

[@Boco_Corwin]

9:40 "Disney Is Scared of Butts" ? Have you SEEN The Incredibles?

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Not the animated kind, though just the real ones.

[@PsychoPlissken]

5:49: Funny enough there's an obscure channel called "zhiying Di" who roughly 6 years ago did shot for shot comparisons between trailers and official releases including shots that only the trailers included.

[@CornellCrits]

Also in Men in Black they edited the line where the alien regrows his head from "You insensitive prick" to "You insensitive jerk."

[@Thurgosh_OG]

My DVD (UK version) still has the 'prick' line but them we use 'prick' as a minor swear word anyway.

[@DRCEQ]

Across The Spiderverse apparently had some stealth changes added into the theater release a couple days after it came out as well. I watched it on opening day, and then again with my dad a couple weeks later and there were some minor dialogue and visual changes. Nothing that broke the experience, but still enough to catch the attention of Reddit.

[@kaseyboles30]

That credit change after the guy died is at best tacky and downright disrespectful and unseemly without extraordinary reasons.

[@daveherz998]

My friend bought a digital copy of The Wicker Man explicitly for the "bees" scene at the end. There was no bees scene, and we were furious. Why cut the only memorable part of the movie?

[@brunozeigerts6379]

Way back in the late '70's, the Battlestar Galactica movie was released theatrically before the show debuted on TV. There were numerous changes. Baltar is executed(though the Bluray DVD shows that as well). The scene of Starbuck and Cassiopeia in the launch tube was more... graphic. All you saw was Starbuck's naked back... and when he sat up screaming... he was topless.(the rest covered by equipment.) Imperious Leader is informed that the survivors are rendezvousing with a warship, he's informed that it's 'A battlestar.' Which makes his order to find the 'Battlestar Galactica' inexplicable. Also, there were numerous aliens in the casino, not human staff.

[@BornNameless19]

A good one is the entire score changing in the movie legend.

[@nimrodery]

That's Ridley Scott making that decision (probably) but I recall Edgar Froese was not too proud of some of the soundtracks produced by Tangerine dream, this could have been one (not that the music was bad but the efforts seemed commercially driven). The Jon Anderson collab was already gone in a previous release IIRC.

[@alexstockwell4349]

Rankin Bass' The Hobbit(1977): All the iconic sound effects were changed to much more generic ones.

[@TheMarshallLaw]

The Spider-Man changes were actually in theaters as well. There was an unfinished version release for opening weekend and some Cinemas got that version. So technically the streaming version is correct

[@Sisren86]

The Men In Black one could just be some sort of audio error during the making of whatever copy was used for streaming. A similar thing happened in the Spongebob episode 'Sonethibg Smells'. On the dvd, Spongebob says the line 'I just don't get it' back to back because of an audio error.

[@ShinySephiroth1]

Spiderverse streaming/home version is an amalgamation of all of the different versions that were shown in theaters. It was covered extensively in the media when the movie was in theaters, so you should be able to read on it to learn more.

[@xwingx1gt]

Spaceballs having Van Halen's Good Enough removed from the Diner scene

[@Ben-Hollingbery]

Great list

[@themah78]

Bruce Almighty When Bruce has his meltdown on the boat he flips off the camera, but for the home release, it's just his fist.

[@cambellfan22]

this one is obscure but a 95 direct to video crime movie called the immortals had its music score changed

[@eddmario]

The Stairway joke in Wayne's World was actually left intact for the tv edit.

[@mayetchells8884]

In the movie Michael with John Travolta, some of the funniest, loveliest jokes in the scenes with the elderly lady were gone, I waited for them in the second watch and they were gone

[@NatureOkie]

Murder by Ordeal (An Agatha Christie mystery) with Donald Southerland. Released theatrically and on Laservideo with a DAVE BRUBECK soundtrack. The official soundtrack LP was released with the rejected Soundtrack😮

[@Jalbesbe]

The Martian is a big example of changes. The original Theatrical version had a lot more scenes of Mark Watney on Mars, and a bunch more jokes. These scenes were great. The home version thou is the Chinese cut, which takes out almost all of these scenes and replaces them with random cuts to China with a whole other plot of China talking about trying to save the day. With time it is becoming harder to find the original theatrical version online anymore, but you can still find it. Why this change was done is extremely strange. The feels of both cuts are so different from one another. An example of a show doing this is Stranger Things. There are many sites that have a side by side comparison of the original first two seasons and they cut many things and change other things.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

I have the UK version on DVD and there's no China clips in it.

[@Moochtv]

The best joke in Naked Gun 21/2is sadly cut short in every home media version since it's 1991 release. When Robert Ghual is pushed off a building towards end of the film, he falls screaming which switches to him singing 'On a clear day' before hitting the ground and being mauled by a lion.

[@lillordakira9752]

The Iron Giant Signature Edition removed the maypo cereal commercial for a tomorrowland ad.

[@TheGeekViper]

Born In East LA: I KNOW I've seen a version where the movie ends with the Cheech Marin character getting back to his church and his cousin runs his wallet over to him high in the air. But the DVD just has them appear out of the sewer in the middle of the parade and credits roll.

[@jeremylacuna4824]

I never see it appear on lists like this one... but i swear i remember going to the theater to watch the original Anchorman, and in the scene they are discussing the big alley fight that had just happened, Steve Carrell's character said, "I ate a big red candle." When i watched it a year later on dvd i was confused about why they took that particular line out of the movie.

[@audrablue515]

I remember that line. It cracked me up because it was just more nonsense from Brick that he thought was hardcore 😂😂😂

[@adhitya2505]

But "Sorry, man. I'm going home." was literally the most badass line the whole movie!!!

[@peterhudson23]

The one I find most annoying (other than Star Wars) is the gunshots in Scarface. On my 20 year anniversary DVD it has presumably the original gunfire sounds, which were like explosions, but since then I've seen versions more recent than that differentiate the sounds of different guns and it just doesn't sound nearly as impactful

[@Kno_Buddy]

Edited for tv versions usually have changes not because something was found offensive, but because of weird stricter tv rules or just pacing issues to fit better in their scheduled programming.

[@WinchesterxNL]

There were multiple versions of Across the Spiderverse in cinemas as well. (I believe it were up to 6 different cuts?) With several little changes made in scenes. This was intentional, according to their creators.

[@ThornOfSociety]

I wouldn't say the Netflix version of The Notebook doesn't kill them off so much as it changes it to an implication that they passed rather than show you, still an odd change though. Funnily enough I did some work experience in a music store when I was in high school and the manager(not owner) was serious about Stairway To Heaven and Smoke On The Water being banned, couldn't play it on the stereo or any of the instruments without him getting aggro about it. Never did find out why.

[@rowdyruffmojo]

i always noticed the changed of the gun sounds in Terminator!! It weirded me out!!

[@cpljimmyneutron]

The movie Failure to Launch had an fairly long scene where the main characters are playing a card game... the game is "Bull Sh*t"... in the tv version the entire scene is hilariously overdubbed with the word Spit. Although most changes I notice are either to remove something that shouldn't have been there, or to just fix a problem. Examples... In Ant-Man when Scott is fighting Falcon, Falcon is actively talking into a radio, and no one responds to him, ever... in the theatric version. There was dialogue added later to have someone respond. And notably to me, I was a very young kid when Jurassic Park came out, and there is a mistake in the scene with the T-Rex and the Jeeps, while flailing about it the mud some accidental contact happens, and this is visible in the Theatric and VHS versions, but was removed for all Digital versions.

[@hammond8692]

I watched my VHS of The Terminator many, many times before it was released on DVD, the shotgun on the DVD release sounded so bad in comparison & it was always so noticeable to my ears after years of hearing the original effects

[@BugsyHoLLiday]

Chris Tucker was singing a Michael Jackson song on the movie Money talks. When the move came to DVD it only had Chris doing some sound alike doo wop, he didn't sing any words.

[@PetProjects2011]

"Disney's scared of butts". They also did that on The Little mermaid (1989). For the blu ray release, during Ariel's transformation, they darkened the shots so Ariel's butt can't be seen. Her butt is literally only seen for two frames.

[@gunslinger2566]

Major League had a great joke removed. When Charlie, Tom and Wesley were at the fancy dinner after losing, Tom is trying to console Charlie. Tom - That ball wouldn't have been out in a lot of parks. Charlie - Name one. Tom - Yellowstone.

[@alanbarker0901]

Does anyone remember Jamie Lee Curtis saying "I'll be back" in Trues Lies with Arnie say " Hey, that's my line!"... I've never heard that said in the movie since I saw it at the cinema. Please tell me I'm not going mental!

[@Jeremiah12thLvlGeek]

I would have been quite upset if I had seen the altered version of Tar Man in Return of the Living Dead, so I'm thankful it's already fixed!

[@maddalonefarms]

4:58 That’s the sequels dvd cover

[@djyanno]

The first time I notcied something like that was for the VHS of the movie Slapshot. Its soundtrack was cheap sounding and very distinctive. Then on the DVD I got to listen to the original soundtracks with more popular sound including a song by Elton John. I always preferred the cheap one as it fits the atmosphere of the movie so much better.

[@captainchaos6628]

For me one of the BIGGEST changes to a movie that is very disappointing is Knocking on Heavens Door playing at the end of Lethal Weapon 2. Most people look at me like I'm crazy when i mention it, but it DID happen. It's even on the soundtrack. Yet, the blu-rays i have of the movie have a completely different song for the ending scene. If you look it up on Google, it says "Cheer Down" is the final song. But other articles say Knocking was the final song. It's strange it was changed because it matched that scene so perfectly.

[@b1oh1]

The Spiderverse changes were because there were a bunch of different release versions across the world, even in the US. This was intentionally done for easter eggs as well as colloquial dialogue.

[@free2befree]

These are just future Mandala effects. Or maybe I have 3 versions on Miami Vice on dvd. Or both are true!

[@JuliePGUK]

They also changed the music in Return of the living part 2 in the dvd release

[@StoffelDilligas]

The demolition man, taco bell is what I had on UK vhs, other times I've seen it, burger king

[@enoraskye6020]

Another one is the original Pete's Dragon has the musical number "In These Hills" removed from the Amazon digital release version.

[@UsagiOhkami]

Really? So it just skips that whole bit of them looking for Pete or something? My digital copy on Fandango/Vudu still has In These Hills.

[@Giambijuice]

Event Horizon. I saw this in theaters when it first came out. What I saw was gory and horrifying, much like the Hellraiser movies. Years later I rented it, and man did they butcher it. I've read that about a half an hour was cut from the original release. Why? The version that's out now stinks compared to the first cut I saw years ago

[@369frequencyandvibration]

Good to know. I heard great things but thought it was dull when I saw it.

[@Giambijuice]

@@369frequencyandvibration From what I've read there's been a demand for a director's cut to be released, but the director said it couldn't be because most of the extra footage is now gone. It's too bad because the film that exists now is definately dull

[@ericthompson3982]

Spiderverse was actually advertised to have several different versions in different playings across different theaters. It was part of the marketing.

[@korymulanax3362]

Lmfao. You think they really do research for these videos? A lot of these changes are well explained and noted for years now.

[@ShinySephiroth1]

I wonder if the MiB freeze change was a misfire in judgment, with someone behind the scenes reaching and thinking "freeze" is connected to police brutality

[@NicoleAlexander-r8e]

If anyone has seen the original final Walker, Texas Ranger film, Trial By Fire you see they inexplicably kill Alex Cahill. Later the whole scene is cut, leaving a huge plot point dangling.

[@DragonTamer-se3oo]

Movies that were changed post theater release. The Godfather and the Godfather part 2 were edited to become the Godfather Saga Part 1 and Part 2. Francis Ford Copla had to take Paramont to court to get a judge to say they couldn't edit it without his permission. Thankfully the blu-ray release is "restored" to the original. Lord of the Rings : Fellowship of the Ring, edit because a car got into frame. Lilo and Stich. Original version showed Lilo hiding in a dryer. The Blu-ray release makes it a dresser and a pizza box. Which raises the question, why make it a dryer in the first place.

[@marklarner4495]

In the movie Chicago they removed the bird flying away after a woman is hanged. I assume there were other changes because I believe it went from R rated on the theatrical release to PG-13 when it went to disk. Awesome movie that got a bit sanitized.

[@CiderMorphine-xv3gf]

Dark Knight Rises. Banes speech was changed for the home release.

[@anothergamingchannel2656]

I have a list: 1 video that doesn't show or let you hear the changes made in movies while making a list of changes in movies. It's a short list obviously.

[@karatefella]

I have got a VHS copy of the Steve Martin film "The Jerk" (1979) There is a scene where Navin Johnson (Steve Martin) is listening to the radio. There is an instrumental record playing. This is a COMPLETELY different tune to the one which is now in the film. I would love to know the title of this original tune because I thought it was very good (better than the replacement) I can't play the tape as I don't have a VHS machine !

[@Xanman64-p6q]

Weirder is a change in the original theatrical release. When Aliens came out it had several scenes that disappeared a few days after the first release. I saw it on the first day, then took friends back a few days later and they were gone. Two of them were the autocannons (both talking about them and when they fired at the aliens), as well as at the end when Ripley and Hicks exchanged first names (Ellen and Dwayne). Now I understand cutting the cannons for time maybe, but the name scene was about 10 seconds long. For years until the extended cuts came out people would tell me I was nuts for calling her Ellen.

[@alimfuzzy]

I'm pretty sure that was the difference between the theatrical and directors cut.

[@Xanman64-p6q]

@@alimfuzzy The director's cut added those scenes back plus a good bit more, like Ripley finding out her daughter's fate and the whole sequence about Newt's family. Those were not in the original release but the other two were and disappeared just a few days in.

[@inkedthoughts7020]

The film Convoy had a few minutes cut for the Studiocanal dvd release I assume to give the disc a lower rating. To sell more discs in the family friendly market. I think the VHS had a 17 rating but the DVD was pg i think. I noticed first time watching the. DVD that during the interview the Big Nasty flashing his butt at the reporter was gone. So i looked at details and the original theatrical release was a few minutes longer. Not sure what else was trimmed

[@JRPoole57]

The "F" bomb in Galaxy Quest removed

[@zyourzgrandzmaz]

The die hard 2 scene where he's on the street wearing a sign is very noticeable different from the theatrical version on all platforms. I dont think the original is even available anymore. Not that its a bad change but yeah its one everyone will notice.

[@lucentblood]

That was the start of Die Hard with a Vengeance ....technically number 3 in the series.

[@psfilmsbob]

The sign from the theatrical version is the sign that you get on home media versions. So...huh?

[@AngryKittens]

**birds flying over the lake**