Channel Awesome I always thought the alternate ending to Lion King was messed up, when they let Scar win and laugh as he threw Simba off Pride Rock, only to watch him get engulfed in flames.
The most WTF thing about the I Am Legend theatrical ending is how it betrays the actual title of the movie. It's called "I Am Legend" not because Will saves humanity and becomes legendary for it. No, it's because he is the "Legend" the NEW breed of humans talk about. The one that comes during the day. The one that takes them away. The one they FEAR. That's some deep sh*t o.o
the big problem here is that I am legend isn't a movie based on the book "I am legend" by Matheson, is the remake of "The omega man", a 1971 movie directed by Boris Sagal with protagonist Charlton Heston loosely based on the book, the ending is pretty much the same
i like to look at it like this instead of one ending being happy the other sad they're both a happy ending since the mutants in the film when they had emotions there could be hope for humanity to continue. not only that but it could be looked at like this: the mutants are the next stage of human evolution so either way humanity will continue.
+True Ruffler The beginnings of the mutation caused them to be very aggressive. Once it goes away, it's all good. Unfortunately by then, other people had either left, died, or also mutated. In the movie, they were only being aggressive in self-defense, because HE was the one hunting them.
What about the one where tommy wiseau gets out of the casket at the funeral, and seeing as they're already in tuxes, they have a nice game of football.
GeatMaster Look up Tommy Wiseau's real idea for the ending. He was going to reveal Johnny as still alive and a vampire and have him fly a nice sports car, into the sunset. No, seriously. No, seriously. No, seriously, the only reason he didn't, was because he didn't know how to film it.
Mandi Brand It didn't work because the film shown to test audiences cut five scenes that built our characters and helped explain that ending (Mushnik & Son, It's Just The Gas, the original Act 1 Finale, Call Back In the Morning, The Meek Shall Inherit).
@@seymourkrelborn4780 Well, that and also stage audiences and movie audience are completely different animals. Frank Oz said it himself. A stage play where everyone dies.. the cast comes back out and bows, that breaks the illusion. But a movie just ends. They're all dead. The dark ending hits you more, and movie audiences aren't used to that the way stage audiences are. Being a thespian in high school and actually doing these kind of dark plays, I understood that more than my non-thespian friends.
Yup. And what’s sad is the director really wanted to use but allegedly the studio required the film to have a certain audience approval rating and the changing the ending was the only was he was able to get the approval rating for the studio to let film release.
Last I heard the reason I Am Legend was altered was because the film was showed to a screen audience to see how they'd react to the movie before it was released, and they hated how Will Smith was actually a villain. Since they didn't like it the ending was changed. Way to prove how stupid fan service is.
Even if you keep the original ending Smith is not a villain. Those were human roaches and they were disgusting scavenging morons. I would consider it an obligation to wipe them out as they are a sad reminder of what humans were, turned into dumb aggressive pasty monsters who clearly couldn't even mimic human innovation. Made no efforts to improve their surroundings living in shambles and rotting infrastructure.
promontorium In the book they were vampires and they were intelligent. They had an entire society and the ending of the book was the main character being tried under vampire law. The movie was just a poor adaptation of the book.
Why is it that we have so hard time to make Will Smith a bad guy? Even in Suicide Squad he is still like the most nicest guy ever even though he is basically a contract killer.
In that he's said to kill worse people and he was kinda a bad kid in fresh prince at times remember the time he pretended to marry a woman so he could have sex with her
Yeah but all that has that good guy lining, he has never been an actual bad guy, like evil. I would love to see Will Smith as a psychotic criminal mastermind or something with very little redeeming values or compassion towards others. In my opinion it is getting really stale to see him perform pretty much the same role every time.
I can't relate to Will Smith at all since he is mostly so spotless good guy. I agree that cheating your partner is loathsome though but it still doesn't really make him evil. I haven't seen Enemy of the State though so can't say much about his performance there. Did he have a motive or did he cheat her just for fun?
@@bluereptileproductions tbh my memory of seeing the film was expecting it to end the original way as the whole film felt was leading up to it but was disappointed that it didn't. Shocked later to learn that was the original intent. Silly production choice
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The original ending fits the idea the musical was going for, a Greek tragedy, much better. Greek tragedies are about a good character being punished for horrible actions with good intentions, Seymour didn't want to end the world, he just wanted money and love.
They're all pretty much the same until the *Very* end when he sees her on the street. It's like they couldn't decide how to close the film and ended up completely changing it for the directors cut.
@@1000000man1 actully, there's another ending in the butterfly effect (which is my favorite) where the protagonist puts on the video of his birth and goes back to that day, inside the womb and kills himself, so that everyone else can live happy. His mother is healthy and gets remarried and his friends go to live with their mother since they have no reason to stay behind with their abusive dad.
@Team Plasma Unofficial Did you not read the book at all? In the book, the main character considered them to be Vampires, and so did the "mutants", they are photosensitive after all. He did so many tests, they were repelled by Garlic and other legends of the sort. He kept going out during the day and killing them while they slept In the book they had a full on Government and Civilization, he was taken by them and he was to be tried for his crimes against them, and that was when he realized he was the Boogeyman, he was the thing that went bump in the day. They were not wiping out a single person, it was just merely an infection that swept through the world and when it killed people, they got back up and were essentially undead vampire-like creatures.
@Team Plasma Unofficial It's called... oh my god!... FICTION. What a concept! Also, it has nothing to do with Liberal Degrees. I'm far from that & still prefer that ending
People complaining that the zombies were supposed to be mindless in I Am Legend seem to forget that they laid a trap for the protagonist to lure him out. That seems pretty cunning and intelligent for "mindless zombies"
Or how about that moment when they're laying siege to his house, and we cut outside to the horde and that one leader zombie pretty clearly gives the others an order to attack? I remember that sticking out to me even my first time seeing it without any knowledge of the original.
Not only that, but that entire sequence took about a year to build and shoot. Now, if it had been used originally, that sequence would have been edited down, something I wish they had done for the Blu-Ray version. But Frank Oz didn't actually get to re-edit the "Director's Cut" himself. Then they could have included the entire scene as a bonus feature.
HOLY SHIT, that's how I am Legend was supposed to end!?!? That would have actually left an impact. why the hell didn't they do that ending? Studios are stupid, that would have been a better ending, Will Smith died in the "Happy ending" there's no happy ending.
I don't get how that is any better The evil zombies aren't evil? They kill humans. Itd be one thing if they were just killed for being different, but they were killed because THEY WERE KILLINGTHE HUMAN RACE and transforming them into KILLERS. The alternate ending is stupid imo.
Producers, Studios and the rest of Hollywood businessmen are hit and miss when it comes to making changes to the movies. Just look up times studio interference made a movie better, it's shocking how many times the writers or directors ideas were worse and some random studio businessman had a better idea that in turn made the movie better. But it's also on par when they mess up a movie.
K-C Rhoder the sailor Mayun - Oh yeah, I doubt many people could argue with you (rationally) from that view point on this channel. I suspect people who watch Nostalgia Critic would probably prefer a profound story over a "happy ending". Some of my favorite books have bitter sweet endings, I don't really like the ending because not everyone gets what they want, but I find that realism... we're not all going to get some fairy tail ending of our lives.
Shigeru Miyamoto Sama - I totally agree and get that. However, having an ending like the one we saw would have suddenly changed the tone of the movie. True at the start they were killing all willy nilly, but from the protagonists perspective we never really knew what they were thinking? And that's the whole thing, we don't know what they're thinking, we don't think they're intelligent, and then suddenly at the end of the movie BAM, they're actually intelligent and not necessarily ruthless zombie killers, whaaaaat? Like said, I'd prefer a more complex story, rather then will smith blowing himself up to be a badass and take them all with him. (It's an okay ending I guess... but the alternative ending WOULD leave an impact)
Moonlight150 - that's actually a good counterweight to bring up. Since normally all we see on youtube is "look! They ruined this". It's kinda how people are more prone to complain about mistakes then compliment and praise successes.
I don't know why they didn't just stick the "we have nothing in common" line in the theatrical ending of Looney Tunes: Back in Action. The line is said AFTER the climax, and the setup of the three human characters talking is kept anyway. They could've kept the better ending and justified the romance at the same time.
Well, it also turns out that the original ending to "Little Shop of Horrors" was also much more true to the stage version, where the plants won and the heroes and other people died off. However, the difference was that, apparently, people could still see the actors coming out and taking a bow to the audience, which assured the audience that they were still alright. In a movie, you couldn't do that, and nobody liked that ending. So they had to change it and make it a happy ending. Eventually, though, people found out about the alternate ending, and grew intrigued by it.
That's not assuring the audience that the characters are okay, that's just being called onto the stage for the final bow. It didn't mean they didn't die ...
mmmmm well......not quite. the original stage version has the plants take over the world with the song "don't feed the plant", including eating the entire audience in the theater, much like the movie. but being a stage show, in order to represent that, all the characters come out on stage to join in singing "don't feed the plant" and it's a very "yay!!! we're all dead in a plant's belly!!!!" kind of number that while quite dark, definitely is still very comedic. the movie can't break the 4th wall the same way the stage show can. i mean, they try with audrey ii looking like its breaking through the projection screen to attack you, but it ends up coming out a lot more mean-spirited without the whole cast singing along. coupled with the fact that movie audiences, especially for a big budget hollywood film starring rick moranis, are going to expect a straightforward happy ending much more than someone going to an off-broadway show is.....the original ending unfortunately never had a chance. TL;DR: it's not the curtain call that makes the difference, it's the cast singing along and being present in the finale. plus theater (esp off-broadway theater, which this was, little shop didn't make it to broadway till well after the movie came out) can get away with a lot more edgy shit than hollywood can.
pretty sure your talking about a different era of movie goer. this was released in 1986. not 1906 when moving pictures were frightening new technology and the average audience member was illiterate. Not so much your modern movie goer, so much as your modern wrestling fan. Not smart enough to separate reality from fiction. So no, it has nothing to do with reassuring the audience that the actors weren't killed during filming...did you really think that had something to do with it? it's really simple. just as the 1906 people were in need of some maturing to understand the difference between real and fake. modern audience have become more accepting of an ending that isn't happy than audiences were prepared for in the 80's and 90's. Generally if a movie had a downer ending it did poorly at the box office. Some movies did well, but most of them a dark ending was a box office death sentence. Prime example of what i'm talking about. you would have NEVER had a movie end like avengers infinity war. big block buster the culmination of a decades work in film. nobody would have EVER put a downer ending on that movie if it were made even 20 years ago. now they ended it with the villains smile...he won. incredible you made your entire movie universe up to that point amount to nothing, all of it ended up being pointless and nobody was mad. in fact they would have been furious if they had changed one of the most shocking things in comic book history. still...I bet the producers were shitting bricks until that first box office return.
I remember having a DVD of a special SpongeBob episode with the Flying Dutchman. It was special because it has three possible endings. The Flying Dutchman gives Squidward Patrick and SpongeBob a chance to go home it all depends on the last wish that he gives them. if you chose the episode ending where Patrick gets the last wish he wishes for a pack of gum, if you choose SpongeBob they all go back home and everything is normal, if you choose Squidward something goes wrong with his wish and they end up in a blender and the Flying Dutchman is a hippy making smoothies eating them. I remember replaying and replaying this episode for some reason because it was kind of like a choose-your-own-adventure. Even though I knew all three outcomes it was still interesting.
Um actually Squidward wishes that he never met spongebob and Patrick, Spongebob wishes for the Flying Dutchman to be a vegetarian then when it looks like they’re home they’ve been turned into fruit.
In the original ending, Nostalgia Critic takes off a mask and it was the Angry Video Game Nerd all the time. But they cut it out in the last minute, because they thought it was to confusing.
The Clerks original ending, I'd heard, was a way to end it on a down note. The whole discussion about the best Star Wars film ending on a down note, and Dante saying "real life is a series of down notes" was kind of a foreshadowing. I agree, the ending they chose was much better, but the original ending did make sense in it's own way.
To be fair, the knock-off version from the 1970s (Please, Don't Eat My Mother) has the virginal Bud watch two plants have sex after one eats his potential girlfriend. That's some next-level shit. :-)
Actually the so called alternate ending in "Little Shop of Horrors" where everything is taken over IS the original ending. The musical/play still follows the original ending (I was in a play for it back in High School and it follows the original script), but technically, the "happy" ending in the movie is actually the alternate ending.
I prefer the happy ending. IIRC, test audiences *loved* the movie... until the end. Frank Oz posited that unlike a play where everyone comes out at the end and takes a bow, in a movie it's different and the audience became invested in the characters and felt cheated when they were killed off. I get the reason for the dark ending and some people do prefer it, but for whatever reason, I just love the happy ending with a slightly dark twist.
I've heard a lot of people who enjoy the _Little Shop of Horrors_ musical despise the theatrical ending, mainly because it takes away from the moral of the story: "don't feed the plants". Seymour's selfish, and selfless, desires are the cause to Audrey II's success, but in the theatrical release of the film, he comes off as completely okay with letting people die to get what he wants, and he doesn't even have to pay for it. The original cut had not only this alternate ending, but a cut song called, "The Meek Shall Inherit", about Seymour's rise to success, but he's conflicted about no longer desiring to kill for it, and wanting to impress Audrey. He knows what he's doing is wrong, he hates himself for it… but he doesn't want to lose Audrey's love. That Seymour, I like more than in the theatrical cut.
The 1989 film, _Heathers_ was also going to have a downer ending before going with the final cut. In the original ending, Veronica Sawyer dies by holding the bomb and winds up blowing up her school in the process, ending with a prom in Heaven with everyone drinking the drainer fluid that killed Heather Chandler. It was never released, and Winona Ryder apparently had a big speech before blowing herself, and the school up that I honestly want to find and read.
maybe the earth was "blown up" because of the ship crash Landing and the blown up part is the section in the radius and the rest is pretty much normal.
from what ive read, the destruction of earth happens because they crash the ship against earths atmosphere and when it blows up they pretty much burn it up and cause horrible storms that wipe out everything
If we're going with some of the non cannon comic books it's because the terminators exist. Thus Skynet blew up France. Though in others it was because the aliens were already on earth and Ripley was not told about it. And in another comic it was some cold snowy place like Alaska that they end up crash landing. The comics are cooler than the movies.
The original ending of "Rambo: First Blood" had John Rambo suiciding at the end. They changed it after test screen audiences revealed their dissatisfaction of the protagonist's death.
The Rambo in the movie was a lot more sympathetic than the one in the book. In the book Rambo had no qualms with killing people. Movie Rambo only kills one person and it was an accident. Rambo's big breakdown at the end was a new moment created specifically for the film. The book never had that. The movie portrayal of Rambo in First Blood went down so well even the original author apparently retconned his story to use that version from then on.
I remember watching the musical before I knew there was a movie of it with a bit of a feeling of discomfort and dread (even though I liked it). The world being doomed seemed so dark, and the characters coming back as buds didn't seem comedic. They just seemed like another warning that the stronger the plants got, the more buds, and the more spores they would release.
It kinda did, perhaps unintentionally. Every entrant on the list was a WTF alternate ending, while #1 is the only one whose THEATRICAL ending got the WTF.
"I don't know what to say to a woman who tried to jump off the Titanic when it was floating and tried to stay when it was sinking." Man that's good writing.
Although shot poorly, I kind of like the concept of the first Clerks ending, if only because of the lines "Bunch of savages in this town" and "I wasn't even supposed to be here today!" It's a real dark bit of irony to cap off every instance of those two lines.
It always boggles me when a studio will hire a director to tell a certain story and when the director tries to tell that story the studio suddenly steps in and says, "No no! This completely different story is what we want you to tell!" It was the same thing with 'Cool World'. What was the point in hiring Bakshi to tell a toon horror movie if they weren't going to let him make it?
Yes!!! I knew the book.so when i saw the ending pissed me of extremely. He is the vampire, he is the one killing them in their sleep, he is the legend, a horror legend. But is its like it is in movies, never allowing the audience feel bad of themselves. always someone survives and life goes on.
kradeiz Well, the studios are the ones putting the money so they have to be careful. Sometimes the vision of a director can be crushed by the exec at the studios, like Alien 3, Brazil and so on, but then there are those directors that with too much control can do whatever they want whether it's good or bad (an example being BvS where they trusted Snyder and after the movie came out they mangled Ayer's vision of SS)
Its remarkable to consider how expensive the alternate ending of little shop of horror compared to what was ultimately decided on. Explosions, video effects, miniatures and models. Not to mention the crowds of extras. It really seems like one of the more expensive sequences of the movie and it was cut entirely.
The original ending of "Little Shop of Horrors" makes more sense when you consider the other scenes that were deleted from the Theatrical Cut. The Workprint includes more graphic edits of Seymour feeding the plant and the full version of "The Meek Shall Inherit", in which Seymour makes a Faustian bargain to keep feeding the plant in exchange for Audrey's affection. These scenes change Seymour's character and the film's tone overall; none of the deleted footage is featured in the "Director's Cut", just the original ending, which is literally tacked on.
That's why I prefer the theatrical cut over the director's cut, since all that cut footage is still absent. If you asked me, the dark ending doesn't work without the entirety of The Meek Shall Inherit, which is the turning point in the original musical.
I loved the original ending of Die hard 3, it was pretty cool, well written, unexpected, and it suits the spirit of the movie with it's focus on Simons riddles so much better than the theatrical version, which I always found very unsatisfactory. I was happy and sad at the same time, when I found out: There IS a better ending, but why didn't they take it? ; _ ;
I don’t know if anyone knew about the alternate endings of Paranormal Activity! In the original cut, the girl kills the guy with a knife & she walks back in with blood on her shirt and sits by the bed on the floor rocking for two days until the cops find her and shoot her by mistake, in the theatrical cut she gets possessed, throws the guy against the camera, she crawls on the floor then her face contorts to demon style and she lunges at the camera, then the alternate cut (my personal favorite) she kills the guy with a knife, then slits her throat in front of the camera
The alt ending to clerks feels oddly fitting to me. For someone whose catchphrase was "im not even supposed to be here today" to get murdered at the end makes it feel like fate was at work, and it also would seemingly ask the question "how much of yourself do you give to your job?" i mean, if the guy hadnt gone above and beyond to show up on his day off to his minimum wage job he hates to make his asshole boss happy out of some sense of duty or being a good employee he would still be alive. In retrospect, it seems silly to show such devotion to a person that would fire you in a heartbeat or to a job that pays the most minimum of wages. Another bit of commentary that could be gleaned from the alt ending(whether intentional or not) would be how random and short life can be. This movie seemed to be a fairly typical day for this character, a "slice of life". A movie like that ending with the main characters death seems to say "it can happen at any time, folks!" A comedy ending with such a depressing message probably isnt the right tone, but its interesting none the less.
Kevin felt like he was going to die in that store, working all day, filming all night. it was such a more true and honest ending... and the whole film is a pitch black comedy, people who think it wouldnt have fit in clearly missed the whole vibe the film is putting off.
In the ORIGINAL Little Shop of Horrors (the black and white one that tried and failed to be a serious horror film), Seymour and Audrey DID get eaten. Seymour crawled into the plant with a machete to try and kill it, only to get eaten. It ended with several flowers, which had grown out of Audrey II, blooming, each with the face of someone who had been eaten by the plant.
Oh my God, that I Am Legend alternate ending is one of the most impactful, interesting, and meaningful endings i've ever seen. Praise be to the man who wrote that, and slap whoever decided to take it out.
What about the beginning of I am Legend? Where those supposedly sympathetic "people" are running around like monsters eating fucking children, ripping innocent families apart in an amazing blood orgy? They were hyper aggressive moronic human roaches. Fuck them.
+promontorium oh, so like in real life, how those supposedly sympathetic "humans" are running around eating fucking animals? ripping innocent species apart in an amazing blood orgy? They were hyper aggressive moronic human roaches. Fuck them.
promontorium It makes more sense in the book - they make it clear that the new species is different from the "vampires" that were senselessly killing people, and at the end of the book they're actually fighting to kill them off, along with Neville. They were caused by a freak mutation within the vampires that allowed them to become self-aware and intelligent again.
promo. i myself cant blame you but. they obviously wherent roaches, they had language, relationships and they didnt kill smith because it would be wrong he helped them so why would they murder him? also it was just a few years and they still needed to recover from the mutations so yeah no shit that they didnt have any mansions to live in
^ Well it's really simple. See, the gem drops into the ocean, but if you do enough research, you will realize this gem is actually designed to perform supernatural feats when in contact with water and salt. So this gem then gets tangled in some seaweed and mutates into a weird sea creature. This sea creature travels to Transylvania and captures humans, sucking their blood. This legend inspired a writer to create the Dracula series, amplifying the idea and concept of vampires, where Tommy Wiseau soon discovered and included the same concept in the original ending for his movie "The Room." In the story, the car would have flown into a strange space-time rift that would transform the vampire and car into a mutated Tommy Wiseau, who would then fall into a pit of acid and transform into the Joker. Totally true and not improvised, I swear, I did my research.
Totally agree with your take on "I am Legend" The alternate ending provides a 180 degree shift in the way we see the protagonist. It elevates the movie to a masterpiece. All the gruesome lab photos and the scenes where he mows them down his car make sense when we see him in this new light.
The ending to Legend was more of a "fuck you" to those who read the book. I haven't read the book or seen the movie (I can't watch a movie where a dog dies lol) but changing it around so much is a just.. I have no words
SPOILERS? My mother has taught and teaches a Post-Apocalyptic Literature class and a Film Adaptation class, so we've become pretty familiar with I am Legend at this point. The original novella is spectacular (seriously, read it), but has never really adapted well. The Will Smith alternate ending is the closest a film adaptation has come to the overall idea of the book ("I Am Legend" refers to the fact that he's the boogeyman one whispers of for the new species of vampiric humans dominating the Earth). The Omega Man and The Last Man On Earth are also adaptations of I Am Legend. Each film focuses on a different aspect of the novella, and each approach is dramatic in how varied it is from the others. However, the most interesting difference that is consistent in each ending, other than the fact that none of them really capture the message the author was trying to portray, is the cure. In the book, he never finds the cure. In every single film adaptation, he has. In The Last Man On Earth, they lose it at the cost of his life. In The Omega Man, they gain it at the cost of his life. In Will Smith's I Am Legend, they gain it at the cost of his life, or he decides not to use it and to forever be outcast in the new order. It's an interesting distinction that we've debated often. If you like "vampire" stuff or are interested in film or literature, I HIGHLY recommend checking out the novella and the films for yourself. If anything, it's interesting finding out who you and your friends think did it best and why.
They're a lot less like bald speedy monsters and more on the shuffle-y human side. Most of the book is from the protagonists POV, and he generally only sees them when they're lethargic during the day or hears them outside his house at night. Signs of civilization don't come in until the very end of the book. I'm pretty sure it came out sometime around the '50s, but isn't corny except for one or two very minor details.
They developed a society. It was actually close to a human one. They were capable of speech and attachemnts too. It's a wonderful novella, but also sad.
@@Laki2006 yep I've seen the image for Dr strange in the multiverse of madness videos multiple times this is what happens when a new marvel movie comes out an old one gets copied off from their original ending TH-cam is weird
*Clerks* -- Dante wasn't "even supposed to be here today." Fate fucked him one last time. The alternate ending is the ultimate culmination of a running bit. I haven't even seen the movie, and I'm aware of this scene's purpose. Kevin Smith saying he wasn't sure how to end the film doesn't change the fact this choice was a reference to an ongoing theme in the film.
Not really, in my opinion. The entire "I'm not even supposed to be here today" gag is actually resolved a little earlier. It is like, totally resolved. It ends up bringing together the larger message of the film. The ending, at best, is just one more possible event in the life of a convenience store clerk and a rather tragic one at that. If you've ever worked at a convenience store, (I won't say you have or have not) you would recognize some of the things that would seem unreal and downright impossible, and know that some of that shit REALLY DOES HAPPEN. And frankly, this story goes gentle on some of the more lunatic and regular occurrences one sees. So the ending was just one more of these events, but the dark reality just doesn't really jive with the rest of the tone of the film.
The difference is I'm not replying to your comment to tell you you're wrong and explain my theory. If you're going to say I'm wrong, don't just come back with something you invented. Mine is based on a running theme with the specific character involved, yours is an immaterial and far-reaching concept. At least my "speculation" doesn't involve making up baseless ideas of what was intended.
I did point out that it was in my opinion. I was honestly trying to be polite and apologize if it not come through that way. I have seen the film, and in fact worked in that profession, and was simply using that as a basis for my interpretation of the ending. So honestly, it wasn't meant as an attack and I'm sorry if it came off as one. On another note, I highly recommend the film and hell, if you haven't done it yet, work as a convenience store clerk. The stories you walk out with are just as grand as those you hear about in Tech Support websites. :-) Edit: Not that I would ever want that job again. I'm happy working in my little spot in a big factory.
Oh theres a whole comic for that where Leia goes to the darkside and fights Luke and Vader before Yoda crashes a star destroyer into the 2nd death star
Lion King 2 had an alternate ending (okay I know this part isn't RIGHT at the ending but it's close enough to the end) dealing with Zira's death. In the original, she fell to her death before Kiara could help her up but in the deleted scene when Kiara says "I'll help you", Zira goes "No....neverrrrrr" in a very creepy voice and then willingly lets go of the cliff and falls to her death with a huge smile on her face. Soooo yeah, she commits suicide in the original ending.
Even though I'm not a big fan of The Butterfly Effect, I do remember there being two different endings, if I recall correctly. I don't remember which was the theatrical version and which one was the director's cut, but I'm guessing the sadder one is the director's cut. In one version, I think he simply goes back and breaks things off with a girl he cares about. And in the WTF version I'm thinking of, he goes back to the day he was born and makes it so he was a stillborn. I was half-expecting to see that on this list just because of how sad and depressing it was.
The Blue Fangirl the issue though is that the original didn't fit the tone of the rest of the movie. You had the dentist literally flying in on a motercycle at one point. It wasn't supposed to be depressing at the end. It was campy and fun, and never took itself too seriously
Yeah the one with dying as a baby is the directors cut and the true ending to the movie. They even talk about in the movie how he had brothers that all died at birth. Meaning they were also born with the same power and killed themselves the same way.
shinmusashi44 that's only mentioned in the Director's Cut of the film, certain scenes that were supposed to lead up to him doing that were taken out because with the theatrical ending they don't go anywhere. The creators definitely made the film with the original ending in mind and those scenes add another layer to the story, but even so I feel like it's a bit of a cop out to have him just kill himself since he was trying to change the timeline to make it better for everyone around him, and it's an interesting idea that removing himself would in fact do that but at the same time he just ends up screwing over his mom who's now had 4 stillborns in a row. It also feels like a bit of a ripoff of Donnie Darko's ending, which also went with the "reverse It's a Wonderful Life" ending and the two films are already tonally similar enough that making it just another time travel film at least makes the film its own thing.
I remember reading I Am Legend in class one day. We didn't finish it, so I finished it for my own reasons and by GOD. It was amazing. The ending was phenomenal. It has since opened my eyes to research a movie first to see if they inspired by a novel. Same goes for anime and manga.
It pissed me off royally that they didn't use the proper ending for IAL, since the fact that he is now the monster is the reason for the name I Am Legend. He is now a legend like vampires, werewolves and so on. It's the point of the damn book! :-)
Humanity Fuck Yeah! Seriously though, if they wanted awesome action ending, they should have gone with him going John Wick on zombie asses, so they just run off in fear in the end.
Obviously you haven't seen the Little Shop of Horrors original play. In that rendition, they go with the end of the world ending. They changed it in the movie because the filmmakers didn't want to bum out the audience by killing off the heroes. I guess you can be a bit more morbid in theater.
That's because of the curtain call. You can see the actors whose characters died are alive, and usually the voice and puppeteer(s) bringing Audrey II to life also come onstage.
Andrew Garfield is a victim of consequence unfortunately. He makes a damn good spider man and he's a good actor but the timing was wrong being stuck between the transition from Sony to Marvel.
Huh, his Spider Man is by far the most emotional man ! He lost everything ! His parents, his uncle, his dad’s love, Gwen herself, his friend and in the sequel he was supposed to lost Aunt May. And Holland has absolutely nothing dramatic, except his death in Infinity War and Tony Stark death... which weren’t even in his solo movies... oh and when we’re talking about Tony’s death in Far From Home, it is totally at odds with Homecoming morality...
My favorite alternate ending is Scott Pilgrim VS the world's alternate ending, where he does end up with Knives instead of Ramona. To me, as a huge fan of the books that would give me much more respect for the movie as a different story about the chasing of toxic relationships and the issues it can cause, compared to the theatrical ending where it just feels like the books, watered down and stripped of character development.
And a alternative scene where dark pilgrim or whatever his name is says that Scott actually kills the guys and he only imagines the comic book features to distract from the murder of like seven guys who were just exes of a random person I don't know I've never watched it the movie or the alternate ending or whatever I don't even think that scene was even shot but I've heard that that was an alternate ending
I like to think the theatrical ending was chosen for a few good reasons if you actually think about it. Some fans might forget the obvious age gap between Knives and Scott, but there's also the fact that she ended up with Kim in the books. It's not shown in the movie, but it is shown in the new animated series. Something else I think some fans might have forgotten, Scott only dated Knives because he didn't want to be reminded of getting his heart broken by Envy Adams, not because of the chemistry that already wasn't there in the movie. Hell, when he fights Gideon a second time in the film, he at least has his redemption arc and apologizes to both Ramona and Knives for hurting them both, and the second Gideon even hurts Ramona, Knives helps Scott kick his ass into next week. Scott wasn't that great a guy, but he's not completely horrible either. All that said, I didn't read any of the original books, I don't think the relationship with Scott and Knives works, for the same reason I personally don't like the relationship between Sonic the Hedgehog and Amy Rose. They just feel more like brother and sister, I can't bring myself to see them as boyfriend and girlfriend because it just feels so forced. If you beat the video game as Knives and get her ending, she does marry Scott, but that's just played for laughs.
In defence of Clerks; that ending does keep in line with Dante's whole "That's what life is. A series of down endings." outlook on life. The irony is there....but the problem is you grow to love these characters so much that you really don't want to see him die.
I have this theory that the diamond from Titanic was actually worthless; then it would actually make sense that she'd throw it away instead of using it to help poor people who'd need the money. Billy Zane's character clearly didn't care about Rose as a person, so sharing something of his that was extremely valuable almost seems of out character for him, but if he gave her a fake diamond as a cheap way of trying to win her affections, it KIND of makes sense.
I believe differently about that. I think the diamond wasn't worthless to Rose, it was priceless. It was the only reminder she had of Jack. It was with her throughout the sinking, when Jack drew her, and when she made her promise to live a long life. She threw it back into the ocean because she had fulfilled her promise. And I find it symbolic that her second life would end where it began (if you believe she died at the very end that is).
I know it was never actually an alternate ending, since it was never written or filmed or anything, but anyone who's read "I, Robot" and knows the ending would agree that the movie had a terrible ending in comparison. The actual book is more of a collection of stories depicting robots rise throughout history, compared to the short narrative the movie had. Anyway, in the book's ending humanity thinks they have robots fully under control and are looking into a few errors that robot workers have made, and end up discovering that robots are intentionally making mistakes in order to make humans feel needed. It's revealed that the robots have been in control for years, and are just humoring the humans at this point, and humanity never had a chance. That's a much more interesting ending to me.
I’ve only ever seen the Director’s cut ending of Little Shop, I never even knew the happy ending existed on film! Really interesting to see two completely different endings like that.
Yeah, I really disagree with Doug's opinion; the original ending is the real one. It's a comedy, but the structure is a Faustian story; those don't have happy endings! Taking away the part where the protagonist loses everything and realizes that none of it was worth it makes it a different kind of story altogether; they took a Faust story, cut off part of it, and stuck a comedic happy ending in its place. There's all the foreshadowing of misery and comeuppance for Seymour's crimes that's just left hanging that way. Maybe someone likes that, but to me, what was the point? You can get happy endings anywhere. Deal With the Devil stories are made for your rare complete downers. With do-wop music!
In fact, the darker ending IS the original ending, since Little Shop of Horrors was originally a stage musical, based on a 1950's movie of the same name and in the stage version, the plant wins
Yep. This guy talks about I am legend with “the theatrical ending defeats the purpose of the story”. Like, the theatrical ending of little shop of horrors did the same thing.
It is, just drawn out a little more. In the original musical (or at least the version I saw of it) Seymour tells the plant that after they take the photo for time magazine tomorrow morning the plant is getting cut off and offers the plant meat from a store to hold it over until then. The plant agrees but only because it sees a drunk Audrey nearby looking for Seymour. The plant tricks Audrey into getting eaten and by the time Seymour gets back he pulls Audrey out of the plant's mouth but it's too late and she dies telling Seymour that she wants to be fed to the plant to help out Seymour through her death. Then the next morning Seymour tries to kill the plant resorting to jumping inside the plant since nothing else worked. This doesn't work and the plant just winds up killing him. Then the man who came by to replicate the plants does and the ladies sing the final song where they talk about how the plants destroyed several other cities via the song "don't feed the plants". The destruction in the original theatrical ending is not actually shown but it is heavily implied to the point of being almost stated that there are big plant monsters scattered all over the US and that there are a huge amount of casualties as a result, if the humans are able to win at all.
The alternate ending that made the most impact to myself was that for Butterfly Effect. The guy travels back to his own birth and strangles himself inside his moher with his umbilical cord. The mother also said something like "Not again!" implying in the past she might had other children who had the same time traveling powers. I know it is kinda strange how a infant could strangle itself, but IMO it's huge that he recognized that his live made every other ones gone bad so he has to do it.
I bet the directors of "I Am Legend" are really kicking themselves in the ass now. Because after I seen the better original ending, I want to kick them in the ass.
Thankfully I didn't see it till it was on DVD, which came with the alternate ending, which I watched right after the movie ended, loved it. Probably why I like that movie so much but I know other people who think it's generic boring zombie garbage. The cliche hero sacrifices self to destroy monsters ending, would have left a bad taste if I had saw it in theaters and didn't know about the alternate ending.
Producers, you want to kick the asses of the producers. The director had filmed the much more powerful ending as the intended ending and he was forced to film the other ending because the producers thought it was too depressing.
Olly Hayden wtf was with that?? In the Australian DVD release, THAT was the ending, and Ashton walking down the street and seeing the chick was the alternate ending....!
That was the movie ending I saw. *confused* I rented the movie once I think, or saw it on TV, I don't remember. But that is the ending I remember it having. I didn't know it had more.
the directors cut dvd had that ending. frankly, i loved the theatrical ending. i remember cheering the ending and complimenting this small film for having the balls to do a happy-ish ending.
I think the ending to clerks was a good one. It proves the irony of his life and his lament of I'm not even supposed to be here today. It makes the whole tone of his life and his feelings are told at the end. It's a perfect
For me, the biggest WTF ending is the alternate ending for Terminator 2, where It shows an Old Sarah telling that the robots near took over and Johnw as now a senator. It's probably more shocking when you realize that with this ending, the Sequels and downturn for the franchise would have never happened...
Even though it would have ended the franchise, it's actually a pretty dumb ending in itself. T2 is a classic, but it does have one major plot hole --- Why doesn't John fade away like Marty McFly if they actually changed the future? Frankly, Sarah waking up in 1984 from a bad dream would be corny as hell but actually realistic. Looking back, it's easy to say they should have gone with it so we don't have any more sequels. But in itself, that ending makes zero sense. I actually like T3. Not like T1 or T2 of course. It's far from perfect but to me, it actually wraps up the story. I originally hated it, because 1) Sarah dies off-screan and 2) John is broken. However, even then I liked the character of Kathrine and I liked how there were other targets besides John. Looking back, adult John with Arnold, his future wife and his MOM .... that's corny. John and Sarah work better with John as a boy. Frankly, Sarah wasn't even necessary in T2 .... But I'm happy she was there. John being broken makes sense really. Averting Judgement Day is a good thing, but what's he supposed to do now? And his only family member is dead! He does get a good arc tho. Lastly, Judgement Day happens! That was awesome!! Imo, Terminator is a trilogy!
The extra thing about the original I Am Legend ending is that it's sprinkled throughout the movie that the mutants are highly intelligent, near comparable to uninfected humans. So it not only butchers then ending but it also leaves so many questions unanswered when they were answered in the first place
I kinda hates when movies, particulary adaptation give clues about the posible outcome yet they change everything at the end because "audience ain't ready for this shit" then why did you give clues in the first time! The same problem i watchmen that like many people said is super faithfull to the graphic novel until the damm ending making the clues from the begging (like the comedian criying ) completly meaningless unless you read the comics
@@Double-R-Nothing like i said the comedian having a existential crisis when he was in moloch apartment. In the comic he was like that because he saw ozzymandias giant squid and he felt insignificant after witnesing such of cosmic horror even if he was proud to be a horror for society. So what the hell he was crying about if there was no squid in the film? and of course ozzymandias entire philosophy about humanity greatest fear for the unknow, yet in the movie he blames dr manhattan for everything even though the squid was suppoust to be an unknown foe that unite all nations agaist an unknow enemy yet manhattan is not an unknow enemy he is an american enemy, an enemy born from a US radiactive center so the nuclear wars won't stop if america is still the number 1 enemy, and if won't matter if the film would't take almost every single line from the comics almost like it pretends to be 100% faithfull when it clearly isn't
Hostel It ends with Paxton(played by jay Hernandez) tracking down a Dutch businessman follows him into the men's restroom and kills him with a scalpel In the alternate ending Paxton instead kidnaps the dutchs daughter and holds her hostage on a train and the train just takes off.
How about the first Butterfly Effect movie? Not only it had 4 (!) different endings, but the one director originally insisted on was so shocking on the test audiences, they had to rewrite the finale entirely. Then, we have the Blade Runner with the happy ending that literally ruined the film for most of the critics. The later re-releases that featured an "open-end" and a slightly altered montage, became a huge success bringing the film to its deserved "cult" status.
I agree with the #1 spot. I mean imagine what a success the movie would have been because of the ending. If you leave out the lazy acting and such, of course.
Ryan Murphy It was much more interesting than what we got, though. Even if it hadn't been a hit at the time, people would found more appreciation for it later down the line, and like Doug said, would have had a more timeless effect. Plus, it's fucking Will Smith, of course it would have sold tickets, guy was fucking worshipped back then. They shouldn't have pussied out.
TheCreepyReader Am I the only one who like the original ending? We find out how the ones who are not effected by the virus ware killed by the ones who was affected by that, and they are the good guys? That is like if you say in WW2 the Nazi are the good guys because one German officer did not steo on an ant.
CodeNameZ Maybe, but the alternative ending made way more sense to me. I mean even new species have personalities and probably are doing all of this just to survive. It's really thought provoking.
Actually, I think having Peter's father still being alive would've helped the movie. Peter's dad could be a good way to motivate him into going back to being Spider-Man, instead of just looking at Gwen's speech.
There was the Clue alternate ending where basically everyone dies. Luckily the director didn't like it and it was scrapped, though published in a book once. But even the endings of Clue were kinda flawed.
For Little shop of Horrors, the alternate ending it the actual ending of the stage show, which the rest of the film does very well in recapturing what the stage version felt like. The intended ending (Audry 2 winning) is supposes to slightly feel depressing while being humorously ironic. The only reason the film version went with comparatively stereotypical and crappy is because test audiences didn't like the original.
Yeah, I saw an interview with Frank Oz about why he changed it although he did it very reluctantly and does seem to regret it. "After a play ends, the characters come out and take a bow when a movie ends the character dies and that's it and people love their characters."
Jacob Albers I respect the original ending because (you're right) it is the ending in the broadway show. Having said that, I still prefer the second ending because that's what I grew up with.
call me crazy but I perfer the happy ending because it just felt more natural to how the plot played out. but the bad ending is also great in its own right, but it feels like a giant middle finger to the first two acts. but I guess that is the reason why people loved that ending more.
I respect and like both endings equally. i think it could be an Army of darkness moment all over again here. Pick the one that suits your mood at the time.
The army of darkness alternate ending is way better purely beacause of the potential set up to a cool concept of ash fighting to survive in the barren wasteland of a ruined earth.
It depends. If they wanted to make more sequels or a TV show, the alternate ending would have been better. If they wanted it to be a trilogy, the theatrical ending was better.
So does Blade Runner imo, the whole focus of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" is on electric animals and Mercerism and a lot of concepts that barely make the movie or aren't in it at all.
Unpopular opinion incoming: I prefer the theatrical ending to the movie. The original ending would work better with a one-to-two season tv series adaptation than a movie. More buildup, more hinting, etc.
The original was hinted to quite a bit. I didn't see it myself the first time; Maven's episode talks more about the various ways the original cut sets up the original ending. Some of that setup is removed in the theatrical version, though. You should check out the original cut, or her episode if you haven't already.
I loved I am Legend and both ending we're good in my opinion, however the original did have more of an impact that the theatrical version. All in all it will still be one of my favorite movies and one of the very few movies I ACTUALLY cried while watching it! Good video!
It’s kind of funny that the ending to the movie musical Little Shop of Horrors was changed to be happier, considering the original film also ends with Seymour being eaten.
I feel the Little Shop of Horrors original ending is miles better than the theatrical. Firstly, the death of Audrey is done incredibly well and is very emotional. It adds a lot of weight to the film and works surprisingly well. This really makes you notice how much you care about Seymour and Audrey andtheir relationship. Is it a tonal chance? Yes, but that’s what good plot twists are made of. I also feel it was where the movies tone was heading, with the later scenes in the film getting darker. The ending also fits the film’s mirroring of a Greek tragedy. The original ending also has an amazing musical number (“Don’t Feed the Plants”). The effects works is incredible. It’s also is an effective commentary on American consumerism. The theatrical ending feels tacked on and does not feel like it’s supposed to be there.
14:51 I have the director's cut on dvd and boy, do I LOVE the original ending. Both are fine but the original is more accurate to the play and more fun to see in an 80's monster movie.
In the DVD audio commentary, screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh claims that this version was dropped because the studio thought it showed a more cruel and menacing side to McClane, a man who killed for revenge rather than in self-defense. The studio was also displeased with the lack of action in the scene, feeling that it didn't fit as a "climax" and therefore chose to reshoot the finale as an action sequence at a significant monetary cost. Hensleigh's intention was to show that the events in New York and the subsequent repercussions had tilted McClane psychologically. This alternative ending, set some time after the film's main events, would have marked a serious break from the Die Hard formula, in which the plot unfolds over a period of roughly 12 hours
Vegeta solo Idk. I kind of like the bittersweet ending of a disenfranchised bitter John McClane getting revenge on the criminal who ruined his life through vigilante justice.
or the third ending, where I capture jar jar, kill him, then bring him back to life (continuing Darth Plagueis work), and then kill him again, over and over agian, and the ending credits is just the sounds of jar jar dieing over and over again.
The bizarre thing is that I guess I saw I am legend with the alternate ending? I saw it after having recorded it from TV, so I guess the channel was airing the original version instead of the theatrical one, but when you were describing the ending with him dying I was really confused. Better for me I guess?
Osmia yeah, be glad you didn't have to go through that garbage -.- the original book's message is so powerful and wonderful and the ending to the theatrical version makes it feel like it changes from something different and needfully dark to Independence Day or White House down or any other bullshit pandering cheesy action movies that make humans/America into the good guy even though that's not always the case. Happy endings are desensitizing and manipulating the population into thinking they deserve one themselves because it's "normal" (except it's really not, at least not in the way it's portrayed)
What's up everyone! Did we miss any WTF alternate movie endings?
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Channel Awesome I always thought the alternate ending to Lion King was messed up, when they let Scar win and laugh as he threw Simba off Pride Rock, only to watch him get engulfed in flames.
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The most WTF thing about the I Am Legend theatrical ending is how it betrays the actual title of the movie. It's called "I Am Legend" not because Will saves humanity and becomes legendary for it. No, it's because he is the "Legend" the NEW breed of humans talk about. The one that comes during the day. The one that takes them away. The one they FEAR. That's some deep sh*t o.o
It makes even more sense in the book, because instead of zombies or mutants, the creatures are vampires, creatures of our ancient legends.
Even better, in the book he gets arrested and sentenced to death for mass murder.
the big problem here is that I am legend isn't a movie based on the book "I am legend" by Matheson, is the remake of "The omega man", a 1971 movie directed by Boris Sagal with protagonist Charlton Heston loosely based on the book, the ending is pretty much the same
i like to look at it like this instead of one ending being happy the other sad they're both a happy ending since the mutants in the film when they had emotions there could be hope for humanity to continue. not only that but it could be looked at like this: the mutants are the next stage of human evolution so either way humanity will continue.
+True Ruffler The beginnings of the mutation caused them to be very aggressive. Once it goes away, it's all good. Unfortunately by then, other people had either left, died, or also mutated. In the movie, they were only being aggressive in self-defense, because HE was the one hunting them.
What about the alternate ending of "The Room" where Tommy Wisseau was supposed to become a vampire and have a flying car?
Vocaloid_Victrix wait, what?
Really? That's GENIUS!
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please tell me that is real I would love to see that
Vocaloid_Victrix Dafuq?
What about the one where tommy wiseau gets out of the casket at the funeral, and seeing as they're already in tuxes, they have a nice game of football.
GeatMaster I'm wheezing
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GeatMaster Look up Tommy Wiseau's real idea for the ending. He was going to reveal Johnny as still alive and a vampire and have him fly a nice sports car, into the sunset. No, seriously. No, seriously. No, seriously, the only reason he didn't, was because he didn't know how to film it.
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in little shop of horrors, the original ending literally cost a quarter of the whole movie's budget
Mandi Brand It didn't work because the film shown to test audiences cut five scenes that built our characters and helped explain that ending (Mushnik & Son, It's Just The Gas, the original Act 1 Finale, Call Back In the Morning, The Meek Shall Inherit).
You can see the money on screen though.
@@seymourkrelborn4780 Well, that and also stage audiences and movie audience are completely different animals. Frank Oz said it himself. A stage play where everyone dies.. the cast comes back out and bows, that breaks the illusion. But a movie just ends. They're all dead. The dark ending hits you more, and movie audiences aren't used to that the way stage audiences are. Being a thespian in high school and actually doing these kind of dark plays, I understood that more than my non-thespian friends.
They should have used it for when the main character was knocked out or having a nightmare
Yup. And what’s sad is the director really wanted to use but allegedly the studio required the film to have a certain audience approval rating and the changing the ending was the only was he was able to get the approval rating for the studio to let film release.
Last I heard the reason I Am Legend was altered was because the film was showed to a screen audience to see how they'd react to the movie before it was released, and they hated how Will Smith was actually a villain. Since they didn't like it the ending was changed. Way to prove how stupid fan service is.
Even if you keep the original ending Smith is not a villain. Those were human roaches and they were disgusting scavenging morons. I would consider it an obligation to wipe them out as they are a sad reminder of what humans were, turned into dumb aggressive pasty monsters who clearly couldn't even mimic human innovation. Made no efforts to improve their surroundings living in shambles and rotting infrastructure.
So I guess earlier humans should have been wiped out?
Goddamn people are stupid.
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In the book they were vampires and they were intelligent. They had an entire society and the ending of the book was the main character being tried under vampire law. The movie was just a poor adaptation of the book.
promontorium they weren't really stupid. They just didn't have any technology or education.
Why is it that we have so hard time to make Will Smith a bad guy? Even in Suicide Squad he is still like the most nicest guy ever even though he is basically a contract killer.
In that he's said to kill worse people and he was kinda a bad kid in fresh prince at times remember the time he pretended to marry a woman so he could have sex with her
Yeah but all that has that good guy lining, he has never been an actual bad guy, like evil. I would love to see Will Smith as a psychotic criminal mastermind or something with very little redeeming values or compassion towards others. In my opinion it is getting really stale to see him perform pretty much the same role every time.
But it seems easy to put in in hardly relatable roles in bad movies, though (cough)After Earth(cough).
He did cheat on his wife in Enemy of State that's pretty loathsome
I can't relate to Will Smith at all since he is mostly so spotless good guy. I agree that cheating your partner is loathsome though but it still doesn't really make him evil. I haven't seen Enemy of the State though so can't say much about his performance there. Did he have a motive or did he cheat her just for fun?
I am Legend's alt ending is one of the greatest plot twists of all time
Absolutely. I mean, even streaming services have the alternate ending as the default for I Am Legend. It definitely deserves the number one spot.
No I wouldn't go that far. But it was better
@@robcandy9273 k this is me 2 years later, I agree with you, but damn that is still well-thought out
@@bluereptileproductions tbh my memory of seeing the film was expecting it to end the original way as the whole film felt was leading up to it but was disappointed that it didn't. Shocked later to learn that was the original intent. Silly production choice
Always hate it when some things change because of outside forces.
Army of Darkness's ending is both sad and funny. It's just Ash screaming "I Slept to long" like he's late for work
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The alternate ending for Little Shop of Horrors is actually how the original musical ends
MegaSoulHero I prefer the musical ending
MegaSoulHero not only is the ending more fitting for the story, but, don't feed the plants is sooooooo good
MegaSoulHero it looks awesome
Yep, and much better imo
The original ending fits the idea the musical was going for, a Greek tragedy, much better. Greek tragedies are about a good character being punished for horrible actions with good intentions, Seymour didn't want to end the world, he just wanted money and love.
"...little to no spidey sense." What a line, horrible and awesome at the same time. Well done sir, well done
“The butterfly effect, had five alternate different endings!!! I can’t believe you didn’t mention that one
They're all pretty much the same until the *Very* end when he sees her on the street. It's like they couldn't decide how to close the film and ended up completely changing it for the directors cut.
@@1000000man1 actully, there's another ending in the butterfly effect (which is my favorite) where the protagonist puts on the video of his birth and goes back to that day, inside the womb and kills himself, so that everyone else can live happy. His mother is healthy and gets remarried and his friends go to live with their mother since they have no reason to stay behind with their abusive dad.
Before starting the video that's the 1st movie clicked in my head.
I saw the director's cut 1st and man that was depressingly dark.
@@greystoneUnicorn that's the director's cut
That whole movie was a WTF
They should totally do a re-release of I Am Legend
*WITH THE BETTER ENDING.*
So pissed that the 4K blu-ray does not have the directors cut on it.
@Team Plasma Unofficial Way to spectacularly miss and prove the point...
@Team Plasma Unofficial To be fair the alternate ending is much closer to the ending of the book. Even though they weren't really zombies in the book.
@Team Plasma Unofficial Did you not read the book at all? In the book, the main character considered them to be Vampires, and so did the "mutants", they are photosensitive after all. He did so many tests, they were repelled by Garlic and other legends of the sort. He kept going out during the day and killing them while they slept
In the book they had a full on Government and Civilization, he was taken by them and he was to be tried for his crimes against them, and that was when he realized he was the Boogeyman, he was the thing that went bump in the day. They were not wiping out a single person, it was just merely an infection that swept through the world and when it killed people, they got back up and were essentially undead vampire-like creatures.
@Team Plasma Unofficial It's called... oh my god!... FICTION. What a concept!
Also, it has nothing to do with Liberal Degrees. I'm far from that & still prefer that ending
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Bill Paxton was laughing in the alternate ending because he has the use of deep sea submarines lol.
LOL wow I can't believe I didn't realize xD
Damn, "I am legend" would have been way better with the original ending.
Yep
It sounds like it would be such a downer, at least it would have made more of an impact than the theatrical one
Not making the movie would have been the way better idea
People complaining that the zombies were supposed to be mindless in I Am Legend seem to forget that they laid a trap for the protagonist to lure him out. That seems pretty cunning and intelligent for "mindless zombies"
The whole bloody point of the book is that they are not mindless beasts. It is not a zombie thing, it is older than the whole zombie genre.
I always thought that they were more like vampires.
Tristan Hartup In the book, they are vampires. Weak to light and stakes to the heart.
Even in the movie, they stay in the dark and sunlight hurts them.
Or how about that moment when they're laying siege to his house, and we cut outside to the horde and that one leader zombie pretty clearly gives the others an order to attack? I remember that sticking out to me even my first time seeing it without any knowledge of the original.
Another WTF thing about the alternate Little Shop of Horrors ending is that it cost 5 million dollars to make.
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And yet they had to film another ending. God bless the director's cut, otherwise nobody would know it was really made.
Not only that, but that entire sequence took about a year to build and shoot.
Now, if it had been used originally, that sequence would have been edited down, something I wish they had done for the Blu-Ray version. But Frank Oz didn't actually get to re-edit the "Director's Cut" himself.
Then they could have included the entire scene as a bonus feature.
Song Heart and it’s so much better
Lol, when I was watching that clip I was thinking "Damn... That doesn't look cheap to just trash...."
i’m sure the puppeteers got pisses as hell
HOLY SHIT, that's how I am Legend was supposed to end!?!? That would have actually left an impact. why the hell didn't they do that ending? Studios are stupid, that would have been a better ending, Will Smith died in the "Happy ending" there's no happy ending.
I don't get how that is any better The evil zombies aren't evil? They kill humans. Itd be one thing if they were just killed for being different, but they were killed because THEY WERE KILLINGTHE HUMAN RACE and transforming them into KILLERS. The alternate ending is stupid imo.
Producers, Studios and the rest of Hollywood businessmen are hit and miss when it comes to making changes to the movies.
Just look up times studio interference made a movie better, it's shocking how many times the writers or directors ideas were worse and some random studio businessman had a better idea that in turn made the movie better. But it's also on par when they mess up a movie.
K-C Rhoder the sailor Mayun - Oh yeah, I doubt many people could argue with you (rationally) from that view point on this channel. I suspect people who watch Nostalgia Critic would probably prefer a profound story over a "happy ending".
Some of my favorite books have bitter sweet endings, I don't really like the ending because not everyone gets what they want, but I find that realism... we're not all going to get some fairy tail ending of our lives.
Shigeru Miyamoto Sama - I totally agree and get that. However, having an ending like the one we saw would have suddenly changed the tone of the movie. True at the start they were killing all willy nilly, but from the protagonists perspective we never really knew what they were thinking?
And that's the whole thing, we don't know what they're thinking, we don't think they're intelligent, and then suddenly at the end of the movie BAM, they're actually intelligent and not necessarily ruthless zombie killers, whaaaaat?
Like said, I'd prefer a more complex story, rather then will smith blowing himself up to be a badass and take them all with him. (It's an okay ending I guess... but the alternative ending WOULD leave an impact)
Moonlight150 - that's actually a good counterweight to bring up. Since normally all we see on youtube is "look! They ruined this". It's kinda how people are more prone to complain about mistakes then compliment and praise successes.
I don't know why they didn't just stick the "we have nothing in common" line in the theatrical ending of Looney Tunes: Back in Action. The line is said AFTER the climax, and the setup of the three human characters talking is kept anyway. They could've kept the better ending and justified the romance at the same time.
Well, it also turns out that the original ending to "Little Shop of Horrors" was also much more true to the stage version, where the plants won and the heroes and other people died off. However, the difference was that, apparently, people could still see the actors coming out and taking a bow to the audience, which assured the audience that they were still alright. In a movie, you couldn't do that, and nobody liked that ending. So they had to change it and make it a happy ending. Eventually, though, people found out about the alternate ending, and grew intrigued by it.
That's not assuring the audience that the characters are okay, that's just being called onto the stage for the final bow. It didn't mean they didn't die ...
MoonShadowWolfe Read the thing that comes with the DC of Little Shop.
cesarjimenezanimator Yeah, I saw the stage version as a little kid and was so confused as to why everyone died at the end. Why no happy ending??😵😱
mmmmm well......not quite. the original stage version has the plants take over the world with the song "don't feed the plant", including eating the entire audience in the theater, much like the movie. but being a stage show, in order to represent that, all the characters come out on stage to join in singing "don't feed the plant" and it's a very "yay!!! we're all dead in a plant's belly!!!!" kind of number that while quite dark, definitely is still very comedic. the movie can't break the 4th wall the same way the stage show can. i mean, they try with audrey ii looking like its breaking through the projection screen to attack you, but it ends up coming out a lot more mean-spirited without the whole cast singing along. coupled with the fact that movie audiences, especially for a big budget hollywood film starring rick moranis, are going to expect a straightforward happy ending much more than someone going to an off-broadway show is.....the original ending unfortunately never had a chance.
TL;DR: it's not the curtain call that makes the difference, it's the cast singing along and being present in the finale. plus theater (esp off-broadway theater, which this was, little shop didn't make it to broadway till well after the movie came out) can get away with a lot more edgy shit than hollywood can.
pretty sure your talking about a different era of movie goer. this was released in 1986. not 1906 when moving pictures were frightening new technology and the average audience member was illiterate. Not so much your modern movie goer, so much as your modern wrestling fan. Not smart enough to separate reality from fiction.
So no, it has nothing to do with reassuring the audience that the actors weren't killed during filming...did you really think that had something to do with it?
it's really simple. just as the 1906 people were in need of some maturing to understand the difference between real and fake. modern audience have become more accepting of an ending that isn't happy than audiences were prepared for in the 80's and 90's. Generally if a movie had a downer ending it did poorly at the box office. Some movies did well, but most of them a dark ending was a box office death sentence. Prime example of what i'm talking about. you would have NEVER had a movie end like avengers infinity war. big block buster the culmination of a decades work in film. nobody would have EVER put a downer ending on that movie if it were made even 20 years ago. now they ended it with the villains smile...he won. incredible you made your entire movie universe up to that point amount to nothing, all of it ended up being pointless and nobody was mad. in fact they would have been furious if they had changed one of the most shocking things in comic book history.
still...I bet the producers were shitting bricks until that first box office return.
I remember having a DVD of a special SpongeBob episode with the Flying Dutchman. It was special because it has three possible endings. The Flying Dutchman gives Squidward Patrick and SpongeBob a chance to go home it all depends on the last wish that he gives them. if you chose the episode ending where Patrick gets the last wish he wishes for a pack of gum, if you choose SpongeBob they all go back home and everything is normal, if you choose Squidward something goes wrong with his wish and they end up in a blender and the Flying Dutchman is a hippy making smoothies eating them. I remember replaying and replaying this episode for some reason because it was kind of like a choose-your-own-adventure. Even though I knew all three outcomes it was still interesting.
Um actually Squidward wishes that he never met spongebob and Patrick, Spongebob wishes for the Flying Dutchman to be a vegetarian then when it looks like they’re home they’ve been turned into fruit.
@@SirKirk2000 yeah and squidwards goes wrong as the Dutchman just erases the memory of meating squidward from spongebob and Patrick
I never even knew this had multiple endings. I only remember the "wishing he was a vegetarian" ending.
This isn't about endings in TV, it's about endings in movies.
Oh my God that sounds amazing
If this video itself doesn't have some kind of Shamalan twist, I'm going to be extremely angry.
In the original ending, Nostalgia Critic takes off a mask and it was the Angry Video Game Nerd all the time.
But they cut it out in the last minute, because they thought it was to confusing.
The Clerks original ending, I'd heard, was a way to end it on a down note. The whole discussion about the best Star Wars film ending on a down note, and Dante saying "real life is a series of down notes" was kind of a foreshadowing. I agree, the ending they chose was much better, but the original ending did make sense in it's own way.
That’s the way I’d see it.
Bit of a stretch though, don'tcha think?
the original ending to little shop of horrors actually follows the musical. but the movie did take it to the next level.
To be fair, the knock-off version from the 1970s (Please, Don't Eat My Mother) has the virginal Bud watch two plants have sex after one eats his potential girlfriend.
That's some next-level shit. :-)
Actually the so called alternate ending in "Little Shop of Horrors" where everything is taken over IS the original ending. The musical/play still follows the original ending (I was in a play for it back in High School and it follows the original script), but technically, the "happy" ending in the movie is actually the alternate ending.
WHAT? WHERE?
did you guys see the REALLY old (black and white) non-musical version?
I prefer the happy ending. IIRC, test audiences *loved* the movie... until the end. Frank Oz posited that unlike a play where everyone comes out at the end and takes a bow, in a movie it's different and the audience became invested in the characters and felt cheated when they were killed off. I get the reason for the dark ending and some people do prefer it, but for whatever reason, I just love the happy ending with a slightly dark twist.
I've heard a lot of people who enjoy the _Little Shop of Horrors_ musical despise the theatrical ending, mainly because it takes away from the moral of the story: "don't feed the plants". Seymour's selfish, and selfless, desires are the cause to Audrey II's success, but in the theatrical release of the film, he comes off as completely okay with letting people die to get what he wants, and he doesn't even have to pay for it. The original cut had not only this alternate ending, but a cut song called, "The Meek Shall Inherit", about Seymour's rise to success, but he's conflicted about no longer desiring to kill for it, and wanting to impress Audrey. He knows what he's doing is wrong, he hates himself for it… but he doesn't want to lose Audrey's love. That Seymour, I like more than in the theatrical cut.
The 1989 film, _Heathers_ was also going to have a downer ending before going with the final cut. In the original ending, Veronica Sawyer dies by holding the bomb and winds up blowing up her school in the process, ending with a prom in Heaven with everyone drinking the drainer fluid that killed Heather Chandler. It was never released, and Winona Ryder apparently had a big speech before blowing herself, and the school up that I honestly want to find and read.
The director of Alien Resurrection is French. That's probably why they ended up in France.
maybe the earth was "blown up" because of the ship crash Landing and the blown up part is the section in the radius and the rest is pretty much normal.
Spoiler alert: Earth was France all along.
from what ive read, the destruction of earth happens because they crash the ship against earths atmosphere and when it blows up they pretty much burn it up and cause horrible storms that wipe out everything
+Akil Dukes a postcard from Luc Besson ;)
Your Scorpius profil pic is cool btw.
If we're going with some of the non cannon comic books it's because the terminators exist. Thus Skynet blew up France.
Though in others it was because the aliens were already on earth and Ripley was not told about it. And in another comic it was some cold snowy place like Alaska that they end up crash landing.
The comics are cooler than the movies.
The original ending of "Rambo: First Blood" had John Rambo suiciding at the end. They changed it after test screen audiences revealed their dissatisfaction of the protagonist's death.
The Rambo in the movie was a lot more sympathetic than the one in the book. In the book Rambo had no qualms with killing people. Movie Rambo only kills one person and it was an accident. Rambo's big breakdown at the end was a new moment created specifically for the film. The book never had that.
The movie portrayal of Rambo in First Blood went down so well even the original author apparently retconned his story to use that version from then on.
@@Superluigi881 I didn't even know there was a Rambo book o.O
@@Halgrenos See for yourself. It's a very different story: th-cam.com/video/RmN8N8-KsDQ/w-d-xo.html
actually the musical stage version of Little shop of Horrors uses the way dark ending instead of the 'cute house with a lawn' ending.
I saw a stage version and they did use the "Don't Feed The Plants" version. It's really good.
It’s done more comedically though. Like the characters who died come back as buds of the plant and sing the song.
Salad Fingers ASMR Party
EXACTLY
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I remember watching the musical before I knew there was a movie of it with a bit of a feeling of discomfort and dread (even though I liked it). The world being doomed seemed so dark, and the characters coming back as buds didn't seem comedic. They just seemed like another warning that the stronger the plants got, the more buds, and the more spores they would release.
I was kinda waiting for the review itself to have an alternative ending...
It kinda did, perhaps unintentionally.
Every entrant on the list was a WTF alternate ending, while #1 is the only one whose THEATRICAL ending got the WTF.
What a twist!
Same
Me too!
"I don't know what to say to a woman who tried to jump off the Titanic when it was floating and tried to stay when it was sinking."
Man that's good writing.
Sure is!
Although shot poorly, I kind of like the concept of the first Clerks ending, if only because of the lines "Bunch of savages in this town" and "I wasn't even supposed to be here today!" It's a real dark bit of irony to cap off every instance of those two lines.
I Am Legend really messed up in terms of an awesome ending!
Giovanni Orellana amen to that
It always boggles me when a studio will hire a director to tell a certain story and when the director tries to tell that story the studio suddenly steps in and says, "No no! This completely different story is what we want you to tell!"
It was the same thing with 'Cool World'. What was the point in hiring Bakshi to tell a toon horror movie if they weren't going to let him make it?
Yes!!! I knew the book.so when i saw the ending pissed me of extremely. He is the vampire, he is the one killing them in their sleep, he is the legend, a horror legend. But is its like it is in movies, never allowing the audience feel bad of themselves. always someone survives and life goes on.
Preach!
kradeiz Well, the studios are the ones putting the money so they have to be careful.
Sometimes the vision of a director can be crushed by the exec at the studios, like Alien 3, Brazil and so on, but then there are those directors that with too much control can do whatever they want whether it's good or bad (an example being BvS where they trusted Snyder and after the movie came out they mangled Ayer's vision of SS)
That really sucks lady!
Its remarkable to consider how expensive the alternate ending of little shop of horror compared to what was ultimately decided on. Explosions, video effects, miniatures and models. Not to mention the crowds of extras. It really seems like one of the more expensive sequences of the movie and it was cut entirely.
$5 MILLION. Hell yeah, it was expensive.
+julianarwen holy shit
the studio was actually proud of the original ending, it wasn't until it got screen tested that the ending needed to change.
The last few minutes of the director's cut essentially became Day of the Triffids mixed with Godzilla
The original ending of "Little Shop of Horrors" makes more sense when you consider the other scenes that were deleted from the Theatrical Cut. The Workprint includes more graphic edits of Seymour feeding the plant and the full version of "The Meek Shall Inherit", in which Seymour makes a Faustian bargain to keep feeding the plant in exchange for Audrey's affection. These scenes change Seymour's character and the film's tone overall; none of the deleted footage is featured in the "Director's Cut", just the original ending, which is literally tacked on.
That's why I prefer the theatrical cut over the director's cut, since all that cut footage is still absent. If you asked me, the dark ending doesn't work without the entirety of The Meek Shall Inherit, which is the turning point in the original musical.
The looney toons alternate ending was used in the GameCube game
Was it?! It's been so long I don't remember that XD
yeah. I just remember the final boss being a weird dinosaur version of Tweety
PortalToTheDark
Holy crap, you just brought back memories of that game, although I never made it that far
PortalToTheDark That's were I remember that. I knew it looked off with the black and white cutouts.
I loved the original ending of Die hard 3, it was pretty cool, well written, unexpected, and it suits the spirit of the movie with it's focus on Simons riddles so much better than the theatrical version, which I always found very unsatisfactory. I was happy and sad at the same time, when I found out: There IS a better ending, but why didn't they take it? ; _ ;
I don’t know if anyone knew about the alternate endings of Paranormal Activity! In the original cut, the girl kills the guy with a knife & she walks back in with blood on her shirt and sits by the bed on the floor rocking for two days until the cops find her and shoot her by mistake, in the theatrical cut she gets possessed, throws the guy against the camera, she crawls on the floor then her face contorts to demon style and she lunges at the camera, then the alternate cut (my personal favorite) she kills the guy with a knife, then slits her throat in front of the camera
Ya ik about it... loved both the alternatives
But the recent movies in the series were just meh!
So the movie had three whole endings? Jeez…
The alt ending to clerks feels oddly fitting to me. For someone whose catchphrase was "im not even supposed to be here today" to get murdered at the end makes it feel like fate was at work, and it also would seemingly ask the question "how much of yourself do you give to your job?" i mean, if the guy hadnt gone above and beyond to show up on his day off to his minimum wage job he hates to make his asshole boss happy out of some sense of duty or being a good employee he would still be alive. In retrospect, it seems silly to show such devotion to a person that would fire you in a heartbeat or to a job that pays the most minimum of wages.
Another bit of commentary that could be gleaned from the alt ending(whether intentional or not) would be how random and short life can be. This movie seemed to be a fairly typical day for this character, a "slice of life". A movie like that ending with the main characters death seems to say "it can happen at any time, folks!" A comedy ending with such a depressing message probably isnt the right tone, but its interesting none the less.
Yeah. Not funny, though. It was a comedy!
It would have been funny -- dark, but funny -- if his last words were whispering "I'm....not even suppose to be here to......"
I agree as soon as Doug said it I thought to myself that’s hilarious but most people would not think so
@@chezwizard yes!!!
Kevin felt like he was going to die in that store, working all day, filming all night. it was such a more true and honest ending... and the whole film is a pitch black comedy, people who think it wouldnt have fit in clearly missed the whole vibe the film is putting off.
In the ORIGINAL Little Shop of Horrors (the black and white one that tried and failed to be a serious horror film), Seymour and Audrey DID get eaten. Seymour crawled into the plant with a machete to try and kill it, only to get eaten. It ended with several flowers, which had grown out of Audrey II, blooming, each with the face of someone who had been eaten by the plant.
that sounds awesome
"sounds"
Um... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
i'm sorry but what the shit
that would of been amazing to see in the stage version
Oh my God, that I Am Legend alternate ending is one of the most impactful, interesting, and meaningful endings i've ever seen. Praise be to the man who wrote that, and slap whoever decided to take it out.
What about the beginning of I am Legend? Where those supposedly sympathetic "people" are running around like monsters eating fucking children, ripping innocent families apart in an amazing blood orgy? They were hyper aggressive moronic human roaches. Fuck them.
That would be the audience. They showed the original cut to a screening of people, and they hated it. So it was changed into what the ending is now.
+promontorium oh, so like in real life, how those supposedly sympathetic "humans" are running around eating fucking animals? ripping innocent species apart in an amazing blood orgy? They were hyper aggressive moronic human roaches. Fuck them.
promontorium It makes more sense in the book - they make it clear that the new species is different from the "vampires" that were senselessly killing people, and at the end of the book they're actually fighting to kill them off, along with Neville. They were caused by a freak mutation within the vampires that allowed them to become self-aware and intelligent again.
promo. i myself cant blame you but. they obviously wherent roaches, they had language, relationships and they didnt kill smith because it would be wrong he helped them so why would they murder him? also it was just a few years and they still needed to recover from the mutations so yeah no shit that they didnt have any mansions to live in
Actually, the point of the Titanic alternate ending was to be an origin story for the Joker. Titanic is actually a prequel to Batman.
omg it all makes sense now
... How does that work exactly...? -. - '
^ Well it's really simple. See, the gem drops into the ocean, but if you do enough research, you will realize this gem is actually designed to perform supernatural feats when in contact with water and salt. So this gem then gets tangled in some seaweed and mutates into a weird sea creature. This sea creature travels to Transylvania and captures humans, sucking their blood. This legend inspired a writer to create the Dracula series, amplifying the idea and concept of vampires, where Tommy Wiseau soon discovered and included the same concept in the original ending for his movie "The Room." In the story, the car would have flown into a strange space-time rift that would transform the vampire and car into a mutated Tommy Wiseau, who would then fall into a pit of acid and transform into the Joker.
Totally true and not improvised, I swear, I did my research.
I heard there was supposed to be a Transformers Godzilla cameo in the sequel of the reboot of the tv show based on the video game based on the comics.
LazyLord no Titanic is a prequel to Wolf of Wall Street
Totally agree with your take on "I am Legend" The alternate ending provides a 180 degree shift in the way we see the protagonist. It elevates the movie to a masterpiece. All the gruesome lab photos and the scenes where he mows them down his car make sense when we see him in this new light.
I honestly thought "thank you for smoking" would have made it.
Same.
less wtf and more "That's shit."
Sam Gilbert same
ShadowWolfRising nah, I am legend was definitely more "shit" than "wtf". well, the original ending was.
The ending to Legend was more of a "fuck you" to those who read the book. I haven't read the book or seen the movie (I can't watch a movie where a dog dies lol) but changing it around so much is a just.. I have no words
SPOILERS? My mother has taught and teaches a Post-Apocalyptic Literature class and a Film Adaptation class, so we've become pretty familiar with I am Legend at this point. The original novella is spectacular (seriously, read it), but has never really adapted well. The Will Smith alternate ending is the closest a film adaptation has come to the overall idea of the book ("I Am Legend" refers to the fact that he's the boogeyman one whispers of for the new species of vampiric humans dominating the Earth). The Omega Man and The Last Man On Earth are also adaptations of I Am Legend. Each film focuses on a different aspect of the novella, and each approach is dramatic in how varied it is from the others. However, the most interesting difference that is consistent in each ending, other than the fact that none of them really capture the message the author was trying to portray, is the cure. In the book, he never finds the cure. In every single film adaptation, he has. In The Last Man On Earth, they lose it at the cost of his life. In The Omega Man, they gain it at the cost of his life. In Will Smith's I Am Legend, they gain it at the cost of his life, or he decides not to use it and to forever be outcast in the new order. It's an interesting distinction that we've debated often. If you like "vampire" stuff or are interested in film or literature, I HIGHLY recommend checking out the novella and the films for yourself. If anything, it's interesting finding out who you and your friends think did it best and why.
I believe I WILL check it out. Do the "vampires" in the novella develop any kind of society? Or are they the denizens portrayed in film?
They're a lot less like bald speedy monsters and more on the shuffle-y human side. Most of the book is from the protagonists POV, and he generally only sees them when they're lethargic during the day or hears them outside his house at night. Signs of civilization don't come in until the very end of the book. I'm pretty sure it came out sometime around the '50s, but isn't corny except for one or two very minor details.
They developed a society. It was actually close to a human one. They were capable of speech and attachemnts too. It's a wonderful novella, but also sad.
The Wolverine alternate ending where Logan gets his Classic suit from the comics.
That was real?
@@Laki2006 yep I've seen the image for Dr strange in the multiverse of madness videos multiple times this is what happens when a new marvel movie comes out an old one gets copied off from their original ending TH-cam is weird
This was actually kind of awesome. I was unaware of most of these alternate endings.
*Clerks* -- Dante wasn't "even supposed to be here today." Fate fucked him one last time.
The alternate ending is the ultimate culmination of a running bit. I haven't even seen the movie, and I'm aware of this scene's purpose. Kevin Smith saying he wasn't sure how to end the film doesn't change the fact this choice was a reference to an ongoing theme in the film.
Not really, in my opinion. The entire "I'm not even supposed to be here today" gag is actually resolved a little earlier. It is like, totally resolved. It ends up bringing together the larger message of the film. The ending, at best, is just one more possible event in the life of a convenience store clerk and a rather tragic one at that.
If you've ever worked at a convenience store, (I won't say you have or have not) you would recognize some of the things that would seem unreal and downright impossible, and know that some of that shit REALLY DOES HAPPEN. And frankly, this story goes gentle on some of the more lunatic and regular occurrences one sees. So the ending was just one more of these events, but the dark reality just doesn't really jive with the rest of the tone of the film.
Pure speculation on your part, sorry.
As is yours
The difference is I'm not replying to your comment to tell you you're wrong and explain my theory. If you're going to say I'm wrong, don't just come back with something you invented. Mine is based on a running theme with the specific character involved, yours is an immaterial and far-reaching concept. At least my "speculation" doesn't involve making up baseless ideas of what was intended.
I did point out that it was in my opinion. I was honestly trying to be polite and apologize if it not come through that way.
I have seen the film, and in fact worked in that profession, and was simply using that as a basis for my interpretation of the ending.
So honestly, it wasn't meant as an attack and I'm sorry if it came off as one. On another note, I highly recommend the film and hell, if you haven't done it yet, work as a convenience store clerk. The stories you walk out with are just as grand as those you hear about in Tech Support websites. :-)
Edit: Not that I would ever want that job again. I'm happy working in my little spot in a big factory.
Star Wars 6 where Luke was going to be the new darth Vader, something like that
Oh theres a whole comic for that where Leia goes to the darkside and fights Luke and Vader before Yoda crashes a star destroyer into the 2nd death star
Mk Foxbat Actually, Yoda crashes the Death Star into Coruscant. Exponentially cooler, you may notice.
I remember hearing about that. Han Solo was also supposed to die halfway through the movie as well.
MK Foxbat. Could you send me a link to that comic? Please 🙂
Or at least tell me what comic it is.
That’s mk 4 with reiko when he becomes shoo khan
Rip Bill Paxton
-"Were Fucked Maaaaayaaaan"
Yes Bill,
We are Fucked without you.
Game over man, Game over.
The Amazing Spiderman 2 ending reminds me of the ending to Metal Gear Solid 4
... At least it's not rape?
Lion King 2 had an alternate ending (okay I know this part isn't RIGHT at the ending but it's close enough to the end) dealing with Zira's death. In the original, she fell to her death before Kiara could help her up but in the deleted scene when Kiara says "I'll help you", Zira goes "No....neverrrrrr" in a very creepy voice and then willingly lets go of the cliff and falls to her death with a huge smile on her face. Soooo yeah, she commits suicide in the original ending.
Alisha Dee Did you find that out from Dorkly?
I don't know who that is, I'm just an animation lover who searches for things like that XD
I think I might use that in my Kingdom Hearts 3 fanfic... Zira commits suicide or maybe she quickly tries to drag Kiara along with her to her death.
Pain Robot which country? In Brazil we got the non-suicide ending.
+ebbz1231 Because the Pride Lands level in my fanfic is following Lion King 2. Kingdom Hearts 2 already did the first movie.
Even though I'm not a big fan of The Butterfly Effect, I do remember there being two different endings, if I recall correctly. I don't remember which was the theatrical version and which one was the director's cut, but I'm guessing the sadder one is the director's cut. In one version, I think he simply goes back and breaks things off with a girl he cares about. And in the WTF version I'm thinking of, he goes back to the day he was born and makes it so he was a stillborn. I was half-expecting to see that on this list just because of how sad and depressing it was.
The Blue Fangirl the issue though is that the original didn't fit the tone of the rest of the movie. You had the dentist literally flying in on a motercycle at one point. It wasn't supposed to be depressing at the end. It was campy and fun, and never took itself too seriously
The Butterfly effect has 3 alternative ending
watch?v=NeV0MvU1Uhs
Yeah the one with dying as a baby is the directors cut and the true ending to the movie. They even talk about in the movie how he had brothers that all died at birth. Meaning they were also born with the same power and killed themselves the same way.
shinmusashi44 that's only mentioned in the Director's Cut of the film, certain scenes that were supposed to lead up to him doing that were taken out because with the theatrical ending they don't go anywhere. The creators definitely made the film with the original ending in mind and those scenes add another layer to the story, but even so I feel like it's a bit of a cop out to have him just kill himself since he was trying to change the timeline to make it better for everyone around him, and it's an interesting idea that removing himself would in fact do that but at the same time he just ends up screwing over his mom who's now had 4 stillborns in a row. It also feels like a bit of a ripoff of Donnie Darko's ending, which also went with the "reverse It's a Wonderful Life" ending and the two films are already tonally similar enough that making it just another time travel film at least makes the film its own thing.
His mom had 3 other still borns if I can recall. They were just explaining why she kept having still borns. I think he's stuck in a loop.
I remember reading I Am Legend in class one day. We didn't finish it, so I finished it for my own reasons and by GOD. It was amazing. The ending was phenomenal. It has since opened my eyes to research a movie first to see if they inspired by a novel. Same goes for anime and manga.
It pissed me off royally that they didn't use the proper ending for IAL, since the fact that he is now the monster is the reason for the name I Am Legend. He is now a legend like vampires, werewolves and so on.
It's the point of the damn book! :-)
Humanity Fuck Yeah!
Seriously though, if they wanted awesome action ending, they should have gone with him going John Wick on zombie asses, so they just run off in fear in the end.
Heavy Critic my God that's just.......deep
And where is I Am Legend 2?
Rambo. now maybe him blowing his brains out wound be more like a messed up in the head Vietnam soldier but its just a crazy way to end a movie
mgfcortez, I wish Rambo has been done that way.
Obviously you haven't seen the Little Shop of Horrors original play. In that rendition, they go with the end of the world ending. They changed it in the movie because the filmmakers didn't want to bum out the audience by killing off the heroes. I guess you can be a bit more morbid in theater.
That's because of the curtain call. You can see the actors whose characters died are alive, and usually the voice and puppeteer(s) bringing Audrey II to life also come onstage.
Andrew Garfield is a victim of consequence unfortunately. He makes a damn good spider man and he's a good actor but the timing was wrong being stuck between the transition from Sony to Marvel.
And unfortunate circumstances & bad directing & writing
Well said
@Charmiskit I liked his Parker personally. And it has nothing to do with sex appeal as I am a heterosexual male 😂
Huh, his Spider Man is by far the most emotional man ! He lost everything ! His parents, his uncle, his dad’s love, Gwen herself, his friend and in the sequel he was supposed to lost Aunt May. And Holland has absolutely nothing dramatic, except his death in Infinity War and Tony Stark death... which weren’t even in his solo movies... oh and when we’re talking about Tony’s death in Far From Home, it is totally at odds with Homecoming morality...
My favorite alternate ending is Scott Pilgrim VS the world's alternate ending, where he does end up with Knives instead of Ramona. To me, as a huge fan of the books that would give me much more respect for the movie as a different story about the chasing of toxic relationships and the issues it can cause, compared to the theatrical ending where it just feels like the books, watered down and stripped of character development.
And a alternative scene where dark pilgrim or whatever his name is says that Scott actually kills the guys and he only imagines the comic book features to distract from the murder of like seven guys who were just exes of a random person I don't know I've never watched it the movie or the alternate ending or whatever I don't even think that scene was even shot but I've heard that that was an alternate ending
I like to think the theatrical ending was chosen for a few good reasons if you actually think about it. Some fans might forget the obvious age gap between Knives and Scott, but there's also the fact that she ended up with Kim in the books. It's not shown in the movie, but it is shown in the new animated series. Something else I think some fans might have forgotten, Scott only dated Knives because he didn't want to be reminded of getting his heart broken by Envy Adams, not because of the chemistry that already wasn't there in the movie.
Hell, when he fights Gideon a second time in the film, he at least has his redemption arc and apologizes to both Ramona and Knives for hurting them both, and the second Gideon even hurts Ramona, Knives helps Scott kick his ass into next week. Scott wasn't that great a guy, but he's not completely horrible either.
All that said, I didn't read any of the original books, I don't think the relationship with Scott and Knives works, for the same reason I personally don't like the relationship between Sonic the Hedgehog and Amy Rose. They just feel more like brother and sister, I can't bring myself to see them as boyfriend and girlfriend because it just feels so forced. If you beat the video game as Knives and get her ending, she does marry Scott, but that's just played for laughs.
In defence of Clerks; that ending does keep in line with Dante's whole "That's what life is. A series of down endings." outlook on life. The irony is there....but the problem is you grow to love these characters so much that you really don't want to see him die.
I have this theory that the diamond from Titanic was actually worthless; then it would actually make sense that she'd throw it away instead of using it to help poor people who'd need the money. Billy Zane's character clearly didn't care about Rose as a person, so sharing something of his that was extremely valuable almost seems of out character for him, but if he gave her a fake diamond as a cheap way of trying to win her affections, it KIND of makes sense.
What do you call people that can barley afford basic necessities if not poor?
Are you serious? There are people in the world that don't have enough to eat.
Oh yeah! Futurama parodied the ending of Titanic and jockingly made the diamond worthless!
I believe differently about that. I think the diamond wasn't worthless to Rose, it was priceless. It was the only reminder she had of Jack. It was with her throughout the sinking, when Jack drew her, and when she made her promise to live a long life. She threw it back into the ocean because she had fulfilled her promise. And I find it symbolic that her second life would end where it began (if you believe she died at the very end that is).
Dear God, what have I started?
Alternate ending to Dodgeball. Average Joe's loses to Globogym in the finals. A TRUE underdog story.
I know it was never actually an alternate ending, since it was never written or filmed or anything, but anyone who's read "I, Robot" and knows the ending would agree that the movie had a terrible ending in comparison. The actual book is more of a collection of stories depicting robots rise throughout history, compared to the short narrative the movie had. Anyway, in the book's ending humanity thinks they have robots fully under control and are looking into a few errors that robot workers have made, and end up discovering that robots are intentionally making mistakes in order to make humans feel needed. It's revealed that the robots have been in control for years, and are just humoring the humans at this point, and humanity never had a chance. That's a much more interesting ending to me.
I’ve only ever seen the Director’s cut ending of Little Shop, I never even knew the happy ending existed on film! Really interesting to see two completely different endings like that.
I'll argue for the alternate ending of Clerks with just one sentence: "I'm not even supposed to be here today!"
That phrase is a death flag for sure
Everyone knows the biggest wtf ending was in Spiderman homecoming
I understood that reference
Loved that!
Do you mean far from home?
Literally
What the Fu... *Credits*
I blame #1 on Focus Groups
"The chart says our audience doesn't like thinking about deep, meaningful endings."
Charles Sloat ya, that's focus groups for ya
Charles Sloat the chart says will can't be perceived as evil
If I was a CEO or director I would say, "f*ck the charts!" *burns chart with a match*
I would probably be fired after that. .-.
I will admit focus groups have dropped the ball on some things, but there have been positive changes to movies because of them as well.
DON'T FEED THE PLANTS
DUNNANA DUN DUN DUNNAN DUN DUN
Best musical ever written by alan menken
Yeah, I really disagree with Doug's opinion; the original ending is the real one. It's a comedy, but the structure is a Faustian story; those don't have happy endings! Taking away the part where the protagonist loses everything and realizes that none of it was worth it makes it a different kind of story altogether; they took a Faust story, cut off part of it, and stuck a comedic happy ending in its place. There's all the foreshadowing of misery and comeuppance for Seymour's crimes that's just left hanging that way. Maybe someone likes that, but to me, what was the point? You can get happy endings anywhere. Deal With the Devil stories are made for your rare complete downers. With do-wop music!
EXACTLY. Great point you made.
In fact, the darker ending IS the original ending, since Little Shop of Horrors was originally a stage musical, based on a 1950's movie of the same name and in the stage version, the plant wins
That Titanic ending.. wow..
#2: Little Shop of Horrors. I remember hearing that the darker cut ending was the original ending to the stage play.
Yep.
This guy talks about I am legend with “the theatrical ending defeats the purpose of the story”.
Like, the theatrical ending of little shop of horrors did the same thing.
It is, just drawn out a little more. In the original musical (or at least the version I saw of it) Seymour tells the plant that after they take the photo for time magazine tomorrow morning the plant is getting cut off and offers the plant meat from a store to hold it over until then. The plant agrees but only because it sees a drunk Audrey nearby looking for Seymour. The plant tricks Audrey into getting eaten and by the time Seymour gets back he pulls Audrey out of the plant's mouth but it's too late and she dies telling Seymour that she wants to be fed to the plant to help out Seymour through her death. Then the next morning Seymour tries to kill the plant resorting to jumping inside the plant since nothing else worked. This doesn't work and the plant just winds up killing him. Then the man who came by to replicate the plants does and the ladies sing the final song where they talk about how the plants destroyed several other cities via the song "don't feed the plants". The destruction in the original theatrical ending is not actually shown but it is heavily implied to the point of being almost stated that there are big plant monsters scattered all over the US and that there are a huge amount of casualties as a result, if the humans are able to win at all.
The alternate ending that made the most impact to myself was that for Butterfly Effect. The guy travels back to his own birth and strangles himself inside his moher with his umbilical cord. The mother also said something like "Not again!" implying in the past she might had other children who had the same time traveling powers.
I know it is kinda strange how a infant could strangle itself, but IMO it's huge that he recognized that his live made every other ones gone bad so he has to do it.
To bad he ruined his mother life...
She says not again because she's had miscarriages before, it's stated during the film.
I actually just watched that ending...oh god, it was one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever seen. I legit cried.
I bet the directors of "I Am Legend" are really kicking themselves in the ass now. Because after I seen the better original ending, I want to kick them in the ass.
Thankfully I didn't see it till it was on DVD, which came with the alternate ending, which I watched right after the movie ended, loved it. Probably why I like that movie so much but I know other people who think it's generic boring zombie garbage. The cliche hero sacrifices self to destroy monsters ending, would have left a bad taste if I had saw it in theaters and didn't know about the alternate ending.
Loponstorm You're one of the lucky ones my friend.
Tyler White the director/writer probably do, the producers and executives probably didn't and still don't cause the movie made good cash
Producers, you want to kick the asses of the producers. The director had filmed the much more powerful ending as the intended ending and he was forced to film the other ending because the producers thought it was too depressing.
It doesn't help that this was the third adaption of the story and the closest to being faithfully done.
the butterfly effect where he kills himself in the womb.
Olly Hayden wtf was with that?? In the Australian DVD release, THAT was the ending, and Ashton walking down the street and seeing the chick was the alternate ending....!
spidermunky4283 u thinks thats bad there are multiple endings u should check that
Javier Santos i recall that DVD had those multiple alternate endings as a bonus feature.I just haven't watched it in years
That was the movie ending I saw. *confused* I rented the movie once I think, or saw it on TV, I don't remember. But that is the ending I remember it having. I didn't know it had more.
the directors cut dvd had that ending.
frankly, i loved the theatrical ending. i remember cheering the ending and complimenting this small film for having the balls to do a happy-ish ending.
I think the ending to clerks was a good one. It proves the irony of his life and his lament of I'm not even supposed to be here today. It makes the whole tone of his life and his feelings are told at the end. It's a perfect
Blade's original ending had wesley snipes fighting stephen dorff as an enormous vampiric cgi blob....
Same ending, just a different visual representation of his powers.
Also they showed Morbius
What about the alternate star wars where darth vader turns into a scorpion
Lol
Sam McGuire CHINA
What kind of vehicle does Yoda drive? A TOYODA, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm funnyyyyyyy joke
I prefer the one where Chewbaca was Luke's father. Cookie to whoever gets the reference.
What? when does that happen?
For me, the biggest WTF ending is the alternate ending for Terminator 2, where It shows an Old Sarah telling that the robots near took over and Johnw as now a senator. It's probably more shocking when you realize that with this ending, the Sequels and downturn for the franchise would have never happened...
Even though it would have ended the franchise, it's actually a pretty dumb ending in itself. T2 is a classic, but it does have one major plot hole --- Why doesn't John fade away like Marty McFly if they actually changed the future?
Frankly, Sarah waking up in 1984 from a bad dream would be corny as hell but actually realistic.
Looking back, it's easy to say they should have gone with it so we don't have any more sequels. But in itself, that ending makes zero sense.
I actually like T3. Not like T1 or T2 of course. It's far from perfect but to me, it actually wraps up the story. I originally hated it, because 1) Sarah dies off-screan and 2) John is broken. However, even then I liked the character of Kathrine and I liked how there were other targets besides John.
Looking back, adult John with Arnold, his future wife and his MOM .... that's corny. John and Sarah work better with John as a boy. Frankly, Sarah wasn't even necessary in T2 .... But I'm happy she was there.
John being broken makes sense really. Averting Judgement Day is a good thing, but what's he supposed to do now? And his only family member is dead! He does get a good arc tho.
Lastly, Judgement Day happens! That was awesome!!
Imo, Terminator is a trilogy!
But then they couldn't have milked it to death to death for a few (million) dollars! 😛
The extra thing about the original I Am Legend ending is that it's sprinkled throughout the movie that the mutants are highly intelligent, near comparable to uninfected humans. So it not only butchers then ending but it also leaves so many questions unanswered when they were answered in the first place
I kinda hates when movies, particulary adaptation give clues about the posible outcome yet they change everything at the end because "audience ain't ready for this shit" then why did you give clues in the first time!
The same problem i watchmen that like many people said is super faithfull to the graphic novel until the damm ending making the clues from the begging (like the comedian criying ) completly meaningless unless you read the comics
@@motor4X4kombat What WERE the clues building to in the original comic?
@@Double-R-Nothing like i said the comedian having a existential crisis when he was in moloch apartment. In the comic he was like that because he saw ozzymandias giant squid and he felt insignificant after witnesing such of cosmic horror even if he was proud to be a horror for society. So what the hell he was crying about if there was no squid in the film? and of course ozzymandias entire philosophy about humanity greatest fear for the unknow, yet in the movie he blames dr manhattan for everything even though the squid was suppoust to be an unknown foe that unite all nations agaist an unknow enemy yet manhattan is not an unknow enemy he is an american enemy, an enemy born from a US radiactive center so the nuclear wars won't stop if america is still the number 1 enemy, and if won't matter if the film would't take almost every single line from the comics almost like it pretends to be 100% faithfull when it clearly isn't
Hostel
It ends with Paxton(played by jay Hernandez) tracking down a Dutch businessman follows him into the men's restroom and kills him with a scalpel
In the alternate ending Paxton instead kidnaps the dutchs daughter and holds her hostage on a train and the train just takes off.
How about the first Butterfly Effect movie? Not only it had 4 (!) different endings, but the one director originally insisted on was so shocking on the test audiences, they had to rewrite the finale entirely.
Then, we have the Blade Runner with the happy ending that literally ruined the film for most of the critics. The later re-releases that featured an "open-end" and a slightly altered montage, became a huge success bringing the film to its deserved "cult" status.
I agree with the #1 spot.
I mean imagine what a success the movie would have been because of the ending.
If you leave out the lazy acting and such, of course.
Critics and film buffs would have liked it. No one else would have given a fuck.
There's nothing deep or thought provoking about it.
Ryan Murphy It was much more interesting than what we got, though. Even if it hadn't been a hit at the time, people would found more appreciation for it later down the line, and like Doug said, would have had a more timeless effect. Plus, it's fucking Will Smith, of course it would have sold tickets, guy was fucking worshipped back then. They shouldn't have pussied out.
LOL yeah Nostalgia Critic thinking that was thought provoking really puts into perspective his shitty opinion of Logan.
TheCreepyReader Am I the only one who like the original ending?
We find out how the ones who are not effected by the virus ware killed by the ones who was affected by that, and they are the good guys?
That is like if you say in WW2 the Nazi are the good guys because one German officer did not steo on an ant.
CodeNameZ Maybe, but the alternative ending made way more sense to me. I mean even new species have personalities and probably are doing all of this just to survive.
It's really thought provoking.
Actually, I think having Peter's father still being alive would've helped the movie. Peter's dad could be a good way to motivate him into going back to being Spider-Man, instead of just looking at Gwen's speech.
There was the Clue alternate ending where basically everyone dies. Luckily the director didn't like it and it was scrapped, though published in a book once. But even the endings of Clue were kinda flawed.
I personally like the one where scudworth or whatever his name is was actually Mr body and Mr body was scudworth
For Little shop of Horrors, the alternate ending it the actual ending of the stage show, which the rest of the film does very well in recapturing what the stage version felt like. The intended ending (Audry 2 winning) is supposes to slightly feel depressing while being humorously ironic. The only reason the film version went with comparatively stereotypical and crappy is because test audiences didn't like the original.
Yeah, I saw an interview with Frank Oz about why he changed it although he did it very reluctantly and does seem to regret it. "After a play ends, the characters come out and take a bow when a movie ends the character dies and that's it and people love their characters."
I kinda like the Plants Win ending, but I like the Mean Green Mother song much more than Don't Feed The Plants so I prefer the happy ending.
Jacob Albers I respect the original ending because (you're right) it is the ending in the broadway show. Having said that, I still prefer the second ending because that's what I grew up with.
call me crazy but I perfer the happy ending because it just felt more natural to how the plot played out.
but the bad ending is also great in its own right, but it feels like a giant middle finger to the first two acts.
but I guess that is the reason why people loved that ending more.
I respect and like both endings equally. i think it could be an Army of darkness moment all over again here. Pick the one that suits your mood at the time.
The army of darkness alternate ending is way better purely beacause of the potential set up to a cool concept of ash fighting to survive in the barren wasteland of a ruined earth.
Ash meets Mad Max. Literally. They fight.
Angry Yogbuscus the script practically writes itself
It depends. If they wanted to make more sequels or a TV show, the alternate ending would have been better. If they wanted it to be a trilogy, the theatrical ending was better.
then in the 2nd half Mad Max and him Team up to fight an Army of Crazy Gangs and Deadites.
..........Why are we not funding this?
jedikye Okay, but doesn't the remake take place after Army of Darkness? Also, there would be no Ash vs Evil Dead.
1:12 in and you got a hearty laugh from me, well done! And with number 6 I literally had the exact same reaction as you, I'm not even kidding.
Bill Paxton is DEAD????
I AM LEGEND "the book" deserves a proper film that is EXACTLY like the book.
So does Blade Runner imo, the whole focus of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" is on electric animals and Mercerism and a lot of concepts that barely make the movie or aren't in it at all.
Chris Walker, yep. A few days before the Oscar.
This, there is actually a good old one. Is on youtube I think.
Unpopular opinion incoming: I prefer the theatrical ending to the movie.
The original ending would work better with a one-to-two season tv series adaptation than a movie. More buildup, more hinting, etc.
The original was hinted to quite a bit. I didn't see it myself the first time; Maven's episode talks more about the various ways the original cut sets up the original ending. Some of that setup is removed in the theatrical version, though. You should check out the original cut, or her episode if you haven't already.
I loved I am Legend and both ending we're good in my opinion, however the original did have more of an impact that the theatrical version. All in all it will still be one of my favorite movies and one of the very few movies I ACTUALLY cried while watching it! Good video!
How about the rooms original script where Johnny turns into a vampire and flies around San Francisco in a Chevy
That alternate ending is why no one likes Tommy wiseau oh and the actual movie
It’s kind of funny that the ending to the movie musical Little Shop of Horrors was changed to be happier, considering the original film also ends with Seymour being eaten.
I feel the Little Shop of Horrors original ending is miles better than the theatrical. Firstly, the death of Audrey is done incredibly well and is very emotional. It adds a lot of weight to the film and works surprisingly well. This really makes you notice how much you care about Seymour and Audrey andtheir relationship. Is it a tonal chance? Yes, but that’s what good plot twists are made of. I also feel it was where the movies tone was heading, with the later scenes in the film getting darker. The ending also fits the film’s mirroring of a Greek tragedy. The original ending also has an amazing musical number (“Don’t Feed the Plants”). The effects works is incredible. It’s also is an effective commentary on American consumerism. The theatrical ending feels tacked on and does not feel like it’s supposed to be there.
14:51 I have the director's cut on dvd and boy, do I LOVE the original ending. Both are fine but the original is more accurate to the play and more fun to see in an 80's monster movie.
In the DVD audio commentary, screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh claims that this version was dropped because the studio thought it showed a more cruel and menacing side to McClane, a man who killed for revenge rather than in self-defense. The studio was also displeased with the lack of action in the scene, feeling that it didn't fit as a "climax" and therefore chose to reshoot the finale as an action sequence at a significant monetary cost. Hensleigh's intention was to show that the events in New York and the subsequent repercussions had tilted McClane psychologically. This alternative ending, set some time after the film's main events, would have marked a serious break from the Die Hard formula, in which the plot unfolds over a period of roughly 12 hours
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Idk. I kind of like the bittersweet ending of a disenfranchised bitter John McClane getting revenge on the criminal who ruined his life through vigilante justice.
LOOK OUT! HERE COMES AUDREY II! (Sorry I just showed up for Little Shop of Horrors)
NightGallows here I come for you ( here I come for youuuuu!)
Hold your hat and hang onto your soul! Something's come to eat the world whole!
@@freddiejess7847 If we fight it, we still have a chance!
@@strawberrysoulforever8336
But whatever they offer you!
Though they're stopping the trough for you!
@@freddiejess7847 Please, whatever they offer you, don't feed the plants!
I like the alternate ending to revenge of the sigh where Darth Vader spends an hour murdering Jar Jar
Wolfhound817 and friends I thought that was the actually ending.
the phantom shitpost, attack of the moans, revenge of the sigh all amazing movies.
You wish, the alternate ending is genuine Darth Jar.
or the third ending, where I capture jar jar, kill him, then bring him back to life (continuing Darth Plagueis work), and then kill him again, over and over agian, and the ending credits is just the sounds of jar jar dieing over and over again.
Wolfhound817 and friends haha yes.
The bizarre thing is that I guess I saw I am legend with the alternate ending? I saw it after having recorded it from TV, so I guess the channel was airing the original version instead of the theatrical one, but when you were describing the ending with him dying I was really confused. Better for me I guess?
Osmia yeah, be glad you didn't have to go through that garbage -.- the original book's message is so powerful and wonderful and the ending to the theatrical version makes it feel like it changes from something different and needfully dark to Independence Day or White House down or any other bullshit pandering cheesy action movies that make humans/America into the good guy even though that's not always the case. Happy endings are desensitizing and manipulating the population into thinking they deserve one themselves because it's "normal" (except it's really not, at least not in the way it's portrayed)
How about the alternate ending to Get Out where instead of getting away with his friend from the TSA, he is arrested and thrown in jail for murder.
The version of the script given to the actors in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back said that Obi Wan was the one who killed Luke's father.