My Alternate Endings

by MudgeMalog | created - 15 Feb 2015 | updated - 06 Oct 2021 | Public

How I would have changed these movies.

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1. Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)

Not Rated | 128 min | Drama

76 Metascore

A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Munetaka Aoki, Naoto Takenaka, Hikari Mitsushima

Votes: 9,158 | Gross: $0.08M

Hanshiro contracts the fever that killed his daughter and grandson. While he's fighting Lord Ii's men, he hallucinating he's fighting alongside Motome. He also hallucinates hearing the samurai armor speak to him. As his ultimate revenge, he transmits the fever to Lord Ii, who dies, making his men Ronin, many of them then commit Harikiri.

Note: I would not change Kobayashi's version of the film - it's perfect as-is.

2. Army of Darkness (1992)

R | 81 min | Comedy, Horror

59 Metascore

When Ash Williams is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., he must retrieve the Necronomicon and battle an army of the dead in order to return home.

Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie

Votes: 194,423 | Gross: $11.50M

Midquel idea: When Ash gets sucked into the Necronomicon, he is transported to a new realm for a new adventure - Evil Dead 4, baby!

3. Donnie Darko (2001)

R | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

88 Metascore

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

Director: Richard Kelly | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne

Votes: 850,332 | Gross: $1.48M

Donnie has cancer. He's going through chemo. This causes his hallucinations. Chemo made him bald and skinny, so he no longer resembles his old self. When the rabbit is unmasked, it turns out to be his old self, with hair and extra weight.

4. The Birdcage (1996)

R | 117 min | Comedy

71 Metascore

A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest

Votes: 100,678 | Gross: $124.06M

I'd love to see a prequel for this movie. Maybe a gay couple try to teach their straight son the birds and the bees and how to talk to girls. Much tact is needed, but comedy is abundant. Sadly RW can't reprise his role, but Nathan Lane can bring back his best character. Lots of possibilities for laughter on a subject that has always been taboo but near our hearts.

5. Spies Like Us (1985)

PG | 102 min | Adventure, Comedy

22 Metascore

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.

Director: John Landis | Stars: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Mark Stewart, Sean Daniel

Votes: 52,982 | Gross: $60.09M

They never actually say that Aykroid and Chase are the incompetent spies. What if near the end, it turns out they're the competent ones and 2 total idiots come wandering in (drooling with their pants down), and save the day.

6. Roman Holiday (1953)

Passed | 118 min | Comedy, Romance

78 Metascore

A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power

Votes: 147,690

Audrey isn't the princess just her doppelganger. She steals everything of value from Gregory Peck.

7. Tangled (2010)

PG | 100 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

71 Metascore

The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.

Directors: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard | Stars: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman

Votes: 494,523 | Gross: $200.82M

Turns out Rapunzel & Gothel were in the tower for hundreds of years, and it's modern times when she reaches the city.

8. Pretty Woman (1990)

R | 119 min | Comedy, Romance

51 Metascore

A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love.

Director: Garry Marshall | Stars: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Jason Alexander, Laura San Giacomo

Votes: 362,722 | Gross: $178.41M

Julia Roberts finds out she has HIV, goes to tell Richard Queer but of course he already has it.

9. Coming to America (1988)

R | 117 min | Comedy, Romance

47 Metascore

An extremely pampered African prince travels to Queens, New York and goes undercover to find a wife that he can respect for her intelligence and strong will.

Director: John Landis | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Paul Bates, Garcelle Beauvais, Feather

Votes: 223,653 | Gross: $128.15M

It turns out Louie Anderson is also a king, but no women are interested in him, so he uses his wealth to bang all the skanks.

10. 50 First Dates (2004)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

48 Metascore

Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment until he meets the beautiful Lucy. They hit it off and Henry think he's finally found the girl of his dreams until discovering she has short-term memory loss and forgets him the next day.

Director: Peter Segal | Stars: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider, Sean Astin

Votes: 382,330 | Gross: $120.91M

Adam Sandler gets in a car accident and gets the same amnesia as Drew Barrymore. And it naturally works out that they meet eachother for the first time every day.

11. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)

R | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy

64 Metascore

A Korean-American office worker and his Indian-American stoner friend embark on a quest to satisfy their desire for White Castle burgers.

Director: Danny Leiner | Stars: John Cho, Kal Penn, Ethan Embry, Rob Tinkler

Votes: 206,168 | Gross: $18.23M

Midquel idea: Goldstein & Rosenberg go to Hot Dog Heaven. We're all dying to know what happened to these nutsos between "The Gift" and Hot Dog Heaven.

12. The Truman Show (1998)

PG | 103 min | Comedy, Drama

90 Metascore

An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.

Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich

Votes: 1,197,061 | Gross: $125.62M

Sequel idea: man has a great life and seems to be perfect at everything he does and is loved and respected by all. Twist turns out to be that he gave himself amnesia and put himself in the Truman world

13. Gattaca (1997)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

64 Metascore

A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.

Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Gore Vidal

Votes: 323,332 | Gross: $12.34M

*SPOILER* When Vincent races his brother near the end, I thought it would be powerful if his brother had a heart attack and died, showing that Vincent had the stronger heart.

14. Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

R | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

54 Metascore

An augmented human and Sarah Connor must stop an advanced liquid Terminator from hunting down a young girl, whose fate is critical to the human race.

Director: Tim Miller | Stars: Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes

Votes: 193,249 | Gross: $62.25M

*SPOILER* A cool ending would be if Carl (Arnold) survived, made it to the future where he went back in time and killed John Connor, stopped himself, in essence saving John's life.

15. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

75 Metascore

A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick

Votes: 1,174,576 | Gross: $204.84M

Similar to actual ending, Sarah is shooting the t1000 and runs out of bullets. She then runs at him, tackling him into the molten metal. John then finds and repairs t800. Fade to John narrating, a la Sarah in T1: a terminator killed my father, a terminator killed my mother; now a terminator is the only parent I have.



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