Since I got interested very much in this topic of changing timelines I decided to do some research work. I went through a collection of movies and TV
series which I still remember very well from my childhood and twenties. My plan was especially to watch the "particular scenes" which I can still
see in my head and remember like it was yesterday (strong memory print).
After doing this I was shocked by all of those changes and missing scenes I found. My conclusion is that there is definitely something weird going on
with timelines and you can't explain all these changes just with a different version you happend to see at that time or your bad memory.
I think these changes are very clever, the same scene is there but it's different more or less and you can't see anything suspicious if you don't
remember it well enough. However, I am not saying that I am seeing changes all the time.
For example, I have The Parent Trap 1961 on DVD and it's
exactly the same I remember from my childhood.
- Space Odyssey 2001 (1968)
The whole ending is changed. The version I saw was Dave arriving in a hotel suite with the pod and going to the fridge to find odd-looking black/blue
food. Now I remember also a scene where Dave was lying on a bed watching TV before he went to sleep (like in the book but I swear god it was also in
that movie). In addition, before Dave arrived in the hotel suite and was still travelling in the pod I remember how he said "my God - it's full of
stars!" and how his face stretched like a rubber band as he was travelling at light speed. But none of these scenes is in the original movie anymore.
But as I told in
my previous post there is a ongoing debate on the
Internet whether such scenes ever existed as there are people who have also seen these scenes and are now very confused.
- The Tripods (1984)
In addition to
my previous post I remember now how the missing scene in
the countryside continued. There were boys called Will and Beanpole in that scene and they were also running like a hell escaping these tripods and
trying to hide behind the tall trees. Finally the boys got themselves hide in the bushes and then I remember how thrilled I was when one the tripods
started to search for people from the bushes (and I was like, please don't find them) and found Will from there and picked up him with its metallic
tentacle. I remember that after seeing this scene I wanted to read the book and find out if the same scene was also in the book and yes, the similar
type of scene was in the book, but either the scene in the book or the scene I saw on TV in my childhood is not anymore in the current version which
is released on DVD.
- Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
I found three changes of which I want to mention one which shocked me. There is a scene where Ronald Miller is sitting outside at lunch by the tree
and hurries to help his friend who is in trouble as some guy is going to beat him up. I remember clearly that Ronald picked up the baseball bat and
hit the nearest table with the bat before he went to talk to this guy. Well, in the current version he picks up the bat but he won't hit the table.
He just goes to talk to this guy with the bat (but he doesn't do anything with that bat).
- The Thing (1982)
The whole ending is changed. R.J. MacReady went down the stairs all by himself not with two other guys. I remember that the end was quite boring, the
end monster was just hanging around by a wall with his tentacles and R.J. MacReady killed it quickly with his flamethrower. And that's it. In the
current ending the end monster breaks dramatically through from the floor and R.J. MacReady kills it with a dynamite.
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