Alternate Endings

[WayneLigon]

I just watched the director's cut of The Butterfly Effect last night, and I enjoyed it a great deal. Only after I put the movie back in the mailer do I find out that the Theatrical Version (also on the same disk) has a totally different ending. IMDB says that the original ending (appearing on the Director's Cut) tested 'too negative' and was re-done. (After reading the synopsis, I would have to say that the Director's Cut version is a much more powerful ending.)

Same with Final Destination 1; the alternate ending in that case, though, was longer and not nearly as powerful or spooky as the theatrical ending.

Now, thanks to DVDs we can see all these alternate endings. But which truly change the storyline? Which are different enough to count and seek out? You tell me!

Please use spoilers, even if it's an older film. Clue does not count

BTW For Butterfly Effect:

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Evan sets up the projector, only the home movie he sees is his own birth. He time travels back into his yet-to-be-born body and commits suicide by cutting off the flow in his umbilical cord. He's never born. His mom is devestated, but soon is happy again after she adopts Tommy and Kayleigh when the courts take them away from their abusive family. Lenny is shown happy and trauma-free with them. Kayleigh marries well, Tommy gives the Valadictorian speech at his graduation. It's a reverse 'It's a Wonderful Life': everyone has a much happier and healthier existance since Evan is never born.

 

[Particle_Man]

Army of Darkness

This is a case where I think the "director's cut" is worse than the theatrical version, but it does have a different ending:

The original:

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Ash goes home. Tells the story to his S-mart co-workers. Then a deadite lady appears! Ash beats her (of course) and the movie ends there.

The director's cut:

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Ash takes a magic potion to sleep away the centuries to his own time. Being a moron, he miscounts drops. He oversleeps (presumably by a century) and wakes up to a devastated Earth (nucular war? deadites? hard to say). Movie ends there.

 

[Aaron2]

BTW For Butterfly Effect:

I didn't like that ending because I never bought the fact that he would have a home movie of that particular event.

Blade 2 had a horrible new ending that didn't make a bit of sense and was filmed without Wesley Snipes involvement (they used a stunt double and digital tricks for the whole thing.)


Aaron

 

[Dog Moon]

Originally posted by WayneLigon
Same with Final Destination 1; the alternate ending in that case, though, was longer and not nearly as powerful or spooky as the theatrical ending.

I saw the movie in the theaters, but I never saw the alternate ending to that movie. Can you tell me what happens?

 

[Orryn Emrys]

We discovered the Butterfly Effect phenomenon when, after finishing the theatrical version of the film, I suggested to a roommate that he watch the film as well before I returned it to the video store. When discussing the film a couple days later, we discovered that we had in fact experienced two entirely different movies.... I never saw the director's cut, but I didn't really like the ending he described near as much as the one I saw.

I also have the Army of Darkness director's cut mentioned above... and I didn't really think much of that ending either.

I really don't much like the alternate endings frequently included in the special features on select DVDs. Particularly if there are several of them... the Paul Walker film Joy Ride jumps immediately to mind. The variations seem to somehow cheapen the original experience.

 

[Crothian]

What did they do different in Joy Ride?

 

[WayneLigon]

I saw the movie in the theaters, but I never saw the alternate ending to that movie. Can you tell me what happens?

I'll try to remember:

In the theatrical version, the three remaining kids meet in Paris: Alex, Clear and (I think) Carter.

Spoiler

Death is still following them, and Carter dies when that huge sign drops on him.

In the alternate ending, Clear is slated next to die. She's backing out of her driveway when a power line drops down on it. Alex decides to be the hero and also break the line: he grabs the live power line off her car, and is electrocuted to death.

Clear and Carter meet at Alex's grave. Also in deleted scenes, Alex and Clear made love on the beach and she became pregnant by him. She has the baby with her, and she also has the ability to see death coming, now. And it just kinda ends there.

 

[WayneLigon]

What did they do different in Joy Ride?

Scanning IMDB it seems there are no less than four alternate endings. Wow. Three of them are apparently 'not so alternate' though.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

I believe Fatal Attraction has an alternate ending where

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glen close's character kills herelf by cutting her ouwn throat.

Unfortunately, thre isn't one where

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Micheal douglas dies

that I know of.

 

[nakia]

Clerks

Clerks has the alternate/original ending where Dante gets shot by an armed robber. The movie originally ends with him lying there, dying. Kevin Smith was persuaded to get rid of that ending; I'm glad. It completely changes the tone of the film.