I have always imagined a twisted little “extra scene” for the end of E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial":
ending - Eliiot, his brother & sister and all the kids in the neighborhood say goodbye to E.T. The cute li’l alien tells Eliot “I’ll be right here.” and touches his heart. Then he ascends into the UFO, which then ascends into the sky. Cue great big John Williams scoring and very dramatic fadeout.
Extra scene - INT. UFO - MOMENTS LATER
E.T.: My mission was a complete success!
OTHER ALIEN: So you successfully tainted the human specimens with our specially engineered killer virus?
E.T.: Yes! Those foolish children actually HID me from adults who were attempting to quarantine me! In the days I spent with them, I was able to pass on the contagion to all the children. Imagine - they actually took me out in a sheet and paraded me around their community during their costume-holiday ritual! EVERY child within a ten mile radius now has the deadly virus!
OTHER ALIEN: And within a few revolutions of their planet’s axis, the virus will have spread to all corners of the Earth. Easily two-thirds of their population will be dead in a matter of days!
E.T.: And the pitiful few who will survive the plague will be no match for our armada of warships that are currently hiding the other side of the sun. The humans are doomed! The Earth is ours! Mwuah-ha-ha-ha-ha!
The E.T.'s all burst into a fit of cackling laughter and Kang & Kodos style waving of their tentacly arms.
Actually the sharks in Finding Nemo already thought that eating fish was wrong. I’m not sure what they were eating instead of fish. But Marlin and Dorrie (not Nemo, he’s not in that scene) are found by a shark and taken to a support groups for sharks who don’t want to eat fish.
That was such an obvious big plot hole that I assumed it was the set up for the sequel. Cameron has gone on record saying that all the work to create the tech to enable the movie kinda made a sequel (actually most likely a trilogy) inevitable…
ETA: oh, a slight variation on the OP = The Graduate. The whole point to the movie is for Dustin Hoffman / Ben to assert himself and grow up a bit, which he does by pursuing Katherine Ross (who wouldn’t?! :)). But when he “rescues” her and they end up in the back of the bus, their “NOW what the heck are we gonna do?!” listless expressions make it clear that “…and they lived happily ever after” is not going to be the neat n’ tidy ending to their story(ies)…
Yeah, I always thought that too. I figure they (separately) both go crawling back to their parents the next day and beg to be forgiven and fed and housed.
I find it charming that you spoiler-boxed Snow White. But I’ve thought of that, too. A lot of fairy tales have that extremely selfish aspect to them. I guess the ending should really read, “And some of them lived happily ever after.”
If the aliens said to me “there’s a 50% chance we’re going to eat you, but the only way you’ll ever know is if you get on board” I’d probably still go.
I recently watched Splendor in the Grass, which is a screaming argument for sex education in public schools if ever I saw one, but the ending, which I think was intended to evoke a wistfulness for young love looked back on from adulthood, just makes me think the two main characters are going to be meeting in dingy motels every few months for the rest of their lives.
Not just the part you put in a spoiler, but put yourself in Marty’s dad’s shoes. Before you won her heart, your wife was head over heels for this guy in high school named “Calvin”, who mysteriously disappeared. You thought he was out of the picture. Fast forward a few years, and your wife bears you a son… but son of a bitch! That motherfucker looks exactly like that guy Calvin she used to go with! hmmmm…
It’s the first of an announced trilogy, so probably not for too long.
Independence Day- Yeaaa, we beat the bad guys!
Of course there’s about a trillion tons of dead mothership just above our atmosphere, and nuclear fallout from the bombs we used on (Dallas? Somewhere in Texas I think), and Og knows how many aliens survived, and most major cities were destroyed, but… we still have Bill Paxton or Bill Pullman, one or the other.
The above mentions Toy Story 2. I’d add the origional Toy Story as well.
The toys revealed themselves to the bully kid. Admittedly he’s not a likeable sort, but it’s worth remembering he was taking out his emotional problems on inanimate objects- at least he wasn’t blowing up animals or shooting kids in the eye with BB guns. Now he’s just realized that toys are alive and sentient and capable of confrontation. One of three things will come about:
1- He’ll be a hopeless basket case for the rest of his life, unable to so much as eat a piece of lettuce for terror the lettuce head’s mother will come at him accusing him of murder and plotting revenge. And, in terms of body count, this is the Best Case Scenario.
2- He now knows that toys are there and they are watching, and after his initial defeat at their hands he’ll never let that happen again. He will carry out a lifetime vendetta against toys- Buzz and Woody saved a beat up old doll and some army men but they’ve just created the Toy Holocaust as this guy dedicates his life to destroying the little mass produced demons before they grow stronger and more powerful.
3- He’ll figure "I was reserving my greatest fucked-upedness for toys because they’re insentient and inanimate, but now that I’ve learned that they’re neither insentient or inanimate, hell, I might as well move on to animals and then other kids and finally just go full blown serial killer. The only hope for this scenario is that one day he’ll move to Miami and Dexter will catch wise and take him out. (And who’s the Special Guest Serial Killer on Dexter this season? None other than Colin Hanks, the son of Tom- i.e. Tom Hanks made him, just as he did the horror that evolved from the kid next door who only wanted to take out frustration at his impotence in a bad home life on some old junk toys but now takes out men, women, and children in increasingly elaborate ways.)
I think you guys are wrong about Back to the Future. We see clearly that time eventually catches up with itself. I think, in a short amount of time,
Marty will remember everything from his new life. Since he didn’t intentionally set out to change his dad’s personality, he still would have done the exact same things in the past. This also helps explain why the chicken thing is new to the second movie. His personality is even different.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, who wrote Yentl the Yeshiva Boy on which Streisand’s musical Yentl was based, HATED the movie version and particularly it’s happy-ish ending in which Yentl wraps things up with her wife and her boyfriend (who get back together) and heads off to America “singing at the top of her lungs”. Per Singer:
Nicholas Cage wakes up to find that he’s in an alternate universe where he had married his old flame years earlier and had two kids with her.
At the end of the movie, he returns to his original time line. So the two cute kids are dead! Gone. No more. They have ceased to be. I found it incredibly cruel.
Wow. I’d never even thought about that. I hope for everyone’s sake that time’s kind of dimmed the memory of exactly what Calvin looks like (Marty never got photographed in the '50s, did he?)
Is there a reason you say that? It’s been years since I’ve seen the movies and even longer since I saw the second and third.[SPoiler]Whether he intended to change his father’s personality, Marty clearly did it, at least giving him a huge boost in the self-confidence department. It only stands to reason that, having this difference in personality, the path of his life was at least somewhat different (but not completely different, as he ends up owning the same house, if I remember correctly.) This different life is one of which Marty has no knowledge and I don’t remember the movies giving any reason to think he was “remembering” any. The Marty who knew those parents was shown at the end of the first movie going back in time and we have no idea what happened to him.
Did Marty get called a chicken in the first movie? If not, it seems like it’s just an aspect of his personality that the viewer hadn’t seen before.[/Spoiler]
Well, in the first movie, Marty and his siblings were slowly disappearing from the picture and the assumption was Marty had until they had all disappeared to right his interference. Really, you’d expect all 3 to disappear from the photo immediately upon Marty’s intrusion on his father and mother’s courtship. (Actually, the photo should disappear as the events that led up to the taking of the photo will not have occurred.) So in a universe that apparently has a ripple effect for changes in chronology, I think his supposition makes as much sense as any.
Cracked also dealt with horrifying aspects of BTTF. One of my favorite lines (paraphrased) is “So do they ever sit down with their neutered servant Biff and laugh about the time he tried to rape Lorraine?”
