This isn’t even the right thread!
SHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Don’t wake it. We’ll be up all night.
Considering the previous revival person actually “owned” a copy, yet it never surfaced, I expect someone to post:
“I have discovered a truly marvelous copy of this, which this internet is too narrow to contain.”
Anyone remember the alternate ending to the “alternate ending to Big” thread?
I saw the alternate ending to Big. It had Sinbad as a genie in it. 
This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!
No, that was the The Berenstein Bears you are thinking of.
What is a bit weird is that I could say I remember the alternate ending to big. We had sneak preview tickets and saw it before opening day. If I was asked how it ended, I would have said it ended with the girl coming into class. I don’t know why.
While I certainly have no evidence for it whatsoever, and do chalk it up to the plastic memory of a 10 year old, it does bug me that this controversy exists, because when I think back, I DO remember that ending.
My theory is that the movie people mixed up the tapes, and played the wrong ending, either that, or memory is not actually a perfect recording of all experienced events.
YMMV…
Yes, it is very hard for us to accept that our own memory may be imperfect, but it is true–even for people with sharp minds and good observational skills.
Reminds me of:
“Cognitive psychology tells s that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.” Stephen Pinker
#makebiggreatagain
It couldn’t be the former, as 14 Going on 30, the most likely conflated movie, was made for TV and released the same year. It was never shown in theaters.
It’s also extremely unlike that any TV broadcaster could have somehow shown the final scene of one movie at the end of another movie. Especially since **Big **wouldn’t have been shown on TV for a while.
I never had a feeling or memory of Nelson Mandela dying in the 80s. It’s annoying that I can’t participate.
I’m actually leaning towards the latter explanation, that memory isn’t perfect. The first was meant to be a bit glib.
But, 14go30 did come out a few months before Big. Some pranksters at the movie theaters could have taped and then played it in some theaters here and there across the country, just so that 30 years later, the internets get broken by the controversy.
In fact, if given a time machine, that’s the first thing I’m gonna do. 
That, and spread some Berenstein Bears books around with a copy or two of Shazaam!
For many years, I was concerned that I might be the only person with a working memory of the Star Wars Christmas Special, with the Wookiee planet and an appearance by Jefferson Starship. It just seemed too crazy to be true, like I must have dreamed it, but I had this nagging memory. Turns out it really did happen, and George Lucas had tried in vain to have every copy of it destroyed. Now you can find it on YouTube.
What’s really weird is that I have a completely different memory of a different star wars special involving the ewok planet and some family that crash landed there. Everytime I have tried to describe it, I was directed to the christmas special, but I’m pretty sure that wasn’t it.
They weren’t Ewoks, they were Eweks.
Did your special involve Wilfred Brimley or not?
Cause it’s either Caravan of Courage or the Ewok Adventure
Holy crap, I alway thought that I just had an odd imagination. Not that I had searched real hard before, but I wasn’t really even sure what to look at. My parents always denied any knowledge of these movies.
I was 5 and 6, and all I really remember was Ewoks, and that they had bracelets with lights on them that would go out when their family members died.
I do remember that there were two different movies about a year apart, but I had chalked that up to imagination as well.
I’m of mixed minds as to whether I want to actually try watching those, or if I need to push them a bit further into the recesses of my mind.
Memory am funny thing. For over 40 years I distinctly remembered ABC running the “You’re Still The One!” promo(based on the hit song) for their 1975-76 fall season. I remember sitting at my Grandmother’s house and at home and seeing that promo over and over again. Yesterday I happened to Wiki that promo…and found out that it was used to promo both the '77 and '78 fall seasons, after I had left home and joined the U.S.A.F.
As I think I mentioned on the other Big thread, I have memories of seeing scenes from the Star Wars movies that were never filmed (even deleted scenes) but were found in the novelizations.
Are you sure you weren’t watching Logan’s Run by mistake?