The Dresser
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*Originally posted by goboy *
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Time Bandits?
Somewhere in Time?
Roseanne?
The Truman Show
True Stories, from 1986, starring John Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz, Spalding Gray, with songs by Talking Heads
Everyone dies but Ripley.
Everyone dies but Ripley and two others.
Oops, they actually did die. And Ripley dies too.
Wait, I guess she’s still alive.
Space aliens are running all advertising, and you can see them with special glasses.
It was Earth all along.
The hero saves the world, but splits the atom with his sword.
The good guy gets ‘the glow’ and beats up the bad guy. He also catches a bullet with his teeth.
The Title Character cuts off his best friend’s finger, then dies saving some Vietnamese orphans in a men’s room at the Phoenix Airport
All the world’s water is turned to ice.
The Title Character is killed by an old neighbor from his chldhood, in a wrestling room.
Marilyn Monroe didn’t die, she had plastic surgery and is now known as Meryl Streep.
The Narrator and his sister finally have sex, after years of mutual yearning. She then marries a professional football player, and he marries the ‘bear’.
Snitter and Rowf are fished from the sea by a passing boat, and are reunited with Snitter’s owner.
Cat’s Cradle
Hotel New Hampshire?
Very good, Rilchiam. that’s two out of five.
Highlander IV
They Live!
God, I really don’t* have any taste in movies, do I?* 
Cary Elwes saves the future Mrs Penn with the aid of a wrestler and a Spaniard.
*Cary Elwes saves the future Mrs Penn with the aid of a wrestler and a Spaniard. *
The Princess Bride
Your taste is fine. Sure, They Live was cheesy, but that’s the point. Noone said we could only enjoy movies of quality, right?
Shakespeare in Love.
And in all cases, “That case that’s keeping dad away strangely links with ours!”
and…
an oranguatan
on the mantle
the young man, not the ruffians
Joe Maffia is Andy’s father. Somersault.
I still have not a seen a reply to these:
Well, that would be the Simpsons from two weeks ago.
Alien
Aliens
Aliens III
Aliens IV (which should never have been made)
Planet of the Apes
Here’re some more:
He cuts off his own hand to get away after feeding brains to the prick FBI agent. (“Smells delicious!”)
He realizes it was his boss and his friend that set him up, kills one and the Chinese (mob) kill the other.
There really is a conspiracy, he was an agent, but he didn’t kill her father.
He finds out who is doing the blackmailing, but more importantly, why she was doing it. He also finds the keys.
After telling the story, the man dies. As the sailors light his pyre, the ice begins to break and the monster returns, but they get away.
He freaks her out by killing the assassin, but gets her back by killing the assassin hired to kill her father.
The leaders brother is shot in the last robbery, but survives long enough to sky dive, then dies. The agent tracks them, finding the last robber in the midst of the 100-years storm…and lets him go to meet his fate (he dies).
His friends rescue him from prostituting himself again for drugs, but have to fight their way out. He dies in the Corvette as they drive into the morning.
He almost makes it out of the building before being shot in the head. He gives the agent a “message” “from Matilda.” She goes back to school.
Less Than Zero
Grosse Pointe Blank
Point Blank
Here’s another “classic film.”
Cary Grant finally recovers his intercostal clavicle. He pieces together the complete dinosaur skeleton. His fiancee dumps him (finally). Katharine Hepburn loves him, tells him, and ruins his dinosaur.
The Long Walk, by Stephen King is not a movie and does not, I believe end this way. I think he crosses the finish line, but in any event, it is not a movie.
Oohhhhhh, so close, but not quite.
I think you mean “Point Break”, but you’re right about the “classic” part:)
He can’t bear to throw it into the volcano, but a previous owner attacks him to take it back and falls in with it.