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TBS Shows Holiday Classic, Jingle All The Way. Cuts Last 15 Minutes Of Film
- Thread starter DrForester
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Coming from the same network that ran Seinfeld at high speed to fit in more ads.
Why anyone watched a movie on cable TV - with ads - in 2020 is beyond me.
Why anyone watched a movie on cable TV - with ads - in 2020 is beyond me.
It's like cutting out the last 15 minutes of Back to the Future.
Marty comes back from the past, life is perfect. The end.
Marty comes back from the past, life is perfect. The end.
I tune in sometimes just to put something on in the background, but the way ads have ballooned the runtimes on cable TV is insane. Two hour movies take three hours to air and three hour movies like LOTR can take up to four and a half hours. That's an entire freaking afternoon.
Eh, I pay for it because I literally can't get Comcast to give me high speed internet if I don't. And no other provider wired my building for it. The US telecom market is a racket, and I understand why a lot of people pay into it.
I wonder if Americans realize how fucked up it is that their networks recut (read: butcher) movies around how many commercials they need to air and when. When I first came to the U.S., back in 2007, my mind was blown how shit the experience of watching a movie on TV in America is. Luckily now there's streaming but I feel bad for all of you who grew up with butchered TV edits and full-screen DVDs.
Growing up, I learned how to tape movies off tv if I didn't own the VHS of them. If I rented the movie before, I remember getting so mad with the content they cut. On the flip side, if the tv edit was the only time I watched the movie, it was weird watching the full cut years later on how much was cut.
The example above is worse garbage for trying to fit the length :/
I'm probably in the minority, but I'm not 100% convinced if TBS actually cut that ending.
I've had trouble before where my recordings will occasionally have issues and not record chunks of shows/movies, and they're clearly watching this from a recording.
Shitty if it's true though.
I've had trouble before where my recordings will occasionally have issues and not record chunks of shows/movies, and they're clearly watching this from a recording.
Shitty if it's true though.
You take that back! Jingle All the Way is Excellent Christmas movie watching!
God I love this movie.
Just the climax and resolution. No big deal.
Yeah every time I see Willy Wonka the same thing happens. They get in the glass elevator, and then boom, credits. Like, what happened to everything after?
-- me as a kid the first time I saw that movie after reading the book
-- me as a kid the first time I saw that movie after reading the book
As a kid, it was all we knew. You'd pop in a dvd and go "oh wow, that scene wasn't in there when I saw this on tv...?" every time.
It's quite evident that the mom (Rita Wilson) wants to bone Harry (the dad played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) while he's wearing the Turbo Man Suit.
But his role as a drunken wreck of a mailman was Oscar worthy
The scene where he gets tackled by a group of white people in the mall and yells "Rodney King!" is one of the more depressingly evergreen "jokes" I've ever heard in a kids movie.
the jetpack blows up, the kid drops to his death, and sinbad got away with turboman doll.
Jingle All the Way is unironically my favorite Christmas movie.
Aside from maybe the ball bouncing around the mall I don't think there's a single wasted or booring scene in the film.
You don't have to defend it, cable is fine for what it is. Cord cutters are either pirating or paying for 5+ seperate subscriptions to get a worse experience than cable, for the amount of use I get out of my Fios package on a monthly basis, it's worth every penny.
This would be a funnier headline if it had been Elf.
"She wants to know how a certain puppy and a certain pigeon escape the clutches of a certain evil witch!"
"She wants to know how a certain puppy and a certain pigeon escape the clutches of a certain evil witch!"
Gonna say it... I think this movie is extremely underrated and I laugh my ass off at it now as an adult. Will take this movie over A Christmas Story (which I find vastly overrated) every single time
Era tends to hate just about everything, so it's usually easier not to bother instead of expecting much in the way of actual discussion whenever something proves part of that "everything".
