Synopsis:

These are 2 alternate versions of the surprisingly good 50 FIRST DATES. 49 First Dates removes almost all the over-the-top, childish, embarrassing, lame moments and gives you a romantic and very funny comedy at its best. 51 First Dates on the other hand is the ultimate extended edition, which includes 5 additional great scenes. Unforgettable.

Intentions:

I still don’t know, why I watched the original movie at all, because the plot sounded ridiculously stupid, yet I did and was really surpised. The movie is highly entertaining and comes with a lot emotional and very well acted scenes and a quite clever and touching plot. Instead of making just fun of memory loss diseased people, it really took its time to show the suffering involved and was most of the times very well balanced between just being a comedy and dramtatic elements. Unlike most works of Adam Sandler this one is not plain superficial and the chemistry between Sandler and Barrymore works really well. Still, when I watched it for the second time, the mass of cheesy elements turned me off, the pipi-kaka humor, the anti homosexual attitude, the superficial scenes that only aimed for a meaningless quick laughter. I had the idea to fanedit this movie for a long time, but considered the project ot minor to be executed. But then I took a look at the deleted scenes and had the idea to not just present my true fanedit, which I consider a huge improvement over the original, but also an extended edition, featuring some good scenes that did not make it to the official final cut. This fanedit is supposed to be the all-you-can get supersize edition for all fans of this movie. I recommend the true fanedit, but also think the extended edition is a nice one to enjoy once.

Change List:

The changes: 49 First Dates: - removed the entire beginning in which girls (and Kevin James) talk about Henry’s qualities as a lover and one night stand. - removed Ula discussing love and affairs with Henry - removed the Walrus’ vomiting scene. - removed Alexa’s approach on Henry - removed Ula’s stitch bleeding again - removed Alexa in the bar - removed Alexa’s advice for Henry to still approach Lucy - removed the Whitmores and Henry entering the clinic and being approached by a stupid male nurse. - removed Dr. Keats mentioning Ten Seconds Tom - removed the Whitmores and Henry meeting Ten Seconds Tom - removed Jennifer from the beach party - removed Henry talking to the Walrus about its affairs - removed the kids and Ula jumping into the sea - removed 2 patients discussing their disease - removed Ten Seconds Tom meeting Henry on the stairs - removed Ten Seconds Tom interrupting Henry and Lucy - removed the walrusses formt he final scene. - changed end credits 51 First Dates: - added “Good Samaritian: when Henry waits for Lucy to pretend he has car trouble, another guy stops to help out and Henry needs to get rid of him. Quite a funny scene. - added “Encouraging Response”: Henry approaches Lucy in the cafe again with another try, this time speaking in funny 3rd person orders. Lucy reacts well. A very nice and funny scene. Difficutly was where to put it. In the end there was only one possibility, just before another almost successful cafe approach. It feels a bit hacked, but the scene is great. - added “Lucy’s Anger”: when her condition is revealed to Lucy she totally freaks out. It is a pretty strong scene, that unfortunately came with very different music and no sound to some scenes. I tired my best to include it, but it still feels a bit out of place. Still, a worthy addition for the seriousity. - added “Lucy’s 2nd wind”: Henry is supposed to keep an eye on Lucy, while she is upstairs and suppsoed to sleep. She gets her 2nd wind and they have fun with each other. A very nice scene, but difficult to put in, because it plays directly after Henry sings “Forgetful Lucy”, but didn’t make sense there plotwise for being pre-sex.

Additional Notes:

49 First Dates: This removes plentyof the over-the-top moments and flat jokes to create a more to the point romantic comedy. It treats the memory loss disease with more respect and is also less anti homosexual. Kids will probably prefer the roiginal or extended version, grown ups will probably much prefer this. 51 First Dates: This is the ultimate extended edition. It contains 4 of the 5 deleted scenes that came with the DVD. These scenes are really good and add to the movie, instead of just extending the runtime. For this to work it was necessary to move one scene to a different position: when Adam Sandler sings “Forgetful Lucy” the scene is placed after they had their first sex. The deleted scene “Second Wind” kind of implies that no sex happened yet. So I moved the song before the first sex scene and it works pretty well there.

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Special Thanks:

Winnie, Lena; Nono.