how you would you have improved a movie

[Grumpy Ginger]

I think Iron Man two should have cut down on some of the plot threads. I would remove the whole blood getting poisoned thing and trying to get past his daddy issues.This will be unpopular as well but I think that though the Avengers was awesome it seemed a Tad shoehorned with Black Widow and Fury in the movie.

 

[karcentric]

Transformers... Focus less on the humans, and more on big robots fighting one another.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Give Bane subtitles. Yes I know it was probably the movie theater's fault I couldn't understand half the things out of that stupid mask but I still would've added them in just to make sure everyone knew what he was saying.

I couldn't understand a lot of what Bane was saying either and would have liked the subtitle idea. Of course if the Nolan movies weren't trying so hard for realism they could have just dubbed over his lines with an actual voice-voice. I think that's what they would have done in a cartoon for example.

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Dark Shadows - Pick a tone and pick a main purpose then stick with them throughout. The romance seemed tacked on and lazy. The resolution just seemed stupid.

This is just a blanket statement but think it needs to be said: Keep Ryan Reynolds away from super hero movies. He might, possibly fit in something like The Youngblood movie maybe but he just doesn't fit in the other super hero movies I know he's been in. He was unnecessary in Blade Trinity, he was wasted in X-Men: Origins Wolverine and, he was just wrong as Hal Jordan.

 

[esperandote]

Don't let George Lucas read this thread.

I gues this is too easy but, The king of fighters movie, fix: having to do something with the game.

Silent Hill, less gore and more psychological terror, something like the mirror room in silent hill 3 and no barb wire scene. Removing cliché stuff like little girl sleep walking and the screaming silent hill! out of nowhere.

Edit: shit, i missed my 4k post

 

[xdom125x]

These movies already got mentioned but screw it:

Hancock shouldn't have been it's own movie. It should have been a one-off episode of a superhero tv show that taught a different hero a valuable lesson about power and responsibility. It would, of course, end with Hancock getting his act together and becoming a superhero.

The Star Wars prequels should have been a couple of buddy cop movies with the growing distrust between Anakin and Obi-Wan as the central arc (I totally stole this from a Cracked article). Also, drop all the explanations about where all the side characters came from. We didn't know where they came from and anything you come up with will not live up to the backstory we imagined for ourselves.

Here's a particularly petty one. Remove the line from The Dark Knight Rises that implied that Catwoman was a prostitute at one point. There were a couple problem with the pacing and of course the eye-roll inducing revelation of a certain guy's name, but I'll stick with the line that could be read into that makes me believe Catwoman was once a prostitute because I really, really didn't want to be reminded of the writings of Frank Miller by this movie. (Woo, run-on sentence)

 

[Rawberry101]

If anyone has ever read the screenplay of Full Metal Jacket (all three of us), that ending I think would have been much more powerful, maybe up there in one of those 'best endings' discussions. It took me a very long time to reconcile why Stanley Kubrick changed it but it makes sense.

That's the only thing off the very top of my head, along with Star Wars prequels being changed in many ways, but that's way too broad and deep to get into.

 

[malestrithe]

Green Lantern.

Less characters, more story. The mistake of that movie is that it tried to tell 3 movies at the same time. There is no need for the character to go to Oa in the first movie. That could have been the second one.

Main characters: Hal, Carol, Hammond, Kanjar Ro and Abin Sur.

Minor characters, Carol's father, various people from military, Faris Air, maybe Steve Trevor.

Movie should follow the plot line of the origin closely, except substitute Kanjar Ro for Sinestro.

 

[ducktapemax]

sleepless in Seattle would have a shoot-out scene. there would be no warning of it. the scene would show up half though the movie and catch everyone by surprise.

 

[TheMann]

I'd make Avatar an hour shorter so it ends when they destroy the tree.

Oh hell yeah. Except I'd add one quick scene after that, which shows a news report on Earth with a huge headline that reads "Unobtanium deposits secured, world energy crisis over!". And everybody would be crying and hugging each other in the streets, all so very, very happy. Parents would hold their children close and tell them "Remember this day. This is the day when our lives became brighter. This is the day when the very soul of humanity began to refill with hope." And over the sounds of billions of voices singing in rejoice, the most wondrous display of fireworks ever created would explode in the sky over every major city on the globe.

I would have improved the movie "Eragon" by unmaking it. That's all it really needs though.

I have to disagree. If "Eragon" had never been made, then I never would have had the pleasure of listening as Mike Nelson and crew absolutely brutalized that movie in their Rifftrax [http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/eragon] commentary. That one was seriously funny. That's the only way I've seen Eragon. I can't imagine watching it by itself. Yetch!

I suppose I would completely redo Aliens vs. Predator. When I heard that movie was being made my head was filled with all sorts of badass things that would be in it. Sadly, they fucked it up pretty badly and I was a sad panda that day. I'd have put the setting in the future where it would make way more sense for the Aliens chronology. That way, I could also reintroduce the Colonial Marines into the mix and maybe explore some more aspects of their organization and weaponry. I think that could end up being one seriously state-of-the-badass-art movie.

 

[WanderingFool]

I'd make Avatar an hour shorter so it ends when they destroy the tree.

Actually, I would keep the movie about the same up to the big fight, and even let them "win" the fight. But than Scully[footnote]was that his name?[/footnote] sees the humans bringing in more gunships and bombers (and some orbital fire support as well), and completely lay waste to that shit.

What was great about Avatar was the visuals. The story could have been fucking predicted before the movie even came into theaters...

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

In the first Silent Hill movie I would have pretty much changed everything that happens after Rose enters Alessa's Room at the hospital. Its like they had no idea how to end the movie so they just decided a long boring exposition, followed by a barbed wire gangbang, and an obligatory lame twist ending was the perfect way to go.

There is quite a lot of good in that movie, and it just gets tossed out at the end. I guess that the new movie is pretending the other one never happened as it is following SH3's plot.

Kinda hard to do that with how the first movie ended.

 

[ohnoitsabear]

Well I just finished watching The Hurt Locker so I'm gonna go ahead and say that The Hurt Locker would be improved immensely by getting rid of the fucking shaky camera.

I think it's safe to say that this is true of any movie with shaky camera. All it does is make a movie hard to watch.

 

[Wayneguard]

Prometheus: Have the team leave the alien planet thinking their mission accomplished only to find that one of the crew was impregnated by the proto-alien. Alien gets out; chaos ensues... Alien comes full circle. Before anyone says it, I didn't want a carbon copy of alien; I was more thinking of a throwback. But even a copy/paste would have been preferable to what we got...

 

[shogunblade]

If I could rewrite The Human Centipede movies, I could make them earn their Uncomfortable titles that Tom Six keeps bandying about such as, "It makes [X] look like [Y]", instead of calling them "The Sickest Movies Ever made", and have them be awful.

I'd make them dramatic, I'd have characters that you worry about having to be sown together, and I'd maybe make the title a misnomer, then when Part 2 rolls on by, Martin would actually do what the doctor in the movie couldn't, then write his character better than he was in the film.

H.C. has the opportunity to be great, if only Tom Six was willing to make a better movie. They could still be gross, but I wouldn't be fighting sleep if they were better written.

I'd have rewritten The Expendables as an action comedy instead of a "Pure Action" movie. Would have be better than what Stallone tried to do.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close wouldn't have damaged everything good about the entire 1 Hr and 40 Mins before it if I rewrote it without Sandra Bullock in it.

Give me any movie, and I will literally give you the only way I can make it better, and I think you would agree.

Seriously, please do it. It would be fun.

 

[eimatshya]

I would change the Return of the King so that the sky was actually dark during the siege of Gondor. And I would have had the orcs catapult the branded and decapitated heads of the soldiers they killed on their way to the Minas Tirith over the walls of the city to demoralize its defenders. And they would have set the lower city ablaze so that when the gates are breached, Gandalf faces down the invaders alone, in the dark, against the backdrop of the burning city full of severed heads and panicked, fleeing defenders. And I would have made it so that the Witch-King is the first one to the gates, rather than a bunch of unnamed trolls, and had Gandalf face him down alone since the other defenders would have already fled in despair. And it would have been the definition of bad-ass. And I would have also changed the part at Orodruin so that Frodo curses Gollum with the ring so that if he lays a hand on Frodo again he will be cast into the fires of Mt. Doom. And then at the end when Gollum does take the ring from Frodo, I would have had the curse befall him, and he would fall into the Cracks of Doom without any assistance from Frodo, thereby making the ring its own undoing ('cause that was a brilliant touch on Tolkien's Part).

Really I would have don't pretty much everything differently, but these are the key things that need to be changed. Why Peter Jackson decided to do the lame-ass stuff that he did instead of all of this is beyond me, but maybe he has an allergy to awesomeness. Or maybe he just didn't get around to reading the third book. I don't know. Either way, changing these critical moments back to the way they unfold in the book might have salvaged the movie.

 

[mojopin87]

I would change the Return of the King so that the sky was actually dark during the siege of Gondor. And I would have had the orcs catapult the branded and decapitated heads of the soldiers they killed on their way to the Minas Tirith over the walls of the city to demoralize its defenders. And they would have set the lower city ablaze so that when the gates are breached, Gandalf faces down the invaders alone, in the dark, against the backdrop of the burning city full of severed heads and panicked, fleeing defenders. And I would have made it so that the Witch-King is the first one to the gates, rather than a bunch of unnamed trolls, and had Gandalf face him down alone since the other defenders would have already fled in despair. And it would have been the definition of bad-ass. And I would have also changed the part at Orodruin so that Frodo curses Gollum with the ring so that if he lays a hand on Frodo again he will be cast into the fires of Mt. Doom. And then at the end when Gollum does take the ring from Frodo, I would have had the curse befall him, and he would fall into the Cracks of Doom without any assistance from Frodo, thereby making the ring its own undoing ('cause that was a brilliant touch on Tolkien's Part).

Really I would have don't pretty much everything differently, but these are the key things that need to be changed. Why Peter Jackson decided to do the lame-ass stuff that he did instead of all of this is beyond me, but maybe he has an allergy to awesomeness. Or maybe he just didn't get around to reading the third book. I don't know. Either way, changing these critical moments back to the way they unfold in the book might have salvaged the movie.

Damn. Ninja'd. ESPECIALLY the Siege of Minas Tirith stuff. I would also have rather had Aragorn bring the reinforcements from southern Gondor rather than the ghost army thing as his arrival was never supposed to instantly end the battle but rather, to even the odds. Basically I thought they kind of botched most of that battle in the movie.

Also the Denethor-Faramir thing really bothered me as they made Denethor stupid and pointlessly/cartoonishly cruel to Faramir, whereas in the book he is intelligent, resourceful, and basically trying to the right thing even if he is misguided/corrupted eventually, not to mention incredibly arrogant. He also never would have outright told Faramir that he essentially hated him. It was more that he didn't understand him and was blinded by his grief over losing his favoured son and heir, Boromir.

I would also have changed helms deep so that the numbers were more like in the book and the elves were not involved (i.e. they were not so initially outnumbered in the books and the relief force was not led by Eomer - though that change didn't really matter - and there would be no stupid torch run to blow up the wall).

Other than that, pretty much what you said but the biggest thing I would have done would be to cast a better actor as Frodo and write him closer to the books where he is a much more likeable protagonist than the whiny bastard we see. Elijah Wood is just way too whiny and had no ability to show the inner pain and turmoil the ring was causing him.

 

[Pat]

I liked Prometheus; it had interesting ideas and cool visuals in it but it was in the wrong genre. A straight sci fi film just about the engineers without the Alien tie-in and without the horror bits (although the med pod scene was very good) with more philosophical stuff in it.