And I can’t help myself because I was born to shine.
As I was working last night, I found "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" on Youtube. Can I express how much I loved that movie when I was little?
But as I was watching, I realized that there were scenes in this Youtube version that I had not seen before. I never actually owned a real copy of this movie, only something that we had taped off the TV (most likely off the Disney channel when it was still awesome). There were entire songs cut out, including scenes that would have made much more sense had they remained in the actual movie. I was slightly pissed off that I had missed all this growing up, as I still enjoy singing along with "Portobello Road" (and may have sung it when I was in London walking on the actual road).
Still, nothing compares to my completely embarrassing Star Wars experience. Have I ever mentioned it before? Oh well, it's worth repeating.
As I said, lots of our movies were taped off the TV, even the Star Wars trilogy. They weren't edited or anything (or at the time, I thought they weren't edited), so that's what I grew up watching. There was a bit of an editing mistake during "Empire Strikes Back", but (at the time) it didn't seem that significant. HA.
Jump ten years ahead to when the new releases come back to the theaters. I'm watching "Empire Strikes Back" with my friends, thoroughly enjoying seeing it on the big screen (despite all the special effects edits). And then I notice that there's a new scene in the movie.
Me: Oh look! Darth Vader and Luke are fighting! I don't remember this happening before! And Darth Vader says his "Luke, I am your father!" line! So it DOES exist!
After the movie, I comment on it to my friends and I get the weirdest looks.
Let's time travel back to the 80s/early 90s/whenever those tapes were recorded. Mom decided to be cool and tried editing out the commercials by pushing "Stop" when they came on and "Record" when the movie started again. Usually, it worked. But that one time in "Empire Strikes Back", she forgot to push record again! So MY version of the movie growing up cut just after Han Solo's carbonite slab rises (they check his status and I think Lando gets all uppity about Leia or something) to suddenly, Luke is hanging upside-down on an antennae, Lando is flying the Millennium Falcon, and... oh yeah, LUKE'S HAND HAS BEEN CUT OFF. Everything in between, I had never seen until I was in high school.
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Suffice to say, I've told my mom that I'll forgive her for anything, but not for that.*
*Am totally kidding, I lurve my mom.
Also... HAPPY BURFDAY valmont_god! I must treat you to a night with the Bald Man!
And another note, I shake my finger at you, current fashion! basalt, doven and I went dress shopping last weekend for heaterz0r's wedding. Can we PLEASE move on from the potato sack idea of clothing? It is NOT flattering! I don't want to spend my time trying to figure out if the thing I'm holding is a shirt that you have to wear with leggings or a dress (that you'd probably still have to wear with leggings because it's ridiculously short). I don't want to look like a hipster, for crap's sake!
But as I was watching, I realized that there were scenes in this Youtube version that I had not seen before. I never actually owned a real copy of this movie, only something that we had taped off the TV (most likely off the Disney channel when it was still awesome). There were entire songs cut out, including scenes that would have made much more sense had they remained in the actual movie. I was slightly pissed off that I had missed all this growing up, as I still enjoy singing along with "Portobello Road" (and may have sung it when I was in London walking on the actual road).
Still, nothing compares to my completely embarrassing Star Wars experience. Have I ever mentioned it before? Oh well, it's worth repeating.
As I said, lots of our movies were taped off the TV, even the Star Wars trilogy. They weren't edited or anything (or at the time, I thought they weren't edited), so that's what I grew up watching. There was a bit of an editing mistake during "Empire Strikes Back", but (at the time) it didn't seem that significant. HA.
Jump ten years ahead to when the new releases come back to the theaters. I'm watching "Empire Strikes Back" with my friends, thoroughly enjoying seeing it on the big screen (despite all the special effects edits). And then I notice that there's a new scene in the movie.
Me: Oh look! Darth Vader and Luke are fighting! I don't remember this happening before! And Darth Vader says his "Luke, I am your father!" line! So it DOES exist!
After the movie, I comment on it to my friends and I get the weirdest looks.
Let's time travel back to the 80s/early 90s/whenever those tapes were recorded. Mom decided to be cool and tried editing out the commercials by pushing "Stop" when they came on and "Record" when the movie started again. Usually, it worked. But that one time in "Empire Strikes Back", she forgot to push record again! So MY version of the movie growing up cut just after Han Solo's carbonite slab rises (they check his status and I think Lando gets all uppity about Leia or something) to suddenly, Luke is hanging upside-down on an antennae, Lando is flying the Millennium Falcon, and... oh yeah, LUKE'S HAND HAS BEEN CUT OFF. Everything in between, I had never seen until I was in high school.
-___-
Suffice to say, I've told my mom that I'll forgive her for anything, but not for that.*
*Am totally kidding, I lurve my mom.
Also... HAPPY BURFDAY valmont_god! I must treat you to a night with the Bald Man!
And another note, I shake my finger at you, current fashion! basalt, doven and I went dress shopping last weekend for heaterz0r's wedding. Can we PLEASE move on from the potato sack idea of clothing? It is NOT flattering! I don't want to spend my time trying to figure out if the thing I'm holding is a shirt that you have to wear with leggings or a dress (that you'd probably still have to wear with leggings because it's ridiculously short). I don't want to look like a hipster, for crap's sake!