My Alternate Endings
by MudgeMalog | created - 15 Feb 2015 | updated - 06 Oct 2021 | PublicHow I would have changed these movies.
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1. Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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