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·
    8 hours 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
      2·
      7 hours 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·
        2 hours 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
          1·
          1 hour 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·
        7 hours 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.

  • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    3·
    23 hours ago

    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.

  • Atlas_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 day 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.

  • cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
    134·
    2 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
      81·
      1 day 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
      2·
      1 day 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.

  • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 day ago

    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…”

    • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      3·
      7 hours ago

      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.

  • Tenkard@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    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

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    2 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
      232·
      2 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·
        1 day 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·
        1 day 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·
      2 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
    56·
    2 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
            2·
            7 hours 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.

  • Lycist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    49·
    2 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·
      2 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.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Yup. Before Drive was officially released there was a pirated “screener” copy online with a different, and in my opinion better, soundtrack. It enhanced the movie in a more effective way than what we got in the official release. Especially the elevator scene.

    Watched the movie again when it officially came out and went “wait a minute, this isn’t right”.

    Not even sure if the screener copy is still available anywhere.

    • tetris11@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      There’s a version of Morrissey’s Irish Blood, English Heart that hit the radios before it was released, and it was waay better than what we actually got:

      no weird comical sound effects, cleaner sound, the high guitar could be heard way better, and the ending riff was a harmonious one, not some eclectic free-for-all.

      After years of believing I had hallucinated/mandela’d the whole thing, I finally found it:

      The Janice Long Radio cut

  • giuseppe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    401·
    2 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
      212·
      2 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