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Would you end the movie differently? (spoiler)

posted 11 years ago by shmucking
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I was just reading Roger Ebert's review at http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/firstborn-1984 and he says it was good up until the ending. I agree with him, but I think a more realistic ending would've been hard to do successfully. My first instinct is that the kids would call the police or their father and say what's going on, and from that point, although it would be more natural and in keeping with the rest of the movie, it couldn't help but kind of end in an anticlimactic or disappointing fashion. What do the rest of you think? I feel the same way about the movie My Bodyguard.

[–] BoSoxRule 11 years ago

Have to agree with Roger, the ending was just plain silly. But I also agree with you that it would be difficult to end it much differently.

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[–] Hollywood_Square_Contestant 11 years ago

I really thought the older brother was going to kill him.

[–] sonofbeach-sheet 10 years ago

Perhaps the movie should have ended with Sam and his drug cronies machine-gunning the Livingston homestead killing all three. LOL

What the hell was wrong with Sam?! Okay, he was desperate to get the drugs so they could get the restaurant. Then he's all calm. And he gets more relentlessly violent than ever when the mother finally comes to her senses and Jake fights back. Looks like the cocaine really screwed with his brain at that point. If Jake had shot Sam a few times, Sam would have probably still fought him like nothing happened.

[–] hannahbtcgte 9 years ago

Perhaps I'm a bit harsh, but I would have gone the route of; Sam kills the mother, gets either life in prison or the death penalty, and the kids go live with their father, even though he travels it would clearly be a better environment.