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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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Now displaying: August, 2022
Aug 29, 2022

This week, Carrie, Tim, and Brennan honor the djinn at the center of THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING by sharing their Top 5 Films We Wish More People Would Watch! An added wrinkle? Which films do each host think sound the best from each other’s lists?

 

Brennan Top 5: 

  1. Ballad of a Soldier
  2. Hasta el viento tiene miedo
  3. 100 Bloody Acres
  4. I Give It a Year
  5. Baaghi 3

Carrie Top 5: 

  1. Sliding Doors
  2. The Father
  3. Wild Hearts Can’t be Broken
  4. Cicada
  5. The Blue Lagoon

Tim Top 5:

  1. Shoah
  2. Sátántangó
  3. Earth
  4. Rock and Rule
  5. Saló, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Audience Top 5

  1. I Am Cuba
  2. The Apple
  3. A Separation
  4. Batteries Not Included
  5. Dragon Inn
  6. Sour Grapes
  7. Pom Poko

This week’s winner – Salim Garami

  1. Applause
  2. Begone Dull Care
  3. I Am Cuba
  4. The Wizard of Speed and Time (1979)
  5. Who Killed Captain Alex?

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Aug 26, 2022

Remake month is drawing to a close, and Tim and Brennan have set upon a film that neither of them have seen before: 1990’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD! After procrastinating on actually discussing the topic at hand, they break down exactly why this movie exists and try to figure out why it doesn’t ever quite meet its lofty goals.

 

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Aug 22, 2022

Well, I'd like to say that Carrie, Tim and Rob are all back this week because the madness of Summer has come to an end, but that wouldn't be true, the madness of Fall is just upon us! Nevertheless, we did find the first week in a month that all of us were either healthy and in cell-phone range and we couldn't be happier about it.  The only thing that could possibly spoil this reunion euphoria is having to spend an hour talking about The Billy Jack series - and here we are! Thanks to Patreon supporter Gavin, we slogged our way through about 100 hours (ish) of a very Caucasian man, casting himself as an Indigenous man/Vietnam war vet and leveraging his Korean martial art, Hapkido, to take down real bad guys. If you're not entirely sold here, check out the episode!

In worth mentioning, Carrie covers the newly released Thor: Love and Thunder and Rob attempts to ensure you never want to see the decent movie Day Shift.

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Aug 15, 2022

This week, Tim and Brennan are doing another solo episode while Rob and Carrie travel back from vacation! In Worth Mentioning, we cover two very different films about famous musical acts: Elvis (2022) and Can’t Stop the Music (1980). Then we dive into a conversation about the medium of television: where it was, where it is now, and why Tim doesn’t like most of it.

 

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Aug 12, 2022

It’s a new month, and as summer winds down we thought we’d embrace the blockbuster tradition of the horror remake! We threw five nominees to our patrons, and y’all voted for us to discuss Chuck Russell’s remake of THE BLOB!

 

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Aug 9, 2022

This week, Tim is joined by Brennan and Mandy, as Rob and Carrie are out of town. Sandwiched between the release of movies like They/Them, Bodies Bodies Bodies, and Not Okay, which are all attempting to tell the story of The Youth Today, we’re discussing our Top 5 movies about the zeitgeist!

 

Brennan Top 5: 

  1. Borat
  2. Josie and the Pussycats
  3. Child’s Play
  4. Gidget
  5. Godzilla

Mandy Top 5: 

  1. The Best Years of Our Lives
  2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
  3. Unfriended
  4. Working Girl
  5. Singles

Tim Top 5:

  1. Zabriskie Point
  2. A Hard Day’s Night
  3. The More the Merrier
  4. Masculin Féminin
  5. Gold Diggers of 1933

Audience Top 5

  1. Trainspotting
  2. Clueless
  3. Do the Right Thing
  4. Night of the Living Dead
  5. The Best Years of Our Loves
  6. The Rules of the Game

This week’s winner – Pliny the Millennial

  1. The Great Dictator
  2. The Rules of the Game
  3. The Social Network
  4. Children of Men
  5. Three Colours: White

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Aug 1, 2022

This week, Tim and Brennan have taken the reigns and are navigating a solo episode! After Worth Mentioning, the pair dive into a wide-ranging (read: easily distracted) conversation about ’80s slashers, retro throwbacks, and what other trends are cropping up in the modern horror film!

 

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