Pajiba

Even though the news is pure-grade bullshit, your delivery is excellent.

So... What are the chances of this being some really elaborate hoax?

Can we please not rule that out as a possibility?

Wow. I've never seen you so angry, SLW.

...it's kind of turning me on. (Kidding, Mrs. SLW! Please don't hurt me. I'm very fragile.)

"OK, let’s do the right thing. Let’s finish the movie properly.’”

Yeah, let's finish it properly. Let's forget that this book was gorgeously crafted by a real artist before you got your hands on it-someone who had a vision for their characters and the paths their lives would take. YOU KNOW BETTER.

GAH!

Okay it's one thing to change the ending of a movie with a story that was written just for the movie. Who would know but the people who wrote it/worked on the movie? But to change the ending of a movie that is based on a best selling book? Do they not understand that people actually read the books they buy, and not just leave them laying around to impress people? That we're going to notice?

Can the earthquake that breaks SoCal away from the rest of the state happen already so we can start over with Hollywood? Pretty please?

I'm a romance novelist, so happy endings are my life. But this news? Makes me think about heading into the horror genre instead. Bloody knives, decapitated movie producers, the works.

I hope like hell it's not true -- and regardless of test audience reaction, that there's enough of an uproar that they change the ending back.

I so agree with you on this. It isn' the first time Hollywood has decimated a beautiful story in favor of a happy ending and I am sure it won't be the last.

Do they not understand that people actually read the books they buy, and not just leave them laying around to impress people?

Um...I have several books that I bought just to say I have them.

*slowly heads toward exit*

Branded, they've tried...but Orson Welles kills every person who's tried to do it.

"It's a mix of fantasy and crap - I call it fantacrap!"

STOP MESSING WITH THINGS!!!

Okay, I more or less love the book even though some things bother me only because I wish the author would have delved into some issues more (like how Clare seems to not have a choice, it's more or less set up for her and how much free will can she have if Henry has been her template for what she wants since she was 6?.

However, that doesn't mean you get to fuck around with an entire ending. Yes, the ending is supremely heart breaking, and it pissed me off but that's how it is and it shouldn't be changed.

Gah!

Thanks to this movie's sappy-ass, cotton candy trailer, my boyfriend refuses to give the book a fair chance.

And now he's fucked up the ending. Tell me, Schwentke, if test audiences whined about the end to Romeo and Juliet, would you have her wake up just in the nick of time? How's about a film adaptation of Les Miserables where everybody lives? Or a version of Hamlet where a magical black man played by Will Smith steps in as the family therapist and the story ends in a giant group hug? Would that be "proper?" Huh???

I said, would that be "proper" you illiterate, vapid, soulless douche-nozzle disguised as a filmmaker???

Fuck you, Schwentke. Fuck you right in the ear with an elephant's dick.

The makers and the audience should just go watch Altman's The Player instead. Maybe that will teach them.

I have nothing clever to add to the vitriol, but I want to say thank you, seriously, for this tidbit, because now I can avoid this movie.

I take my books, my movies, and my love stories very seriously, and I don't want one second of this film to enter my brain and sully the memory of this book.

So, thank you.

Oh fuck you, you FUCKS. These must be the same motherfuckers who thought that the original ending to I Am Legend was too complex for their brains.

MOTHERFUCKERS.

Hell's bells.

I wonder if test audiences liked the ending of Love Story or Brian's Song. It's a sad story. Deal with it. Bunch of fucking test audience babies.

Terrible. "Properly"? Really?

Also: is the title of this post in reference to Clerks?

I'm going to have to just agree with everyone who is now ready to kill something. The end of this book and, in particular, its tone, is a major part of why it's one of my favorites. Stupid, stupid me for thinking that there was even a chance in hell that the adaptation would resemble an utterly fantastic novel. I guess I'll just chalk this up as another reason not to watch this film, and hope that the general public doesn't latch on to the movie as they are often wont to do with poorly done, romantic comedies that lack content.

" ... they’re just there to give our reptile brains two-hour hand jobs."

Now I want one. A reptile brain and a two-hour hand job. I guess that's two, but my reptile brain can't count so good.

Somebody ought to make a movie that's just all happy endings (that isn't a porn). The dog finds his way home. The kid with cancer gets cured. The guy dumps his hot bitchy fiancee to marry the "plain" girl with the good heart. The aliens are defeated by something really, really simple just as the human race is on the edge of extinction. The action hero foils the nefarious plans of the bad guy and kicks his ass in a fight sequence so extravagantly edited it will cause seizures in many viewers. The executive guy realizes that family comes first and tells the big client in the crucial meeting to fuck off, then gets to his kid's Little League game just in time to see the kid hit a home run.

RE gp
"we need a comment diversion (but label it extra-SPOILERy) where we re-write the endings to movies.
because, you know, titanic didn't have to be so sink-y."

LOL... the sinkyness was the best part.

ShinyKate - Ouch! You go, girl.
figgy - So true!
gp - Of course, maybe Titanic would have been a bigger boxoffice smash if they'd have just given it a "proper" ending.

Question: Is it still an 'adaptation' when the orginal work has been rewritten?
Definition 'Adaptation': "Film adaptation is the transfer of a written work to a feature film. It is a type of derivative work."

You know Schwentke will just use this outcry as the reason to offer a special cut DVD with the alternate ending.

fine, maybe titanic was a bad example as that was based on history and history says the boat sinks. can't rewrite history (oh wait, they can, and will, and do.)

let's see, okay, how about the ending of thelma and louise? bit of a downer, cause of the, well, gravity.
what if we just have them make it to mexico? that's happier, right?

i mean, who will think of the MARGARITAS?

I hereby nominate gp and ashes as a tie for Eloquent Eloquence this week.

Of course since the award is for writing, their awards will be presented at an untelevised, separate ceremony; and a clip of them grinning and waving at the camera will be shown at the main awards ceremony while everyone is making a bathroom run.

Oh for fuck's sake! If Hollywood can kill the dog, they can use the proper ending for this movie.

To make this movie perfect, it would have a production budget comparable to B Button.

And it would deserve every penny of it. It deserves a better director and better screenwriters, too, while we're at it.

Unfortunately, Hollywood just saw:

(x + y) + z = ROMCOM PROFIT!

Where x = man, y = time traveling, and z = woman.

For the love of God, NO!!! That final scene is so haunting, so heartwrenching... I can't believe they will fuck up this movie to such an extent. Those stupid, STUPID fuckers.

Yeah, women HATE sappy tragic love stories. That's why "The Notebook" and "Moulin Rouge!" were such failu-- OH WAIT, NO THEY FUCKING WEREN'T.

I can't even believe they would change the book's (fucking perfect) ending. KILL KILL KILL.

Great. And here I was hoping this movie might make up for the horrendous changes made in "My Sister's Keeper". Another book to movie fail.

This makes my soul bleed.

FUCKKKK YOUUUUUU!!!!!!!!

UMMM...NOT seeing it.

Funny how many people here think they are so smart, yet they can't seem to leave a comment that isn't laced with so much foul language I want to grab a bar of Lifebouy soap.

Personally, I could not disagree with you guys more. The author created the novel to bash romance and love because the poor wittle thing got jilted. Now that I know the movie doesn't end the way the book does - which was depressing as hell, I will probably watch it. It isn't about being illiterate - it is the fact that real life sucks enough - we go to the movies to escape it. For a short time, we can live vicariously through the happiness on the screen. What is so happy about poor Clare waiting all her life for one last brief moment with Henry? So before you all go and label people illiterate, or "twats", or label people AT ALL - why don't you try to understand how people feel? Or have you all forgotten how to empathize?

I am fairly fairly certain from my inside source that everyone who is supposed to die still does. It's the VERY END, that beautiful coda we all know and love, that's gone and replaced with GOD KNOWS WHAT DISNEYFIED BULLSHIT.

First of all, its ridiculous to change the ending of a movie based on a popular novel from a tragedy to a Happily Ever After Fairytale. That out of the way...Am I the only one who HATED Claire & Henry for having a biological child? A kid that will grow up disappearing and landing stranded and naked god knows where or when?! I was just so pissed off at the characters at that point, I could barely care about them. Otherwise, I would have had a good sob-fest along with Claire after she looses and then waits her entire life for Henry! I'd like to think that if they cut out anything it was the daughter, but I already know that they did not. My bet is Claire sees Henry one last time while she is still Young and Beautiful, of course. Sort of like the corny ending at the end of the corny Pirates Of the Carribean III.

how about this? i just heard they are going to be making the movie into a tv series....based on the movie? based on the book? i don't know...

Carrie - they have already tried that series - it was called Journeyman - and it wasn't bad, but apparently didn't have enough viewers.