10 Original Endings That Would Have Ruined Famous Movies

The Actual Ending

Arnold has saved the day, killing the T-1000 in the most badass way possible (grenading it into a vat of molten steel) and preventing Judgment Day. The only thing left to do is destroy himself, the last remaining piece of Skynet technology.

What follows is one of the most iconic endings of all time, with the T-800 being slowly lowered into the molten steel after telling an emotional John Connor "I know now why you cry".

That music, that sadness, that last thumb's up, Sarah Connor's final voiceover implying a sense of hope about the future unknown...it's all perfection.

The Ending We Almost Got

A 2027 version of Sarah Connor - in surprisingly terrible old lady prosthetics - sits on a playground bench watching her granddaughter while her voiceover spells out an extremely mundane happy ending.

August 29th 1997 came and went. Nothing much happened. Michael Jackson turned 40. There was no Judgment Day. People went to work as they always do, laughed, complained, watched TV, made love. I wanted to run down the street yelling... to grab them all and say "Every day form this day is a gift. Use it well!" Instead I got drunk.

She goes on to tell us her son went on to become a Senator who fights his battles with "common sense and hope".

There's no subtlety here. No sense of the unknown. Just a horribly banal epilogue all around.