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Alternate Ending for Better Movie...

posted 9 years ago by jacobc-60483
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I am a person who loves dramas/romance movies. I can sit on the couch and make a day out of watching them, but with this movie, I was greatly disappointed... Granted, I never read the book and never intend to (even though the book is always better than the movie.)

I would have been a lot less disappointed if the movie went a different route with the ending and was condensed into a shorter movie. The movie should have ended with the group of teens discovering Margo's body in the field behind the old shack... This would have made for an overall more satisfying movie and would have given it a much better close that gives the film more of a purpose than this cliff hanging junk of an ending that leaves you feeling you wasted the last however many minutes of your life on a film that went nowhere... Everyone is titled to their own opinion, and I'm sure I will have greatly pissed some people off with this post, but, oh well...

[–] Laguna_chick_73 9 years ago

If you felt that way about the movie, then you would hate the book.
this was probably the first instance to where I liked the movie better than the book.
The book had soooo much dead space IMO. So much going back and forth to the same place to not find any more clues, or going so far to different areas to find nothing. And then in the end Margo is a bitch. She didn't wanna be found and she was so mad that they even went looking for her. She was much nicer in the film.
I kinda wanted the same route as you. I kinda thought she'd complete suicide because of the dead body they found when they were kids. But it felt like it was wasted. She was just a spoiled, selfish, brat with a giant ego and was so unappreciative to have friends that actually hopes she were safe.

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[–] ozzy24 9 years ago

Personally I think the best ending would have been if the guy who liked Margo ended up with the blond haired girl(and they sort of bond through searching for her). That being said you probably would have to drop the friends going to NY with him part(either that or his friend having the hots for the blond haired girl)

[–] tiger01 9 years ago

When the blonde girl first started talking to Q and bonding with him over Margot, I did think that is where the movie was headed. It's probably because that theme has been done lots of times before in various iterations. I did enjoy the theme/message of the film about not putting people on pedestals and creating fantasy versions of people that they cannot possibly live up to. The thing I didn't like about the ending was just how easy-going and nice Margot was about it. As Laguna Girl says above, it makes more sense that she was a lot more self-centered and kind of bitchy in the book; what we got in the film was a little too "mushy" for my tastes.

I do think that the "dead body" ending would have been interesting but maybe a little too "heavy" for this type of film. Not to say it would have been terrible or anything but probably wouldn't fit as well, especially considering how it turns out in the book. That would have been a major departure, lol.

[–] hovaoc149 9 years ago

nah i think would have been better if margot somehow beat Q back to the Prom so they could make a grand entrance together.

[–] sanders_mike25 9 years ago

Not dead but just not there. Maybe he'd get to the shack only to find out she had moved onto someplace new.

[–] Splarne 9 years ago

i saw it finally today and resisted the urge to come to the boards to see where this film was going. i half expected them to find her body at some point.

the real ending on the film did make it feel flat.

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