may your voice be heard because
sometimes the studios really are
listening hey everyone I'm Rebecca and
welcome to watchmojo.com is Ross that
means we're looking at instances where
movie studios listen to fans or test
audiences and change their movie to
accommodate their demands however we're
not necessarily saying that these
changes were for the better all right
let's get to the list number 10 Ray's
lineage Star Wars Episode nine the rise
of Skywalker the force awakens is often
criticized for being a rehash of a new
hope but it still raised some intriguing
questions primarily the lineage of rey
whomever you're waiting for and jakku
they're never coming back in the force
awakens where was a simple scavenger
with a muddy past and many people were
quick to assume that her mysterious
lineage would become important however
this was infamously subverted by Rian
Johnson who made Rey's parents random
nobodies who abandoned her on jakku for
quote drinking money you have no place
in this story you come from nothing it
was a risk but it didn't pay off fans
were enraged and the rise of Skywalker
turned her into the granddaughter of
Emperor Palpatine see they didn't
abandon her for drinking money they were
protecting her from her evil grandfather
your mileage may vary with this one so
be it kid number 9 a different editing
style Goodfellas sometimes test
audiences actually know what they're
talking about
not all the time mind you but sometimes
luckily they are directly responsible
for the manic last act of Goodfellas
I think it's been following all morning
Henry becomes an anxious wreck in the
final act of a movie thanks to his
abundant cocaine use insomnia and
unrelenting paranoia the test audiences
found these sequences too drawn out in
the original cut so Martin Scorsese and
editor Thelma Schoonmaker tightened up
the pacing and added the signature jump
cuts the result was magnificent a
relentlessly paced and manic sequence
that firmly places the viewer in Henry's
drug fuelled and paranoid headspace
number 8 license revoked license to kill
it seems like everyone but the most
ardent James Bond fans forget about
Timothy Dalton's movies The Living
Daylights and 1989's license to kill
how many men have you got it's a fitting
name as license to kill is easily the
darkest and most brutally violent Bond
movie ever made but can you believe it
was almost called license revoked that
was the original name of the movie and
MGM even commissioned posters with the
license revoked title however fans hated
and were left confused by the title as
they thought license revoked referred to
bonds driver's license
MGM listen to the outrage and change the
title to license to kill well no one's
confusing that with the driver's license
number seven Scott leaves with Ramona
Scott Pilgrim vs. the world Edgar Wright
adapted Bryan Lee O'Malley Scott Pilgrim
before it was even finished and like
another certain story that was adapted
before it was finished the ending was
met with considerable backlash and
controversy in Edgar Wright and Michael
Bacall's original ending Scott ditches
Ramona and gets back together with
knives this ending proved highly
divisive but things got even worse in
July 2010 when O'Malley released the
final chapter in the Scott Pilgrim
series in his ending Scott reunites and
leaves with Ramona you wanna come with
me yeah maybe we could try again
discouraged by O'Malley's alternate
ending in the poor reception to his
Edgar Wright decided to change the
ending of his movie to match the one
found in the comics number six making
Star Trek more Star Trek II Star Trek
beyond the first two films in the
rebooted Star Trek series certainly
weren't bad but they weren't very Star
Trek they were action blockbusters very
well made action blockbusters yes but
Star Trek was never about the action
you're suggesting that we utilize the
passage between the approaching
structures this ship will laugh it will
fit captain we will not
enter writer JD Payne who stated that
his script quote got back to the sense
of exploration and wondered that the
Star Trek series was known for how we're
gonna get out of this one Spock we got
no ship no crew not the best that we
will do what we have always done Jim we
will find hope in the impossible
that said Simon Pegg was then brought in
to make the film more palatable as quote
the studio was worried that it might
have been a little bit too Star Trek II
means that I'm an officer of Starfleet
engineering division engineering is a
fixed thing I know what is engineering
overall the quality of the movie and
dumbing down of the script aside there
is no denying that beyond is certainly
more old-school in Star Trek than into
darkness
number five ditching Victor dama Chev
Fantastic Four comic book fans really
take the source material seriously case
in point
Fantastic Four the riches Victor Von
Doom before the movie was released
aka before we knew it was a flaming pile
of garbage it was rumoured that dr.
Doom's real name would be Victor gamma
chef this resulted in an insane amount
of backlash as fans were insistent that
he retained his comic name of Victor Von
Doom I think the fans heard that and
said it's got to be doom and they knew
that I think that was me box listen to
the incensed fans and Victor's name was
changed during the reshoots to match the
one found in the source material not
that that really mattered
there is no Victor
there is only doing that this movie
needed way more changes than a simple
name alteration number four including a
xenomorph alien covenant by the time
covenant rolled around the Alien
franchise had long been dormant we
hadn't gotten a true scary alien film in
decades as a resurrection was some
ridiculous b-movie nonsense and
Prometheus was busy pondering the
philosophical what you hope to achieve
by coming here but we hope to achieve
was to meet our makers to get answers
why they why they even hit us in the
first person
Ridley Scott was on board with the
direction telling Yahoo movies in 2014
that he was retiring the xenomorph
however the hostile reaction towards
prometheus made him rethink his plans as
such Ridley Scott and screenwriter John
Logan wished to return the series to its
horror roots with alien covenant
after extensive script rewrites the
whole xenomorph was brought back in an
alien covenant had its signature mix of
old-school thrills and philosophical
musings you have symphonies in you
brother number three the DC EU stops
being so dark the DC extended universe
we get what the DC EU was trying to do
and we respect it but it just wasn't
working to compete with Marvel's lighter
fare DC released the dark dreary and
critically disappointing Man of Steel
Batman vs Superman and Suicide Squad all
of that all three of these movies while
ultimately profitable still
underperformed at the box office and it
became clear that general audiences
weren't enjoying the DC EU brand so they
changed it you gotta put the sword down
Diana please it doesn't go with the
outfit at all for now after Suicide
Squad was the lighter and better
received Wonder Woman
followed by the Marvel asked Aquaman and
Shazam Justice League was quicker and
more colorful than its gloomy
predecessors a clear attempt at making
the brand more family-friendly and
accessible any blowback big time but I
think we could take it good
so I really like being alive number two
reducing jar jar's roll the Star Wars
prequel trilogy modern fans made bemoan
the last Jedi but that is nothing
compared to the absolute furor
surrounding the Phantom Menace and
attack of the clones
you saved my again what's this a local
these movies were considered total
travesties and much of the blame was
aimed squarely at a specific character
poor Jar Jar Binks Jar Jar was the most
hated character in the world following
the Phantom Menace and his terrible
mistakes an attack of the clones
certainly didn't help his reputation due
to the intense backlash after Ahmed best
recommended that George Lucas kill off
Jar Jar in Revenge of the Sith
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his recommendation was not answered but
jar jar's role was significantly reduced
and numerous scenes involving the
character were cut from the theatrical
release
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sonic the hedghog it was a long time
coming but in 2019 we finally got our
first glimpse of the highly anticipated
Sonic the Hedgehog movie gotta go fast
and it was not great let's be serious
the expectations of Sonic fans have long
been lowered but even the lowest of
expectations couldn't brace us for what
we were about to see the humanoid sonic
design was utterly detested and quickly
memed and the trailer was bombarded with
dislikes on YouTube it was a certified
PR nightmare for Sega and Paramount and
they instantly went into damage control
mode they quickly announced they were
redesigning Sonic and subsequently
delayed the movie and yes the redesign
was considerably better I always want to
do this
at least we know they're serious about
pleasing the fans I mean regardless of
the overall quality of the sonic movie
it is very impressive that they were
willing to redesign their entire main
character based on fan reaction so let
me know
have you ever complained about something
and they actually changed it based on
your recommendation let me know in the
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