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I Am Legend scrapped its original ending because test audiences 'felt cheated' by the big twist Discussion (winteriscoming.net)
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[–] 41 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

Test audiences also ruined the ending to Scott Pilgrim, if the sources can be trusted. I don't have a lot of faith in Will Smith, not that he is a bad person.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    It was the slapping incident that showed us he's not a good person. It's weird to me he can come up without anyone mentioning the fact that he did that. To me he's forever that dude who is so volatile and violent that he's absolutely beaten his wife before.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Yeah, seriously. That incident tells me everything I need to know about him. Before that, I thought he was an entertaining actor with a massive and unhealthy ego, but fun to watch. Which is pretty much how I feel about most famous actors. After he assaulted someone in public, while they were both at work, I lost all respect for him. He’s a shitty person.

    I’ll always leave some space for the possibility he’s extremely unwell mentally and/or emotionally, but until that’s known, he’s just an immature and violent dick who I won’t watch anymore.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I'm the comic he ends up with Knives anyway. Who I believe is still 17 and he's still like 23 in it.

    Tbh I like the movie ending better; it's a little less creepy, and everyone has an understanding of what they just went through.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I think the movie made their ages much closer, if I'm not mistaken, but yes she is underaged in the comics and theres even a whole plot point where her dad doesn't approve of the situation. Still, in the comics it's clear that Scott isn't smart or heroic and the movie kind of has the opposite story.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    Still, in the comics it's clear that Scott isn't smart or heroic and the movie kind of has the opposite story.

    I mean it's not entirely clear from the start.

    It's a major plot point of the comics/manga that Scott has a self realization that he's been kind of a shitty person for a long time. A lot of the stories he tells himself about the past, stories that we the reader are meant to take to be the truth at first, namely his rescue of Kim, are distorted by his narcissism. He's in fact much less heroic than he likes to think he is, sometimes even outright toxic. But it's acknowledging that fact that let's him learn, and grow to become a better person. He accepts his flaws, apologizes for his past behavior, takes responsibility for his mistakes, and matures considerably.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    the movie kind of has the opposite story.

    I'm not so sure about that one. It has been misconstrued by people as Scott being a model to look up to, but the movie literally showed him and his 'evil twin' being cool together, marking the original Scott as the actualy evil one. It also had him growing from his mistakes of cheating on his GFs, but it definitely started with him being a cheating asshole.

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