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I've just gone through 101 mins of 'All is Lost'
I like Robert.
I liked the type of film.
I was 'enjoying' it.
The ending makes me want to punch a baby cuckoo in the genitals.
The Italian Job.
All it takes is Caine to pass back one ingot at a time, and gradually shift the weight. But no, they do that silly to and fro malarkey.
Someone will say No Country For Old Men. That person needs a slap.
Most endings bore me senseless. It has to be a special film to stop me turning off towards the end.
I think this is for two reasons:
A) Films are all about the journey for me, so the ending is somewhat irrelevant.
B) Car chases and the gradual build-up of tension are so hackneyed these days that they end up ruining an otherwise good film. A classic case for me if the last Batman film, which was excellent, up until the cliche-ridden final act.
The ending makes me want to punch a baby cuckoo in the genitals.
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Baby cuckoos are evil little shits who deserve a knee in the nadgers at least.
Now, if you were to punch a baby quokka, we'd be having stern words
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Alien Resurrection. God that had a bad ending. Even for a shit film. Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, that was retarded. Prometheus, guff. I am Legend, dung. Indiana Jones and the Shit skull, ****.
Lucy - I stuck with it to see how bad a film could be - I regret my decision.
AI. Brilliant until the 'Spielberg' moment...
2001 - no words
The Shawshank Redemption.
With the crappy "US" audience ending that has the make-you-a-bit-sick-in-your-mouth beach meeting scene.
The WHOLE point of the film, the ENTIRE premise and the defining concept is HOPE. Red has numerous monologues where he uses the word "HOPE" a lot. Therefore, at the end, when Red has been released on parole, and Dufresne has escaped, we DON'T need to see them meeting on the beach. The film should end on the greyhound bus scene, where the bus slowly drives off into the distance over the rolling Buxton farmland, and Red says "I hope i will see my friend again" etc
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Then they tack on that crappy, puke inducing, out of character and point defeating terrible beach meeting scene and the previous 90mins of a film about HOPE are completely negated......ARGHHHHHHH!!!!
Christopher Nolan films, generally.
Just beat me to it ruined a great film... I actually shouted out oh FFS at the cinema when i saw it...i was in a tiny minority
Every Stephen King film.
And most action films, where they spend the first half of the movie developing a story, the characters, something you become immersed in... Then the second half consists of people being shot, jumping about in the air, explosions, speeding cars, crashes, and a whole lot of boredom. It's like watching a bad porn.
the previous 90mins
and the rest...
Lucy - I stuck with it to see how bad a film could be - I regret my decision
I had that exact feeling when watching it last night.
Should have known better!
Ted - brilliant until the overblown chase scene
Sunshine was bollocks, the last quarter was like an entirely different film to what had gone before and ruined what was up to then a pretty good film
Just watched Invictus. I reckon the All Blacks deserved to win.
Se7en. The ending REALLY winds me up. The audience should never know what's in the box...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Disappoints me every, every time.
And Titanic.
If you love him that much, you get in the bloody water.
Rusty Spanner - MemberMonty Python and the Holy Grail.
Disappoints me every, every time.
Ah c'mon. "That's an offensive weapon"!!
I rarely watch films but it might have been lord of the rings that had about 9 endings just to let the idiots know that everything was OK. Was that the film with the giant birds dropping stones? Why not get them to drop the stones at the start of the battle and save a few lives.
Nope. There were no stones dropped by giant birds. Was there? However, Gandalf, the fing prick joy rides the life out of a big eagle right at the start by whispering to a moth. Then 9 years later, in the third film he tongues a moths ear and convinces the moth to sweet talk an eagle to pick up Frodo and Bilbo, saving them from certain boily lava related death.
Why the absolute f did he not just say to Frodo right at the beging, here jump on this big eagle. It'll take you straight to Mount Doom, **** the ring in, job's a good 'un. Do well.
Se7en. The ending REALLY winds me up. The audience should never know what's in the box...
But if you didn't know what was in the box, what Brad Pitt does next wouldn't make sense and if they changed that the killer's project would not have been completed.
The Babadook has to be up there for me as a film that's otherwise quite watchable.
maxtorque, I so kind of agree re the shawshank redemption, but I invested so much emotion in that film, I was glad to have an excuse for the happy tears to come in the end!
And yes, I have drunk most of a bottle or red wine.
I've also just watched Blackfish. A brilliant documentary film, the ending of which only lets you down when you realise that little or nothing has changed.
@Lucky, I quite liked the end of the Babadook, all felt excellently cracked.
colournoise - MemberSe7en. The ending REALLY winds me up. The audience should never know what's in the box...
I had to nip out for a wee before the end... is it not Marcellus Wallace's soul?
The Pilot, couldn't agree more about Blackfish. 40 years later, nothing's changed and no one seems that bothered!
Jeepers creepers. First 3/4 of the film was great, building nicely then the "thing" driving the clapped out old lorry grows ****ing wings...nice one numbnuts!
Se7en. The ending REALLY winds me up. The audience should never know what's in the box...
But if you didn't know what was in the box, what Brad Pitt does next wouldn't make sense and if they changed that the killer's project would not have been completed
I just think you should be left wondering why he reacts like he does.
Just me then?
Nortwind, Perhaps I need to watch it again! I saw it at the cinema and remember thinking that it seemed a little like nobody really knew how to end it. To be fair I do think that about a lot of films and novels though.
I had to post this link. Don't worry there are no spoilers!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pioBHf11N78
Paris Texas, I want Travis to get Nastassja Kinski back.
Not the end but I can't watch saving private Ryan as that upham really gets on my tits. And I sometimes watch the first hour or whatever it is of the deer hunter up until they go to war as I think that is the best part of the film and De niro gets on my tits.
Midnight express, one of my favourite films.
My DVD came with a documentary featuring the real matey on whom the film is based. He makes me wish he never makes it out of the big house.
Gravity - a rubbish ending to a rubbish film.
heat , why couldn't pacino take a bullet .
and inception, come on does the spinning top fall ?
Gravity - a rubbish ending to a rubbish film.
I didn't care. I was still shellshocked by the effects.
The ending to Gladiator is bloody awful.
The Passion of the Christ. Was a bit unrealistic.
The Da Vinci Code, yeah yeah blahdy blah I know what your all thinking, bare with em.. Good film, enjoyed it, still enjoy it but hate the ending... It's like "quick, quick get all the ending in in the last 15mins cos', well... just do it like now!"
Shudda left it open, did we really care the Frenchie Bird was the last line of Christ or that Langdon had to go to the Louvre and the camera spend 7 mins scanning the area to land upon the Rose Line ?
Shudda left us all guessing..
The ending makes me want to punch a baby cuckoo in the genitals.
I thought it was quite a good ending! Nice change to see a Hollywood flick that doesn't finish with "and they all lived happily ever after".
Source Code - there was a perfect moment to end but then they had this weird tacked on happy ending due to the US test audiences being retards.
There's an interesting article over on [url= http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/test-screenings/32412/51-films-and-how-they-were-affected-by-test-screenings ]Den Of Geek[/url] about test audiences & the effect they have on movie endings.
And Titanic.
If you love him that much, you get in the bloody water.
Ah, but that's forgetting that Titanic was always going to be the set-up for The Great Gatsby.
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Braveheart was pretty crap. I think at the end Mr Scotland should have kicked the shit out of the executioners and then climbed up the tower and fought Witch King, then thrown his head out the window and shouted Freeeeeeedoooooom!!! Then him and the Queen of France could have ruled happily. Well better.
Identity, by a massive margin for me anyway. Last 1/3 makes you feel like they were just taking the pi$$ for the first 2/3, there is absolutely no reason to care about anything that's going on after that. And it was pretty good up to then.
Agreed on Jeepers Creepers, it went from being a half decent atmospheric horror to panto.
Source Code - there was a perfect moment to end but then they had this weird tacked on happy ending due to the US test audiences being retards
...and End of Watch.
...and The Descent (US print).
...and Oblivion.
To name but 3 that have been spoiled the same way.
The Dark Knight Rises should have ended with Michael Caine sat at the cafe and half-smiling.
crashtestmonkey - MemberAgreed on Jeepers Creepers, it went from being a half decent atmospheric horror to panto.
Did you realise Jeepers Creepers and its sequel was written and directed by a convicted pedophile? If you watch Jeepers Creepers, and particularly Jeepers Creepers 2 from the perspective that the monster is a metaphor for the director's sexual urges it becomes a deeply disturbing thing.
konabunny
The Passion of the Christ. Was a bit unrealistic.
Just like the Book then............. #runsandhides
I that Shawshank ended with Red walking up to a big old tree to find a box with some money in it?
And nobody's said Bladerunner
Collateral - All the way through the film I wanted Jamie 'mumbles' Foxx to get killed.
Prometheus. Plots holes everywhere and a half-assed nod (the Builder Alien) to fanboys that completely ignores the established canon.
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Downfall. Would have been a better ending if the Germans had won.
And nobody's said Bladerunner
Well anyone with any taste knows the Director's Cut is shite.
😯 🙄2001 - no words
I have no idea where to begin with this statement.
But then I saw it as a 14yo, in 1968. You obviously have no historical context with which to evaluate it.
slowoldman - Member
And nobody's said BladerunnerWell anyone with any taste knows the Director's Cut is shite.
Why's that, then?
Well OK not the ending. But I miss the narrative by Deckard in the original. It makes it more Film Noir.
As for 2001, I would suggest anyone trying to make any sense of it at all should read the book.
butcher - Member
Every Stephen King film.
That was my first thought when I read the title but then I remembered the ending of "The Mist" which was an unexpected twist and totally different to the usual Hollywood "it was alright in the end" nonsense.
But yeah, every other Stephen King film ever.
sootyandjim - MemberPrometheus. Plots holes everywhere and a half-assed nod (the Builder Alien) to fanboys that completely ignores the established canon.
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Yes. Dire.