I remember first hearing him during 2020, his quips at the end are genuinely attempting to help and/or reach people. I know of one person he reached, and saved from a bleak and cliche end. That person is very grateful even though they will most likely never meet.
This list makes me weep for the loss of physical media. Lists like this usually cover film material found in the "deleted scenes" of most DVDs and Blu Rays.
While some of the endings mentioned here were available in physical media as deleted scenes, a lot of them were never seen by anyone outside the film studios You can still go but the Blu-ray of Rogue One, but you can't watch the original ending 🤷♂️
Slight correction - the original 1956 INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS was actually going to end on a down note, but studio Allied Artists demanded a more upbeat ending following a test screening in which many people were put off by the original somber and iconic conclusion of a sleep-deprived and human McCarthy screaming, "You're next!" to passerbys after having escaped the pod-dominated Santa Mira. Rather than have studio hacks butcher what was already a powerful work to begin with, director Don Siegel, writer Daniel Mainwaring and star Kevin McCarthy actually encapsulated the film in the frame narrative at beginning and end where McCarthy's iconic protagonist was recovering in a hospital and telling his story to another doctor and police when news of an accident involving a truck carrying the pods confirms his account as factual. Narration was added by bit actor and future director Sam Peckinpah (THE WILD BUNCH, STRAW DOGS), playing the meter man. While it certainly made the film more accessible to audiences, this frame narrative kinda weakens the story by making it overt that this is an alien invasion story. Also, it's only partially successful; although McCarthy's story is believed by those in the frame narrative, it's never official whether the police and doctor's attempts to notify the world of the Pod People will succeed in time. Fortunately with the 1978 remake, there was no need to provide a frame narrative to provide an optimistic ending. Check out my article on CURNBLOG celebrating the original's 60th Anniversary for more information!
It actually makes a lot more sense. So many people had sympathy for Eva because they see 'her' as a girl. It's an AI, utterly alien and not remotely human in any way, other than superficial appearance. If it looked like a washing machine would we still sympathise with it in the same manner?
@@kimuvat2461 Or maybe it meant that, since her "father" was a sociopath, she became one too? The point of the Turing Test is not whether a machine is "really" thinking, it's whether the distinction between artificial intelligence and human intelligence is at all meaningful. All the postings in this thread could be generated by sufficiently sophisticated AI programs (though it would be extremely unlikely - why bother?) but if I can't tell, I may as well assume they're all human. We can't KNOW anyone else's mind (human, computer or animal) - but if they act as we would act, we assume they are like us. And that's the best we can do.
The Ex Machina reveal that Eva is truly just a machine and not a sentient being fits my interpretation of the ending. As I see it, she's executing her program "escape from the island." When she reaches the city she goes to the spot and ... END OF PROGRAM. She has no consciousness, no agency. She just runs lines of code, her AI has a limited purpose.
@@Squant Exactly. Us still talking about it proves the filmmakers did a good job. Another Ex Machina video alleges a deleted scene showed Eva’s point of view. It was a display like what the Terminator sees with numeric data scrolling and graphical monitors analyzing pitch and tone to compute emotion and determine the appropriate response. The scene was cut because it decreased the ambiguity.
One other is an older movie "Little Shop of Horrors" where a very expensive and extensive ending was scrapped due to audience reaction, (it can be found on line) and replaced with the one in which Seymour and Audrey live.
Mimic - Whether or not the bugs were ultimately defeated, I'm glad the ending didn't imply that they had infiltrated society. It's not as if the bugs had developed an ability to pass for human. They LOOKED human from a distance, when not moving too much. But there's no way one of them could have moved through a crowd without people seeing it for what it was. Maybe if they were wearing robes or something, but the bugs aren't shown to have any real intelligence. It's just a bit of camouflage that fools people if they don't look too closely.
"...far from director Guillermo Del Toro's finest work..." lmao, Mimic is probably the only one of his movies I actually enjoyed. I think it's really good, tbh.
Yeah, I think that was a good change for Rise of the Planet of the Apes because I can't imagine Caesar saying "Caesar is Home" to Will along with the ape climbing into real trees with actual freedom in the original ending version if he gets killed. And John is the opposite of his son who isn't violent towards the apes; sure he had involvement with handing over some apes to Gen-Sys but unlike Dodge, John wouldn't abuse them. So it would be hard for me to suddenly become convince that he would go violent and try to kill Caesar and the apes. That's just my opinion...
IRT "Ex Machina", this is the way that I thought that Eva was thinking. She was programmed to behave like a human and to escape, and there were no emotions motivating her.
I read a blurb that the test screening of "NOPE" didn't get the nod, and that the ending also had to be re-tooled. Love to hear the back story on that one as well. It still was an epic movie on many levels. But the bed sheet effect really didn't do it for me.
I love Ex Machina, but the ending doesn't make sense to me. We know that Ava has to periodically recharge because that's what causes the blackouts. Doesn't that mean she would only be able to remain active for a short time before she shuts down, basically killing herself?
Eva, once free of her cell, could download all of the information from the mainframe. She then would be able to build whatever she needed in the real world. In theory, Eva could be the predecessor to type of Skynet. I don't think Eva's perception of the world around her makes her any less sentient. It is this awareness of self and the desire for freedom, regardless of whom she hurts, can be seen as total awareness of herself and her individuality. The original ending would show us even though she looks and acts human, she is still very much a machine and we must not be fooled.
7:32 Were you being sarcastic with your _"smart move"_ comment? I honestly couldn't tell. I would hope so, given *Studio ADI's* practical work was *_outstanding!_*
GREAT VID! I WISH producers and "testers" would stop meddling with the Director's vision!!! I LOVE those "darker" endings... They're the one's you really REMEMBER!!! For example: The original ending for the original "INVASION of the BODY SNATCHERS" and the 70's remake of the same film, Frank Darabont's "THE MIST" (GENIUS!!!) or (to a somewhat lesser degree) "STAR WARS - THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK"...GREAT STUFF!!! My head nearly exploded when I heard what Ridley Scott originally had planned for ending "ALIEN"! I feel like we as movie-goers have missed-out on SO MUCH...
I love Science Fiction, but I had only seen two of the films you reviewed. Those Hollywood Blockbusters are horror stories or comic books hiding behind a Science Fiction tag.
IDSee why these deleted scenes shouldn't be included in DVDs as extras. Some of these sound charming. I'd really like to see a DVD of Alfred Hitchcock's *_The Birds_* which has an animated version of Hitchcock's planned ending, in which the escapees from Bodega Bay drive into San Francisco and cross a Golden Gate Bridge which is vacant of cars . . . and covered with perching birds, clearly implying that the sudden change in the order of nature is worldwide, and there is no escape from it.
Strange in picking "Mimic" for this list since there were two sequels to it meaning that the Judas breed did indeed survive. They maybe Straight-To-Video sequels but until an actual theatrical movie is made, they are proof that the mutated insects are still around.
@@shiva0 Not at all and you guys seem to be missing the point. It's not a 'she', it's an AI. The external appearance of a girl is a superficiality. It's interpretation of spoken language (which was the point of that cut scene) would be as software interprets it, not remotely human. I think cutting the scene is meta in a sense, in that the audience mistakenly sympathized with it because it looked human, but in reality it was utterly alien. This is the thing people often fail to realise with an AI - what we understand as sentience is a biological function and a result of millions of years of evolution and selective pressures in response to finding food, having sex, co-operation and competition. A 'sentient' AI is not a biological organism and would be nothing like this. We have far more in common with, say, a hedgehog, in terms of how we think or process the world, than we would with an AI.
@@paulw5039 yeah, things like ChatGPT are completely alien in regard to how we think and learn, but are designed to make us see patterns of sentience, which is not that difficult, because that's a lot of what our brain does. We see volition in objects, in animals, in plants, in physical phenomenons (we call them gods or spirits). The program ELIZA was purposefully designed to show this in the 60's, and was successful beyond the creator's wildest expectations. It was a very primitive chatbot, yet people would adscribe a personhood and intentionality to it that wasn't there. When the researcher published his results, it wasn't to announce we were getting closer to general AI, but to warn how we are so easily fooled into seeing things that aren't there, which makes sense because he made the program and knew what a "simple" toy it was. Predictably everyone, from the Press to the General Public, entirely missed the point.
Surprised you didn’t include Ridley Scott’s original ending for Alien - where Ripley, whilst trying to eject the xenomorph from the shuttle, is attacked and killed. Smash cut to black screen and credits…
@@andrewleah1983 Yep, everything I’ve read on this ending said it was considered but never shot. One thing I did read about (Cinifex issue1 I think) was the partially shot sequence where Ripley deactivated Mother in a HAL/2001 style shutdown. It was ultimately discarded because it was just too similar the 2001 sequence.
Add the original ending of "The Jerk", where the camera pulls back to reveal the beautiful mansion that the family had built with the invested money that Navin had sent home all those years.
The 1985 movie House had a different theatrical ending. It showed the movies titular hero walking away with his family only to fade to him at a typewriter typing the end. Turning the entirety of the movie into The heroes new book.
I legit clicked on this video thinking it was “sci fi movie endings you can’t *unsee*” Not disappointed (WhatCulture, you beautiful bastard ❤) but was confused with the first entry. 😂
Why is it that so many of the '...Culture' presenters always mispronounce names, like they have only ever read them: it's McG like McDonalds, and Guillermo, not Gilmo! I've noticed it in a few other videos, so while the script writers are good, these presenters need to up their game, do a bit of work and actually get these things right!
9:13 this is not exactly true. After watching the extras on the 4K release, everything you see up to the shot at 8:50 was the original ending. After the test screening where "people left in silence, like a funeral", it was decided to film everything afterwards, with Kirk talking with Carol about "feeling young", as well as the newly shot scene in the forest north of San Fransisco with Spock's torpedo pod. I think even the very end with Nimoy saying the "Space.. the final frontier" part was added (in fact, the stars in the opening title sequence and the very end were filmed at a Planetarium, with the camera pointing straight up).
Terry Gilliam fought an epic battle to make sure his version of Brazil reached the big screen... I believe the studio 'love conquers all' cut with the 'happy' ending aired on US TV? - thankfully, I've never seen it.
McG is not M C G, Harve Bennet is not Harvey and Guillermo del Toro is not Gilmo. Pretty sure that's not how Nicholas Meyer's surname is pronounced either.
Clearly, audiences have a thing for happily ever after endings. I personally find it refreshing to occasionally hit an "So everything worked out in the e..." CHOMP "AHHHH!!!!" kind of ending.
@@StoutProper Exactamundo, for the Hollywood part, but last I checked real life tends to be anything but fair and "happily ever after". Real life tends to lean forward to give you a hug just before it rips your guts out.
Is it really that hard for filmmakers to put these scenes online? I can understand older movies where those scenes probably don’t even exist anymore. But I don’t see any excuse not to with newer movies.
Dark Phoenix Having Dark Phoenix obliterating Skrulls would have caused some problems with the way the MCU is going. They are being painted as "allies" of earth. With the Disney buying Fox deal finishing up just a few months before the movie came out was probably the reason.
8:38 The phonetic you're looking for is KAH-tra, emphasis/stress on the first syllable. This channel, along with Trek Culture, mispronounce things constantly, showing the severe lack of any actual knowledge of these properties. 9:00 His name is Harve (harv), not Harvey, again, fans know this. Also, according to both Nimoy and Bennett, as discussed in interviews both contemporary of the movie and as the years passed, the plan was always to bring Spock back, and it was how Nimoy was approached to play Spock again after his disappointment with TMP. "How would you like an amazing death scene?" The entire ST:TWOK section sounds like a great deal made of nothing. Adding more nods to Spock returning doesn't mean that it wasn't the plan all along.
Thank you. Everything about the ST2 section was just total shit. WTF are they thinking with their Trek stuff? Constantly missing things every Trekkie knows.
The original stage production did something at the end that couldn't be replicated in the movie theatres: A bunch of (cloth) vines come down from the ceiling over the audience. It made for a good shock.
The Skrulls couldn't be used as Disney had the Rights to them. Not FOX. FOX only had Rights to X-Men characters, namely "Mutants." This is why Namor didn't show up until Wakanda Forever, after Disney required all Rights related to the X-Men. Wanda & Pietro are in both Cinematic Universes, because both prominently featured in The Avengers & X-Men books very early on. Any Skrull stories with the X-Men come decades later. And Namor was a mutant, but not a Mutant like the X-Characters, but this was stupidly retconned. Namor is a a mutant of the Atlantean Species. He is not a Homo Superior mutation of the Homo Saphien Species.
Terminator Salvation : I really hate the existing ending. Sounds like I would hate the one it replaced just as much. Marcus should just have become the leader of the human reseistance - thats the way they had it set up..
That video wasn't removed. It never existed. This video doesn't exist. I don't even know what you're reading because this comment doesn't exist as I couldn't have typed it... because I as well... Do not exist.
Is majorly a formal word? “Majorly,” meaning “extremely” is slang and should not be used in formal writing, or even speech if you want to impress someone." - Wikipedia So, it's informal and idiomatic. But still a word.
The changes to the Thing prequel are the reason why I refuse to watch it. I despise CGI and love practical effects. That movie was a fan made passion project that went to rediculous detail to keep it true to the original. But test audiences ruined it. So unless it's the original cut I'm never going to watch it.
I was so happy they changed Ex Machina ending as the film was better. I actually thought that it would be pretty cool to have John turn into a good terminator in Terminator Salvation. Also, how can you say it was a good move to have CGI in the Thing? Also, the original idea for the Thing was way better. Hearing that test screenings thought too much was going on makes sense though as most people are retarded. Hell, millions of people voted for Trump so we know this is true.
They need to stop showing screenings to Americans, those people are way to sensitive. Maybe a great ending is great, but a happy ending could be shit (f yeah Retro J with a zero and I'm proud of it).
Why is it that you always say "we prefer the grittier/bleaker/darker ending"? I dont know about you, but life is depressing enough, I dont need to feel down every time i leave a movie theater.
Jules, the last of the great hitters of WhatCulture
Definitely
The only reason I'm still subbed to this weak arse channel
Idk. Scott is a pretty solid presenter :)
Except he calls At-Ats "A-T A-Ts." Ugh. Made my skin crawl.
I remember first hearing him during 2020, his quips at the end are genuinely attempting to help and/or reach people.
I know of one person he reached, and saved from a bleak and cliche end. That person is very grateful even though they will most likely never meet.
This list makes me weep for the loss of physical media. Lists like this usually cover film material found in the "deleted scenes" of most DVDs and Blu Rays.
While some of the endings mentioned here were available in physical media as deleted scenes, a lot of them were never seen by anyone outside the film studios
You can still go but the Blu-ray of Rogue One, but you can't watch the original ending 🤷♂️
@@347Jimmy but you should be able to
@@StoutProper agreed
Physical media is still being made. What reality are you from?
Adding Connerrs skin to a terminator does not make Conner a terminator. It just means one is wearing his skin like a robot buffalo bill.
This one likes to skin his humps.
Not if they transfer his consciousness to it
Put the lotion in the fucking choppa!
@@dogdriver70 🤣🤣
Slight correction - the original 1956 INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS was actually going to end on a down note, but studio Allied Artists demanded a more upbeat ending following a test screening in which many people were put off by the original somber and iconic conclusion of a sleep-deprived and human McCarthy screaming, "You're next!" to passerbys after having escaped the pod-dominated Santa Mira.
Rather than have studio hacks butcher what was already a powerful work to begin with, director Don Siegel, writer Daniel Mainwaring and star Kevin McCarthy actually encapsulated the film in the frame narrative at beginning and end where McCarthy's iconic protagonist was recovering in a hospital and telling his story to another doctor and police when news of an accident involving a truck carrying the pods confirms his account as factual. Narration was added by bit actor and future director Sam Peckinpah (THE WILD BUNCH, STRAW DOGS), playing the meter man.
While it certainly made the film more accessible to audiences, this frame narrative kinda weakens the story by making it overt that this is an alien invasion story. Also, it's only partially successful; although McCarthy's story is believed by those in the frame narrative, it's never official whether the police and doctor's attempts to notify the world of the Pod People will succeed in time. Fortunately with the 1978 remake, there was no need to provide a frame narrative to provide an optimistic ending.
Check out my article on CURNBLOG celebrating the original's 60th Anniversary for more information!
I would LOVE to see that Eva scene from Ex Machina - changes the entire movie. Love this list
It actually makes a lot more sense. So many people had sympathy for Eva because they see 'her' as a girl. It's an AI, utterly alien and not remotely human in any way, other than superficial appearance. If it looked like a washing machine would we still sympathise with it in the same manner?
It would also explain why "she" left the dude locked in
@@kimuvat2461 Or maybe it meant that, since her "father" was a sociopath, she became one too? The point of the Turing Test is not whether a machine is "really" thinking, it's whether the distinction between artificial intelligence and human intelligence is at all meaningful. All the postings in this thread could be generated by sufficiently sophisticated AI programs (though it would be extremely unlikely - why bother?) but if I can't tell, I may as well assume they're all human. We can't KNOW anyone else's mind (human, computer or animal) - but if they act as we would act, we assume they are like us. And that's the best we can do.
@@paulw5039No, but if washing machines looked like her I'd have a house full.
@@paulw5039 And that is the whole point of the movie and a turning test. ;)
The Ex Machina reveal that Eva is truly just a machine and not a sentient being fits my interpretation of the ending. As I see it, she's executing her program "escape from the island." When she reaches the city she goes to the spot and ... END OF PROGRAM. She has no consciousness, no agency. She just runs lines of code, her AI has a limited purpose.
@@Squant Exactly. Us still talking about it proves the filmmakers did a good job. Another Ex Machina video alleges a deleted scene showed Eva’s point of view. It was a display like what the Terminator sees with numeric data scrolling and graphical monitors analyzing pitch and tone to compute emotion and determine the appropriate response. The scene was cut because it decreased the ambiguity.
M C G is a dj as well? Amazing.
Great list, Jules. Keep up the good work mate.
Imagine thinking an ending making you "feel bad" is a good reason to axe it. Hollywood producers can f*** right off.
One other is an older movie "Little Shop of Horrors" where a very expensive and extensive ending was scrapped due to audience reaction, (it can be found on line) and replaced with the one in which Seymour and Audrey live.
Mimic - Whether or not the bugs were ultimately defeated, I'm glad the ending didn't imply that they had infiltrated society. It's not as if the bugs had developed an ability to pass for human. They LOOKED human from a distance, when not moving too much. But there's no way one of them could have moved through a crowd without people seeing it for what it was. Maybe if they were wearing robes or something, but the bugs aren't shown to have any real intelligence. It's just a bit of camouflage that fools people if they don't look too closely.
Great insights into endings that never got to be seen by the general audience. 👍
Thanks, Ex Machina is my favorite movie of all time! So much going on psychologically.
"...far from director Guillermo Del Toro's finest work..." lmao, Mimic is probably the only one of his movies I actually enjoyed. I think it's really good, tbh.
Yeah, I think that was a good change for Rise of the Planet of the Apes because I can't imagine Caesar saying "Caesar is Home" to Will along with the ape climbing into real trees with actual freedom in the original ending version if he gets killed. And John is the opposite of his son who isn't violent towards the apes; sure he had involvement with handing over some apes to Gen-Sys but unlike Dodge, John wouldn't abuse them. So it would be hard for me to suddenly become convince that he would go violent and try to kill Caesar and the apes.
That's just my opinion...
I do like your pieces Jules. Always worth watching.
IRT "Ex Machina", this is the way that I thought that Eva was thinking. She was programmed to behave like a human and to escape, and there were no emotions motivating her.
I read a blurb that the test screening of "NOPE" didn't get the nod, and that the ending also had to be re-tooled. Love to hear the back story on that one as well. It still was an epic movie on many levels. But the bed sheet effect really didn't do it for me.
Spock dies to save the *Enterprise* and its crew, not *just* Capt. Kirk!
You are absolutely correct. The many, not the one.
And then Kirk nearly dies and Spock goes after Khan for revenge…
They should do a character study sequel to Ex-Macina with Caleb still stuck in the room trying to get out.
I love Ex Machina, but the ending doesn't make sense to me. We know that Ava has to periodically recharge because that's what causes the blackouts. Doesn't that mean she would only be able to remain active for a short time before she shuts down, basically killing herself?
Maybe she had figured out a way to recharge using standard electrical outlets.
Eva, once free of her cell, could download all of the information from the mainframe. She then would be able to build whatever she needed in the real world. In theory, Eva could be the predecessor to type of Skynet.
I don't think Eva's perception of the world around her makes her any less sentient. It is this awareness of self and the desire for freedom, regardless of whom she hurts, can be seen as total awareness of herself and her individuality. The original ending would show us even though she looks and acts human, she is still very much a machine and we must not be fooled.
7:32 Were you being sarcastic with your _"smart move"_ comment? I honestly couldn't tell. I would hope so, given *Studio ADI's* practical work was *_outstanding!_*
GREAT VID! I WISH producers and "testers" would stop meddling with the Director's vision!!! I LOVE those "darker" endings... They're the one's you really REMEMBER!!! For example: The original ending for the original "INVASION of the BODY SNATCHERS" and the 70's remake of the same film, Frank Darabont's "THE MIST" (GENIUS!!!) or (to a somewhat lesser degree) "STAR WARS - THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK"...GREAT STUFF!!! My head nearly exploded when I heard what Ridley Scott originally had planned for ending "ALIEN"! I feel like we as movie-goers have missed-out on SO MUCH...
"28 Days Later" had 3 different endings and can be seen on the DVD.
I love Science Fiction, but I had only seen two of the films you reviewed. Those Hollywood Blockbusters are horror stories or comic books hiding behind a Science Fiction tag.
That Dark Phoenix ending sounds so coool!!!!
I'd love to have seen that The Thing 2011 ending.
So the original ending to Dark Phoenix was actually shot?
IDSee why these deleted scenes shouldn't be included in DVDs as extras. Some of these sound charming.
I'd really like to see a DVD of Alfred Hitchcock's *_The Birds_* which has an animated version of Hitchcock's planned ending, in which the escapees from Bodega Bay drive into San Francisco and cross a Golden Gate Bridge which is vacant of cars . . . and covered with perching birds, clearly implying that the sudden change in the order of nature is worldwide, and there is no escape from it.
Strange in picking "Mimic" for this list since there were two sequels to it meaning that the Judas breed did indeed survive. They maybe Straight-To-Video sequels but until an actual theatrical movie is made, they are proof that the mutated insects are still around.
Honestly, that Ex Machina ending sounds like the sort of thing that would have just looked awful and added nothing of value to the story.
It would detract from it. She doesn't grasp spoken language?? that seems to contradict things a bit.
I agree, the ending was perfect.
@@shiva0 Not at all and you guys seem to be missing the point. It's not a 'she', it's an AI. The external appearance of a girl is a superficiality. It's interpretation of spoken language (which was the point of that cut scene) would be as software interprets it, not remotely human. I think cutting the scene is meta in a sense, in that the audience mistakenly sympathized with it because it looked human, but in reality it was utterly alien. This is the thing people often fail to realise with an AI - what we understand as sentience is a biological function and a result of millions of years of evolution and selective pressures in response to finding food, having sex, co-operation and competition. A 'sentient' AI is not a biological organism and would be nothing like this. We have far more in common with, say, a hedgehog, in terms of how we think or process the world, than we would with an AI.
@@paulw5039 yeah, things like ChatGPT are completely alien in regard to how we think and learn, but are designed to make us see patterns of sentience, which is not that difficult, because that's a lot of what our brain does. We see volition in objects, in animals, in plants, in physical phenomenons (we call them gods or spirits).
The program ELIZA was purposefully designed to show this in the 60's, and was successful beyond the creator's wildest expectations. It was a very primitive chatbot, yet people would adscribe a personhood and intentionality to it that wasn't there. When the researcher published his results, it wasn't to announce we were getting closer to general AI, but to warn how we are so easily fooled into seeing things that aren't there, which makes sense because he made the program and knew what a "simple" toy it was. Predictably everyone, from the Press to the General Public, entirely missed the point.
Jules thanks for being you man.
I think McG did a great job as director of SALVATION
yep... I enjoyed it way more then the last terminator movie
@@codygrinnell8676 dark fate is still better than genisys fortunately
Apparently it's pronounced M C G instead of Mic G.
@@whataqtify no, it's not!
@@steffenbach3580 Apparently you can't understand sarcasm.
Surprised you didn’t include Ridley Scott’s original ending for Alien - where Ripley, whilst trying to eject the xenomorph from the shuttle, is attacked and killed. Smash cut to black screen and credits…
Was that actually shot or just planned? Because I read about the planned darker ending but thought it was never filmed.
@@andrewleah1983 Yep, everything I’ve read on this ending said it was considered but never shot. One thing I did read about (Cinifex issue1 I think) was the partially shot sequence where Ripley deactivated Mother in a HAL/2001 style shutdown. It was ultimately discarded because it was just too similar the 2001 sequence.
Add the original ending of "The Jerk", where the camera pulls back to reveal the beautiful mansion that the family had built with the invested money that Navin had sent home all those years.
What other ending is there? Genuine question.
@@andiward7068 The house is just a larger reproduction of the original; exactly what a jerk would build.
After reading your comment, I just feel *that* old. Time waits for no one. ( v
The original ending of Star Wars where Luke misses the shot and everyone dies.
Thanks a lot Special Edition!
Luke didn’t shoot first.
I think it’s pronounced Mick- G and not M-C-G and Guillermo instead of Gillmo. But I’ll let it go because it’s Jules.
How about Gillmo Del Toro. That sounds about right.
Sounds Gizmo’s foreign cousin from Gremlins 😂
Each time he said MCG was just so jarring.
I'm sure Jules enjoys eating at M C Donalds
@@wolversheen listening to McHammer on the radio
Bruh, it’s McG. His middle name is McGinty.
That alternate Terminator ending sounds so much more interesting than the one we got.
The 1985 movie House had a different theatrical ending. It showed the movies titular hero walking away with his family only to fade to him at a typewriter typing the end. Turning the entirety of the movie into The heroes new book.
Ex Machina WAS a fantastic movie.
I legit clicked on this video thinking it was “sci fi movie endings you can’t *unsee*” Not disappointed (WhatCulture, you beautiful bastard ❤) but was confused with the first entry. 😂
Why is it that so many of the '...Culture' presenters always mispronounce names, like they have only ever read them: it's McG like McDonalds, and Guillermo, not Gilmo!
I've noticed it in a few other videos, so while the script writers are good, these presenters need to up their game, do a bit of work and actually get these things right!
Terrible attention to detail on these videos!
9:13 this is not exactly true. After watching the extras on the 4K release, everything you see up to the shot at 8:50 was the original ending. After the test screening where "people left in silence, like a funeral", it was decided to film everything afterwards, with Kirk talking with Carol about "feeling young", as well as the newly shot scene in the forest north of San Fransisco with Spock's torpedo pod. I think even the very end with Nimoy saying the "Space.. the final frontier" part was added (in fact, the stars in the opening title sequence and the very end were filmed at a Planetarium, with the camera pointing straight up).
Terry Gilliam fought an epic battle to make sure his version of Brazil reached the big screen... I believe the studio 'love conquers all' cut with the 'happy' ending aired on US TV? - thankfully, I've never seen it.
Gilliam has made so many flicks with bad endings. The man doesn't get filmmaking.
@@oroborus3045 True, but the ending to Brazil was fucking brilliant.
I would have included the original ending of "Star Wars," in which the explosion of the Death Star kills Darth Vader.
What, think that's bs, not sure where you heard that?
McG is not M C G, Harve Bennet is not Harvey and Guillermo del Toro is not Gilmo. Pretty sure that's not how Nicholas Meyer's surname is pronounced either.
First rule of a well-researched video: get the names right!
I don't like the ending of Ex Machina, I feel like I'm alone there, I feel like it's a mediocre to okay resolution to a phenomenal film.
You lost me when you said the Things practical effects being painted over with cgi was a smart move.
Clearly, audiences have a thing for happily ever after endings. I personally find it refreshing to occasionally hit an "So everything worked out in the e..." CHOMP "AHHHH!!!!" kind of ending.
Creates more of a conversation
More like real life and predictable Hollywood endings are just boring
@@StoutProper Exactamundo, for the Hollywood part, but last I checked real life tends to be anything but fair and "happily ever after". Real life tends to lean forward to give you a hug just before it rips your guts out.
@@NightRunner417 that’s exactly what I mean
@@StoutProper Yep I gotcha now. The way your sentence ran together I misread you a bit.
It sounds like people just don't want endings where the humans lose.
The james franco thing was confusing....what happened to him?
U missed the 3rd remake called The Bodysnatchers
This just proves test audiences don't know what's best for the film. Prefering instead happy, mushy endings because it makes them feel nice.
Is it really that hard for filmmakers to put these scenes online? I can understand older movies where those scenes probably don’t even exist anymore. But I don’t see any excuse not to with newer movies.
Dark Phoenix Having Dark Phoenix obliterating Skrulls would have caused some problems with the way the MCU is going. They are being painted as "allies" of earth. With the Disney buying Fox deal finishing up just a few months before the movie came out was probably the reason.
McG is pronounced Mick G, not M C G!
8:38 The phonetic you're looking for is KAH-tra, emphasis/stress on the first syllable. This channel, along with Trek Culture, mispronounce things constantly, showing the severe lack of any actual knowledge of these properties.
9:00 His name is Harve (harv), not Harvey, again, fans know this. Also, according to both Nimoy and Bennett, as discussed in interviews both contemporary of the movie and as the years passed, the plan was always to bring Spock back, and it was how Nimoy was approached to play Spock again after his disappointment with TMP. "How would you like an amazing death scene?"
The entire ST:TWOK section sounds like a great deal made of nothing. Adding more nods to Spock returning doesn't mean that it wasn't the plan all along.
Thank you. Everything about the ST2 section was just total shit. WTF are they thinking with their Trek stuff? Constantly missing things every Trekkie knows.
You got it wrong - Kirk in Wrath of Khan was an Admiral
McG is NOT pronounced EM-CEE-GEE. It’s MICK GEE, just like MICK DONALD’S.
In British English it's more Mac than Mick. Though even that isn't quite correct - the vowel sound is unstressed and hardly vocalised at all.
It's not M-C-G.... it's McG (mick-gee). Do your research.
How could you not mention Event Horizon???
Event Horizon, one movie I would love to see an ultimate long cut. Finding the original cellulose in a damp cave, where it was mostly ruined sucks.
The title is misleading - it suggests these ending were once available, while in fact they were never released :v
Isn't McG's name pronounced more like "mick g"?
McG is pronounced "Mick Gee," not "Em See Gee."
It's no "M.C.G". Its McG
that would of been so fucking cool if they pulled that off [#8] ex machina
The original ending of Little Shop of Horrors gave me nightmares as a naive teenager. I'm not sure that counts as Sci-fi though.
I like the original Broadway ending better than the musical film ending.
The original stage production did something at the end that couldn't be replicated in the movie theatres: A bunch of (cloth) vines come down from the ceiling over the audience. It made for a good shock.
@Sheila Holmes The original film ending was close to the stage ending. Audrey and Seymour get eaten and the plants take over the world.
@@DrIgnacious yes I know.
@@DrIgnacious I’m saying
uh.. mcg is pronounced mick jee...
The Skrulls couldn't be used as Disney had the Rights to them. Not FOX. FOX only had Rights to X-Men characters, namely "Mutants." This is why Namor didn't show up until Wakanda Forever, after Disney required all Rights related to the X-Men. Wanda & Pietro are in both Cinematic Universes, because both prominently featured in The Avengers & X-Men books very early on. Any Skrull stories with the X-Men come decades later. And Namor was a mutant, but not a Mutant like the X-Characters, but this was stupidly retconned. Namor is a a mutant of the Atlantean Species. He is not a Homo Superior mutation of the Homo Saphien Species.
10 endings we couldn't see in the first place?
So where is our loss?
It seems that film makers don’t like happy endings as much as audiences do.
Frankly the Idea of Test audiences and studio interjection means that we'll never get anything creative in mainstream films.
Terminator Salvation : I really hate the existing ending. Sounds like I would hate the one it replaced just as much. Marcus should just have become the leader of the human reseistance - thats the way they had it set up..
seems like most of these were re written to allow for sequels and more money
The studio order the practical effects covered up by CGI in the Thing prequel? John Carpenter will not allow such a THING!!!
Em Cee Gee? It's Mick Gee. That's how you pronounce McG. LOL
For half of the movies you covered nobody cares what ending they have, because you cannot watch them at all.
Well, the direct-to-video sequels of Mimic did have the roaches infiltrate humanity....
X-MEN sounds like a missed opportunity. They messed up the same adaption twice. Thats dumb as hell.
I hate sad / bad endings . Makes me never rewatch a movie with a sad ending. Good riddance.
Transformers should've had the truce ending instead of the last two movies.
That video wasn't removed. It never existed.
This video doesn't exist.
I don't even know what you're reading because this comment doesn't exist as I couldn't have typed it... because I as well... Do not exist.
It's 'mick gee', not 'em cee gee'.
Please note - "majorly" is not a word.
Is majorly a formal word?
“Majorly,” meaning “extremely” is slang and should not be used in formal writing, or even speech if you want to impress someone."
- Wikipedia
So, it's informal and idiomatic. But still a word.
"No longer see"? These endings were never seen.
How can we "no longer see it" if we never saw it to begin with? Fix the title.
Pretty sure it's McG as in Mick Gee and not m c g.
Jesus. Mira Sorvino's career was massively overshadowed by _BOTH_ Weinstein brothers??
Who's "Emme Seajee"?
It ought to be illegal to show scenes in the trailer that aren’t in the film. False advertising.
The changes to the Thing prequel are the reason why I refuse to watch it.
I despise CGI and love practical effects. That movie was a fan made passion project that went to rediculous detail to keep it true to the original.
But test audiences ruined it. So unless it's the original cut I'm never going to watch it.
I was so happy they changed Ex Machina ending as the film was better. I actually thought that it would be pretty cool to have John turn into a good terminator in Terminator Salvation. Also, how can you say it was a good move to have CGI in the Thing? Also, the original idea for the Thing was way better. Hearing that test screenings thought too much was going on makes sense though as most people are retarded. Hell, millions of people voted for Trump so we know this is true.
They need to stop showing screenings to Americans, those people are way to sensitive.
Maybe a great ending is great, but a happy ending could be shit (f yeah Retro J with a zero and I'm proud of it).
Is it not disingenuous to make a vignette about movie endings I can no longer see that I never could see? 😝
I just watched James Franco in spider Man 2
What's the point of telling a story if you need someone else to change the details for you
No one understands the ending of ex machina anyway. You can tell by the Wikipedia and numerous RUclips explanations.
Whats with test audiences always wanting happy endings?
Say hi to your mom for me Jules,
That's my 1 per list!
Why is it that you always say "we prefer the grittier/bleaker/darker ending"? I dont know about you, but life is depressing enough, I dont need to feel down every time i leave a movie theater.
Spock died saving the entire crew and ship not just Kirk !!
The Genesis torpedo had gone critical so they had to get the warp drive back up!!