I think it was William Hurt.
Cut out completely the psycho-babble in the movie Psycho and revise a line where now the audience has an excuse to see how Norman could “never hurt a fly”.
No way! Loved them all, wanted more endings.
Planet of the Apes should have had at least one scene where Charlton Heston defecates in his hand and throws it at his simian tormentors.
Everything in The Hunger after Bowie’s character dies-- until then it was a short, coherent, touching love story. Maybe make a second film out of the rest.
The ending of The Usual Suspects after the cop looks at the bulletin board-- just as he starts making connections. I want things slightly unresolved. Same thing for Blade Runner.
AI got stupid. Spiderman II got really stupid. How many endings do you need to stack on?
I agree about the little-Jim section of Eternal Sunshine. It was like they took a bit of bad Jim Carrey and stuck it into a good Jim Carrey movie to make me feel betrayed.
Take out that New York assassination thing from Scarface. It’s unrealistic, silly, breaks the momentum of the film, it even looks like it’s from another movie.
Yup. Delete Aragorn falling off the cliff, and all scenes with him and Arwen, or any Elf scenes not in the book but set in the “present”, then you’d have plenty of enough time to add an extra ending!
But on topic, change all the scenes with the weird facial contortions when they get tempted by the ring. The only way to justify this is to say that you are really showing Frodo’s perception of them, thinking everyone is after the ring. If Jackson wants me to think they really did look like that, it’s cheesy.
I agree with the standard line on where AI should have ended: I walked out of the movie with the idea pre-formed before anyone told it to me, it was so glaringly obvious.
Minority Report. Everything after
Max Von Sydow shoots himself.
Worst tacked-on, stupid happy ending I’ve ever seen.
In fact no, completely change the ending so that it actually bears some kind of resemblance to the book, which made a whole lot more sense.
Minority Report was made from a short story, not a novel. I thought that both the short story and the movie had their plot problems. Just what part of the short story do you want to put back into the movie?
In both version of Leon: The Prefessional
He died. Imagine if the film ended with them both making their escape and spliting up, but stopped from showing Leon’s death. Matilda must assume he is dead, since there would still be a scene showing what impossible odds there are, but…
In “The Iron Giant”, the film should have ended as Hogarth says “I miss him” and the screen fades to black, remove the tacked-on “happy ending” reconstruction scene that i’d imagine was tacked on for 2 purposes…
1; so you don’t end up with a theatre full of wailing brats crying because the robot’s dead and isn’t coming back, hey, kid, there’s no “reset button” in real life (unless you live in the Star Trek universe, that is 
), and life isn’t fair, the sooner you learn that the better
2; to set up a potential sequel
the film would have been far more powerful without the happy ending
in the thourougly horrid and useless film “Monkeybone”, delete all scenes that don’t have Kitty, and film more scenes with Kitty in them
L.A. Confidential: Delete the scene near the end where we see Bud White alive.
Oh. Well, I can sort of see your point, but I think it made it rather poignant, to find out what happened to Miller.
This is a slight hijack, but upon a repeat viewing of Minority Report, I think the ending holds up if you watch it with the idea that everything after
Tom Cruise gets put in the criminal ward is all in his mind…the jailer sets this up earlier by mentioning that the prisoners have active imaginations while they are in this condition. If you view it from that perspective pretty much everything after this point seems implausible at best. But it does put a different spin on things.
As for the OP, I would add some kind of scene in ST:TWOK where Kirk and Khan actually meet face to face, and take out most of the “Kirk is sad because he is getting older” subplot. I hate it where he says at the end: “…I feel young!”
The Empire Strikes Back: Replace the snow monster with a CGI one. The monster looked like what he was - a guy in a suit.
Return of the Jedi: trim the Ewok scenes and remove all the cutesy Muppet stuff (the frog-like creature in front of Jabba’s castle eating the bug and belching, for example).
Star Trek VI: the part where Dr. McCoy says “fascinating” to Spock’s offer to modify a photon torpedo. At least change the way he said it.
Move the scene in Identity where it is revealed to John Cusack’s character that he is one of the insane guy’s multiple personalities until AFTER the climactic gunfight.
A Mighty Wind-
Every scene after the concert except that involving the Main Street Singers’ manager, especially that of the Folksmen
The Shadow should have dumped the opening scenes in the opium fields of Tibet and shown that material in flashback. That would have made the first scene in the movie The Shadow’s appearance rescuing the physicist on the bridge–a more dynamic and one which introduces our hero as a mystery, whose identity will be gradually revealed.
The Shawshank Redemption should have ended a wee earlier:
With the shot of the bus crossing the border while Morgan Freeman delivers his hope monologue in voiceover. Seeing Red and Dufresne meet up on the beach was overkill.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: eliminate the “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” scene, without which the movie would feel less dated.
Bad Santa should have ended with Billy Bob shot and lying on the front porch.
An otherwise brave movie with the most cowardly ending. I absolutely. can. not. fuckin’ believe that movie kept going after that “fade to black” with him lying there.