Alternate Ending: "The 13th Floor"

[maxwesty]

If this film was released today with this ending, i believe the test audiences would've preferred this one - thought provoking and haunting

[sharkisland89]

I am fine with mystery and ambiguity, but this just doesn't give enough to really speculate about what happened. I really enjoyed the movie but I wish there was an ending that didn't wrap everything up but still left some intrigue.

[ParaChuba]

i think i'm the rare movie-goer that would've appreciated that ending. it leaves the concept of the "outer" world to the viewer's imagination. also, i like the conflicted expression on bierko's face as he realizes where he is.

[Lance241151]

I'd have thought this ending to be better if only they showed what they were seeing outside the window. Humans are curious by nature and withholding this information works against the filmmakers more than it helps. Only a few oddballs will appreciate the "mystery" nonsense aspect that this ending attempts to portray.

I can understand why they changed the ending. I much prefer the retro future office look, to the future house look though. If only they showed outside the window this this ending.

[VadymZbarash]

I'm desperately looking for a high quality version of this. Anyone know where I can find it?

[twooffour]

This ending sucks. Why? It makes no sense. The baddie jacked himself in to kick everyone's ass in the simulation, right? He jacked himself in. He couldn't have been in some kind of prison room during all that time.

Or what, Douglas just couldn't find the button? Whatever.

[VadymZbarash]

@twooffour button? Jane opened the window by GLANCING at it. Tells you something about this future, doesn't it?

[hinze0105]

it's about reality and not reality - maybe we are part of a computer simulation...

...just think about it!

[Fathomx1]

This ending is a lot more consistent with the rest of the film. That expression of joy, wonder, sequeing into horror leaves a lot more ambiguity. Imagine that Ashton, a person from the 1930s is utterly unable to comprehend the world of 1999. We as the audience should be in the same position

[Fathomx1]

The original ending was too well wrapped up and doesn't address any of the themes the movie had been running with. This ending is more ambiguous, it challenges the viewer, and is more plausible (I mean c'mon LA in 2024 looking like that?). We don't know what kind of world he steps into, and we're not supposed to know.

[Dakers11]

@lonelywalker is it possible that what we are observing here is the transference of conscience from one body into another. Whether real or not, will these be feasable if not desirable?

[SydneyMeteh]

In my opionion even that is Reality...maybe it doesn't exist or maybe it's very different from what we think. Great mistic endind! It's a pity it's not the official...

[coffeeANDtea1234]

they were looking at ur dads peepee

[MaikUniversum]

not impressed. I liked the other one which had Mol's pookies.

[rap33r100]

o nvm

[rap33r100]

wat the!?! y did i get a diferrent ending

[allooo]

I couldn't stand the stainless steel cgi houses in the original ending. This one was better, allthough I was hoping it would show that they had colonized other planets, and were looking out into a totally strange place of the universe, orbiting Pandora or something. Ending

[Carloswfi]

The movie had potential for it being so GOOD, but it fails miserable because of bad direction, soap opera dialogue, and acting at the level of chris klein in the legend of chun-li.

[cropcircle82]

@Carloswfi I couldn't agree more. I don't wish to sound rude but It does rather seem that Craig Bierko and Vincent D'onfrio both repeatedly pick absolute turkeys to star in. Please can someone enlighten me as to whether or not either of them have ever been in anything that actually made its money back?

[leanuue]

@Carloswfi voicing ur nerdy nolife opinion as fact. disgusting keyboard hermit

[arsoys]

Supposedly challenging ending are conventional and very tiresome. In truth they are indulgent masturbation, no more, that it takes a particularly bourgeois mindset to admire. Thank god they ripped this garbage right out.

[okidoll]

I like this ending better. The ending in the movie was so contrived and so picture perfect it felt fake. I remember saying "Oh, come on".

[EduarquiRJ]

Maybe they are in a "box", but this ending is open... very very interesting and mysterious due to Douglas face when ligth goes out and THE END appears. Thanks for sharing with us this alternative for our guidance about classic 13th Floor!

[thebob500]

The original end is much better, was a good choice

[voidforpurpose]

Turgid, murky, slow, dull and unimaginative.

Thank God they scapped this tripe and used the brighter, more visually stimulating ending they did.

This ending looks about as thrilling a reality as the inside of a a dirty shoebox filled with dead beetles.

They chose right.

[jailarson]

I don't know, man. A dirty shoebox full of dead beetles can be highly entertaining if used correctly.

[voidforpurpose]

I agree.

It was a very oblique film reference to the movie by Werner Herzog "Even Dwarfs Had To Start Small" and a similar prop box that had me laughing outloud in the theater when I first saw it.

(Specifically, a shoebox with dead beetles in it, all gussied up in tiny wedding dresses and groom outfits, etc.)

Worth a watching.

[jailarson]

Oh. I thought it was just some random, entertaining, disturbingly visual analogy. I will investigate further. Sounds like a right proper "WTF".

[clericjack]

Unimaginative because it wasn't a "mainstream, cookie-cutter" ending? This denouement was interesting. The sounds of the waves, the cawing of the birds and the slight laughter of the children....and we still don't know what he is seeing. It engages the mind. I'm sorry, I'm fed up with Hollywood having to spoon-fed everything to us. Everything has to be explained--that would explain Lucas' Star Wars prequels; everything has to be shown. This ending works just as well.

[murderever]

Altough almost everyone says that this ending is bad I think it is slightly better than what we got.

It would be perfect if the place in the ending wouldn't have been weird room. That just is too weird.

If he would have been trapped while transferring to the real world or smth then it would be OK.

But what the hell is the meaning of that room?

[clericjack]

Exactly...it makes you THINK! It engages the imagination.

[fegu]

I'll have to watch this movie again, 'cause I don't get what's going on here or what they're staring at.

[BigglesBast09]

Where's can I get the dvd with this alternative ending?

[AlternateAlternative]

@BigglesBast09 i would like to know that too lol

[LogicHead]

I feel that the central question and theme of the movie was to explore what is reality. Are experience and perception of experience one and the same or different? The ending here is more enigmatic and mysterious, agreed. The one they put in the movie though drives home the central point. Especially with the last frame turning off the movie like an old fashioned TV screen.

My final verdict: good to see both but I'm glad they picked the ending they did. It brings home the point more intimitely.

[ddmpacaa]

this ending is similar but there isn't the father and douglas's face is very strangebefore the end. anyway i prefer the other ending.

[MarcDom7]

Great ending. I always assumed the cut ending would have been downbeat (using the small bit of footage that was in the preview), but this is great, still somewhat upbeat, enigmatic and fits with the rest of the movie. I'm fine with the "happy ending," but this makes it that much better.

[flopotof]

when i saw this film i remember he woke up in the living room of a house and there were his children and he was married with the girl.out of the house was a beach and the father of the girl and it was new york in the future.

[CoolDojo9000]

This New York of the future, is it really 'reality'? It could also be a computer program, because an old fashioned TV turns off the movie...

[bloodawn5]

That white room is Windows` recycle bin.

[sictv13]

This ending doesn't seem much different, really to the theatrical ending, except that instead of a big blank room it's a house, that's the only real difference.

[MuscleeStud]

Interesting but I´m glad it was cut.

[gandalf117]

In the ending that I remember there was a guy in a dark room in a chair who has just come back from the third universe(the last one that was shown). And you were left with the creepy feeling that there is actually a world on top of the one, from where the blond chick comes from and probably another one on top of that and so on and so on. You are left guessing the exact number of the universes. What happened to that ending?

[gandalf117]

hei, when I watched this movie back in 1999 I remember that it ended in a totally different way than this ending and the other ending I've seen!

[skyraider79]

This ending is far superior, they should have left it! I love the the film but always felt that this ending was cheesy. This one is way better and more edgy.

[doublevandike]

So he manifested in this empty room at the beach out of thin air. I'm not against cliffhanger endings but this is simple and plain bullshit. We already KNOW that if a simulation could be run by a parental simulation, there's no way of ever knowing you've reached the real world if something like that would even exist. The regular endings provides more information, drives some plotlines home which should be driven home. Well, just my two cents.

[Sueperkeks]

Why is he wake in this room? What kind of room is that? This Ending make too many questions.... the other one is better then this one.

[gandalf117]

that's exactly why some people like this one more, because it raises many questions and is more enigmatic ;)

[maxwesty]

if this ending was left in the final release, the reviews would've been twice as positive...this is the REAL ending...now the movie is perfect...

[BigglesBast09]

Can you buy the dvd with this alternative ending as assumed it would be on the special edition regional 1?

[drake5000000]

Interesting ending, i like it... but i think the most people would not perceive it sufficiently... that's why the filmmakers leave an actual "happy-end"-ending))

thanks for video

[billfenner1967]

Oh, wow! I'm a huge fan of THE 13TH FLOOR ever since it first came out. Today was the first time I'd seen this alternate ending. I must say, it's great! I love the idea of we the viewers never seeing the actual future, only seeing it reflected in the eyes and face of Doug. And that final look of amazement, which morphs into sadness. Wow. Love it.

[cubezero1]

If you want a film that ignored the studio's request to cop out and ditch an unbelievable ending like this, watch Cube.

[PoetryMouth]

A superior ending. Darker, ambiguous, much more thought-provoking. The current ending is a prettified cop-out. The filmmaker should have stuck to his original vision.

[ldeliane]

(Comment Part 2.. !)

why not go all the way?

go with this one. with this ending- intriguing. mysterious. that leaves us with sounds of Nature- and a man's eyes reflecting ? what.. ? wonder? fear? disbelief? horror? happiness?

like I said.. I like this ending!

thank you, "Lonelywalker". I'm new to YouTube. wasn't aware there was an alternate ending to this film. and want to thank you for posting it!

[ldeliane]

hmm.. I may be expressing the unpopular opinion.. but I like this ending!

if you are going to grapple with the concept of "R"eality.. of the meaning of "human" vs creations of the (human) imagination.. if you are going to tackle the implications of technology- of virtual vs visceral experience--

then why not go all the way?!

[Starbits7]

Okay...I'm glad they cut that from the movie.

[warrblade101]

so.. what the heck were they looking at?

[lonelywalker]

This is the exact question that prompted the filmmakers to do away with this ending and film the ending that is now in the movie.

[cubezero1]

You can hear the distant sounds of seagulls and crashing waves.