The "How would you have done it?" thread

[livrule]

Well ... it has to be the SW prequels as ever ...

Reduce meeting Anakin as a child to a short 30 minute intro then move forward allowing the Clone Wars to actually feature in the second movie.

Retain Maul as a consistent enemy until the 3rd film ...

Give the Jedis more .... life! .... more humanity. They were too cold and very difficult to like.

I could go on for hours ....................... you get the idea.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Spider-Man 3

Gotten rid of the black suit. Focus on Sandman and Harry as the villains. Sandman ALOT more screentime. I didn't hate the Uncle Ben thing. But it just seemed forced to me. It came in late. Something like that could of been adressed in the second or first film.

Harry suffers from amnesia, opening the beginning of the film, comes back like it was in the film. Sandman bulk of the villain throught most of it. No teaming up. It could be separate stories. No one has tried that before. I don't know if that could work. Keep Sandman's daughter subplot, maybe change some things for more screen time to make him meatier as a character. Finale would of been at construction site still. But it's not a brawl out thing. Sabdman could realize what he does is wrong and come to terms with Peter.

I don't know really. This is all from the top of my head.

Superman Returns

NO DONNER CONNECTIONS. A whole new film. A whole new plot, nothign to do with Donner at all. No luther. Actual superpowered villains. An actor who wasn't picked just for looks and of likeness of Reeve.

 

[The Shape]

Spider-Man 3

Gotten rid of the black suit. Focus on Sandman and Harry as the villains. Sandman ALOT more screentime. I didn't hate the Uncle Ben thing. But it just seemed forced to me. It came in late. Something like that could of been adressed in the second or first film.

Harry suffers from amnesia, opening the beginning of the film, comes back like it was in the film. Sandman bulk of the villain throught most of it. No teaming up. It could be separate stories. No one has tried that before. I don't know if that could work. Keep Sandman's daughter subplot, maybe change some things for more screen time to make him meatier as a character. Finale would of been at construction site still. But it's not a brawl out thing. Sabdman could realize what he does is wrong and come to terms with Peter.

I would have done the exact opposite: get rid of Sandman completely, leaving more room for a much meatier black suit subplot, in which we would have seen the power and danger of the black suit.

Thus, Brock would be a more intergral character, and his transformation towards the end would have been much more effective, a la Harvey Dent in TDK.

Finally, Harry would be the primary bad guy (the symbiote and ultimately Venom would be the real antagonists) and his story would have to be seriously reworked. Same goes for the MJ/Peter/Gwen stuff.

And no dancing.

 

[Abaddon]

Spider-Man 2 - No chip!! Ock is an arrogant jerk who only tolerates people like Peter because they're on the same intellectual playing field. The accident happens and he's driven purely by pride and unbridled ambition.

 

[Sawyer]

Here we go...

No Star Wars prequel trilogy. Anakins story deserved to be told, but an entire trilogy was entirely unnecessary. Here is what George Lucas should have done...

Lets wipe out the numbering here... A New Hope was Episode I, Empire Strikes Back is Episode II and Return of the Jedi is Episode III.

Secondly, the next part in the saga would be an Episode IV that, like Godfather pt.II before it, would consist of equal parts past and present.

The flashbacks would essentially be what they did in the prequels, except the limited time means that they cut the **** that doesnt matter (NO JAR JAR!!!). And, of course, cast better actors. A few can stay, but not you, Hayden...

The present storyline would be the rise of the Jedi order after Vader and the Emperor have died. It shows Luke being a true leader and other fun stuff like that.

This would be the starting point of what the second SW trilogy (possibly more) should have been, and it wouldnt have been done 15+ years after ROTJ. Five years at most.

Thank you.

 

[bullets]

Spider-man 3

the symbiote suit would of came to earth differently and involved jameson's son.

the suit would be taken more seriously and perhaps a nightmare instead of a
ridiculous montage .

peter would not cry like a baby on the bridge , i would of had him break up with mj and go after gwen instead

eddie bonding with the suit would of been a cliffhanger.

 

[bullets]

the star wars prequel should have been all types of awesome with sith battling jedi. i would of preferred it to start of during the clone wars with anakin a heroic jedi . his turn would of been due to his becoming obsessed with power and not thinking his padme was going to die. i would of had vader actually turn bad. i would of also tried to improve the acting .

 

[Thundarr]

Thundarr...

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

To be honest I wrote that post on a D&D website a couple of years ago, I just cut and pasted it onto this one. The points I made were all relevent to this discussion, and I stand by my opinions.

 

[Thundarr]

Well ... it has to be the SW prequels as ever ...

Reduce meeting Anakin as a child to a short 30 minute intro then move forward allowing the Clone Wars to actually feature in the second movie.

Retain Maul as a consistent enemy until the 3rd film ...

Give the Jedis more .... life! .... more humanity. They were too cold and very difficult to like.

I could go on for hours ....................... you get the idea.

1) I would have made Jar Jar a minor character. He brings Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon to see the Gungun King and then part ways.

2) I agree with you on shortening the meeting with Anakin. I'd also eliminate the pod race entirely. It had no purpose except to sell the video game based on that scene (which was available in stores before the movie even hit theatres).

3) Make Darth Maul a meatier villain. Give him more to do. Have him torture information out of jawas and have him cow a tribe of sandpeople into submission while searching for Queen Amidala and the jedi. I'd still have him die in the end, but at least he'd be a better villain.

4) Have Obi-Wan agree with Qui-Gon that Anakin is the Chosen One, rather than train him because he promised Qui-Gon as he was dying.

5) Deffinately get the jedi to lighten up... they're not Vulcans for God sake.

6) Have some more scenes where Anakin loses his temper, make it more obvious that he's on a path to The Dark Side.

7) Have more scenes showing the depth of Anakin's friendship with Obi-Wan. That would make his betrayal more painful.

8) Have Anakin or Owen or someone mention when they tell Anakin of his mother's abduction how unusual it is for sandpeople to take prisoners. They usually just kill you, take what they want, then leave (it's my belief that Darth Sidius orchestrated the abduction and torture of Shmi Skywalker).

9) Have more scenes with wookiees. Maybe a wookiee jedi on the counsil.

10) Don't have Vader raising his fists in the air and screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOO!" when he learns of Padme's death. It's such a cliche it's a Hollywood joke.

 

[ross2287]

Lets wipe out the numbering here... A New Hope was Episode I, Empire Strikes Back is Episode II and Return of the Jedi is Episode III.

Boy, does that look weird...

 

[Spider-Vader]

X-Men 3:
No killing off of Xaiver or Cyclops. Have Cyclops as a leader not some little p****. Wolverine doesn't cry. Nightcrawler returning. Juggernaut not ripping off lines from the internet.

Alien 3:
Either go the way of the real movie but have Hicks' & Newt's pods go on seperate course. Or have Ripley, Bishop, Newt & Hicks return to Earth because I'm 100% sure in reality Ripley would do a check to see if anything was on board & then have a xenomorph invasion on Earth.

Spider-Man 3:
Have Sandman be a goon to Harry, have Venom as a cliff-hanger.

The Dark Knight:
SAVE TWO-FACE AS A CLIFF-HANGER!!!