Is that the one with the two Caltech guys who live across the hall from Glenn Miller?
The Princess Bride - include the scene from the book in which Buttercup orders the palace guards away as the group make their escape.
Give the poor girl SOMETHING positive to do in the entire movie.
I’ve never in one thread disagreed and agreed with someone more in my life.
I’m surprised no one’s brought up The Mist. IMHO, you could cut ten seconds just prior to the final scene, or the final scene (I confess I don’t know if that’s more than ten seconds). Leaving both those pieces in makes it too maniacally sadistic. Of course ending it like the novella would be best, but would require more reworking.
Completely remove the voice-over narration at the beginning of Dark City. (Or just mute it, like I always do when showing it to people)
Dave. There’s a final scene where Kevin Kline is actually preparing to run for office, working from the ground up. The final shot is Ving Rhames, the Secret Service guy, standing in front of his door, guarding him. They should have had him wearing a v-neck sweater, which would have perfectly delivered on a conversation Dave made with Ving Rhames earlier in the movie.
I thought the ending of the movie was a lot better than the ridiculous ending of the novella.
Hmmm… Been a while since I’ve seen it; I’ve always missed the element of Khan knowing he’s lost, and I don’t necessarily agree that Spock’s story would have been undermined.
I think it would depend on the editing.
Highlander 2 (yes it exists) add a scene to the end where Connor McLeod wakes up in bed (with Suzanne Pleshette, obviously) and realizes it was all a dream.
Opening scene of LOST: plane crashes into ocean, killing all aboard. The end.
(just kidding! :D)
No, no. Don’t apologize. That would have been better than what we got.
Unbreakable: Yes, it’s a Shyamalan movie, and yes, it does sort of have a surprise ending - but I thought Shyamalan actually delivered on the premise of the story (“What if superheroes were real and lived among us?”) effectively. What I did not understand was why he chose to undermine the impact of the final reveal by throwing up a succession of title cards explaining the further actions and disposition of Bruce Willis’ David Dunn and Samuel L. Jackson’s Elijah Price. It should have ended when Dunn shakes Price’s hand, and realizes Price is his counterpart, his supervillain. As Dunn walks away, Price’s voice echoes after him, “They call me Mr. Glass!”
Quantum Leap: keep the finale’s epilogue except for the very last bit of text (Sam never returned home).
Sphere: When Dustin Hoffman finally gets inside the titular sphere, actually show, the inside of the sphere…
Every movie: have a scene after the credits.
In the first episode of Lost they all die in the crash.
Actually, that WAS the original ending!
But test audiences apparently hated the ambiguity of it and so they added the ending text.
For what it’s worth, I agree with you.
Didn’t that already happen 1st or 2nd season (Riker becomes a Q briefly)? Granted, he gets better. I actually didn’t mind Wesley so much except the finale episode where he’s an uberjerk. Usually he’s just slightly annoying, or else put into a situation which he seems annoying by association but really it’s the adults who are being dickish.
Who needs it? 1) It’s a friggin popcorn movie. 2) Any computer can interface with any other computer if you have the right protocols. 3) Super powerful and therefore arrogant aliens. Surely no conquerable planets will have developed programming skills. The aliens ALREADY revealed their protocols by interfacing with our satellites. Not a huge leap in general, and given it’s popcorn status, a microscopic leap.
Well… yeah, but product of unexpected cancellation.
Clever!
Also clever! I’ve also felt that, films were close to great, but fell short of the mark for one reason or another (usually pacing + editing + soundtrack). Sometimes, falling just short of the mark of greatness makes a film worse than never aspiring in the first place. Unfortunately.
No! That was the reason people hated the flash-sideways. The flash sideways was fine until Christian Shepherd made his revelation (and except for him and the actor who plays Jack, no one else knew about it anyway) so let’s just cut out the scene between Jack and his father. So that the sideways-flash becomes an alt universe rather than…
Maybe I don’t remember it well? I thought that the flashBACKS about Mr Glass were stunning to me and revelatory and essential. However, I don’t remember any title cards depicting future events.
Nooooooo!! That’s the whole reason people hated the sideways flash!
Another with Terminator Salvation, when John Connor finally meets the Arnold Terminator, he says “I wondered when you’d show up!”
I would add a ten-second explanation of the history of the Maurader’s Map into the movie version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, or the line “Don’t call me coward!” to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. What are otherwise the two best movies of the series are nearly ruined by leaving out key moments. The latter is nearly unforgivable. That line, to me, is the whole point of that scene and quite possibly the whole point of the series.
You could just buy the Director’s Cut. It’s more or less just the original minus the spoiler-iffic beginning.
Signs: Add a line or two at the end revealing, or at the very least suggesting, that the invaders were not space aliens, but demons/supernatural beings sent to test the faith of humanity. It works much better with the spiritual theme of the movie, and dispenses with the story’s most ginormous plot hole, i.e. what kind of idiot aliens would invade a planet covered in a substance deadly to them (while wearing no protective clothing, to boot).
Yes, I know some fans insist the creatures were intended to be demons all along, but there’s nothing explicit in the movie itself that would imply that, and there should be.
That the [del]invaders[/del] raiders are aliens is only the opinion of the characters, who believe that because they’re 21st-century persons rather than 18th-century ones. The characters in fact know nothing about their motivations or aim.
I think they’re aliens in fact, but not an invasion force. They weren’t trying to conquer anything, and capturing humans was only incidental. All the aliens on the ground going through a passage rite to prove their bravery. That is why they were weaponless (discounting the poison at least one coudl admit, which might have been a natural ability) and why they were naked on a world rich in their version of kryptonite. It was supposed to be inordinately difficult for the raiders.
ETA: Another reason I prefer the movie without the line Winston suggests is that I think the story works better if the Mel Gibson character and his family never know what the raiders want. They shouldn’t, because it’s not an adventure movie.