The "How would you have done it?" thread

[Alchemyst]

Take any film that you have watched and not quite liked or felt like things could've been better and tell how "you" would have done it

 

[[A]]

How about making Vader a total evil badass all the way to the end..? No redemption, no Darth wusiness

 

[Oddzball]

Gotten an action hero actor to play Sky Captain and Christina Applegate to replace Paltrow in Sky Captain and the World of Tommorw. You needed a heroic lead male and a FUNNY lead female for that flick.

What's odd is it's still doable. So much of it was CGI you could put new actors in Law and Paltrow's place and no one would notice, except for the film being that much better.

 

[Oddzball]

And the movie that most of you avoided. Mom and Dad Save the World:

Switched Jeffey Jones and Jon Lovitz' roles as Dad and the Evil Emperor.

The planet was full of silly characters. It's leader needed a level of menace Lovitz didn't bring until he kicked the crap out of Andy Dick. Also not made M & D so unsympathetic in the first part of the movie. You didn't CARE that they got kidnapped by aliens by the time that happened.

 

[Thundarr]

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: THE MOVIE

Personally, like many people I know, I think the first D&D movie sucked! There was just so much that was wrong with that movie it's hard to know where to begin. However, I own a copy of it on DVD (it's D&D and it was on sale) so I've seen it with both the feature length comentaries as well as all the deleted and extended or incompleted scenes. And I'd have to say that if they were ever to re-edit the film, completing and adding in several of the lost scenes, and rerelease it on DVD as an "Extended Edition Director's Cut", it would be almost watchable. These are the changes that have to be made...

1) One of my biggest problems with this movie was that they never gave the dwarf a name. The entire movie he was called either "him" or "the dwarf". Turns out that he actually does have a name, they just left it on the proverbial "cutting room floor" due to "time constraints". The characters name was Elwood Gutworthy. There was a scene in the sewers just after the four main characters escaped Damodar and The Crimson Brigade where he introduces himself. As this would be an extended cut, time constraints wouldn't be an issue and the scene should deffinately be edited back in.

2) There was supposed to be a running gag in the fight scenes in the bar and the Thieves Guild where Elwood's helmet would get knocked off and he would go berserk and kick some serious butt. These scenes were also cut out due to time constraints, but I think putting them back in would make those fight scenes more entertaining. Again, this is an extended director's cut, so time constraints are meaningless.

3) There was an unfinished scene of Marena and Riddley inside the magic scroll. This scene was cut due to budget, and the director thought that the important information gets relayed to Snailz later in the film and therefore didn't need to be repeated by the wraith. But there was a part of the scene where Marena and Riddley were arguing where Riddley tells her of his fathers unfair treatment at the hands of the Mages Council, thus revealing the root of his hatred of the mages and also shattering the foundations of Marena's entire belief system. All in all, a very emotional scene which deserved to be in the finished film.

4) There was a scene just after Snailz was killed, where Norda is consoling Marena. She says something along the lines of "You grieve for Riddley. I grieve too, for his kind hearted friend. But all is not lost. If we can make it to The Elven Forrest in time, he may yet be saved." The scene was cut due to time constraints, but deserves to be put into the extended cut.

5) There was an unfinished scene during the battle between the gold dragons and Profion and his supporters from the Mages Council that was cut due to budget. E. Gary Gygax was playing one of the mages. I would finish the scene and edit it back in for that reason alone.

6) The ending with Riddley and the others at Snailz's grave was actually shot a year after the movie was finished. Originally the ending had Riddley in the graveyard alone, and after a tearful goodbye walking off to his knighting cerimony. The producers felt it was too serious an ending and ordered a new "happier" ending be shot. I saw the original ending and I have to say I much prefer the original to the rewrite.

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS II: WRATH OF THE DRAGON GOD

I put off watching this movie for a very long time. When I finally broke down and bought a copy (it was part of the same sale as the first one) I was very surprised. I liked it! I really, really liked it! It wasn't perfect by any means. There was certainly room for improvement. But the writing was infinately superior to the first movie, and the actors took their rolls very seriously (reading Players Handbooks, Monsters Manuals, and DMGs between shoots, etc). There were a few minor changes I would have made to the characters, casting, wardrobe, script, etc. But on the whole I thought they did an excellent job! Here are the changes I would have made...

BEREK THE FIGHTER: First thing about Berek is I would have made him a paladin rather than just a plain fighter. There are three reasons for this. One, it opens up the party to more racial diversity (there are too many damn humans in this movie). Two, it opens up the party to more class diversity (someone else could be the plain fighter). And three, it opens up the party to more magic items (I would have given Berek The Paladin a Holy Avenger and given the Vorpal Sword to Lux). I also would have given Berek the same surname as Riddley's in the first movie (I think it was Freemantle), thus indicating to the observant viewer that he is a desendant of Riddley's (and presumably also Marena's). As for casting, while the actor who played Berek did an admirable job, I would have cast Cary Elwes (Saw, The Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Men In Tights). He's a fine actor and a skilled swordsman.

LUX THE BARBARIAN: Of all the characters, Lux is the one I have the most problems with. First there's her wardrobe, it's too civilized. I didn't even realize she was supposed to be a barbarian until Berek's wife said the line "The barbarian is certainly beautiful." When dressing a barbarian for a fantasy adventure film like D&D, less is more (especially when the barbarian in question is female). I would have put her in a fur bikini, mukluks (Boots Of The North), a sword belt, an ornate set of (enchanted) bracers (Bracers Of Defence), and a fur cloak (possibly of Winter Wolf hide or a Cloak Of Protection). As for the actress who portrayed Lux, she didn't seem to have the look of a fantasy barbarian. She's beautiful, and may be athletic in a cheerleader sort of way. But even in proper attire she wouldn't be very intimidating or barbaric. I would have cast former WWE Diva and two time Playboy covergirl Joanie Laurer (aka "The Ninth Wonder Of The World" Chyna) in the role. Or I would have cast the actress who played Atalanta on Hercules: The Legendary Journies (I think she used to be an American Gladiator). Or if you want someone more conventionally beautiful, Victoria Pratt, who played an amazon on a couple of episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess and played Sarge in the (blessedly) short lived TV series Cleopatra 2525.

ORMALINE THE ELVEN MAGE: The actress who played Ormaline did a fantastic job and the character was very well written. The only change I would make to this character is to recast her with an A List actress. I would choose either Kristen Kruek (Smallville) or Lexa Doig (Andromeda). They both have a very exotic beauty which makes them perfect to playing elves. Liv Tyler (The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy) would also be a good choice.

DORIAN THE CLERIC: Dorian was very well written, and the actor who portrayed him did a fine job. He was played with strength, intelligence, wisdom, and compassion, exactly as a cleric of a goodly god should be. But if I were to recast the role with a known actor, I would have to go with Liam Neeson. He exhibited all those same qualities when he played Qui-Gon Jin in Star Wars Episode I: The Franchise Menace, as well as when he played Aslan in The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe.

NIM THE ROGUE: Nim is another character that would require an entire rewrite. Not because he was poorly written or cast. Again, I really liked the writing and think all the actors did a fantastic job. But there were too damn many humans in this movie! Therefore I would have written Nim as a halfling (a little cliche, I know, but apropriate). The actor who played Nim might be short, but he's not small enough to play a halfling. Thus I would have cast Warwick Davis in the role (Willow, Star Wars Episode I & VI, Harry Potter I - IV, Leprichaun I - V). He's well known, he loves the genre, he's a fine actor, and unlike most people born with dwarfism he has long fingers. If he's unavailable, I'd have cast Vern "Mini-Me" Troyer (the Austin Powers movies and TV's Jack Of All Trades). He's probably more well known among the younger movie goers, but I haven't seen him in anything other than comedies so I don't know how seriously he'd take the role. My other two picks for the role of Nim would have required an even larger rewrite, turning he into a she (and maybe giving her a more feminine sounding name, like Nymara or something). My first female pick for the role of the halfling rogue is Debbie Lee Carrington, who many of you might remember as the blonde midget hooker Thumblina in the Schwarzenegger flick Total Recall. My second choice is former adult film star, Bridget "The Midget" Powerz. Last I heard she gave up doing porn to front a punk rock band, but she might have said yes to a ligitimate acting gig. After casting a little person in the role of the halfling rogue, all they'd have to do is get the WETA Workshop to fit them with some hobbit feet.

ELWOOD GUTWORTHY THE DWARVEN FIGHTER: See, I told you making Berek a paladin would open up the party to more classes and races. I would have written Elwood back into the story both to add more races to the party other than human, as well as for tactical purposes. As he was part of the original party that defeated him 100 years earlier, he has insight into Damodar's tactics and abilities. Besides, he's one of the only members of the original party who don't consider a single century that long of an amount of time, since dwarves live for about 400 years. As for casting, I would have to go with Lee Arenberg, who played Elwood in the original. Not only is he familiar with the character, but it helps with film continuity. If Lee is unable to take the role, then I'd go with the Bret Beatty who was the scale double for John Rhyse Davies during the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy. He's 4'9", has a blackbelt in karate, is a classically trained actor, and a licenced stuntman. Or if they can't get him, maybe Hornswoggle from WWE Monday Night RAW. He's also the right size and a capable athlete (don't know how good of an actor though).

NORDA THE ELVEN RANGER: Another example of how making Berek a paladin rather than a fighter opens up the party to more classes and races. Norda would be enlisted for the same reasons as Elwood, her personal knowledge of Damodar and his tactics. Plus, as an elf she also is the only member of the original party who lives for several centuries. The role of Norda should have been given to Kristen Wilson, who played Norda in the first movie, for continuity sake. If she were unable to take the role, then I'd suggest iether Lexa Doig, Kristen Kruek, or Liv Tyler (whichever one didn't take the role of Ormaline).

Those are all the changes I would have made to the casting of the sequel. Here are the changes I would have made to the script itself...

LUX'S BERSERKER RAGE: I've never made any attempt to hide my dislike of the new 3rd Edition rule that all anyone needs to go berserk is a set of wolfskin underwear and a horned helmet, and I stand by my opinion on that. That's not what this is about though. Wrath Of The Dragon God was written using the 3rd Edition core rule books as its template, I understand and accept that. However, regardless of whether you're using 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Edition as your reference material, there is a world of difference between using a berserker's rage in game and translating that onto the screen. In the game you simply tell your DM that you're going berserk and then make the necessary adjustments on your character sheet. On film, it has to be more dramatic. I didn't even know Lux was supposed to be in the midst of a berserker rage until Ormaline had to knock her on her ass with a lightning bolt and shout "Barbarian! Get a hold of yourself!" Here are the changes I would have made to that scene...

1) When the brigands are running down the hill and Lux is waiting to meet them, she should have been taking deep breaths, snarling, growling, foaming at the mouth (an effect easily achieved by putting a couple of Alka Seltzer tablets in your mouth and letting the frothing saliva drip down you face).

2) She should have been performing feats of superhuman strength during the battle. Launching men 6 feet in the air with a kick to the googlies (that's Joss Whedon speak for a kick to the groin), picking a man up by the throat one handed and throwing him 10 feet into a group of his comrades, etc.

3) Some of the bandits attacks should have gotten through her defences only to bounce off the protective shield provided by her Bracers Of Defence.

4) Some of the bandits attacks should have gotten through her defences causing what should be a crippling wound, which she totally ignores. A bandit shatters her shoulder with a solid hit with a morning star. Another bandit drives his spear into her hip. Another bandit stabs her in the gut with a short sword. She ignores them all and just cuts down the offending brigands.

5) Once safely inside Malek's Vault, Lux collapses due to her exhaustion and the numerous wounds she had suffered. Berek has to use all of his paladin healing powers to heal her wounds so she can continue.

THE FINDING OF THE VORPAL SWORD: This scene was never shot due to budgetting problems. Originally, after the party had passed the room with the Dark Mantels they entered a long hallway (if you look closely you'll see the sword he fights off the Dark Mantels with and the one he smashes through the wall with are completely different). The floor at the far end of the hallway starts to rise like a drawbridge while the rest of the floor starts to retract to dump the occupants into a spiked pit. Each member of the party takes a running leap across the widening pit. Berek went last, almost falling into the pit. As he was dangling by the drawbridge he saw a skeleton with a Vorpal Sword lying in the pit, and at the last possible second he reached into the pit and retrieved the sword. That's how it was written. Instead of cutting the scene completely, I would have rewritten it in a more cost effective way. Here's how I would have written it...

1) As I said above, I would have given the Vorpal Sword to Lux. Rather than have her find it in The Vault, I would have given it to the Bandit Leader. When he sees how powerful Lux is, he drinks a Potion Of Super Heroism, a Potion Of Strength, and a Potion Of Speed (essentially giving him the benefits of a berserker's rage). He then draws his Vorpal Sword and charges down the hill to attack. He and Lux have a brief but fast and furious duel (somewhat akin to Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker's duel in Revenge Of The S#!t, but not as long). The bandit leader cuts right through Lux's sword while parrying one of her attacks. He has her dead to rights, but before he can strike the final blow Ormaline nails him with a lightning bolt. The potions he imbibed earlier allow him to shrug off the worst of the effects, leaving him stunned (it's more like being shot with a tazer than being struck by lightning). Lux wrenches the Vorpal Sword from his grasp and cuts him in two, literally. Lux then cuts down more brigands until Ormaline knocks her on her ass and shouts "Barbarian, get ahold of yourself!"

2) Before the room with the Dark Mantels, I would have put a guard room which is littered with the skeletal remains of a score of goblins and one human in plate armour with a goblin sword in his chest. While Nim and Elwood search the bodies for anything valuable, Berek, Norda, and the others deduce what happened here. Apparently, a paladin had made it to the guard room and engaged the goblin guards in battle. He slew most of them, but the last one got in a lucky shot. With his last breath the paladin slew the last goblin. Unfortunately he didn't have strength enought to heal his wound before he died. This was shortly before Malek teleported himself into the wall and died, so no other goblin guards were able to replace the ones who died or loot the bodies. Berek finds that the paladin's sword was a Holy Avenger and trades with him, saying a prayer to the fallen hero's spirit to let him know that the sword is being used by a fellow paladin in the name of good.

THE BANDIT ATTACK: I said it before and I'll say it again, there were way too many damn humans in this movie. I would have made the bandits orcs, or drow, or hobgoblins, or grimlocks. Anything other than humans. I understand that this movie had a much smaller budget than the first one did, and as such probably couldn't afford the prothstetic latex makeup for that many stuntmen and extras. Making them drow would probably have been cheapest, as they'd just need elf ears, white wigs, and a whole lot of black makeup. Then they could just import a bunch of Chinese stuntmen from the Hong Kong film industry (they're smaller and of slighter builds than most American stuntmen).

THE ENERGY SHIELD: I would have killed off Nim the halfling rogue here. Not that I disliked the character or anything, I just think it would have been more dramatic. Everyone gets across the energy shield safely, but Nim (being a 3' tall halfling) can't get across in time and gets fried. Makes the whole thing a little more emotional, a little sadder, a little darker. Like in an actual D&D game, sometimes your character dies.

 

[Ratcrawler]

From Sleeping Beauty:

Flora: We can only grant the Princess Aurora one gift each. No more. No less. My gift shall be the gift of beauty.

The Queen: I'm sorry what?

Flora: Hmm?

The Queen: Your gift to my daughter. Beauty. You saying I'm ugly?

Fauna: My gift shall be the gift of song--

The Queen: Yeah, that's great. We were talking here.

Flora: Oh your highness, I meant no offense.

The Queen: No, no, you just felt the need to use your supernatural powers to give my daughter something I couldn't. God forbid you give her something useful for a princess like the ability to learn a new language fast for when foreign dignitaries come over.

Meriweather: My gift shall be the gift of laser vision!

The Queen: Oh what the fu--!?

*Thunderclap and Maleficent appears in the court*

Maleficent: King Stephen, I'm rather offended for not being invited. So I shall curse your daughter to prick her --*baby Aurora melts Maleficent's face with her laser vision* GAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!*dies*

The Queen: *to Flora* You see? Now THAT'S a gift!

THE END

 

[Infinity9999x]

Thundarr...

as impressed as I am that you had the dedication to type all that, seeing that massive post gave me a mild seizure.


Anywho, I'd change the 4th Indiana Jones. I'd take out the monkeys, and never actually reveal if the aliens were real or just an old myth (probably have the ending structure they were in simply collapse, and it's never revealed if it was the "aliens" or the old structure falling apart from stress)

 

[Fanticon]

this ones easy....Spiderman 3...SAVE VENOM FOR A FOURTH GODDAM MOVIE! idiots...

Matrix 3....Well, I dare not reveal my ending but, what the hell...basically...the real world the humans thought they were living in after they are saved from the Matrix and fighting the Machines...is actually a fail safe the machines created...so its another Matrix. tying it in with the Wachowski's religious philosophies it would have acted as a purgatory...and only Neo figured it out after destroying the Sentinels at the end of Re-Loaded...so in Zion world, in his "coma" he actually awoke on some kind of life support in a totally a cleaned up utopian society and he is greeted by the machines we saw in the Animatrix The Second Renaissance Pt.1...Earth has also been cleaned up by the machines and not resemble the apocalyptic wasteland ruins...Neo finds out they are much further in the future than they originally thought....he is now given the difficult task of convincing everyone of this when he re-enters and awakes from the Coma...the Mr. Smith Storyline still holds up as the only obstacle Neo is faced with...as even the Machines did not anticipate a rogue program hacking its way independently through the matrix's, so if neo doesn't stop him, many lives will be lost if the system crashes...so we still would have had that ultimate showdown. The Morality question all the characters are faced with is that they still view this as enslavement...etc. etc.

most of my friends told me that if that actually was how part 3 went...audiences would have felt cheated...oh well...it exists in my head.

 

[Sam Fisher]

How about making Vader a total evil badass all the way to the end..? No redemption, no Darth wusiness

Then the prequels wouldn't had been any good at all.

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

From Sleeping Beauty:

Flora: We can only grant the Princess Aurora one gift each. No more. No less. My gift shall be the gift of beauty.

The Queen: I'm sorry what?

Flora: Hmm?

The Queen: Your gift to my daughter. Beauty. You saying I'm ugly?

Fauna: My gift shall be the gift of song--

The Queen: Yeah, that's great. We were talking here.

Flora: Oh your highness, I meant no offense.

The Queen: No, no, you just felt the need to use your supernatural powers to give my daughter something I couldn't. God forbid you give her something useful for a princess like the ability to learn a new language fast for when foreign dignitaries come over.

Meriweather: My gift shall be the gift of laser vision!

The Queen: Oh what the fu--!?

*Thunderclap and Maleficent appears in the court*

Maleficent: King Stephen, I'm rather offended for not being invited. So I shall curse your daughter to prick her --*baby Aurora melts Maleficent's face with her laser vision* GAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!*dies*

The Queen: *to Flora* You see? Now THAT'S a gift!

THE END

hahahahhahahaha.....ah, that's hilarious. t:t:t:

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

Then the prequels wouldn't had been any good at all.

They were good to begin with? I'm sorry, but Patton Oswald's comedy skit about if he meet Lucus before Lucus made the prequals and told him what he thought of the idea was the same reaction I had when I saw the sequals. It was like "I DON'T CARE HOW THE THINGS I LOVE ARE MADE, JUST GIVE ME WHAT I LOVE".

Lucus-So, you like Ice Cream?
Patton - Yeah, I love ice cream.
Lucus - *gives him a bag of rock salt*
Patton - Wha?
Lucus - You said you love Ice Cream, so here's the rock salt and then you add the other ingrediants and then mix it and you'll have Ice Cream.
Patton - AHHHHHHHHHH!!

 

[SuperFerret]

How about making Vader a total evil badass all the way to the end..? No redemption, no Darth wusiness

Vader's redemption at the end of Return of the Jedi is part of what makes the character such a good one. It's the prequels take of how he fell from grace that ruined it all.

 

[Joker's Lackey]

X-Men
the Movie

Story - It would be about Magneto and his Brotherhood holding up a Nuclear missile base, trying to get a bill pass to give basic rights to Mutants. The X-men are sent to stop him. Throughout the film, we are shown how it came to this though flashbacks. From when Xavier first meet Lehnsherr in a clinic for Holocaust Victims that a friend of Xavier opened. To the recruitment of the X-men. We should see the friendship of Charles and Erik to the bitter enemies of Professor X and Magneto. Also I would throw in a love story between Scott and Jean, with Warren being Scott's rival. The movie should try to recreate scenes from the books as well.

Cast
Prof. Xavier - Scott Glen http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001277/
Cyclops - Sean Farris http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0267511/
Marvel Girl - Odette Yustman http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0951148/
Angel - Eric Johnson http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425053/
Beast - Sam Worthington http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941777/
Iceman - Anton Yelchin http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0947338/
Magneto - Daniel Day Lewis http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000358/
Scarlet Witch - Alexandra Maria Lara http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0487884/
Quicksilver - Sean Maher http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0536883/
Toad - Giovanni Ribisi http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000610/
Mastermind - David Duchovny http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000141/
(FlashBacks)
Young Charles Xavier - Tom Hardy http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0362766/
Young Erik Lehnsherr - Hugh Dancy http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0199215/
Gabrielle Haller - Rosamund Pike http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0683253/
Magda - Mili Avital http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000815/

 

[Abaddon]

X-Men

It would focus on Kitty Pryde learning of her abilities and joining up, as well as the transition from the original team to the Giant Size X-Men. The former would appear as minor players, with a strong supporting role for Jean. They face off against Magneto's Brotherhood and deal with Senator Kelly on the political front.


The sequel would feature Mystique's Brotherhood along with Bolivar Trask and his Sentinels.

 

[Symbiotic]

The Matrix Revolutions - No blinding of Neo (I HATED that!), More action inside The Matrix, and The Matrix actually getting destroyed at the end.

 

[Sam Fisher]

They were good to begin with? I'm sorry, but Patton Oswald's comedy skit about if he meet Lucus before Lucus made the prequals and told him what he thought of the idea was the same reaction I had when I saw the sequals. It was like "I DON'T CARE HOW THE THINGS I LOVE ARE MADE, JUST GIVE ME WHAT I LOVE".

Lucus-So, you like Ice Cream?
Patton - Yeah, I love ice cream.
Lucus - *gives him a bag of rock salt*
Patton - Wha?
Lucus - You said you love Ice Cream, so here's the rock salt and then you add the other ingrediants and then mix it and you'll have Ice Cream.
Patton - AHHHHHHHHHH!!

Yes, actually they are. People just bash them because it's Lucas.

 

[SatEL]

FF the movie

Not hire all the actors from the current franchise, instead hire quality actors who can do justice to the character.

Introduce Doom as an old foreign exchange student who was rival of Mr fantastic at university. He wouldn’t have gone to space with them, and his powers would be magic based.

Have the entire film be darker than what it is.

Focus on Ben and how the change effects him the most, handle it better than Fox have handled it.




FF rise of the Silver Surfer

Introduce the concept of the power cosmic and what it is (Setting up things for a Surfer prequel) as opposed to having his board be the source of his power.

Galactus wouldn’t be a cloud but an ominous figure who remains a mystery until the Surfer gets his own film.

The Surfer wouldn’t kill or defeat Galactus but just before the arrival of Galactus he flys up into space and diverts the signal directing Galactus somewhere else.

Hired a better CGI company, sacked actors from the last movie and moved forward with better actors.

Make the story more darker as opposed to the disney film the movies give of.

Have mind blowing action scenes For ****s sake your working with the surfer this guy is able to project an image into the mind of the entire planet, as well as defy the laws of nature have some fun with him.

Doom would have been the bad ass he is in the comic and would have had an accent as well as the source of his power been magic. (Its a comic book what’s so far fetched about magic been introduced)

 

[amazingfantasy15]

Spider-man 3 - I'd keep it mostly the same except when Pete gets the black costume, instead of the strutting down the street and dance sequences, he retreats further and further into the Spidey persona. Getting more and more vicious on criminals, culminating with almost or actually killing Harry. I wouldn't have Sandman in the final fight, maybe take him out entirely, since while his character looked cool, story wise he was useless, use that screentime to develop Brock's rivalry with Pete. Also final fight wouldn't include Harry, just Spidey vs. Venom.

 

[TLH]

I'd handle Spider-Man 3 much differently.

I'd make it much darker and less unintentionally funny and cringe-inducing -- no emo Peter, no dancing sequences, no Topher Grace. Venom would be a cliffhanger for a fourth movie. Sandman wouldn't have any part in killing Uncle Benm, no ridiculous Green Goblin 2 outfit and snowboard, and MJ wouldn't get so much pointless screentime -- especially singing. I would have begged for forgiveness to Danny Elfman if I were Raimi so he would do the score -- outside of Sandman's birth, Christopher Young missed the mark IMO.

 

[WeaponXProject]

How about making Vader a total evil badass all the way to the end..? No redemption, no Darth wusiness

That makes no sense to the story. Luke was right about believing in love and hope. He destroyed Darth Vader by changing him back.



I would have gradually showed in Episode 2 and 3 that Anakin's transformation was becoming more apparent than being tricked into it for the sake of love. Nevermind...there's a million things I would have changed and it just makes me mad to think about it.

X-Men

I would have started with the X-Men having their leader Cyclops be more of a leader. I would keep the racial themes involved with unacceptance but I would portray the characters (not Charles or Magneto) differently. I am a fan of Wolverine but in no way should he have been the focus for all three movies. I would have the women of the X-Men be truer to the comics with how powerful they were. I also would have brought in more mutant villains than just Magneto and mindless but rough Sabretoothe.

Spidey 3

Just scrap the movie and start over. Eddie Brock as an aspiring journalist that has many anger issues, who should have been introduced earlier in the series. No GG2, no Mary Jane focus, and no camptastic cornyness. Add more Spidey one liners but keep the tone of the movie more serious than 2 and 3. You can't try to make an epic finale and be having physical comedy for half the movie and dancing to the "Do the Twist".

 

[Girl_Wonder]

X-Men: the Last Stand
First, I'd get a director who knows what he's doing.

Second, the story would be about the X-Men not Wolverne.

Third, Cyclops would not die & Prof X would not die.

Fourth, There would be less characters. Little cameos like Multiple Man are fine, but don't try to introduce a hundred of them and it's a BIG no-no when you bring in a villain like Juggernaunt, make him a mutant(when he's not), and give him a british accent(who's he ain't.).
Don't bring in Angel to give him a flashback sequence, and proceed to forget about him until the end of the movie.

Uh, what number am I on? Whatever..continuing...


The whole Rogue/Iceman/Kitty thing was pointless and dumb. Kitty, who was in the background for the first 2 movies should have continued there in the 3rd(although she should have had a better part in the first two,in my opinion.) Iceman was uncool as it gets(not to mention boooring). And Rogue getting the cure should never have happened. Rogue should have sucked various mutant's powers, during the final battlescene, and prove herself worthy, as she fighst and not hide.

Whereas the Brotherhood had too big a team, the X-Men had too little. Angel proved to be useless. If any character should have been introduced, it should have been Gambit,scratch that- he deserved his own little subplot which would not have worked in this movie. Which brings me to...
subplots like how Angel got his wings, the little love triangle, and whatever else I am forgetting should have been cut.

The movie should have had two stories. 1. The X-Men needing to come together(have Scott become distant, overwhelmed with grief, but instead of getting the cut, Wolverine would enter, knock some sense into him, and Cyclops would return as the leader). 2.The birth of Phoenix, not give the full backstory but show the audience just how dangerous the Dark Phoenix is. Then it would all come together in one final battle- Cyclops is the last man standing,takes aim at Phoenix, but hestitates- he cannot blast her. Wolverine's all healed and decides to not let Scott do it, and goes up to kill her. Then,before Wolvie has a chance, there's like a huge fireblast or what have you, Dark Phoenix is overcomed by Jean who seemingly proceeds to explod into like, tiny little fireballs and X-men go back to the Mansion and mourn their friend...while we are left with a scene of Jean mentally fighting the dark Phoenix as she flies into space.

OK, that's not ideal, I know, my point is that I wanted something better than what was shown.

 

[Iron_Stark]

Iron Man - I would've had the Raptor jets belong to the Ten Rings (Stane giving the jets to them) and have an actual dog fight, not IM just getting shot at and flying away from them.

Not have him get his ass kicked in the final showdown with Iron Monger, I thought they'd have an epic fight like they did in the comics, instead we got a depowered Iron Man getting his butt kicked until Pepper "saved" him.

I hope they have more action in the sequel.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Fantastic Four after a few years I've been less favorable to. Doom's portrayel sticks out to me more and more. What they should have done, and what I would do, is start the film when Reed and Doom are in college. Dedicate a good 15 minutes to this period, and establish their friendship/rivalry. Make Dr. Storm a professor at MIT or some school like that, and a mentor to Reed. End this period with Doom's accident, and then we move on to Reed wanting to study the Cosmic anamoly. Keep Sue as a scientist and Johnny as a pilot (not bad ideas), but no Doom on the mission. However, Doom can be the reason the ship malfunctions and they get their powers. Then, you have them learn their powers somehow (maybe even have them land in Latveria) and then you bring Doom back into the story.

I would have wanted a runtime close to 2hr 15mins, and not this 100 mins BS. A plan involving the FF origin and Doom could easily have been made without turning him into Norman Osborn, and I hate their decision to do that. FF has some good character moments, but overall fails cause the villain is lame and is only even really a threat for 1 action sequence (in which he is easily defeated). They gave one of the toughest villains of all time no credit, and I would have done this very differently. My film focuses not on Ben and Reed (that is what I would do for FF2), but the first movie is about how Reed and Doom are mirrors of each other, yet greatly different.

 

[WeaponXProject]

X-Men: the Last Stand
First, I'd get a director who knows what he's doing.

Second, the story would be about the X-Men not Wolverne.

Third, Cyclops would not die & Prof X would not die.

Fourth, There would be less characters. Little cameos like Multiple Man are fine, but don't try to introduce a hundred of them and it's a BIG no-no when you bring in a villain like Juggernaunt, make him a mutant(when he's not), and give him a british accent(who's he ain't.).
Don't bring in Angel to give him a flashback sequence, and proceed to forget about him until the end of the movie.

Uh, what number am I on? Whatever..continuing...


The whole Rogue/Iceman/Kitty thing was pointless and dumb. Kitty, who was in the background for the first 2 movies should have continued there in the 3rd(although she should have had a better part in the first two,in my opinion.) Iceman was uncool as it gets(not to mention boooring). And Rogue getting the cure should never have happened. Rogue should have sucked various mutant's powers, during the final battlescene, and prove herself worthy, as she fighst and not hide.

Whereas the Brotherhood had too big a team, the X-Men had too little. Angel proved to be useless. If any character should have been introduced, it should have been Gambit,scratch that- he deserved his own little subplot which would not have worked in this movie. Which brings me to...
subplots like how Angel got his wings, the little love triangle, and whatever else I am forgetting should have been cut.

The movie should have had two stories. 1. The X-Men needing to come together(have Scott become distant, overwhelmed with grief, but instead of getting the cut, Wolverine would enter, knock some sense into him, and Cyclops would return as the leader). 2.The birth of Phoenix, not give the full backstory but show the audience just how dangerous the Dark Phoenix is. Then it would all come together in one final battle- Cyclops is the last man standing,takes aim at Phoenix, but hestitates- he cannot blast her. Wolverine's all healed and decides to not let Scott do it, and goes up to kill her. Then,before Wolvie has a chance, there's like a huge fireblast or what have you, Dark Phoenix is overcomed by Jean who seemingly proceeds to explod into like, tiny little fireballs and X-men go back to the Mansion and mourn their friend...while we are left with a scene of Jean mentally fighting the dark Phoenix as she flies into space.

OK, that's not ideal, I know, my point is that I wanted something better than what was shown.

Another issue with the movie is it shouldn't have been a finale. I think most comics shouldn't be finales in respect that the comics never really end and the characters continue onward.

Also, as much as I am a Wolverine fan he should have been a side character.

 

[The Shape]

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - 2004 film version of the most successful musical of all time

1. Choose an actor that can actually sing for the title role. Maybe this was too much to ask from Joel Schumacher, even though the role of the Phantom is the most vocally challenging role on Broadway. I'm sorry, but Gerard Butler (the main dude in 200 that just screams all the time) was a poor, poor choice. He was "sexy", which, of course, is what Schumacher wanted, but the entire idea behind the Phantom is that can sing and does so in order to seduce Christine. Butler would go off key and major parts of the songs had to be rescaled for him or enhanced with the computer.

This choice was the fatalflaw of this film adaptation. Had the Phantom been played by a more impressive performer, it would have saved the film, even if everything else had been left the same. The Phantom needs to be an actor with charm, grace, and fortitide, that can go from singing softly and sympathetically to glaringly angry and outraged. Watching Gerard Butler stumble around the part was almost embarrassing.

2. Give the Phantom a hat. Was that too much, as well? The hat, cape, and half mask are iconic, and give the Phantom that mysterious figure. It's bad enough they scaled down the mask to show off more of Butler's good looks, but the hat is necessary, only for a few moments of the story.

3. The Phantom's facial deformity was nothing more than a bad case of sunburn, and it was obviously only applied to his face for the unmasked scenes. For the rest of the film, there is no trace of deformity behind the half-mask. At least give the dude the mangled corner of his lip as he has in the play, just to give a hint as to what is behind the mask.

4. Less focus on Raoul. Patrick Wilson was a decent choice, but they gave him long, girly hair and tried to make him more of a swashbuckling hero, which just wound up being lame.

5. No Minnie Driver, but rather an actress that can actually sing her own part and be funny.

6. Restage some sequences with more interesting camera work and choreography, particularly Music of the Night, Point of No Return, and the Final Lair scenes.


Other than a few other minor changes, this is what needs to be done. ALW'S shot is (hate or the love it) the most successful entertainment venture of all time, beating out any film, television, stage, or musical work and it deserves a film that would be edgy, unique, romantic, and lush, rather than wooden.