this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
41 points (84.7% liked)

Ask Lemmy

26916 readers
2794 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions

Please don't post about US Politics. If you need to do this, try [email protected]


Rules: (interactive)


1) Be nice and; have funDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them


2) All posts must end with a '?'This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?


3) No spamPlease do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.


4) NSFW is okay, within reasonJust remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected]. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].


5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.


Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija


Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

what movie has the greatest turnaround. Like all hope is lost, people are fleeing or whatever, and something happens, then everyone rallies and of course wins the day.
Its in tons of movies, usually pretty cheesy. But there must be some that do it right. What are they?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The original/alternate ending of "I am Legend" that was scrapped for the dumb reason that test audiences didn't immediatly understand it.

Spoiler:In that ending, the main character realized that the "mindless zombies" he hunted are actually pretty sentient and from their perspective, HE was the monster terrorizing their entire species day in, day out. The main character had captured one of them to conduct experiments for a possible cure, and once he realizes that the zombies attacking his base only want to get her back, he sets her free and the zombies leave in peace. That was such a cool, meaningful "oh shit!" moment and they scrapped it in favor of "main character heroically blows himself up and kills all the zombies in the base" instead

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wasn't that the ending in the original one from the 70s?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Huh... I never knew about that version, but it seems to be a lot closer to what the novel had as an ending, so yes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It is also the ending used as basis for the coming sequel