Alternate Versions of Movies for TV that You Remember

[bwayne64]

Oh I totally forgot about the censored version of Snakes on a plane. Everytime Sam Jackson would use the words MF, they replaced it with something hysterical. Example, " I want my mutual funding money, you monkey feeler". And one with " melon farmer " There were several more, but can't remember them, unfortunately. Wish I could find clips of that somewhere. I was rolling, quite literally, with those redubs. Too funny !


P.S. Did find this one, not the funniest but good.

 

[sbaxter]

I originally saw the Steve Martin film The Jerk on network TV. In that version, he names the dog "Stupid." I still think the joke is actually funnier that way. The initial line "What are you, stupid or something?" seems more natural.

Also, the network TV version of Back to the Future replaces Marty's use of "***** ******" as an exclamation with "Jeez Louise" (I think it was actually an alternate take made at the time for that purpose). I still use "Jeez Louise" to this day.

SSB

 

[BossThreads]

I grew up watching the version of Superman II that my parents recorded off of TV. When I finally saw the theatrical cut it was off-putting. So much more fun Lex/Otis banter that didn't even make it into the Donner Cut.

 

[Treadwell]

Here's some blasphemy: A few of the dialogue cuts, and the removal of fart noises, actually work better in the TV cut of Blazing Saddles.
(A FEW, that is )

 

[NakedMoleRat]

The Wrath of Kahn.

Scotty carrying his dead nephew on to the bridge.

The Undiscovered country

They pull the mask off of the fake Klingon to reveal Odo underneath as a set up.

It was fight after he falls and they say, This isn’t Klingon blood.

 

[dbuck]

I remember the robbery sequence in The Enforcer with Clint Eastwood having alternate cuts/angles. I had a vhs I taped from ABC back in the day and when the laserdisc released I showed the two versions of that sequence to someone. When one of the robbers runs up the stairs Clint shoots him from behind in the nuts and he tumbles down the stairs. The tv version was mostly shot from the top of the stairs, theatrical version never had that angle at all. So I show both scenes to my friend who looks at me and says, I do not see a difference.
Sigh.

 

[Funky]

A little off topic but has anyone seen the edited for TV version of Pulp Fiction? They had to cut so much of that movie that they had to add some pretty dull and boring parts that were taken out of the theatrical version.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

A little off topic but has anyone seen the edited for TV version of Pulp Fiction? They had to cut so much of that movie that they had to add some pretty dull and boring parts that were taken out of the theatrical version.

Never saw either of those versions.

 

[dascoyne]

When Max Max 2, The Road Warrior, first aired on American TV they redubbed the original evocative and powerful opening monologue replacing it with an awful reinterpretation read with an American accent.

The original reading was dripping with pathos while the Americanized redub is just an old-timer telling a story.

The original:

Crap version. You have been warned.

 

[Treadwell]

wow, LOL

 

[p51]

• Yeah, METV airs uncut WB toons as well
• "Firebirds" with Nic Cage had several scenes with Sean Young for the romantic subplot that were only aired on TV. I was surprised the one time I caught it on TV
• I finally got the DVD set of the original TV series of "Das Boot" which I'd never even talked with anyone who'd seen it. It's so much better in the expanded version
• I also recently caught, "ANZACS- the war down under" with Paul Hogan as the original TV series, had only seen the edited movie version. Great series!

 

[Mottrex]

Pretty much Every 80s horror movie here in the UK got cut..
When I started buying Region1 DVDs it was Awesome to see effects I'd only read about in FANGORIA and Vendredi13 mags..
Famously Raiders of the lost Ark had swastikas edited or faded out as the Ad break started.. The part where the rats are by the covernet spring to mind..

 

[LordHorusNL]

I'll always remember seeing the edited tv version of the Goonies that aired somewhere in the late eighties or early nineties over here that actually included the famous Octopus scene. I recorded it to VHS so it actually served as my default version of the Goonies for most of my adolescence. The thing is can't actually remember if the convenience store scenes were also included.

 

[p51]

I'll always remember seeing the edited tv version of the Goonies that aired somewhere in the late eighties or early nineties over here that actually included the famous Octopus scene. I recorded it to VHS so it actually served as my default version of the Goonies for most of my adolescence. The thing is can't actually remember if the convenience store scenes were also included.

I had no idea that aired anywhere! It was not long ago when I first heard of this scene, I can't believe I never noticed mention of it at the end (to the confusion of the parents, ironically).

 

[greenmachines]

I just recently watched the beginning of Blazing Saddles, unedited, for the first time. Talk about heavy handed. I am far more impressed with the TV cut version. I can tolerate a lot for a joke but that show is way way outside my comfort zone and I certainly wouldn't recommend it to anyone. The for-TV version was all I knew of for mamy years.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Oh yeah! It is a far removed from WOKE as you can get.

 

[greenmachines]

Oh yeah! It is a far removed from WOKE as you can get.

I have always thought woke was extremely racist and bigoted just against a different focal group. But I can certainly admit that I will laugh everytime he says "Where all the white ladies at?". The movie actually mocks racism from beginning to end and that was one of the methods they were using at the time, socially, to just get over it. Very possibly it is just too many people I know have been sexually assaulted so the constant rape jokes throughout the show being cut in the TV version makes my cringe factor drop to 0.

 

[Sundowner]

I've seen Blues Brothers a million times... but the first several hundred was the edited version on one of the cable network channels (TBS?). I wouldn't mind seeing the edited version again just to see how they did a few of the scenes (like when Elwood gets pulled over... how do they start and end the "****. What? Rollers. No. Yep. ****." dialogue).

It was TNT and they would have marathons advertised as TNT’s “New Classics”. It’s crazy to think The Blues Brothers was considered a “New Classic”. Man I’m getting old!

 

[Treadwell]

In the original positive meaning of the word, before it was turned into a pejorative, Blazing Saddles is VERY woke. It's progressive as hell. An entire town of racists come to realize that people are people and learn to accept those different from themselves. It is only upon that realization, and acting upon it, that the town is saved. The jokes aren't cringey in a cultural sense because everybody gets made fun of, and any hesitency to laugh would be on the part of those unwilling to laugh when the joke's on them. I WOULD recommend it to anyone.

 

[Laspector]

Well said!!!