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

  • cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
    143·
    23 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

      • cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        19 days ago

        It’s legitimately very funny, I felt really really dumb but it’s a good story

    • Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      101·
      22 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
      4·
      22 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.

  • IzzyScissor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    56·
    23 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·
            21 days 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.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    23 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·
      23 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·
        22 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·
        22 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·
      23 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.

  • Lycist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    23 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
      15·
      23 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.

      • Ostrakon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        23 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·
          22 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·
      22 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·
      22 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.

  • pack@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    39·
    23 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.

  • giuseppe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    401·
    23 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
      232·
      23 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

  • Bookmeat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    23 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.

  • Reef@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    27·
    23 days ago

    Listening to the real soundtrack now, I’m so disappointed that my first watch was with… that version

  • Atlas_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    22 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.

  • Aarrodri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    23 days ago

    I watched full metal jacket waiting to see the boats and the crazy dude by the cave . Tunes out that was apocalipae now…

  • kamills@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    20·
    23 days ago

    Me and my friend watched about 80% of some strange back to the future animated movie, after spending a week in Amsterdam. Then it suddenly clicked, we had been watching all the cut scenes from there back to the future video game, put together as a movie.

  • auzzy@bbq.snoot.com
    18·
    23 days ago

    @reef We got about 50 or 55 minutes into “The Girl on the Train” before we realized it was weird Emily Blunt hadn’t shown up yet. And all the actors were Indian.

    That was when we learned there was a Hindi-language remake.