Thread: 3:10 to yuma ending

i have seen in the review thread that a lot of people have seen yuma and a few people said they didn't like the ending. i didn't mind it much, and am wondering what people hated so much about it...

is it the way the story itself ended?

or was it the fact that they made it to the train?


i didn't hate the ending, (i initially didn't like it but think it's not that bad..) so i'm wondering.

I thought the whole movie pretty much sucked. I never got that "western" feel from it. I was disappointed big-time with that movie as a whole.

I loved the whole thing- start to finish.

If someone wants a bizarre ending in a western, watch No Country for Old Men. 3:10 is Cinderella compared to that.

The ending was changed from the Original 3:10 to Yuma.

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In the Original Ending of the film. Both characters survive. The outlaw shoots his old posse member before he shoots the other character. When the Father guy (don't recall character's name - but played by Christian Bale in remake) asks the outlaw why he saved him. The outlaw states - (paraphrased) that he couldn't let him die because he had a family to go back to and he felt obligated to ensure his survival. Furthermore he'd escaped from Yuma several times before and it wasn't all that tough to escape from.

I just watched it last night. I like the movie, and I liked the ending. In the end both characters were challenged, and stepped out of their normal lives in order to meet the challenge. Both succeeded, although we might consider the results "mixed".

I actually liked the movie and I don't generally like Westerns. I didn't like the ending and watched the alternate ending that was included on my DVD. I liked that ending.

Originally Posted by Cleveland Rocks

In the Original Ending of the film. Both characters survive. The outlaw shoots his old posse member before he shoots the other character. When the Father guy (don't recall character's name - but played by Christian Bale in remake) asks the outlaw why he saved him. The outlaw states - (paraphrased) that he couldn't let him die because he had a family to go back to and he felt obligated to ensure his survival. Furthermore he'd escaped from Yuma several times before and it wasn't all that tough to escape from.

that's basically what happened in this one, except you know that the makers thought it was too happy of an ending... so they made the one dude mess it all up to cause controversy that people could talk about as they left the theater... i didn't dislike it.

generally, i feel that movie endings where people start to disregard their own safety and well-being for the sake of a "cause" are unrealistic-- kinda insults the intelligence, because in reality our survival instincts are rooted pretty deeply. . . if it was a case of the man giving up his life to save that of his son i could buy it, but throwing his life away (and placing the burden of his family squarely on his wife, in a time and place where it would have been MUCH harder for a single mom than it is today, when it's still hard enough) simply so his son could be proud of him? makes for a nice storyline i suppose, but i'm sitting there saying "yea right-- bullshit!". . . also difficult for me to accept that the outlaw (crowe) would put himself in so much danger to help save a stranger's pride-- i could maybe even accept that he would shoot his worthless "friends" and allow himself to be taken back to prison (knowing that he can escape), but running around dodging bullets. . . ? awfully freakin' far-fetched IMO. . . .


*shrugs*



i just didn't like it. . . .