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In the Original "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" at the end they arrive back to earth 100 Billion years in the past. Before mankind.
And then discover that mankind was left behind on a spaceship that eventually crashes on Earth. (Dooming the Earth forever).
I'm sure Douglas Adams wanted to do that but because of time constrants he couldn't.
The original BBC version is on dvd I highly reccomend it.
Getting the initials right would have been more clever.
"Cop Out #2 is waiting on her heels as the Good Witch explains that she’s had the power to go home…the whole time!"
That's not a cop out; it's a metaphor. The characters didn't need the Wizard (God) to bring them happiness. They all had the power within themselves the whole time.
Also when do they make out in Prisoner of Azkaban? I totally missed that.
Just because it's a metaphor doesn't mean it's not a cop out. And it's not a very good metaphor: You don't need God to make you happy, you just need sparkly shoes? What are we teaching our children?
I also have little regard for accurate initials, but, yeah, duly noted and changed.
@ Fure
I rue most days.
But two of them I find a bit unfair. In Harry Potter, during the whole film Hermione frequently appears at places where she has not been the moment before, Ron usually being the one to pick up on it. It was done a bit dodgily in the movie though, in the book it's explained a lot better.
And secondly the Jurassic Park one, on the DVD there is a making-of in which Spielberg describes exactly the scene you mentioned above. They had some sketches of the raptors simply being entangled in the skeletons in the visitors centre to start with, which they decided seemed a bit cheap. Plus they wanted to give the T-Rex a proper finale, so he could scream so loud that the banner comes down.
Fully agree with the rest of them though, as far as i've seen them, for some reason i never got round to watching shakespaere in love, maybe i shall give it s try...
Thx for 10 minutes of fun and the chance to add my two pennies
considered a cop-out. Having a Royal show up at the end to make everything right is the
way Shakespeare himself ended several of his comedies. It was the perfect ending for a
comedy about Shakespeare.
Had they introduced the Time Turner early on, it wouldn't have been a cop out, and while I'm all for a huge T-Rex send off, it's still a cop out.
Total cop out ending compared to the UK version.
First off, there is no character in Dodgeball named "Dwight", is name is WHITE Goodman. He even spells it at one point in the movie "I'm White, W H I T...E", so this mistake is slightly inexcusable.
I also watched the "original ending" on the DVD, and while it is definitely more shocking and possibly more fitting, it just felt like a big middle finger to the audience. I thought the new editing, while sappy, was just more fun and fit better with the rest of the movie. Plus, how can you bag on a movie that openly admits to using Deux ex Machina?
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