In this episode, Movie Mike talks about good movies that have bad endings. SPOILER ALERT because you can’t really talk about how a movie has a bed ending without revealing what happens...but Mike tried to keep this to movies that have been out for a while. Movies discussed include: Titanic, Signs, War of the Words, La La Land, and The Dark Knight Rises. Mike also talks about famous movies that had much different endings planned. Including I Am Legend, Dodgeball, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Pretty Woman, and the Lion King. Plus a review of Extraction (Netflix) starring Chris Hemsworth.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Welcome back to Movie Mix Movie Podcast.
I am movie Mike on Twitter and Instagram at Mike destro.
If you're new to the podcast, I just want to
say what up and welcome. What I do every single
week on this podcast, well just talk about movies, and
today I am talking about good movies with bad endings.
I asked a bunch of you guys on Twitter, what's
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a good movie you think had a bad ending? And
I found a bunch of different responses, and I want
to get into my list I came up with, and
also get into the ones you guys submitted, because there's
some good debate here, because a bad ending can be
seen in different ways. Either it really ruined the movie,
or maybe it just didn't end with the way you
wanted it to. So does that make it a bad ending?
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Well we'll discussed that here in a bit. And I
also want to talk about some very famous movies that
actually had alternative endings. So either they didn't test well
in theaters or they just realized in the script it
wasn't going to work. So really famous movies that could
have been an entirely different type of movie if they
would have ended this way. I'll get into my list
of those. I also want to give a movie review
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this week on something I watched on Netflix. It's Extraction,
Sorry and Chris Hemsworth, So we'll get into that. But
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get into this episode, I know I like to keep
this a spoiler free podcast, but obviously you can't really
talk about endings of movie without kind of spoiling them.
I did try to keep them to movies that came
out at least over ten years ago, which I believe
is kind of the rule. If it's been out ten years,
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you're probably not gonna watch it at this point. And
there is one I review that's fairly newer, but I'll
give you a spoiler alert before I do that, so
if you want to skip ahead a little bit in that. Anyway,
I just wanted to explore this topic, and I am
kind of breaking my own rules of not spoiling movies,
but it will be the only time, and if there
ever is a spoiler in the future, I will always
teach you with that spoiler review because I'm not that
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kind of podcast. It's going to ruin a movie for you.
All Right, With all that said, let's get started. In
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One man stands to infants the years of listeners like
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glasses from the Nashville Podcast Networking Movie movie Podcast. Alright,
so today we're talking about good movies with bad endings.
That has to bunch of you guys on Twitter for
your opinions. I got my list going. But first, before
we get into this, let's set the criteria. So first
of all, it has to be a good movie. It
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has to be something that is seen as all the
way up to the ending was great and then it
really just lost people. Maybe it kills the moving entirely,
or maybe just kind of takes it down a peg
in your book, But that has to be the first
part of it has to be a good movie to
begin with ruined by a bad ending. And also in
this just because the movie ends the way you didn't
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have in your head, it doesn't wrap everything up nicely.
And in with everything perfect in the and it doesn't
mean it's a bad ending. I saw a bunch of
those responses too, and for me and myself, sometimes I
like it with everything that end perfectly and it's all
nice wrapped up in the end and everybody ends up
together and in love, or everything works out of the end.
Sometimes you need that ending that hits you in the gut.
It makes you feel like, oh man, well that kind
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of sucks, and I think that's fine. That doesn't make
it a bad ending. What I hate is when I
feel ripped off or when I feel like there was
lazy writing. So the reason I thought of this episode
is because I watched the movie this week called A
Simple Favor. So first of all, before I started this episode,
it's kind of hard to talk about endings to movies
without giving spoilers, so I normally try to keep this
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a spoiler free podcast. I tried to pick a lot
of movies that have been out for at least ten years,
but I kind of feel like that's the role on spoilers,
Like if it's been out ten years, you probably haven't
watched it up to this point. But it kind of
started with the movie that I watched and didn't enjoy
the ending, So I won't ruin this entire movie right now,
but I just want to explain what I got um
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the idea for this episode with. Anyway, if you haven't
seen a simple favor, maybe skip ahead like a minute
or two, because I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm not gonna
give the ending away. I'm just gonna give away. I'm
just gonna say why I didn't like the way this
ending made me feel. So it starts Blake Lively and
Anakendrick and what happens at the end of this movie,
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Like it was a great first and second, I'm not
gonna ruin it now. I'm I've made up my mind.
I'm not hurting the movie, So you're good. The first
and second actor so intriguing, and it had a potential
to be a really good movie. But by the time
it gets to that third act, it just goes in
all different kinds of directions. You're confused as as as
you're watching it, you don't know where it's going, and
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it just ends and it falls flat. By the time
you get to those last twenty minutes, you don't really care.
And I think that's what makes a good movie have
a bad ending, and it just ruined by that. Another
thing I felt this movie was really lazy, like there's
a there's a troop, a thing that happens in movies
that I despise, Like I hate it when you just
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take out a main character with like an instant like boom,
They're gone, Like that makes no sense. It's such lazy
writing when it's like an attack out of nowhere and
there everything just ends up clean, like you don't have
any kind of intention behind it. They're just gone. So
I think this movie is a perfect example of that,
and I want to get into some other ones now,
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but I just think when there's lazy writing and it
just gets confusing to the point where you're like, Okay,
just end this movie already, like I don't care. I
think that's what makes a bad ending. So I'll get
into some of these. What I had first of all,
probably the main response I had was Titanic, and by now,
if you haven't seen Titanic, I'm sorry. It's one of
the most iconic, highest grossing movies of our lifetime. If
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you haven't seen the ending Titanic, you're missing out. You
haven't seen it. By now you're probably not gonna watch
it now. But it famously ends with Jack dying and
Rose staying alive on the door. Now, I don't think
that's what makes that movie a bad ending, because I
obviously if he could have fit on the door, he
would have been on the door like they You think
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they didn't try that, maybe they don't show it in
the movie, But I don't think that's a bad ending.
I think Jack had to die in this movie because
otherwise he wouldn't really remember it. If they ended up
together and they were both rescued, that would be a
lame minting. That would be terrible. He has to die
in this movie to make this movie a great movie.
Jack has to die. So I'm fine with that. I
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don't think they even needed to attempt to put him
on the door. Jack dying is fine. It's the fact
that she throws the stone into the ocean like that
that makes no sense, Like that's how the movie ends
of her, like looking back on that entire story and
then just throwing the ocean diamond back, the heart of
the ocean back into the ocean like that, that part
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of it makes no sense. And I think even just
that kind of narrative in the movie Titanic, I think
it could do without. So I don't think it's the
fact that died and they could have shared the door.
I don't think that was ever a possibility. But the
fact that she gave up maybe like a twenty million
dollar diamond and threw it into the ocean, that's what
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makes that movie a bad movie ending. Moving on to
War the World's starring Tom Cruise back in two thousand five.
Now Steven Spielberg one of the greatest directors, but this
one I feel just kind of falls flat. Like what
I've been saying earlier, I hate it when a movie
just ends with kind of oh, everything's cool now, and
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the whole time in this movie, it's Tom Cruise in
Dacoda fanning chaotic scene after chaotic scene, and I mean
the movie starts off right away with action and it
gets I really enjoyed this movie. Maybe to could have
fanning streaming gets a little annoying here and there. And
I'm not even the biggest Tom Cruise fan. Like, he
is one actor that for some reason I just I
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don't I can't stay in him in movies, But in
this one, I actually liked him, And I think it's
mainly because I like alien End of the World movies,
and I thought he was fine in this one. He
was at least tom crazy as he could have been.
But you go about two hours into this movie, and
then all of a sudden they realized that aliens can't
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survive on Earth, and everything just kind of turns out, Okay,
Tom True's are good. You're you and your family are safe. Now.
This whole time you've been running from aliens at the
just trying to survive, and then the aliens are just like, oh,
they can't live here. Turns out everybody go home. The
entire city is actually an okay, decent condition. I thought
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that was just kind of a bummer ending, kind of
lazy and didn't really give me what I wanted out
of an ending. All right, next up, keeping it in
the alien family for the next one. Now. A very
controversial director is m Night Shamalan. Now, he's very famous
for having twist in his movies, and I think oftentimes
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he'd be that it's being kind of his movies are
kind of teach is not as having bad anything because
you don't like the twist. Every movie he has has
a twist, and I think it works sometimes. I think
it's really great when you go into a movie kind
of expecting, like, Okay, something gonna be totally different, and
I think that's cool. I don't hate him for that.
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But a movie I was so invested in with Signs
and I saw this movie in theaters and I remember
watching it and being really scared, like the whole time.
That movie just had me like, holy crap, like this
is one of the scariest things I've seen and it's
not even supposed to be a horror movie. But I
still remember the feeling I got the first time when
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I was sitting in the theater. And what I like
about this movie is they don't show the aliens a
whole lot. I think what a really great action adventure
movie does, and any kind of horror movie, is you
don't give away the monster because that image you have
in your head create such a better picture of not
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seeing it so much until the very end, until it's
all out, third actor going for that final battle scene,
but when you just really kind of subtly show a
glimpse of them here and there, but it's more just
talked about in that anticipation. I think this movie did
a really great job of that because that first time
I remember seeing the alien walk across in the news footage,
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I was like, holy crap, Like for some reason I
thought that was a real alien. I was like, am
Night Shamalan has proved the aliens exist. And I was
so scared in the movie theater and that part was scary.
But then you get to this third act and the
whole time it just turns out that aliens are somehow
allergic to water, and it plays off the fact that
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this girl, the little girl in the movie, would leave
have drink cups of water throughout the house and they're
all around the house, strategically placed when the aliens come
and invade their home, and then they're in this fight
team with the aliens, and I feel like even when
they show the aliens at this point it I mean,
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this was early two thousands, but the c g I
just looks pretty weak, and the aliens almost like cartoonish,
and it goes full on cartoon whenever the alien brushes
against like a piano or a bookshelf, and a couple
of waterfalls on his shoulder and he starts dissolving, and
then you realize, oh, crap. The aliens can't handle splashes
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of water on him. So then you got Joaquin Phoenix
with the bat the whole time. You're like, oh, what's
he been doing with that thing the whole time? And
he just starts going to town and breaking glasses of
water and suddenly aliens are gone. There's I mean, the
whole time, they're trying to figure out why these crop
circles and all this mysterious stuff that went on with
mel Gibson's family, and it was just glasses of water apparently,
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And why would aliens invade Earth that's almost entirely made
up of water if they were allergic to water essentially?
So I just thought that was a bad ending. All Right,
we'll go into the superhero vein. I'm a big fan
of superhero movies, mainly the Marvel stuff, but uh, like
everybody else, I love Batman and I thought the Dark
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Knight trilogy was almost perfect. But when you get to
the Dark Knight Rises, I feel like that third act
just fell pretty flat because in that movie, Bane is
such a dominant force and he just can't be stopped
by Batman. From that opening scene where he takes over
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that plane and then just the whole build up of
him breaking Batman's back and just being this undeniable villain
that you don't really see like how he's gonna be
taken down. And that's what I loved about The Dark
Knight Rises, and even more so than Joeker in The
Dark Night, I felt like Bain was a stronger villain
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and the fact that you didn't really know how he
was going to be stopped all up until then you
get to the third act of this movie where just
kind of gets blurry and fuzzy, because then you have
the Dark Night and you have Bain battling against each other,
and all of a sudden, Bain is essentially defeated by
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Selina Kyle a k a catwoman running him over, and
he's gone very anti climactic, like you have being this
guy who can't be touched and he does all these
crazy schemes, but he's just run over. I really think
that running over somebody in the movie is the is
the laziest thing you can put into a movie. They
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do with so much in like horror movies where somebody
just gets hit by a bust, even if it's not
the ending, just anybody getting hit by a car should
be taken out and never written into a movie, so
I hated that in the movie. And then Bain doesn't
really become the villain anymore, and it's this woman who's
been there the whole time, And just so getting into
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the very ending of the movie, I feel like it
doesn't really make sense because you have Bruce Wayne and
Selena Kyle. They go off, you think he's dead, and
then they're just living together, and then you have Alfred
see them from across the restaurant, and just it's it's
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just very just a very unsatisfying ending, just for how
impactful that trilogy was. To kind of end on that note,
was just like, ok, you're not really gonna tell with
anything else, and you have to pretty much assume that
Joseph Gordon Levitt's character becomes Robin. So it's all just
kind of like us assuming what happens. And I get
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that they don't have to tell you every single thing
in an ending, but I just feel like that one
was just like, Okay, we don't really know how to
end this one. Um Batman go then he goes into hiding,
all right, see you later, all right. The next one,
I saw a lot of you guys tweet about was
La La Land and I love La La Land. Now,
I have come on the podcast and said that I
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am not a big fan of musicals and I didn't
want to like this movie. And I went to see
it because it was nominated for a Best Picture that year,
and I was like, I'll go watch it, and about
five minutes into it, I ended up loving it. And
a lot of people said that they didn't like this ending. Now,
I think this is a great example of movies that
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don't end the way you want them to. But I
don't think this was a bad ending because the fact
that Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone didn't end up together,
I don't think that makes it a bad ending. I
think that's great. I think it's an unconventional love story
and if they would have ended up together, it would
have been just It would have taken out how artistic
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this movie was. And I like it In romantic movies
where the two don't end up together, where it doesn't
quite work out, I think that's a really it's it's
tough for audiences, and it's tough for people who get
so invested and want to see two people be together
and not end up together at the end, But I
think in this movie it really works and it makes
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more sense for them not to be together than to
kind of adapt into this okay, perfectly magical ending, and
it ends on a really great, happy note. I think
this movie takes you on a bunch of ups and downs,
and it's fun and parts when they are together. But
the fact that it ends up that they don't go
off and get married into the sunset, I think it's great.
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So I don't think The Land has a bad ending. Sorry,
all right, And there's another movie that a bunch of
you guys tweet to me about that I want to
talk about in another segment. I'm gonna do because I
am legend with Will Smith. Some people said they had
a bad ending. I don't think it was a terrible ending,
But it's a movie that actually had an alternative ending
that was shot and not put into the movie. And
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not only that, the book that it was adapted for
had a completely different ending that I think was even
better than either the alternative or the one that ended
up in theater. So what I want to do next
to talk about alternative endings to popular movies, and in
some cases it would have made for a better movie,
but a lot of these it's like, Okay, I'm glad
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that they went with the ending they went with, So
take a quick break and we'll do that segment next.
All right, Gonna get into now alternative endings from very
famous movies, and the first one I wanted to talk
about is I Am Legend, which ends with Will Smith's
character essentially finding the cure to the virus that has
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caused all these dark Seekers that he's been fighting the
entire movie. But as he finds it, he ends up
having to sacrifice himself to give the vaccine to this
other woman and a child who go on and give
it to the world, but he has to essentially blow
up the lab, blow up himself to take out these
dark Seekers that are trying to break in. And that's
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the version you saw in movie theaters, and a bunch
of critics didn't like it. I thought it was fine.
But there was also an alternative ending that they filmed
and didn't tests so well on the screen when they
were first showing the movie, and it was Will Smith
still finding the vaccine, but he ends up befriending the
dark Sneakers and they're like learned to essentially live and
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coexist because they just realized that they've been misunderstood from
each other, that they saw Will Smith was trying to help,
and they take the female dark secret that he's taken
into his lab, and they learned to kind of live
in harmony and audiences andn't like that. Maybe rightfully so.
But there's another version that was actually in the book
that the movie is based on, where I think it's
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kind of the darkest and I think would have even
been a better ending to the movie. Is that essentially
these dark Sneakers have taken over the world and they
kind of become and are seen as the main people
like inhabiting Earth, like they are the majority, and will
Smith in turn becomes almost the villain and the monster
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because they see him as the one trying to take
them out and cure them and a threat on their
lives that he in turn is scene as the monster.
And I think that's almost the darkest ending and would
have been a really great, great twist to this movie,
because the whole time you think, oh, it's will Smith
trying to save humanity and he's the last human on Earth.
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But from their point of view, it's this guy trying
to take out of their people. So I think that
would have been a great alternative ending. In this case,
I was fine with the ending that came out in theaters.
I never thought this movie had a bed ending, but
I think the fact that it had all these alternative
ways it could have gone that could have been interesting.
All right, and I have your note. The original ending
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to Dodgeball actually had kind of a dark humor type ending.
So the original ending was the average joes and up
pulling off the wind and everything is happy and the
bad guy loses. But the one they tried it out
with audiences before that was the fact that Ben Stiller's
team just ends up winning, like I don't know, We're like,
oh we win, everybody goes home. You see Vince Vaughn
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kind of in a slow motion, oh well we lost,
And that was the ending. So it was almost like
an anti joke type ending of this whole build up
off it's supposed to be these underdogs winning a sports
movie that kind of thing, and just being like, oh,
we take a total turn and bad guy wins, which
I could see going to watch that and being like, oh,
well that kind of sucked. But it was also could
have been kind of funny, because you don't really expect
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that it had all the other makings of a of
a sports movie of the underdog story. If it would
have had that kind of killer kill, the comedy kill
the ending, I think that could have been kind of
funny to see. And in the movie that was already
so ridiculous about Dodgeball, why not give it a totally
crazy ending could have worked. All Let's go way back
to Star Wars Return of the Jedi, because you're original
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script actually included the death of Han Solo. Now, this
is according to a producer of the movie who said
they wanted to kill Han Solo and essentially a raid
on the Imperial base. But George Lucas was so concerned
about the death of Han Solo and he didn't want
to kill off a major character because, I mean, he
thought it would affect merchandizing sales, like if you kill
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up Han Solo, you can't sell Han Solo action figures
for years to come. And also you kill off a
main character if there was any chance of at the
time there being sequels and all the other movies they
ended up making, you would lose Han Solo, which I
think in the end this was probably a good move,
But I am not opposed to killing main characters early
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on in a movie franchise. I think it makes it
really impactful. And yes, it would have made the newer
Star Wars movies a bit different, but it could have
also made him just that much more legendary of a character.
But in this case, probably a good idea to leave
the beloved Han solo in this movie Pretty Woman. So
Pretty Woman is essentially a Cinderella story. You take Julia
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Roberts character, you have her meet this charming guy. He
turns her into a princess. But in the original movie
it had an ending that was a lot darker, and
the whole movie just kind of had a more serious
and darker tone. And then the original ending, she was
supposed to end up back on the streets. So Julia
Robert's character, Bibby and We was just supposed to get
the money from this guy and ends up going back
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on the streets and living a really dark and depressing,
horrible life. And this guy just kind of turns out
to be another horrible man. No Cinderella story, no happy,
lovely ending. It just goes back to being sad, and
if that would have happened, this movie would not be
as beloved as it was, so good call on that one,
all right. And last up we have the Lion King,
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so Disney always has to have a pretty heavy ending,
and the original one that this was a lot darker,
and there's even some test footage on YouTube if you
want to search this out for the alternative ending. But
what happens is pretty close to what happens in the
movie with one little twist. So you have them battling
out on Pride Rock and it turns into almost what
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happened at the beginning of the movie with Scar and Mufassa.
Now it's Simba and Scar, but instead what was supposed
to happen instead of Simba jumping back up fighting Scar
and then essentially the hyenas taking out Scar. And really
what you don't see bull was supposed to happen was
as they're fighting on the top of the Pride Rock
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is he was supposed to throw a Simba off just
like it didn't move fasta but unlike what happened to
mu Flassa, Simba was supposed to hit a branch and
be saved, but then Scar was supposed to be left
up on Bride Rock essentially burning down with all those flames,
which when you watch this test footage to be searched
on YouTube, the alternative ending of the Lion King, it
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looks pretty dark because Scar is just up there laughing
maniagally and then essentially being taken out by the flames.
And I think that would have scared little kids and
scared of five year old me watching this. So there's
probably a reason why Disney isn't known for having brutal endings.
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All right, Gonna get into a movie review now, talking
about the movie Extraction, starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Sam Hargrave,
but more important than that, it is written by the
Russo brothers, who also directed the Avengers movies, So essentially
you have those two teaming up together. It's essentially a
movie with thor again if you think about it that way.
But I saw I had been in the top ten
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on Netflix for the past couple of weeks and I
finally had time to sit down and watch it, and
if nothing else, I was going to have an enjoyable
experience of seeing the stunning Chris Hemsworth on the screen. So,
first of all, here's a little bit of extraction. Best
thing you could do for that kid would be pulling friends,
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but you couldn't even the kid behind. Are you going
to leave me in the street? All right? So for
the plot of this movie, there's really not a whole
lot to it. You have Chris Hemsworth character. He plays
the guy named Tyler Rake who is hired to essentially
rescue this kid who has been stolen by these drug
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smugglers and hild for ransom. That's pretty much all you
need to know going into this movie. Nothing crazy as
far as the storyline, very easy to follow, and it's
just the all out action movie. So it starts out
pretty simple enough and it wraps up pretty quick. So
it's a movie that goes right into it. And what
I liked about this movie not that I wasn't expecting
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to like it, but what's not about the first ten
minutes you kind of know what it's going to be,
and you kind of have to make that decision of
the mindset you want to put yourself in, like are
you gonna some movies you just want to go into
and enjoy no matter what. Different movies have kind of
different levels of how you rate them. I think this
one's on a whole different spectrum because it's just one
you can sit down and watch and enjoy. It's when
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I could probably watch with my dad, who doesn't watch
any movies whatsoever, but he could watch this one and
know what's going on because it's a guy with the
gun shooting bad guys. Not hard to understand. But what
is different about this movie is it it's so violent
and intense and shot in a way then I really
haven't seen before, because there's almost sequences of action where
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it feels like one entire shot in one fail swoop.
So it goes from this advantage point of seeing Chris
Hem's worth with a gun taking out these bad guys,
but you follow him like with him, like you're right
behind him, and the camera just moves in this kind
of way where it never kind of cuts between scenes,
which isn't something I haven't seen since maybe like nineteen seventeen,
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which is all shot and one continuous shot. It's not
to that extreme, but I think it gives this a
whole different feel of the action, and that's very apparent
within like the first maybe thirty forty minutes of this
where it's so intense and it goes from him being
like inside a building to all of a sudden you
follow him falling out and fighting in the streets. So
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the violence in this is so brutal, and I think
that kind of cinematographery aspect kind of gives it that
whole other level of Okay, this movie is a bit
of a step up, and it's not just your running
the male action movie. I think that gives it so
much more of an authentic feel and it just doesn't
feel like some slap to get their action movie. And
I think that it's partly due to the director and
also the Russo brothers who are in this as well.
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And I think Chris hess Worth is pretty good in this.
He's a really great action story like aside from being
you know, thor that we love is being funny but
also um heroic on the screen and being seen as
somebody who can you know, take someone down. I think
he's a really great action storry and we haven't seen
that a whole lot from him, so that was kind
of cool to see. But it's a very brutal movie.
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There's some really intense parts where like you almost not
expect him to go there like literally like throwing children
off of a building. It's pretty crazy. But also there's
the thing, I guess it's kind of a trend now
in movies, and I guess it's kind of, I don't know,
the cool thing to do in action movies, but head shots,
like straight up shooting people in the head is kind
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of a an extreme action movies they're taking right now
because it's it's very dramatic and it's very like old
Crab that really happened, and no matter how you shoot
it and how you present it, that's gonna be an
intense thing to watch. So there are some head shots
in this movie that are pretty brutal in it it
almost goes on like I guess maybe john Wick kind
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of started out of the kind of intense, bloody violence
for sometimes no reason, and this one, I feel it
has a little bit more of a purpose because it
is kind of an a war zone situation and it's
a little far fetched. It's not as far fetched as
like john Wick, but I mean, how you're gonna expect
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one guy to take out essentially an entire army of
people without it be a little crazy. So in that aspects,
maybe it's a little unrealistic and maybe a kind of
action not cheesy but cliche in a bit, But I
thought the action was great in it. Overall, the story
it doesn't really need much until like the very end,
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you maybe get a little more of what you want
from it. But I think throughout the entire movie you're
pretty invested in it, and it's one where the action
is pretty NonStop and you care about it till the
very end. So I know, in the sceentire episode I've
been talking about movies and bad endings, I think this
one actually has a great ending and it keeps you
invested until that final scene. So if you're looking for
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something to watch in your house right now on Netflix
into action movies, I think this is a pretty good
one for you if you're into that. I give it
four out of five rounds of ammunition for sure. I
think a lot of that, like I said, has to
do with the way it's shot, in the way it looks,
in the way it feels, but also that it's just
NonStop action and it was something for me to watch
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and be able to take my brain off of anything,
and the fact that I really like the fact that
Netflix is putting out these bigger action movies right now.
I think that's a pretty good space for them to
work in because I think sometimes an action movies that's
something that really gets me to go to a theater
as much. And the fact that we can have this
in our home now, where you have people like Chris
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Hemsworth and Mark Wahlberg doing these kind of movies that
you can just watch on Netflix, like, that's a pretty
great thing. So I think it's worth checking out. I
did hear they're gonna make a sequel to this in
the works already, um so that could be pretty cool.
So if you're looking for a good action we with
essentially thor killing bad guys, I'd say check out Extraction.
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All right, that's gonna do it for this week. But
before I go, I gotta get my shout out. Always
gotta get those in. And this week it is coming
to us from Instagram. It's from at A E. Bheeler
ak Andrea who posted on her Instagram story and she
liked the episode last week with my friend Bobby Bones.
If you haven't to check out that episode, it's up.
We talked about his top three movies that affected him
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and have been a part of his life. He also
got into a debate with me about Zanol so whether
or not he was a good guy. And then he
was in a movie called Band Slam, which he talked
about how he auditioned for that movie and also how
much he made in that movie, which was a lot
more than I expected to know. So if you haven't
letened to that episode, just go back one and check
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Hello, Hello, Hello, Welcome back to Movie Mix Movie Podcast.
I am movie Mike on Twitter and Instagram at Mike destro.
If you're new to the podcast, I just want to
say what up and welcome. What I do every single
week on this podcast, well just talk about movies, and
today I am talking about good movies with bad endings.
I asked a bunch of you guys on Twitter, what's
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a good movie you think had a bad ending? And
I found a bunch of different responses, and I want
to get into my list I came up with, and
also get into the ones you guys submitted, because there's
some good debate here, because a bad ending can be
seen in different ways. Either it really ruined the movie,
or maybe it just didn't end with the way you
wanted it to. So does that make it a bad ending?
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Well we'll discussed that here in a bit. And I
also want to talk about some very famous movies that
actually had alternative endings. So either they didn't test well
in theaters or they just realized in the script it
wasn't going to work. So really famous movies that could
have been an entirely different type of movie if they
would have ended this way. I'll get into my list
of those. I also want to give a movie review
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this week on something I watched on Netflix. It's Extraction,
Sorry and Chris Hemsworth, So we'll get into that. But
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get into this episode, I know I like to keep
this a spoiler free podcast, but obviously you can't really
talk about endings of movie without kind of spoiling them.
I did try to keep them to movies that came
out at least over ten years ago, which I believe
is kind of the rule. If it's been out ten years,
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you're probably not gonna watch it at this point. And
there is one I review that's fairly newer, but I'll
give you a spoiler alert before I do that, so
if you want to skip ahead a little bit in that. Anyway,
I just wanted to explore this topic, and I am
kind of breaking my own rules of not spoiling movies,
but it will be the only time, and if there
ever is a spoiler in the future, I will always
teach you with that spoiler review because I'm not that
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kind of podcast. It's going to ruin a movie for you.
All Right, With all that said, let's get started. In
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One man stands to infants the years of listeners like
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glasses from the Nashville Podcast Networking Movie movie Podcast. Alright,
so today we're talking about good movies with bad endings.
That has to bunch of you guys on Twitter for
your opinions. I got my list going. But first, before
we get into this, let's set the criteria. So first
of all, it has to be a good movie. It
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has to be something that is seen as all the
way up to the ending was great and then it
really just lost people. Maybe it kills the moving entirely,
or maybe just kind of takes it down a peg
in your book, But that has to be the first
part of it has to be a good movie to
begin with ruined by a bad ending. And also in
this just because the movie ends the way you didn't
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have in your head, it doesn't wrap everything up nicely.
And in with everything perfect in the and it doesn't
mean it's a bad ending. I saw a bunch of
those responses too, and for me and myself, sometimes I
like it with everything that end perfectly and it's all
nice wrapped up in the end and everybody ends up
together and in love, or everything works out of the end.
Sometimes you need that ending that hits you in the gut.
It makes you feel like, oh man, well that kind
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of sucks, and I think that's fine. That doesn't make
it a bad ending. What I hate is when I
feel ripped off or when I feel like there was
lazy writing. So the reason I thought of this episode
is because I watched the movie this week called A
Simple Favor. So first of all, before I started this episode,
it's kind of hard to talk about endings to movies
without giving spoilers, so I normally try to keep this
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a spoiler free podcast. I tried to pick a lot
of movies that have been out for at least ten years,
but I kind of feel like that's the role on spoilers,
Like if it's been out ten years, you probably haven't
watched it up to this point. But it kind of
started with the movie that I watched and didn't enjoy
the ending, So I won't ruin this entire movie right now,
but I just want to explain what I got um
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the idea for this episode with. Anyway, if you haven't
seen a simple favor, maybe skip ahead like a minute
or two, because I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm not gonna
give the ending away. I'm just gonna give away. I'm
just gonna say why I didn't like the way this
ending made me feel. So it starts Blake Lively and
Anakendrick and what happens at the end of this movie,
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Like it was a great first and second, I'm not
gonna ruin it now. I'm I've made up my mind.
I'm not hurting the movie, So you're good. The first
and second actor so intriguing, and it had a potential
to be a really good movie. But by the time
it gets to that third act, it just goes in
all different kinds of directions. You're confused as as as
you're watching it, you don't know where it's going, and
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it just ends and it falls flat. By the time
you get to those last twenty minutes, you don't really care.
And I think that's what makes a good movie have
a bad ending, and it just ruined by that. Another
thing I felt this movie was really lazy, like there's
a there's a troop, a thing that happens in movies
that I despise, Like I hate it when you just
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take out a main character with like an instant like boom,
They're gone, Like that makes no sense. It's such lazy
writing when it's like an attack out of nowhere and
there everything just ends up clean, like you don't have
any kind of intention behind it. They're just gone. So
I think this movie is a perfect example of that,
and I want to get into some other ones now,
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but I just think when there's lazy writing and it
just gets confusing to the point where you're like, Okay,
just end this movie already, like I don't care. I
think that's what makes a bad ending. So I'll get
into some of these. What I had first of all,
probably the main response I had was Titanic, and by now,
if you haven't seen Titanic, I'm sorry. It's one of
the most iconic, highest grossing movies of our lifetime. If
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you haven't seen the ending Titanic, you're missing out. You
haven't seen it. By now you're probably not gonna watch
it now. But it famously ends with Jack dying and
Rose staying alive on the door. Now, I don't think
that's what makes that movie a bad ending, because I
obviously if he could have fit on the door, he
would have been on the door like they You think
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they didn't try that, maybe they don't show it in
the movie, But I don't think that's a bad ending.
I think Jack had to die in this movie because
otherwise he wouldn't really remember it. If they ended up
together and they were both rescued, that would be a
lame minting. That would be terrible. He has to die
in this movie to make this movie a great movie.
Jack has to die. So I'm fine with that. I
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don't think they even needed to attempt to put him
on the door. Jack dying is fine. It's the fact
that she throws the stone into the ocean like that
that makes no sense, Like that's how the movie ends
of her, like looking back on that entire story and
then just throwing the ocean diamond back, the heart of
the ocean back into the ocean like that, that part
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of it makes no sense. And I think even just
that kind of narrative in the movie Titanic, I think
it could do without. So I don't think it's the
fact that died and they could have shared the door.
I don't think that was ever a possibility. But the
fact that she gave up maybe like a twenty million
dollar diamond and threw it into the ocean, that's what
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makes that movie a bad movie ending. Moving on to
War the World's starring Tom Cruise back in two thousand five.
Now Steven Spielberg one of the greatest directors, but this
one I feel just kind of falls flat. Like what
I've been saying earlier, I hate it when a movie
just ends with kind of oh, everything's cool now, and
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the whole time in this movie, it's Tom Cruise in
Dacoda fanning chaotic scene after chaotic scene, and I mean
the movie starts off right away with action and it
gets I really enjoyed this movie. Maybe to could have
fanning streaming gets a little annoying here and there. And
I'm not even the biggest Tom Cruise fan. Like, he
is one actor that for some reason I just I
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don't I can't stay in him in movies, But in
this one, I actually liked him, And I think it's
mainly because I like alien End of the World movies,
and I thought he was fine in this one. He
was at least tom crazy as he could have been.
But you go about two hours into this movie, and
then all of a sudden they realized that aliens can't
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survive on Earth, and everything just kind of turns out, Okay,
Tom True's are good. You're you and your family are safe. Now.
This whole time you've been running from aliens at the
just trying to survive, and then the aliens are just like, oh,
they can't live here. Turns out everybody go home. The
entire city is actually an okay, decent condition. I thought
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that was just kind of a bummer ending, kind of
lazy and didn't really give me what I wanted out
of an ending. All right, next up, keeping it in
the alien family for the next one. Now. A very
controversial director is m Night Shamalan. Now, he's very famous
for having twist in his movies, and I think oftentimes
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he'd be that it's being kind of his movies are
kind of teach is not as having bad anything because
you don't like the twist. Every movie he has has
a twist, and I think it works sometimes. I think
it's really great when you go into a movie kind
of expecting, like, Okay, something gonna be totally different, and
I think that's cool. I don't hate him for that.
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But a movie I was so invested in with Signs
and I saw this movie in theaters and I remember
watching it and being really scared, like the whole time.
That movie just had me like, holy crap, like this
is one of the scariest things I've seen and it's
not even supposed to be a horror movie. But I
still remember the feeling I got the first time when
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I was sitting in the theater. And what I like
about this movie is they don't show the aliens a
whole lot. I think what a really great action adventure
movie does, and any kind of horror movie, is you
don't give away the monster because that image you have
in your head create such a better picture of not
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seeing it so much until the very end, until it's
all out, third actor going for that final battle scene,
but when you just really kind of subtly show a
glimpse of them here and there, but it's more just
talked about in that anticipation. I think this movie did
a really great job of that because that first time
I remember seeing the alien walk across in the news footage,
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I was like, holy crap, Like for some reason I
thought that was a real alien. I was like, am
Night Shamalan has proved the aliens exist. And I was
so scared in the movie theater and that part was scary.
But then you get to this third act and the
whole time it just turns out that aliens are somehow
allergic to water, and it plays off the fact that
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this girl, the little girl in the movie, would leave
have drink cups of water throughout the house and they're
all around the house, strategically placed when the aliens come
and invade their home, and then they're in this fight
team with the aliens, and I feel like even when
they show the aliens at this point it I mean,
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this was early two thousands, but the c g I
just looks pretty weak, and the aliens almost like cartoonish,
and it goes full on cartoon whenever the alien brushes
against like a piano or a bookshelf, and a couple
of waterfalls on his shoulder and he starts dissolving, and
then you realize, oh, crap. The aliens can't handle splashes
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of water on him. So then you got Joaquin Phoenix
with the bat the whole time. You're like, oh, what's
he been doing with that thing the whole time? And
he just starts going to town and breaking glasses of
water and suddenly aliens are gone. There's I mean, the
whole time, they're trying to figure out why these crop
circles and all this mysterious stuff that went on with
mel Gibson's family, and it was just glasses of water apparently,
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And why would aliens invade Earth that's almost entirely made
up of water if they were allergic to water essentially?
So I just thought that was a bad ending. All Right,
we'll go into the superhero vein. I'm a big fan
of superhero movies, mainly the Marvel stuff, but uh, like
everybody else, I love Batman and I thought the Dark
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Knight trilogy was almost perfect. But when you get to
the Dark Knight Rises, I feel like that third act
just fell pretty flat because in that movie, Bane is
such a dominant force and he just can't be stopped
by Batman. From that opening scene where he takes over
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that plane and then just the whole build up of
him breaking Batman's back and just being this undeniable villain
that you don't really see like how he's gonna be
taken down. And that's what I loved about The Dark
Knight Rises, and even more so than Joeker in The
Dark Night, I felt like Bain was a stronger villain
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and the fact that you didn't really know how he
was going to be stopped all up until then you
get to the third act of this movie where just
kind of gets blurry and fuzzy, because then you have
the Dark Night and you have Bain battling against each other,
and all of a sudden, Bain is essentially defeated by
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Selina Kyle a k a catwoman running him over, and
he's gone very anti climactic, like you have being this
guy who can't be touched and he does all these
crazy schemes, but he's just run over. I really think
that running over somebody in the movie is the is
the laziest thing you can put into a movie. They
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do with so much in like horror movies where somebody
just gets hit by a bust, even if it's not
the ending, just anybody getting hit by a car should
be taken out and never written into a movie, so
I hated that in the movie. And then Bain doesn't
really become the villain anymore, and it's this woman who's
been there the whole time, And just so getting into
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the very ending of the movie, I feel like it
doesn't really make sense because you have Bruce Wayne and
Selena Kyle. They go off, you think he's dead, and
then they're just living together, and then you have Alfred
see them from across the restaurant, and just it's it's
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just very just a very unsatisfying ending, just for how
impactful that trilogy was. To kind of end on that note,
was just like, ok, you're not really gonna tell with
anything else, and you have to pretty much assume that
Joseph Gordon Levitt's character becomes Robin. So it's all just
kind of like us assuming what happens. And I get
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that they don't have to tell you every single thing
in an ending, but I just feel like that one
was just like, Okay, we don't really know how to
end this one. Um Batman go then he goes into hiding,
all right, see you later, all right. The next one,
I saw a lot of you guys tweet about was
La La Land and I love La La Land. Now,
I have come on the podcast and said that I
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am not a big fan of musicals and I didn't
want to like this movie. And I went to see
it because it was nominated for a Best Picture that year,
and I was like, I'll go watch it, and about
five minutes into it, I ended up loving it. And
a lot of people said that they didn't like this ending. Now,
I think this is a great example of movies that
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don't end the way you want them to. But I
don't think this was a bad ending because the fact
that Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone didn't end up together,
I don't think that makes it a bad ending. I
think that's great. I think it's an unconventional love story
and if they would have ended up together, it would
have been just It would have taken out how artistic
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this movie was. And I like it In romantic movies
where the two don't end up together, where it doesn't
quite work out, I think that's a really it's it's
tough for audiences, and it's tough for people who get
so invested and want to see two people be together
and not end up together at the end, But I
think in this movie it really works and it makes
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more sense for them not to be together than to
kind of adapt into this okay, perfectly magical ending, and
it ends on a really great, happy note. I think
this movie takes you on a bunch of ups and downs,
and it's fun and parts when they are together. But
the fact that it ends up that they don't go
off and get married into the sunset, I think it's great.
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So I don't think The Land has a bad ending. Sorry,
all right, And there's another movie that a bunch of
you guys tweet to me about that I want to
talk about in another segment. I'm gonna do because I
am legend with Will Smith. Some people said they had
a bad ending. I don't think it was a terrible ending,
But it's a movie that actually had an alternative ending
that was shot and not put into the movie. And
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not only that, the book that it was adapted for
had a completely different ending that I think was even
better than either the alternative or the one that ended
up in theater. So what I want to do next
to talk about alternative endings to popular movies, and in
some cases it would have made for a better movie,
but a lot of these it's like, Okay, I'm glad
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that they went with the ending they went with, So
take a quick break and we'll do that segment next.
All right, Gonna get into now alternative endings from very
famous movies, and the first one I wanted to talk
about is I Am Legend, which ends with Will Smith's
character essentially finding the cure to the virus that has
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caused all these dark Seekers that he's been fighting the
entire movie. But as he finds it, he ends up
having to sacrifice himself to give the vaccine to this
other woman and a child who go on and give
it to the world, but he has to essentially blow
up the lab, blow up himself to take out these
dark Seekers that are trying to break in. And that's
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the version you saw in movie theaters, and a bunch
of critics didn't like it. I thought it was fine.
But there was also an alternative ending that they filmed
and didn't tests so well on the screen when they
were first showing the movie, and it was Will Smith
still finding the vaccine, but he ends up befriending the
dark Sneakers and they're like learned to essentially live and
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coexist because they just realized that they've been misunderstood from
each other, that they saw Will Smith was trying to help,
and they take the female dark secret that he's taken
into his lab, and they learned to kind of live
in harmony and audiences andn't like that. Maybe rightfully so.
But there's another version that was actually in the book
that the movie is based on, where I think it's
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kind of the darkest and I think would have even
been a better ending to the movie. Is that essentially
these dark Sneakers have taken over the world and they
kind of become and are seen as the main people
like inhabiting Earth, like they are the majority, and will
Smith in turn becomes almost the villain and the monster
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because they see him as the one trying to take
them out and cure them and a threat on their
lives that he in turn is scene as the monster.
And I think that's almost the darkest ending and would
have been a really great, great twist to this movie,
because the whole time you think, oh, it's will Smith
trying to save humanity and he's the last human on Earth.
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But from their point of view, it's this guy trying
to take out of their people. So I think that
would have been a great alternative ending. In this case,
I was fine with the ending that came out in theaters.
I never thought this movie had a bed ending, but
I think the fact that it had all these alternative
ways it could have gone that could have been interesting.
All right, and I have your note. The original ending
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to Dodgeball actually had kind of a dark humor type ending.
So the original ending was the average joes and up
pulling off the wind and everything is happy and the
bad guy loses. But the one they tried it out
with audiences before that was the fact that Ben Stiller's
team just ends up winning, like I don't know, We're like,
oh we win, everybody goes home. You see Vince Vaughn
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kind of in a slow motion, oh well we lost,
And that was the ending. So it was almost like
an anti joke type ending of this whole build up
off it's supposed to be these underdogs winning a sports
movie that kind of thing, and just being like, oh,
we take a total turn and bad guy wins, which
I could see going to watch that and being like, oh,
well that kind of sucked. But it was also could
have been kind of funny, because you don't really expect
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that it had all the other makings of a of
a sports movie of the underdog story. If it would
have had that kind of killer kill, the comedy kill
the ending, I think that could have been kind of
funny to see. And in the movie that was already
so ridiculous about Dodgeball, why not give it a totally
crazy ending could have worked. All Let's go way back
to Star Wars Return of the Jedi, because you're original
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script actually included the death of Han Solo. Now, this
is according to a producer of the movie who said
they wanted to kill Han Solo and essentially a raid
on the Imperial base. But George Lucas was so concerned
about the death of Han Solo and he didn't want
to kill off a major character because, I mean, he
thought it would affect merchandizing sales, like if you kill
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up Han Solo, you can't sell Han Solo action figures
for years to come. And also you kill off a
main character if there was any chance of at the
time there being sequels and all the other movies they
ended up making, you would lose Han Solo, which I
think in the end this was probably a good move,
But I am not opposed to killing main characters early
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on in a movie franchise. I think it makes it
really impactful. And yes, it would have made the newer
Star Wars movies a bit different, but it could have
also made him just that much more legendary of a character.
But in this case, probably a good idea to leave
the beloved Han solo in this movie Pretty Woman. So
Pretty Woman is essentially a Cinderella story. You take Julia
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Roberts character, you have her meet this charming guy. He
turns her into a princess. But in the original movie
it had an ending that was a lot darker, and
the whole movie just kind of had a more serious
and darker tone. And then the original ending, she was
supposed to end up back on the streets. So Julia
Robert's character, Bibby and We was just supposed to get
the money from this guy and ends up going back
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on the streets and living a really dark and depressing,
horrible life. And this guy just kind of turns out
to be another horrible man. No Cinderella story, no happy,
lovely ending. It just goes back to being sad, and
if that would have happened, this movie would not be
as beloved as it was, so good call on that one,
all right. And last up we have the Lion King,
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so Disney always has to have a pretty heavy ending,
and the original one that this was a lot darker,
and there's even some test footage on YouTube if you
want to search this out for the alternative ending. But
what happens is pretty close to what happens in the
movie with one little twist. So you have them battling
out on Pride Rock and it turns into almost what
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happened at the beginning of the movie with Scar and Mufassa.
Now it's Simba and Scar, but instead what was supposed
to happen instead of Simba jumping back up fighting Scar
and then essentially the hyenas taking out Scar. And really
what you don't see bull was supposed to happen was
as they're fighting on the top of the Pride Rock
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is he was supposed to throw a Simba off just
like it didn't move fasta but unlike what happened to
mu Flassa, Simba was supposed to hit a branch and
be saved, but then Scar was supposed to be left
up on Bride Rock essentially burning down with all those flames,
which when you watch this test footage to be searched
on YouTube, the alternative ending of the Lion King, it
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looks pretty dark because Scar is just up there laughing
maniagally and then essentially being taken out by the flames.
And I think that would have scared little kids and
scared of five year old me watching this. So there's
probably a reason why Disney isn't known for having brutal endings.
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All right, Gonna get into a movie review now, talking
about the movie Extraction, starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Sam Hargrave,
but more important than that, it is written by the
Russo brothers, who also directed the Avengers movies, So essentially
you have those two teaming up together. It's essentially a
movie with thor again if you think about it that way.
But I saw I had been in the top ten
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on Netflix for the past couple of weeks and I
finally had time to sit down and watch it, and
if nothing else, I was going to have an enjoyable
experience of seeing the stunning Chris Hemsworth on the screen. So,
first of all, here's a little bit of extraction. Best
thing you could do for that kid would be pulling friends,
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but you couldn't even the kid behind. Are you going
to leave me in the street? All right? So for
the plot of this movie, there's really not a whole
lot to it. You have Chris Hemsworth character. He plays
the guy named Tyler Rake who is hired to essentially
rescue this kid who has been stolen by these drug
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smugglers and hild for ransom. That's pretty much all you
need to know going into this movie. Nothing crazy as
far as the storyline, very easy to follow, and it's
just the all out action movie. So it starts out
pretty simple enough and it wraps up pretty quick. So
it's a movie that goes right into it. And what
I liked about this movie not that I wasn't expecting
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to like it, but what's not about the first ten
minutes you kind of know what it's going to be,
and you kind of have to make that decision of
the mindset you want to put yourself in, like are
you gonna some movies you just want to go into
and enjoy no matter what. Different movies have kind of
different levels of how you rate them. I think this
one's on a whole different spectrum because it's just one
you can sit down and watch and enjoy. It's when
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I could probably watch with my dad, who doesn't watch
any movies whatsoever, but he could watch this one and
know what's going on because it's a guy with the
gun shooting bad guys. Not hard to understand. But what
is different about this movie is it it's so violent
and intense and shot in a way then I really
haven't seen before, because there's almost sequences of action where
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it feels like one entire shot in one fail swoop.
So it goes from this advantage point of seeing Chris
Hem's worth with a gun taking out these bad guys,
but you follow him like with him, like you're right
behind him, and the camera just moves in this kind
of way where it never kind of cuts between scenes,
which isn't something I haven't seen since maybe like nineteen seventeen,
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which is all shot and one continuous shot. It's not
to that extreme, but I think it gives this a
whole different feel of the action, and that's very apparent
within like the first maybe thirty forty minutes of this
where it's so intense and it goes from him being
like inside a building to all of a sudden you
follow him falling out and fighting in the streets. So
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the violence in this is so brutal, and I think
that kind of cinematographery aspect kind of gives it that
whole other level of Okay, this movie is a bit
of a step up, and it's not just your running
the male action movie. I think that gives it so
much more of an authentic feel and it just doesn't
feel like some slap to get their action movie. And
I think that it's partly due to the director and
also the Russo brothers who are in this as well.
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And I think Chris hess Worth is pretty good in this.
He's a really great action story like aside from being
you know, thor that we love is being funny but
also um heroic on the screen and being seen as
somebody who can you know, take someone down. I think
he's a really great action storry and we haven't seen
that a whole lot from him, so that was kind
of cool to see. But it's a very brutal movie.
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There's some really intense parts where like you almost not
expect him to go there like literally like throwing children
off of a building. It's pretty crazy. But also there's
the thing, I guess it's kind of a trend now
in movies, and I guess it's kind of, I don't know,
the cool thing to do in action movies, but head shots,
like straight up shooting people in the head is kind
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of a an extreme action movies they're taking right now
because it's it's very dramatic and it's very like old
Crab that really happened, and no matter how you shoot
it and how you present it, that's gonna be an
intense thing to watch. So there are some head shots
in this movie that are pretty brutal in it it
almost goes on like I guess maybe john Wick kind
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of started out of the kind of intense, bloody violence
for sometimes no reason, and this one, I feel it
has a little bit more of a purpose because it
is kind of an a war zone situation and it's
a little far fetched. It's not as far fetched as
like john Wick, but I mean, how you're gonna expect
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one guy to take out essentially an entire army of
people without it be a little crazy. So in that aspects,
maybe it's a little unrealistic and maybe a kind of
action not cheesy but cliche in a bit, But I
thought the action was great in it. Overall, the story
it doesn't really need much until like the very end,
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you maybe get a little more of what you want
from it. But I think throughout the entire movie you're
pretty invested in it, and it's one where the action
is pretty NonStop and you care about it till the
very end. So I know, in the sceentire episode I've
been talking about movies and bad endings, I think this
one actually has a great ending and it keeps you
invested until that final scene. So if you're looking for
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something to watch in your house right now on Netflix
into action movies, I think this is a pretty good
one for you if you're into that. I give it
four out of five rounds of ammunition for sure. I
think a lot of that, like I said, has to
do with the way it's shot, in the way it looks,
in the way it feels, but also that it's just
NonStop action and it was something for me to watch
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and be able to take my brain off of anything,
and the fact that I really like the fact that
Netflix is putting out these bigger action movies right now.
I think that's a pretty good space for them to
work in because I think sometimes an action movies that's
something that really gets me to go to a theater
as much. And the fact that we can have this
in our home now, where you have people like Chris
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Hemsworth and Mark Wahlberg doing these kind of movies that
you can just watch on Netflix, like, that's a pretty
great thing. So I think it's worth checking out. I
did hear they're gonna make a sequel to this in
the works already, um so that could be pretty cool.
So if you're looking for a good action we with
essentially thor killing bad guys, I'd say check out Extraction.
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All right, that's gonna do it for this week. But
before I go, I gotta get my shout out. Always
gotta get those in. And this week it is coming
to us from Instagram. It's from at A E. Bheeler
ak Andrea who posted on her Instagram story and she
liked the episode last week with my friend Bobby Bones.
If you haven't to check out that episode, it's up.
We talked about his top three movies that affected him
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and have been a part of his life. He also
got into a debate with me about Zanol so whether
or not he was a good guy. And then he
was in a movie called Band Slam, which he talked
about how he auditioned for that movie and also how
much he made in that movie, which was a lot
more than I expected to know. So if you haven't
letened to that episode, just go back one and check
that one out. If you listen to that episode and
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now you're listening to this one, hey welcome. This is
what we do every week. So tell a friend post
in your Instagram story and get a shout out next week.
And with all that said, I will talk to you
guys on another episode. Stay safe out there later.
Host
Mike D
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