kbrwnlove
To all the naysayers:
Give us your best shot at a superior ending. In other words, since you didn’t like the one you were given, tell us how you you would have ended it.
When I got my first “real job” my supervisor told me:
Don’t bring me a problem UNLESS you also bring me a solution. I may not use it; it may not work; it may not be practical, but bring me SOMETHING because anyone can stand around and criticize.
I’ve not forgotten that; and it has served me well.
That's great advice, but I would argue that it doesn't apply in this case. This was a product made for television viewers. A work of fiction and not a job or a job site or an office enviroment. It's not a problem in search for a solution. It's a story and the ending isn't very satisfying. It isn't the job of the audience members (the people who it was made for) to come up with a better solution. If they don't like the ending then it wasn't a success. That's what people in the entertainment industry (and it is an industry) fail to understand sometimes. Yes they put themselves out in the line and I respect the hardwork that they out into their craft and the courage it takes to get in front of people. But that doesn't change the fact that if it doesn't work it doesn't work and the audience members have every
right to be critical. Consider this they make money off of us. Whether directly such as a concert or theatrical movie or indirectly like television where the product is purchased and then advertisers pay for time during the broadcast to bombard us with commericals. I have every right to be critical and will if I don't like the product.
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11 years ago
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Jefbecco-1
11 years ago
Good point. Good point. I understand.For example I didn't care for the ending of Backdraft. My suggestion to improve it.
Instead of having Kurt Russell's character die ,because he thought he needed to be like their firefighter father who died twenty years earlier, the younger brother should have yelled at him "You're not dad. You don't do this." and the older brother would have realized he had been living a self-destructive illusion. He would have cranked down on his stupidity and decided to live and made it. Perhaps he would have then retired from the family business, but the younger brother would still carry on. Motivated for the first time in his life to succeed at something. Still inspirational without a cheap cliched funeral sequence.
You might not agree with my version, but it is a valid alternative. I get ya.
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