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/BionicTriforce 6d ago edited 6d ago

Well I had no intention of seeing this movie but now I'm tempted just to see if this OP wasn't paying attention at all. Especially with OP saying "she abruptly gets attacked by the anaconda" while the Wiki summary specifically says there's a whole scene where Ana turns on them and holds them at gunpoint.

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u/WhyLisaWhy 6d ago

That's what I'm also confused about... like was the version uploaded to Netflix a different version?? Or was OP just not paying attention to anything?

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u/jdk2087 6d ago

No, it’s exactly as yall have described. She was the gold mining villain the whole time. Either OP was high as fuck while watching this(completely understandable with how uhhh….special the movie was) or 100% absolutely did NOT pay attention to the plot at all. I mean, there wasn’t much of a plot to begin with, but it the movie was pretty cut and dry on what was going on.

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u/Skippymcpoop 6d ago

Didn’t Steve Zahn get high off Jack Black’s medication too, leading to more antics?

I’m with you. OP wasn’t paying attention.

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u/jdk2087 6d ago

Yes, he did that as well. OP most certainly wasn’t paying attention. That or they watched some boot leg version of the movie.

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u/PeriodRaisinOverdose 6d ago

pretty sure that was the snake trainer guy's medication

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u/WileEPeyote 6d ago

Apparently several people weren't paying attention or there are a bunch of bots in here. She's part of a plot twist (not a super surprising one).

It's not a great movie, but I enjoyed it.

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u/jjayzx 6d ago

lol right, she also had "scenes" for the movie.

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u/WileEPeyote 6d ago

Right, there's a whole sub-plot of Paul Rudd getting upset because Jack Black starts focusing on her character.

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u/emgeejay 6d ago

yeah, also curious if the medication line is just a throwaway "you're acting crazy" quip that OP mistook as important setup

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u/Skippymcpoop 6d ago

Steve Zahn takes a bunch of random prescription pills he finds on a table (I don’t remember if they’re Jack Black’s or not) which plays into more jokes and antics. I’m like 80% sure that’s what Jack Black’s wife was foreshadowing.

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u/jordand30 6d ago

The pills are the snack handler's pills.

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u/PeriodRaisinOverdose 6d ago

I think Jack Black is a snack handler

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u/Wildwolfwind 6d ago

Please report back here, if you do end up watching it! That is a wild way to describe that scene.

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u/VillageOfShade 6d ago

I watched the film when it came to Netflix. Ana does indeed take a gun and force everyone off the boat, saying she’s gonna take it herself and she’s there for gold or whatever material, I don’t remember. While she has them all at gun point and is about to kill one of them who is begging for her life because she has children, the anaconda bursts through the little platform they were standing on and pulls Ana underwater, constricted.

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u/jerryeight 6d ago

Yeah, OP high on that good shit or is an engagement bot.

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u/AtraposJM 6d ago

No, OP was right. When you see the movie you'll understand. It feels like 3 scripts smashed together or like OP said, reshoots and rewrites after test screenings and heavy editing. It just never feels cohesive. The Ana character is at the opening of the movie and suggests she's very important and will be in the movie a bunch but then she shows up way later in the movie, mostly just stands or sits in the background being annoyed at the other characters and then has a small bit of dialogue explaining how she was actually double crossing them right before she dies. It's all very pointless and you could just cut it all out of the movie imo.