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Antediluvian
11/02/08

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eBay was my (very expensive) friend to get this DVD. I saw it for sale at Tower Records when it was first released, said, I don't really have $20 now. Then, a couple years later, paid ~$200 on eBay for it. Because (a) I'm a dork and (b) I love me some Little Shop.
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lightninglouie
11/02/08

@Antediluvian: It was circulating in Borders warehouses for years after the recall. When the movie was reissued on DVD a couple of years later sans extras, a number of the '98 vintage discs ended up on the shelves.
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Cambias
11/02/08

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Well, I know one reason they changed it -- that ending goes on WAY, WAY too long! Okay, plants eating the city, got it. I didn't need to see the same damned fx shot of bricks exploding from a wall, or running feet, or reaction shots of extras for the fourth or fifth time.
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Purple Dave
11/02/08

@Cambias:
In the musical, that sort of thing isn't really feasible, so it's just the chorus singing the song.
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Erinaceus
11/02/08

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While I don't particularily like seeing Rick Moranis meet such an unfortunate end, this ending is certainly more interesting than the original "happy" ending. There are two probable reasons why this ending didn't make the cut.

1) Completing the original version would have put them over budget in some way (damn catering).

2) This ending didn't test well with audiences, so they changed it.
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lightninglouie
11/02/08

@Erinaceus: It's #2. Good ol' Cinefantastique broke the story in the pre-Web days.
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lightninglouie
11/02/08

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Ah, the '80s. Most spineless decade in movie history. (RIP, Levi Stubbs.)

Gotta love Frank Oz's temp laughter at the end of the second clip.
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lucidpsyche
11/02/08

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I've only seen the play, and that's exactly how it ends. I didn't realize the movie was drastically different.
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Purple Dave
11/02/08

@lucidpsyche:
Never saw the movie either, but we did the musical in high school.
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Julius Seizure - Canuck
11/02/08

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It's been a few years but, did it really shift back and forth from colour and b/w like that?
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lightninglouie
11/02/08

@Jim (The Canuck One): Nope. Those are from the dailies, which were included on a DVD that was almost instantly recalled after its release in 1998. (Look carefully and you'll see cameras and mike booms around the edges of some effects shots.) David Geffen still holds the rights to the film, and has been talking about an authoritative version for some time, but it's never materialized.
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