If you could alter movie plot to end it quick

Ash.J.Williams

If you could change a decision at a pivotal point in a movie plot just to end it without drama, what would you choose?

I'd get Brian Dennehy's character in first blood (rambo), to drop John rambo off at a decent cafe in town for some breakfast and give him a recommendation for lodgings in the area , and perhaps thank him for his service

p to the e

Neo takes the blue pill

fran38

Apollo Creed to knock out Ivan Drago in Rocky 4 which would save us from that movie 😁

AndyBoBandy

Lord of the Rings... those massive eagles that rescue them at the end of the 3rd movie just Fly Frodo straight to the mountain to drop the ring into the lava...

The End.

or better still, we still get the 3 movies, but once the ring is destroyed, thats it, roll credits.... we didn't need that extra hour of utter sh1te afterwards....

Ash.J.Williams

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Although creed getting sparked after that James brown intro was classic 😀😀

Dublinandy3

The first Harry Potter. Social Services came around and rescued Harry and put him into a nice loving foster family. Turn it into a short 15-minute film about the benefits of fostering.

Ash.J.Williams

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A loving Foster family and a good education 😀

Cluedo Monopoly

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I must break you

Ash.J.Williams

The raid:

The cops send a drone to level the building and Everyone in it

pjordan

Gone with the Wind - No Civil War. Full stop!

Casablanca - Rick and Ugarte elope with the stolen visas!

Ben Hur - Judah's sister Terzah marries Messala and Judah becomes an influental leader in Rome's adminstration of Judea

The Great Dictator - The poor tailor gets shot dead going over the top!

Battleship Potmekin - The pram stops just at the top of the steps!

The Godfather - Michael becomes a powerful and influential anti corruption attorney after leaving the army

Jaws - Quint dies after the Indianapolis sinking!

The Quiet Man - Tony Gardello beats Sean "Trooper" Thornton in the ring

tibruit

Henry Fonda`s character just votes guilty like everyone else at the outset in Twelve Angry Men. It was obvious the kid did it.

Tell me how

Home Alone 1 - Could have been a 30 second advertisement for the first cell phones with text messaging features.

Sleepy

Sex and the City The Movie - the plane crashes on the way to Mexico killing the 4 women and saving the world from having to endure any more of their self centred whinging and vapid consumption.

MfMan

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I've always felt that the logical end of Ben Hur came with the climactic chariot race and vengeance in the form of Massala's death. It made the subsequent rescue of Ben's family a bore.

pjordan

Deliverance - they decide to form a bluegrass band with Lonnie on banjo

To kill a mocking bird - Atticus turns out to be a racist bigot after all!

A night to remember / Titanic (all versions) - they miss the iceberg!

Terminator - power cut!

Le voyage dans la lune (1902) - the rocket misses!

The Birds - he buys two hamsters instead!

Bullitt - the brakes fail going downhill!

Doctor Zhivago - Lara's marriage to Pasha Antipov is happy and contented and they live happily ever after

magicbastarder

not a movie, and not a new idea - but set 'breaking bad' in a country with proper socialised healthcare. walter gets treatment for his cancer, roll credits.

FortuneChip

Raiders of the Lost Ark - Indy just decides to not pursue the Nazis and they bring about their own destruction the same way they would have anyway.

Se7en - Somerset is allowed retire. They fail to build the case against John Doe, which removes the possibility of Mills being involved.

Se7en - Tracy tells her husband her good news - and that persuades them to move away from the awful city they've relocated to for his job

Jurassic World - New Super Dinosaur goes "missing", they check it's location tracker and realise it's still in the cage. Nothing to see here.

Twilight - Could have saved a lot of people an entire franchise by just acknowleding that Edward by hiw own admission is "dangerous" and "old". "Right, I'll probably leave you alone so"

magicbastarder

yeah, i've seen it pointed out before that indiana jones has no impact on the outcome of the movie. he fails to save the day at all.

yagan

Just finish the third LOTRs movies after the ring is thrown in. We sit through a turgid 40 minute hovis bread add after that.

pixelburp

Star Wars, a classic example.

"Hold your fire. There are no life forms. It must have been short-circuited"

If they did open fire, bye bye Death Star plans.

And because nothing in Star Wars can just be anymore, that lowly gunner has his own Wookiepedia entry...

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Bolvan

brokenbad

El Camino "Breaking Bad Movie" - Jesse gets caught by the oncoming police convoy while escaping from the Nazi compound.

The Fugitive - The bus carrying the prisoners to the high security prison arrives without incident preventing Richard Kimble's escape.

Con Air - During the frisking of prisoners prior to boarding the plane, the prisoner who has a condom filled with lighter fuel pukes it up.

Face Off - Castor Troy does not wake up from a coma.

Unforgiven - The cattle ranchers and the prostitutes had a pleasurable time and everyone went home happy.

Dirty Harry - Harry gets shot and killed during the bank robbery sequence.

The Rock - During his escape from the police in the Hummer, Sean Connery crashes into a tram and is killed instantly in the resulting fireball.

The Shawshank Redemption - Andy Dufresne's wife never had an affair.

Air - Michael Jordan turned down the contract with Nike

Terminator 2 - John Connor's friend does not lie to T1000 as to the whereabouts of Connor in the Gaming arcade

Harika

Star wars 4 - the storm troopers catch Luke and Obi wan. Obi executed, Luke dark side

Star wars 5 - The imperium jumps properly and the rebels get shot down one by one

z80CPU

PROMETHEUS:

Expunge that Asshole emotional mess Elizabeth Shaw out of the equation. David talks to the Engineer and does not get his head ripped off. Then David and we the audience learn more. Win Win situation.

If I was an engineer awoken from hibernation like that with a scientist like Shaw, I would go crazy too.

artanevilla

Any James Bond film: Someone shoots Bond in the face in the opening scene instead of trying to kill him with sharks, snakes, spiders, lasers etc.

CastorTroy

Star Wars: Anakin and Padme'e relationship wasn't forbidden or it never happened.

Qui-Gonn and Obi-Wan never landed on Tatooine.

ET: he was captured at the start.

Rocky: End of the first film but to end the franchise, Rocky clearly lost to Apollo so no rematch was needed.

TinyMuffin

ICEBURG STRAIGHT AHEAD

Fair enough I’ll swing the ship left.

mewso

Star Wars: Qui-Gon Jin says "That kid is a wrong-un. Lets rig the pod racer to explode"

AndyBoBandy

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Or White Star Line didn't try to be billy big balls and break the record on their fancy new ship's maiden voyage during iceberg season on a moonless night..

MfMan

The Magnificent Seven; the horses pulling the hearse to Boot Hill cemetery bolted out of control across country. The Mexicans went to Las Vegas instead with the villagers valuables.

pjordan

Citizen Kane - It is widely known that Rosebud is the name of Kane's sled and he was never fostered out by his mother.

Shane - Starrett dies in a "mysterious" accident on the farm and Shane renews his romance with Marian and sets up house with her and Joey. Wilson's train never arrives.

The Good the Bad and the Ugly: The fella on the stagecoach dies before he discloses where the treasure is buried!

Guess who's coming to dinner: Joanne "Joey" Drayton brings home her lovely white fiancee to meet her parents

The Field: The locals are delighted with the Yanks proposal to set up a quarry and concrete plant to bring employment and prosperity to the village and they all roll in behind him and The Bull is sidelined and has to emigrate to work on the buildings in England. Tadhg elopes with the tinker while he's away!

bogmanfan

The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

This is such an entertaining film, one of my favourites. But there is a gaping plot hole that you have to get past, and that would end the movie after 15 minutes.

Spoiler Warning

[spoiler] After the painting is stolen, the police look back at security footage from earlier in the day and see that somebody had planted a heater in the gallery to disable the heat sensitive cameras. But for some reason they don't simply go back further to see who that person was. Instead we get (an admittedly brilliant) 2 hours of did he/didn't he. Baffling decision. [/spoiler]