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Alternate Ending

Alternate Ending was formed when three friends realized that they all shared a passion for movies. Tim had been reviewing films at his old blog Antagony & Ecstasy for over a decade, and Rob & Carrie had found great success with their year-old podcast, when they all decided to combine forces to create a new site, dedicated to their desire to watch and discuss the best (and worst) that cinema has to offer. The result is the website you see before you. What makes Alternate Ending different from all the other film sites on the internet? Well, we humbly suggest that it's the three of us: very different people with very different thoughts about the movie. Too many film sites cater to the same kind of audience, with one overwhelming voice in the writing, but what we treasure at Alternate Ending is diversity: diversity of opinion, diversity in belief about what film should do and how it should do it. We want to celebrate our different opinions, and celebrate yours as well. This isn't a site for people who just want to talk about the latest hot new movies in theaters right this minute. This is a site for people who can't get to the theater until the third week a film is out; a site for people who just want to find something great to stream online after the kids have gone to sleep, a site for people whose favorite pastime is to grab a bunch of classic films on DVD from the library and watch them all weekend. It's a site that believes that every great movie is a wonderful new treasure, whether you see it the night of its premiere or fifty years later. It's a site about discovering good movies, one bad movie at a time.
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Mar 22, 2024

Tim and Brennan close out their month of discussing movies that were covered on the iconic cult television program Mystery Science Theater 3000! Surprisingly, THE SCREAMING SKULL becomes one of our most divisive episodes yet!

 

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Mar 8, 2024

Tim and Brennan kick off their month of discussing movies that were covered on the iconic cult television program Mystery Science Theater 3000! The title is too long to type again, but just know it’s a hell of a ride!

 

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Feb 23, 2024

Tim and Brennan close out their month of digging horror movie skeletons out of the closets of the year’s nominated actors by checking out Bradley Cooper’s early performance in the Clive Barker adaptation THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN!

 

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Feb 9, 2024

Tim and Brennan kick off a month of digging horror movie skeletons out of the closets of the year’s nominated actors by taking a look at Jodie Foster’s first-ever top-billed lead role in THE LITTLE GIRL WHO LIVES DOWN THE LANE!

 

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Feb 5, 2024

We're rolling into February with a wild first month of 2024 behind us.

This week Carrie brings the the ultimate Dad-movie, Mom-movie, inpso-video-lover-movie, kid-movie...(you get the idea)...McFarland, USA.  She also gets confirmation from Tim on whether or not she should give Saltburn another try.

Tim brings two films to the table this week, that come with mixed reviews - Origin and Anselm.

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Jan 26, 2024

Tim and Brennan close out a month of follow-ups with DEATH GAME (1977), the movie that was remade by Eli Roth as Knock Knock. Get ready for a dissection of the manifold ways the movie’s aesthetic and sensibility differ from the original despite boasting almost the exact same plot!

 

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Jan 15, 2024

Happy New Year!

Another new year... another weird episode! This week Carrie brings the 1976 nudist classic, Carrie - thanks to Patreon supporter Granger D Pole.  She also shares her thoughts on the independent film How to Blow Up a Pipeline, that everybody was talking about 6 months ago...

Tim brings a trifecta of foreign films - Monster, About Dry Grasses and The Taste of Things and even sells Carrie on one of them.

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Jan 12, 2024

Tim and Brennan are kicking off 2024 by concluding a trilogy of movies we’ve watched over the past year. It’s time for the Disney Channel original musical Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3, which brings a troupe of aliens to Seabrook after the town has already assimilated zombies and werewolves.

 

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Dec 26, 2023

 

For our last episode of 2023, we've decided to let our inner Grinches out to play: instead of celebrating the warmth and coziness and love of good holiday movies, as we've done in the past, this year we're going all the way to the other end of the spectrum: the most rotten-souled Yuletide misfires that ever fell out of a chimney. It's our picks for the 5 worst Christmas movies ever made - our present to all of you, since we know there's nothing you enjoy more than our suffering through lousy movies.

This episode, we're also lucky enough to be joined by a some of our AE friends and even a few special call-in guests!

We're breaking hearts and taking names on this episode and we hope you enjoy. <3

Carrie's Top 5:

  1. Die Hard (1988)
  2. Home Alone 3 (1997)
  3. Jack Frost (1997)
  4. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
  5. The Polar Express (2004)

Tim's Top 5:

  1. The Nutcracker in 3D (2010)
  2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
  3. Saving Christmas (2014)
  4. Deck the Halls (2006)
  5. The Polar Express (2004)

Brennan's Top 5:

  1. The Psycho Santa (2003)
  2. Saving Christmas (2014)
  3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
  4. A California Christmas: City Lights (2021)
  5. Sense, Sensibility and Snowmen (2019)

This week’s winner for the Worst Christmas Movies is Billy the Kid!

  1. Black Christmas
  2. The Ron Howard Grinch Movie
  3. The other version of Black Christmas
  4. And the other version of Black Christmas
  5. Die Hard 2

 

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Dec 22, 2023

Tim and Brennan are winding down British Ghost Stories month, and a whole year of podcasting, by taking a look at the 1972 TV movie THE STONE TAPE, which originally aired on Christmas Day!

 

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Dec 11, 2023

Happy Monday!

It's good to be back after a little unplanned break.  Nothing gets the mind right like Tim cackle laughing at imagining Carrie and Rob's first (and only) bath together.  On this episode, Tim brings two new films out of Japan, Godzilla Minus One and The Boy and the Heron. Carrie has a whole batch of movies to choose from, but decides to go with the Netfix Original, Leave the World Behind.  Also, Patreon supporter, Brian Fowler, has Carrie review the classic teen-love-drama, Summer with Monika.

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Dec 8, 2023

Tim and Brennan are kicking off British Ghost Stories month in honor of the Christmas tradition from across the pond. We’re kicking off with 1989’s THE WOMAN IN BLACK, which originally aired on Christmas Eve!

 

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Nov 24, 2023

To close out 21st Century Slashers month, Tim and Brennan are diving into a new-to-both-of-them franchise with the MTV original movie MY SUPER PSYCHO SWEET 16!

 

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Nov 20, 2023

After more than 6-months of radio silence, Rob is back with an Amateur Hour update to catch up on the making of Hauntology.

In this episode, he covers how the last segment and through line came together, the current status of the project, potential release dates / plans and new projects on-deck!

Nov 13, 2023

Some topics are just blunt and to the point, and that's just what we've gotten this week from Patreon supporter Granger D Pole, who wants us to go right for the kill: our lists of the worst movies of the 1980s. A decade that has some of the lowest lows in all of cinema history, so expect some real stinkers...unless you're Carrie and decide to opt for some of the most beloved films of the decade.

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Carrie's Top 5:

  1. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
  2. The Apple
  3. Mac and Me
  4. Society
  5. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Tim's Top 5:

  1. The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
  2. Gamera: Super Monster
  3. Skullduggery
  4. Oasis of the Zombies
  5. Don't Open Until Christmas

Brennan's Top 5:

  1. The Outing
  2. Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-rama
  3. Killing of the Flesh
  4. Airplane II: The Sequel
  5. Xanadu

This week’s winner for our Bottom 5 80's Movies was Damian Oakes!

  1. Revenge of the Nerds

 

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Nov 10, 2023

Halloween is over, but the horror continues over on Bride of Alternate Ending! We’re kicking off a month of 21st century slashers by checking out the Norwegian import COLD PREY!

 

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Oct 30, 2023

Happy Monday!

This episode, Carrie and Tim catch up on their wild Halloween weekends and distain towards the current youth, big cities and.  Tim shares his reviews of Five Nights at Freddy's and the newly released The Exorcist: Believer.  Carrie shares her thoughts on two theatrical experiences she had with her family over the weekend - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Sweeney Todd!

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Oct 27, 2023

Happy almost Halloween! Now it’s time to cover a classic horror movie that Tim has never seen before! This week we’re once again poking and prodding the definition of “horror” to find out where Adrian Lyne’s JACOB’S LADDER fits in!

 

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Oct 16, 2023

Sometimes, no matter how much money the studios throw at it, a movie just fails. Sometimes, the studio throws a whole lot of money at it before it becomes clear that's happening. And that's how you get, not merely a garden-variety failure, but a bonafide flop, the sort of horrific financial disaster that gets discussed with a giggle of schadenfreude in the trade press and passed around as a cautionary tale for years to come. 2023 has been an especially ugly year for megaflops, contributing two contenders for the dishonor of being one of the biggest money loser of all time in The Flash and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which makes it perfect timing for Patreon Kelleson to pick our next assignment: our picks for the top 5 flops of all time! We'll be looking at all the most notorious fiascos, boondoggles, and catastrophes that ever lit a massive pile on money on fire.

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Carrie's Top 5:

  1. Mulan 
  2. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 
  3. A Wrinkle in Time
  4. Tenet
  5. Birth of a Nation

Tim's Top 5:

  1. Heaven's Gate
  2. Ishtar
  3. One from the Heart
  4. It's a Wonderful Life
  5. The Thing (1982)

Audience Top 5:

  1. Blade Runner 
  2. Valerian 
  3. Cats
  4. Hugo 
  5. Wonder Woman

This week’s winner for our Top 5 Flops - Conservative Policy Thinktank

  1. Blade Runner
  2. Tenet
  3. Blade Runner 2049
  4. Bicentennial Man
  5. Dune (1984)

 

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Oct 13, 2023

Happy October, everybody! In honor of the swift approach of Halloween, we are covering a classic horror movie that each co-host has never seen before! This week we’re kicking off by filling in Brennan’s blind spot of the 1932 Tod Browning movie FREAKS!

 

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Oct 9, 2023

This episode is ever-so lovingly brought to you by two of our long-standing Patreon supporters.  Thanks to Brian Fowler, we dive into a 4-part episode (movie?) viewing of Dragon Ball? Dragon Balls? Dragon Balzzzz?  If you've seen the movies we discuss... sorry. If you haven't seen them, enjoy the strangest mental picture you can possibly fathom.

Andrew Johnson added some real fun to the episode, by picking Under the Skin for our worth mentioning segment - a film that Tim admires and Carrie will surely, never forget.

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Sep 25, 2023

On this week's episode, we are joined by the ever-so delightful Mandy Albert (and official Raspberry Picking correspondent) to round out our movie recommendations (or one's to avoid) for this week!

Tim brings his thoughts on Helen Mirren's newest feature Golda. Mandy lightly steams things up a bit with her thoughts on Tosca Musk and her 9 part series following the romantic affairs of Gabriel & Julia, in the Gabriel's Inferno series.  Carrie brings her rage towards the newest fright-flick Talk to Me and reminds listeners just how old she is by sharing a 30 min health update.

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Sep 22, 2023

To close out Platinum Dunes month, Brennan and Tim are - for some reason - sitting down to discuss the 2007 remake of THE HITCHER!

 

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Sep 12, 2023

This week's topic was a doozy - but we were up for the challenge, as we picked our way through The Best and Worst Years for Movies, courtesy of Patreon Andrew Johnson.  Some years achieve legendary status right away, like the annus mirabilis of 1999; some grow their reputation with age and respectability, like the Hollywood golden epoch of 1939. Some years, there are pandemics and/or major industry-wide strikes, and people just plain stop putting out movies, except from some real dogs that nobody wanted to see anyways. We'll be looking at all of it as we contemplate this question more than a century in the making.

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Carrie's Best 10 Years:

  1. 1989
  2. 1993
  3. 1997
  4. 1995
  5. 1999
  6. 2020
  7. 1985
  8. 2009
  9. 1988
  10. 2001

Carrie's Worst 10 Years:

  1. 2021
  2. 2000
  3. 1973
  4. 2016
  5. 2009
  6. 2019
  7. 2015
  8. 2011
  9. 2012
  10. 2005

Tim's Best 10 Years:

  1. Duck Amuck
  2. One Froggy Evening
  3. What's Opera Doc?
  4. Rabbit of Seville
  5. Feed the Kitty

Tim's Worst 10 Years:

  1. Duck Amuck
  2. One Froggy Evening
  3. What's Opera Doc?
  4. Rabbit of Seville
  5. Feed the Kitty

This week’s winner for our Best/Worst Years in cinema history - Copyrighted Name!

Best Years:

  1. 1939
  2. 1940
  3. 1954
  4. 1964
  5. 1968
  6. 1976
  7. 1982
  8. 1984
  9. 1988

Worst Years:

  1. 1929
  2. 1930
  3. 1943
  4. 1947
  5. 1970
  6. 1990

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Sep 8, 2023

To kick off Platinum Dunes month, Brennan and Tim are starting with the movie that kicked off Platinum Dunes in the first place. It’s 2003’s THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE!

 

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