Dude, you missed the whole point of the movie. The point if NCFOM is the changing times, and that the old men (the sheriff, his friends) could not deal with the new world. That's why it ended with Tommy Lee Jones talking about that dream.
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good movies; bad endings
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Dude, you missed the whole point of the movie. The point if NCFOM is the changing times, and that the old men (the sheriff, his friends) could not deal with the new world. That's why it ended with Tommy Lee Jones talking about that dream.
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I haven't read the graphic novel (I know, "Shame! Shame on me!") but I've gotten the feeling that no one really LOVED the space squid ending in the book either. Attended a showing of the film with the director and he fielded some questions about why he changed it from the ending in the book, and he basically implied that they're the same ending, just different means, and the one selected was slightly less out of left field.
I enjoyed every second of the movie. I don't want to spoil it for anyone but feel it implied pretty heavily what happened. Do you really feel that the antagonist was anything but consistent?
I've got to add another movie to the list: The Perfect Storm. This is the angriest I've ever been at a movie, and it was entirely based on the climax/ending. I felt I'd been absolutely misled and violated. Good movie, good acting, good effects, but I still felt wronged.
Yeah, you're probably right. I'm not really a movie aficionado. It's not that I don't like watching movies, but to me they're just entertainment, and if the point of the movie isn't shown early on and is simple to understand, then I get confused and I'll lose interest after a while. Kind of like free-form jazz!
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+1 to Knowing...that movie had my interest up until the last 20mins i was just like w.t.f. 
The matrix revolutions was just horrible altogether. Now reloaded i actually liked until the whole architect part so that is definitley one that had a bad ending
The matrix revolutions was just horrible altogether. Now reloaded i actually liked until the whole architect part so that is definitley one that had a bad ending
I'm sure most people who see A Serious Man think the ending is terrible, but it's pretty brilliant -- once you understand that the movie is a satire on the Book of Job.
Stephen King is notorious for ruining a great movie / mini series. "It" was a great example, excellent till the end.
M. Night Shyamalan is another, "The Happening started out really great till you found out why. His streak of horrible ending continues.
The remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still:
where the hell was the whole last part of the story?
(mind you, the beginning and middle of that film were abysmal as well)
where the hell was the whole last part of the story?
(mind you, the beginning and middle of that film were abysmal as well)
I'm not sure its a satire so much as a reinterpretation--the same way The Big Lebowski is a sendup/redressing of The Big Sleep.
Either way, I found that movie to be one of the weakest Coen films.
As for good movie/bad ending, I think its a contradiction in terms. In fact, I'd say that the only film that really could fall under this definition is Apocalypse Now, and that has more to do with Coppola's famous statement about the ending than any hard and fast proof.
Full Metal Jacket has a superlative first act, if that counts under this... So does Fight Club.
Going back a bit...........
I was really enjoying the storyline in "From Dusk 'Till Dawn" before it turned into a cartoonish vampire movie.
Funny side note on that. I used to read scripts for a living. I remember when that script came across my desk. Everyone was drooling over it because it was QT. I read it and my exact words. "Lamest plot twist in the history of movies". Subsequently I passed on it (we were shopping for a movie for Demi Moore) but I remember my boss (before he read the script) thought I was kind of harsh. Then he read the script and said I was right on the money.
Funny side note on that. I used to read scripts for a living. I remember when that script came across my desk. Everyone was drooling over it because it was QT. I read it and my exact words. "Lamest plot twist in the history of movies". Subsequently I passed on it (we were shopping for a movie for Demi Moore) but I remember my boss (before he read the script) thought I was kind of harsh. Then he read the script and said I was right on the money.
Out of curiosity, did you read for a production company or another entity?
And, uh, why the transition into teaching?
+1 - That has got to have just about the stupidest ending I've ever seen - what a waste of time!
M.Night's entire body of work since "The Sixth Sense" has been a just too contrived. "Signs"? by the time we got near the end I was hoping that whole pathetic bunch of losers would just succumb,"swing away Merrill". "The Happening" (wasn't that a Psychedelic romp back in the 70's,Supremes did the song?) Did anyone else need to have Dirk Diggler explain every damn thing to them as we went along? "Sixth" was a bright spot he hasn't hit since. just my 2c.
Yeah it was a production company. I got out of development pretty quickly. Lots of reading, burnout, working for idiots and stupid cutthroat politics. I moved into a fledgling part of the entertainment world at the time called the internet. I built websites for TV shows and movie production companies. From there went into advertising and hated the build it and bill it mentality which led into internet start ups which collapsed which led into teaching.
Well, from the sounds of it you're happy where you're at.
Thanks for sharing, I've got some friends going into that same industry.
Thanks for sharing, I've got some friends going into that same industry.
Maybe, but my point was that having the movie stop with the approach of a tornado will be completely inscrutable to anyone who doesn't know that God speaks to Job from the whirlwind answering all his questions and ending his afflictions.
Stephen King isnt notorious for ruining a great movie/mini-series, the people who adapt his works into movies/mini-series are notorious for ruining his work.
M. Night Shyamalan is another, "The Happening started out really great till you found out why. His streak of horrible ending continues.[/QUOTE]
I kinda liked it actually nowhere as good as the six sense, but not as bad as signs or the happening
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