Movies that you wish You Could Change The Story and Events

[SashaMcallister]

I'd remove the dance rave from Matrix Reloaded. It's actually a solid film if you take out that 40 minute bit.

 

[BAYLOR]

I would have changed Jurassic Park to be more like Westworld--so there's a fully functioning park with lots of tourists.
I would have the velociraptors replaced with a made-up dinosaur that was discovered by accident. One they never heard of before.
I would have put the hunter of the second movie among the tourists and then the island security breaks down-he goes off after a tyrannosaur.
Definitely less scenes with the kids.

Terminator 2--I feel they should have had the Arnie terminator lose all his skin in the steel mil so he and the T-1000 are fighting in their true forms-so it would have been a stop-motion endoskeleton.
I don't think the "I need a vacation" line would be any worse if it was spoken by the endoskeleton.

Star Trek First Contact-I feel they should have abandoned the Cochrane story and focused on the Borg-so instead of going in the past, they end up in a parallel universe where the Borg have taken over the 24th century Earth--but it's mostly abandoned (due to Species 8472?) except for some humans living underground. And the Borg of the original timeline-they use the dish to contact the Borg of this timeline.


Return of the Jedi--a few changes. One, Jabba's palace is not on Tattooine. It would be a watery planet with man-made islands--like huge concrete islands. And the planet's atmosphere is patrolled by robot satellites. The Sarlaac remains but would be in some kind of cement pit-instead of the desert.
Darth Vader would not be the Emperor's mind slave-so he would want to Luke for his own plans for power-and the Emperor would be the same.
That was in the original version-I like that better.
I would replace the second Death Star with something else--like a Death Nebula or something that looks more intricate--like the Imperial shipyards.

Some vast field of ships and support structure-so they have to fight by weaving through this giant maze of stuff.

I wouldnt get rid of the ewoks-but I would get rid of the teddy bear look-and make the planet more alien-looking. Purple flowers and trees and stuff like that-and I would add the Gorax for sure. So the Gorax come out and attack the AT-AT machines.
Oh and the speeder bike scene would have a moment where the bikes go through the skeleton of a Gorax in the forest.
Love the Gorax! He speaks for the trees!

And definitely I would get rid of the brother-sister thing. The Other would be someone unknown.

In Star Wars universe it would be our future Earth would exist and would be a backwater place.

 

[Rodders]

I would've liked Anakin to have been closer in age to Padme in the Phantom Menace. There was always something really weird in those two getting together with that gap.

 

[paranoid marvin]

I would've liked Anakin to have been closer in age to Padme in the Phantom Menace. There was always something really weird in those two getting together with that gap.

I think it shows how Skywalker became infatuated with Padme rather than in love. But in all honesty the whole storyline I-III is a bit of a disaster area.

 

[Rodders]

There were some... questionable decisions, but overall i still find the PT entertaining.

 

[BAYLOR]

Search for Spock . Kirk finds a way to save his son David Marcus. .

 

[BAYLOR]

Avengers Endgame I wish Dr Strange could have found a way to save Tony Stark. I find it hard to believe Strange could only find the one scenario in 14 million plus in which Thanos's defeat required Tony to make the ultimate sacrifice.

 

[Guttersnipe]

I have a vague ideal version of Mystic River (2003) in my head in which Penn's character is punished for his crime near the end.

 

[BAYLOR]

12 Monkey's Dr Peters gets caught and sent to the mental Hospital and lobotomized before he has the chance release the virus. Jefrey Goines the son of the lead scientist , get sent back to Hospital and where too is the recipient of an all expense paid full frontal lobotomy . His father Dr Leland Goines joins him there and he too get is own personalize front lobotomy courtesy of the US taxpayers. As for the team created the virus , Yes lobotomies for all and ! All research and samples of the virus get incinerated to ashes. All mention of this program gets erased .

Yes a very happy ending , unless you were involved in the virus program. But the result will be not much of a movie .

In truth 12 Monkeys it is a great film and one of the best science fiction films of all time. Given Covid , it's become an excellent cautionary tale. I don't like the downbeat ending but, I respect it, because life itself doesn't guarantee a happy ending and thats one of the films points.

 

[Alextrax52]

While not an ending per se, I do wonder what Star Wars: Return of the Jedi would have looked like had we got the original plan of the final battle taking place in the wookie heartland of Kashykk. That really would have been something

 

[BAYLOR]

While not an ending per se, I do wonder what Star Wars: Return of the Jedi would have looked like had we got the original plan of the final battle taking place in the wookie heartland of Kashykk. That really would have been something

That actually would have been alot better.

 

[Vince W]

It certainly would have been better than the one in teddy-bear-ville.

 

[BAYLOR]

It certainly would have been better than the one in teddy-bear-ville.

My next choice for a Star Wars Film The Great Ewok Hunt a Michael bay film.

And I also want Citizen Jar Jar A Quinten Tarantino Film .

 

[KGeo777]

While not an ending per se, I do wonder what Star Wars: Return of the Jedi would have looked like had we got the original plan of the final battle taking place in the wookie heartland of Kashykk. That really would have been something

I think that would have been better than the ewoks.
It's cute that C3P0 gets taken as a god but it's very cliche too.

But having the ewoks fight the Empire is very typical in Hollywood as the
David and Goliath trope. The unlikely hero.
They love when a physically weaker character defeats a bigger one using primitive technology.
The Wookies don't need it-they can rip them apart.

Yoda is an example of that too. The little guy is the super-powered badass.

Even in Star Wars 77 you have that with Luke firing a single shot into the Death Star to destroy it--that's David and Goliath too.

Luke defeats the AT-AT in the same way.
It works in small doses but it has sidelined the two fighters who are equally matched type of situation.
It's much harder to find that.
"Robin Hood vs Sir Guy" type situations.

 

[Rodders]

I never had a problem with it as a kid. ROTJ is still a great movie to me and is still probably one of the best third acts in a trilogy.

I still have problems processing the whole Midichlorian aspect of the Force and would have much preferred to have kept the Force in mysticism.

 

[Toby Frost]

I remember thinking that the end of Falling Down, where it's revealed that the lead character was just a loony all along, seemed very weak when I first saw it. I suspect it's generally not aged all that well, but that felt like a real cop-out at the time.

 

[CupofJoe]

Any and all films where a group of isolate people [usually teens] where one of them says "lets split up and explore"...
Doubly so if it is at night and something creepy has already happened.
Apart from Idiocracy, I hate when characters act dumb because the plot demands it. In Idiocracy, being dumb is plot.

 

[Mon0Zer0]

They love when a physically weaker character defeats a bigger one using primitive technology.

Lucas is on the record with saying how the inspiration for the primitive technology defeating a technologically advanced invader came from the vietnam war. Star wars has that at its core with the rebellion / empire.

I'd have changed the entirety of the first three Star Wars prequels to be something like the golden age arc of Berserk, where Anakin starts as a young idealistic adult - like Griffith - who from the start has a desire for power, albeit one cloaked in righteousness. Obi Wan is more of a mentor, and less central to the movie. His role as comrade replaced by a new character more equivalent to Guts' role - who is the counterbalance to Anakin's descent - a decent, upright fighter and brother in arms.

Over the course of the movies we see him become frustrated with battles, politicians, and lured over to the dark side by Palpatine. His desire for justice would become authoritarian as he begins to see the world without nuance. His machine parts would be acquired incrementally through battles, mirroring his slow descent into inhumanity. The battles would have more strategic interest - more Kurosawa type samurai duels and battles of wits - we see this in the Mandalorian and it works well, I think.

It would make the romance with padme less uncomfortable. I'd make Darth Maul have a larger role as an antagonist.

I'd most definitely excise any lines about sand or cries of "noooooo"!

Sequel trilogy - make it more about Luke, it's what the fans wanted and the skywalker family is the core of the star wars ennealogy. Give Finn a more central role than as a sidekick for Rey. Give Rey some actual character development and not have her as an overpowered warrior from the get go. Lose Palpatine.

With decades of extended universe you think they could have cobbled together something better than what they gave us.

Elements of the Last Jedi are great - but they're the kind of clever subversion which works on paper but not on screen, and it created all kinds of problems for the trilogy as a whole. Super Leia was tonally strange and the ship / iron smash cut was Mel Brooksian and displayed a knowing contempt for the material. The unsubtle social commentary about wealth and capitalism was a bit rich coming from Disney. The ending with the kid and the broom was something out of Mary Poppins.

I didn't mind Luke's descent into curmudgeonliness. Luke was always a Lucas surrogate (Luke S, geddit!), and it mirrors the creator's own reputation in Hollywood for being somewhat of a grump.

Close Encounters - Roy left his entire family behind without a moment's thought. I think he should have refused or at least been conflicted by this.

 

[CupofJoe]

@Mon0Zer0 Steven Spielberg made almost the exact same point about Close Encounters. He was not married by that time and said he got the family dynamic wrong.

 

[BAYLOR]

@Mon0Zer0 Steven Spielberg made almost the exact same point about Close Encounters. He was not married by that time and said he got the family dynamic wrong.

He got it wrong big time.