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TruckOSaurus on 23 July 2009

No Country For Old Men

When the credits started rolling... I said to myself "WTF, that's how it ends!"



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Squilliam on 23 July 2009

Zombie Strippers.

I hated the ending of that movie, it was so forced. It was like the start of the movie was linked to the end and it really had no link to what happened in the middle or the bulk of it. It was like the start and end was just tacked on to justify a sexy naked horror romp.



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twesterm on 23 July 2009

City of Ember

Up until the end it was actually a pretty good movie, I was digging it at least.  Then they got to the end where they're trying to escape and going through everything and it was just...stupid.



 

sguy78 on 23 July 2009
Reasonable said:
sguy78 said:

The American remake of The Vanishing. They should have kept the original ending, but Hollywood always has to have a happy ending.

That's a good choice.

I'd add the original 'happy' ending for Blade Runner the studio tacked on.  Horrible.

Guess I just don't like to see forced happiness.  If the ending for a particular film clearly needs to be grim, or ambiguous, or nilhistic then just let it be so.

There's enough 'happy juice' material swilling around for those that need to pretent everything always works out in the end.

Yeah, I don't mind happy endings. It's just that they are so cliche. Give me the original intended ending. I don't need horse blinders to protect me from real life consequences.



okr on 23 July 2009
Scoobes said:
canch said:

Starship Troopers.....

At the end their are all standing round laughing, cheering and joking and forgetting that hundreds of thousands of people have just been killed by massive insect type creatures that eat humans alive

Like a human wouldn't poo themselfs at the sight of one of theses monsters.

Sounds to me like you missed the point of... well... the whole film.

Exactly my thoughts. For me the whole movie is a satire on militarism and fascism. The ending fits perfectly.



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VivaLaWiida on 23 July 2009
TruckOSaurus said:
No Country For Old Men

When the credits started rolling... I said to myself "WTF, that's how it ends!"

 

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Kasz216 on 23 July 2009

Any movie where the tough guy who does everything to survive dies to save some other character who's spent the entire movie crying and/or doing other stupid things that almost get themselves and the others killed.



SHMUPGurus on 23 July 2009

Star Trek: Nemesis. What the heck did they do to Data?! I'm still shocked.



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Aj_habfan on 23 July 2009
Reasonable said:
Scoobes said:
The Golden Compass. They ended it early to ensure the ending was happy (unlike the book) and left it for the sequel... which is where exactly? Oh right, they're not going to make one c'os the film wasn't that great in the first place, lol.

 

I didn't think it was that bad, overall it reviewed well and it was certainly more sophisticated than most films of that type.  I agree the ending was a shame, more due to the fact they clearly worried it would hurt the film.  Ironically the ending wasn't the problem, it was something else entirely as noted below.

The film made good money internationally, but in US the backlash from religious right killed it dead.  Given reviews and the popularity of fantasy subject matter it was expected to easily make over $ 200 Million in US, which added to international would have taken it well comfortably past $ 500 Million worldwide and ensured the rest of the story followed.  So you can blame the US religious right for denying you the next movies.

 

Numbers from Box Office Mojo.

 

Domestic:  $70,107,728    18.8%
+ Foreign:  $302,127,136    81.2%
= Worldwide:  $372,234,864  

There wasn't much backlash at all for that movie. I think what hurt it the most was this it looked damn boring. And the reviews were pretty terrible overall...

I agree that the ending No Country for Old Men was a bit of a disapointment.

Pretty much, most bad movies have bad endings. I hated the ending to Death Race... I mean, the whole movie was so unrealistic and a joke, but that ending was so lame that it was painful.

 



xlost8 on 23 July 2009

The ending in Public Enemies (Johnny Depp, Christan Bale) was sad. I just hated the fact the dude died at the end and the movie ended. Everyone walked out of the theater just quiet and surprised.