Well, maybe if you wouldn’t go around serial-killing, you wouldn’t have to deal with this kind of discrimination. 
That comment was hardly inclusive, nor did it recognise diversity.
Methinks we have two candidates for tolerance camp in this thread.
The whole deal with including a shot of the dog–alive and unharmed–after the ‘pâté’ scene in *The War of the Roses *, because film audiences balked at the original screening, is apparently a rumour… but even as a dog lover I think it works better without that shot.
Descent had a different ending for its US release. In the US version, there was one survivor. In the original UK ending, the last remaining member of the team gets eaten herself. No survivors.
I beg to differ. Now had they had them all cuddled up and smoochy at the end that would have been bullshit. But having her making a resoltion to go on seems very much like Scarlett.
And they did avoid the obvious happy smoochy ending.
not quite sure if this qualifies but…
at the end of Salton Sea with Val Kilmer; flames are going up in slow motion, he’s bleeding out, fade to black, and the credits should have rolled. But no, he wakes up on the stretcher rolling into a hollywood sunset, bleh
forgot to say it really felt like a 2nd ending that the test market voted to add on, bleh
The Color Purple should have ended with Celie and Mister, both old, sitting on a porch as old friends who happened to have once been partners in a terrible marriage. This scene was filmed and I’ve seen stills from it on the DVD extras but it’s never been released. One of my favorite aspects of the book given only brief treatment in the movie was Mister’s complete (as it could possibly be) redemption.
Addams Family Values originally ended with Debbie (Joan Cusack) joining the family when she realized that she really did love her husband Fester and his family and after years of matekilling and self-pity she’d found a family. I don’t know if it was filmed or not, but I thought this would be a better ending than the one that was filmed.
The Firm should have kept the original script’s ending which was much closer to the book’s Panama City cheap strip motel getaway.
Godfather III needed to 1) keep the original Winona-Ryder-instead-of-Sofia-Coppola beginning, middle and end and 2) make it clearer that Michael’s death was far in the future. (True, he had white hair and more wrinkles, but it could have been a matter of him aging years in a few months due to grief, diabetes, infirmity, etc…)
I can’t provide a cite but my understanding is that the original ending for The Greatest Story Ever Told had an autistic kid looking at a snowglobe filled with crosses while his dad (Max von Sydow) remarks to his granddad (Jose Ferrer) “He just lukes into dat ting for hours. I vunder vaht he sees.”
An even better way to end that movie is for everyone involved to take Jodie Foster’s approach to it.
16 Blocks should have kept Donner’s original ending which ended with:
Bruce Willis being killed and Mos Def’s character sending his best wishes to the sister.
The theatrical ending is lame. 2 years for his crimes? Ridiculous!
Underrated movie, by the way.
I have to beg to differ here as well. It was making the point that the Addams’ were warped but not in a bad way. Whereas she (who came off as normal) was warped in a bad way.
Beyond that no one is going to fall in love with Uncle Fester. Although I’d , like totally do Gomez. C’est moi.
I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned The Abyss, whose original ending was much longer but a major improvement over the theatrical version (which still wasn’t bad).
Can someone help me out here? I saw Baz Luhrman’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet in Los Angeles, extremely early in its run. (Yes, I loved it. That’s not the argument.)
I distinctly remember that Romeo killed “Dave” Paris near the end. As he did in the play. But when I later saw it on TV & on DVD–that scene was missing.
Am I just imagining this? Or was the sight of Leonardo di Caprio killing another teen cutie–Paul Rudd–too much for some audiences?
Ah, what DVD has done for us…sometimes we get the “theatrical version” and the “director’s cut” in the same package, giving us the chance to compare the original ending with the bowdlerized one.
See, for example, The Butterfly Effect. Now, as the trailers reveal, the movie is about a guy who can travel back in time to certain points in his life and change things, using records of his past such as pictures or journal entries. The small changes he makes in the past lead to huge, frequently catastrophic changes in the present. By the end of the theatrical version…
…things have gone so wrong that he decides to undo every bit of it. So, using an old home movie, he jumps back to the very first moment he met the girl he loves, insults her and makes her cry so that they never become friends, and everything finally turns out for the better. Finally, in the new “present”, they pass one another on the street, look back at one another with faint recognition, and the movie ends.
Lovely. But in the original ending on the director’s cut…
[spoiler]…he instead uses the movie his father recorded of his own birth to jump back into his as-yet-unborn self. In utero, he wraps the umbilical cord around his own neck and strangles himself to death before he is even born. Following that, there’s a short montage showing the happy lives his various friends have led without him around.
The director’s cut also includes a scene where the main character’s mother tells him that she had been pregnant twice before, but both were stillborn. After that ending, you’re left to wonder: has this all happened twice before?[/spoiler]
Medicine doesn’t get much stronger than that. I can see why test audiences might have quailed at that ending, but I thought it had real guts.
The Saint with Val Kilmer had it’s ending redone after some test audiences didn’t like the fact that Elizabeth Shue died. Never mind that all through the movie they drop hints that she is going to die. They also pulled Val going all bad ass and killing the bad guys. So the bad guys live and so does Ms. Shue.
The more recent remake of The Stepford Wives had the ending totally redone witch totally screwed up the movie. All through the movie the wives had been replaced with machines. Then they changed the ending with some sort of mind controll nanobots so the women weren’t killed. How the heck are nanobots supposed to turn your wife into an ATM?
The Abyss doesn’t really count. Cameron never finished the movie so the end isn’t the original one. FOX just took the cameras away and threw him into the editing room to finish the movie. Later, he filmed his ending and they added it to the DVD. I’m not a huge fan of either ending.
Could someone please describe the two different endings in one of the black boxes? I’m no longer sure witch one I’ve seen.
Thanks.
Oh, and the ending of True Romance was changed because test audiences didn’t like the “unhappy” ending.
I like the Saturday Night version where they lynch the old man.
I wish Speilberg had never done his ‘additions’ to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
The original ending was fine, and the added 2 minutes or so didn’t change anything.
Can’t find a cite, but I’ve read that Mark Christopher originally intended to end 54 with Shane, Anita and Greg forming a bisexual menage a trois relationship. They should’ve kept that, there were enough hints it was coming even in the theatrical release.