Posted on 10/13/2014 7:51:22 PM PDT by EveningStar
Whether writing a movie, TV series, novel, or any other form of storytelling, one fact rises above all: endings are hard. The sentiment is proven on a yearly basis, as countless films deliver an intriguing premise, compelling action, or powerful messages, only to fumble with the closing act. Sometimes, the film’s final impact can be so poorly executed, it leaves audiences wondering whether the film that preceded it was even worth the trouble.
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Well, you see the credits rolled and people got up. Some picked up their popcorn buckets and half eaten boxes of raisinets...
Oh, you mean how did the film end? Superman flies around the earth super(there’s that word again!) fast, causing time to flow backwards, thus keeping Lois Lane from being killed.
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I seem to remember Supes dropping Luthor and Otis off at a prison, with Luthor taking off his wig and about to declare that “these walls” presumably would not contain him; rather goofy conclusion. That was after Supes interfered with the planet’s space-time continuum.
Yes. A truly wonderful beginning that not even the annoying Jodie Foster could ruin, raising expectations of the first meeting between humans and aliens. Then, an ambiguous mess. The film ends just when it should have become fascinating. "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" had the same problem.
I still want to see the Niven/Pournelle book "The Mote in God's Eye" made into a film. Humans meet intelligent, genuinely alien aliens on their home planet AND GET TO KNOW THEM.
OK here goes. Great list for me as a perpetual teenager but come on, no serious movies? All Sci fi?
1. Sophie’s Choice. End of discussion.
2. The Deerhunter.
As for Sci Fi - where is Matrix Revolutions? Killed Trinity, destroyed Zion and blinded Neo.
2001 Space Odyssey end is only a mystery to those who didn’t read the book.
St. Elsewhere. Not a movie but I’m still not over it.
I forgot about that part. Whaddya want, I was 11!
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Agreed.
No, I hated it to, but I hated the movie also.
Some other things you may have missed:
Truman beat Dewey
JFK assassinated
Watergate / Nixon resigned
etc.
Regards,
Hi, kiddo!
Come on! The star baby! Get with it!
Hey, I ate it up.
Take Signs off that list and replace it with Topsy-Turvy...http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151568/
You mean?, “First you find Mertz, and then, uh, you know. You take care of business.”
“Huh?”
“You know. First you find him and then you, uh....”
“What?”
“First, you find Mertz, and then....
AI had nice ending. Stephen Kings The Stand....great till end.
“Castaway had the worst ending. Nothing could be worse.”
Yeah.
It did have a bad ending.
Good call.
Ok. Here is a big one.
Citizen Kane?
Gone Girl 2014
Actually, here's what happened.
Throughout Arthur C. Clarke's original novel there are references to Cold War tensions on Earth while space exploration is going on. At the end of the book, The Astronaut (Dave) is taken through the thing that's "full of stars." He visits the head-shop, the light-show and takes the trip. When he comes out the other side, the beings responsible for giving certain chimpoids a quantum leap to become human, the monolith on the moon, and the thing that's "full of stars," have transformed Dave into a semi-omnipotent being just in time to save the world from a nuclear holocaust, which has just begun. With a wave of his now super-powerful embryonic hands, Dave The Star Child neutralizes all the nuclear weapons.
The ending of the film was ruined by Kubrick. He was already famous for Dr. Strangelove, and did not want the ending to be another nuclear war. So ... he simply bailed, and decided to and make it completely incomprehensible, rather than have the Star Child save us from the nuclear holocaust which ties the whole thing together. That's why the ending sucks.
And you're right: it does suck.
Its faithful to the novel, which has a realist ending.
ABC originally commissioned David Lynch to do a new series. The first 90 minutes were the pilot. At some point, they decided to take a pass, so frustrated and out of money, he decided to create a wacko ending and pass it off as an art film.
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