If you could, what movie/book would you give your own alternate ending to?

The story of my life.

I’d get the girl, save the world, get rich doing it, and sail off into the sunset with the girl, the dorg and a hella nice boat. And win an Oscar for “Best Alternative Screenplay”.

I spent the last 3 or 4 Harry Potter books insisting that Dumbledore had to be evil. I maintain that it would have been better if he was. The betrayal would have been epic.

@noelleptc Exactly. The whole problem with Dumbledore was people trusted him too completely. It made him the perfect choice for a villain.

I would have brought the pedophile killer in The Lovely Bones to justice. I would have had the father confront him and the policeman arrest him.

Bridges of Madison County and Atonement, although the heart-wrenching endings are what make the story…I suppose.

@fundevogel Having Dumbledore turn out as the villain is an evil thought, but I agree with your point. Thank goodness Ms. Rowling didn’t go in that direction. Imagine what havoc it might have caused to the generation that followed those books, like a major mental therapy need increase.

The Jodie Foster, Richard Gere movie, “Summersby” has always bugged me. I don’t understand why they didn’t continue to play out the claim of switched identities right to the end. It should have been argued in the end that the teacher role played being Summersby a great many places and that while doing so he had commited a murder. I just didn’t understand how come that arguement didn’t get made. I’ve watched it half a dozen times just to see if I was wrong in my logic…but I keep coming back to the same conclusion. That ending really pissed me off. (Laughing now)
@CyanoticWasp….Dreams do sometimes come true you know. It’s never too late! I have a couple of kayaks and you have a sailboat. It’s a good start! (Wink…Wink)

@Pied_Pfeffer “imagine what havoc it might have caused to the generation that followed those books, like a major mental therapy need increase.”

That’s really the only good reason for her not to have done it in my opinion. Her books walked a line between children’s literature and YA, but ultimately at the end of children’s books the young readers always need to be relatively assured that everything is ok and everyone is safe. I don’t know that her readers were young enough to need that but I can understand why she would have to consider it.

@noelleptc no, he didn’t just stand there… he turned around and drove up her road.

@noelleptc haha. In that case I’m going back to being firmly and unequivocally in favor of evil Dumbledore.

@Joybird I need to start paying better attention to which thread is which, I guess. I was concerned about your kayaks up in a tree and wolves on my sailboat, and I couldn’t even see Fred or Bob, so I was afraid they may’ve been drowned, or eaten by the swimming wolves.

I think it’s time for bed, perchance to dream…

@fundevogel There is a part in the last book where it is revealed that Dumbledore acknowledges that Harry must die. That was quite a moment.

@filmfann Yeah…that probably got my hopes up. Though it reminds me that the series ending was kinda hard to follow. I’m all Snape who? Dumbledore what? Voldemort gone? It’s been a while but I didn’t think it wrapped up very well.

The Notebook.
It would be a little bit truer to life. I hate that movie.

Pretty much any book written by Michael Crichton. He wrote some really good novels three quarters of the way. He just didn’t seem to know how to end any of them.

The Matrix series. I don’t know what they needed to do, but it needed to be better.

Also, at the end of Lord of the Rings I would have not had Frodo turn and make that ultra-lame face at his friends for like 2 minutes.

In Jaws, I would have liked the shark to have won.

Holy moly I would have redid “A Perfect World” with Kevin Costner, I would have had Robert “Butch” Haynes shoot it out and pop FBI sharpshooter Bobby Lee in the head then die by his own hand in a high speed chase.

I would change “In the Woods” by Tana French. So much was wrong with that book, especially the end. What I would do is actually explain what happened to the kids prior to the main story. French knew that the readers were more interested in that than the main murder. Yet we get no answers whatsoever. It’s so obvious that she had no idea how to finish the story and I hate that. If you’re not going to explain what happened, why refer to it so often throughout the novel? I came up with several possible endings that would’ve been much better.

Most of you probably have no idea what I’m talking about. But trust me. Unfinished endings like that piss me off.

I also don’t like the way the Sopranos ended.

Stephen King’s The Mist.

I would remove the part where he kills everyone he knows and add a 30 minute scene of the Army rolling in just in the nick of time to save them while gratuitously kicking monster ass with Blackhawks, small arms fire, C-130s, and tanks. Then there would be a lesbian sex scene and Ronnie James Dio would come back to life to play one last show.

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The Prince of Tides. I wish he would stay in New York with Lowenstein.

@cockswain re: Jaws… read the book, man. I think you’ll enjoy it more.

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. I would include in the ending how this great writer of christian spiritualism, willed his copyrights to his books to the impoverished town he was born in, and since it was the most valuable thing the town had, it sent the town into civil war and how people died.

@CyanoticWasp I did read it. Still want the shark to endlessly kill people.

I did once read a suggested alternate ending to the Titanic could have had a lifeboat going by while DiCaprio was in the water. People on the raft would have been yelling “hot soup!” and staying just out of reach of him.