ultimate answer wrote:
Castaway
agreed. I've thought about it so much. The way I read into it was that his girl was the only thing keeping him motivated to survive otherwise he could have just given up. Then he comes home and she's moved on, which makes me think why doesn't he just commit suicide...no seriously, he has no life anymore and he's clarely out of touch with his friends, the life he used to have, and his reason for living was taken away. AND what the hell was in that goddamn package?
fifth element wrote:
It was a spectacular movie until the last 10 minutes... then it just sucked. I was SO disappointed. I'm still disappointed. Oh well.
No shit. If the 5th element were a man he'd have just shut up and done his job -- but no, it has to be a chick and have feelings and not want to save shit because she's sad. Bo f***ing hoo. This is why elements need to be men!
A.I.
The worst 5-10 minutes ever put on a screen.
Lydiard wrote:
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
If you're going to troll, at least make it believable. NExt you're going to say Casablanca.
How about the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie? The first one was entertaining, but why make a movie just as a lead in to another movie (the third)? There was basically no point to this movie ever even being created. Absolute crap. It's the first time I actually left the theater feeling slighted at what I had just watched.
I second the Descent. That was the worst ending I have ever seen. I heard the British version of the movie had a different ending...
Yanqui wrote:
Look...it's pretty obvious by now that people are not accepting "read the books" as an excuse for the total non-ending of the first Rings movie. A book is not a movie.
How about "It's not a trilogy," because it's not. It's one book that was originally chopped into three volumes to save on printing costs in case it flopped.
Lord of the Rings is way too big to fit reasonably into three hours, and nothing gets resolved until the end of it. There was absolutely no way to have any kind of resolution one-third of the way through it, or rework the story so that there was.
And if you doubt me...read the book.
The most irritating ending of a movie that I can remember was for Donnie Darko. I had watched for two hours without a clue about what was going on, waiting for the payoff ending, which didn't make any sense at all.
I've had obsessed fans of the movie explain it to me a million times, and I "get it"... but I still think it sucks.
BABEL sucks!!!
my vote goes to "misery" because she is still alive.
MegaZord wrote:
ultimate answer wrote:Castaway
agreed. I've thought about it so much. The way I read into it was that his girl was the only thing keeping him motivated to survive otherwise he could have just given up. Then he comes home and she's moved on, which makes me think why doesn't he just commit suicide...no seriously, he has no life anymore and he's clarely out of touch with his friends, the life he used to have, and his reason for living was taken away. AND what the hell was in that goddamn package?
Hanks' character explicitly stated how and why he survived the four years on that island. He explained that he was sad he no longer had the girl, but he was grateful that he felt her spirit on the island because that is what kept him alive. It would have been so cheap and easy to have her leave her new family when he got back and the movie would have suffered for it. How gut-wrenchingly honest to take the other route. As far as the absolute ending, the last shot of the movie, having Hanks' standing at the literal crossroads, boundless choices and his whole life ahead of him! No matter how many times I watch that scene, I still feel my heart swell and get a lump in my throat. Alan Silvestri's score tops off one of the all-time great film endings.
The Forgotten.. Dreamcatcher
As for good endings, one of the best I've seen recently is The Prestige. I thought that was a really cool ending.
I watched Dreamcatcher and we had to evacuate the theater in the middle of it for a bomb threat.
That was the best ending ever for me since I used the voucher to go back and watch a better movie.
The Never Ending Story.
Last Samauri - Hollywood star vehicle for Tom Cruise. Let's kill of THE last samauri and leave this clown alive and the last one.
Ditto for War of the Worlds - I could have just listened to Morgan Freeman's commentary at the beginning and the end and skipped the whole crappy movie (Look at the birds!). And how the hell did Boston escape destruction, I think the aliens would've got sick of their annoying accents, ugly girls, and pompous attitude and destroyed it first.
Hmm, maybe the UK/Irish version did have a different ending because I thought it was great.
Spoiler:
It ended very nastily for everybody. At a guess I'd say in the american version the main character actually gets away and that isn't a dream sequence as her mind crumbles in the darkness as it is in the uk version. Or maybe that's what you guys got too and you just didn't like it?
I'd vote for the Tom Cruise War of the Worlds as the worst ending ever. FFS, even his lame ass retarded son showed up just fine somehow.
pre841 wrote:
And now Distance guy, who was resposnible for sacking the writers, has been sacked.
I think that distance guy should be replaced by a bunch of llamas.
MegaZord wrote:
ultimate answer wrote:Castaway
agreed. I've thought about it so much. The way I read into it was that his girl was the only thing keeping him motivated to survive otherwise he could have just given up. Then he comes home and she's moved on, which makes me think why doesn't he just commit suicide...no seriously, he has no life anymore and he's clarely out of touch with his friends, the life he used to have, and his reason for living was taken away. AND what the hell was in that goddamn package?
I think that the package contained a satellite phone and a GPS. He probably should have opened it on the island.
'Brown Bunny'
Suspicion, 1941, Hitchcock.
The studio couldn't have Cary Grant being a killer, so they made it a happy ending, when in fact, Hitch's idea would have made that film an all time classic.