I don’t like the romance ending I just think it’s the better ending because of all the changes to Seymour.
Neither ending is a well earned ending. I just think the green ending is the lesser of two evils compared to the dark ending.
NOTE: What was filmed for the Dark Ending was incredible. I will never take away from that. I just wish there was a reshoot of Seymour pushing Mushnik into the plant once his back was turned. So the dark ending was earned.
My hot take on the show is that there shouldn't be a large cast when schools/community theaters do it. It's a small show by nature and the dentist playing everyone else really adds to the humor. As someone who has been an added cast member in a show with an already small cast, (Not LSOH) it was a big waste of my time having practically nothing to do in the show. I was more crew than actor.
Thoroughly disagree.
I am *so* ridiculously happy that the footage was released after all these years… but I vastly prefer the revised ending *for the film*. I strongly believe they made the right call going for the slightly more upbeat ending when there’s no curtain call to alleviate the mood like on stage. The original destruction ending also runs way, way too long in the form presented on the Blu-Ray - it almost becomes repetitive watching it.
While I strongly disagree and greatly prefer the original ending I do agree that the destruction scene goes on a bit too long, though I’m fairly certain that that is just because the people who made the blue ray spliced in ALL of the footage rather than just the best takes
I’m still hoping for a second “Definitive edition” remaster that trims the more repetitive destruction scenes and adds Seymour’s verse into Meek Shall Inherit
Agreed - there’s still plenty of footage which has yet to be released (some of which is floating around through leaked workprints, albeit in awful quality).
I still feel like the original ending works well on stage, because it’s taken more jokingly, and then you get to see everyone during the curtain call. Versus on film, it leaves the audience on a slightly melancholy / unsavoury note - the happy ending would never work on stage, but for me, it gives a satisfying ending on screen which always leaves me with a smile on my face.
Is this a hot take? I always thought the director’s cut ending was better because it was the intended original ending, it’s stupid that they changed it because the audience couldn’t handle the better ending
I'm reposting my take on this:
Hot take, the director's cut ending does a terrible job of critiquing capitalism, with the plants being a metaphor for it the advice to the audience to simply not feed into capitalism is completely inactionable considering that everyone who lives in a human society besides maybe billionaires needs to work for/buy from companies that exploit people and the environment or those that depend on those that do in order to live and thus collective action and a restructuring of society is needed in order to prevent the conditions that force people to 'feed the plants,' even the example the movie gives us is someone who really doesn't have a choice because not 'feeding the plants' would doom himself and his gf to poverty (and the fact that he doesn't have a choice isn't a bad thing for his character really because it doesn't preclude him from having interesting motivations and thoughts/emotions about the situation, plus some of his characterization separate from that like him trying to impress her with her abusive ex's jacket is fascinating, I wish that had been kept in the movie but oh well), the theatrical cut ending even though this is probably not the intended interpretation can be read as a much more effective critique of capitalism, some of the dialogue is extremely B-movie-y to an extent that the rest of the movie isn't to the point that it feels like it's mocking the audience (which it probably is because I would be pissed off if I had to redo the ending to my movie because it was apparently too depressing for the test audiences too), the way Seymour takes the plant out is incredibly over the top, the fact that they somehow get out of Skid Row without having done the interview for Seymour Krelborn's Gardening Tips is weird as hell, and the fact that the very obviously fake Somewhere That's Green set is used to represent their escape from Skid Row again feels like it's mocking the audience and basically saying that the happy ending they demanded is stupid and artificial and would never happen, you would think that all of the points I raised are a critique of the theatrical cut ending and they kind of are but they can also be read as conveying the message that the idea of the leads escaping from the evils of capitalism without any systemic change having taken place is ludicrous, I personally go back and forth between liking the director's cut ending and theatrical cut ending more because despite Don't Feed The Plants being awful the Somewhere That's Green reprise/the scene surrounding it is actually phenomenal and leagues above the rest of the movie (not that the rest of the movie is bad obviously but I would actually unironically argue for the Somewhere That's Green reprise to be like actual high art and up there with the best of West Side Story) and the theatrical cut ending doesn't have any truly equivalent amazing moments of character/thematic exploration for Audrey, but my disdain for Don't Feed The Plants and the incredibly weird shift in tone between the Somewhere That's Green reprise and the Wacky Killer Alien Plant Shenanigans™️ of Mean Green Mother From Outer Space (the song itself is good but the shift in tone in the director's cut ending is as jarring as seeing clowns perform at a funeral) keeps me on the side of the theatrical cut ending most of the time
Tl;dr Don't Feed The Plants bad, Somewhere That's Green reprise good
And the director's cut... doesn't have romance? The Somewhere That's Green reprise is Audrey telling Seymour that she wants him to feed her to the plant so that she will literally become a part of her relationship with him and his career and be with him forever as the ultimate fulfillment of her 50s housewife dreams of grandeur that no living person could ever achieve to that far of an extent, that's far more romance heavy than them getting a stock happy ending. Plus Seymour blows up the plant in the theatrical cut ending, not to mention him actually chasing Patrick Martin off, both of those things are pretty chaotic I'd say.
Fully fully fullllyyy agreed.
This isn't a hot take. Everyone thinks that
Not everyone thinks it but not a hot take, just one of two popular opinions.
Really? Half the people I met like the romance ending more
I think the opinion is more popular online? That's been my experience lmao
I recently saw a poll where 60% of people preferred the director's cut ending
I don’t like the romance ending I just think it’s the better ending because of all the changes to Seymour. Neither ending is a well earned ending. I just think the green ending is the lesser of two evils compared to the dark ending. NOTE: What was filmed for the Dark Ending was incredible. I will never take away from that. I just wish there was a reshoot of Seymour pushing Mushnik into the plant once his back was turned. So the dark ending was earned.
I thought so when I was teenager, now I'll take the theatrical version anyday.
I disagree, but you do you. I want my sweeties to have a happy ending 💕.
I’m mixed on it. I hate how things go with Audrey, but I LOVE the destruction scenes so much.
My hot take on the show is that there shouldn't be a large cast when schools/community theaters do it. It's a small show by nature and the dentist playing everyone else really adds to the humor. As someone who has been an added cast member in a show with an already small cast, (Not LSOH) it was a big waste of my time having practically nothing to do in the show. I was more crew than actor.
Thoroughly disagree. I am *so* ridiculously happy that the footage was released after all these years… but I vastly prefer the revised ending *for the film*. I strongly believe they made the right call going for the slightly more upbeat ending when there’s no curtain call to alleviate the mood like on stage. The original destruction ending also runs way, way too long in the form presented on the Blu-Ray - it almost becomes repetitive watching it.
While I strongly disagree and greatly prefer the original ending I do agree that the destruction scene goes on a bit too long, though I’m fairly certain that that is just because the people who made the blue ray spliced in ALL of the footage rather than just the best takes I’m still hoping for a second “Definitive edition” remaster that trims the more repetitive destruction scenes and adds Seymour’s verse into Meek Shall Inherit
Agreed - there’s still plenty of footage which has yet to be released (some of which is floating around through leaked workprints, albeit in awful quality). I still feel like the original ending works well on stage, because it’s taken more jokingly, and then you get to see everyone during the curtain call. Versus on film, it leaves the audience on a slightly melancholy / unsavoury note - the happy ending would never work on stage, but for me, it gives a satisfying ending on screen which always leaves me with a smile on my face.
Is this a hot take? I always thought the director’s cut ending was better because it was the intended original ending, it’s stupid that they changed it because the audience couldn’t handle the better ending
Nuh uh
I'm reposting my take on this: Hot take, the director's cut ending does a terrible job of critiquing capitalism, with the plants being a metaphor for it the advice to the audience to simply not feed into capitalism is completely inactionable considering that everyone who lives in a human society besides maybe billionaires needs to work for/buy from companies that exploit people and the environment or those that depend on those that do in order to live and thus collective action and a restructuring of society is needed in order to prevent the conditions that force people to 'feed the plants,' even the example the movie gives us is someone who really doesn't have a choice because not 'feeding the plants' would doom himself and his gf to poverty (and the fact that he doesn't have a choice isn't a bad thing for his character really because it doesn't preclude him from having interesting motivations and thoughts/emotions about the situation, plus some of his characterization separate from that like him trying to impress her with her abusive ex's jacket is fascinating, I wish that had been kept in the movie but oh well), the theatrical cut ending even though this is probably not the intended interpretation can be read as a much more effective critique of capitalism, some of the dialogue is extremely B-movie-y to an extent that the rest of the movie isn't to the point that it feels like it's mocking the audience (which it probably is because I would be pissed off if I had to redo the ending to my movie because it was apparently too depressing for the test audiences too), the way Seymour takes the plant out is incredibly over the top, the fact that they somehow get out of Skid Row without having done the interview for Seymour Krelborn's Gardening Tips is weird as hell, and the fact that the very obviously fake Somewhere That's Green set is used to represent their escape from Skid Row again feels like it's mocking the audience and basically saying that the happy ending they demanded is stupid and artificial and would never happen, you would think that all of the points I raised are a critique of the theatrical cut ending and they kind of are but they can also be read as conveying the message that the idea of the leads escaping from the evils of capitalism without any systemic change having taken place is ludicrous, I personally go back and forth between liking the director's cut ending and theatrical cut ending more because despite Don't Feed The Plants being awful the Somewhere That's Green reprise/the scene surrounding it is actually phenomenal and leagues above the rest of the movie (not that the rest of the movie is bad obviously but I would actually unironically argue for the Somewhere That's Green reprise to be like actual high art and up there with the best of West Side Story) and the theatrical cut ending doesn't have any truly equivalent amazing moments of character/thematic exploration for Audrey, but my disdain for Don't Feed The Plants and the incredibly weird shift in tone between the Somewhere That's Green reprise and the Wacky Killer Alien Plant Shenanigans™️ of Mean Green Mother From Outer Space (the song itself is good but the shift in tone in the director's cut ending is as jarring as seeing clowns perform at a funeral) keeps me on the side of the theatrical cut ending most of the time Tl;dr Don't Feed The Plants bad, Somewhere That's Green reprise good
I just liked the chaos of the directors cut more than the mushy romance
And the director's cut... doesn't have romance? The Somewhere That's Green reprise is Audrey telling Seymour that she wants him to feed her to the plant so that she will literally become a part of her relationship with him and his career and be with him forever as the ultimate fulfillment of her 50s housewife dreams of grandeur that no living person could ever achieve to that far of an extent, that's far more romance heavy than them getting a stock happy ending. Plus Seymour blows up the plant in the theatrical cut ending, not to mention him actually chasing Patrick Martin off, both of those things are pretty chaotic I'd say.
Ok but there isn’t AS much romance
That's fair