Fun fact, in one of the muppets Christmas movies, there’s a scene where they show a world without Kermit and it has the twin towers in the background, all the other scenes had them edited out but this, meaning Kermit had some involvement in the 9/11 attack
It’s kind of surprising to me how impactful just one high profile terrorist attack could change so many movie. Monsters Inc.’s plasma dome scene, Lilo and Stitch’s airplane scene, various points in Spider Man. What’s even more surprising is how fitting some of the scenes fit in their respective movies.
The Lilo and Stitch one worked well because it explained how Jamba and Pleekley got to earth (via their own ship), and it made great use of the Hawaiian islands’ beautiful natural terrain in the valleys and mountains.
Yeah it was too on the nose to begin with and after 9/11 hell no that shit wasn’t gonna fly. And in the end we got a better sequence with better character development. It makes sense they would have a space ship of their own anyways
I wish they had kept the twin towers in the movies released around 9/11. I can understand why they edited them out, but looking back, media containing those two buildings is a sort of source of pride for a lot of us, especially some of the last footage of them. It feels a bit strange knowing that some of the actual last footage of the buildings was digitally scrubbed away, just because it might been uncomfortable for viewers at the time.
@@hopelessspaghetti5310 Back to the Future came out way before 9/11. And in recent versions they edited Marty saying "You'll be killed by terrorists!" to be something else or either removed. And just a note, Back to the Future came out over 20 years before 9/11. I may be thinking of something else. So my apologies if I got something wrong.
@@StardustBulletsthat's really bad, but it gets worse for other older movies. something something the modern sensibilities excuse. History is being wrecked.
I’ve always thought it was really weird that they wanted to delete the towers from movies, like that’s more disrespectful than anything. It’d be like deleting all the photos of a loved one after they pass away, and just pretending they never existed, because it pains you to think about them. The reason the towers featured in all those movies is because they’re so iconic, those movies paid tribute to them. And so it’s like the movie producers are helping to destroy the towers too by removing them from media, and from the public’s consciousness.
Well to be fair, because of the attacks, the reminder of those towers are more haunting than it is welcoming. Like how a favorite memory suddenly becomes a bad dream.
Yeah as someone who doesn’t remember a world without the towers it let to a feeling that it’s something we will never forgot but must never reference or talk about. So much so that all depiction of it should be erased as if the towers never existed. Now idk about you but to me, that’s dam confusing. Which is it? Do we never forgot or do we try to live on like the towers never existed.
This is a first I’m hearing about the Monsters Inc scene. Didn’t know originally there was gonna be a explosion. Props to the team for changing it to a more non-threatening situation
Looking back, I never realized that the burned bag from Monsters Inc. was because of a deleted scene where they blew up the sushi shop. I think that young me saw them completely obliterate a sock as well as shave down what's-his-name that he just figured it was burned due to them decontaminating the bag.
Given what they did to the sock, I'd always thought they had blown up the restaurant but the plasma bubble was to keep the explosion contained. It just never got shown on-screen. It worked a lot better in continuity given how careful they were with the sock earlier in the film; just recklessly blowing up the sushi restaurant wouldn't have made much sense for the CDA.
i dont know what you all believe in but i believe in Jesus Christ, you may believe in Him as well, if you do, i hope you are where you need to be with Him, if you arent i hope you will accept him into your life, you may know the the story already, but He willingly died for everybody, and that includes you, if you are wondering if something is sinful look up Scripture about it online (i recommend the King James Version), i hope you read The Bible, and find a good church, ill leave you with some Scripture, Colossians 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Luke 6:31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
I've heard a story that for the Mariah Carey film Glitter, there was a brief shot of the WTC in one scene, and the filmmakers debated on whether or not to take it out. In the end, they decided to leave the shot in the final film, though they worried about how audiences might react. When the towers appeared in the scene, the whole theater erupted in applause.
Yeah, this goes to show, what if they unedited or kept in the scenes of the two towers in all the movie around the time and do test screenings to see all their reactions tbh, also I hope some of those movies like the first Spiderman movie get an original unedited version with all the cut scenes because the time has passed and not as fresh as it was back then, so yeah
Speaking as someone who was there during all the post 9/11 craze, even at the time I didn't understand why everyone kept pulling every single shot or reference tot he twin towers. It felt to me like they were letting the terrorists win. We all wanted the twin towers there; why were we removing them? If I was in the theater I would have applauded too.
That Nose Bleed one, my god. My brain can't even comprehend the sheer amount of unfortunately coincidences that happened. Like, some other things on this list I think the studios were a bit overreacting. But not that one!
Yeah on paper it sounds insane, but there have been terrorist attacks on the trade centers far before 9/11, so its not an insane coincidence, but definitely bad enough to stop production
Well 9/11 wasnt the first time the towers had a terroriest threat in the early 90s someone car bombed the parking garage under one of the towers so its not a major coincidence
@@JohnathanShiversFair. And there are many movies that depict important sites or monuments being destroyed that would be very awkward to watch if it actually happened. But it didn't.
I read somewhere that the Muppets movie unintentionally establishes that Kermit had something to do with 9/11. Basically, the movie was doing a "It's A Wonderful Life" where Kermit wishes he'd never been born and an angel shows him that all his friends' lives are miserable without him. And in the background of this alternate future where Kermit never existed, the Twin Towers are still standing after 2001. Then when Kermit has his arc and decides life is worth living, he's taken back to his original reality where the Towers are gone now. Likely an editing mistake and nothing more, but within the context of the story without any meta-narrative, Kermit the Frog canonically caused 9/11 to happen.
There's also a scene from Spongebob Squarepants that was cut, in the episode "Just One Bite" there's a scene where squidward walks in and a bucket falls down and he says "This is our security system?" Then the Hans comes in with a lit match and drops it on the bucket revealing that it was gasoline and the whole place explodes. This happens twice and both instances got cut
Exactly, it was more of them making the decision for everyone else, that they shouldn't be shown.. when, unless completely disrespectful, most people wouldn't have an issue with the towers being present in the films
Honestly the dome in Monsters Inc makes more sense to me. Contain, clean up, then clear the area. If they just blew up the building it would basically be implying they killed a lot of people inside and outside just to stop a child.
For any fans of manga/anime, in One Piece a certain side character’s death was actually reversed in the story because of his circumstances. He seemingly “died” while carrying a bomb that was planted in a city square away into the sky, but because this was being written around the time 9/11 occurred, the author revealed later that the character survived the explosion. For any who want to read up on it, the character’s name is Pell.
This would explain a lot of things that confused me as a Kid. Why was the Bag Burnt if it was a Plasma Bomb, Why were the New Yorkers suddenly given a Role, And why was there a Random Guy in the middle of a Mountainy Area eating Ice Cream
@@JustAJinx-ci6hg ok fine I didn’t wonder why the New Yorkers got a role but I still wondered about the other 2 ok? Also who is Him? I wasn’t trying to be him?
I'm sure this will be an unpopular opinion, but I always found that scene very cringy, it's very unnecessary, over the top and extremely cheesy. People flat out don't talk like that lol
The final boss fight in Spider-Man 2 Enter Electro was going to take place on the Twin Towers, but had to change it. GTA 3 was going to have the Twin Towers on the Staunton Island part of the map but was scrapped because of 9/11.
Video games were also impacted by the attacks. GTA 3 got delayed by a month, releasing in October of 2001. They changed the police car paint scheme to look less like NYCPD cars, dialogues were changed, airplane flight paths were changed to go nowhere near skyscrapers, and the cover art was remade for the US release.
Not so fun fact: In the 2002 film “A Merry Muppet Christmas Movie” Kermit is shown by an angel what the world would be like if he never existed. During this sequence, the twin towers can be seen in the background of a few shots. This has led people to believe that kermit somehow caused 9/11
I feel that them editing out the towers is WORSE than them leaving them in, like by doing that they try to erase something that is basically their history. If anything they should have kept them in all of those movies because of the attacks, they were some of the more recent media featuring them and being in films like spiderman meant that they would be immortalised and remembered more tightly trough generations.
I see your reasoning, but you have to remember, post 9/11, people didn't wanna think about the tragedy; so the towers were edited out to make the movies more likely to be enjoyed by audiences.
@@Java_Protogen i can understand that but i just think it's too drastic of a change, especially since some movies went to the extra step of re-recording scenes just to remove them
As someone who was 2 when the towers fell I was too young to remember a world before 9/11. However I was always confused as to why it was being erased despite being something we should never forgot.
I think they should have released them edited then down the road gave us physical releases that contain both the edited and unedited versions of the films. In this way they give people an edited version that reduces the amount of people who will be reminded of the pain to them personally by being having the towers thrown in their face, while still giving a chance at a less sensitive time the towers immortalized in their films if they make a physical appearance.
I felt like Gump and Co was a response to how the movie and book were different. The book even open with Forrest saying not to let someone make a movie about your life, and ends with him getting run out of the film's world premiere. He also outright says that the phrase, "Life is like a box of chocolates," is stupid. He never says it in the book.
Regarding that final scene in Spider-Man, as the camera rotates around Spidey on the flag pole at 2:17 you can see the twin towers in the distance. It's a blink and you'll miss it thing, but if you slow the playback, or use the , and . keys to go frame by frame, you can see them.
The changes for Lilo and Stitch along with the apparent change in Monster's Inc were bettered compared to their originals. For Lilo and Stitch, it showed that Jamba and Pleekly came to Earth with a ship of their own which makes sense and it showed some beautiful Hawaiian topography in place of city buildings. For Monster's Inc, it just made better sense to have the quarantine field and just blowing up the restaurant is counter productive and just way out of nowhere.
Another thing about Spider-Man at that time was the PlayStation 1 game Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro. For the final fight with Electo, Spidey was supposed to fight on both Towers by web swinging. It was eventually changed to just making one big building with them now being awkwardly connected.
Surprised the rise of military movies wasn’t mentioned. I was in bootcamp when 9/11 happened. After we got out, there was a flood of war movies out that kinda boosted enlistment. Was kinda weird because I haven’t seen anything like that since.
@@toybonnie9329I mean, it's fair enough to a degree. Do you mourn every victim of say, gang violence for 24 years? It's an ongoing and deadlier thing, but we ignore it because we can't do anything and it's not new.
I knew studio companies made changes and try their best to appeal the people of what happened, but at the same time looking back at it now I feel like they could have assumed people were TOO sensitive when a few of these changes I think were unnecessary. Mainly with the planes alone and even the Monster Inc one, but the dome was more funnier.
It's often more of a better safe than sorry approach which is usually overreacting instead of underreacting. And in a case like 9/11 and it's effects on so many overreacting was the best idea to make the most money
There's one more you forgot, in the SpongeBob episode where Squidward ate a lot of Krabby patties, they changed a scene where instead of just walking to the back door, there was a scene where he went to the front and there was a bucket of gasoline, and then there was a match which made a explosion. I think you can see why this was removed.
I think watching a movie about a window washer basically stopping 9/11 would have been kinda awesome to watch right after it. At least I know I would have watched it at the time.
It sucks they had to remove the towers removed in Spider Man. When I rewatched Monsters Inc I really thought they blew it up, not saying it’s Mandela but just not watching it for years I couldn’t remember if it was blown up or a domed.
Ok so, I understand removing the buildings or not releasing a movie because the plot would have a violent act similar to what we all experienced in this country on that day. BUT, and yes, there is always a but. If the buildings are JUST in the background and have nothing to do with the plot at ALL. Then I see no problem with that. HOWEVER, and yes there is a however to my but. I heavily respect the families and friends of the people that died on that terrible day so I understand that as well. You wouldn’t want someone seeing the buildings and immediately get depressed because they had a loved one there. Have a great one guys and gals.
The explosion was in poor taste even before the 9/11 incident. Why would they blow up the restaurant over this?! I’m glad they change it to a decontamination dome thing. It feel more in check with sanitising all human contacts without the idea of having to blow things up in fire.
I absolutely can understand why those movies had to be re-edited or re-shot right after 9/11 but, as someone against compromises in the artistic visions of creators, I wish they'd kept and released the original/unedited versions of the movies. Like, releasing them years after the fact when the memory was less painful and most uninvolved people had moved on. It'd give people the option to see what could've been at the time had there been no tragedy. Also, so sad about some of the movies that were cut. I love Jackie Chan movies and I'd loved to see a sequel to True Lies.
Even international cartoons were altered after the attacks. Pokemon had an episode where jellyfish pokemon flooded a city and smashed some buildings. After the attacks, that episode was never again aired on public broadcasting.
In the original Super Mario Bros movie, a version of the World Trade Center was Koopa's Castle in The Mushroom Kingdom. It was a darker, worn down looking version of the towers, with spikes sticking out on top. Also I think one of the towers didn't even reach full height. Towards the end of the movie where King Koopa was trying to merge the two worlds together, the regular WTC in New York changed to look like the Koopa Tower version. That would have NEVER stayed in the movie if it was released after 9/11.
The Half-Life 2 20th anniversary documentary revealed that there was a portion of the game thst was supposed to involve crashing a plane into a Combine tower, but the scene was cut after 9/11 and delayed the game's release even futher
I am actually really happy that my favorite movie ever didn't get a sequel. It would probably ruin the perfect ending of the og movie. And I hate when that happens in other movies *cough cough* Toy Story 4 *cough cough* Son of Mask.
The sound effect that plays when it transitions from him to a clip is giving off the same energy as the Johnny Test whip sfx they played every 5 seconds
Now while they probably did miss the twin towers when Peter was jumping between buildings. I actually heard from another UA-camr that the scene where the towers are in Spider-Man’s reflective eye it was meant to pay respect to the tragedy. Not as a mockery, but never to forget. And yes he does also mention the scene with the New Yorkers Teaming up and the scene with the American flag. I personally never took issue with the twin towers in Spider-Man’s eye as either most didn’t see it. Or simply saw it as a way to pay tribute to the tragedy.
I was only 7 years old in September of 2001, so I don't even remember that day. My mom said that she heard about it from my dad, picked up my sister and me from school, and while watching the news, she - she, my sister and I cry a lot - was sobbing while my sister and I were playing, oblivious to the news right in front of us. I've watched news stories recently from that day, and even though i didn't mentally absorb it back then, as an adult I can't watch the news stories without sobbing, even after 23 years
Another thing. The shots of the world trade centre in Home Alone 2 were temporary edited out for several months after 9/11, when the movie aired on TV.
In monsters Inc the bag was burned but not from the explosion because it wouldn’t last in the explosion so maybe it was decontaminated in the final sence
It's not "everyone," it's divided somewhat between people who lived to experience it and people who didn't I would say most people who had passed their formative years by 9/11 find it fine to joke about it, while about half of the people who were alive at the time still feel sensitive about it It cannot be understated just how much 9/11 affected the United States and all of us who live in it, even if we weren't alive to witness it It's an unbelievably good thing that we have no equivalent to 9/11 now over 22 years after it happened and the ability of a lot of people to joke about it shows how we as a nation have recovered since then
In the Monsters Inc. when the plasma dome is put up we can also see Sully's fur move as if there was a pressure wave which there would have been with the explosion
i enjoyed the approach that spiderman took on 9/11 instead of deleting some scenes they added scenes symbolizing that new yorkers and america as a whole will have each others backs
That explains why True Lies felt like it was hinting at a sequel with that ending. Such a great movie, would of loved a continuation of it... now all we get from James Cameron is blue aliens.
The Simpsons had an episode I think a few years before the attacks. (Forgot what the episode is called) The crazy thing about that episode is they predicted it. That episode never aired for a few years after the attacks.
Yeah Barney couldn't drink and was the designated driver. After he drops Homer, Lenny and Carl off he takes Homer's car. It flashes several months later where Barney is thrown off a bus after a big bender. And Homer has to go retrieve his car in New York which happens to be parked between the twin towers. People at the twin towers have clothing lines with clothes drying, arguing with each other, Homer going to use the restroom in one tower only for it to be out so has to hurry to the other tower and misses the guy to take off the boot. Homer has a miserable time and the family enjoys themselves. Homer steals a jack hammer and takes the boot off himself and gets out of New York with an extremely damaged car and super angry.
@@chrisdavies5253 I just watched the episode and it is creepy Lisa shows the bus schedule to get to New York and it's only $9 and the photo shows the $9 next to the two towers so 9/11 like why did they pick 9? They could of chose any other number
Speaking of James Cameron, he was in the submersible exploring the wreck of the real RMS Titanic when the attacks were happening. He, as well as Titanic historians Don Lynch and Ken Marschall, didn’t know about it until they returned to the Keldysh (I assume they were still using that ship at the time) and were informed by actor Bill Paxton, who played Brock in Cameron’s “Titanic” (1997 film).
2:32 I can imagine the timeline that The Incident never happened and Matt Patt going to make Film Theory about how deadly if the real plane crashing in to the building. Too bad we already has IRL version of it instead.
I told ma son to meet me at the top of the world trade center. But he went to the wrong towar and when I saw him he was waving at me and I waved back. Then when I tried to go to his towar, he had come to my towar and when I saw him he was waving at me again. The thrid time we met in the middle and went to get aice cream.
For starters, the script was turned in on September 10th. Also, a plot point revolved around Forrest losing a girlfriend due to the Oklahoma City bombing.
3:36 As a kid, I always wondered why the bag was burned in the shot, because it didn't make sense to me why it would've caught on fire inside the dome. But later on, my theory as a kid was that the plasma dome had some sort of microwave effect that heats up anything that happens to be inside the dome. And of course, if any object is there long enough, they'll catch burn marks, just like if you heat up food in a microwave for too long.
This isn’t really a movie but there was almost a Friends episode where Chandler and Monica are about to get on a plane but waiting in line Chandler sees a sign saying the airport security doesn’t like it when people joke around about bringing weapons into a plane and Chandler does exactly that, They end up spending the whole episode questioning Chandler and Monica thinking they’re terrorists, In the end they miss their flight and Chandler finally convinces them He’s not a terrorist, The episode was scrapped but the script was released to the public.
I find it kinda messed up that James Cameron said "Terrorism is no longer something to be taken lightly." That would imply that before 9/11, terrorism around the world was a lighthearted subject, but it only became serious when it happened to us. It just sounds like he says terrorism is fine until it happens to us
9/11 was a tragedy, not a controversy. I don't get why people refuse to talk about it or erase any mention of it. It's not like a cus word or a derogatory term.
Honestly looking back I don’t think digitally removing the towers was the right move. As someone who was only 2 when the towers fell, 9/11 felt like this subject that we will never forgot but we must never talking about.
the average person really didn't care that much. The media tries to say everyone was distraught for a long time, and the sheepish follower types were, or more accurately pretended to be, while in reality for most people life went on and something happening to those rich jerks in new york was no big deal
You have to think back when the attacks were fresh to see it as disrespectful. If a relative had died or if you were there when they fell, a scene where a foreign alien hijacks a plane and destroys buildings might cut open some wounds
Not only disrespectful but also not something you want to glorify. The anime fire force completely skipped airing for s week to edit their outro of people catching on fire after the Kyoani arson attacks.
I would have still loved to see that Jackie Chan movie They can literally just add a singular scene in the beginning where it explains some sort of interdimensional time travel or something
I also feel like I never hear the "here comes the airplane" line in entertainment anymore when a character is trying to spoonfeed another (usually infant) character. It feels like they changed it to "here comes the choo choo train" post 9/11.
Funny thing is there is a sequel to the original Forrest Gump book. Which basically existed to shit on the original Forrest Gump movie, which the author notoriously hated.
Super troopers was supposed to come out like a week after 9/11. In it there is a cartoon made by the taliban that they all watch for laughs. Besides the Jackie Chan movie, I don’t think there was worse timing.
I could understand some of them that actually featured the towers but the ones like Monsters Inc is a bit odd to me (even though i agree the force field is more fitting) Basically just change any footage of explosions if you're gonna do all that.
If I remember correctly, during those years several popular films that included scenes from the Wold Trade Center were modified to censor or remove them, either in its television broadcast or in some DVD releases. One such example is Home Alone II, one of the main scenes of Kevin visiting the twin towers was completely removed from the movie when it was broadcast on television.
Released in the UK three days after the attack on New York was Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence. I distinctly remember it was that week because, towards the end of the film, Jude Law flies a... (futurecopter?) to Manhatten, which is all underwater. Towering out of the water are skyscrapers, and the twin towers were very prominent in that scene. A future-set film immediately dated by world events. I half expected them to remove the shots later, but they never did.
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Fun fact, in one of the muppets Christmas movies, there’s a scene where they show a world without Kermit and it has the twin towers in the background, all the other scenes had them edited out but this, meaning Kermit had some involvement in the 9/11 attack
Ope- really? I guess younger me had a good reason to be afraid of him.
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thats actually crazy
i knew it
I would not say that is a fun fact, more like a horrific fact.
It’s kind of surprising to me how impactful just one high profile terrorist attack could change so many movie. Monsters Inc.’s plasma dome scene, Lilo and Stitch’s airplane scene, various points in Spider Man. What’s even more surprising is how fitting some of the scenes fit in their respective movies.
Except for lilo and stitch because they needed a explanation on how they got to Earth in the first place.
At this point they are condescending
Terrorists are really evil for making people work 1047+ hours for making cgi
There’s also a destruction scene in invader zim that was hastily changed as the episode aired as soon as the attacks happened
Metal Gear Solid 2 was almost cancelled entirely
The Lilo and Stitch one worked well because it explained how Jamba and Pleekley got to earth (via their own ship), and it made great use of the Hawaiian islands’ beautiful natural terrain in the valleys and mountains.
Not to mention that the animators really wanted to ruin the Fat Guy's ice cream
Yeah it was too on the nose to begin with and after 9/11 hell no that shit wasn’t gonna fly. And in the end we got a better sequence with better character development. It makes sense they would have a space ship of their own anyways
@@FireStriker_ plane ain’t gonna fly either 💀
@@FireStriker_"that shit wasn't gonna fly"
Was... was that a pun?
@@darckap2785 not intentional but I guess it was
I wish they had kept the twin towers in the movies released around 9/11. I can understand why they edited them out, but looking back, media containing those two buildings is a sort of source of pride for a lot of us, especially some of the last footage of them. It feels a bit strange knowing that some of the actual last footage of the buildings was digitally scrubbed away, just because it might been uncomfortable for viewers at the time.
Fun Fact: the scene in Home Alone 2 where Kevin is on top of the twin towers isn’t cut or edited in any version of Home Alone 2.
@@StardustBullets it was released in 1992 before the attacks so obviously it wouldn't be edited
@@hopelessspaghetti5310 Back to the Future came out way before 9/11. And in recent versions they edited Marty saying "You'll be killed by terrorists!" to be something else or either removed. And just a note, Back to the Future came out over 20 years before 9/11. I may be thinking of something else. So my apologies if I got something wrong.
@@StardustBulletsthat's really bad, but it gets worse for other older movies. something something the modern sensibilities excuse. History is being wrecked.
Well in a way its understandable why they did it. Movies aren't ment to remind you of the horrors of the real world. They are an escape.
I’ve always thought it was really weird that they wanted to delete the towers from movies, like that’s more disrespectful than anything. It’d be like deleting all the photos of a loved one after they pass away, and just pretending they never existed, because it pains you to think about them. The reason the towers featured in all those movies is because they’re so iconic, those movies paid tribute to them. And so it’s like the movie producers are helping to destroy the towers too by removing them from media, and from the public’s consciousness.
They probably just didn’t want to remind people of the attacks, especially those who lost loved ones.
If it were some time later, you'd be right. Immediately afterwards, it's not really what someone wants to be reminded of.
Well to be fair, because of the attacks, the reminder of those towers are more haunting than it is welcoming.
Like how a favorite memory suddenly becomes a bad dream.
FR!!!
Yeah as someone who doesn’t remember a world without the towers it let to a feeling that it’s something we will never forgot but must never reference or talk about. So much so that all depiction of it should be erased as if the towers never existed.
Now idk about you but to me, that’s dam confusing. Which is it? Do we never forgot or do we try to live on like the towers never existed.
This is a first I’m hearing about the Monsters Inc scene. Didn’t know originally there was gonna be a explosion. Props to the team for changing it to a more non-threatening situation
There's a bluray extra feature called "the filmmakers roundtable"..thats where they reveal this deleted scene and talk about it briefly
Yes! That’s where I got the footage and the idea for the video!
I’m almost fairly certain the fire explosion is on my old vhs
@@Young_Roninits not
@@Young_RoninMy vhs didnt have an explosion. It was a green force field.
Looking back, I never realized that the burned bag from Monsters Inc. was because of a deleted scene where they blew up the sushi shop. I think that young me saw them completely obliterate a sock as well as shave down what's-his-name that he just figured it was burned due to them decontaminating the bag.
I though Sully's bag was already like that. Now I know why...
I always thought it was caused by the plasma bubble
It burned the bag because plasma do stuff
Given what they did to the sock, I'd always thought they had blown up the restaurant but the plasma bubble was to keep the explosion contained. It just never got shown on-screen. It worked a lot better in continuity given how careful they were with the sock earlier in the film; just recklessly blowing up the sushi restaurant wouldn't have made much sense for the CDA.
@@Xudmud The CDA as professionals, gotta have standards.
@@alessandroditerlizzi569 That does make sense.
Thank you Final Destination for existing just one year earlier. They ain't realize how lucky they were to have had this movie keep its iconic opening
If that movie was scheduled a year later they probably would of changed it or cancel the movie and wouldn't become a franchise! Crazy
@@doshi066 yup but fortunately it just barely made it through and we got another masterpiece of horror cinema
i dont know what you all believe in but i believe in Jesus Christ, you may believe in Him as well, if you do, i hope you are where you need to be with Him, if you arent i hope you will accept him into your life, you may know the the story already, but He willingly died for everybody, and that includes you, if you are wondering if something is sinful look up Scripture about it online (i recommend the King James Version), i hope you read The Bible, and find a good church, ill leave you with some Scripture, Colossians 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Luke 6:31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
I saw that movie without any prior knowledge of it. Man, that opening sequence was intense.
@@zippersocks fr. If you haven’t, I recommend watching the second one. It has the greatest opener!
Lord of the rings The two towers almost changed the title because of the attacks. I am happy they didn’t change it.
Me too.
What was it going to be potentially?
@@macrofuture the trio sans one tall structures situated abreast of each other
Same thing but it would taken a time to notice/jk
@@macrofuture they considered the titles of the two books that compose the Two Towers novel: the Treason of Isengard and the Ring Goes East.
@@macrofuture Lord of The Rings 2: Electric Boogaloo
I've heard a story that for the Mariah Carey film Glitter, there was a brief shot of the WTC in one scene, and the filmmakers debated on whether or not to take it out. In the end, they decided to leave the shot in the final film, though they worried about how audiences might react. When the towers appeared in the scene, the whole theater erupted in applause.
Yeah, this goes to show, what if they unedited or kept in the scenes of the two towers in all the movie around the time and do test screenings to see all their reactions tbh, also I hope some of those movies like the first Spiderman movie get an original unedited version with all the cut scenes because the time has passed and not as fresh as it was back then, so yeah
Speaking as someone who was there during all the post 9/11 craze, even at the time I didn't understand why everyone kept pulling every single shot or reference tot he twin towers. It felt to me like they were letting the terrorists win. We all wanted the twin towers there; why were we removing them?
If I was in the theater I would have applauded too.
This is a lie, nobody went to see Glitter
That Nose Bleed one, my god. My brain can't even comprehend the sheer amount of unfortunately coincidences that happened. Like, some other things on this list I think the studios were a bit overreacting. But not that one!
Yeah on paper it sounds insane, but there have been terrorist attacks on the trade centers far before 9/11, so its not an insane coincidence, but definitely bad enough to stop production
I kinda of want to see that movie ngl
Well 9/11 wasnt the first time the towers had a terroriest threat in the early 90s someone car bombed the parking garage under one of the towers so its not a major coincidence
@@JohnathanShiversFair. And there are many movies that depict important sites or monuments being destroyed that would be very awkward to watch if it actually happened.
But it didn't.
I read somewhere that the Muppets movie unintentionally establishes that Kermit had something to do with 9/11.
Basically, the movie was doing a "It's A Wonderful Life" where Kermit wishes he'd never been born and an angel shows him that all his friends' lives are miserable without him. And in the background of this alternate future where Kermit never existed, the Twin Towers are still standing after 2001.
Then when Kermit has his arc and decides life is worth living, he's taken back to his original reality where the Towers are gone now.
Likely an editing mistake and nothing more, but within the context of the story without any meta-narrative, Kermit the Frog canonically caused 9/11 to happen.
There's also a scene from Spongebob Squarepants that was cut, in the episode "Just One Bite" there's a scene where squidward walks in and a bucket falls down and he says "This is our security system?" Then the Hans comes in with a lit match and drops it on the bucket revealing that it was gasoline and the whole place explodes. This happens twice and both instances got cut
That had nothing to do with 9/11. That was cuz producers/editors thought it was too violent.
One thing is removing explosion scenes,another is erasing history. The towers were the best part of NY.
removing the towers from movies was just stupid, it feels more disrespectful to have cut them out and redone stuff than to have left them.
Exactly, it was more of them making the decision for everyone else, that they shouldn't be shown.. when, unless completely disrespectful, most people wouldn't have an issue with the towers being present in the films
Well there is a movie that didn’t remove the twin towers which is home alone 2
I was gonna say the same thing!@@jadenmejia4825
Home alone 2
was made in 1992
They needed to make nyc movies realistic so that’s why they were removed
Honestly the dome in Monsters Inc makes more sense to me. Contain, clean up, then clear the area. If they just blew up the building it would basically be implying they killed a lot of people inside and outside just to stop a child.
For any fans of manga/anime, in One Piece a certain side character’s death was actually reversed in the story because of his circumstances. He seemingly “died” while carrying a bomb that was planted in a city square away into the sky, but because this was being written around the time 9/11 occurred, the author revealed later that the character survived the explosion. For any who want to read up on it, the character’s name is Pell.
So thats why he was alive
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh no wonder he survived
Now thats make sense
I remember reading that but had absolutely no idea till you just said that it had to do with 9/11
I always wondered why he was still alive
This would explain a lot of things that confused me as a Kid. Why was the Bag Burnt if it was a Plasma Bomb, Why were the New Yorkers suddenly given a Role, And why was there a Random Guy in the middle of a Mountainy Area eating Ice Cream
Don't lie. Nobody actually questioned that... you're not Him.
@@JustAJinx-ci6hg ok fine I didn’t wonder why the New Yorkers got a role but I still wondered about the other 2 ok?
Also who is Him? I wasn’t trying to be him?
1:59 honestly adding in the bridge scene regardless of the attack was a smart move. It’s an impactful scene
I'm sure this will be an unpopular opinion, but I always found that scene very cringy, it's very unnecessary, over the top and extremely cheesy. People flat out don't talk like that lol
The final boss fight in Spider-Man 2 Enter Electro was going to take place on the Twin Towers, but had to change it.
GTA 3 was going to have the Twin Towers on the Staunton Island part of the map but was scrapped because of 9/11.
Video games were also impacted by the attacks. GTA 3 got delayed by a month, releasing in October of 2001. They changed the police car paint scheme to look less like NYCPD cars, dialogues were changed, airplane flight paths were changed to go nowhere near skyscrapers, and the cover art was remade for the US release.
Not so fun fact: In the 2002 film “A Merry Muppet Christmas Movie” Kermit is shown by an angel what the world would be like if he never existed. During this sequence, the twin towers can be seen in the background of a few shots. This has led people to believe that kermit somehow caused 9/11
what the hell are you talking about thats a very fun fact
I feel that them editing out the towers is WORSE than them leaving them in, like by doing that they try to erase something that is basically their history.
If anything they should have kept them in all of those movies because of the attacks, they were some of the more recent media featuring them and being in films like spiderman meant that they would be immortalised and remembered more tightly trough generations.
I see your reasoning, but you have to remember, post 9/11, people didn't wanna think about the tragedy; so the towers were edited out to make the movies more likely to be enjoyed by audiences.
@@Java_Protogen i can understand that but i just think it's too drastic of a change, especially since some movies went to the extra step of re-recording scenes just to remove them
@@Theredbloodwasn’t there movies set before 2001 that had the towers removed as well? I remember that being a thing
As someone who was 2 when the towers fell I was too young to remember a world before 9/11. However I was always confused as to why it was being erased despite being something we should never forgot.
I think they should have released them edited then down the road gave us physical releases that contain both the edited and unedited versions of the films. In this way they give people an edited version that reduces the amount of people who will be reminded of the pain to them personally by being having the towers thrown in their face, while still giving a chance at a less sensitive time the towers immortalized in their films if they make a physical appearance.
I felt like Gump and Co was a response to how the movie and book were different. The book even open with Forrest saying not to let someone make a movie about your life, and ends with him getting run out of the film's world premiere. He also outright says that the phrase, "Life is like a box of chocolates," is stupid. He never says it in the book.
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Regarding that final scene in Spider-Man, as the camera rotates around Spidey on the flag pole at 2:17 you can see the twin towers in the distance. It's a blink and you'll miss it thing, but if you slow the playback, or use the , and . keys to go frame by frame, you can see them.
The changes for Lilo and Stitch along with the apparent change in Monster's Inc were bettered compared to their originals. For Lilo and Stitch, it showed that Jamba and Pleekly came to Earth with a ship of their own which makes sense and it showed some beautiful Hawaiian topography in place of city buildings. For Monster's Inc, it just made better sense to have the quarantine field and just blowing up the restaurant is counter productive and just way out of nowhere.
Another thing about Spider-Man at that time was the PlayStation 1 game Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro. For the final fight with Electo, Spidey was supposed to fight on both Towers by web swinging. It was eventually changed to just making one big building with them now being awkwardly connected.
My brother used to have a poster of Spiderman with the twin tower reflection, I don't know what happened to it now but I know we had it.
Surprised the rise of military movies wasn’t mentioned. I was in bootcamp when 9/11 happened. After we got out, there was a flood of war movies out that kinda boosted enlistment. Was kinda weird because I haven’t seen anything like that since.
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Are they seriously THAT SCARED of children that they are willing to blow up any places!?
In their world everyone thinks that they spread a plague that kills you when touched. I wonder why
they should finally put out nosebleed. alternate timelines are all the rage now.
I don’t get why they removed the towers. It was sad yes but that doesn’t change the tragedy
I dont get it either. Its not even a sad event for me, I just dont care. Didnt know anybody who died and I dont have empathy for people i dont know 🤷
@@BOJERK420 ok edgy lord
@@BOJERK420same
@@toybonnie9329I mean, it's fair enough to a degree. Do you mourn every victim of say, gang violence for 24 years?
It's an ongoing and deadlier thing, but we ignore it because we can't do anything and it's not new.
2:17 you can see the towers as it pans around before he swings off. It's motion blurred but there's no doubt that's them
I knew studio companies made changes and try their best to appeal the people of what happened, but at the same time looking back at it now I feel like they could have assumed people were TOO sensitive when a few of these changes I think were unnecessary. Mainly with the planes alone and even the Monster Inc one, but the dome was more funnier.
It's often more of a better safe than sorry approach which is usually overreacting instead of underreacting. And in a case like 9/11 and it's effects on so many overreacting was the best idea to make the most money
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Every jump cut in this video is underlined by the same static noise
Now watch the video and feel pain at this
Don’t forget when Rick and morty avoided doing a 9/11
There's one more you forgot, in the SpongeBob episode where Squidward ate a lot of Krabby patties, they changed a scene where instead of just walking to the back door, there was a scene where he went to the front and there was a bucket of gasoline, and then there was a match which made a explosion. I think you can see why this was removed.
I think watching a movie about a window washer basically stopping 9/11 would have been kinda awesome to watch right after it. At least I know I would have watched it at the time.
Ohhhhh I always thought Mike and Sully's reaction to the dome was a bit melodramatic
It sucks they had to remove the towers removed in Spider Man.
When I rewatched Monsters Inc I really thought they blew it up, not saying it’s Mandela but just not watching it for years I couldn’t remember if it was blown up or a domed.
Ok so, I understand removing the buildings or not releasing a movie because the plot would have a violent act similar to what we all experienced in this country on that day. BUT, and yes, there is always a but. If the buildings are JUST in the background and have nothing to do with the plot at ALL. Then I see no problem with that. HOWEVER, and yes there is a however to my but. I heavily respect the families and friends of the people that died on that terrible day so I understand that as well. You wouldn’t want someone seeing the buildings and immediately get depressed because they had a loved one there. Have a great one guys and gals.
Omg I thought it was an explosion in Monsters Inc; thought I was going crazy 😂😂😂
I always wondered why Sully’s fur moved like it was hit with a huge gust of wind in the decontamination scene. Bombing explains it.
The explosion was in poor taste even before the 9/11 incident. Why would they blow up the restaurant over this?! I’m glad they change it to a decontamination dome thing. It feel more in check with sanitising all human contacts without the idea of having to blow things up in fire.
You can see which scene was changed in lilo and stitch because jumba’s head is incorrectly proportioned
WAIT, SO THIS WHOLE TIME THAT MONSTERS INC WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AN EXPLOSION? MY WHOLE LIFE IS A LIE
I absolutely can understand why those movies had to be re-edited or re-shot right after 9/11 but, as someone against compromises in the artistic visions of creators, I wish they'd kept and released the original/unedited versions of the movies.
Like, releasing them years after the fact when the memory was less painful and most uninvolved people had moved on. It'd give people the option to see what could've been at the time had there been no tragedy.
Also, so sad about some of the movies that were cut. I love Jackie Chan movies and I'd loved to see a sequel to True Lies.
Ngl, I like the idea of Jackie Chan preventing a terrorist attack at the twin towers. A true hero
Even international cartoons were altered after the attacks. Pokemon had an episode where jellyfish pokemon flooded a city and smashed some buildings. After the attacks, that episode was never again aired on public broadcasting.
That lilo and stich ending sounds wild
I agree. While the final version fixes some plot holes, I'm also sad to see the original version not being finished.
Fun Fact: movies such as Remo Williams have the Twin Towers in the film, because it was before the attack
In the original Super Mario Bros movie, a version of the World Trade Center was Koopa's Castle in The Mushroom Kingdom. It was a darker, worn down looking version of the towers, with spikes sticking out on top. Also I think one of the towers didn't even reach full height. Towards the end of the movie where King Koopa was trying to merge the two worlds together, the regular WTC in New York changed to look like the Koopa Tower version. That would have NEVER stayed in the movie if it was released after 9/11.
The Half-Life 2 20th anniversary documentary revealed that there was a portion of the game thst was supposed to involve crashing a plane into a Combine tower, but the scene was cut after 9/11 and delayed the game's release even futher
I am actually really happy that my favorite movie ever didn't get a sequel. It would probably ruin the perfect ending of the og movie. And I hate when that happens in other movies *cough cough* Toy Story 4 *cough cough* Son of Mask.
The sound effect that plays when it transitions from him to a clip is giving off the same energy as the Johnny Test whip sfx they played every 5 seconds
That reminded me that Martin Scorsese did everything he could to not remove the Twin Towers in the final shot of Gangs of New York.
Now while they probably did miss the twin towers when Peter was jumping between buildings. I actually heard from another UA-camr that the scene where the towers are in Spider-Man’s reflective eye it was meant to pay respect to the tragedy. Not as a mockery, but never to forget. And yes he does also mention the scene with the New Yorkers Teaming up and the scene with the American flag. I personally never took issue with the twin towers in Spider-Man’s eye as either most didn’t see it. Or simply saw it as a way to pay tribute to the tragedy.
I was only 7 years old in September of 2001, so I don't even remember that day. My mom said that she heard about it from my dad, picked up my sister and me from school, and while watching the news, she - she, my sister and I cry a lot - was sobbing while my sister and I were playing, oblivious to the news right in front of us. I've watched news stories recently from that day, and even though i didn't mentally absorb it back then, as an adult I can't watch the news stories without sobbing, even after 23 years
America: Never Forget
Also America: "Oh shit take it out"
lol
Another thing. The shots of the world trade centre in Home Alone 2 were temporary edited out for several months after 9/11, when the movie aired on TV.
Pathetic 😂
Wait but their still in the movie tho
@@xoxoalyyy Yes they are still in the movie, it was just a temporary TV air edit.
@@MrDanielNewton ohhh thx
Personally I don’t understand the monsters inc. one because even if it’s a building exploding, who’s gonna assume “Hey! That’s making fun of 9/11!”
Americans are soft 😂 Any tragedy or negative everybody gotta stop and pray for them
look, people were in shock, and explosions were not seen as funny for a while
In monsters Inc the bag was burned but not from the explosion because it wouldn’t last in the explosion so maybe it was decontaminated in the final sence
i love how 9/11 is such a serious subject, but everyone now jokes about it so much
2977 cases of lost life
it was 22 years ago
We took it back.
It's not "everyone," it's divided somewhat between people who lived to experience it and people who didn't
I would say most people who had passed their formative years by 9/11 find it fine to joke about it, while about half of the people who were alive at the time still feel sensitive about it
It cannot be understated just how much 9/11 affected the United States and all of us who live in it, even if we weren't alive to witness it
It's an unbelievably good thing that we have no equivalent to 9/11 now over 22 years after it happened and the ability of a lot of people to joke about it shows how we as a nation have recovered since then
I only see UA-camrs laugh about it. In that regard, it’s kids or people under 30.
In the Monsters Inc. when the plasma dome is put up we can also see Sully's fur move as if there was a pressure wave which there would have been with the explosion
The choice they made for men in black 2 was genius. Not only does it look cool, but it also works for the patriots.
i enjoyed the approach that spiderman took on 9/11 instead of deleting some scenes they added scenes symbolizing that new yorkers and america as a whole will have each others backs
it was marxist diversity propaganda
That explains why True Lies felt like it was hinting at a sequel with that ending. Such a great movie, would of loved a continuation of it... now all we get from James Cameron is blue aliens.
It’s really sad that 9/11 took a sequel from us. Now we have that terrible tv series on Disney plus
@@FireStriker_ Ironic that Cameron's excuse was "we don't need more movies about terrorism" but makes a movie about terrorism in space (Avatar)
@@arcyarcanine avatar’s buyer picture isn’t about terrorists but about our use of the natural resources
@@FireStriker_ They terrorize another planet for the benefit of humans. Eco-terrorism.
@@FireStriker_The natives are the terrorists in that franchise. They're unempathetic, violent, and incapable of basic diplomacy.
The Simpsons had an episode I think a few years before the attacks. (Forgot what the episode is called) The crazy thing about that episode is they predicted it. That episode never aired for a few years after the attacks.
It was season 9 episode 1 called " the city of New York vs Homer Simpson
Yeah Barney couldn't drink and was the designated driver. After he drops Homer, Lenny and Carl off he takes Homer's car. It flashes several months later where Barney is thrown off a bus after a big bender. And Homer has to go retrieve his car in New York which happens to be parked between the twin towers. People at the twin towers have clothing lines with clothes drying, arguing with each other, Homer going to use the restroom in one tower only for it to be out so has to hurry to the other tower and misses the guy to take off the boot. Homer has a miserable time and the family enjoys themselves. Homer steals a jack hammer and takes the boot off himself and gets out of New York with an extremely damaged car and super angry.
@@chrisdavies5253 I just watched the episode and it is creepy Lisa shows the bus schedule to get to New York and it's only $9 and the photo shows the $9 next to the two towers so 9/11 like why did they pick 9? They could of chose any other number
Speaking of James Cameron, he was in the submersible exploring the wreck of the real RMS Titanic when the attacks were happening. He, as well as Titanic historians Don Lynch and Ken Marschall, didn’t know about it until they returned to the Keldysh (I assume they were still using that ship at the time) and were informed by actor Bill Paxton, who played Brock in Cameron’s “Titanic” (1997 film).
2:32 I can imagine the timeline that The Incident never happened and Matt Patt going to make Film Theory about how deadly if the real plane crashing in to the building.
Too bad we already has IRL version of it instead.
Can you provide more context for the correlation of the Forest Gump sequel and 9/11
I told ma son to meet me at the top of the world trade center.
But he went to the wrong towar and when I saw him he was waving at me and I waved back.
Then when I tried to go to his towar, he had come to my towar and when I saw him he was waving at me again.
The thrid time we met in the middle and went to get aice cream.
For starters, the script was turned in on September 10th. Also, a plot point revolved around Forrest losing a girlfriend due to the Oklahoma City bombing.
It's kinda dark when Mosters Inc. uses an explosion, could imagine what happened if Boo never got out alive.
3:36 As a kid, I always wondered why the bag was burned in the shot, because it didn't make sense to me why it would've caught on fire inside the dome. But later on, my theory as a kid was that the plasma dome had some sort of microwave effect that heats up anything that happens to be inside the dome. And of course, if any object is there long enough, they'll catch burn marks, just like if you heat up food in a microwave for too long.
This isn’t really a movie but there was almost a Friends episode where Chandler and Monica are about to get on a plane but waiting in line Chandler sees a sign saying the airport security doesn’t like it when people joke around about bringing weapons into a plane and Chandler does exactly that, They end up spending the whole episode questioning Chandler and Monica thinking they’re terrorists, In the end they miss their flight and Chandler finally convinces them He’s not a terrorist, The episode was scrapped but the script was released to the public.
It wasn’t scrapped they just changed the A plot. Also you can find footage of it on youtube
The sound and lighting of the plasma dome in Monsters Inc still hits deep. Great edit, honestly.
I find it kinda messed up that James Cameron said "Terrorism is no longer something to be taken lightly." That would imply that before 9/11, terrorism around the world was a lighthearted subject, but it only became serious when it happened to us. It just sounds like he says terrorism is fine until it happens to us
9/11 was a tragedy, not a controversy. I don't get why people refuse to talk about it or erase any mention of it. It's not like a cus word or a derogatory term.
5:32 a quote that couldnt have aged worse, in so short a period of time.
Honestly looking back I don’t think digitally removing the towers was the right move. As someone who was only 2 when the towers fell, 9/11 felt like this subject that we will never forgot but we must never talking about.
the average person really didn't care that much. The media tries to say everyone was distraught for a long time, and the sheepish follower types were, or more accurately pretended to be, while in reality for most people life went on and something happening to those rich jerks in new york was no big deal
He forgot about the Muppets Christmas movie where Kermit sees his life if he wasn't born, and apparently him not existing undid the attacks
Big Trouble, with a hugely all star cast, was also delayed.
20 years later, people now joke about that day like nothing happened.
I’m sure Tom Hanks would still be in the mood to make a Forrest Gump 2. With all these sequels to old movies nobody asked for, you never know
I didn't know so many films were censored because of that awful incident
1:11 they had to make it historically accurate 💀
A pokemon episode didn't release for a while in America because it had a pokemon destroying tall buildings.
9 - eleven, was the beginning of the end in many ways for this great country.
Why not just leave them? It’s not disrespectful.
Exactly
You have to think back when the attacks were fresh to see it as disrespectful. If a relative had died or if you were there when they fell, a scene where a foreign alien hijacks a plane and destroys buildings might cut open some wounds
Not only disrespectful but also not something you want to glorify. The anime fire force completely skipped airing for s week to edit their outro of people catching on fire after the Kyoani arson attacks.
I love this video but I can't unsee his head bobbing from one side to the other like a TikTok video while he's narrating the video
I would have still loved to see that Jackie Chan movie
They can literally just add a singular scene in the beginning where it explains some sort of interdimensional time travel or something
what about Home Alone 2: Lost In New York?
2:18, If only people united with love and not war. Oh well.
I also feel like I never hear the "here comes the airplane" line in entertainment anymore when a character is trying to spoonfeed another (usually infant) character. It feels like they changed it to "here comes the choo choo train" post 9/11.
Inside Out (which came out in 2015) had a "Here comes the airplane" line in the beginning though.
Funny thing is there is a sequel to the original Forrest Gump book. Which basically existed to shit on the original Forrest Gump movie, which the author notoriously hated.
That’s why I never knew about the twin tower’s existence as a kid
Super troopers was supposed to come out like a week after 9/11. In it there is a cartoon made by the taliban that they all watch for laughs. Besides the Jackie Chan movie, I don’t think there was worse timing.
I could understand some of them that actually featured the towers but the ones like Monsters Inc is a bit odd to me (even though i agree the force field is more fitting)
Basically just change any footage of explosions if you're gonna do all that.
Well, an entire building did blow up in that original scene, so I think I can see why
If I remember correctly, during those years several popular films that included scenes from the Wold Trade Center were modified to censor or remove them, either in its television broadcast or in some DVD releases.
One such example is Home Alone II, one of the main scenes of Kevin visiting the twin towers was completely removed from the movie when it was broadcast on television.
Released in the UK three days after the attack on New York was Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence. I distinctly remember it was that week because, towards the end of the film, Jude Law flies a... (futurecopter?) to Manhatten, which is all underwater. Towering out of the water are skyscrapers, and the twin towers were very prominent in that scene. A future-set film immediately dated by world events. I half expected them to remove the shots later, but they never did.