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

  • Notyou@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      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.

      • Notyou@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        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.

        • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          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

      • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        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.

  • cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    3 days ago

    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

    • Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      101·
      3 days ago

      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.

    • Kimjongtooill@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I had something similar with a download of Eraserhead. The audio was corrupted, the best way I could describe it is running water with a ton of reverb slightly chopped. I thought it was an interesting choice and the ambience definitely matched the black and white industrial atmosphere. 30 minutes in, I realized it was a bad copy when someone finally spoke.

  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      20 hours ago

      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).

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    54·
    3 days ago

    How is no one mentioning why there are two versions of a movie only differing in soundtrack…? Seems bizarre to me

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      242·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        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
      • vodka@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        Scrubs was absolutely ruined because of this.

        The time I spent putting the broadcast audio onto the streaming/dvd/Blu-ray releases to make them watchable was significant.

    • finderscult@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      Music licensing is a nightmare. Music licensing across international borders is a ridiculous surrealist nightmare from which you can never wake; if you should ever want to enter into such endeavors find the nearest cliff and try to fly as that will be a less painful adventure more likely to find success.

  • IzzyScissor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    3 days ago

    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.

          • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 day ago

            I’ve definitely read it before; I don’t remember what series but it was highly probably the rebooted X-Men series (that largely became what the 90s cartoon was based on)…

            But don’t ask me about recent canon. What’s “canon” is always shaky because the series has been running forever so anything and everything has been canon and retconned at some point. To me, Quicksilver and Scarlett Witch are Magneto’s children, Rogue has Ms Marvel powers, and there are 151 Pokemon. I’m old.

  • Atlas_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • Lycist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    3 days ago

    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.”

    • CanadianBeetroot@lemm.eeEnglish
      16·
      3 days ago

      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 on…. In French. The most confusing movie I’ve ever watched. And I’ve seen Apollo 13 a dozen times.

  • giuseppe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    411·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • MrMeowMeow@mander.xyzEnglish
      231·
      3 days ago

      Was it the “leaked” version of the Half Blood Prince? If so, a girl I was interested in sent that to me saying that her aunts friend worked for the publisher and I couldn’t show anyone or else they’d all go to jail. I was in high school so of course my mom was suspicious when I was spending hours reading something on the computer, so she made me tell her what it was, and I remember crying and begging her not to tell anyone that this girl I wanted to bang had sent it to me haha

  • pack@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    39·
    3 days ago

    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.

      • Ostrakon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        3 days ago

        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.

        • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          Or if you happen to understand the language in question too (not quite relevant to District 9, but for human languages).

    • yannic@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      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.

    • lad@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      We did this to the Arrival, too.

      light spoiler :::

      the first subtitles are almost at the very end of the movie, so it was too late to bother. Also, most of us watched it before, but man was it a letdown.

  • Bookmeat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    3 days ago

    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.