10 Original Endings That Would Have Ruined Great Movies

2. Titanic (1997)

The Ending We Got: Having recounted her memories of surviving the ordeal that was being a passenger aboard the R.M.S. Titanic to anybody in earshot, old Rose reveals to the audience that she's got a really, really expensive necklace 'round her neck, and proceeds to step out onto the deck of the ship and hurl it into the waters below. She goes back inside, gets into bed and dies, because her life journey is now over, and because that necklace was secretly giving her all her power. Not really. It was natural causes.

The Original Ending: If you thought that ending was somewhat iconic, wait 'til you get a load of the original, which is downright bonkers in basically every way, and may or may not have been scripted by a teenager who snuck into James Cameron's office.

It starts when old Kate Winslet (who is not Kate Winslet) attempts to throw the necklace in the water, only to be stopped in the most overly dramatic sequence ever filmed by a human being: "Don't come any closer! I'll drop it!" the old lady threatens, as if holding a bomb over a Cute Abandoned Animal Centre.

Then she does a bit of talking about why she decided to keep the necklace a secret all these years, and then just hurls the damn thing into the water anyway. After initially being a bit dumb-founded, Bill Paxton explodes into fits of laughter for reasons never explained and then asks Winslet's daughter if she'd like to dance. Presumably this was changed because it is, by definition, insane.