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I knew they wouldn't have the guts to show the real ending from the book

posted 10 years ago by shadow1990
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SPOILERS

First of all, what is the point of changing a characters name from a book. I'll never understand that. His name was Kenan, not Kenny. Well anyway, when KENAN stays behind to finish off the sick wacko, he doesn't get killed. Instead, he takes the psycho, straps him down and cuts off his ears, eyes, tounge (as much as he could), hands, feet and penis. He then leaves him laying there alive while Scudder swings back and picks him up. Hollywood these days doesn't have the balls to show something like that which is sad. Overall, it was a good film though. The book was better, but they did a decent job adapting it on film. It did upset me that they left out a major character though. An ex call girl named Elaine who Scudder is in a relationship with. She played a big part in helping out Scudder in his investigation. It was a good film nonetheless. I'm glad they left in the two finger scene with Lucia.

[–] jamerkk 10 years ago

Thanks for telling us the real ending. I thought that ending was about as lame as it could get. Whoever decided to substitute that ending for the real one should be run out of the movie-making business. You don't end a movie like this one with a warm fuzzy--think Se7en.

[–] DeusExKatrina 10 years ago

Not at all surprised to hear they changed the ending. Everything about this film seemed more serious than the other 20 action films Neeson has done after Taken, until suddenly the ending turned into Taken 4. Not that I have anything against Taken -- it was just nice to see Neeson do something different, until suddenly they *beep* it up. He wasn't even a badass in this movie, he kept getting the *beep* kicked out of him by random people.

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Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the antidote to shame.

[–] Waldimore 10 years ago

You can always smell the heavy-handed hand of Hollywood.

The book's ending is the correct one. Kenny was supposed to get "get medieval" on that nut. We're talking the 'Marcellus' treatment: pliers, blowtorch, hard, pipe-hitting dudes. "

Very disappointed they didn't have the guts to go that route. Especially after all the implied violence toward women.

Hollywood misogyny just won't quit!

[–] moboy36 9 years ago

I guarantee some producer in an office read the script and said something like, "No, no. We must have the protagonist save the day. Have Scudder kill Albert."

They don't care about a satisfying story. It just has to follow the typical pattern. Therefore, Albert has to Houdini the handcuffs and kill Kenny, so Scudder can be the hero.

[–] Harmonica80 9 years ago

With an ending like that, they would have needed Eli Roth to direct :)

[–] duongdogg 8 years ago

Didn't even know it was a book. Yeah that would have been an intense ending.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Torture porn is for incels. The suggested monstrosities are by far more upsetting them anything you can depict.

[–] Threadkiller (3080) 4 years ago

I absolutely hated the film's ending. I would have been totally fine with them not showing the gory details of the original ending or even if they went with a different alternate ending that didn't suck but the one they decided to go with was just so utterly idiotic that it pretty much ruined the entire movie for me. "Hmmm. I'm alone with an extremely dangerous murderer. I think I'll just bonk him on the head once, unreliably handcuffed to a pipe & leave him alone for an extended period as I wander around the house drinking like a retard. I'm sure this will end well. Durr! Durr!"