Cool movies with disappointing endings [warning: possible spoilers. what did you expect?-Mod.]

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An ending that has always disappointed me is the final "flying away into the clouds" scene in Blade Runner.

What other movies have you seen which end up being a let-down in the final scenes?

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Hunted, not so much b/c the ending was a cop out (it wasn't), but it seemed to leave so many unanswered questions. Otherwise though, awesome movie. Del Toro kicks ass.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Malcolm X

CJ - what about the "restored" ending of Blade Runner from the director's cut?

― hstencil, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Dark City TO THREAD!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

All non-Unbreakable M. Night Shyamalan films to thread!

Er, both non-Unbreakable M. Night Shyamalan films to thread!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Adaptation owns this thread.

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

(heh heh my wife maintains that Unbreakable is one of the dumbest movies ever made)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

It's also a moderately dumb song by Westlife.

I thought I had something relevant to say, but it disappeared.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree with your wife Dan, but man it's my favorite dumbest-movie-ever-made. Right after How High.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

the ninth gate

― j fail (cenotaph), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

"Signs" is definitely up there. Still, I heart M.N. Shyamalan. And the end of Gilliam's Time Bandits always thoroughly upset me as a kid, but now I kinda grasp the beauty of his unhappy endings better.

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw Dark City during my first acid trip, and STILL thought the ending was lame.

But come on, The Wizard of Oz owns this thread. "Gosh, I wish I wasn't in Kansas ... *many things happen with her not in Kansas* ... oh, thank God it was only a dream, it's so much better living in a black and white dust bowl! I know now that if I leave home, I will face the wrath of flying monkeys. I was such a silly girl to want to leave!"

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I've changed my mind about the 'Adaptation' ending. Now I think it works on a meta/meaning level despite its betrayal of the narrative. Of course I'm going to appreciate it in a meta/meaning level and not see it again or rent it, so...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

the ending to Unbreakable is much more stupid than the ending to that one about the kid (Sixth Sense, was it?).

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

What do people dislike about the ending to Sixth Sense? The twist, the fact that there is a twist, or something else?

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

(The ending to Unbreakable didn't work, I thought, because it was telegraphed so heavily for anyone who's a comics fan, and comics fans would presumably make up a good portion of the audience...)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The Fellowship of the Ring, totally bummer

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been kicking an idea around for a while to get 8-Mile and replace the final "battle" with a repeat of the opening scene. I think it would make it a far more thought-provoking film.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

A.I.

oh wait i guess it wasnt cool to begin with...well i thought it was alright apart from the stupid stupid parents.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I could think of like 5 places where A.I. could/should have ended but didn't.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:15 (twenty-three years ago)

But I guess that's the Kubrick part of it. For all his greatness, his movies rarely, uh, y'know, move along with a very good sense of pace. As opposed to Spielberg, who's all about pace.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I love the way Terry Gilliam films end. Much of the time on a totally beautiful bummer (Time Bandits, Twelve Monkeys, Fisher King, etc.)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Fight Club.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Fight Club seemed soooooooooooooo Scooby-Doo

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

An ending that has always disappointed me is the final "flying away into the clouds" scene in Blade Runner.

Which was bascially forced on Ridley Scott (and later removed in the Director's Cut version).

The Abyss (any version) to thread!

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:50 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Professional" (Luc Besson) comes to mind. Cool story all the way out, then the last 30 minutes, pfft.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

The Se7en ending was fine until I saw the alternate ending on DVD. Pitt dies on the inside and shoots Spacey. Once. Period. Credits. No lame voice over speech from Freeman, no moral, nothing. Way better.

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I never knew about that Wintermute...which is weird, 'cause that was the way I expected that film to end.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 19:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris, I thought the abyss ending was ok. I know it's a big complaint, but what do you think people wanted?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Unbreakable really pissed me off

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

DOGMA!!!! I MEAN ALANIS MORRISETTE?!?! WTF!?!

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I figured out the end of 'Lost Highway'. I think it's political. That would date it, tho

― dave q, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Fight Club seemed soooooooooooooo Scooby-Doo

The thing is, the ending of the book is the same but completely different. I could see two possible interpretations: one is that the narrator dies. The other is that he imagined the shooting bit and is completely bonkers. There is no "He shot himself and killed Brad Pitt" fuxoring about and that's what pisses me off. The whole end of the movie is a cop out, "Ed Norton is really still a good guy, honest, it's evil Brad Pitt taking over his BRANE". No. Ed Norton is a nutcase who is not the good guy, and treating him as such is a HOLLYWOOD COP OUT.

I still like Fight Club and that movie and Seven have made me late to two FAPs.

The alternate ending of Seven is better because it is harsher.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 19:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The Fight Club book I remember ending differently. The narrator in a mental ward, his soldiers awaiting his return. Am I imagining this?

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

The butler did it.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Murder by death

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

But, really, the butler was a fall guy. Government conspiracy, you know.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Narrator describes scene of suicide, but the next chapter is kind of what you describe re: mental ward, displaced "soldiers" telling him his work is going on. So you're left with the idea that one chapter is made up, because neither chapter acknowledges the other. It's like a choose your own adventure book, but post modern or whatever the kids call that - the chapter with the suicide indicates he dies.

Basically the ending of the book was kind of "I don't know how to end this" and the movie made it about 10,000 times worse.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I do like the way the book ends better, but I didn't see the Fight Club movie ending as the Hollywood copout -- I saw it more as like the ending to the Graduate (and maybe deliberately so, since a lot of Graduate comparisons are made on the commentary track): it looks like a happy ending and all, but just as when the Graduate ended you have to sit back and go, "Oh fuck right, like these two will ever be happy -- they don't even know what to say to each other on the bus!", with Fight Club you go, "Wait, but shit still got blown up, and -- he shot and killed his split personality? Are we sure? Is he even going to survive that head wound?" It's an ambiguous ending filmed happily. The real Hollywood ending would've had Bruce Willis saving the day, and a musical number.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, the vicar did it really...

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, I already liked "Fight Club", but throwing in a musical number at the end would make it the BEST MOVIE EVER.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Dude, Tep, that ending would've been so much better than the one in the movie that I don't even know what to say about that. "YIPPIE AY OH KAY YAY FIGHTING MUTHAFUCKAS!" then they all les up.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Ed Norton's best movie is The People v. Larry Flint.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:06 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Piano Teacher" with Isabelle Huppert. Huh?

Come to think of it, most French films...

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Is it lame to make a joke based on my own tossed-off comment? Eh, don't care. I want to hear Ed Norton and Brad Pitt singing, "We both reached for the gun."

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Unbreakable was fine until the TEXT at the end. Frankly, the only film that did Where Are They Now text well was Animal House.

Text at the end of a film: bad all over. Especially in fiction since nothing happened to the characters! They aren't real! For instance, the French Connection reveals the villains got out of jail. Oooh, the court system doesn't work, right? No! It's a fictional story! Or how about John Singleton's gift to naive liberals Higher Learning that ends with the word LEARN at the end. Or 187 announcing that "A teacher wrote this film" which evidently means that it can't be bullshit (yeah, like all my teachers at school are fuckin' literary geniuses).

So yeah, I'm disappointed by any fictional movie that ends with text. And MOST nonfiction ones that do too.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

'Seven' would've been good if the first six murders were done in the first six minutes, perhaps allowing for some sort of 'twist', or plot or something. Like, a glutton forced to eat himself to death! Couldn't see that one coming from a mile away. Actually you couldn't see anything, they left the lens cap on the camera for the whole thing. What a pointless, shitty movie that was. I liked 'Fight Club' though

― dave q, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Fight Club would be alright if the director (let alone the audience) understood what fascism was and why it's not very sexy.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Stuff doesn't have to be morally virtuous to be sexy tho

― dave q, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

The postman did it! I kid thee not!!!!

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:35 (twenty-three years ago)

indeed, dave q. but if the point of your movie is that fascism isn't good (though it feels all nice), it would help if you were capable of not fetishizing everything on the screen, which David Fincher ain't. Fight Club was trippin' balls (literally) if not from the beginning, at least by the time Pitt pulled the gun on the convenience store clerk.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

but if the point of your movie is that fascism isn't good (though it feels all nice), it would help if you were capable of not fetishizing everything on the screen, which David Fincher ain't.

The point of Fight Club was "Fascism isn't good" only in the sense that the point of Star Wars was "Evil empires aren't good." Fascism was involved only as a context in which the story took place, but the story itself really isn't about the movement, it's about one guy -- which is the most successful bit of translation between the book and the movie, other than the dialogue.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm with you for the first part of the movie Tep. But from that pivotal sequence with the convenience store clerk, we see one man's self-help efforts evolving into a world-help campaign that's basically fascism. Scriptwise the movie seems to be someone realizing that you it's wrong to run other people's lives, but Fincher's too much of a thrill jockey to make that clear so instead we get a dark comedy about the crazy fun of a secret fascist underground that lets everybody get what they want out of it.

Plus everybody in the film is either an asshole or weak baby. There's a reason Fred Durst has seen this film 28 times (according to his excellent track "Livin' It Up").

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

How does one literally trip balls? Wait, don't answer that.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Ummmmm, I saw it 6 times in a movie theatre (granted it was either free or $2).

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not saying fascism isn't in the movie -- that's why I used the Star Wars comparison. There's an evil empire in Star Wars. Aside from being told that it's evil, though, and that the guys who work for it shoot the good guys and strangle each other from across the room, the movie doesn't spend any time convincing us that [evil] empires are bad. We don't see the empire conducting any normal business; we only see the way it treats its dissidents. It doesn't need to convince us the empire's bad -- that's not the story it's telling.

Same thing in Fight Club. It's not that fascism isn't there, it's that the story isn't about fascism. And yeah, that's a criticism often leveled against it -- fascism in modern America is a tricky thing to bring up and never fully address.

I don't think the consequences of the Space Monkeys' actions are even meant to point out "fascism=bad," particularly, so much as they're just showing the narrator's complete inability to find a solution, and even to think in terms of reasonable solutions, to his Yuppie angst.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I think you're right as far as the script goes, Tep. I just feel Fincher's inability to film anything without making it an advertisement for it left too many people missing that Durden's solutions don't work, or left them not giving a shit cuz they were so jazzed up.

I saw it in a movie theatre, thought it was fucking genius (save the ending). then more and more problems with it came up and by the time I saw it for an idiotic Philosophy Of Film class I realized it's MAD flawed. It's all shiny, irreverent and full of shirtless Norton/Pitt (plus when I first saw it I was eternally dateless and looking for ANSWERS), so I get why people dig it. But anybody calling it a classic needs to watch the ENTIRE movie, not just their favorite shiny scenes.

The only line that still works for me: "How's that working out for you? Being clever."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

The only line that still works for me: "How's that working out for you? Being clever."

I quote that constantly :)

I don't know, I don't see the advertisement angle -- I see the effects you're talking about, though, of course. I'm glad I didn't see it as a young teenager, because I think I would've liked it for the wrong reasons.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Quotes... why doesn't someone do an 'obscure quotes from films' thread? As in guess that film? I'd be crap at it, but maybe it could be conditional, i.e. the quotes have to be (or sound like) incredibly bad puns. For amusement value.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:24 (twenty-three years ago)

One instance of the Fark Friday Movie Quote Game

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Only reason I thought of it was, a quote came into my head (for reasons I shan't contemplate) from a truly atrocious movie, and I bet no one'd get it. I think I'd send a prize to the person who go it, actually.

(I could just start the thread myself. But I'm shy.)

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I started a WHOLE THREAD about how I hated the ending of French Connection SIMPLY because of the text. That's one of the greatest movies of all time and if it just ENDED with the ambiguous gun shot, it WOULD be the greatest ending of all time. Instead, the greatest ending of all time is the voice over at the end of Goodfellas followed by Joe Pesci's gunshots. That fucking text, what the hell? If they didn't include it, you wouldnt have known who died, if anyone, or what happened. It'd be darker than what actually was done.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, the Goodfellas ending is perfect--especially when he gets up from the witness stand and starts talking to the camera. Gets me every time.

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha the first time I saw it, it freaked me out for some reason. The ending of Goodfellas is great, his whole speech - he seems like such a frigging schmuck but still you kind of go, yeah, you know what, he's kind of right too.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Home Alone's ending was such a cop out. Like that kid would know how to make a zip line that worked.

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Stop talking about Joe Pesci movies, people. Please.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

The Green Mile - unnecessary magical bit tacked on the end for no reason at all.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 02:05 (twenty-three years ago)

man I forgot about it, but yeah there was a blatant could-end-here moment in the Green Mile and it just KEPT GOING.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 02:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish I'd thought about Goodfellas, anyway. I didn't like the ending. It seemed rushed and a bit bedroom farce-ish to me.

Oh, and Pesci's wig defies belief...

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 02:27 (twenty-three years ago)

What about My Cousin Vinny?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 03:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh come on, the worst wig is easily, EASILY that red one he wore in JFK. "All I ever wanted...was to be a Catholic priest."

STOP TALKING ABOUT JOE PESCI!!!!!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 03:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought the ending to Lethal Weapon 3 was a little vague.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 03:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Do you realize whenever someone brings up Joe Pesci a small man wanders into my brain with a baseball bat shrieking "WHAT?! WHAT?! YOU LIKE THIS?! EH?! WHAT?! you fucking sonuvaBITCH!" and pummels my poor mind. so pleeeeze stop.

Pesci with his shaved koala:
http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Events/0261-joh/rooneym3.cke

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 03:47 (twenty-three years ago)

so I guess I won't bring up the ending to 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 03:55 (twenty-three years ago)

oops, I just gave it away!

http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Events/0254-eig/pesci_jo.e%234

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 03:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn, I wish that was actually the ending. WHAT THE HELL IS THAT SUIT? I think my dad wore that to his wedding.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 03:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Regarding Fight Club. It's just a friggin movie, its fictional for gods sake so stop trying to compare it with the real world. It was great, and I loved the book too. But then again I am but simple folk.

Worst ending? Even though it was supposed to be daft, I was still dissapointed at the Holy Grail ending.

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 10:32 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Professional" (Luc Besson) comes to mind. Cool story all the way out, then the last 30 minutes, pfft.
What, you mean the fucking incredible action climax!? Increasingly over-the-top action, when well done (the professional, time and tide, the long kiss goodnight) has been the best thing about the movies in the last 40 or so years.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 10:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah! And how bout Blow where they show the actual photograph of the guy that the main character was based on? Ugh!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 10:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to think 'The Abyss' had the worst ending ever. I was mistaken. It is actually quite profound and also true.

― dave q, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 11:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"And how bout Blow where they show the actual photograph of the guy that the main character was based on? Ugh!"

Yeah, that guy looked really ugly. Seeing the real man after watching Johnny Depp play him for two hours, it actually told quite a lot about the contrast between reality and Hollywood. I doubt this was intentional, however.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 11:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, the vicar did it really...

that is an outrageous slander.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

How could I forget Die Hard. "The chubby black cop can kill people again! Gosh, I'm so glad for him." Not really.

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I was disappointed by the ending of An American Werewolf In London, but now think its the best thing evah!

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:17 (twenty-three years ago)

That bloke with a limp who was always peering round corners? Well, the truth is... he did it. The rest were red herrings.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Minority Report owns this thread.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I second that emotion, only I'd add that it wasn't just Minority Report's ending that sucked, but rather the whole last two acts of the movie--everything past the 1/2 hour mark. See also: Eyes Wide Shut.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Red Dragon...grrr. I liked the ending in Manhunter much better...why, because it had Iron Butterfly in it.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Even though Red Dragon is true to the book. Also the ending to the Hannibal book is really, really gay. But the movie has a better ending.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 17:42 (twenty-three years ago)

The alternate ending to "Good Will Hunting" when Will beats the shit out of Robin Williams character who's dressed up as a doctor with a clown nose to "Send in the CLowns" is awesome.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 17:43 (twenty-three years ago)

could we do disappointing films with cool endings? I nominate Attack of the Clones - the last sequence when the Clone Army is heading off is my kind of MIGHTY WAR spectacle.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Red Dragon...grrr. I liked the ending in Manhunter much better...why, because it had Iron Butterfly in it.

Yes, Red Dragon is more true to the novel but since Brett Ratner is a sycophantic hack with a room temperature IQ you just know he was going to screw it up. Manhunter is so much better that it isn't even funny.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

BUT IT HAS ED NORTON IN IT.

http://www.actuacine.net/Photos/ed-norton.jpg

"I bang Salma Hayek!"

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Think Eddy makes her fire up the uni-brow for lovemaking? He probably likes to rub his genitals across it.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:36 (twenty-three years ago)

WORST LOVE-BURN EVAH.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:38 (twenty-three years ago)

And my brain just screamed, "NO!", when that image popped in.....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

eh ? what's lame about
'ernest hemmingway said the world is a fine place,
and worth fighting for...i agree with the second part'

*lame* ?

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:47 (twenty-three years ago)

The ending to Hannibal (the book) was *gay*?! I need to hear this explained to me. How did the movie's ending differ anyway? (Not seen the movie.)

Okay, George Bush did it. But everyone knew that already.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:52 (twenty-three years ago)

The end of the book Hannibal and Clarice run off together.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked the ending in Manhunter much better
fuk yes! That part where he bursts through the wall with a shotgun and the directing gets all spazzy and choppy is one of my favorite few seconds of film ever.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I was disappointed by the last 2 hours or so of Brotherhood of the Wolf for not being about werewolves. WTF!?!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

i just watched "unfaitful" and. like all the reviews said, it totally sucks from the very second the husband hits the lover with a snow-scene. up till that moment it's a very good film.

― jeanne picot (jeanne picot), Thursday, 27 March 2003 01:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Spencer: Chris, I thought the abyss ending was ok. I know it's a big complaint, but what do you think people wanted?

Dave Q: I used to think 'The Abyss' had the worst ending ever. I was mistaken. It is actually quite profound and also true.

I don't think The Abyss has the Worst Ending Ever - it just doesn't have much of any kind of ending. I actually preferred the abruptness of the original ending (aliens just show up topside/movie ends) to the director's cut with the tidal wave threats, etc.

In short, what am I missing?

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Thursday, 27 March 2003 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

For the movie stills thread, I put in a search for "goodfellas final scene joe pesci" and this is what I came up with:

http://www.light-mission.org/goodfellas.jpg

So can I point out that the ending would be THAT MUCH BETTER if this was true?

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 02:21 (twenty-three years ago)

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