# MASSIVELY improve a movie/TV show by changing ten seconds or less **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 16, 2010, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386 "2010-10-16T23:58:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/21 "2010-10-17T15:49:42Z")
> [@randwill](#): > > > [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > > > Thanks. I googled that exact phrase and even clicked on that exact picture but for some reason it hadn’t animated. Working now. 🙂 > > Reading the comments below the boob gif seem to point to fake. One comment includes a link to some pics from the movie: > > [http://i21.tinypic.com/30xdfyu.jpg](http://i21.tinypic.com/30xdfyu.jpg) > > I haven’t seen the film in question or any deleted scenes from the film, so I have no idea what’s real and what’s not. We already know it’s fake. 😛 Like I said upthread, it’s an edited image- but one that’s been done “very convincingly”. ---
**Author:** ![Gil-Martin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Gil-Martin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gil-Martin)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/22 "2010-10-17T17:04:10Z")
Wesley Crusher dies. Any episode. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/23 "2010-10-17T18:29:55Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > The movie is called _Eurotrip_. That’s it. But you have to admit, Trachtenberg’s tits would have made **European Vacation** a better picture, too. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/24 "2010-10-17T18:36:47Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > **European Vacation** - From the scene where Michelle Trachtenberg is seen from the back raising her top to get someone on the Autobahn to stop, we cut to the same scene from the front, and get 10 seconds of Michelle’s tits bouncing. 😕 She looks like my youngest niece did at 12. Except at least my niece had a pretty face. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/25 "2010-10-17T18:44:19Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > The obvious one: > > \*\*\*"It’s a cookbook! > > * * * Huh? What would you change about that episode? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/26 "2010-10-17T18:48:08Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > > [@panache45](#): > > > > The obvious one: > > > > \*\*\*"It’s a cookbook! > > > > * * * > > Huh? What would you change about that episode? I can imagine not showing Mr. Chambers on the ship. Honestly, it’s more terrifying if we never know exactly what happens. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/27 "2010-10-17T19:13:39Z")
Oh, did **panache** mean cutting the last scene right after the whole, “It’s a cookbook” line? I remember thinking that would have been a lot more effective when I first saw it. Though I think that scene lasted longer than ten seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/28 "2010-10-17T19:30:54Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > If only Brent Spiner had explained in _Independence Day_ that they had released bits and pieces of alien technology they considered safe, like the operating system for Mac, we wouldn’t have been subjected to decades of whinging about “How could a Macintosh interface with an alien computer?” Supposedly there was a deleted scene that made some attempt to justify this. If you remember, early in the movie we saw that Goldblum’s character had been working on translating the alien signals onto his computer. In a deleted scene, he was shown working directly on the alien computers at the secret lab and translating their software on to his Mac. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/29 "2010-10-17T19:37:00Z")
**Carnivale** – I would get rid of the last couple of scenes in the finale. So Jonesy’s shooting and Justin’s resurrection would not have happened. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/30 "2010-10-17T20:57:41Z")
In _Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith:_ lLose the **NOOOOOOOO!** and slightly alter the part where Annie’s throwing things around with his mind to where he’s actually throwing them at Palpatine, who casually delivers a smackdown. Palpy then states something like " You have much to learn, my young apprentice, but you are not ready for that lesson yet." Cue maniacal laughter. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/31 "2010-10-18T18:18:25Z")
The end of **The Phantom Menace** : Anikin: Mom? Amidala: Thet’s right, Anni. We’re so grateful that you saved our planet, we arranged to buy your mother out of slavery. She can live the rest of her life her on Nabbo as a free woman while you go to Jedi Academy. Anikin: Yipee! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/32 "2010-10-18T19:40:07Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > **Glen Beck** - The last 10 seconds show an angry viewer punching the shit out of Glen. A different viewer every day. Along the same lines, while I was watching **60 Minutes** last night I was thinking that it would be vastly improved if “A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney” was actually “A Few Minutes of Andy Rooney Being Waterboarded”. ---
**Author:** ![Reno\_Nevada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Reno\_Nevada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reno_Nevada)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/33 "2010-10-18T19:42:08Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > If only Brent Spiner had explained in _Independence Day_ that they had released bits and pieces of alien technology they considered safe, like the operating system for Mac, we wouldn’t have been subjected to decades of whinging about “How could a Macintosh interface with an alien computer?” My choice would be to change the “human battery” explanation in \*Matrix \*to one where the humans tried to control the computer’s hardware, only to have it jump into using human brains as processors. I think you could get that across in 10 seconds and it would eliminate one of the stupidities of that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/34 "2010-10-18T20:00:41Z")
Any of the _Twilight_ movies-add Buffy Summers. Any and all of the current teenvamp shows-add Buffy Summers. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/35 "2010-10-18T20:11:47Z")
The original Terminator movie: show Sarah Connor getting a parking ticket; and then cut to Skynet’s machines digging through the rubble of what used to be the basement of City Hall and unearthing a scrap of paper that shows that a Sarah Connor got a parking ticket in that city on that date. IOW, why Skynet sent a terminator back to that particular point in time- it was the only surviving record of Sarah’s whereabouts before Judgement Day. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/36 "2010-10-18T20:24:33Z")
**ROMEO:** And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death! Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark! Here’s to my love **JULIET:** zzzzzzz…_snort_ **ROMEO:** What the hell? Juliet, you’re alive? **JULIET:** Oh my Romeo yes. It was a clever ruse to escape marriage **ROMEO:** … Dude. That’s pretty fucked up. **JULIET:** Oh happy days! We can now run away together. **ROMEO:** Yeah…um, Rosaline invited me to a party tonight and I think I’m gonna go check it out. Stay cool. ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/37 "2010-10-18T20:26:37Z")
> [@Reno\_Nevada](#): > > My choice would be to change the “human battery” explanation in \*Matrix \*to one where the humans tried to control the computer’s hardware, only to have it jump into using human brains as processors. I think you could get that across in 10 seconds and it would eliminate one of the stupidities of that movie. Yep, this is what I was going to post. Just change the scene where Morpheus says “all to turn you into this” - have him hold up a processor chip rather than a battery. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/38 "2010-10-18T20:31:26Z")
> [@Reno\_Nevada](#): > > My choice would be to change the “human battery” explanation in \*Matrix \*to one where the humans tried to control the computer’s hardware, only to have it jump into using human brains as processors. I think you could get that across in 10 seconds and it would eliminate one of the stupidities of that movie. IIRC, that was the original idea, but the studio higher ups thought that would be too hard for viewers to understand. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/39 "2010-10-18T20:46:38Z")
_ **Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan** _. Knowing he is doomed, Khan activates the Genesis device, so that his final act will be to take Kirk and the Enterprise with him. The Enterprise, of course, escapes the explosion just in time – but Khan _never knows this_. He dies believing that he has gotten his revenge. One shot of Khan witnessing the escape of his nemesis (10 seconds would be more than enough) and his defeat is even more devastating, and the end of a teriffic film would have been all the more satisfying. Imagine Montalban playing that reaction, realizing that Kirk has bested him a final time. It would have been great! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386/40 "2010-10-18T20:49:08Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > _ **Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan** _. > > Knowing he is doomed, Khan activates the Genesis device, so that his final act will be to take Kirk and the Enterprise with him. > The Enterprise, of course, escapes the explosion just in time – but Khan _never knows this_. He dies believing that he has gotten his revenge. > > One shot of Khan witnessing the escape of his nemesis (10 seconds would be more than enough) and his defeat is even more devastating, and the end of a teriffic film would have been all the more satisfying. Imagine Montalban playing that reaction, realizing that Kirk has bested him a final time. It would have been great! No. That would have taken away from the emotional point of the scene: Spock’s sacrifice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massively-improve-a-movie-tv-show-by-changing-ten-seconds-or-less/557386.md?page=3)