Betty Blue
Let me count the ways
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Most of them.
I prefer to dream up my own endings.
I prefer to dream up my own endings.
The conclusion to the third book of Pullman's "His Dark Materials" story. A stupid fight. A stupid/thoughtless view of god not worthy of the rest of the story. It was a shame, I really really found the first two books to be wonderful.
I thought the same thing. I love the first book, the second one was still pretty great, during the third one I thought, "Seriously? You've got to be kidding me." Basically the same problems I had with SUNSHINE, it could have been interesting but then it just turns silly.
The ending of Sunshine by Danny Boyle was just unbelievably shit. I am not a big Boyle fan but at least the first two thirds of the movie were beautifully shot, philosophical and intriguing and then Boyle (SPOILER ALERT) decided to turn this whole thing into a slasher/ horror movie. He promised that he would deal in the movie with the conflict between science and faith, which is a great subject, but all Boyle did was to send a crazed, religious zealot through the spaceship who killed off members of the crew while uttering such great lines as: "I spoke with God. He told me to take us all to Heaven." Really Boyle? As a Christian I actually feel offended that that's all you have to offer on the subject.
Heh, well summed. Have you ever heard a joke that is so bad, but so bad, that is actually...kinda good?They definitely did go for the "cheap shock value" in the movie ending, which is TOTALLY different from the tone set by the story. I think I was amused, surprised, and disgusted, while also being slightly admiring of the panache involved. ("Wow. They actually had the balls to do that.")
I didn't really see it as "silly" in that the question of whether human beings should bother to save themselves if the cosmos itself has decreed their fates is actually very very real to me. we've screwed up a lot on our planet and seem to bring terrible things with us no matter where we go, disrupting the balance of nature; is it really such a great loss for humanity to be wiped out by a natural event? Should we "play god" like that?
And there was a redemptive answer there -- in the response of the characters to Pinbacker, not necessarily in Pinbacker himself. Cassie, not wanting to remove Trey as merely a number in the equation; Mace doing what he did to save the ship (which balances out the sometimes harsh lines he took); Capa doing what he did in a heroic effort by him; I think Pinbacker just brought this horrific reality to the entire story and made us question whether we were even worth saving, and in the process of answering it, the characters ending up showing a kind of bravery and faith that suggests that "yes, we are."
Which is why it doesn't bother me. I guess if you focus on Pinbacker instead, then the movie is unsatisfying.
Movie called "Shades of Gray" .....
I'll ruin it now.
They all die. The wolf hunter dies by letting a wolf eat him.
The end.
It could have been worse. It could have been "50 Shades of Grey"... (this comment just had to be made)
Movie called "Shades of Gray" .....
I'll ruin it now.
They all die. The wolf hunter dies by letting a wolf eat him.
The end.
It could have been worse. It could have been "50 Shades of Grey"... (this comment just had to be made)
I wish A.I. ended twenty minutes before it did. If it ended with David on the bottom of the sea, it would have been nearly a perfect movie. Then they had to go and push past that natural ending for twenty minutes of future aliens.
Heh, well summed. Have you ever heard a joke that is so bad, but so bad, that is actually...kinda good?
instead we got the Dallas ‘it was all a dream’ ending. I had a friend who kept saying- the first couple seasons- “I am going to be so pissed if it turns out they were dead the whole time.†And I was all “There’s no way....†Lol.
Shit. So you did misunderstand the ending?
it was not a dream. The only time the characters were "dead" was in the alternate timeline in Season 6 (where everyone was acting a little strange, the facts were different, etc.)-- because it is occurring WELL beyond the actual lifespans of all the characters involved at some far distant point on the timeline and was merely a construct made by their joint psyche to find each other before moving on.
But everything you saw on the island actually did happen. It wasn't a dream, and they were not dead. Everyone who died, died in the timeline as shown in the series; the six people who escaped the island DID reach safety and they died eventually of old age (presumably).
This is another reason why I think ABC screwed things up with those stupid pictures of the wreckage -- it made it look like no one survived the wreck. That was incorrect, they just added those pictures to give something to people to look at rather than just smacking them abruptly with the Lost logo.
... It’s kind of like when you accidentally pick up someone else’s glass and take a big swig of beer when you expect it to taste like cola- even if the beer is actually good, the initial reaction can be like “UGH!†I have to wait for the expectation to go away to see what’s really there. I’m still in the “UGH!†phase.
The entire last third of the movie "Hancock".
Edit: Regarding the "Lost" ending, I didn't mind it at all. I thought it struck a nice balance, to try and satisfy both types of fans of the show, i.e. the mythology fans, and the "omg which guy is Kate going to choose??" fans. I also thought the final minutes of the episode -- especially the last shot -- was just gorgeous. The perfect, and most poetic, way for it to end.