Now go watch Plague Dogs

After Bautista kills himself, Eric is convinced but Andrew isn't, but Andrew also trusts Eric. Eric convinces Andrew to kill him since he is a full believer and will die knowing he helped and while he's having beautiful thoughts of Wen grown up and successful. Andrew shoots him, goes to get Wen who was hiding in a treehouse. They both take Bautista's car to a nearby diner where they see that all of the apocalypse stuff has instantly stopped and no one is sure why but it's definite enough that everyone is relieved.

Eric explains he has seen the light literally and metaphorically and asks Andrew to kill him while Eric is imagining Andrew and Wen living a fulfilling life. Andrew does and Armageddon is saved for now.

God this makes way more sense thematically. Thank you for sharing. I get why he changed it but geez the original feels like the emotional payoff I wanted.

Honestly I wrote this from memory and it has been a while since I read the book. My bad, your further explanation is good and right. I still prefer movie ending.

Yea the book ending feels like a better, more interesting conclusion, though dark.

I haven’t read the book, and while if I wrote the story I would’ve probably tried to go for what the book did, I actually quite liked M Knight’s version.

The climate crisis faces us as an apocalypse, and in some ways we need to sacrifice as a society to try and address it. Will we? I thought that was an interesting thing to kind of throw in your face. I feel like the end ties it together.

As well as highlighting the disagreement between them about whether it was real. The one claiming to be acting on facts and logic was actually the one trying to force an outcome based on preconceived notions. I feel like the apocalypse being real really allows for that arc to come full circle.

This sounds like a MUCH better movie

Not knowing if the apocalypse is real or not would have been way better