I watched Ice Station Zebra when I was young, and loved it. What did I know from subtlety - I liked the sub action.
I rented the tape (not edited for TV or anything) when I was a young adult and I found an enormously annoying plot hole. Like, so bad I couldn’t believe the movie was released that way obvious plot hole.
Watched it again on DVD about 10 years later. Not only wasn’t there a plot hole, I couldn’t even tell what I had* thought *was a plot hole! Wonder what I thought I didn’t like?
On the other side of the question, I have watched The French Connection for the first time several times. I keep forgetting I had already watched it (and didn’t like it). I guess I keep thinking a movie that well regarded must be good, and since I don’t remember it, I must not have seen it yet. But, to me it isn’t at all memorable, so I forget I already watched it. Several times. I think it has finally “took” in my brain,
Watching any number of old movies, I often look forward to a certain line, a zinger, coming up in a scene. Often surprised it’s a bit different from what I remember originally. Maybe I’m confusing the actual line with how I would have preferred to say it.
For the OP: Stephen Jay Gould wrote an essay about how he was taking his kids to see Devil’s Tower monument, and talked about how it stood out in the middle of a plain. Only when he got there, it wasn’t.
He couldn’t blame that on different versions of a film, or a recut. He had simply misremembered the entire geography of the region.
Intriguingly, I brought up exactly this same story when we discussed misremembered movies on this Board six years ago But I Don’t Remember Doing That!
I saw Midway in the theater when I was a kid, in SENSURROUND! Pretty impressive for a kid fixated on warplanes and the like at the time.
Watched it a week or so ago on TMC, and my oh my! What a utter turd that movie actually is! Bad editing, bad dubbing, bad use of actual combat footage, bad use of recycled “Tora Tora Tora” footage, bad hoakie love story, bad acting… just plain BAD!
I do know that when ABC Family does their “Harry Potter Weekend”, they include some of the scenes that were cut from the original film. (Like the part when Harry and Dudley shake hands before the Dursleys leave – that wasn’t included in the theatrical release) So maybe that’s it?
It’s not exactly surrounded by mountains, either. It stands by itself on a low rise with hills and rounded buttes in the area. There are plenty of photos that show how much space is around it. So SJG wasn’t completely out of his mind.
I think the first time I saw Superman: The Movie was on broadcast tv and they did an extended version. Buying it later, I squawked about scenes missing, mostly remembering the bit where he first encounters Luthor’s stronghold.
In Ghostbusters, I think Murray’s line about “the competition” is cut when the Cardinal walks into the mayor’s office. I noticed/remembered because it was the first movie I saw multiple times in the theater.
The suckiest change was the ramping up of the green in The Matrix.
Lol, I remember when I was in my early twenties, I saw plot holes everywhere, real and imagined. It’s not so much bad filmmaking, as bad movie watching. The result of an underslept, overworked, overstressed brain.
It’s been a while, but both the spy and the marine contingent were on the sub specifically for the (secret) mission: retrieval of the satellite camera.
Well, when I translated for a batch of French midis, they had to both get special permission to be aboard and all the important equipment was covered so they couldn’t see gauges/scales/whatever data … I think that foreign nationals [and armed foreign nationals] on a US military vessel could be twitch-making [especially since they lock weapons away from the regular crew members … having foreigners armed on board would be seriously paranoia-making.]
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