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Did anyone ever grow up with a major piece of pop culture in some slightly altered form?
Let me regale you with the story of Die Hard: The Grandpa Cut
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Let me regale you with the story of Die Hard: The Grandpa Cut
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Growing up, I had a taped VHS copy of Die Hard that I watched all the time, which my grandfather had taped off HBO sometime in the late ‘80s or early ‘90s. And my grandpa always tried to fit three movies per VHS tape.
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So he almost always stopped the tape when the end credits started to try and save space on the tape. And when he was feeling especially overzealous, he would stop the tape before the end credits actually started, just when he thought they were about to.
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Because of that, the taped copy of Die Hard I had as a kid ended with Bruce Willis and Reginald VelJohnson hugging. The whole final scene of the long-haired villain coming back out and then VelJohnson shooting him? Yeah, that wasn’t on my tape.
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I seriously didn’t even know that scene existed until I first bought Die Hard on DVD when I was in my 20s. By that time I had seen the movie at least a dozen times, and it was *extremely* confusing to realize there was a whole final scene I hadn’t seen before!
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But also, I still prefer The Grandpa Cut. I think Die Hard would be more perfect if it just ended with the hug. That final bit always strikes me as wrong and excessively cheesy when I watch the movie now. Like it’s a deleted scene that somehow got added back in.
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Does anyone else have a story like this? A piece of pop culture that you unknowingly consumed in some accidentally altered form?
