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Reasonable on 23 July 2009
sguy78 said:

The American remake of The Vanishing. They should have kept the original ending, but Hollywood always has to have a happy ending.

That's a good choice.

I'd add the original 'happy' ending for Blade Runner the studio tacked on.  Horrible.

Guess I just don't like to see forced happiness.  If the ending for a particular film clearly needs to be grim, or ambiguous, or nilhistic then just let it be so.

There's enough 'happy juice' material swilling around for those that need to pretent everything always works out in the end.



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Garamond on 23 July 2009

Pokemon: The Movie

I wanted Mewtwo to kill off all the Pokemon and install a new world order based on Cheese Doodles, but it didn't happen.



Scoobes on 23 July 2009
canch said:

Starship Troopers.....

At the end their are all standing round laughing, cheering and joking and forgetting that hundreds of thousands of people have just been killed by massive insect type creatures that eat humans alive

Like a human wouldn't poo themselfs at the sight of one of theses monsters.

Sounds to me like you missed the point of... well... the whole film.




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Scoobes on 23 July 2009

The Golden Compass. They ended it early to ensure the ending was happy (unlike the book) and left it for the sequel... which is where exactly? Oh right, they're not going to make one c'os the film wasn't that great in the first place, lol.




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Sardauk on 23 July 2009

"I'm a legend" with Will Smith. It feels like they had to stop it due to budget constraint and finish it in two days (10 minutes on screen).

 



 

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megaman79 on 23 July 2009
Undying said:
I hated the ending to Apocalypse Now.

that depresses me. They actually killed a cow for you.



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Reasonable on 23 July 2009
Scoobes said:
The Golden Compass. They ended it early to ensure the ending was happy (unlike the book) and left it for the sequel... which is where exactly? Oh right, they're not going to make one c'os the film wasn't that great in the first place, lol.

 

I didn't think it was that bad, overall it reviewed well and it was certainly more sophisticated than most films of that type.  I agree the ending was a shame, more due to the fact they clearly worried it would hurt the film.  Ironically the ending wasn't the problem, it was something else entirely as noted below.

The film made good money internationally, but in US the backlash from religious right killed it dead.  Given reviews and the popularity of fantasy subject matter it was expected to easily make over $ 200 Million in US, which added to international would have taken it well comfortably past $ 500 Million worldwide and ensured the rest of the story followed.  So you can blame the US religious right for denying you the next movies.

 

Numbers from Box Office Mojo.

 

Domestic:  $70,107,728    18.8%
+ Foreign:  $302,127,136    81.2%
= Worldwide:  $372,234,864  


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The Fury on 23 July 2009

X-men 3 (whatever crappy subtitle it had), this film was already had too much Wolverine but to have him of all people 'save' Jean at the end not only did it make no sense to how Jean's power was working and Wolverine's own healing factor not being that good but it should have been Cyclops there saving Jean. Having Wolverine instead of Cyclops is basically an insult to X-men fans.



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Scoobes on 23 July 2009
Reasonable said:
Scoobes said:
The Golden Compass. They ended it early to ensure the ending was happy (unlike the book) and left it for the sequel... which is where exactly? Oh right, they're not going to make one c'os the film wasn't that great in the first place, lol.

 

I didn't think it was that bad, overall it reviewed well and it was certainly more sophisticated than most films of that type.  I agree the ending was a shame, more due to the fact they clearly worried it would hurt the film.  Ironically the ending wasn't the problem, it was something else entirely as noted below.

The film made good money internationally, but in US the backlash from religious right killed it dead.  Given reviews and the popularity of fantasy subject matter it was expected to easily make over $ 200 Million in US, which added to international would have taken it well comfortably past $ 500 Million worldwide and ensured the rest of the story followed.  So you can blame the US religious right for denying you the next movies.

 

Numbers from Box Office Mojo.

 

Domestic:  $70,107,728    18.8%
+ Foreign:  $302,127,136    81.2%
= Worldwide:  $372,234,864  

Lol, so the books were right in saying religion = bad :P

And to think, all this time I blamed Nicole Kidman for getting pregnant after they filmed it. That's actually some impressive amount of foreign money there.




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FJ-Warez on 23 July 2009

Spiderman 3, that movie really sucks...



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