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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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Top 5 Chicago Movies (Not Named "Chicago") 0
Apr 25, 2022

Thanks to Patreon subscribers Laura and Chris Trengove, we’re here this week talking about our Top 5 Chicago Movies (Not Named "Chicago")!  As Chicago natives, we have big thoughts on what makes Chicago..ChiCAgo. From the food... to the food...and er... hotdogs?

We also have thought on: Rob's new movie ventures, if it's ok to call your Daddy, Daddio, eating boogers and the tastiest variety of chizz.

It's the most overlap we've had in years!

Tune in and we hope you enjoy!

Rob Top 5: 

  1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off 
  2. High Fidelity 
  3. Adventures In Babysitting 
  4. Candyman
  5. The Fugitive

Carrie Top 5: 

  1. The Fugitive 
  2. Adventures In Babysitting
  3. The Dark Knight
  4. While You Were Sleeping
  5. Candyman

Tim Top 5:

  1. Micky One
  2. Thief
  3. Ferris Bueller's Day Off 
  4. Candyman
  5. The Blues Brothers

Audience Top 5 Top 5 Chicago Movies (Not Named "Chicago")

  1. Candyman
  2. The Fugitive
  3. Ferris Bueller's Day Off 
  4. Thief 
  5. Hoop Dreams | The Blues Brothers | The Dark Knight | Widows

This week’s winner – Chris Baker 

  1. The Fugitive 

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Bride of AE - The Valley of Gwangi (1969) 0
Apr 22, 2022

For the second episode of Ray Harryhausen month (a topic requested by Patron Gavin McDowell), Tim and Brennan break down the 1969 film THE VALLEY OF GWANGI. The pair discuss its stop motion effects (naturally), how it functions within the realm of dinosaur pictures and Westerns, and where the hell this movie came from, a good 10 years after anyone would have wanted something like it.

 

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Pass the Popcorn: Everything Everywhere All At Once | Fresh | Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood | Never Have I Ever 0
Apr 18, 2022

This week, Brennan, Carrie, and Mandy get together for a spicy game of movie-themed Never Have I Ever!

 

But first, in Worth Mentioning, Brennan discusses the bonkers kaleidoscope of Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All At Once, Carrie breaks down the cannibalistic horror comedy Fresh, and Mandy waxes nostalgic about Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10 1/2. Plus, we learn that Carrie can spot Short Round from a mile away!

 

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Top 5 Movies I'm Ashamed I Haven't Seen 0
Apr 11, 2022

Thanks to Patreon subscriber Andrew Milne we're here this week talking about our Top Movies I'm Ashamed I haven't seen. Some, we're embarrassed about and others we've just downright lied to people and said we've seen (only Tim, only Tim would do that). Either way, we bare all on this super fun episode, designed especially to fling ourselves under the bus.  The extra bonus is that Tim arbitrarily has committed to righting the wrongs of the unseen films on his list, so yay for #5!

Tune in and we hope you have a great week!

Rob Top 5: 

  1. Taxi Driver
  2. Gone with the Wind
  3. Lawrence of Arabia
  4. Apocalypse Now
  5. A Clockwork Orange

Tim Top 5: 

  1. Ivan The Terrible, Par 2: The Boyars' Plot
  2. Close-Up
  3. Le Cercle Rouge
  4. L'Eclisse
  5. Now and Then

Carrie Top 5:

  1. The Matrix
  2. It's A Wonderful Life
  3. Grease 
  4. Schindler's List 
  5. The Big Lebowski 

Audience Top 5 Movies to See Before You Die: 

  1. Lawrence of Arabia
  2. Seven Samurai
  3. Raging Bull
  4. A Clockwork Orange
  5. Gone with the Wind

This week's winner - Hunter Allen

  1. The Godfather Trilogy
  2. Farewell My Concubine
  3. The Human Condition 
  4. Naqoyqatsi

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Bride of AE - 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) 0
Apr 8, 2022

Brand new month, brand new topic! Patron Gavin McDowell asked us to cover the films of Ray Harryhausen and the people voted for his 1957 effort 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH! Tim and Brennan break down the breathtaking special effects used to create the Ymir, the way the Italian setting makes some of the 50’s boilerplate more tolerable, and Brennan tries to impress his friend Hunter by referencing as many other B-movies as possible.

 

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