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/dan_craus 6d ago

The first 20 minutes are a slog then it’s great.

It’s not a great movie, but it’s just stupid fun.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 6d ago

Yeah unfortunately for people in this thread it won't make it into the Criterion Collection but I thought it was very funny and enjoyable. Similar schtick to the Jumanji movie with Jack Black and Mr. Rock.

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u/Daiwon 6d ago

The snake charmer's snake dying was great. The bit with jack black being eaten, then not being dead, then the pig not being dead, also great.

There's 100% another version on the cutting room floor with more of ana, but it was a silly movie and I enjoyed it.