8 Movies That Almost Had Much Better Endings

we talk about movie endings a lot of what culture because a good or a bad one can make or [ __ ] a movie a film with a bad start can still be forgiven if it ends well see the avengers but a movie that starts magnificently can be left unfairly tainted if it doesn't quite stick the landing see sunshine or i am legend both of which we talked about plenty in the past now full disclosure some of the endings on this list are already good but could have been made that much more interesting if the filmmakers had stuck with their original vision i'm adam from whatculture.com there are eight movies that almost had much better ending spoilers obviously number eight the custard pie fight okay let's start off with one that could earn me a lot of hate but hear me out guys or don't i get paid either way paper paper make it rain doctor strangelove's ending is damn haunting doomsday occurs strange love walks and the yanks and the soviets can't stop spying even during the end times explosions virulen the end the film was originally supposed to end with a giant food fight no really and hear me out everyone in the war room was going to start throwing pies at each other custard pies it was intended to be an absurd picture of human squabbling with blizzards of custard representing the missiles and destruction these stupid men brought about in their childish one-offspring ships well i i mean cup no you don't well i think it would have been a good ending i don't care what you say number seven globo gym wins okay another one that would have been hard to swallow but again give it time and it really starts to grow on you or once again don't i do not care dodge ball a true underdog story is exactly that a hilarious sports movie about the triumph for the underdogs except the last laugh could have been on the audience in an extended meta joke the filmmakers released a fake original ending to dodgeball which had the villainous globo gym winning and then the film abruptly ended it's fooled a lot of people and although this ending never really came close to the screen actually wouldn't it have been kind of great it feels like an immediate no considering how joyous dodgeball in fact actually ended i love you but what a cruel wicked joke it would have been to have average joe's bet everything and just lose after all the film mocks itself for every point never take sentimentality too seriously maybe it would have been less satisfying but thinking about it about the worst thing you could possibly have i know it just makes me laugh number six bridge of birds now this is only a small change a little cherry on the cake of an already good final scene the ending of alfred hitchcock's the birds sees our human protagonist slowly get into a car and drive away with the house and land truly claimed by the feathery sods the ending hitchcock wanted was for the car to then drive over the golden gate bridge and see every inch of it also covered with birds unfortunately the effect was deemed infeasible by hitchcock and his team and was shelved early on but what a final shot it would have been truly iconic and a haunting symbol of the national scale of avian attacks number five kutcher kills himself now i'm not explicitly stating that any movie would be better if it featured ashton kutch's character killing themselves especially if the film hadn't starred ash and kutcher up until that point i'm not saying that on advice of what culture's legal team but that was how the butterfly effect was going to end now in the film kutcher plays a dude who messes with time and picks it up basically because after all a little kitchen ruins a long way listen close this bag you screw this up again i'll flat-out castrate you the movie ends with kutcher altering time so he never grows up with his childhood sweetheart so she lives a better life however one of the film's alterna endings was very different kutcher was going to go back in time to when he was a baby before he was born and strangled himself in the womb with his own umbilical cord now say what you like that's bold demented but at least memorable in its horribleness number four the moscow fight scene considering that world war z the book is a load of monologues from various soldiers politicians and civilians about the great zombie war and the protocols thereof it's astonishing they managed to cobble together a story for it all in fact the movie was infamously chopped around going through several very public backstage troubles and script overhauls somehow it ended up being decent which is a miracle unto itself the ending we got was a low-key one with brad pitt sneaking into a facility in cardiff which is about as far away from the ending of a typical hollywood blockbuster as you can get the original ending however was supposed to be a massive moscow 7 military skirmish which ended up being cut from the movie wholesale now this one's tricky because a small scale tense ending is actually refreshing for hollywood but if you look at the sequences like the escape from jerusalem and especially the brilliant action scene on the plane it gives you faith that maybe they could have pulled off something truly special in russia number three tom's punishment is paranoia the talented mr ripley is a wonderfully nasty little film about obsession and murder though the film ends with the eponymous mr ripley nearly happy with his lover peter however a chance encounter with an acquaintance puts everything he's built at risk so he's forced to strangle peter to save his skin not bad but the ending of patricia heisman's book features none of this no dilemma no final murder instead ripley gets away but accepts the fact that the rest of his life will be spent looking over his shoulder implying that while he'll live on he'll be driven near mad was paranoia i think it's downbeat chilling and ultimately in my opinion at least and mine is the best opinion it's more satisfying number two audrey ii conquers the world pretty much everyone involved in making little shop of horus preferred the original ending to the one the audiences got the bizarre but much-loved musical about alien plants and sadistic dentists actually ended with seymour dying everyone dying and audrey ii taking over the world in a series of visually beautiful set pieces such as a plant swallowing a train and taking over the statue of liberty it's camp sinister nonsense you know just like the film is but the ending tested badly with audiences so they made a happy one with seymour and the lady audrey killing the plant and living happily ever after in suburbia boring and number one john connor becomes a machine terminator salvation was a bit rubbish not as bad as terminator genesis but then the black death wasn't as bad as terminator genesis too soon well turns out that we might have all been spared genesis had salvation's alternate ending happen the original ending was sam worthington's terminator turned good sacrifices himself to give jon connor his heart and a chance of survival take mine the alternate ending was more warped and more interesting john connor dies from his injuries so instead his skin gets transplanted onto worthington's terminator skeleton so that the figurehead of the resistance can live on without people knowing that inside he's basically a robot meat puppet except it gets even more [ __ ] up because then skynet takes over the robo conor and he wipes out the resistance anyway holy crap what a kick in the balls it's down b it's kind of horrible of course it's the ending that christian bale was fighting for damn no shut the [ __ ] up bruce do i want no no now this ending could have turned out worse maybe than the one we got but you can't say it's not way more interesting than the played out sacrifice climax and that's our list did we miss any out tell us about it in the comments don't forget to like share and subscribe you can follow me on twitter here i'm adam from whatculture.com and i'll 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Published: Tue May 10 2016