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Good Films Ruined by Weak Endings
Permlink Replies: 106 - Pages: 8 [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | Next ] - Original Post: Jun 2, 2012 5:28 PM Original Post By: JefCostello

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Re: Good Films Ruined by Weak Endings
Posted: Jun 11, 2012 6:41 PM   in response to: darkblue in response to: darkblue
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darkblue wrote:It looks like a horror film, though.

And, it plays like a horror film until the ending - then it turns into just a murder mystery.

It has some of the most remarkable horror imagery you can find from the 1930's and that makes it a special movie to watch - keeps the title legitimately in the genre of horror - no matter that we're very disappointed with the ending and its sudden genre shift.

So, yes - ruined by a weak ending, definately. Still worth viewing for its wonderful vampire imagery, also definately.

Yes, but that's what makes the deception all the more troublesome. The imagery was too good, too sophisticated to be merely written off in the last ten minutes as a hoax. It almost seems as if it was a last minute change in genre to satisfy some censor board, that the imagery was forgotten or ignored to make a hoax ending possible.

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Re: Good Films until the last 20 minutes..
Posted: Jun 11, 2012 4:13 PM   in response to: willbefree25 in response to: willbefree25
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The grammar police are sitting there with nothing to do, like the Maytag repairmen.

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Re: Good Films until the last 20 minutes..
Posted: Jun 11, 2012 5:56 AM   in response to: casablancalover in response to: casablancalover
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Not to worry, cbl. It's not depressing, it's just reality.

If there are people who think people can change, let them think that. If that makes them happy and smile, good for them.

I know better. That's all that matters.

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Re: Good Film until the last minute..
Posted: Jun 11, 2012 12:25 AM   in response to: Dargo2 in response to: Dargo2
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I just saw "The Book of Eli" (2010) for the first time and I'm wondering, where does one find batteries for an MP3 player in a post-apocalyptic world?

The very last minute of the movie left me pondering this, found it funny Solara can find them for her MP3 but no one can't find a single copy of the Bible that has been produced in the MILLIONS!

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Re: Good Films until the last 20 minutes..
Posted: Jun 10, 2012 6:05 PM   in response to: Filmgoddess in response to: Filmgoddess
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Yeah! WELL SAID, Filmgoddess!

In FACT willbe, for your information, I once knew a guy who changed!

(...and word is she's MUCH happier now!!!)


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Re: Good Films until the last 20 minutes..
Posted: Jun 10, 2012 1:54 PM   in response to: willbefree25 in response to: willbefree25
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Huh? Since your response was to me you might think about responding to what I actually said and not what you imagined I said.

I don't think people should change to suit my or anyone else's taste. I was making an impiracle statement that I believe that people can change in response to someone who said that people can't change. I don't believe in that.

I believe that a healthy questioning of all things is good; cynicism is just bad. It just contributes to more unpleasantness in the world.

It's not about good or evil.

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Re: Good Films until the last 20 minutes..
Posted: Jun 10, 2012 11:14 AM   in response to: Filmgoddess in response to: Filmgoddess
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I don't know if this thread could support a philosophical discussion about the basis of change or what constitutes change in people.

It would depress me to think we are incapable of change. I believe we have the power within ourselves to change, and it is not for anyone else to control our lives and our pursuit for happiness.

Or, if that is not what you believe, never mind...

Edited by: casablancalover on Jun 10, 2012 5:52 PM


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Re: Good Films until the last 20 minutes..
Posted: Jun 10, 2012 7:43 AM   in response to: Filmgoddess in response to: Filmgoddess
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Notice how the supposedly 'good' people in the world think all the 'other' people should change to suit their tastes? I happen to believe cynicism is just fine, thank you very much.

Just imagine how very boring the world would be with only 'good' people in it. There would be no one for the 'good' people to look down upon and feel superior to. Hmmm, I think I just gave SM two dangling participles. :)

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Re: Good Films until the last 20 minutes..
Posted: Jun 9, 2012 7:10 PM   in response to: casablancalover in response to: casablancalover
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A shame to be so cynical. I sincerely believe that people CAN change.

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Re: Good Films until the last 20 minutes..
Posted: Jun 9, 2012 5:00 PM   in response to: casablancalover in response to: casablancalover
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Feel good movie, because I like Sim. Plus, it didn't 'fake out' the audience, which is what The Game did.

But Scrooge will go back to his old ways. Trust me, I know these things.

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Re: Good Films until the last 20 minutes..
Posted: Jun 9, 2012 4:10 PM   in response to: willbefree25 in response to: willbefree25
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willbefree25 wrote: If there's one thing I hate more than endings like those in The Game, it's life lessons and fundamentally changing.

People don't change.

I haven't seen THE GAME, but another story came to mind...

Then, how do you feel about Dicken's A CHRISTMAS CAROL?

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Re: Good Films until the last 20 minutes..
Posted: Jun 9, 2012 3:31 PM   in response to: EugeniaH in response to: EugeniaH
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YMV.

If there's one thing I hate more than endings like those in The Game, it's life lessons and fundamentally changing.

People don't change.

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Re: Good Films Ruined by Weak Endings
Posted: Jun 9, 2012 3:03 PM   in response to: JefCostello in response to: JefCostello
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The Lillian Gish film THE WIND (1928) has the same weak ending problem that SUSPICION has, in that the whole film as been set up so that everyone knows what is going to happen, but somehow what's expected doesn't happen at the end.

**SPOILER ALERT**

Through the film Lillian has slowly been going mad as she tries to live in a wind plagued desert. After she kills the man that raped her and buries him during a heavy wind storm, she imagines that he's not really dead and is trying to come back into the house. When it turns out that it is her husband that is trying to get in she has such a great look of combined fear, confusion and madness on her face. Then all of a sudden she says that she's no longer afraid of the wind or anything.

The original ending that both Gish and director Victor Sjorstrom wanted, called for her to wander out into the desert after killing her attacker, having gone completely mad. MGM would not hear of it, so they tacked on a happy but unplausable ending. THE WIND still is a good film, albeit one with a weak ending.


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Re: Good Films Ruined by Weak Endings
Posted: Jun 8, 2012 6:39 PM   in response to: darkblue in response to: darkblue
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The one that immediately comes to mind is SUSPICION. Really great film with an ending that, in a word, sucks.

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Re: Good Films Ruined by Weak Endings
Posted: Jun 8, 2012 6:08 PM   in response to: infinite1 in response to: infinite1
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It looks like a horror film, though.

And, it plays like a horror film until the ending - then it turns into just a murder mystery.

It has some of the most remarkable horror imagery you can find from the 1930's and that makes it a special movie to watch - keeps the title legitimately in the genre of horror - no matter that we're very disappointed with the ending and its sudden genre shift.

So, yes - ruined by a weak ending, definately. Still worth viewing for its wonderful vampire imagery, also definately.

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