8 Movies That Almost Had Much Better Endings

[@vjm3]

Honestly Aston's character killing himself as a baby in Butterfly effect was the version I first saw. I thought the scene was incredible! Then the mother holds her belly and screams "No not again!" and you realize his older son who died ALSO had the ability, went through his own version of futures and fuck ups, and concluded that he too needed to die for the better. When I finally saw the original, I was like "This is total shit." and fondly remember the alternate to this day.

[@Knokkelman]

yeah, I really REALLY like the "strangling ending", and made it my mission to show it to everyone I know who has seen the movie with the "sidewalk ending" (which is the default ending here in german TV)

[@Boony89]

That scene just makes so much more sense! She had a few stillbirths do the same thing and it makes sense they all went through what Ashton's character did!

[@ptaylor25]

This was the only ending I'd ever seen ... I never knew it was the alternate.

[@KlunkerRider]

#8. Dr Stranglelove: the reason they didn't use that ending was that it was clear from the footage that the actors were really having fun tossing pies at each other, Kubrick wanted the joke to be a bunch of angry politicians reduced to pointless violence. But the very apparent humor captured on film ruined the mood of the scene. #4. WWZ: Apparently the Moscow scenes are going to be used in WWZ's sequel.

[@Robinem]

The directors cut for the butterfly effect with the sucide ending was the first version of the film I had seen. I had never seen the theatrical ending at the time so imagine seeing alternative versions of the theatrical ending not knowing he survived in the theatrical cut

[@biksoft]

+robhigg2203 yeah i was like WTF that was the movie i saw XD

[@Porco1984]

+robhigg2203 Thanks for this comment! I've only seen the suicide ending, so I was a bit confused by the ending in this list :P

[@kimf.wendel9113]

+robhigg2203 Exactly the same for me, the 3 times I've watched this film earlier was with the suicide ending. It wasn't until I recently (about 1 month ago) saw it on Netflix (I think) that I saw the theatrical ending, and I was so dissapointed - but it did make me question if I remembered the movie wrongfully.

[@Piqipeg]

same here, but I've only seen it on dvd and it had the suicide ending...

[@BabyNommer]

I was about to comment this dude I only saw the version where he alters time a couple weeks ago

[@lockdown5098]

The terminator ending would have been brilliant, they seriously should have used it.

[@kcegr]

+Lockdown he turns into a machine anyhow in the next T... hahah :P

[@WebVManReturns]

+Lockdown They did.... for the beginning of Terminator Genisys.

[@danielwilliamson6180]

T2 had the perfect ending and they should had left it alone.

[@ReaperCH90]

they should have made Terminator 2 the last movie.

[@DravenGal]

The ONLY good thing about Terminator Genisys was that Matt Smith was in it, and it was kinda cool seeing him play a villain (if somewhat odd, in my Whovian heart). I will see anything with Matt Smith or David Tennant in it (and I seem to keep seeing movies or shows with Eccleston in it without realizing it's him in half of them)! But quite frankly, I think I've seen maybe TWO movies with Christian Bale I liked him in (the names escape me), and a few movies I've liked regardless of him being in it. I know he has his fans, and I respect that. I've honestly tried to like him. But when he's acting, it's like his face is made of stone. And his eyes are just cold. (Granted, I haven't seen all his movies, so he may be better in some!) Although apparently IRL he's known for blowing red hot and cursing like a whole CREW of sailors (as the old saying goes.) Now, given my age, I prefer the Tim Burton Batmans (well, the first couple), liked my Batman with a bit of wit and well, facial expressions, but if Batman was supposed to be an unemotional sociopath, than Bale was type casting... Hmmmm....but now I'm wondering what it would be like to have Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays ANOTHER unemotional sociopathic detective...as Batman...I have to go, this requires some mulling...one part of me says "NO WAY" and another says "But maybe...his Sherlock and Batman have some commonalities." Heck, I'll see pretty much anything with him in it too anyway. The guy is one of the best actors out there IMO and his impressions are a riot. He does this Dragon thing that'll just floor you...(no seriously, if you haven't seen the behind the scenes video of him BEING Smaug...his voice (which was barely changed, I've seen him on Graham Norton where he does it without mechanical help and it's like ZOWIE! And they mimicked his movements, he crawled and stalked as Smaug...it's amazing. Gives me chills). You want to talk about alternate endings? I got one title for you. "Clue." It made alternate endings cool.

[@iKadaj]

I agree with The Birds, because the actual ending left me going "But then what??" Seeing the bridge and being all like "Ah, birds took over the whole world not just that one place" would have been a lot cooler than thinking they just moved somewhere else and went "Phew, you'll never believe what happened in our hometown." I'd like to see that movie remade, but only if it's done really good and not with cheapass Birdemic effects, partly just because there are so many birds the original skipped over. Hummingbirds are pretty damn scary when they go blitzing by your head like missiles on your porch, and then there's hawks and bigass vultures that are scary enough just looking at you from a safe distance, and also parrots/cockatiels/etc that are harmless trusted pets you'd never expect to suddenly claw out your eyeballs. Just the original by itself makes me nervous when I go out to refill my bird feeders (especially when one doesn't fly away when I approach) but I think it has a lot of potential to make a really good, terrifying remake if someone did it right and didn't just throw it together for a crashgrab. I've been attacked by a rooster before and people where my mom works were talking about being flogged by wild bluejays and it's easy to find a lot of google pics of people getting chased by geese/swans and it's common knowledge that ducks not only bite but twist their beaks when they do, so that adds a bit of creepy factor to birds as opposed to traditional horror movie animals like snakes and sharks that normally don't bother you much in real life, and sharks are stupidly easy to avoid---just stay out of the ocean, dumbass---where as birds are already EVERYWHERE.

[@newperve]

I've definitely seen the "The Butterfly Effect" alternate ending, and it's definitely awesome. He gets the idea from the fact that his mother tells him she had several miscarriages. So not only does he sacrifice himself in the womb, it's implies several of his siblings have too.

[@dearsleeper]

I've only seen butterfly effect where he kills himself and its fucking awesome

[@t.michael4846]

same, I literally did not know there was a different ending

[@xriex]

+MomentaryMe Me too, I thought that was the 'proper' one.

[@kalsolarUK]

+xriex the one where he kills himself is the directors cut and it is the ending that many of us who first saw it on DVD will know it by. The happy ending version makes no sense and is a bit wimpy.

[@Larry]

I've seen that Butterfly Effect ending, it's in the alternate cut of the movie. fully released.

[@RedStingBlogs]

Presses play button ... waits three seconds for the voice to start ... ...phew its Adam!! Continues video :D

[@nadiaiscoool]

Same

[@YaYaMan]

+RedStingBlogs True story.

[@wordsmorewords3358]

+RedStingBlogs I want me some JakjobJakjob

[@neilhumphreys6765]

original

[@RedStingBlogs]

***** So true! Delivery is key!! :)

[@CurtisDoesStuffOnline]

One thing that you missed about "Butterfly Effect" is that Kutcher's character had two older siblings, who were miscarried. This makes the "suicide" ending much more thought provoking.

[@l.salisbury1253]

How's this for a happy ending: "Great news, Mr. Cain! Your doctor says you're going to get better! And your wife's downstairs. She says she's going to rejoin you and resume her opera career. Oh, I found this sled in your basement- haven't you been looking for it?"

[@Zaidon7]

What exactly was the ending of Butterfly Effect? I just saw the one where he aborts himself.

[@PimpyMcHoSmack]

He goes back to his birthday party where he meets the girl for the first time and tells her "I hate you and hope you die" so that they never become friends. He never sees her again up until they're grown up. Then they're passing on the street, he recognizes her and keeps walking. After a second she stops and looks back like she finds something familiar about him.

[@poopjeans1135]

The theatrical ending has him look at a pic of himself right before the girls birthday party. he goes up to her and threatens to kill her so they never end up being friends or romantically involved.

[@FriedSynapse]

Someone went back in time to make sure they told the studio to make sure the DVD had the original ending play for us. It worked. No one cares about the theatrical ending. Kutcher killing himself was the only way it worked. It's a huge metaphor for life. Once you start down that path of second guessing... it's better to have never bothered at all. The only way to live life is to let it all play out and follow the path you create.

[@InverseAgonist]

Sounds like a Donnie Darko ripoff either way...

[@mogadishusneeze]

There were four different endings to that movie. I only recently found that out as I didn't even know there was more than one. I was watching it recently with a friend who had never seen it and it blew my mind that a movie I loved (and given its subject matter), suddenly had a different ending. We looked into it there and then and found four alternate endings in total. Great idea for a movie that was all about changing how things turn out.

[@shaunfox1391]

That strangled in the womb ending for the butterfly effect was made and released in Australia (and elsewhere I'd guess) I only saw the "alternate" ending where he lived in the dvd extras

[@TheMightyCheeseball]

I thought the womb ending was the real one

[@shaunfox1391]

so did I, apparently not though

[@NarwahlGaming]

I saw the "They meet on a sidewalk" ending. I can't believe I still remember the ending of that movie.

[@ptmnc1]

There are a few references to this earlier in the movie: that Evan was not from his mother's first pregnancy but that she had endured several miscarriages before, and that when meeting his institutionalized father (the time-altering power appears to be genetic) he given a dire warning against attempting to meddle with his own past that he chooses to ignore.

[@danielwilliamson6180]

Butterfly Effect was one of the most disturbing films I've ever seen. But Ashton Kutcher is a shit actor.

[@KoolKeithProductions]

I'm so glad T2 wasn't on here. I was just about to rip Adam a new assho*le.

[@cameronmorgan8495]

Just out of interest, did you mean to put the asterisk there to seperate letters or was it just a mistake? P.S. Try criticise that Grammar Nazis.

[@voyeurcoma638]

Kool Keith Productions sounds a bit gay

[@Wonka70]

Sorry, gotta disagree with you re: Strangelove. "MEIN FUHRER!! I CAN WALK!!!" is the best ending line to a movie since Gone With the Wind. And the reason that they cut the pie fight ending was that the movie came out right after the Kennedy assassination. They had to make a couple of changes; one is Slim Pickens changing his line when he was reading off the contents of the survival kit in the bomber from "A guy could have a good time in Dallas" to "A guy could have a good time in Vegas" as Kennedy was killed in Dallas. The second had President Muffley "killed" by a pie thrown by the Soviet Ambassador- Muffley's hit and went down and General Turgison (George C Scott) delivers a line saying that they had to avenge the President "Who had been struck down in the prime of his youth" - again, not something folks wanna hear right after the President is killed.

[@thrashpondopons2776]

+Wonka70 'Dr. Strangelove' had other scenes which were either deleted not shot all together for one reason or another. Supposedly it was intended that James Earl Jones was going to have a more poignant monologue. But instead we were left with 'where's Major Kong?'.

[@Wonka70]

+Thrashpondo Pons Kubrick kept changing it as he went along. George C Scott was extremely pissed at him and never worked with him again due to the fact that Kubrick had Scott do a take where he was doing the scene almost comically and goofy. Then he'd have Scott repeat the scene seriously and he took the comedic take every time.

[@AnyoneCanSee]

I liked Genysis. Maybe it just took me back to seeing the T2 and being blown away, I also had pretty low expectations, but I actually really enjoyed it.

[@canaanclb]

The Dr. Strange love alternate ending would have been PERFECT! As someone who realizes that war is totally pointless, it really would have made the movie better. I mean really just think about it: two countries don't like each other, so they both send their armies to fight each other, and the winner gets to have his way. I've often thought, wouldn't it be much more humane to settle their disagreements with, I don't know, a football match or something? That way, the winner would have his way and no lives would be lost or families torn apart or destroyed. But a custard pie fight? That's brilliant! It's even better!

[@anonymoususer3112]

The reason it was changed was because there's a line saying "the president has just been struck down" and this was right after the JFK assassination

[@temperanceplaysgenshin]

Wait what .... I've only seen that ending of the Butterfly Effect where Kucher died ... So I can vouch for how fantastic that was.

[@thomaswalsh7142]

that's the only ending I've seen. I came to the comments to check i wasn't insane

[@peacexlove]

I could have sworn that's how it ended. That's the ending that I remember.

[@anetakub]

+originaljawz In my version he strangled himself in the womb, too! What was the other ending then?

[@ihave7sacks]

+originaljawz Yeah what was the ending he saw?

[@finnthedog8186]

i got confused too!!

[@jkincaid582]

I think the important lesson to take from all this Terminator stuff is that they need to stop trying to milk that franchise. It had 2 good movies. That's it. Let it go. We got the point.

[@isaacmacdonald2368]

I remember seeing a black and white version of little shop of horrors that ended with the plant's flowers blooming to reveal the faces of the people Seymore fed to it. Seymore then goes to kill the plant but ends up just another face on a flower.

[@epicmoviez2340]

What about Freddy Vs. Jason when Pinhead comes out of pandora's box?

[@FindThePattern]

Here's a daring idea: contemplate the idea that a movie with an upbeat ending can be better than "let's be angsty because it'll shock people." I always wonder how folks who think "a dark ending to a happy movie is daring because you don't expect it" would react if Baskin Robbins served them feces instead of chocolate ice cream. Instant four stars?

[@blaisemacpherson7637]

Good point. Its more the balls effect. Its "brave". Like rougue 1 was brave.

[@Michael_H_Nielsen]

why T2 on the thumbnail?

[@timyac]

Clickbait

[@keithmetcalfe7639]

What's that T2?

[@WalterSobchak91]

+Michael Nielsen (ToneSlaveMusic) video should be instantly disliked for that bs

[@midknight_86]

Michael Nielsen it's called click bait

[@KosmataBradva]

Original T2 ending is old Sarah in the park watching grown up John playing with his kid, giving similar monologue. If we consider the opinion of the majority of the fanbase regarding the movies after 2, this is indeed a better ending. Also seeing the actor playing post Judgement day John Connor living an average life solidified the idea that they stopped Judgement day.

[@FreddytheFrogN1]

Am I the only person who actually liked terminator salvation???

[@bjehulk]

I thought it was okay but the Terminator movies should have really stopped at movie 2.

[@LordMorltha]

+FreddytheFrogN1 In some ways, I prefer 3 to 2

[@LS-Lizzy]

+FreddytheFrogN1 I liked it as well, it could have been better but it was pretty decent for the first movie to take place after the war started! I know a lot of people didn't like it because it wasn't how the war was shown in the previous movies.

[@harrycarlin265]

As mr pool whoud say you should have stopped at 2 you killed it

[@TyrannosavageRekt]

I must have only ever seen the Director's Cut of The Butterfly Effect. Genuinely thought that's how it ended, and why I rank it as such a good film.

[@KingOfGoblins1234]

+Nicky Morris same here! was genuinely surprised to see that was the directors cut ending.

[@CommanderChronicles]

+Nicky Morris Me 2. Directors cut ending was better. However i would of gone back to the college ending and sent the brother to prison instead of beating him to death.

[@WickedDealer]

+Nicky Morris The original is him going back to when he was like 7 and telling the girl off so she would go live with her mother, years later in adulthood he sees her walking down the sidewalk, turns around and starts following her in a very creepy stalker way, cut to black. Not quite as dark, but a little bit more implied creepiness.

[@tobiasboon346]

I Am Legend's alternate ending. It would have been more closer to the book as he realized that he is the the monster in the views of the monsters and thus becomes a legend to them. Instead we got a generic suicide sacrifice.

[@chimiweschenfeller4432]

The one where Ashton kills himself in the Butterfly Effect is the first original ending I ever saw from that movie. And I loved it!!! It was a dark and mind blowing ending. There was a scene where he was told he was not supposed to be born. Years later, talking to a friend about the movie, I realised that wasn't the official ending but an alternate one. Thing is I had watched a version downloaded from the internet. The official ending is crap with the whole "Oasis" song and meeting in the future thing.

[@starforcefighter]

+Tom Weschenfeller Great underrated movie and the best movie "Kelso" aka Aston Kutcher ever made. The opening intro and the movie still gives me the feeling dread of the possibilities to change events for the better but has a negative chain reaction of other lives effected.

[@chimiweschenfeller4432]

+Starforcefighter agree. Kutcher's best movie. Too bad sequels suck.

[@pontuslundback3196]

+Tom Weschenfeller same for me, exept i realised watching this video there was a different ending

[@jonnyvelocity]

I rented the DVD of Butterfly Effect and that was the ending I got surprised with.

[@jonnyvelocity]

Devoti I saw it on cable and I saw the original ending.

[@captainpantaloons]

+Jonny Velocity Huh, I always thought that the ending where he dies in the womb WAS the original (and only) ending since that's what I saw when I hired it from VideoEzy (R.I.P.)

[@jonnyvelocity]

Video Ezy lives! and that's where I saw the alternate one.

[@captainpantaloons]

Jonny Velocity For real? I thought that place was long dead and burried at this point. Anyway, I looked into it and the "alternate" ending (womb-death) is actually exclusive to the director's cut version of the movie, whereas the theatrical release has 3 (i think) slightly varied versions that are all based off the "happy" ending. Why settle for 1 ending when you can have 4, right?

[@jonnyvelocity]

In New Zealand there are some Video Ezys. But I haven't been in NZ for about 3 years so, maybe that's changed. But the cost of internet is enough to make people reject streaming.

[@MIDO6056]

That IS the ending to 'The Butterfly Effect'

[@darkcashka]

Was just gonna say that to that is what i have seen atleast

[@glennross85]

+BNDN Thats what I thought as well! It was a long time ago I saw it, I wasnt sure until I saw your comment!

[@jacobcoronado7485]

I'm not subscribed to whatculture. I'm subscribed to Adam from Whatculture.

[@Lionstar16]

+Jacob Coronadoe That was exactly the reason I subscribed to whatculture - his dry British humour is so good :)

[@malcolmboyd3467]

we all are man, we all are

[@angbald]

I want him to wrap his pale skinny arms around me and whisper in my ear "Here's the way WWE should have booked The Invasion."

[@malcolmboyd3467]

+angbald wow just........wow

[@gogojojo331]

So the Salvation ending would just be Terminator Gynesis? No thank you lol

[@charlestownsend9280]

The directors cut of the butterfly effect is a far better film and has a great ending.

[@30sARMY]

+charles townsend Really? I need to watch it right now!

[@charlestownsend9280]

Elektra9 yeah with the addition of a few additional scenes and a better ending, that makes more sense and links back to several earlier scenes, it has a more consistent tone and the story flows a lot better. i'd reconmend watching it, even if it's just to see how a few small alterations can turn a bad film into a good one.

[@ZeroSum23]

+charles townsend The first time I saw this movie was on DVD, and this was the ending that I saw. I didn't find out that it was the alternate/director's cut until like a year later when I was talking about it with a friend and they had no idea what I was talking about...the movie still has its problems, but to me, this will always be the real ending.

[@charlestownsend9280]

ZeroSum23 same i throught that it was the real ending for years until i saw it on tv and was confused as to why some important scenes were missing and why there was a different and dumb ending (although they did shoot an even worse ending that completly defeats the point of the sacrifice that he makes in the other two endings). personally i like it, it's one of the better films that deals with time travel but everyone has their oppinion on what is good or bad in a film, so thats cool.

[@Brain_Sync]

I never disagreed more with this kind of list, except for The Birds film ending, I give you that. Your tone for movie endings is cynical, irrational, driven by teenage thrill kind of taste. Most of the film makers try to find a satisfying ending for the audience. Triumph resolution, epic conclusion, karmic outcome, meaningful epilogue, or even open ending. There is a reason behind those choices.

[@MrBeastknows]

+Francesco A The Talented Mr. Ripley one pissed me off so much. The ending he wanted was just boring and cliche. The movie ending is beautiful, heartbreaking, completely understandable and makes me questions my morals. The movie was excellent.

More movies that would have been better with pie fight endings: "The Godfather, 12 Angry Men, The Seventh Seal, High Noon, The Exorcist".

[@camreddish1fan202]

LMAO THE GODFATHER 😂😂😂

[@Scanny524]

Aaron Morris The Twilight movies too. Not from any position of respect for the movies, just that it would have been hilarious for the super-serious-supernatural-romantic-drama style to have wrapped up with a badly CGI'd vampire pie fight.

[@SiriusMined]

How does The Avengers have a bad start?

[@thrilla72]

Exactly!?

[@jayazathoth8530]

+SiriusMined Because it's got the Avengers in it.

[@NarwahlGaming]

Scarlett's not topless.

[@guicaldo7164]

I don't know, I really like the start of the movie. I like the whole movie, anyway.

[@bloodofthelamb13]

Scene does not contain a lap dance?

[@dominiccampbell181]

Part of me wishes they had gone with the alternative for Terminator, so that the could finally put this series to rest.

[@Detroit_Dawg]

+Dominic Campbell I dont. I love The Terminator series. If you don't like it, simply dont watch them. Why ruin it for those of us that like it?

[@superermac55]

+Nysguy2003 dudes not saying he doesnt like the terminator series. hes just saying that this ending would've been an interesting way to end it. and im pretty sure a lot of terminator fans had shit ruined by 3, salvation and the latest movie. i mean the first 2 where solid movies that needed no sequels.

[@superermac55]

+Nysguy2003 dudes not saying he doesnt like the terminator series. hes just saying that this ending would've been an interesting way to end it. and im pretty sure a lot of terminator fans had shit ruined by 3, salvation and the latest movie. i mean the first 2 where solid movies that needed no sequels.

[@derepa06]

That alternate ending makes for a much better movie. It's a shame we didn't get it.

[@venicemackay9244]

+derepa06 i saw the butterfly effect with the baby killing its self in the womb never knew it had the other ending until i saw it on tv. i liked the darker ending.

[@Dualmilion]

the butterfly effect one is the true ending. it's even foreshadowed during the movie where the mother says she had 3 previous miscarriages, that her previous children eventually did the same thing Kutcher ends up doing

[@QuidamByMoonlight]

+Dualmilion Yeah, exactly. That's how I remember it, too. It was a very dark movie, but thought provoking nonetheless.

[@jackcrane6318]

Adam loves horrible downbeat endings !

[@mariar.5800]

I thought the ending of Talented Mr Ripley was fantastic, even though Tom got everything he wanted he still couldn't escape his demons. He destroys his last chance of ever finding true happiness and now has to live with this fact and yet still he acts upon all his murderous and destructive impulses. It was so well done and so intense, leaving with that overwhelming feeling of despair.

[@eddthehead123]

Butterfly effect. I....saw the umbilical cord strangling scene when I watched it.....

[@weetbix08]

me too. I had no idea about the first one he was talking about.

[@dhmtbphotography3544]

Same here

[@Kapi.23]

i tought i have some kind of special mental power, but i remind that too. I remember even one of the medics said "it's look like it's choking itself". Or the uploader fucked up, or we all got the same copy for some reason (i saw this move once, a pirate dvd)

[@ThatUmbrellaGuy]

There was a theatrical cut and another ending, apparently, along with the cord. Newer director cuts end with this, and the TC is a special feature, so uploads end with the cord most of the time. The TC was the 'didn't grow up with her,' but he bumps into her. Sort of a happy ending, which is what companies aim for most of the time when trying to mainstream, and especially above the umbilical ending, which was a way to go.

[@amolkhugshal708]

There are 4 endings to that movie. You can find it on KZbin :)

[@TheStarTrekApologist]

The ending of the first terminator had a scene where the factory workers found the arm and chip, and instead of giving it to the cops they send it to R&D. Then there is a pan up to reveal that the factory they were fighting in at the end of the movie was owned by a small company called Cyberdyne Systems. Not only is it a solid ending but it fore shadows the next movie they would make. There was also another cut scene where Sara finds Cyberdyne Systems in the phone book and suggest to Kyle that they take out the factory. He Says no, and breaks down because to him the future he was in was normal, and shows his inability to acclimate to the life we live. No skull mountains. lol.Thumbs up if you think this should have made the list.

[@TheStarTrekApologist]

+Captain Lobo To be fair, no sequels should have been made since they all kind of contradict the pre destined plot of the first movie. Although the characters seems to live in denial if this, none of them are theoretical physicist. The second movie is great, I just can't believe there are those who think it is better then the first. I actually like Salvation, as it is better then T3.

[@TheStarTrekApologist]

Captain Lobo T1 is perfect because it is a Time travel movie that has a perfect retro feel because it was made in the year they are traveling to.

[@XEyedN00b]

Hey, I actually like Genisys. I know some people say it's bad but I'd say it's much better than T3 or Salvation. I personally like it a lot.

[@jordanrb1996]

terminator 3 is better than salvation for me

[@kevinwebster7868]

+CrossEyedN00b Genisys was awesome.

[@DJammyRasta]

+CrossEyedN00b Also a fan of Genisys, it doesn't deserve all the hate it gets. Way better than 3 and 4.

[@paulhilton6426]

Having seen that alternate ending on the DVD extras for Dodgeball, it's sooooooooo much better. It's the best long build punchline I've ever seen, and would have put the movie into absolutely legendary territory. The music, the slowmo elation shots of Ben Stiller and his team, everything about it is just perfection.

[@handofstephen]

The ending for "The Butterfly effect" was actually the original ending. It was changed for the DVD release.

[@Cloud21283]

+Stephen Hand Not true. I watched it in theatres and am positive he lived.

[@konan159]

+Stephen Hand i only know of him dieing

[@handofstephen]

+Tyler Meyers The theatrical version in Ireland featured the ending where he kills himself in the womb....

[@aherzkovich]

I saw Anton Yelchin in this video, and now can't stop crying. R.I.P.

[@NoNamenoonehere]

someone really should Redo that Hitchcock ending OMG ,,,,,Just hearing about it is Epic.

[@LeviClay]

I also saw that butterfly effect ending at the cinema - it was perfect. His name was Evan Treborn and in the film his mum references the fact she had two miscarriages. The idea that he's the third born and that the only way to make it right was to kill himself suggests that his previous siblings came to the same conclusion. not THAT is deep.

[@VengD]

So... That's not how the Butterfly Effect ended? That's the only one I've seen. The one where he kills himself as a baby that is.

[@andy140s2]

same here

[@philijoelodonnell]

in some countries it did. in America it didnt

[@jackermomurphy]

pretty sure whatculture is based in manchester right?.....soooooo still makes no sense for adam to have it here as he must have seen the ending he claims didnt happen.........10 things whatculture want you to forget about adam blompe.....i give up on the last name.......(little p.s here mostly a joke nobody kill me or send me hate mail or threaten my unborn children...unless of course you own a delorean and they they turn out to be complete cunts in which case go ahead) thanks :)

[@danieltrochei4544]

+Tegnet no certain countries got different variations of the ending for some reason. when i was in the cinema i got the good ending when i got it on dvd it had the baby strangling scene

[@ffeeley1]

I kinda agree about the last one, but I don't like the part with removing John Connor's skin and transplanting it onto a Terminator endoskeleton. Unless you were oversimplifying, idk the details, but that doesn't sit right with me, since in the original 2 Terminator films they explain it's artificial skin over an endoskeleton; not literally human skin ripped off a person like a onesie...not that it's impossible for the machines to somehow have the tech to make that work, but it just would make way more sense to make artificial skin that looks like John Connor, being as how they're really used to the artificial skin bit anyway.

[@YaYaMan]

+whatculture... can you list the films you will include in your videos in the info section, just so we know in advance what you will be covering? Its not enough to say 'spoilers obviously'. Cheers.

[@andyfoster8011]

+yaahyak IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN EVERY FILM IN EXISTENCE THEN DON'T WATCH DUH! Lol

[@trolleyfan]

On the ending to "Little Shop," why does everyone one forget that after they enter their beautiful dream house, the camera slowly pans down and over to show a new Audrey growing by their white picket fence that then knowingly smiles at the camera. A perfect 1950s monster movie "The End?" kind of ending for what was, after all, basically a 1950s monster movie.

[@dragonweyr44]

the terminator salvation ending became the plot of terminator genesys

[@liamillionss]

Instead of two seperate movies they should have changed the ending and never made Genesys. BRILLIANT!!!!

[@qasperr994]

The terminator one sounds pretty badass.

[@chrisspiers1]

It's really weird but my DVD of the Butterfly effect, UK version, has this ending as standard! For years no one knew what I was talking about when I said he killed himself in the womb!

[@KagedCreations08XX]

+Chris Spiers that's the only ending I remember

[@joowantitjoogotit]

+Chris Spiers I didn't realise there were different endings until I was talking about it to friends and they were going on about the womb ending. I think there are three different endings, possibly more, but I've seen three. Pretty cool.

[@edobriensgrin]

+Chris Spiers me too. I rented the DVD from Blockbuster years ago (didn't care for it) and never knew the baby killing itself thing wasn't the ending everyone saw.

[@furrom152]

I've actually seen that 'alternate' ending of The Buttetfly Effect in the cinema back then and it absolutely ROCKS!!!

[@mikewarnke404]

"I get paid ether way" Well, atleast hes honest.

[@systemmonitor5295]

I'm sorry but Genisys was good. Not a patch on the first two of course, but it was a solid Terminator tale done in a modern PG-13 superhero/action style that still referenced and stayed true to what came before.

[@Batmansdad1]

...Than again, the Black Death is not as bad as Terminator Genesis. :D laughed way too hard at that part

[@BJGvideos]

Maybe it's me but I could easily see those two Strangelove endings being worked into one glorious clusterfuck of a world-busting climax. Pies go off, missles get fired, that guy rides a bomb down, cream filling splatters the map as cities are wiped out, and boom.

[@insomniactheater8165]

When i saw butterfly affect he did strangle himself with the umbilical cord

[@Eliel20117]

Lucky bastard

[@FrankieBlueEyes]

Same here, thats the ending I saw.

[@BitcoinMotorist]

+Mike Holmes The DVD copy I saw had the happy ending and the self strangulation as an alternate ending. I actually preferred the happy ending because I wasn't expecting it. I was expecting the movie to end badly because everything that happened in the movie was bad, so when I got a happy ending I was thinking, "huh, I didn't see this coming."

[@TheAnimeFOB]

I'm from aus and it was the baby thing

[@jafrost1328]

yeah that's what I saw

[@cammameil]

The ending of the Disney movie Fantasia is actually an artifact that was not intended by the director. Fantasia was over-budget and behind schedule, and due out in theatres in a few days. The still photographers were racing to get every single plate of animation put on film. They were using a new kind of camera that consisted of several precisely positioned plates of glass that hung from the camera itself. The photographers were on the Ave Maria sequence when a large earthquake hit their studio, they didn't have time to check if the camera had been damaged by the quake, so they just kept shooting. What resulted is this weird ghost-like afterimage around the objects in the frame, that were not drawn by the animators, because the camera was slightly out of alignment with the various parts that were hanging off of it after the quake. The effect, though unintentional, was so haunting that they left it in, rather than re-shoot it.

[@windsonma8209]

Just one: X Men 3: The Last Stand= Here is a miner one but still a much better one.: Instead of having Rouge end up actually giving up her powers at the end of the movie. They should have gone the alternate scene way and have her keep her powers. Because by doing so it makes her look like she had finally accepted who she is, a great message for the general audience. But no instead they have her give up her powers, in which case she just looks like a coward in my book. And yes I know what you are going to say, but for me true courage is accepting your self for who or what you are and even that means giving up on what you believe is right. Because you know that some times you can't change what has been done.

[@4besideyouintime]

interesting fact: in portugal, butterfly fx ends with the protagonist killing himself. i never even saw the one you mentioned they kept

[@kurtemeigh]

Holy crap. I don't think there has been anything more wrong than saying that Genisys is worse than Salvation. Genisys is so much better than salvation, even T3. Piss poor job on that.

[@ChrisPhillipsMusic510]

I am pretty sure the scene where the baby chokes itself with the chord is the scene they left in the Director's Cut of The Butterfly Effect because I don't remember the scene of him altering it so he doesn't grow up with the same kids at all. I am going to have to check this to be sure, but I don't have my copy of the DVD right now because someone borrowed it.

[@ajmittendorf]

+Chris Phillips You're absolutely correct. In the DVD director's cut, the main character goes back to the womb and "hangs" himself on his mother's umbilical cord; the doctors and nurses watch on (via x-ray) in horror seeing the infant deliberately commit suicide.

[@ChrisPhillipsMusic510]

I thought I was right. I haven't watched the theatrical version since I first saw the movie on TV the year after it was released so I don't remember that versions ending very well.

[@MilsurpMikeChannel]

I thought that IS how Butterfly Effect ended.... at least on the DVD I have. And it isn't an alternative ending...

[@Detroit_Dawg]

+Milsurp Mike That WAS the ending. Same ending I saw too. This WhatCulture guy either has it backwards or is just wrong.

[@bobbieclopton8845]

+Nysguy2003 No you are wrong it actually is a alternative ending. It only shows up on the DVD.

[@JXGold]

+Milsurp Mike You got the Director's Cut. The theatrical ending was Ashton going back to a bday party and saying some horrible stuff to his love interest. They never get close and he sees her later with some guy looking happy. The one you saw is better...

[@Detroit_Dawg]

Bobbie Clopton No YOU are wrong sir. Only on DVD my ass, I saw it on cable the other day on HBO and he kills himself in the end. Only ending I ever saw.

[@JXGold]

Nysguy2003 I'm sure that's what you did see, but the theatrical release was different. The ending was as the video says. Google is your friend.

[@mikeyahl7363]

In the "Butyerfly Effect" DVD I have, it ends with the baby-strangulation and I have never seen the ending described in this video so I'm really janked up right now

[@RybacksOnlyFan]

I didn't like any of those alternate endings.

[@tonynero7005]

Just the thought of Hitchcock's image for The Birds is chilling. "No escape from this reality you have now" would have been the type of message they'd have been sending.

[@dweliq2993]

The underdogs in Dodgeball should have been CRUSHED by the enemy team to simulate what happens to underdogs in real life. Unless someone loses on purpose so they can cash in on bets or something.

[@Brain_Sync]

+Dweliq how would that make you feel? Would you find that inspiring? Motivating? I don't think so... the moral of such movie is that it doesn't matter if you are considered an underdog, you can still be a winner in life.

[@dweliq2993]

Francesco A Inspiration based on a lie is a manipulation or a brainwashing in my book. If you are an underdog in real life, the only way you can succeed is by massively lowering your standards and doing an activity that anybody can be good at.

[@Brain_Sync]

+Dweliq I'm sorry to hear you so pessimistic. The point of the movie is exactly the opposite: you can succeed, no matter what. I've seen people with impediments, coming from humble places, or even struggling to survive, achieving incredible goals. Don't start already defeated, believe in yourself and your goal and go for it, that's the message.

[@dweliq2993]

Francesco A Name some of these "incredible goals" and by whom they were achieved.

[@Brain_Sync]

+Dweliq People who lost their limbs, but against all odds became professional athletes; Albert Eistein, who didn't do well at school, Nobel Prize winner in physics; Steven Spielberg was turned down by the University of Southern California’s film school, but became one of the most successful filmmakers; Harrison Ford was told he’d never make it in the industry, after his first role, but became a Hollywood star; When J.K. Rowling started writing the first “Harry Potter” novel, she was a single mother who depended on welfare. She was recognized as the first billionaire author in 2004 and became internationally famous for her Harry Potter series. The list continues...

[@DrumCoversFromHell]

In the avengers original script. Hulk was supposed to turn bad like he did in the ultimate universe, take on all of the avengers. The only thing that could stop him was Betty Ross.

[@Wharfy]

isn't the actual ending of the butterfly effect where krutcher kills himself, not the alternate one ?

[@danevans9596]

Thats the ending I saw.... it was fucking dark... I didn't know there was a different ending

[@tigby4033]

The butterfly effect endings change depending on which format you watch it on. For example I have seen the directors cut and in that version he kills himself but I once watched it on Netflix and he gos back and stops himself from meeting the girl(who's name I cant remember) but variations on that ending could be him walking past her on the street to turn and look at her or in a different version he will follow her. I'm pretty sure in one of them he speaks to her, I guess because he's time travelling constantly changing his life events the ending change. In my opinion the ending when he survived is my favourite

[@blodus4521]

I feel like I'm the only one that thought Genesis was an ok movie? Nowhere near as good as the first two, but I prefer it to 3.

[@blokex6972]

+Blodus I like to pretend that the third film was never made...

[@stackmanification]

Genesis is accidentally meta... That makes it bad to most because it didn't have any realization of this fact.

[@sperrin]

+Bloke X I feel the same about the second one.

[@blokex6972]

Steve Perrin hahahaha. I can understand that but the 2nd film was the first one I saw. So it's got a special place in my heart...

[@ptonpc]

+Blodus I liked Genesis. As for Salvation. Let's just pretend it never happened.

[@lilturk726]

Whew! I saw T2 in the thumbnail and got a bit worried for a second. That movie is pure gold and needs to stay the way it is... Totally not biased at all though lol

[@walking_contradiction92]

I've only seen Butterfly Effect once and I saw it with the ending where Kutcher did strangle himself with his own umbilical cord.

[@useful76]

+Gary Pereira Same.

[@greenlionantiques]

+Gary Pereira Same here. When years later I re-watch it and it was the happy ending,was so amazed to find out that that is the "normal" ending. It's like watching Donnie Darko where he doesn't die in the end.

[@deigs167]

In German TV, it always ends like that

[@TechnologicallyTechnical]

+Gary Pereira ... I actually didn't watch the full video and I've never seen The Butterfly Effect and I don't know a thing about it, so given the context within this comment, I'm simply going to ask one thing... What?

[@walking_contradiction92]

Particular Particle Well, this page spoils everything for you. Apparently the ending where he chokes himself with the umbilical cord is an alternate ending. It's the only ending I've seen but this video states the original ending he changes time by never meeting the woman he loves as a child. I have never seen this apparent original ending.

[@MrJackfaire]

Actually Butterfly Effect's original ending exists. They had finished the movie and it was ready for theatrical release when the studio made them take out the original ending. They had to cut an earlier scene in the movie that actually introduced the fact that his mom had miscarried every child before he was finally born. The horrifying implication isn't just that he killed himself but that so did his siblings. He wasn't her first kid to be born grow up time travel and fuck shit up. Each one could only fix things with their own death. Now there is a version of the DVD where one side has the Theatrical Release and the other side has the Director's Cut which is the movie in it's original glory so it can be watched the way it was intended.

[@g1rhines]

+Jack Faire I remember renting that dvd, and thinking the Director's cut was the movie, and after watching the film a few times I finally watched the theatrical cut. It was a let down, imo.

[@MrJackfaire]

+g1rhines Yeah I feel the same as do most fans of the movie. The Theatrical release was good for the parts that were the same as the Real Movie but Tragically so many people saw the sugary sweet ending and the movie was forgotten. That movie shows what a brilliant actor Ashton Kutcher can be and had a mind blowing story.

[@brandonanderson2689]

dodge duck dip dive & dodge

[@LeftFootMediaNZ]

The Butterfly Effect ending wasn't just a potential concept, it's actually how the Director's Cut ends - so it's not really a case of a film that "almost had" a different ending, that ending was actually used and then that version of the movie was released for sale.

[@malcolmboyd3467]

wtf ashton killed himself in my dvd!?!?!?

[@MarkGarth]

+Malcolm Boyd Mine too, I thought that was the actual ending...

[@malcolmboyd3467]

+Mark Garth everyone else in the comment has been sayin that. Adam must have messed up...

[@davidcastleberry1720]

+Malcolm Boyd hmmm I never saw that ending in the USA. .it must be a country thing

[@TheRighteousOne209]

The real ending is he goes back to the first time he met the girl(can't remember her name, it's been a long time) and shit talks her. She runs away, they don't become friends and he sacrifices their love for her happiness. Later on in their adult years, Kutcher is a businessman and passes by her and sees that she is a successful woman that had a good life

[@jamesfeather721]

+Malcolm Boyd the dvd comes with 2 options to watch the movie, theatrical and directors cut, the one with the suicide is the directors cut ending. the theatrical is the ending that was used in the cinema. the film actually had 4 endings recorded for it and the main reason the non suicide one was used was to try and keep all the ratings for the film in each country the same for cinema to boost gross profit.

[@kaleksykt]

the cabin in the woods represented very accurately what the reaction of the audience is like when the endings aren't easily predictable imo. sure the movies would've been more memorable and entertaining if they could be bold but in the modern formulaic cinema factory creativity doesn't really survive the competition so it's rare when studios and producers actually have balls to pull off something like that. i don't really blame them

[@YeCrustModifier]

the suicide ending to Butterfly Effect was the one I saw, I didn't know there were any others o_O

[@k9boomer]

There was a happy ending used in the cinematic cut where he never meets her and just walks past her at the end of the movie but she doesn't know him.

[@bookanonface5765]

+YeCrustModifier Same here, suicide was the ending.

[@guillaumelagueyte1019]

+YeCrustModifier There are three endings. The suicide They don't grow up together and later on they walk past each other without recognizing or noticing each other They don't grow up together and later on they walk past each other and their eyes catch, maybe implying that they will eventually end up together

[@sheoakgirl]

my brother saw the happy ending, i saw the suicide one, (which makes more sense to me, since the mother mentions she had multiple miscarriages before him, and cries "not again!" when he does it, implying this is not the first time all the shit went down) but neither of us realized there were multiple endings and we ended up having a massive fight about it. (i believe we were late teens at the time)

[@MrWalksindarkness]

my sister and i rented the DVD when it first came out. we put it in and found it was one of those two sided DVDs with directors cut on one side and cinematic release on the other. we were too lazy to get up and flip it over to watch the cinematic and watched the director's version. the next day i was talking about it at work and some guy was like "that movie sucked", and i found out the cinematic version had a very different, and lame crappy ending. it's funny because I like the movie with the directors cut, but would have watched the regular one if I wasn't too lazy, and would have thought it was a dumb movie. I don't know how or why the lame ending was put in for the mass audiences.

[@TheBorzoi]

You should have pointed out that the alternate ending for the Butterfly effect ties in with something said earlier in the movie about Kutcher's character not being the first child and that his mother had miscarried multiple children before. While the alternate ending doesn't explicitly state this, it suggests that all these previous miscarriages were due to pretty much the same circumstances with them having this power.

[@NighthawkU571]

Actually in a deleted seen Kutcher's character and his mother go to a psychic/palm-reader near or at the beginning of the movie and he is told that he doesn't have a lifeline and that he shouldn't have existed in the first place. This scene was cut specifically because it was to play the alternate ending, so since he doesn't kill himself in the womb that scene is becomes pointless does nothing for the story.

[@TheBorzoi]

The thing is, when I first saw The Butterfly Effect, I remember the "alternate" ending of him killing himself, and the scene you described. The last time I saw it, it was on TV. I missed the start but watched it anyway because I like the movie and it had the "normal" ending which confused the crap out of me.

[@CidGuerreiro1234]

Disliked for the clickbait with T2 on the thumbnail. Have a nice day.

[@joshswain6495]

+CidGuerreiro1234 ME TOO. T2 IS A MASTERPEICE

[@CidGuerreiro1234]

josh swain Exactly!

[@joshswain6495]

+CidGuerreiro1234 Although with further inspection of the thumbnail it may look like the Arnold from salvation and furlong looking surprised. Have a look

[@apollo6718]

T2 is not on the list tho

[@mohammadhasan9155]

Dr. Strangelove was designed to be a satirical movie based on the cold war. I think a slapstick scene such as that would have seemed a bit out of place.

[@WrongThemeSong]

Not cool using images from T2 as your thumbnail. It implies T2 is on the list when it isn't. Not a good way to get traffic.

[@DiamondDead]

+Triskelia Games Typical clickbait

[@Crazysworld91]

I agree. All those ending would have been interesting. I wish they would would make an alternate version of the films with these endings, I would buy them.

[@claytonmachine12]

wait, I had a DVD of the Butterfly Effect and without choosing any of the special features or deleted scenes etc etc and it ended with him killing himself....................

[@marcinpomidor1226]

+claytonmachine12 Because it's actuall directors cut ending. The guy didn't do his homework.

[@crimsonsamuraiftw]

+Marcin Pomidor He's more or less insinuating that any movie with Kutcher would be better off that way.

[@alfielupton7173]

Adam is my role model, he's so funny and is such a good critic, even though he's kind of posh, he has to be one of the best personalities on KZbin.

[@bennyh.reviews6770]

+Alfie Lupton Don't diss us Brits m8. XD

[@Henrycooper321]

Globo gym winning would have been an awful ending

[@de132]

The Butterfly Effect's ending as Adam described WAS the original ending. When released in theaters, that was the ending seen. Most people who saw the movie on DVD experienced the Director's Cut version, which was the default version on the original release. That's the ending you remember, but in theaters, the original was different. The movie had 4 total endings.

[@SILVYSPARK]

World War Z should've been a better movie, you know one that actually was based off of the book.

[@Kapi.23]

didn't read the book but the movie it's like a series of conviniences tied with a string

[@liamwgamble]

the book is overrated and impossible to make a mainstream movie off. it would be like a series of vignettes

[@SILVYSPARK]

Franz Ferdinand No it's pretty possible dude. The only reason why they changed the story so much was because they wanted the movie to be in China, if you'd read the book you know why the Chinese government might not want the movie to be shown there. It's a great book, was a mediocre film.

[@liamwgamble]

SilverSpark Rants i read the book years ago. it was meh.

[@swampwasp3]

i hope they have more scenes from the book in the sequel. like that one scene with the Maori blokes holding off half the population of New Zealand's biggest city

[@jasonmueller6867]

I am sure someone stated this but, this is one I would have loved to see.Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, where Luke turns to the Dark side.I believe there is an interview with Mark Hamill where he tried to convince George Lucas to go with that story plot.

[@ElegantButlerSeb]

"My opinion is best"? Shatner thinks you're a bit over the top.

[@aadamtx]

The original ending as filmed of THE BIRDS is on the ALFRED HITCHCOCK COLLECTION DVD release from some years back. Pretty impressive, and much more chilling than what we normally see. Also, I would have included the original ending of FATAL ATTRACTION, which leaves the Glenn Close character alive (and thus the Michael Douglas character doesn't get away with adultery, etc.). The preview audience thought Close should die, and, well....

[@Martial-Mat]

What's the big hard on for downbeat endings? I watch for escapism. If I wanted depressing real life, I'd look at how well Donald Trump is currently doing in the US elections.

[@KhidJ1]

Talk that real life shit

[@lpenrike]

+Mat Broomfield the worst part is that the only 2 candidates with a real shot are hillary and trump its the giant douche vs turd sandwich dilemma...cranked up to 1000

[@Martial-Mat]

+the chair is love, the chair is life Yup completely spot on!

[@chriswood426]

Adam when I watched the butterfly effect on DVD from blockbuster, the alt ending was the one I got. Honestly I thought that was the real ending until just now. The sight of that blue baby has haunted me for years

[@bilgebeast1]

thats exactly what happened in the copy i had. kutcher baby killed himself making all the other miscarriages make sense

[@sannyfolkesson2226]

+Ryan Simpkins same here as that alternative? then what happens in the final cut?

[@andrewmiddleton25]

The Little Shop of Horrors ended that way in the musical, and gave a satisfying finale song 'Don't Feed The Plants'. Given that it was a humourous B Movie send up, I can't think how an audience would've been depressed by the plants winning.

[@vincentprice9156]

He said Terminator Salvation was better than Terminator Genesis.. Lmfao!!

[@EASY7356]

+Gil Edwards I hate Genesis

[@varanid9]

+EASY7356 Sheesh, get a life!

[@Aivottaja]

+EASY7356 It's still a lot better than Salvation. And it's honestly not that bad. The CGI young T-800 is kind of groundbreaking.

[@EASY7356]

Aivottaja It looks as bad as the young t800 in salvation

[@Aivottaja]

EASY7356 Get your eyes checked.