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Aladdin

Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now Aladdin The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee complained about the opening song, so for the video release, the lyrics Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face were changed to, Where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense. The word barbaric was left, because Disney gonna Disney. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Altered after Release

Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now 2001: A Space Odyssey After a brief limited release, Stanley Kubrick cut around 19 minutes' worth of space walks and Frank Poole's murder to tighten the narrative. You know, because nothing says pacing like spaceships floating to Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra. i CRACKED.COM — Source

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Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now INES T The Rescuers In 1999, just three days after the second video release, someone noticed a picture of a naked woman on a window as Bernard, Bianca, and Orville fly by. Three million VHS copies were recalled, even thought the woman appears in just two frames. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End The forgettable third Pirates featured 20 minutes of Chow Yun-fat goodness, but those party-poopers in China thought his character insulted their country and trimmed ten minutes off the movie. Seriously, what is the big d- no, wait, OK, we see it now. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Shining

Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now The Shining The original, 146-minute version lasted for a week in theaters. Following Kubrick's lead, Warner Bros. asked projectionists to cut the last two minutes from the expository wrap-up. Later, for the European release, Kubrick cut another 25 minutes that weren't really working, which just sounds like cheating by now. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now The Notebook The movie ends with the couple dying of old age, and then a shot of some birds. The Netflix UK version, however, cut the important human part and just skipped to the birds. Yes, we did spoil The Notebook, but let's be real: if you haven't seen it already, you were never going to see it anyway. CRACKED.COM — Source

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E.T.

Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial The 20th anniversary Special Edition featured several changes-including the substitution of the guns held by the federal agents for fake-ass CGI walkie-talkies. Then Spielberg got cold feet, released both versions at the same time, and in the last decade has just settled for the original. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cats

Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now Cats Like a video game patch, Cats had to be altered right after release because the CGI was awful. Still, we know not to blame the FX artists. It was all director Tom Hooper and the studio's last-minute demands, leading to the harrowing visions of human hands, floating heads, buttholes, and, well, the film Cats. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now Fight Club Instead of ending with love, economic revolution, the Pixies, and penises, the Chinese version ended with a text screen saying the plan was foiled because of a tip from Tyler (by which they mean the narrator, not Tyler Tyler, which is just an adorable mistake). he movie is now back to normal. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now Derro For Love of the Game The film featured a full frontal shot of Kevin Costner, and test screening audiences literally giggled at it, even asking do we really need to see Kevin Costner's penis? The scene was then cut, and now we all love this classic movie about, erm, basketball, we think? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Star Wars Was Altered After Its Release

Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now Star Wars: Episode IV Did you hear? Han shoots first in the original! In the 1997 Special Edition (but also in 2004 and 2011), Greedo shoots first, and then Han, after CGI- dodging the shot. For the 2019 version, George Lucas changed it again to Greedo saying maclunkey (whatever that means) just before he shoots. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fantasia

Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now Fantasia Disney ceded to the woke mob-in 1969. Fantasia is a masterpiece, but it also has black centaurettes as servants, attending to the white centaurettes. Yikes. By the late-'70s, the sequences began being edited out of all subsequent releases. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now Incredibles 2 The trippy patterns used by the Screenslaver to control her victims were changed after epilepsy advocacy groups pointed out they could be harmful. A warning was provided by theaters, and Disney toned down the flashing lights for foreign releases. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Show Dogs

Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now Show Dogs Blasting from a past in which jokes about sexual abuse were funny (2018? Really?), this family comedy featured a dog being evaluated fora competition, while being told to focus on not reacting and instead go to his happy place. The scene was cut while the movie was still out. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now Cinema Paradiso This film won an Oscar for Best Foreign Picture-or at least one of its several versions did. The original 155- minute version was a domestic dud, but it became an international hit after getting a half hour trimmed off. A 173-minute director's cut came out in 2002, with Giuseppe Tornatore saying this was always hi S vision. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now Heaven's Gate Director Michael Cimino really took advantage of his Deer Hunter good faith and submitted a five- hours-long movie. After the predictable studio reaction, he cut two hours, but this version flopped and was cut again to two-and-a-half hours. Ultimately, the movie lasted two weeks in theaters. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now Lilo & Stitch Before: Lilo hides from her sister Nani in the dryer. But the scene was cut for UK and Disney+ releases. Now, Lilo hides in a commode and covers her face with a pizza box. The change was probably made so kids wouldn't actually hide in dryers, which sounds like a Rescue 911 episode waiting to happen. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now The Brown Bunny When Vincent Gallo's ego-trip premiered in Cannes, it was a disaster. People jeered at the 119-minute chore, and Roger Ebert demolished it. Gallo then cut almost half an hour, and this new version was much better received, even by Ebert himself. Still, people today remember this movie for, erm, something else. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Brazil

Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now Brazil Before: a 142-minute version with a depression-fuel ending. After: Universal got all normie for the US release. They cut the darker ending without Terry Gilliam's consent, but after the movie proved to be a critical darling and an immediate classic, they agreed to a Gilliam-supervised 132-minute version. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Alien

Ash wasn't an android in the original Alien script. Не was made an android at the studio's suggestion -- originally, he was human. Which would have made his death scene play out very differently. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Blair Witch Project could have ended with Mike hanging from a noose or crucified by rope and wood. Those are the endings the filmmakers shot when the studio gave them the money to shoot a new ending that gives some closure. But neither idea worked out, so they stuck with their very first choice: a puzzling shot of Mike standing in a corner. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The final fight between Yon-Rogg and Carol in Captain Marvel was supposed to be a brawl. While shooting, they decided it didn't make sense that she'd be playing by his rules, so they came up with a scene where she knocks him out almost effortlessly. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Deadpool 2, the X-Force would originally get blown up by landing on a minefield. The filmmakers couldn't come up with a good reason for the plane flying over a minefield, so they wrote a different death for each member of the team. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Freddy vs. Jason

Freddy vs. Jason could have shown us Freddy raping Jason as a child. That scene, which ends with Freddy drowning Jason so he wouldn't tell anyone, was in script drafts for four years. It only kind-of shows up in the final movie, as the dream sequence in which Freddy is a camp counselor and drowns Jason. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In David Fincher's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Nils Bjurman was supposed to be clothed in Lisbeth's revenge scene. Fincher asked people he knew who'd been through sexual abuse if Lisbeth would strip his clothes off, and they said no. So they shot the scene with him clothed - but that felt like a cop-out, so they reshot it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The gag where Deadpool thinks he's blocked Cable's bullets with his sword, but then realizes he didn't block any, wasn't supposed to be in Deadpool 2. The stunt team came up with the idea, but director David Leitch thought it was too funny for a serious scene. Ryan Reynolds thought it was hilarious, though, so it went in. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Star Trek

In Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the first version of the scene in which Spock decides to enter the inner sanctum of V'ger looked totally different. As originally shot, it was a corny, fake-looking spacewalk scene with actors obviously hanging from wires. So VFX director Richard Trumbull re-shot it as a scene about energy and infinity. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Men in Black

The original ending for Men in Black was a philosophical debate between Will Smith and the Edgar bug. Director Barry Sonnenfeld was (understandably) nervous about that not being exciting enough, so a new, action-packed ending was written at the last minute. CRACKED.COM — Source

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16-JARRAH N 42 2H The magic cave in Lost was a last-minute substitute for a volcano. The show kept mentioning the inactive volcano on the island, and the finale was supposed to be set there, with magma spewing everywhere! But that was too expensive, so they came up with a glowing magic cave. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Avengers: Endgame

We almost got to see Cap's severed head in Avengers: Endgame. One idea had Thanos toss the head, with the mask still on, to a living Captain America. The Russos say it was pretty cool, and they ditched it just because they couldn't figure out how to get to that point. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Avengers: Infinity War could have had dragons. They were in one of the ideas batted around for the Nidavellir forge sequence. In the end, the filmmakers went with an idea involving Eitri, the King of the Dwarves (Peter Dinklage). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Deadpool

GET OUT BA as 22 RO RVICE The finale of Deadpool was supposed to be a huge shootout. The studio took $7 million from the budget at the last moment, forcing the filmmakers to improvise. That's why Deadpool forgets all the guns he packs, and has to storm the bad guy's lair without them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Back to the Future was supposed to have nuclear explosions, not a DeLorean. The initial idea was for Marty to go back from 1985 to 1952 by being in a lead-lined refrigerator at a nuclear bomb test. Thankfully, the studio suggested something cheaper and cooler-looking, like a time-traveling car. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Roy Batty's dying monologue in Blade Runner was originally very, very long. It had stuff like I've felt wind in my hair, riding test boats off the black galaxies, so Rutger Hauer rewrote it himself (he mostly just cut a lot). Не then read it out to Ridley Scott, who was instantly sold. CRACKED.COM — Source

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