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post #1 of 38
5/10/04 at 4:44pm
Thread Starter 
What could have been a far better ending for a movie you like or hate than the original one?

For example--The Ring.

Someone at Naomi Watts' TV station gets ahold of The Tape and plays it on the news as part of a sweeps month report on urban legends.

The screen fades to black at the end of the tape, with the sound of more and more phones ringing as thousands....millions....of viewers are now cursed to die in a week.

Roll credits.
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post #2 of 38
5/10/04 at 6:22pm

-INCLUDES "VAN HELSING" SPOILERS-

"Bedazzled" remake-Would end the same as the original, where he would still have had a chance to date his dream girl, more of an ambiguous ending if they end up together or not....

"Van Helsing"-Drackt and Anna survive. That would set up #3 to be another retelling of the Dracula story. (That's just me....)
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post #3 of 38
5/10/04 at 9:21pm
In the Mouth of Madness:

As Sam Neill is in the theater watching the movie version of the monsters on the screen, and the shot is of his face reacting with the screen light reflecting off of it, we observe the monster tentacles behind him, coming over the seats, through the theater doors, and out of the projection booth as they descend in his direction. Fade to black as he is engulfed by them...
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post #4 of 38
5/10/04 at 10:28pm
<Blam>

<Blam>

<Blam>


"...Smile, you sonofabitch!"

<C.G.I effect: the shark smiles>

<blam-BOOOM!>
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post #5 of 38
5/11/04 at 7:25pm
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Originally posted by Van Jones
<Blam>

<Blam>

<Blam>


"...Smile, you sonofabitch!"

<C.G.I effect: the shark smiles>

<blam-BOOOM!>
The shark always seemed to be smiling to me.
...or am I thinking of dolphins?
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post #6 of 38
5/11/04 at 7:48pm
Well, dolphins always seem to be laughing, which must be where that 'they're smarter than us' line of thinking came from. But Bruce from Finding Nemo proved how effective a Shark smile could be, I think Spielberg should consider pasting it back onto the actual 'Bruce.'
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post #7 of 38
5/19/04 at 11:48pm
The Bourne Identity-Instead of Letting Julia Stiles' Character live at the end, Jason Bourne mercifully shoots her right between her retarded, mongloid looking face. Hopefully he does her in in the next one. I have hope.
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post #8 of 38
5/21/04 at 5:18am
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Originally posted by Hair-Metal Hero
The Bourne Identity-Instead of Letting Julia Stiles' Character live at the end, Jason Bourne mercifully shoots her right between her retarded, mongloid looking face. Hopefully he does her in in the next one. I have hope.
I wish this was the ending to Save the Last Dance. Wouldn't it have been great if Matt Damon showed up as Jason Bourne, before that movie had even been made, just to shoot Julia Stiles in the kneecaps, forever ruining her dreams of dancing with black guys and chairs or whatever the hell that thing was about (did not see)?
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post #9 of 38
5/23/04 at 1:22am
INFIDELS!
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post #10 of 38
5/23/04 at 9:59am
Yeesh, why the hate for Julia Stiles? She's not that bad looking...

Now, Denise Richards on the other hand....

Can we say "lobotomy"?
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post #11 of 38
5/23/04 at 4:18pm
Minority Report- Tom Cruise's character actually discovers the man who murdered his son and promptly kills him. Tom goes to jail and Pre-Crime goes nation-wide, still with questions to the system's accuracey.
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post #12 of 38
5/23/04 at 11:30pm
In the very last shot of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, when the camera is circling around the CGI Hogwarts during the spectacular sunset, as the music swells and the camera pulls back, they should have had the car fly by.
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post #13 of 38
5/24/04 at 12:15am
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Originally posted by Werbal_Kint
Minority Report- Tom Cruise's character actually discovers the man who murdered his son and promptly kills him. Tom goes to jail and Pre-Crime goes nation-wide, still with questions to the system's accuracey.
Better idea for the film. Tom Crusie searches for a minority report and actually finds one
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post #14 of 38
5/24/04 at 12:59am
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Originally posted by Stormin
In the very last shot of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, when the camera is circling around the CGI Hogwarts during the spectacular sunset, as the music swells and the camera pulls back, they should have had the car fly by.
Hmm, does the car even fly? I think after its run-in with the Whomping Willow, it took to being a wild car in the forest.
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post #15 of 38
5/24/04 at 1:08am
Yeah but it can still fly around. Think it would be cool to think that its still out there.
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post #16 of 38
5/24/04 at 1:17am
Oh yeah....

Crap, does it show up in book 5? I can't quite remember...
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post #17 of 38
5/24/04 at 9:42am
Nope. No car in book Five. (Not that I could find, anyway, and I just read it last week.)
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post #18 of 38
5/24/04 at 11:09am
Lethal Weapon 2.
Riggs = dead.
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post #19 of 38
5/25/04 at 10:30am
Thread Starter 
Otik

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Did you just watch Scary Movie 3. Cus that is kinda what happens in that movie.

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Nope, I've only seen a few minutes of the first one years ago. From all reports I didn't miss much.

I just like the idea of the intimate horror of the Ring being used as a weapon of mass destruction.

Samara would be quite busy....

"Seven days.....well, actually, at the moment I'm booked through July. How about.....seven weeks?"
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post #20 of 38
5/26/04 at 8:38pm
That you know the girl's name is Samara is somewhat frightening.
Anyway, here's my ending for Harry Potter: In the very last shot of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, when the camera is circling around the CGI Hogwarts during the spectacular sunset, as the music swells and the camera pulls back, they should have had the Architect walking away while the Oracle said some asinine nonsense about Neo being around somewhere.

Yes, that would rule.
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post #21 of 38
6/10/04 at 7:49pm

Contact

The shoudn't ave had that bit at the end of contact in which angela basset tells james woods that the volume of footage proved jodie foster right. It should have been ambiguous as to whether or not she made the journey.

And yes, Minority Report, a cracker of a move, should have had a darker ending. Maybe pre-crime is abolished but somehow hte pre-cogs die.
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post #22 of 38
6/10/04 at 7:52pm

Oh, yeah...I nearly forgot...The Contender

Another very good film tainted by the urgent need to clarify an ambiguity.

We should never have found out whether Joan Allen's character was a slut in college. One of the points the film was making all the way through is that it doesn't matter!
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post #23 of 38
6/10/04 at 8:50pm

Re: Contact

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Originally posted by chon
The shoudn't ave had that bit at the end of contact in which angela basset tells james woods that the volume of footage proved jodie foster right. It should have been ambiguous as to whether or not she made the journey.
That's a good one. The book has the alien putting forward this idea to Ellie of a message being hidden in Pi somewhere, and so she starts looking for that, but the attempt to put a question mark over whether the journey happened or not is something they came up with for the movie.
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post #24 of 38
6/13/04 at 8:06pm
In Arsenic and Old Lace, they needed the original stage ending where he runs around yelling "I'm a bastard, I'm a bastard!" as opposed to "I'm the son of a sea cook!" I know it's not as creative as some, but the change in the ending has always bothered me. It's the same problem I have with Little Shop of Horrors ending. It loses something in translation. . .
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post #25 of 38
6/13/04 at 8:57pm
What I heard about "Little Shop of Horrors" is that they did film the original ending where everyone's devoured by Seymour, but the test audiences didn't like it. Thus, the happy ending.

Anyone know if that is on the DVD?
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post #26 of 38
6/14/04 at 12:03am
Man on Fire:

It was a decent film that could have been great to me if the ending worked. If they would have killed off the little girl, let Denzel get his revenge and go back to his drunken meaningless existence it could have been brilliant. The last shot could have been of him taking a slug from the bottle and then boom credits.
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post #27 of 38
6/14/04 at 12:09am
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Originally posted by Countess Anna loves Aussie Dracula
What I heard about "Little Shop of Horrors" is that they did film the original ending where everyone's devoured by Seymour, but the test audiences didn't like it. Thus, the happy ending.

Anyone know if that is on the DVD?
You mean Audrey 2? I'd like to see an ending where Rick Moranis goes cannibal crazy though.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091419/alternateversions

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In the original ending, faithful to the stage version both Seymour and Audrey were killed by Audrey 2. Subsequent scenes showed the plants, grown to enormous size, taking over New York (King-Kong style) and the world. The ending included a new musical number, titled "Don't Feed the Plants". After sneak preview audiences hated this ending, it was replaced with the happy one that's included in all released theatrical/home video versions. The alternate ending has been included in a special DVD edition with commentary by directory Frank Oz. This additional material is 23 minutes long and is shown in a rough cut form, in black & white, with many sound and musical effects missing. However producer David Geffen retained the rights to the alternate ending, and reportedly he did not give permission for its inclusion on the DVD disc; in February 1998 he had Warner Bros. issue a recall of the DVD version, which is now very rare.
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post #28 of 38
6/14/04 at 12:55am
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Originally posted by Countess Anna loves Aussie Dracula
What I heard about "Little Shop of Horrors" is that they did film the original ending where everyone's devoured by Seymour, but the test audiences didn't like it. Thus, the happy ending.
The original ending is much darker. . . AND much better IMHO.

After Audrey 2 (the plant) nearly devours Audrey (the girl), Seymour pulls her out and sees she is near death. Knowing there is nothing he can do to save her, he walks her to Audrey 2 and gently sings to her: "Now finally you'll be, somewhere that's green." With that he feeds her to Audrey 2 and promptly joins her voluntarily. After this dark turn, the plants quickly take over the world. The following number is then sang (in the stage version it is normally over the curtain call). The song is called "Don't Feed the Plants." The main message of the song is as sung: "They may offer you fortune and fame, lots of money and instant acclaim. But whatever they offer you, DON"T FEED THE PLANTS!"

Cutting this ending and song completely erases the morality, theme, and the point to this show. It was a wrong choice to cut this ending, in my opinion.
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post #29 of 38
6/14/04 at 3:56am
Jurrasic Park should have had the ending that the book had, where the Island's founder dies. Also, I think they should have kept the lawyer as heroic like in the book.
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post #30 of 38
6/14/04 at 10:33am
My bad. Damn, I gotta check the second hand DVD shops for that...
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post #31 of 38
7/4/04 at 12:43am
I screamed at the tv when I saw the ending of Pet Semetary. I will defend to my dying day that they fucked up they fucked it up they fucked it up!

It could have been truly disturbing but they made the fatal error of showing way more than we need to see. Damn them all to hell, I'm directing the remake.
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post #32 of 38
9/19/04 at 6:22pm

Man On Fire

Denzel exchanges himself for the girl- goes with the kidnappers, but instead of DYING in the backseat of the car- he has one of those explosive charges up his ass, and kills all the fuckers along with himself. He is redeemed, he saves the girl, and he takes everyone out.

OR-

Denzel exchanges himself for the girl, as soon as the girl is in the clear, WALKEN opens fire with a sniper rifle from a ridge. Takes out the kidnappers.

Good movie, ending needed to be more badass. . .
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post #33 of 38
9/26/04 at 11:26pm
Interveiw with a vampire. Make it like the Book. Daniel wakes up and heads to New Orleans. As he drives down the road Armand waves to him

T2. John Conner becomes a Seniter and helps California become a state of the future
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post #34 of 38
9/26/04 at 11:37pm
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Originally Posted by Ashxking2001
Interveiw with a vampire. Make it like the Book. Daniel wakes up and heads to New Orleans. As he drives down the road Armand waves to him
Actually, there was a radio critic that disliked the ending to that movie...Unfortunately, I never got through the entire book. I do know Anne herself wrote the screenplay and changed a lot of it...
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post #35 of 38
11/30/11 at 4:59am
Thread Starter 

Bumping an oldie but a goodie. There's been a lot of movies that have come out since this thread was out. Any movie you think you could have ended better than the original? Let's hear it!

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post #36 of 38
11/30/11 at 5:11am

Snip final scene from The Lost World.

 

Attach to end of Jurassic Park.

 

Jurassic Park improved at least 25%.

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post #37 of 38
11/30/11 at 7:29am
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post

Snip final scene from The Lost World.

 

Attach to end of Jurassic Park.

 

Jurassic Park improved at least 25%.


That would at least give Jurassic Park AN ending.  That movie just sort of quietly saunters off the screen.

 

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post #38 of 38
11/30/11 at 7:36am

Exactly.  Pelicans just don't cut it.

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