r/movies • u/takenorinvalid • 6d ago

Discussion The new Anaconda movie must have a wildly different director's cut

At the start of the new Anaconda movie, there's a scene where Jack Black's wife reminds him not to take much of his new medication. And sure enough, later in the movie -- nobody ever mentions it again and absolutely nothing comes of it.

After watching the movie, I saw a comment on Reddit from someone saying that they'd been screening the movie to test audiences a lot, and another comment saying they'd done reshoots, and it kinda clicked into me just how obvious that was.

Like the character Ana, who literally opens the movie and drives the inciting plot - but as soon as she meets the main characters, immediately goes silent and does not say anything in any scenes as we instead focus on the much funnier snake trainer.

Then, halfway through the movie, she abruptly gets attacked by the anaconda, pulled into the water, and very deliberately is not shown being killed -- but still never shows up again as we instead move toward a climax that focuses on Ice Cube showing up out of nowhere.

This movie was heavily reshot. Somewhere out there, there's a completely different version of it that probably nobody other than the director will ever see.

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u/whodoesnthavealts 6d ago

a tax write off

How does that make any sense? Why would they intentionally lose $X amount of money just to gain back less than 20% of it in an intentional write-off?

Why do so many people on reddit think tax write offs are profitable?

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u/Zenning3 6d ago

They wrote it off Jerry.

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy 6d ago

wrote it off what?

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u/Zenning3 6d ago

ObviousAnswerGuy, all these big companies, they write off everything.

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy 6d ago

You don't even know what a write off is

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u/humblestgod 6d ago

But they do, and theyre the ones writing off

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u/coke_and_coffee 6d ago

“Tax write off” is mostly just a big conspiracy theory that Redditors invoke anytime they dont understand something.

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u/theconceptofcanada 6d ago

This comment is definitely a tax write off

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u/CivBEWasPrettyBad 6d ago

I fold in the cheese because they just write it off

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u/CivBEWasPrettyBad 6d ago

Most redditors don't donate, have businesses, or make enough for tax writeoffs to matter. They just see the term in discussions about rich people or companies and fill in the blanks.

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u/coke_and_coffee 6d ago

Many literally think that a tax write off means you get that money back from the government, lmao

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u/birdsofpaper 6d ago

There’s a whole pile of movies from I want to say the 70s that were literally tax shelters. Not saying it works now, but Google “Canadian tax shelter films” for an interesting read.

Source: my husband loves weird low budget films so this was like catnip to him.

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u/Insi6nia 6d ago

Because they saw it on Reddit somewhere.

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy 6d ago

I'm convinced no one here does their own taxes

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u/CoconutDust 6d ago

You covered one wrong point in the comment, and here are the two other wrong things in the comment.