I enjoyed the film, but would urge others who also enjoyed it to avoid the extended ending. It basically takes what I thought of a nice, almost beautiful ending and replaces it with iPhone footage that destroys the likability of the main character. I understand what they were implying but wish I could unsee it.
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What? There's an alternate ending? Where can one watch it?
shareIt's in the Special Features section of the DVD.
I could be wrong, but I think the "alternate ending" was meant as a joke or something, just one of the shorts they were doing with the cast.
According to the text that ran before the clip they said that they thought the movie ended to quickly and wanted to add to it. I would prefer they said it was a joke myself.
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Oh ok, thanks.
I'm not buying the DVD, could you describe what happens in it?
the guy is on the phone with his drunk friend at home explaining how he wants to go home, that as soon as she had the baby she gained weight and he couldn't stand to be around her or the little monster they spawned, and he is basically telling his story in every bar he goes into. He wants to hook up with a girl at home who the friend explains he is now dating. He still wants to bang her though, after he leaves his baby mama and newborn in Italy
fact: 87.3% of IMDB users belong to the secret society of cynics.
Gosh, I was hoping that the original ending was going to finish with her monster side killing him.
And if that was too boring, she would return back to her Louise self and see what she's done.
Yeah, hoped that she'll kill him too.
Or the girl turn+dies. The guy drive off from the cliff (he asks her in the film that was there some1 who drove off from there), but the girl comes back in her latest shape, only there was a last transformation. So like a Romeo and Juliet setting :)
AGREED... Do not watch the alternate ending. Yes the quality is terrible, but what he says ruins the entire movie. We are to belive that he breaks up with her becuase she got whiney and FAT? but accepted her as an octopus becuase he loved her? I really do hope it was a joke. This isn't the BEST love story sci-fi movie I've seen, but it was a pretty good one with a good ending. The original ending, although brief, clearly defined what choice was made. Weather she should have killed him or whatever, the ending was clear and precise and we were left with knowing they stayed together. Watching the extended scene now leaves us with the fact that they either broke up,(after all that love and acceptance which wouldn't make sense in real life) or it was a joke... Unfortunately now it's in our minds and we don't know if the story was really to end with their breakup.... AND it was only nine months later? It had to be a joke, even though he was an American loser, I doubt he would leave her right after she gave birth.
share"...even though he was an american loser.."
He left Berkeley college to help take care of his mother who had cancer and he held a job as a cook while doing so, where does that make him a loser? I say Americans who think like you are losers.
You did notice that "Alternate ending" was in quotes, right? As in, supposedly and not really?
It's a complete joke. It's the cast and crew at the wrap party coming up with the comic "real life" anti-romantic ending that you can imagine any time a movie ends with a couple falling in love and starting a family. And then saying (while a little drunk), OK, we totally have to shoot that with our phones for the DVD.
For people with a sense of humor.
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It was obviously a joke. But you know what? It is exactly what I was thinking would happen if the movie was "real life." I mean, rushing into a relationship with someone you've only known for a week and giving up immortality for that person? The expectations are so impossibly high that its practically guaranteed to completely go to sheeit.
shareI didn't have that thought while watching the movie, but yes, absolutely, I do think that in "real life" the road will be rocky and the relationship, which seems so effortless now, will take a ton of work. At the very least!
But what actual relationship doesn't fit that description? We watch and like these sort of romances to affirm certain romantic notions we have.
I think that ultimately this is a movie about the costs of entering a relationship. The costs of sustaining one--that's a different one. It's Before Sunrise / Sunset versus Before Midnight, in fact.
A sequel movie where Evan and Louise are struggling to hold it together and have to learn to settle for less than the fairytale romance would be really good. All you'd need to do is invent some new biology for Louise (explain it as a result of sustained oxytocin release) that would work as a metaphor for that.
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Clearly a joke! I don't see how it is being taken seriously by anyone?? I liked the movie and thought the "alternate ending" was funny (I am not generally a fan of romance - my fave one is The Break-up, if that's any indication).
However, I wasn't watching a supernatural movie with a Lovecraftian monster for realism lol.
They're coming to get you, Barbara!
I was hoping there would be an alternate ending where she regenerates and tells him to piss off, planning to live another 2000 years.
The ending they filmed was sappy, predictable, and lame.