OOTS #806 - The Discussion Thread

[jere7my]

This may be wild speculation on my part but I always felt that the third ending was shoe-horned on to the back of the film because the studio or financial backers or whoever demanded a happy ending and the director purposefully made them look like stereotypical aliens out of spite to show his scorn...

No, it was there in Kubrick's original outline. It's certainly possible that Spielberg didn't quite grasp Kubrick's vision for the ending(s), though.

[Scrynor]

Awww, and I was trying to make excuses for it. You've shattered my delicate delusions Jere7my! Now I've naught but hate...

[Mightymosy]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. As someone pointed out earlier, sending Sabine in solo to go toe to toe with Durkon is a recipe for a dead succubus.

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And wouldn't that suck?