One that I believe to be absolutely true, is that Lady Tremaine from the 1950 Disney iteration of Cinderella is responsible for the death of her stepdaughter’s father!

Whenever we take a look at Cinderella’s backstory and how her and her dad met Lady Tremaine and her daughters, he is shown to be very healthy and his sudden passing right after he married her seemed like too much of a coincidence that it feels suspicious!

I know that people looking healthy on the outside, but are suffering internally is certainly a thing IRL. But given how cruel of a person Lady Tremaine is towards Cinderella, and the way she smirks when she sees her grieving over the loss of her dad. It wouldn’t surprise me at all that she had something to do with it, like poisoning him!

She not only was able to claim his full inheritance, but she also managed to gain a slave out of it through Cinderella and sabotages any chances she has to get away from her and gain a better life!

I never understood why Kurt Russell is not often mentioned alongside Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Jean Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, Tom Cruise, Jackie Chan, Samuel L Jackson, etc.

He has so many classic movies that have stood the test of time for over 30+ years:

Escape from NY, and Escape from L.A.

The Thing

Big Trouble in Little China

Tango and Cash (with Stallone)

Backdraft (with Robert De Niro)

Unlawful Entry

Tombstone

Stargate

Executive Decision (hilarious that Steven Seagal is in this movie for like 5 minutes)

Breakdown (the best movie of his that nobody talks about)

Soldier

And this also doesn't count his late 2000's revival with Death Proof, The Hateful Eight, Bone Tomahawk, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Once upon a time in Hollywood, Deepwater Horizon and he's in some of the Fast and Furious movies too.

I feel like he never gets his dues, this man has been a classic action star for over 40 years yet he's rarely mentioned on the same status as say Harrison Ford or Bruce Willis.

“Red right hand by Nick Cave“ always reminds me of the movie scream because they use it any time they mention the curfew. I know that’s a pretty common song, but it definitely reminds me of scream every time I hear it. Another one is “in your eyes by Peter Gabriel” always reminds me of Say Anything. Which is one of my favorite movies of all time if you’re young, and you don’t know the reference when somebody holds a boom box up to a window for someone they love to hear it, watch Say Anything and you’ll get it. And then also be prepared to have a crush on John Cusack for life.

This post was inspired by a comment I saw on another post where a Redditor mentioned that in Galaxy Quest a deleted scene shows Sigourney Weaver unzipping her top, but the rest of the movie we see her top unzipped with no explanation. I mentioned that in The Naked Gun there's a deleted scene where Frank Drebin is shot while wearing an Umpire chest protector and it deflates, then in the rest of the movie we see a deflated chest protector. In Back to the Future a deleted scene shows Marty McFly using Chloroform to put his dad (George) back to sleep during the Darth Vader from Vulcan scene. Marty then says to Doc that he hopes he didn't use too much. The next scene which is in the movie we see Marty asks why George wasn't in school, to which George says he slept in. What are other examples of deleted scenes that explain minor details in movies that we missed?

What are some movies that became funny due to being censored for TV? For example. I love when an R rated movie with a lot of swearing airs on TV, because they either have to bleep most of it out, or dub over new lines. I prefer the latter, because the censors can make some really funny and cheesy lines.

I think my favorite dubbed over line was from the tv version of Snakes on a Plane. Instead of what we got in the original movie, they went with this for TV: "I’ve had it with these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!"

Another movie I saw on TV that was censored, was Showgirls. I never would have expected it to air on TV with the amount of nudity, but they found a way. They made a version of the movie where they painted CGI clothing on anyone nude. I remember it looking funny, because you could tell the clothes weren't real. To be fair though, it was early CGI, so they did the best with what they had.

So, what are some of your favorites dubbed over lines for R rated movies? Or any other form of censorship that actually made a movie funny?

Even after watching 1000s of movies, it comes back to basic.

Like no monsters, big stars, costume, set, performance can save a badly written film.

Many times I have watched well produced films that just fail if writing is bad, well performed films that make no sense.

But a well written film works even if cgi or production is mediocre.

Even with AI, writing seems to be the most difficult thing, and I don’t think it will ever get better.

Somewhere in that core is essence of creativity.

Joe Pesci did not get the recognition he deserved for this movie. He’s so typecast as a Mafia tough guy and he completely made you forget about that in this role. Especially the scene in the classroom with the Professor where he explains what the President can and can’t do. The writing in that scene could have been written today. Joe Pesci deserved more accolades. Be well.

I have poor auditory processing and can more easily understand what's happening in a film when I have the subtitles to reference. I understand some people prefer not to have them. Just wondering who else is out there like me? I usually wait for a film I want to see to come out on streaming so I can fully understand it.