I just watched the wrong version of Drive (2011), and didn't realize until the last 10 minutes. Any similar stories?

I watched the movie Hush, a horror movie about a deaf woman, on mute without knowing until after it was over. I thought it was a really creative artistic choice

Oh man I can't stop laughing🤣🤣🤣
- It’s legitimately very funny, I felt really really dumb but it’s a good story
I had a similar thing happen to me with Dark City. It took me 30 minutes to realize that the contrast on my TV was turned all the way down and that in fact, you were supposed to see something that wasn't just really, really dark.
That's one of my favorite horror flicks. Release the mute cut!
I had something similar with a download of Eraserhead. The audio was corrupted, the best way I could describe it is running water with a ton of reverb slightly chopped. I thought it was an interesting choice and the ambience definitely matched the black and white industrial atmosphere. 30 minutes in, I realized it was a bad copy when someone finally spoke.

I spent longer than I care to admit waiting for David Bowie to show up in Pan's Labyrinth, does that count?

waiting for ~~David Bowie~~ to show up

david's bowie
I'm waiting for David to show up in most media I watch. He tends to refuse, though.

How is no one mentioning why there are two versions of a movie only differing in soundtrack..? Seems bizarre to me

A lot of TV shows had their music replaced when they went to streaming because of song licensing crap, so it wasn't super surprising that it happened to a movie too.
- NBC and owners of scrubs were the worst for it. Scrubs had an iconic soundtrack that picked songs for the exact mood of the story, but then licenses expired and they just chose cheaper songs. I don't care how much it costs, when "I will try to fix you" comes on I immediately start tearing up.
  
  Edit: Found this - https://www.reddit.com/r/Scrubs/comments/2lmf7h/ive_made_a_list_of_dvdnetflix_song_differences/
  
  So many in there that are obvious just cheap replacements. This one made me legit angry:
  
  My Ocardial Infarction (S4E13) - end scene; JD takes a deep breath as per Elliot's advice, and handles trainwreck patient very well
  
  DVD song: "All Kinds of Time" by Fountains of Wayne
  
  Netflix song: Unknown instrumental
- It would absolutely be surprising if you've never heard of that, which I hadn't.
- Scrubs was absolutely ruined because of this.
  
  The time I spent putting the broadcast audio onto the streaming/dvd/Blu-ray releases to make them watchable was significant.

I watched the first half of "Nightcrawler" before I questioned why Jake Gyllenhaal didn't have a German accent and the X-Men where nowhere in sight.

You should go ahead and watch the second half. It's a good movie.
- what's the point if he can't teleport through a hell dimension

I watched 90% of a movie with "narration" turned on, and thought that "this movie is really fucking annoying. Yes, I see that the actor just did that, you don't need to tell me."

I never thought it happened to anyone else! Happened to me in Montreal few years ago.

Went to the Bell centre to watch the Habs, get drunk, and then back at the hotel, Apollo 13 was on tv. Classic Tom hanks movie so I had to watch the Whole thing.

It had narration mode turned on…. In French. The most confusing movie I’ve ever watched. And I’ve seen Apollo 13 a dozen times.
- Unless you’re a baker, you should watch it one more time.

I stumbled on a Harry Potter book that was leaked early. Read the entire thing, several hundred pages.

The actual book came out and it was completely different. I had read a fan-fiction.

Could never get back into the series as I had a ton of false memories from that book.

Was it the “leaked” version of the Half Blood Prince? If so, a girl I was interested in sent that to me saying that her aunts friend worked for the publisher and I couldn’t show anyone or else they’d all go to jail. I was in high school so of course my mom was suspicious when I was spending hours reading something on the computer, so she made me tell her what it was, and I remember crying and begging her not to tell anyone that this girl I wanted to bang had sent it to me haha
- Yes! That was it. Didn't even get me laid.
  
  Thanks for confirming that it wasn't just a bad dream though! Do you still have your copy?
Yeah same for me! I think I realized when it got sexual

I watched District 9 without subtitles.

Any necessary subs should be hard coded.
- Well, it's better to have them decoupled. For example, let's say you're trying to watch The Godfather in French, you wouldn't want the scenes in Italy to have hardcoded English subs.
I did the same with The Wolverine. I thought the non-subtitled Japanese parts were an impressive artistic choice. I didn't need to know what they were saying thanks to tge acting and other context clues.

It wasn't until a couple of lengthy flashbacks that I started to suspect something wasn't right.
This happened to me with The Godfather in the Italy scenes.
We did this to the Arrival, too.

light spoiler :::

the first subtitles are almost at the very end of the movie, so it was too late to bother. Also, most of us watched it before, but man was it a letdown.

Crash. In high school my buddy brought out all the weird horror and b-movies he could find, including crash, a movie about people who get busy after dangerous or injurious automobile incidents. Cut to a few years later, when my friend's parents are telling me a how they thought crash was so powerful and everyone should see it, and how it was nominated for a bunch of oscars, I was completely perplexed.

Crash is a 1996 Canadian erotic thriller film[5] written, produced and directed by David Cronenberg, based on J. G. Ballard's 1973 novel of the same name. Starring James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Elias Koteas, Holly Hunter and Rosanna Arquette, it follows a film producer who, after surviving a car crash, becomes involved with a group of symphorophiliacs who are aroused by car crashes and tries to rekindle his sexual relationship with his wife.

A group of strangers in Los Angeles grapple with issues of race, class, family and gender in the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks in New York.

The fact that caught ny eye is that the 1996 movie gas the score by Howard Shore.
- That's what caught your eye? Not that it's a 1996 film that happen to reference the "September 11 terror attacks in New York."
I thought you were talking about this movie

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(2004_film)

I accidentally watched A Quiet Place with the sound off. It wasn't until the waterfall scene about 45m in that I realized something was wrong.

There's also the Nicolas Cage classic The Wicker Man. A version exists without his "Not the bees!" scene and let me tell you, that's a disappointment.

The original is a stone cold classic. The remake, not so much.

When I was a kid, I downloaded Grand Theft Auto from g'nutella (kazzah). To avoid fakes, I usually downloaded the biggest version.

Well the reason this one was bigger than the rest was because there was a video file buried somewhere in the game's directory structure. The video was Debbie Does Dallas, the next generation.

Besides that one time I pressed 'play' before 'eject' on the VCR and stumbled on my Dad's porn, that was the first time I watched porn. And I watched it a lot. It taught me that promiscuous sex in college stairwells is normal and that most college women dont wear panties under thier short skirts.

Its one of the reasons I strongly believe that we need to teach kids about consent and sexual norms at a very young age. Otherwise they learn fucked up things from pornos.

Some of the first porn I ever saw was some amateur porn sharing galleries someone linked me to on AIM. Lots of normal people having normal sex. I am somewhat thankful I was introduced to porn this way, rather than some sort of hardcore S&M shit. It was nice looking at something somewhat realistic. Like I had an idea that I would have a chance to do these things someday (spoiler: I would).

Was over someone's house and they wanted to watch a comedy. They were like, "We both like Robin Williams. This should be a funny movie.".

Jakob the Liar It was a movie set during WW2 Holocaust at a camp. Not very many laughs.....at all.

Actually, if you look at Robin Williams repertoire of films, he does a lot of very depressing movies. Like the ratio of funny movies to depressing movies is extraordinarily lopsided.
- Yeah, but this was like 1999 and we didn't know the wide range of talent that the man had. I saw 1 hour photo and what dreams may come later.
- Off the top of my head, What Dreams May Come and One Hour Photo are two wildly different types of movie, both kinda bleak in their own way, and neither what you'd turn to if you wanted a Robin Williams comedy. To some extent World's Greatest Dad as well, though that one actually is pretty funny.

Listening to the real soundtrack now, I'm so disappointed that my first watch was with... that version

I watched full metal jacket waiting to see the boats and the crazy dude by the cave . Tunes out that was apocalipae now..

That’s Noah.

I confused Arrival with Annihilation. Both are good movies but I was wondering why I didn't see any linguists

Just don't confuse Arrival with The Arrival, a 1996 turdburger with Charlie Sheen.

Me and my friend watched about 80% of some strange back to the future animated movie, after spending a week in Amsterdam. Then it suddenly clicked, we had been watching all the cut scenes from there back to the future video game, put together as a movie.

I watched an hour of the fake interviews on the Blair witch project when it first came out thinking that was the movie, was not impressed

@reef We got about 50 or 55 minutes into "The Girl on the Train" before we realized it was weird Emily Blunt hadn't shown up yet. And all the actors were Indian.

That was when we learned there was a Hindi-language remake.

Wait rescored... Like without "Real Human Being?"

I tried watching some armageddon type movie (not the Armageddon movie) and was quite a ways in until I realized it was some Christian knockoff.

Watched the boys season 2?

Title

Where Kimiko meets her brother

Having a full conversation in thier language and no subtitles. "Ok. We are not meant to know they are saying because mystery/suspence". Untill they started crying. "Ok. Lets go back now..."

I acquired the new Ted Danson/Mike Schur show, A Man on the Inside a few days ago. Given that it's spy-coded I didn't think it unusual when the opening scene supposedly filmed in the early '80s was in a foreign language. Figured that maybe Danson's character is ex-KGB or some shit and that there were no subtitles because we're not really supposed to know what he's saying.

Yeah, no. I'd somehow managed to strip out all language files but Turkish when transcoding it from MKV to MP4.

That's a bummer. It's like watching Legend without the Tangerine Dream soundtrack, much as I adore the compositions of Jerry Goldsmith. Doesn't help that there's 4 or so versions, including Ridley Scott's overly self indulgent director's cut at nearly 2 hours.

Ah, the joy of sitting through about 45 minutes of 28 Days, before realising I'd downloaded the wrong movie when the zombies failed to show up.

Me and my friend watched the same movie remotely. They were watching "into the wild", I was watching "No county for old men". I understood I was on the wrong one when they commented about the great soundtrack, since the second one has no music ;D definitely after thee first quarter, probably after half. By chance they were talking about the van in the scene where there's a van smuggling drugs so I did not notice

Yup. Before Drive was officially released there was a pirated "screener" copy online with a different, and in my opinion better, soundtrack. It enhanced the movie in a more effective way than what we got in the official release. Especially the elevator scene.

Watched the movie again when it officially came out and went "wait a minute, this isn't right".

Not even sure if the screener copy is still available anywhere.

There's a version of Morrissey's Irish Blood, English Heart that hit the radios before it was released, and it was waay better than what we actually got:

no weird comical sound effects, cleaner sound, the high guitar could be heard way better, and the ending riff was a harmonious one, not some eclectic free-for-all.

After years of believing I had hallucinated/mandela'd the whole thing, I finally found it:

The Janice Long Radio cut

I watched "San Andreas Quake: Magnitude 10", waited for a long time wondering where is The Rock before I understood I The Asylum tricked me. Later, I saw the real movie but it was less fun than the mockbuster.

I am not sure if this counts but my mom put on Alien for me on Hulu, and it had some weird cuts in it. Turns out I had Hulu w/ Live TV so it was probably a cable edit of the film.

I ended up giving it an 8/10 but I bet I would have rated it higher if the cuts weren't so strange. I'll need to buy it on 4K and watch it properly at some point.

The chvrches song for that is a banger. The rest didn't grab me though, I've also only listened to the soundtrack not the rescore film itself

I don't think I have, but someone has to have watched a different Spiderman than they intended.

Spiderman pointing at spiderman dot jpg

I watched the last two harry potter parts in the wrong order, I was really confused why hogwarts suddenly looked like that.

This happened to me with the second Lord of the Rings trilogy. Ffs they dont put the number in the movie titles, so its really hard to figure out the order you're supposed to watch them

It took me a good fifteen minutes to realize Grand Moff Tarkin wasn't in the Universal version of the Mummy.

wtf the music and colors and photography made that movie. a real hero is a fantastic track.

Ok, I am super curious, because I don't know what version I have seen, or how to identify the other version!

Yeah for some reason Stremio glitched once and played totally the wrong movie. I can't remember what I was trying to watch, but it ended up being about some weird US-Russian war from the folks on the ISS.I

I didn't realize what was going on until 75% of the way in

Watched „Children of men“ expecting a good movie.

Turns out it’s some religious hate bs story.

Was really disappointed because the quality of the actors and the whole technical setup made the impression of a „could be good“-movie