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How it should have ended...

posted 8 years ago by MeOnline
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I enjoyed the movie, but John Goodman's acting made him scarier than the aliens. After his death it was hard to build up any tension in the fight in them. If it were my movie I would have...

1. Not had Howard kill Emmett. It solidified him as a bad guy and so much of the tension was from the unsurety.
2. Had Emmett and Michelle both escape together and leave Howard behind.
3. Go into his house (above ground) and learn that there was a reasonable explanation for girl in the photo. Maybe she really was his daughter, or a friend or something to explain what happened. Howard, while an unbalanced survivalist nut, was not evil.
4. As they find out the truth, the aliens make their appearance.
5. The two of them run back to the bunker and try and get in while Howard watches from behind the bunker door in horror and disappointment that they didn't listen. He can only stare as two of them are killed by the aliens, leaving him alone and the only survivor. Forever alone in his bunker.

[–] stflaw-33767 8 years ago

I like it a lot.

[–] love_cats_hate_dogs 8 years ago

Yes, that's pretty good...or just have it the same as it was shot up until she sees the alien ship and realises she just killed the guy who saved her life, and destroyed the bunker which was her only chance of survival...at which point the aliens, drawn to the bunker explosion, show up, abduct her and she wakes up having a whole bunch of really weird, nasty experiments carried out on her...she screams...credits roll.

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Hitler was a dog person.

[–] PompeyV 7 years ago

I would tweak your ending just slightly. Instead of waking up onboard and being experimented on, her shower curtain suit and plastic bottle mask fail (because c'mon, it's a flimsy shower curtain and plastic bottles literally held together by duct tape) and she dies in the cloud of poisonous green gas, choking and gasping and starting to get those skin burn wounds just like that woman she didn't let into the bunker.

[–] jukaswo-2 8 years ago

Excellent!

[–] jamesjacksonjrjj 8 years ago

That would have been a perfect ending to me

[–] minhas4 8 years ago

Yeah Goodman was so good at being bad in this. The whole time she was running from the monsters I was half expecting Howard to come out all burnt and chase her lol. When it became apparent she was just gonna battle a big ship/monster (and ridiculously defeat it), I was rolling my eyes. Great movie, ending aside.

[–] smoko 8 years ago

@MeOnline I like it, that's a downbeat, Twilight Zone-ish ending. Unfortunately, movie studios generally don't like downer endings.

[–] emmacondon 7 years ago

This ending would have made the movie worth watching

[–] Smokey_T 7 years ago

It would be hard to make a worse one in all honesty.

[–] SD_Revived 7 years ago

The ending i was hoping for did't include any aliens. Instead Howard would turn out to be a liar and have set everything up. Not sure how to explain the woman outside melting away, but in a flashback we could muster up something that Howard used a secret exit to unleash toxic stuff etc.

I would have liked that better.
This whole War of the worlds spin didnt do it for me.