Guy in my movie group said my alternate endings were 'too nice' and now I can't stop killing everyone off
So last month at our little film club meetup in my buddy's garage in Tucson, this guy Dave tore into my ending for Titanic where Jack hops on the door too and they both make it. He goes, 'that's not a fix, that's a hug.' I sat with that for like a week and then rewrote the ending of Elf where Buddy gets hit by the cab in the first ten minutes. Now I've got 14 alt endings saved in a doc and every single one ends with somebody getting wrecked, including the dog from Homeward Bound. Dave says I overcorrected. Do you think there's a middle ground or do I just lean into it?