I have been thinking about the Cerveza Crista edit of Star Wars: A New Hope that sporadically splices in beer ads and the Toy Story 3 edit alternate ending where they fall into the incinerator and it made me wonder if people have come across these kind of joke versions, in full, in the wild.

It seems like a majority of the time it’s just short clips being made and reposted.

I’m not talking about the edits of movies where they do things like decrease the speed of the audio so it gradually desyncs from the rest of the movie or when they replace the entire movie with the Limewire Bill Clinton ad.

  • Tiempo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    311·
    9 months ago

    In Chile there is a movie called “el rey de los huevones” (the king of stupid people). When the movie appeared on theatre they flood torrent sites with an archive that contained the actors sitting in the bed that appeared in the movie and telling you were the king for falling for it and for trying to steal it

    • Alice@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      I can imagine myself downloading that while high and paranoid and losing my mind.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    21·
    9 months ago

    Oh man… Have you ever heard of Wizard People, Dear Reader?

    I found this genius interpretation of the first Harry Potter film by Brad Neely probably about 15 years ago via some random torrents. It has lived rent-free in my mind ever since.

    I was always disappointed Neely never did a follow-up, he had claimed to be working on a follow-up in the same style but doing Jurassic Park instead.

  • tobogganablaze@lemmus.orgEnglish
    9·
    9 months ago

    Not one I’ve encountered, but actively looked for.

    There is a british quiz show called “The big fat Quiz of the <year/decade/other topic>” which always features a spread of panelist, mostly comedians but sometimes just random celebrities. In one of the episodes Mel B from the spice girls was on and her performances was generally regarded as terrible. So some dude edited her out of the show. But he didn’t just cut all the scenes where she was in, no. He literally edited her out of all the frames where she’s in when someone else is talking. It’s just brilliant and hilarious that someone went through this effort.

    I downloaded that version and put it as the episode on my plex server.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4mUCRAPLas

      • tobogganablaze@lemmus.orgEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        You’re welcome, and yes, it is. I’m not trying to be smug but thinking about it, this is just such a small obscure show, I thought it was silly to even bring it up. I didn’t even hate on Mel B when I watched this originally. But when I found the video it was just so funny. Then, 8 years later or so, I get back into piracy and selfhosting and I download the show again and immediately though of this edit. And it was still so funny.

        Now, almost 10 years later when I was asked for “funny edits” I had to bring it up. And now looking at it again, it’s so still funny.

  • S13Ni@lemmy.studioEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    Not the movie itself, but once I downloaded 28 days later, and found Finnish subtitle for it cause at the time I still needed those. In the subtitles word “fuck” was translated to “hole bread” in Finnish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruisreikäleipä Also at the end it said “Subtitles by your Dad”

    Other time I downloaded Children Of Bodom’s Blooddrunk before release and got Bullet For My Valentine’s Scream Aim Fire instead with file names renamed as Bodom’s track names. IDK why but now I like both bands.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      I downloaded 28 Days Later and got half an hour in before I thought things like “this is taking a while to get going” and “I didn’t know Sandra Bullock was in this”.

      I’d got the wrong film. It was 28 Days.

      • S13Ni@lemmy.studioEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        Oh damn, 28 weeks is far better movie IMO though. Scarier, and the concept of rebuilding after zombie outbreak and having another outbreak despite safety measures is much more interesting than traditional zombie story.

        • 🖖USS-Ethernet@startrek.websiteEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          I missed them. Went to a festival several years ago and they were supposed to be playing on one of the smaller stages, but we got there late and missed all of the other sets except for the headliners. It was my first concert and I wasn’t the one who planned the trip. That was the only band I was disappointed that I missed though.

  • nintendiator@feddit.clEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    Not sure if joke but I once found a The The Matrix Matrix (the The Matrix movie but entirely visualized as Matrix code) torrent.

  • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    The cerveza crystal edit wasn’t a meme edit. Iirc it was a totally legit copy of the movie aired in Chile decades ago when they got the rights to air the movie on their local TV. They wanted to make extra money and that company paid the TV station to do in movie product placements. They’re hilarious.

    • Corroded@leminal.spaceOPEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Yeah if you check the post you’ll see that I linked to an article about it that explained how it came to be and has a few example clips.

      It’s a bit like “Turkish Star Wars”. It wasn’t intended to be a joke or a meme but that’s kind of legacy it’s stuck with.

    • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      It wasn’t an edit of the movie. The beer company just paid the TV station to put the ad breaks at specific places of the movie, and for their ad to be the first ad of the ad break, allowing them to make it look like part of the movie. But it was still just an ad break, and other ads followed the beer ad.

  • Corroded@leminal.spaceOPEnglish
    32·
    9 months ago

    I feel like the closest I’ve seen to this is porn parodies that occasionally have identical file names.