# One little thing you wish you could change in a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 14, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944 "2025-01-14T00:39:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/161 "2025-01-16T19:35:09Z")
But it seemed like his usefulness was in the past, yet there they were pushing papers and being busy in their paneled offices. ---
**Author:** ![Eclipse\_Chaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Eclipse\_Chaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eclipse_Chaser)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/162 "2025-01-17T10:08:37Z")
In the ending of The Mist, I’d have the army show up just a couple of minutes earlier. They are all in the car, they hear ominous noises approaching, and it’s the army. T.h.e. E.n.d. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/163 "2025-01-17T10:51:13Z")
Oh god no - the ending of The Mist is one of the best endings of all time! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/164 "2025-01-17T11:49:13Z")
There should have been a much longer time between running out of gas and using the pop gun. A couple of uncomfortable days? The behemoth should have been bigger. Much bigger. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/165 "2025-01-17T13:04:43Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > I want the same little change in: > > _Green Card_ > _Groundhog Day_ > _Four Weddings and a Funeral_ > > And that little change is to replace Andie McDowell with Julia Roberts, or at least some suitable actress who can, you know, act. Likewise, I want Keanu Reeves replaced in _The Devil’s Advocate_ with someone better at acting. Brad Pitt, maybe. Keanu is an awesome person IRL by all accounts, but his acting range is not broad. > [@Lightnin](#): > > In _Cabin in the Woods_, I’d get rid of the scene showing the eagle crashing into the (Forcefield? Hologram?) at the beginning of the movie. Chekhov’s Forcefield? A really minor one - at the end of _Despicable Me_ when they’re all dancing, we should have gotten a Boogie Robot callback cameo. I mean, the joke was _right there_. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/166 "2025-01-17T14:01:14Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I want Keanu Reeves replaced in _The Devil’s Advocate_ with someone better at acting. Or, Keanu can lose the southern accent. In the beginning of the movie, he’s practicing in Gainesville, Florida (I recall this because that’s where I was when I saw the movie in the theater: there was an audible laugh from the audience when he held up a paper talking about the local sports scene). Gainesville, although located in a part of north central Florida where southern accents aren’t uncommon, is also home to the University of Florida. So, it attracts people from all over the state, and the country. It’s entirely typical of people from that location to _not_ speak with a drawl; I mean, Keanu’s character could have been a kid from Miami who came there for law school and decided to stay. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/167 "2025-01-17T14:49:19Z")
Speaking of accents, _Young Guns._ Dick Brewer was born in Vermont, and grew up in Wisconsin and Missouri. He almost certainly did NOT have the pseudo-Texas drawl that Charlie Sheen gave him. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/168 "2025-01-17T15:51:35Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Keanu is an awesome person IRL by all accounts, but his acting range is not broad. He portrayed a fine piece of wood in _Much Ado about Nothing_, though. ---
**Author:** ![yendis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed8c4c/32.png) [@yendis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yendis)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/169 "2025-01-17T16:05:47Z")
Near the end of Saving Private Ryan, the squad is saved by some USAAF P-51 Mustangs. And Private Ryan very clearly calls them tank busters. Now the P-51 was many things, but never anything close to a tank buster. And any soldier who could identify the aircraft type by sight, would never call them that. I want that line gone. Or even better, the P-51s replaced with RAF Typhoons, the kind of aircraft that would actually have come to the rescue in France at that time. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/170 "2025-01-17T16:23:32Z")
If only it was clearer who shot Nice Guy Eddie at the end of _Reservoir Dogs_. Tarantino has admitted that he and the actors didn’t pull off that shot as it was written, but he’s fine leaving all the speculation around. Can we get one more take before calling it a day? Speaking of QT, in _From Dusk 'til Dawn_, after he’s made his full transformation into a vampire, there’s one odd insert shot in which his face is mostly normal but for some fangs, and then he’s back to full-on monster. I never understood that cut, if it’s an editing flub or what. Excising that one shot would solve a flow issue in that scene. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/171 "2025-01-17T16:48:26Z")
> [@veryfrank](#): > > If only it was clearer who shot Nice Guy Eddie at the end of _Reservoir Dogs_. Tarantino has admitted that he and the actors didn’t pull off that shot as it was written, but he’s fine leaving all the speculation around. Can we get one more take before calling it a day? I know the debate, but I still say that is an amazing scene and ending of a movie. I still remember seeing it for the first time and having to pick my jaw up off the ground. ---
**Author:** ![FrenchDunadan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frenchdunadan/32/5449_2.png) [@FrenchDunadan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrenchDunadan)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/172 "2025-01-17T17:11:01Z")
The ending of _Avengers:Endgame_. Cap goes back in the time-machine to give back all the stuff they …borrowed…to beat Thanos. He doesn’t come back with the machine, anguish augment, and then ! surprise! he took the long path of living the last 60 years with his true love! Awwh ! But that contradict ALL the film that stated that if you changed the past, you changed the future in another timeline. The change: He step out the machine, take of his helmet and, surprise! he’s old! Hulk freaks out and think something went wrong (as it had in the montage with Antman) but Cap explain that he he lived the last 60 years with his true (in another timeline) and came back with the machine (in the original timeline) after her death. Aaawwh! And internal logic respected. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/173 "2025-01-17T21:08:23Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Oh god no - the ending of The Mist is one of the best endings of all time! I dont get it- bad memory- how did killing them save them? > [@FrenchDunadan](#): > > But that contradict ALL the film that stated that if you changed the past, you changed the future in another timeline. Yep. Didnt make sense. But time travel _never_ makes sense. Back and forth, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/174 "2025-01-18T00:33:34Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I dont get it- bad memory- how did killing them save them? It didn’t - they died a pointless death. But as an ending, it was a heart wrenching, desperate impossible choice that was incredibly realistic and empathetic. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/175 "2025-01-18T00:40:21Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > It didn’t - they died a pointless death. But as an ending, it was a heart wrenching, desperate impossible choice that was incredibly realistic and empathetic. Why would you kill someone who was about to(as you thought) die anyway? How is that “realistic”? To me is was just plain stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/176 "2025-01-18T00:40:58Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Why would you kill someone who was about to(as you thought) die anyway? To save them from horrible agony and pain. Is that a stupid reason? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/177 "2025-01-18T01:13:04Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > > [@John\_DiFool](#): > > > > That is an artifact of her and Huck having a thing in Kansas , > > I doubt this- got a cite? Unless this is a joke? Nope. Maybe. [no joke intended tho] The cite on Wikipedia goes to a 404 error page on the Hollywood Reporter website, and digging into half a dozen Google pages reveals a ton of forum discussions, but nothing more substantive. _shrug_ ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/178 "2025-01-18T01:19:47Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Nope. Maybe. Yeah, wiki sometimes get a weird “editor” that adds something that isnt true, but isnt obviously false. Like the “lost” verse of Rock Candy Mountain. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/179 "2025-01-18T01:20:10Z")
> [@FrenchDunadan](#): > > The ending of _Avengers:Endgame_. > Cap goes back in the time-machine to give back all the stuff they …borrowed…to beat Thanos. He doesn’t come back with the machine, anguish augment, and then ! surprise! he took the long path of living the last 60 years with his true love! Awwh ! But that contradict ALL the film that stated that if you changed the past, you changed the future in another timeline I mean, there’s changing the past, and there’s changing the past; I kind of figured that, so long as he refrained from making changes that’d contradict the events of ENDGAME, no harm done? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-thing-you-wish-you-could-change-in-a-movie/1012944/180 "2025-01-18T01:25:27Z")
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