Movies that are ruined by their endings
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Chukzombi
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i hope you guys, or at least some of you can recognize satire. i seen american history x like twice. i only remember it vaguely, the basketball scene was cool. the rodney king scene was interesting til they went all overboard with the anti semitism and sister abuse, the worst was the supermarket raid on the mexicans, yes it was worse than the curb stomping because those people were just working there even if they were a bunch of border jumpers that "took our jobs!" that shit was so over the top i really had a hard time taking that movie seriously. so when i say i didnt get their message, i did mean it, why make such a silly unrealistic film about a subject that is quite real? the liberal agenda part was my jokeses.
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chaos
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What exactly was unrealistic about that film other than the kind of trite ending and the magic black man who saves him after his prison raping? You think that skinheads are unrealistic? Or racism?
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The movie is about rats. Cop rats, mob rats, FBI rats. The last shot after 2 hours of that is a lingering shot of an implausibly placed actual rat. No subtlety whatsoever. Cheesy as fuck and clumsy.
I've seen people try to explain it as "Jacobean" where after the final bloodbath a clown would come out to take the edge off for crowds or some shit. But I think Ralph Wiggum summed it up best.
"The rat symbolizes obviousness"
Aaron
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Holy fuck yes. "Hey, let's drive this successful businessman to commit suicide only to have it turn out to be a game to get him to lighten up a bit more all along." Idiotic!
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There are multiple ways to take the ending of this movie. Yours is certainly one of them, but I think there are smarter ones that don't flip the movie a complete 180 in the last 20 seconds.
The last scene is just another dream, but it's the first one he has where he isn't isolated. It isn't him against the world. His family is there and in support. He's dealing with his illness by letting them in. That's much better than thinking he's been some kind of prophet all along.
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What? The ending of Sunshine was perfect. Did people forget they were watching a Danny Boyle/Alex Garland movie or something?
As for The Departed, the ending was the only part of the movie I thought was far superior to Infernal Affairs. Not that the rest was bad; I can probably count the number of Hollywood remakes of foreign movies I find tolerable on one hand, but Departed is certainly one of them.
I don't know if the director intended the ending to be ambiguous, but many of the shots and filming techniques suggest the storm is real. There are no dreamlike qualities to the final scene. If it were indeed a dream, the shot of the wife in the kitchen is completely pointless considering a dream would only be seen from Curtis' perspective. The daughter is also the first to notice the storm and the camera focuses on the wife's hand as the rain falls, both of which make no sense in a dream.
So the 3 seconds the rat was on screen ruined the movie for you? Ok...The movie is about rats. Cop rats, mob rats, FBI rats. The last shot after 2 hours of that is a lingering shot of an implausibly placed actual rat. No subtlety whatsoever. Cheesy as fuck and clumsy.
I've seen people try to explain it as "Jacobean" where after the final bloodbath a clown would come out to take the edge off for crowds or some shit. But I think Ralph Wiggum summed it up best.
"The rat symbolizes obviousness"
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We're in the minority. Almost everyone I've talked to about it disliked the ending. Dunno why.