I have just watched . Independence Day again. I really like that movie but there’s one little thing I wish hadn’t been said.
After the President’s wife dies he comes out of her room and walks over to his daughter, a little girl. She asks “Is Mommy sleeping?” and he tells her yes, she’s sleeping.
He shouldn’t have done that. It could mess the kid up later. If I’d been the director or script writer I;d have worked out something else, although I’m not sure what it would be.
Sounds silly I guess, Are there any movies in which YOU would change one little thing?
The chocolate river in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - it just needs to look like chocolate (even chocolate milk would be OK), not brown water.
One of the last lines of dialogue in Ever After is Danielle and Henry talking about their future life, and Henry says “We are supposed to live happily ever after.”
“Says who?” asks Danielle.
“You know, I don’t know.”
It’s a poor attempt to jam in the title of the film, and is really limp and cringey. It undermines the whole conclusion in one fell swoop, implying either that they know they are inside a fairy tale, or that their future may be unhappy. It’s weird.
Near the end of Mrs. Doubtfire, Danny (as the title character) has the following conversation with his puppet sidekick while hosting his new TV show:
– Do you know what language they speak in England?
– Pakistani?
– That’s right. In many stores they do.
Funny enough - but I always want to shake the TV and shout “‘Pakistani’ isn’t a language!” (Not sure how they could have fixed that and still kept the joke…maybe “Punjabi”?)
There is absolutely no convincing “no-prize” explanation for that fuck up. To add insult to injury, Lucas changes dozens of things that weren’t even wrong with Star Wars and doesn’t bother to spend a couple bucks to dub in a word that makes sense.
I’d change the scene where the black friend always dies in the movie while the white friend lives. It never fails! At least let him or her survive! I know it happens in Starship Troopers.
The Abyss should have ended with Ed Harris’ character Bud Brigman cutting the wires to disarm the weapon, and texting, “Going to stay a while…knew it was a one way ticket…” I understand why Cameron wanted the aliens to rescue him, but it was such a deus ex machina to what was otherwise a pretty grounded story.
Mean Girls should have ended with Regina George getting hit by the bus.
In the books, Gandalf’s power is magnitudes greater than that of the witch-king. Why did the movie disregard this and have him defeated when they face off?
Another one, related: on the bridge, Gandalf says “cannot”, not “shall not”.
They could have come up with a better way for the Mighty Ducks to snag a tournament spot than “the Panthers are out with the measles.” The measles? Were all their parents anti-vaxxers?
Since you’ve effectively covered wishing to re-change the change of Han Solo shooting Greedo moments later, I’ll instead suggest changing The Godfather such that Sonny doesn’t miss.
The line delivery by Don Gordon as Delgetti to Bullitt of the description of Renick: “He’s clean, Frank.” The emphasis is all wrong. It just sticks out to me, bothers me every time.
You didn’t say they had to be important changes!
Bonus: I would have found a Charger with road wheels rather than hubcaps, so the movie didn’t have the miraculous regenerating hubcap issue.
In Pulp Fiction, I’d change Jimmy’s dialogue so he isn’t shouting the n-word at Jules. It doesn’t add anything to the scene and it just makes Jimmy (and by extension Tarantino) look like an asshole.
In Aliens I’d fix the Queen’s tail when she falls into the airlock. The tail is squared off with the big blade missing and I can’t unsee it. I think in the novel it was sheared off and spraying acid everywhere.
In Alien Romulus I’d add a line to specify that the Company had been playing with the Xenos reproductive cycle hence why it was so fast.
Leave in the scene of the T-Rex pushing the overturned car to the side on the paddock so you see the car moved to where the huge moat is, instead of the paddock just suddenly having the huge moat seemingly where the T-Rex walked through the fence.
At the end of The Wizard of Oz, I wouldn’t have Dorothy tell the Scarecrow that she would miss him the most. For some reason that always bothers me, maybe because I never identified with the Scarecrow. Sometimes I identified with the Tin Man (unfeeling, and stiff) and sometimes with the Cowardly Lion (for obvious reasons perhaps) but never with the Scarecrow.
Going way back to one of my favorite movies: Hell In The Pacific (1968, Lee Marrvin, Toshiro Mifune). A little masterpiece of a film, absolutely perfect until literally the final few seconds.
The original ending, which can be seen as an extra on the DVD, was a pitch perfect ending to the story, but the film’s producers decided to replace it with a WTF? clip from some other film. Without even telling the Director.
The Ring has long been a favorite of mine. Pretty close to perfect, imho, except the scene where Naomi Watts is in her underwear, searching her closet while yelling to her young son to ask if he’s seen her black dress. Bad enough that it’s just a blatant excuse to show NW in her undies, but what a lame way to shoehorn it in. Ostensibly to show that her boy has special abilities; he has already taken the dress out for her. It’s so stupid and obvious and doesn’t fit with the rest of the film.
I Am Legend should have stuck with the “alternate ending” where Neville lets the captured mutant free, instead of the one where he blows himself up to kill her rescuers. It’s much closer to the intent of the novel, and the theatrical ending felt too much like a ripoff of Signs with the whole butterfly thing being an omen.
