It's funny to me that the guy from Friends and Lost in Space got a job hosting a car show on BBC, and he ISN'T the problem.

True… I think I feel beaten down by the movie rumor mill that causes people to make snap judgments off of the tiniest nuggets of information.

Lightening the tone 1% does not CHANGE the tone. I'm not having this semantic argument with you. It's fucking stupid. You're worried because of a barely substantiated rumor. Whatever, I'm not. Have fun with this.

I don't see how you think that's at all a response to my idea that tone is on a scale and we have literally no idea to what extent the tone will be lightened.

But tone is on a scale. Literally adding one joke would "lighten" the tone… would it also "change" the tone? You're talking in circles, man, and it's getting pointless.

Also, that doesn't make sense. Were they serving extras real alcohol? Who gives a shit where she stands on a movie set?

I mean as long as we have the most liberal definition of "changing" ever, ALL POST PRODUCTION EDITS ARE CHANGING THE TONE! Every movie is bad!

Yea yea, it's definitely sketchy evidence at best.

Also from Den of Geek:
But the story goes that in one cut of the film that was tested, E.T. died, rather than popped into his spaceship to go home. You won't be surprised to hear that the test audience in question did not warm to this ending at all. A new ending, where E.T. lived, was duly filmed.
http://www.denofgeek.co…

Yes, they did.

A. No, I don't. Lots of movies have reshoots to change the tone. E.T. was originally much darker, with E.T. dying at the end. Literally the Back to the Future example was to add some levity to a film that had gotten too dark. The assumption that reshoots to lighten (not change) the tone is absolutely illogical.
B.…

Nope, the Bothans died to get the plans to the SECOND Death Star. *pushes up glasses*

Because the initial tone is always the superior one? I'm confused by this line of thinking.

"You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!"

"I was excited when they said this was going to be like Saving Private Ryan, but now they're adding levity, something that Saving Private Ryan had absolutely not a single second of. That was the most dour movie in existence and I want this Star Wars film to be the same way!"
-Idiots

Shhh, stop upsetting the narrative everyone decided to embrace this week.

"Are you hearing the bullshit coming out of this Peter Benchley adaptation? Some young buck is totally in over his head. They started filming without a shooting script and the mechanical shark doesn't even work! You couldn't even pay me to watch that when it comes out on Netflix!"

That implies that it's not a complete work though.

The truest way to judge a work of art is by rumors of its quality months before it's finished.

Which is a weird complaint considering it had more Godzilla than Gojira (aka, the best Godzilla film)