I was watching a sci-fi run on TCM a couple of days ago.
At the end of the Incredible Shrinking Man, Robert Osbourne
said that the movie was being remade.

In the original, the shrinking man kills the spider and then goes on a phylosophy binge.

In the remake, how would you end the last 15 minutes of the movie?

In the right hands, the novel's ending *might* work: show his despair at being "forgotten" by everyone, then resigning himself to shrinking down through unimagined dimensions of existence...tho if it drags on for very long it'd become tedious, like the end of that Natalie Wood brain movie.

I'd also go back in time and cast a young Christopher Walken in the lead.

I was always dissappointed with the ending of THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN. I always felt that this is where the real movie should have begun - where Scott Carey would begin to see and experience new worlds unseen and unknown to man - much like FANTASTIC VOYAGE. And, in this world, he would no longer be the miniscule victim of fate, but the full scale master of a new universe... thus a person's SIZE would be shown to be completely relative.



- GJS

When the Shrinking man finally walkes through the window screen at the end, I thought it could have gone a little further than it did. However, I still liked how it ended in that it showed that his shrinking would continue and how he viewed himself as part of the universe. The philosophical ending kind of wrapped it up the same way Shakespere might have. I think this philosophizing is technically known as a soliloquy.
Although, a sequel would have been nice... however you can only take the shrinking so far before getting into quantum mechanics. Once the man is so small, he is nothing more than a handful of atoms, which is not a man. Quantum mechanics is more mathematical/statistical than an interesting adventure for a movie.

i want the movie ta end with a biiiig explosion .
hb

Right, it should end with some stuff gettin' blowed up! Or else he finds a teeny-tiny super-hot girlfriend. . .

carried away by "killer Gnats" with a reference to "The Fly" ....HELP MEEEEEEE.....

I think he should wind up in the brain of a fetus and the movie ends with the baby being born.

(I know--makes absolutely no sense.) :freak:

Or else he finds a teeny-tiny super-hot girlfriend. . .


Yeah, a blonde with green skin, on a microplanet of green-skinned people.

Wait...it's been done.

Yeah, a blonde with green skin, on a microplanet of green-skinned people.

Wait...it's been done.

You're not far off. In the Novella, the shrinking man actually shrunk enough that he entered into the sub-atomic universe and actually ended on another planet in that universe. I think this is where all that philosophy about the incredible small is also part of the incredible infinite universe and he was a part of that.

Thing about it is that in the novella, there was no mentioning of avoiding insects, bacteria or being beatened up by vibrating molecules or atoms - nor did they deal with how the guy was able to breath, drink water, etc.........

Cute idea for a movie if you know where to stop.

50 people come out of nowhere and go-go dance. It's hip, it's now. The kids'll love it.

It should end in a teenie-tiny diner, with him sitting in a teenie-tiny booth.
There should be a teenie-tiny jukebox playing Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'"

Jimmy,
don't forget the teeny-tiny daughter trying to park her teeny-tiny car...

And teenie-tiny onion rings

And then the screen goes black, the sound disappears, and everybody gets upset because they can't figure out what happened. :dude: