boredzo

Also @boredzo@mastodon.social.

Breaker of binaries. Sweary but friendly. See also @TheMatrixDotGIF and @boredzo-kitchen-diary.



If you can play it directly from the Blu-Ray or DVD, I recommend it.

Both discs have a “random ending” feature that randomly selects one of the endings. The version you see on streaming services or buy from download stores includes all three endings in a fixed order.

Using the random ending feature is the closest thing possible today to watching the movie in theaters. When it originally ran, each theater got one of the endings, assigned randomly. (I don't know whether any multiplexes got more than one.) So when you went to see it, you saw effectively a random ending—and different people who saw it in different theaters might've seen different endings!

[Edit: See comments for a correction! And a differing opinion on whether to watch a random ending vs. all three endings.]


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Honestly not really? A lot of people have suggested the film flopped in theaters because of this stunt exactly - and it wasn't very random, they promoted it heavily and most newspaper clippings I've seen advertise it and theater listings indicate by the letters A, B, and C. Many (myself included) also think the endings are not exactly equal in quality - the "they all did it" ending is far and away the best and the other two feel like half-baked joke endings, and the syndicated cut has been the go-to ever since for good reason. Frankly I think the gag of seeing an ending play out, and then having a title card announce that was just one possibility, to be way funnier and charming than the strange gimmick of having to watch the movie again to see a different ending.

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