Comments on: 6 Movies With Far More Depressing Alternate Endings

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:02:58 +0000

I find it great when they don’t hollywoodize everything. They should have used some of these endings.

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:13:55 +0000

I believe the original ending for the teen flick “Lucas” had the Lucas character die from his injuries in the football game. The test audience thought it was way too depressing, and they replaced it with the upbeat ending.

By: anaximander

anaximander — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:39:00 +0000

American Beauty. The daughter gets arrested for the father’s murder. Freaking depressing. (You can see hints of this direction when the videotape is made suggesting the boyfriend should kill the father, then cut off – apparently it would have been presented as “evidence” in the trial.)

By: Jordan

Jordan — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:25:00 +0000

Maybe, and i may be reaching films would be better today if they were more organic. I’m sure this kind of practice wasn’t happening during the early development of film.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:49:00 +0000

The Land Before Time originally had plans of ending with the death of all the little baby dinosaurs, the afterlife being the Great Valley. I suppose I’m not surprised that they changed their minds, but at least with the original we wouldn’t have 13 sequels. I don’t know, but I doubt they even animated the first ending.

By: Rex

Rex — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:05:00 +0000

I always read that the alt ending to Clerks was because of the influence of the Spike Lee movie “Do the Right Thing”.

By: Jen Pen

Jen Pen — Fri, 29 May 2009 04:51:00 +0000

You forgot Star Trek Generations. Kirk was supposed to die by way of Soran’s gunshot, but it was trashed.

He went by the bridge instead.

By: Marty

Marty — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:10:00 +0000

even tho it was never filmed, I still would have like to have seen the final ending of “Heathers” where Christian Slater’s character J.D. actually blows himself up and the entire school. The DVD provides the script, but alas, no footage.

By: andy

andy — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:41:00 +0000

Army of Darkness is one of my favorite movies of all time and the theatrical ending is awesome…”hail to the king baby”

I remember buying the director’s cut with the “original” “depressing” ending and when i finally got to it, i though it completely sucked. It just wakes up with him in post apocolyptic times and he yells “I slept too long”…but that just goes along with the whole directors cut of the movie…The theatrical version is WAY better…There’s a reason why that made the theatrical cut, and the director’s cut wasnt released until years later.

Plus, the director’s cut took out my favorite line of the movie…when Ash and Evil Ash are fighting (EA is singing “Mr. Goodie Two Shoes”) and Ash shoots EA in the face and says “Good, Bad…I’m the guy with the gun” (Genius writing)

but in the Director’s cut, after he shoots him, he just says “I’m not that good” and it just doesnt have the same effect and it just wasnt as good (although Bruce Campbell can pretty much say anything and it’ll sound cool)

As for the Descent…the only ending i’ve seen is where she is haloucinating that she is out of the cave and i’m in the US (but i didnt see it in theaters…only DVD)

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:44:00 +0000

Actually, in the book First Blood, by David Morrell, which the movie Rambo is based upon, Col. Troutman does kill Rambo, taking him out with a shotgun. It is interesting too that, in the book, Rambo kills the police officers in the woods instead of just wounding them. The book has a much higher body count than the movie.