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Dragula
05-01-2008, 04:56 PM
:)
JohnLocke2342
05-01-2008, 05:46 PM
I liked Layer Cake's alternate ending.
LordSimen
05-01-2008, 07:15 PM
I Am Legend is the recent one that comes to mind.
Lindsey
05-01-2008, 07:21 PM
I really liked the alternative ending to The Butterfly Effect.
Moviefan1234
05-01-2008, 07:29 PM
I Am Legend is the recent one that comes to mind.

I wasn't a big fan of that one, the theatrical version was vastly superior.

However, I loved the alternate ending for 1408.
TheJadedGamer
05-01-2008, 07:29 PM
I really liked the alternative ending to The Butterfly Effect.

WINRAR!!

The Director's Cut ending was great. I never watch the theatrical cut now.
LordSimen
05-01-2008, 07:37 PM
I wasn't a big fan of that one, the theatrical version was vastly superior.

However, I loved the alternate ending for 1408.

Theatrical ending blew balls as far as I'm concerned. I like to pretend that ending never happened. At least the alternate ending tried to bring the theme from the book into the movie.
krazy drako
05-01-2008, 07:40 PM
Blade Runner. I've always liked the director's cut ending better than the original cut.
Moviefan1234
05-01-2008, 08:38 PM
Theatrical ending blew balls as far as I'm concerned. I like to pretend that ending never happened. At least the alternate ending tried to bring the theme from the book into the movie.

I didn't like the whole aspect in how the alternate ending brought the possible revelation of a new species taking over. I really loved the ending scenes in Vermont at the sanctuary where people are still alive. The movie ended perfectly, no need for an alternate ending.
LordSimen
05-01-2008, 08:41 PM
I didn't like the whole aspect in how the alternate ending brought the possible revelation of a new species taking over. I really loved the ending scenes in Vermont at the sanctuary where people are still alive. The movie ended perfectly, no need for an alternate ending.

In my personal opinion no one should have been alive in the first place. That in particular ruined any enjoyment I could have had from that ending.
Moviefan1234
05-01-2008, 08:46 PM
In my personal opinion no one should have been alive in the first place. That in particular ruined any enjoyment I could have had from that ending.

How come?
LordSimen
05-01-2008, 08:56 PM
How come?

The movie is based on a book about the last man on earth. The movie was marketed as him being the last man on earth. The fact that they even acknowledge a colony somewhere is completely and utterly stupid and takes away from the movie.

He is the last man on earth. Let him stay that way.
Moviefan1234
05-01-2008, 09:11 PM
The movie is based on a book about the last man on earth. The movie was marketed as him being the last man on earth. The fact that they even acknowledge a colony somewhere is completely and utterly stupid and takes away from the movie.

He is the last man on earth. Let him stay that way.


Well no disrespect to the book, but we're talking about the film. Being based on something doesn't mean it has to be a carbon copy. But the point of him looking for more people was about hope. There had to be others out there, and there were.
LordSimen
05-01-2008, 09:18 PM
Well no disrespect to the book, but we're talking about the film. Being based on something doesn't mean it has to be a carbon copy. But the point of him looking for more people was about hope. There had to be others out there, and there were.

Ignoring the book, the film for me last it's steam the moment they introduced other people. It just wasn't enjoyable when the girl and the kid showed up, and I felt a little cheated. I thought I was watching a movie about the last man on earth, not the last man in New York.
Moviefan1234
05-01-2008, 09:31 PM
Ignoring the book, the film for me last it's steam the moment they introduced other people. It just wasn't enjoyable when the girl and the kid showed up, and I felt a little cheated. I thought I was watching a movie about the last man on earth, not the last man in New York.

Fair enough. We each got something different out of it.
jaw2929
05-01-2008, 09:36 PM
I enjoyed the alternate endings to 28 Days Later, quite bleak and hopeless (minus the chicken replacing Jim one) :p

Also enjoyed the alt ending to Hide & Seek (2 out of the 4) and the Butterfly Effect alt ending.
Lindsey
05-01-2008, 09:53 PM
You know what I just thought of? What if they had used the alternative ending for Clerks? It would have been the biggest bummer in the history of all endings. Seriously:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UAdBi8ghobs

And he wasn't even supposed to be there that day! Very sad.

I swear Silent Bob came in after and took a pack of cigs? Maye thats just on the DVD special features? Hmm..
Potzer! 37
05-01-2008, 09:53 PM
Close Encounters and as some one said, Blade Runner.

I really liked the idea of the alternate ending to Die Hard three...but I''m sure it wouldn't have worked...

on the "book compared to film" front...does anyone prefer the ending to the book of A Clockwork Orange?
krazy drako
05-01-2008, 10:13 PM
You know what I just thought of? What if they had used the alternative ending for Clerks? It would have been the biggest bummer in the history of all endings. Seriously:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UAdBi8ghobs

And he wasn't even supposed to be there that day! Very sad.

I swear Silent Bob came in after and took a pack of cigs? Maye thats just on the DVD special features? Hmm..


I forgot this was even made. I remember watching it on the special features of the dvd. I don't remember either if Silent Bob took a pack of cigs or not. Something I'll have to watch later.
TheJadedGamer
05-01-2008, 11:13 PM
You know what I just thought of? What if they had used the alternative ending for Clerks? It would have been the biggest bummer in the history of all endings. Seriously:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UAdBi8ghobs

And he wasn't even supposed to be there that day! Very sad.

I swear Silent Bob came in after and took a pack of cigs? Maye thats just on the DVD special features? Hmm..

Smith's first draft of the movie was a very David Lynchian film from what Mosier said. Imagine if it went in that direction. Would have totally changed Smith's career, but I would like to read that draft.

**SPOILERS**




























And it wasn't Silent Bob who came in and took a pack of cigs, the guy who shoots Dante is the one who also grabs a couple of cigarettes after raiding the cash register.








**END SPOILERS**
Potzer! 37
05-02-2008, 11:25 AM
The actor who played Cohee London in Chasing Amy is the actor who shot Dante.

After the credits, Kevin Smith, but in a pony tail and glasses walks in wondering if they are open. He doesn't see Dante behind the counter on the floor and reaches behind to steal some cigs before exiting the frame...just a nameless character.

If you've got either version of the dvd the ending is there...on the deleted scenes section of the single disc and on disc two, the IFFM cut on the three disc.
Cronos
05-02-2008, 01:44 PM
Butterfly Effect
I Am Legend
TheJadedGamer
05-02-2008, 02:24 PM
The actor who played Cohee London in Chasing Amy is the actor who shot Dante.

After the credits, Kevin Smith, but in a pony tail and glasses walks in wondering if they are open. He doesn't see Dante behind the counter on the floor and reaches behind to steal some cigs before exiting the frame...just a nameless character.

If you've got either version of the dvd the ending is there...on the deleted scenes section of the single disc and on disc two, the IFFM cut on the three disc.

Damn, now I remember him walking in.
arto_j
05-02-2008, 02:29 PM
Boiler Room

The ending they went with certainly isn't bad and it works and all but the alternate ending was better.
psycheoutsteve
05-02-2008, 03:35 PM
The Abyss had a more thought provoking alternate ending than the original I think.
Lindsey
05-02-2008, 07:35 PM
Boiler Room

The ending they went with certainly isn't bad and it works and all but the alternate ending was better.

Oh damn! Now I'm super excited to get hom and watch this! I had no idea of an alternate ending!
Mopar Fanatic
05-02-2008, 07:40 PM
Chasing Amy
D.B. Cooper
05-02-2008, 07:46 PM
I liked the alternative ending to Army Of Darkness

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zombievictim
05-02-2008, 07:55 PM
Theatrical ending blew balls as far as I'm concerned. I like to pretend that ending never happened. At least the alternate ending tried to bring the theme from the book into the movie.

I'm a big fan of the book. But I don't see how you could enjoy any of the movie if you compare it to the book. You have to take it as a completely separate entity. Because it is.
LordSimen
05-02-2008, 07:58 PM
I'm a big fan of the book. But I don't see how you could enjoy any of the movie if you compare it to the book. You have to take it as a completely separate entity. Because it is.

The first half of the movie captured the feel isolation and loneliness from the book perfectly. It's the second half that I didn't enjoy.

I don't care if the events that occur in the movie are accurate to the book as much as the feel. And the feel in the second half didn't match at all.
krazy drako
05-02-2008, 08:07 PM
Chasing Amy


There were two endings for Chasing Amy? Anyone care to enlighten me?
Lost in Space
05-02-2008, 08:11 PM
Butterfly Effect
I Am Legend

yes
Cop No. 633
05-02-2008, 09:07 PM
The alternate ending to Brazil was much better than the one in the film. Sam and Jill were meant to be together.
Lindsey
05-02-2008, 09:34 PM
Boiler Room

The ending they went with certainly isn't bad and it works and all but the alternate ending was better.

Wow I just watched it! They way they bump in each other and just pass by. The camera angle was brilliant! I loved this ending a lot, but the one one is better with the conversation with Diesel and the way the police moved in.

I love this movie. I'm watching it again right now I type this. ;)
PackBacker
05-02-2008, 11:07 PM
The Descent
Potzer! 37
05-03-2008, 12:28 AM
What's the alternate ending of Chasing Amy? I'm a Kevin Smith superfan (RE: freak) and cannot recall any mention or scene involing an alternate ending...

I think maybe there might have been a hug or her following him into the room he exits into and giving a hug...but that's it.
john_rambo
05-03-2008, 12:59 AM
Man On fire had an awesome ending that I think was better (not that the ending in the real one was bad) basically what happens is.

SPOILERS

Creasy is brought to the kidnappers house, and while meeting with the kidnapper, he smiles and detonates an explosive that he smuggled in the same place where he killed a man in the movie earlier.
Badbird
05-03-2008, 02:44 AM
Yeah, the alternate ending to Man on Fire was much more satisfying. It was almost what I expected to happen the first time I saw the movie.


Also Die Hard 3 had an awesome alternate ending. Vastly superior to the original. The whole climax was completely different. But it wasn't real big and show-y, and the studio thought it made McClane "too cruel," so they made them reshoot the ending as is.
The Postmaster General
05-03-2008, 02:47 AM
I like the alternate ending to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest where they find Chief dead with that basin on top of him and reveal they installed plexiglass throughout the asylum.

Okay, that shit ain't funny.

Has anyone ever read the alternate ending for Heathers? It's a total WTF?
Max Cady
05-03-2008, 02:57 AM
28 days later

Jim dies and they go back on the grind. Way better than the ghey ass hollywood everyone survives and gets saved ending
Mopar Fanatic
05-03-2008, 05:24 PM
There were two endings for Chasing Amy? Anyone care to enlighten me?

No there isn't one. I'm was drunk when I posted that got it mixed up with the butterfly effect.
krazy drako
05-03-2008, 06:42 PM
No there isn't one. I'm was drunk when I posted that got it mixed up with the butterfly effect.


Haha, nice way to cause controversy. :)
arto_j
05-03-2008, 08:12 PM
Has anyone ever read the alternate ending for Heathers? It's a total WTF?

I wish they'd actually filmed that one. I think I might actually prefer it. Not that the one they used is bad but it might work, as insane as it is.
arto_j
05-03-2008, 08:13 PM
Wow I just watched it! They way they bump in each other and just pass by. The camera angle was brilliant! I loved this ending a lot, but the one one is better with the conversation with Diesel and the way the police moved in.

I love this movie. I'm watching it again right now I type this. ;)

Yeah that ending is just so much darker than the one they ended up with. I can certainly see why the studio wasn't comfortable with the original ending.

And yeah, it's actually a very good movie too. I haven't watched it for a while, might be time for a rewatch for me too. I love Affleck's big speech, he's great in this.
Terror Australis
05-03-2008, 09:34 PM
I really dug the alternate ending to the Halloween remake, which I thought was better than the one they used.
The Postmaster General
05-04-2008, 03:05 AM
I wish they'd actually filmed that one. I think I might actually prefer it. Not that the one they used is bad but it might work, as insane as it is.


It would have even worked as another dream or fantasy sequence, like if JD said, "What if I did it?" or something. Give him a monologue as it shows it maybe. I dunno. The ending the used I always felt was something of a let down in comparison with the rest. I totally get why they wouldn't want to end it like that, but the ideas behind it were really great - the ending that was used, I felt, payed a disservice to the theme of the film.