bowspearer, just so you know, accusing someone of trolling is only allowed in the “BBQ Pit” forum.
Look, I’m sorry, bowspearer, but people conflate two movies (or TV shows or whatever) in their mind quite often. It’s not just confined to the movies Big and 14 Going on 30. I know you sincerely think that you’re remembering correctly, but until we can be shown this alternate ending you think you saw, we have to be suspicious. You want to claim that you have eyewitness testimony to such an ending (i.e., your personal memory of the ending out in the street with the 13-year-old Susan), but the fact is that eyewitness testimony is fraught with all sorts of problems:
In doubting you, we’re not claiming that you’re lying or that your memory is particularly bad. Unfortunately, the reality is that most people’s memories are not nearly as good as they think they are. Indeed, memory doesn’t work the way that people think it does. The fact is that people don’t have memories that work like instant replay for events that happened 26 years ago. It’s particularly bad for Big and 14 Going on 30 because they came out within three months of each other, but smearing together two movies (or whatever) is actually quite common. Human beings are not recorders that can accurately play back scenes. Sorry, but that’s the way it is.
If bowspearer posts a clip to their version of the alternate ending I’ll stop rolling my eyes.
I hate to bring this up (maybe I’m not the first), but any that “14 Going on 30” was produced with two endings? As we all know, this is often done for TV purposes (different edits, not necessarily endings), and I could see why a scene implying teenage sex might be deleted for a version broadcast on prime time or children’s-hour television.
You sadistic bastard.
Just asking questions… 
14 Going on 30 was a television movie, so it’s unlikely to have a version edited for television:
Yes, but they might have had an “after 9 PM broadcast” edit, and a “before 9 PM broadcast” edit, or something.
I think the “misremembered” explanation is still the most likely one for all of this.
That does happen on occasion. Trucks, for example.
If you’re not done here, you will not call another poster a troll again. You can’t do that on this board unless you’re in The BBQ Pit forum.
Not very likely, since this was made by Disney for young teens.
There’s a much simpler counter-argument to all the claims, no matter what details the proponents of the alternate-ending theory want to state.
If this alternate ending was EVER publicly shown, anywhere in the world, why is there not a single clip, still, image capture or other recording of it? This is not a minor movie. The very least claims of “I saw it, I’m sure I did” must have involved audiences of many thousands, if not millions, at least a few of whom should have taped it, taken a photo, something. Yet in all this time, and all the duration of this argument, no one has turned up a clip or a still of young Josh and young Susan in any setting at all.
I am the last to believe anything like “everything is on Google/YouTube/the net” but this is a piece of mass-market culture that purportedly reached a goodly cultural mass. One piece of evidence would settle the argument forever. No such evidence has turned up. That’s pretty damned convincing, IMVHO.
But final proof has been solicited; waiting is.
Yep. And I think (not going to reread), that point is buried somewhere in this thread. I mean, especially if it really was on an NZ home video edition of the movie, it’s almost impossibly unlikely it wouldn’t have surfaced by now.
Fine. So let’s try it this way:
You’ve seen a movie with an ending that’s not the same as the ending of Big, and it’s also not the same as the ending of 14 Going on 30.
Which is the more likely explanation: that you’ve seen an ‘alternate ending’ to the movie Big that nobody else in the entire world seems to have seen, and for which no evidence of its existence exists outside your own recollection…or that you saw a different movie?
The strange and still unresolved thread on the Johnny Carson mystery guest made me think to go back and bump this thread.
I mailed short, polite letters to Marshall, Hanks and Ross around February 20th, putting the question concisely and inviting answers from staff as well as the principals. It’s been nearly three months and no reply from any of them.
Oh, well. Sort of sad to find that traditional fan mail is just ignored these days.
What thread is that now?
This thread. It was a lot of fun, and was resolved in the best SDMB fashion on 5/14. Of course, also in the best SDMB fashion, it was still going yesterday.
I have just watched Big again for the first time in a few years, my husband made a comment about it while it was on asking if I thought they ever met up again. my reply was have u never saw this film?? I had in my head the ending where she went back and used the machine and joined him in class. I googled it once that wasn’t the ending that I watched and found this thread. I have watched the YouTube link and that’s definately not what I was thinking about. There was a young red headed girl in the endind I remember. My 14 year old daughter has just backed me up by agreeing about another ending so wondering if it does really exist!
No. It doesn’t. It never has.
But seeing how persistant this rumor is it wouldn’t surprise me a bit if someone cobbled together a phony alternate ending and tried to pass it off as real.
Using zombies?