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[SCULLIBUNDO]

the ending was fine. the last 30-45 minutes leading up to the ending were not.

WRONG.

 

[Dilly]

If it wasn't for zombieman, Sunshine would have been perfect.

 

[itxaka]

Its called I am Legend because of the last thing he says: "a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend."

In other words, as i said before

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he is a legend to what is now the world, the same way vampires were a legend to the "old race"

nothing to do with being heroic, not in the slightest.

Eh, that was my point exactly. The normal ending made no sense. The real one made sense and worked with the name of the movie. Same as the book. He is the legend, for the new world inhabitants like vampires were for ours.

I urge anybody interested to watch The Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price. It follows the book MUCH more closely.

Plus is a Free Domain movie so you can download it legally: http://www.archive.org/details/the-last-man-on-earth

Better linkn, compressed with h264-> http://www.archive.org/details/the_last_man_on_earth_h264

 

[ultron87]

WRONG.

One amazing scene doesn't make it okay that that movie falls apart in the last third. There are many ways they could've had that scene still occur and not make the movie be

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slasher loose on a space ship.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

One amazing scene doesn't make it okay that that movie falls apart in the last third. There are many ways they could've had that scene still occur and not make the movie be

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slasher loose on a space ship.

That one scene in the 'terrible last third' is one of the best scenes of the decade.

 

[ultron87]

That one scene in the 'terrible last third' is one of the best scenes of the decade.

Sure. But the last third is still pretty terrible despite that scene.

 

[mike23]

The Butterfly Effect:

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main actor goes back to when he was a baby and strangles himself with the umbilical cord

I've never seen the movie without that ending, that's weird. What's the normal ending?

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Sure. But the last third is still pretty terrible despite that scene.

It's not terrible at all. It is just incongruent with the first two acts. I really love the

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coming together of Mace and Capa when shit gets real. Mace's sacrifice etc.

The last third is disappointing after the first two acts, but it is in no way 'terrible'.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

I've never seen the movie without that ending, that's weird. What's the normal ending?

Yeah the ending you're used to is the Director's Cut which is also the first ending I ever saw and definitely the superior ending.

The other one was stupid as shit

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Evan sees Kayleigh at a birthday party when they're kids and tells her if she ever speaks to him again he'll kill her mum - so they won't become friends.

or some stupid shit like that. I also remember the ending where they just walk past each other in the street.

 

[LakeEarth]

I've never seen the movie without that ending, that's weird. What's the normal ending?

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He goes back in time to ruin his relationship with the girl when they first met, thus she doesn't stick around to be with him. Stays with her mom of staying with her abusive dad, and she (and her messed up brother) grow up and have normal lives, thus avoiding all the horrible stuff that happened in the movie.

I like this ending better because it's the fricken SMART option. Not only is the other ending too ridiculous, but this way he fixes all the problems and doesn't have to die.

EDIT - Scullibundo, the seeing each other in the street is the same ending as the theatrical, it's shown after the birthday party part.

 

[levious]

Yeah the ending you're used to is the Director's Cut which is also the first ending I ever saw and definitely the superior ending.

The other one was stupid as shit

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Evan sees Kayleigh at a birthday party when they're kids and tells her if she ever speaks to him again he'll kill her mum - so they won't become friends.

or some stupid shit like that. I also remember the ending where they just walk past each other in the street.

that is from the same ending that's in your spoiler, unless that's what you meant already...

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Yeah just watched it again. Been a while and I thought they were different. Still not nearly as powerful as the DC where Tommy gets a milf.

 

[krae_man]

I've never seen the movie without that ending, that's weird. What's the normal ending?

I came to this thread to ask the same question.

I rented the movie and it was on a double sided DVD and the directors cut side was the only side that worked.

 

[.la1n]

If it wasn't for zombieman, Sunshine would have been perfect.

THIS. A THOUSAND TIMES THIS.

 

[denomes]

THIS. A THOUSAND TIMES THIS.

I agree. What a goofy turn.

 

[kai3345]

this piece of shit (Clerks)

 

[scar tissue]

THIS. A THOUSAND TIMES THIS.

i hope we get to see a reimagining somewhere along the line, without the stupid plot twist.
sunshine is still one of my favorite films, but boy is that twist ever stupid

 

[Zoe]

While the twist is wtf worthy, I can't imagine how else to produce such despair (and the deaths) any other way.

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Wow...that's just horrible. I'm not even a fan of Titanic, but the film version is a very poignant scene, and this just shits all over that. I want to believe that this was filmed as a joke.

It seriously seems that way. It kind of plays out like a bizarre dream sequence.

 

[zomaha]

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He goes back in time to ruin his relationship with the girl when they first met, thus she doesn't stick around to be with him. Stays with her mom of staying with her abusive dad, and she (and her messed up brother) grow up and have normal lives, thus avoiding all the horrible stuff that happened in the movie.

I like this ending better because it's the fricken SMART option. Not only is the other ending too ridiculous, but this way he fixes all the problems and doesn't have to die.

EDIT - Scullibundo, the seeing each other in the street is the same ending as the theatrical, it's shown after the birthday party part.

Disagree about this being the smart option, because, iirc,

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he sees that no matter what life he tries, he will hurt people, so he decides to save them all by ending his

.

Has a much better impact, imo.

 

[LakeEarth]

Better impact yes, but the theatrical ending solves all those problems AND he gets to live. Maybe it isn't the best ending dramatically, and I completely understand people liking the womb ending better, but I'm the kind of person who always goes "well why didn't he just do this?!?" in movies so I like the theatrical ending better.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Die Hard with a Vengeance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ooc-ZbyLDI

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McClane tracks down Simon in an awesome way

Such a bizarre shift in tone from the rest of the film.

 

[SHAZOOM]

I Am Legend - Far more poignant and truer to the book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-rJsnXsgMo

Really should have ended like this. MUCH BETTER.

 

[Speedymanic]

The alternate ending to Titanic deserves a mention.

It's so damn ridiculous and weird.

Bizarre. Why didn't one of them jump in and grab it?

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Bizarre. Why didn't one of them jump in and grab it?

I don't know. The whole thing is just so... off.

 

[ConradCervantes]

Hated the Die Hard alternative ending when I first saw it. Doesn't fit the movie at all. But the original ending sucks as well, so all in all I usually just turn it off after

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the boat escape.

 

[MisterHero]

Oh wow, I was pleasantly surprised to see something new come from Titanic and Bill Paxton but it turned into an M. Night Shyamalan film.

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"YOU HAD IT THE ENTIRE TIME?"

I watched Titanic a couple times last week pondering whether Jack actually existed, and was instead a character that Rose created for herself, and that other characters 'interacting' with Jack were playing along with her

 

[MarkMclovin]

While the twist is wtf worthy, I can't imagine how else to produce such despair (and the deaths) any other way.

Although it was the last 3rd of the movie and not technically the ending, it was the ending of the good 2/3rds!

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Even if it was something to do with the ship malfunctioning and crew members having to sacrifice themselves as they get closer, I'd be happy with that. It's been a while, but hadn't they already accepted death to succeed the mission anyway?

 

[LegendOfGood]

There's a pretty cool 28 Days Later alternate ending- the one on the DVD that only had storyboards. Can't find it on YouTube, though :/

 

[Salsa]

Eh, that was my point exactly. The normal ending made no sense. The real one made sense and worked with the name of the movie. Same as the book. He is the legend, for the new world inhabitants like vampires were for ours.

oh, my bad

 

[way more]

What is better about the alternate I am Legend

Original: He and the others are trapped.

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He has them hide in chimney and he blows himself up. The women and girl drive to safety.

Remake:

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He gives back the monster girl, the monsters leave. They all drive to safety.

How is one anymore like the book than the other? Why is one better?

They just both seem like meh endings all around. The movie had deviated so much from the book that I really don't see the last 90 seconds affecting anything at all.

 

[King of the Potato People]

Did Tim Burton's Apes have an alternate ending? One that made sense?

 

[Radogol]

Original ending:

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He gives back the monster girl, the monsters leave. They all drive to safety.

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The infected are not monsters at all. They're capable of emotion and rational thought. Neville was kidnapping them and experimenting on them - thus, he is the monster.

 

[Skiptastic]

Bizarre. Why didn't one of them jump in and grab it?

Or, I don't know, use that expensive water craft that they used to show off the Titanic underwater and GRAB THAT NECKLACE FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR.

 

[flyover]

i hope we get to see a reimagining somewhere along the line, without the stupid plot twist.
sunshine is still one of my favorite films, but boy is that twist ever stupid

The weird thing is that, if you read the shooting script, the twist doesn't seem quite so bad. And yet, somehow, onscreen -- even though what was shot doesn't deviate much from what was written -- it came off (to many of us) terribly.

 

[ant_]

What is better about the alternate I am Legend

Original: He and the others are trapped.

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He has them hide in chimney and he blows himself up. The women and girl drive to safety.

Remake:

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He gives back the monster girl, the monsters leave. They all drive to safety.

How is one anymore like the book than the other? Why is one better?

They just both seem like meh endings all around. The movie had deviated so much from the book that I really don't see the last 90 seconds affecting anything at all.

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It may not be identical to the book, but the alternate ending preserves the meaning of the book. And that is what makes the book so good.

 

[G-Fex]

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The infected are not monsters at all. They're capable of emotion and rational thought. Neville was kidnapping them and experimenting on them - thus, he is the monster.

I hate the movie and I hate even looking back to think on it but..

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Didn't the infected just you know...KILL OFF Everyone in flashbacks so that doesn't necessarily get them off the hook?

 

[Zoe]

Or, I don't know, use that expensive water craft that they used to show off the Titanic underwater and GRAB THAT NECKLACE FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR.

The currents probably would have carried it away far from there.

I hate the movie and I hate even looking back to think on it but..

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Didn't the infected just you know...KILL OFF Everyone in flashbacks so that doesn't necessarily get them off the hook?

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I believe in the book they had to re-evolve into a rational race.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

The unbutchered UK The Descent ending

Came to post this.
I can't watch the link, but I'm assuming you are posting the version where

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it ends with her hallucinating the image of her daughter and the birthday cake down in the cave and she never escapes?

Very haunting and sad.

 

[Radogol]

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Didn't the infected just you know...KILL OFF Everyone in flashbacks so that doesn't necessarily get them off the hook?

You asked why it's closer to the book. Whether or not the ending makes sense is another matter

 

[Angry Fork]

The original ending to RotJ comes to mind.

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Han Solo dies and Luke goes ronin, wandering the galaxy by himself. Ewok dance party cancelled.

Any info/links on this one

http://io9.com/5611489/original-sta...ins-what-went-wrong-after-empire-strikes-back

Kurtz also explains how Return Of The Jedi would have ended originally, in the outline that Lucas and he had come up with before Lucas decided to change everything to make it more of an upbeat toy-selling vehicle. Luke and Leia would have rescued Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, but then Han would have died halfway through the film, during a raid on an Imperial base. (This is something that Harrison Ford has mentioned before as well.) The film would have ended with the rebel forces in tatters, Leia struggling with her new duties as queen, and Luke walking off into the sunset alone, like Clint Eastwood at the end of a spaghetti Western. It would have been a more nuanced, muted ending to the saga, instead of the Ewoks dancing in the forest like a "teddy-bear luau." (Apparently that genius phrase is the work of the L.A. Times' Geoff Boucher.)

ROTJ was alright but this ending would've been so much better. Fuck Lucas. It's also funny how the producer in this case is the one with the right story ideas and the one hoping to make a great film/trilogy, but the director is the one looking to milk shit into money. So backwards.

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

That ending actually sounds much better than I thought it would.

 

[way more]

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The infected are not monsters at all. They're capable of emotion and rational thought. Neville was kidnapping them and experimenting on them - thus, he is the monster.

I don't believe the ending portrays them as anymore capable of sentiment or abstract thought. The movie already shows them using traps and howling for their missing. The display of not killing a Will Smith doesn't suddenly make them the same sympathetic creatures they were in the book.

They were so monstrous in design and acts it would take 30 minutes to create their humanity, not 30 seconds. You have to be looking very, very hard for way to relate the movie to the book to consider the alternate better or even somewhat different from the theatrical release.

Edit: For me this argument is a lot like Obre los Ojos vs Vanilla Sky. Some people say the original is soooo much better but for me I'm surprised anyone can tell them apart.

 

[Grisby]

That Titanic ending would have trolled the entire movie.

Amazing how such a different ending could have been wrought.

 

[Darth Pinche]

I'm not sure if this counts as an alt ending, but The Abyss was a much better film with the alternate material added.

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Basically the aliens sending out the huge wave as a warning about our warlike ways and abuse of nuclear weapons. But then they retracted their threat after seeing the bond between the hero and his wife/self sacrifice. Without those scenes, the aliens and their surfacing at the end was out of context.

 

[disappeared]

There's a pretty cool 28 Days Later alternate ending- the one on the DVD that only had storyboards. Can't find it on YouTube, though :/

Yeah I know the one you're talking about. They talk to that mysterious guy behind the door for a cure, or something? He was never going to be shown apparently, I think I remember Boyle saying that in the commentary.

 

[Zoe]

I don't believe the ending portrays them as anymore capable of sentiment or abstract thought. The movie already shows them using traps and howling for their missing. The display of not killing a Will Smith doesn't suddenly make them the same sympathetic creatures they were in the book.

They were so monstrous in design and acts it would take 30 minutes to create their humanity, not 30 seconds. You have to be looking very, very hard for way to relate the movie to the book to consider the alternate better or even somewhat different from the theatrical release.

It's his character's realization. Up until then he refused to acknowledge it.

 

[mightynine]

That Titanic ending would have trolled the entire movie.

"That really SUCKS, lady!"

 

[way more]

It's his character's realization. Up until then he refused to acknowledge it.

This is true.

 

[kehs]

No one has mentioned the alternate to Avatar?