Has anybody here seen Thelma and Louise and if so what did you think about it? Personally I love it, but I hate that the ending is cut short.

It's been a long time since I've seen the movie, but I remember that I liked it. The ending came as a shock and I just loved the character played by Harvey Keitel.

I'm not sure what you mean by: "cut short"...

It's one of my all time favorite movies.
One that I can stand to watch more than once!

Well I mean like they hit the climax of the music and we see them start to go down and it just cuts away after a couple seconds. Now it's to my understanding that an alternative ending was done where we see them go down, and they survive and drive off, granted that would be pretty far fetched even for a movie so they went with a shorter cut ending, but I don't know why they couldn't have given us a few more seconds of them as they went down in a blaze of glory.

I have the DVD with bonus features. It shows the alternate ending of the car and the girls going over the Grand Canynon. However, neither survive, as the car explodes.

Also, in the special bonus feature on the DVD, the director tells why the ending was changed. He said, that when viewers saw the girls ride the car off the canynon's edge, that they (we the viewers) could let our imaginations run wild...did they make it or not?

Have to say, I am glad they used the ending that they did...very effective.

I really enjoyed the movie (and came prepared NOT to, for some reason ... probably because of all the hype). Actually, it seemed to me like a Newman/Redford movie with two attractive women "buddies" in it instead of men. I'm not sure, given that, I ever fully grabbed the "feminist" theme the film is said to have in it. So (as is my fashion) I decided to watch again ... darned well looking for that part. I'm not saying my view of it was right at all (I'm suspicious that it wasn't, quite frankly) but the ending - whether they died or didn't - seemed entirely anti-feminist. To me, anyway. They spent the entire story fighting against the victimizations they endured (in varying degrees of them - it seemed to me, after a while, either Miss Thelma OR Miss Louise might have just blown somebody's head off for saying "good morning!" in a way they found NOT to their liking , however). Then, when the good fight seemed to be getting won, they let the supposed "big cruel world" (men?) push them to making the ultimate sacrifice/"surrender". The 'friends-til-the-end' stuff I bought, hook and line and sinker. The "strong unbeatable human force" finally driving off a cliff seemed, to me, a bit sideways.

And, if I might add, them flying off that cliff only to land and drive off into the sunset would have been far more unsettling to have seen happen than anything I can think of . I'm 100% tickled they didn't opt for using that conclusion.

Just my thoughts on it, though. I'm pretty sure I wasn't exactly in the movie's "target demographic", to begin with...

I'd never heard that there was an alternate ending, but I am also glad they went with the one they did!

Survival wasn't an option. It was "The Grand Canyon" after all!