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re: Good movies with bad endings
Posted on 2/1/14 at 6:38 pm to NastyTiger
Posted on 2/1/14 at 6:38 pm to NastyTiger
And personally I loved the ending to The Departed and NCFOM. Great, great movies.
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Posted on 2/1/14 at 6:44 pm to LordSaintly
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Law Abiding Citizen.
I've always thought that the original ending was much darker and truer to the spirit of the film, but didn't test well in focus groups or something so they changed it.
American audiences can't deal with movies where the bad guy wins. But you're right.
I loved Law Abiding Citizen. It is the first time I ever pulled for a cold blooded murderer in a movie. I understood the ending, but I wasn't pleased.
Posted on 2/1/14 at 7:13 pm to NawlinsTiger9
Gangs of New York. By far the worst ending to an otherwise exceptional movie.
Posted on 2/1/14 at 8:04 pm to Cockopotamus
Warrior
Posted on 2/1/14 at 8:07 pm to shutterspeed
quote:Clicked to say this. Really good movie that cold have spawned a sequel or two involving these guys conflict. Instead, we got to read an ending.
Unbreakable
Do we really need a postscript about what happened to Mr. Glass in a fictional movie? That was the lamest.
Posted on 2/1/14 at 8:24 pm to NawlinsTiger9
This is an odd one, but has anyone ever seen the original ending to Dodgeball? Its on a featurette on the DVD.
Apparently, Stiller and the director didnt want a happy ending. The original ending of the movie was when White pegs Peter. Joe's lose. Roll credits. The. End.
This of course tested horribly, so they reshot it with the obnoxiously happy ending it ended up with. Its also why White says in the mid credits scene before he does Milkshake "There, hope you're happy. You got your happy ending..."
While I think the movie would've been terrible had they ended it like that, I always think about it every time I see it.
Apparently, Stiller and the director didnt want a happy ending. The original ending of the movie was when White pegs Peter. Joe's lose. Roll credits. The. End.
This of course tested horribly, so they reshot it with the obnoxiously happy ending it ended up with. Its also why White says in the mid credits scene before he does Milkshake "There, hope you're happy. You got your happy ending..."
While I think the movie would've been terrible had they ended it like that, I always think about it every time I see it.
This post was edited on 2/1/14 at 8:26 pm
Posted on 2/1/14 at 9:28 pm to NawlinsTiger9
Get Him to the Greek went from can't catch my breath funny to completely dumb and stupid quickly. What was the point of him breaking his arm? Did it serve any purpose at all? Did anything happen differently because of him jumping into the pool and breaking his arm?
Hot Fuzz has always been a bone of contention with me. I can deal with them flipping the script on the movie but what was the point of setting off the sea mine at the end? Not only was it unbelievable but it served no purpose. And I get in comedies sometimes you just do stuff for the sake of being funny, but this scene was not funny. It was crap and pointless.
Hot Fuzz has always been a bone of contention with me. I can deal with them flipping the script on the movie but what was the point of setting off the sea mine at the end? Not only was it unbelievable but it served no purpose. And I get in comedies sometimes you just do stuff for the sake of being funny, but this scene was not funny. It was crap and pointless.
Posted on 2/1/14 at 9:57 pm to auyushu
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Spoilers here:
Eh, it wasn't the actual ending that made me mad, just the lazy writing that got them to that point and the complete changing of the characters personalities.
This was my problem with the ending. The characters give up too soon. I don't mind the way they went out, but in the time shown, it feels like they get a car, then as soon as out of gas, bam. They could have shown the despair more at the end.
Posted on 2/1/14 at 10:29 pm to NawlinsTiger9
I didn't like the ending to ground hog day... Too cheery for me 
Posted on 2/1/14 at 11:36 pm to NawlinsTiger9
I think it was the Excorcist of Emily Rose, or which ever one was filmed like a fake documentary . Ending sucked.
Posted on 2/1/14 at 11:45 pm to Tigerfan53
quote:
The village
I always think what could have been if M Night didn't have to add in a crazy arse twist. The first half of that movie was very good.
Posted on 2/1/14 at 11:57 pm to Rex
quote:I don't get the hate for the ending of NCFOM. It stayed pretty true to the novel if memory serves.
No Country for Old Men is the correct answer. Some bad endings are merely bad endings, but the bad ending in NCFOM totally ruined the movie and raped its viewers. Why was I asked to invest so much time and concern in the plight of the principal character only to have him yanked as a principal character at the end of the film?
I Am Legend takes a shite load of flack for the opposite, so which is it? Stay true or deviate to satisfy the viewer? Can't have it both ways.
Posted on 2/2/14 at 12:00 am to Cockopotamus
quote:YES! Great until they burst out onto the movie studio. I turn it off at that point.
Blazing Saddles. Up until the last 10 mins was one of the GOAT. Ending... Not so much.
This post was edited on 2/2/14 at 12:05 am
Posted on 2/2/14 at 12:01 am to biglil3
quote:The novel tells you what happened. It's a good read.
No Country for Old Men
I'm still trying to figure out what happened
Seriously, someone give me their interpretation of the ending
Posted on 2/2/14 at 2:01 am to The Dude Abides
Cast away
Posted on 2/2/14 at 2:14 am to Marciano1
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Warrior
SPOILER
Warrior had one of the oddest third acts because the movie could have ended successfully without the two brothers even fighting in the end.
Once they both made it into the finals, they could just said, "Peace out, bitches... time to split the cash. The end."
Posted on 2/2/14 at 12:23 pm to shutterspeed
Castaway
Posted on 2/2/14 at 2:42 pm to NoNameNeeded
Wait a sec? How should Castaway have ended?
Posted on 2/2/14 at 4:11 pm to Hester Carries
No country for old men, had a great ending once I watched the movie a second time.
The problem is we, not the director got it wrong.
The story ( No country for old men ) was about an old sheriff who had gotten to old for the TIMES. The movie starts out with the Tommy Lee Jones charector talling about the modern day ( late 70s) drug trade compared to yesteryears nom violent crimes he had to deal with.
The movie ends ( perfectly ) with the old sheriff retiring, because after all, it's no countty for old men
We all looked at the story as a Sugar themed story, but the title says it all, the story was about the sheriff and his inability to stop the drug trafficking.
The problem is we, not the director got it wrong.
The story ( No country for old men ) was about an old sheriff who had gotten to old for the TIMES. The movie starts out with the Tommy Lee Jones charector talling about the modern day ( late 70s) drug trade compared to yesteryears nom violent crimes he had to deal with.
The movie ends ( perfectly ) with the old sheriff retiring, because after all, it's no countty for old men
We all looked at the story as a Sugar themed story, but the title says it all, the story was about the sheriff and his inability to stop the drug trafficking.
Posted on 2/2/14 at 7:30 pm to NawlinsTiger9
i'll have to think this over some more....but off the top of my head, the 'war of the worlds' remake comes to mind. i actually enjoyed most of the movie, until it started winding down. i've heard people argue the storyline was pretty faithful to the original, and if that's true, IMO it just didn't work with the times anymore. not to mention, the last few minutes seemed tacked on to appease the lifetime-TV crowd....
and good call on 'sunshine'. while i enjoyed the movie, introducing that ghost/zombie/whatever was a head-scratcher....
and good call on 'sunshine'. while i enjoyed the movie, introducing that ghost/zombie/whatever was a head-scratcher....
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