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Spare your favorite movie character from death
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Data, Star Trek: Nemesis
Wash and Book from Serenity.
The only deaths I would want to undo are the ones that were really badly written, like Data. Movie characters with well written deaths are better served by remaining dead.
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Didn't the actor who played Sarah Connor refuse the script to Terminator 3 because it 'Lacked humanity'?
So I would also agree with Terminator 3, because if Sarah Connor hadn't died it would imply the actress was handed a better script.
@Tosk
Didn't the actor who played Sarah Connor refuse the script to Terminator 3 because it 'Lacked humanity'?
So I would also agree with Terminator 3, because if Sarah Connor hadn't died it would imply the actress was handed a better script.
This.
Spock's death in TWOK is superbly handled, really serves and indeed makes the movie (having said that, I'm glad they brought him back in TSFS, as I like having my cake and eating it). By contrast, Kirk's death in GEN is botched, badly done and isn't really worthy of him. Data's death is also poor, a very obvious attempt to recreate TWOK (on tv, I thought Trip's death in ENT was needless and badly done).
I'd definitely bring back Kirk and Data, then.
The throwaway deaths of Hicks and the others at the start of Alien 3 were an insult to the memory of Aliens. It'll be interesting to see what Neil Blomkamp proposes to do with his new Alien sequel, for which Michael Biehn has reportedly been signed.
On the other hand, and sticking with Biehn, while it would've been cool to see Kyle Reese in T2, Reece's death in The Terminator is almost inevitable and would've been cheapened had they brought him back via time travel.
The various deaths in X-Men: The Last Stand spring to mind. I wonder if Bryan Singer feels the same?
I also don't really care for the tendency for some comic strip movies to kill off their iconic villains - I like them to be kept alive so they can return to torment our heroes again, even if the film franchises are unlikely to last as long as their comic counterparts.I can understand why they killed him off (to pass the mantle) but a Zorro sequel with Anthony Hopkins' character still around would've been more fun than what we got, IMHO.
My choice as well.
Keeping Hopkins' original Zorro around, even if permanently retired from fighting, could have been interesting, though I think any potential sequel to The Mask of Zorro was pretty severely handicapped by having to follow such a perfect movie. How the heck does one top a huge secret mining operation that could have kick-started the California Gold Rush a decade early, thus affecting the whole of West Coast history?!
Hicks and Newt are indeed the obvious answers to this question, as are Cyke and/or Wheels from X3.
The Rome finale leaves a certain character's fate ambiguous, though I certainly side with the Word of God that says he survives.
Hicks and Newt are indeed the obvious answers to this question, as are Cyke and/or Wheels from X3.
The Rome finale leaves a certain character's fate ambiguous, though I certainly side with the Word of God that says he survives.
Ha, ha, ha... No.
Sean Bean's character in.....everything. 
Remind me: Was Holman Steve McQueen's character?
Amen to that. If you can only save one, let it be Ralph Meeker, because of his participation in THE NIGHT STALKER.
Besides DIE HARD's Gruber, I should've led off with Fredo (John Cazale) from GODFATHER II. He got quite a bum deal in real life as well.
Fredo's death is an essential part of the story. It's to show how Michael is now beyond redemption. He commits the oldest sin of fratricide, something his family-loving father could never have contemplated. Without his murder, the movie loses much of his power.
If I was going to reverse a Godfather related death it'd be the cringingly contrived death of the daughter in III.
The bullet should have just hit Michael like it was intended.
There's a lot of classic movies where a character dies at the end in a really contrived, silly way just because the movie is ending and the character not dying would seem unsatisfying. Like I feel that way about Vertigo.
The bullet should have just hit Michael like it was intended.
There's a lot of classic movies where a character dies at the end in a really contrived, silly way just because the movie is ending and the character not dying would seem unsatisfying. Like I feel that way about Vertigo.
Absolutely. I was heartbroken about that, and have never been able to watch that movie again, ever.
Same with every other movie where the dog dies - the old pedlar's little dog in Lassie Come Home, for instance.
Sean Bean's character in.....everything.
Not in Patriot Games. In that one, he bloody well deserved it!
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