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The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Cut the line about months. Say the core is unstable and the timer is whatever Bane decides.

Prometheus (2012)

Have the pod only numb her and close the wound. She holds her side during every later scene and is visibly slower.

Interstellar (2014)

Lower the score by a few decibels during dialogue-heavy scenes. The music keeps its impact and the lines stay clear.

Prometheus (2012)

David asks Weyland over comms, 'Shall I proceed with the test?' and the audience hears the reply.

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Bruce is already in Gotham when the pit is revealed to be an underground facility. No transcontinental escape is needed.

Prometheus (2012)

Fifield says his probes lost signal after the storm hit, so he cannot trust the map until the signal returns.

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Show a brace made from scrap and a title card, 'Three months later,' before Bruce makes the climb.

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Keep the mask but mix his voice louder and clearer, with a deep echo, so the menace stays and the lines can be heard.

Prometheus (2012)

Make it a sealed viewing port instead: Holloway presses his face to the glass and says he cannot wait any longer.

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  Then the later infection plot loses its trigger.

Armageddon (1998)

Pair each driller with an astronaut who has two weeks of drilling training. The film keeps its cast and it makes sense.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Show a small object pass between Rey and Kylo during a previous bond scene, so the later use is an escalation.

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Show Blake at the youth home noticing Bruce's reaction to a news story about Batman. The later reveal builds on it.

Armageddon (1998)

Add a scene where an astronomer says a funding cut shut down the survey that would have found it. The film then has a villain.

Interstellar (2014)

Show a flicker of doubt in his early video log, one line that gives the audience a clue before the reveal.

Interstellar (2014)

In his first scene, let Brand hesitate when Cooper asks if the equation is finished. The lie then has a visible crack.

Game of Thrones: Season 8 (2019)

Earlier in the episode, show Arya slipping past two wights in the corridors. The audience sees her do it before she does it to the Night King.

Armageddon (1998)

Have Truman warn that the remote link is unreliable at that distance and the crew must prepare a manual trigger.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Keep Chewbacca off the transport, and show Rey's guilt in the next scene. She can focus on her own fear, not on a death.

Game of Thrones: Season 8 (2019)

In E5, have two lords notice that Bran saw everything coming and did nothing. The Dragonpit vote then has a small argument to answer.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

After the healing, Rey sways on her feet. The cost is visible, and a line from Leia's voice says 'It takes something from you.'

Game of Thrones: Season 8 (2019)

Brienne says 'You are not who she thinks you are.' Jaime answers 'I am exactly who she thinks I am.'

Jurassic Park (1993)

Nedry says the fences run on a separate circuit, so the shutdown only affects the doors. The storm then takes the fences down.

The Walking Dead: Season 1 (2010)

Rick takes the patrol car as far as the city's edge, then goes in on foot. The horse survives and so does the first set piece.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Add a short scene of Rey seeing a vision of Palpatine's voice in the first film. The later reveal pays off an earlier hint.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

In The Last Jedi or the opening scenes, show cargo ships with no registry heading for the Unknown Regions. A small clue builds the fleet.

Game of Thrones: Season 8 (2019)

Keep the cavalry behind the castle walls until the dead are close, then have them ride out in a flanking charge with torches.

Game of Thrones: Season 8 (2019)

Show Euron's crew practicing on seagulls in E3, and Qyburn at the walls promising a better scorpion that will 'have to wait.'

Frozen (2013)

The queen suggests teaching Elsa control with a tutor. The king says no one can be trusted with the secret. The gates still close.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Plant a message from Snoke or Luke in the prior film that mentions the Emperor's body was never found.

Game of Thrones: Season 8 (2019)

Send the civilians to a fortified hall in the keep. The Night King has to break in through the castle instead.

Lost: Season 1 (2004)

Jack sets a rule that nobody goes out alone, and the group's first big scare comes when somebody breaks it.

Interstellar (2014)

Cut the line 'love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.' Keep the rest of the speech.

Game of Thrones: Season 8 (2019)

Tyrion urges her to wait for the bells to stop. She hears the second set of bells begin and the fire starts after that.

Signs (2002)

Cut the glasses of water from the ending's setup. Keep Merrill's bat and the wife's last words. The ending is still tidy but less crowded.

The Dark Knight (2008)

Gordon says the hospital's renovation crew was a Joker front, so the explosives were in the walls for weeks.

Friends: Season 1 (1994)

Add a line where Joey says he has an audition cancelled and Monica says the restaurant opens at noon. One line for the schedule.

Independence Day (1996)

David says the ship's systems use a signal he has already decoded, and the laptop only has to send it back in the right order.

Titanic (1997)

Jack takes off a cork life jacket and slides it under the door so it floats higher. He still goes under the cold water, but Rose lives.