re: Rewrite the endings of your favorite shows/movies

HIMYM

Marshall finally gets balls and tells Lily to eat a dick about Italy. Takes judgeship immediately and Lily doesn't go to Italy either.

Ted gets hit by a train on the platform at Farhampton and the telling the story to his kids was a flash back of his life before he dies... He never actually meets the mother, she was just the chick bassist at Robin and Barney's wedding he was staring at before he fell off the platform.

Avengers 2 - Ultron kills everyone in the city before trying to launch it into the air. The moment when the Twins approach him in the church happens now rather than earlier (they just meet him in a different manner, or you could even use the earlier meeting as foreshadowing). They realize he killed all their fellow countrymen and turn on him. The battle alerts the Avengers who show up as Ultron is whooping the crap out of the twins and help turn the battle. Ultron brings in his army of bots for some awesome action scenes, Quick gets offed by Ultron as the Avengers look to finally win, Witch goes psycho on his bots and him. At some point Ultron announces to the world that Tony Stark created him. Avengers win but Tony decides to hang up the suit. Thor leaves for his vision shite (aka Thor 3), and Cap still believes the world needs the Avengers and makes the new team. Movie ends with different world governments saying the Avengers need to be regulated along with people of interest.

Ultron looks like a badass, sets up Civil War much better, and for the most part things are still status quo from how the movie actually ended.

Come on: Darth is evil for 30 years, tries to kill his own son, cuts his son's hand off and turns good in about 2 minutes

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Come on: Darth is evil for 30 years, tries to kill his own son, cuts his son's hand off and turns good in about 2 minutes

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Not for these reasons, but it is a clear drop in quality from the other two in the trilogy. The only truly great scenes are when Vader and the Emperor are on screen and other than that, it's a pretty lackluster sequel. Not coincidently, the only thing that remained from the initial draft before Lucas got full creative control were the Throne Room scenes. Everything else was pretty different, and not for the better. Sparing Han literally because they were afraid of it negatively affecting toy sales and then really whoring out with the Ewoks instead of going with the Wookie homeworld is just sad.

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The only truly great scenes are when Vader and the Emperor are on screen

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I do agree with this, but seeing as how perfect these scenes were, I'm willing to cut ROTJ some slack.

My Top 5 from previous threads:

I Heart Huckabee's
After the final scene fades we see Albert in a meadow at dusk. The African guy is there in the background. Albert is facing the camera, then slowly turns around examining his beautiful surroundings. Just before he locks onto the African guy, cut to black.

Punch-drunk Love
After Barry returns to Lena and she forgives them, the next scene after the lens flares and Lawrence Whelk music, we see Barry and Lena getting married. His sisters are yapping while the vows are being read by friend Luis Guzman. Barry goes ape shite on them and tells them off. Lena smiles and kisses him after he looks back to her.

2001: A Space Odyssey
I can't do this one, because I know both endings in the book and the movie and the parts where Dave is in 2010 - book and movie. I either have to backtrack and re-route the characters, or add to the story, but that would have to fit 2010's rules. I am too much a fan to change that.

So here's a scene that changes the interpretation of the ending, which can work because it's open-ended anyway. When astronaut Dave Bowman descends onto the Monolith just before teleporting to an alien world...he does so just in his space suit and he is carrying some of the memory cells from HAL 9000. This would work well with some interpretations of mankind being influenced and assisted by the technological checkpoints that are the monoliths. I don't know.

Amelie
What is revealed in the ending sequence as we jump from small story to small story is all the little games that Amelie played were just in her head. And those stories and people. The only thing that was real was her job and boss, and Nino. That's why they work so well together. They all disappear one by one as they are remembered by the narrator. Only Amelie and Nino remain. There's no need for those imaginations anymore.

Once Upon a Time in the West
Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson tag each other in the final duel. Both die there. Justice brought to Henry Fonda, and life fulfilled by Charles Bronson.
...1 month later...
Back at the town, Jason Robards is a kingpin in the Railroad industry. Claudia Cardinale walks in. She is his wife now. She strips down bare naked. We can fully see breasts bush and all. She walks around the room. The film repeats this process three times with a nod from Jason Robards spliced between each repeat.










Fin.