Movies that you would change the ending

Wow! Never heard of a breakup over the ending of Thelma & Louise. You win for best post! Sounds like a Seinfeld episode when Jerry couldn't go out with the girl who liked the dockers pants commercial? "Can I go out with someone who actually likes this commercial?" Cotton Dockers!

 

Scrooged- I love the entire film up until the end when they all start singing. At that point I turn it off. And why did they choose "Put a Little Love in Your Heart"? Its not even a Christmas song.

 

That movie could've been so much better than it was - They missed a great opportunity with Billy Murray on that one!

 

Kinda feel that way about "Groundhog Day"...it would have be 110% better with almost any other age-appropriate actress
cast in the Andie MacDowell part.

 

I disliked the ending of the Coen Brothers take on True Grit. I know it is straight from the book but I found it unrelentingly sad.

 

Agree - even in 1988 when Murray was still on a roll, that one was a major disappointment.

I think he was just wrong for Scrooge - the role doesn't suit his comedic personality...

 

Not sure what a more satisfying "happy ending" would've been for that film. There was really no way for it to end "happily"...

 

"The Magnificent Ambersons". It should end with a visit to Fanny in the boarding house. Heh.

 

Loved the ending. Made the rest of the movie seem like less of a waste of time.

 

Took the words out of my mouth.
Then don't ever see 4 Weddings and a Funeral. She almost single-handedly sinks the whole film.

 

Too late...too late.

 

I agree that MacDowell is a weakness in "4 Weddings" but I think she's very good in "Groundhog".

She's also solid in "sex, lies and videotape"...

 

I thought Rogue One worked and was segued well into A New Hope. No happy ending.

 

The ending was that they faxed the death star plans and everyone dies. If I want depression I’ll look at my bank account, I don’t have to pay money to be depressed.

She said “many” had died not all.

 

I agree about sex, lies, and videotape. It was the first movie I purchased on laserdisc just because it looked interesting (never heard of it before), and I thought it was a very good movie and McDowell was right in her role. In fact, I think all of the main actors did a very good job.

 

[nerd] The reference to the many spies who died is in Return of the Jedi, not Star Wars. [/nerd]

 

The problem with eliminating Jar Jar Binks is that it would require the entire series to be redone due to the significant parts he played in the story. His clumsiness resulted in significant losses to the battle droids in Episode I, he brought up a vote to give Palpatine emergency powers in Episode II (checked Wikipedia to confirm the specifics), where another character in that position likely would not have (at least not the way it happened).

For better or worse, Jar Jar is part of the tapestry that is Star Wars. The danger with eliminating him is that the story that results might be worse than what we've got. To use a comic book example, to paraphrase the Superman of Earth-Two comments that the new DC Universe that resulted from Crisis On Infinite Earths had so much promise but that soon there was something fundamental wrong with this new universes and it was worse than what existed before.

 

I’m pretty sure there is a reference in the originally released versions of New Hope before Lucas’ crackers weren’t wrapped. Could be wrong but “my” version of the “REAL” Star Wars New Hope has had many bad changes since. Han shot first.. and it was cool.

 

I reject and do not admit to the three prequels.. so in my world before goofy clowns and down syndrome floppy eared salamanders... Jar Jar could be eliminated.

 

No, there isn't.

You are far from the only person to mix the scenes up, don't worry.

 

I recently got a copy of a fan edit of New Hope. It’s the closet I’ve seen to what I grew up with. A lot of the footage was from old reels, bata. I’m gonna watch it again. When I was 15 the Jedi quiz book came out and I was so nerd I went through it like child’s play... now I don’t remember what At-At stands for. All terrain something.

 

Every movie should end with Captain Willard calling in an airstrike.
end of Jaws - Boom
end of Larry Crown - Boom
end of 8 1/2 - Boom
end of Seventh Seal - double boom!
end of Casablanca - "this could be the beginning of..." Boom!
end of Singing in the Rain - Boom

Not Bridge on the River Kwai though. That would be redundant

 

Ah.... it’s in the 77 release. It’s in the opening scroll words about the first Death Star. These are not bothans. The second Death Star that is not the next in cannon after rogue 1 is were the “many bothans died” line comes from... either way they didn’t have to kill hero’s.
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Yes, it was "Bothans" not spies in Return of the Jedi, I was just paraphrasing ... but it was the "many" you had an issue with and that does not come from the original movie (and why am I wasting time talking about this.)

Leia gets all the credit in Star Wars for getting the plans and she was only involved at the end!

 

Kill Bill II. After all the revenge and badass-ness of the Bride, it all comes down to your standard family drama - really??? Why?