And I always knew it was the Berenstain Bears, because I can remember as a kid my parents seeing the books and saying, “Are they supposed to be Jewish? Berenstain sounds Jewish?” and either my mom or dad pointing out that Jewish names usually end in “stein”, not “stain.” Seriously.
The spelling of “The Berenstain Bears” seems to be a major outlier.
I can imagine it being hard to let go of thinking that a movie you thought you remembered is real, but people are terrible at spelling. Most people can’t spell common words reliably, let alone remember the precise spelling of a fictional bear family that they probably last read closely at the age of 8. Is it so hard to let that one go?
This clears things up a bit. If the people who saw the earlier TV movie saw Big a few months later, they might have mixed their recollections up when they tried to remember it.
It makes more sense than the other way round. if 14 Going on 30 had been shown after Big, it would only have been remembered as ‘that crappy made-for-tv copy’. By the time Big came out the earlier movie had already been mostly forgotten, but was waiting in the subconscious memory, ready to pounce.
I am watching Big on TV Right This Minute, and totally looking forward to seeing the alternate ending. >_>
No, I’m not.
Sweet of your husband to back you up. “Sure you did, hon, me too…sorry, wasn’t listening, what are we talking about?”
I’ll bet Tom Hanks’d do it for free, and pop up on Colbert or Fallon to promote it as a “newly found clip”.
Hanks isn’t in the faux ending. Just the young Josh (who is now 43 in real life) and maybe Billy (44) among the main characters. (Hanks was 32 when he made the film, btw.) They’d need to find young doubles for those but they would have greater leeway for young Susan since she wasn’t shown in the original.
Given the recasting and such just about anyone could film a recreation and throw it on YouTube. Just don’t label it as being from Big, be coy (avoid takedown notices). Let the meme-folk find it and promote it. Be sure to film it on videotape, etc.
That’s easy, they could just get Millie Bobby Brown from Stranger Things since she looks just like a younger Elizabeth Perkins.
Are you in New Zealand? They only show the alternate ending in New Zealand, where no one has a a VCR or access to Youtube.
Well then. Given digs’ penchant for unnecessary displays of sexism to undermine an opinion, I’m actually glad I’m on team Alternate Ending.
I mean, definitely, the faces look entirely off in 14 going on 30 but I might’ve misremembered them, that’s a remote possibility. However, as an artistic person though I also remember lighting, composition, framing angles, and so on. Those were all so very wrong for what I remember in 14 going on 30. Completely off. Nothing at all alike.
The overall attitude of the scene was off, too. The one I recall was much more schmaltzy.
So I’m in agreement that this alternate ending certainly exists. It seems to be a commonwealth televised affair, though. I recall seeing it on television too, in the UK. I suppose Americans never had it on telly and it’s lead to some rather astounding cases of jealousy; The haves and the have-nots, eh?
The lack of it on YouTube is easily explained, too, as this has happened to other films. It was most likely a test screening that had a cut that was never meant to be aired, this likely – through accident of bureaucracy – ended up in the hands of a Commonwealth television channel who aired it being none the wiser. It was handed around and aired a few more times, that way, before the mistake was spotted. Afterward, no one aired that release as it was a mistake that – for the sake of the jobs of those involved – was best forgotten.
Those who saw it had no reason to videotape it in the window it aired, having no clue of how special it was. I imagine it’ll turn up eventually. The unsavoury Alt-Right types are likely going to have a bit of fun trying to trick us, but we have what they don’t – compositional memory of the scene. I’m betting if we compared notes on that, we’d find it was the same.
We shouldn’t do that, though, for precisely the aforementioned reason.
I say be patient, it’ll turn up. And have a laugh at any attempts at trickery.
…And we get a visit from an alternate reality where the other ending happened. Apparently a quite alternate one.
I blame Barry Allen for messing up the timeline again.
You can be on Team Whateveryouwanttocallit, but reality isn’t determined by vote, and your “alt-right conspiracy” tie-in isn’t really helping your cause.
You’d have better luck proving the Tooth Fairy exists. There are the daily filming schedules, the shooting scripts, the testimony of the director, etc.
Give … it … up.
There is no alternate ending.
You’re just rationalizing at this point and it’s not going well.
It’s not a good idea for us to make fun of people who insist that they have seen an alternate ending to the movie Big. Such people are not stupid. They are not liars. They are not insane. They don’t have any other kind of mental problems. They’re just human beings. Human nervous systems do not work like digital computers in at least three ways. First, human sensory systems don’t work like those of computers. Humans are prone to things like optical illusions (and there are similar illusions in the other senses, like hearing, too). Read a good book on optical illusions if you want to know more about this. Second, humans can’t make absolutely unbiased logical deductions. Humans have all sorts of unconscious prejudices. Read Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman if you want to know more about this. Third, human memories are not like those of computers. They are prone to the sort of mistakes that would cause one to mix up one’s memories of two movies. The people who think that they’ve seen an alternate ending to Big are simply making the same kind of mistake that everyone makes occasionally.
What about the ones that say that there is a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy to cover it up?
I don’t blame anyone for making the mistake. I made it. I blame them for sticking to it many years after it has been dis-proven, especially if they have read this thread or other places on the internet that go into this situation in great detail.
Fascinating thread…just read the whole thing.
I agree with several people who’ve said that the alternative ending as described would be incredibly cheesy and cornball. It would have ruined the whole movie. However, it sounds perfect for a tacky made-for-TV movie.
Always knew the spelling of the Berenstain bears…maybe because I worked in a library in high school and saw the books all the time. And I know Shaq made a genie movie, not Sinbad. It’s probably just because I’m old!
They know the truth and must be silenced.
Handy hint, everyone. If you do discover a Vast Right-Wing/Illuminati/Tri-Lateral/Pizza/St.Elsewhere Conspiracy, don’t jump on the nearest message board to brag about it.
And that’s what people have been saying throughout this thread, yet some folks insist otherwise.