We've all seen hundreds or thousands of films. I'm not a big Frank Sinatra fan, but he appears in two of my favorite films: The original "Manchurian Candidate" and "Von Ryan's Express".
Here's the way "Von Ryan's Express" SHOULD have ended:
He actually catches up with the train without harm. Every time i see it I pull for him to make the train. Alas.
In an alternate world, how should one of your favorite films have actually ended?
Drag Me to Hell. What a crappy ending. It could have been perfect. Christine has gotten her promotion, everything is now behind her, and she's ready for a new beginning with her boyfriend. Everything she went through, she deserved the happy ending that was being set-up. Instead, Sam Raimi wanted to be really cynical and screw her over for no reason. I really, really liked the movie up until the last-second twist ending, which was completely unnecessary and totally ruined the whole thing for me.
We've all seen hundreds or thousands of films. I'm not a big Frank Sinatra fan, but he appears in two of my favorite films: The original "Manchurian Candidate" and "Von Ryan's Express".
Here's the way "Von Ryan's Express" SHOULD have ended:
He actually catches up with the train without harm. Every time i see it I pull for him to make the train. Alas.
In an alternate world, how should one of your favorite films have actually ended?
I'm sure I read somewhere that in the script they were shooting it did end that way, with Ryan catching the train, but Sinatra insisted that they should change it to a tragic ending, & giving him a death scene.
This is a great thread and being a filmmaker myself I don't know where to begin. ABANDON SHIP-57-In God's name how could those crums on that boat turn there back on a great man like Tyrone Power after with bravery and rationality he saved their lives and was also giving up his own life to save them near the end, by jumping overboard himself. A couple of bums ok, but could all of them be such gutless cowards? A little too pessimistic in my book, but a great film anyway,
TITANIC should have mentioned that Winslett was pregnant after the sinking. There was opportunity, but the film as it stands implies that she wasn't, so that the granddaughter accompanying her on the research ship is not related to Dicaprio.
Superman should not have hit the reset button by changing time, a power he has never had. I would have preferred a mad race back and forth across the country stopping both missiles.
At the end of Star Trek V, they get to the 'god planet' and find John Candy there, and they sit around a campfire and drink beer together and sing "row row row your boat".
Should have ended when Colter was "killed" and the film ends with a time slice that shows everyone on a train celebrating a nice moment especially after seeing everyone constantly blown up.
Colter called his father. Colter was unplugged and the project was terminated.
Everything was perfect...
Then it keeps going and suddenly we arent sure what we are watching but the film ends where with Colter staring at an orb that he's seen throughout the film implying that he'd been standing there before and thus was somewhat fated to return to that spot, to always get it right, to have always replaced the man whose body he's inhabited... it opens a lot of questions but then to make things even worse...
IT KEEPS GOING
And we see Colter back in the lab still alive and hooked up against his will and it would seem everything was for nothing because in the alternate time lines he's always going to be hooked up.
At the end of DEFIANCE-80-The good people in the neighborhood should have eliminated the gang, one by one like MR KERSEY did in those DEATH WISH films did. That way the public wouldn't have to deal with some liberal judge who probably would have had the gang members back on the street.
1990: watching Godfather III in the cinema. Long shot of Michael sitting slumped in a chair. I was thinking to myself: "You've done enough, now don't make Michael fall off the chair.... don't make him fall off the chair... don't make... d'oh!"
INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN-56-Butcher Benton should have killed one more person before he died, he should have killed slimy mob lawyer Paul Lowe, break him into two, I would have loved to see that.I was thinking about doing a remake of that film in 85, but have a good cop coming back from the dead and kill the slimy crooks. I was spreading the word in the industry about it, shortly afterward they announce there will be a movie that will be made called ROBOCOP. As most of you know the film industry can be a very small industry when it comes to mental similarities.
1990: watching Godfather III in the cinema. Long shot of Michael sitting slumped in a chair. I was thinking to myself: "You've done enough, now don't make Michael fall off the chair.... don't make him fall off the chair... don't make... d'oh!"
This reminds me of what I was thinking at the end of "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close." - "Please don't end with a freeze frame of the kid in mid-swing. Please don't go for the hackneyed .... aarrggh!" I still like the film anyway, despite its several problems.
