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Rabbit Hill posted:Take Shelter with Michael Shannon -- guy starts having nightmares of a cataclysmic storm coming: is he going crazy and hallucinating, or is he having prophetic visions? This is one movie that would have been better if it had ended ambiguously. Instead, the movie ends with him and his family at the beach. He looks out at the sea and gets a look of alarm on his face, and then his previously dubious wife joins him and looks equally horrified -- cut to a shot of a massive storm with black clouds approaching. It should have ended with just the shot of his and his wife's faces, IMO. Besides getting the central question answered so simply, the CGI on the storm was kinda lame. You kind of misread the ending on this one. The ending on the beach with the huge storm was just another dream and Michael Shannon is still crazy as gently caress and it's getting worse. But now that he's stopped hiding his illness from his wife she can see the storms in the dreams as well so he is no longer alone. The entire point of the movie is that mental illness is horrible, but if the people closest to you understand what you are going through instead of hiding it from them, then there might be hope.
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In Bruges they never explained if he died at the end or not
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Dec 14, 2016 18:53
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Ein cooler Typ posted:In Bruges Idk just because a movie leaves it ambiguous doesn't mean it's unsatisfying I don't think he did though but does it matter I guess?
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Dec 14, 2016 19:41
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myDad posted:Aliens They weren't aliens; they were robots.
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Boiled Water posted:This is what happens when you don't have constraints other than the source material and the source material is a million pages. On the other hand the hobbit was trash as well so I wonder if maybe it's just Peter Jackson who is bad if not given severe limitations. My favorite LoTR memory was when my buddies and I saw the 10pm showing of The Two Towers on opening weekend. With all of the previews and stuff it's 1am before anything happens in the movie and my one friend had fallen asleep by that point. He had a watch that let you record a 5-10 second audio clip to play back at any time. I reached over and hit the Play button and was treated to the climax of Goldeneye: For England, James? No... for me. Auuuuughhhhh (falling off the antenna cradle)
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Dec 14, 2016 19:49
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Promethus.. utter poo poo
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Rock the boat posted:Promethus.. utter poo poo The worst part was running in a straight line away from the skinny flat rolling thing.
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Dec 14, 2016 20:01
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Random Hajile posted:To be fair, it's not like Shyamalan gets it either. i think he does but he gets too caught up in the movie world and forgets people apply real logic to movies even when they're in a stilted fantastical setting the happening is actually a thematically solid movie that makes sense if you realize it's weird and nonsensical on purpose in his own weird shyamalan way but im not going to pretend that it's watchable or a good movie signs is good AF but if you only read it superficially its kind of dumb.
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Dec 14, 2016 20:07
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400 Days. It builds up this mystery, and at the end nothing is resolved, nothing is answered. It just ends. It felt like a midseason TV episode. "Next time on 400 Days..." I want my 90 minutes back, assholes.
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Dec 14, 2016 20:08
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Kingsmen. Not that kingmen was good at all but the whole "we have to stop the villain from killing millions of people!..........by killing millions of different people......lol yeah!" Kind of pissed me off.
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Dec 14, 2016 20:10
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nigga crab pollock posted:i think he does but he gets too caught up in the movie world and forgets people apply real logic to movies even when they're in a stilted fantastical setting Magical realism has trouble transferring to the big screen, imo.
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Solice Kirsk posted:The worst part was running in a straight line away from the skinny flat rolling thing. oh god i had forgot about that
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Dec 14, 2016 20:21
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im gonna take every opportunity to slander the life of david gale -- the worst film of all time. trick ending he really was a terrorist all the long!!! oops!
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Rock the boat posted:Promethus.. utter poo poo The characters just didn't make a whole lot of sense. I forgot what their professions were, but the two dudes who get attacked by the black goo because they had to play around with it, instead of maybe taking a cautious approach to this new weird thing. I forget the details, but you know the dumb scene. Fassbender was the best part, because synthetics-- artificial persons are always boss.
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Dec 14, 2016 20:44
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the most unsatisfying movie ending is when youre watching some porn on the internet and he video ends before the money shot, amiright guys??
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Dec 14, 2016 20:45
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Nooner posted:the most unsatisfying movie ending is when youre watching some porn on the internet and he video ends before the money shot, amiright guys?? the beak on your avatar kinda looks ,like a choad, just whack it to that
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Industrial Meat Package posted:That's how it should end because what other possible ending could there be? It's the loving zombie apocalypse. Well, they could all die.
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Dec 14, 2016 20:54
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Snowpiercer - Movie started out cool, then got pretty weird, then kinda got a cool flow going on with the weirdness, then it went with "everything was a plan all along", and then they said 'nah' and blew everything up.
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Dec 14, 2016 20:55
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Lhet posted:Snowpiercer - Movie started out cool, then got pretty weird, then kinda got a cool flow going on with the weirdness, then it went with "everything was a plan all along", and then they said 'nah' and blew everything up. yea. true.
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Snowpiecer was good in the beginning??? hmm must've missed that part too.
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Hardawn posted:Snowpiecer was good in the beginning??? hmm must've missed that part too. it wasnt THAT bad
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Hardawn posted:Snowpiecer was good in the beginning??? hmm must've missed that part too. It was a pretty drat decent movie
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Dec 14, 2016 21:17
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the end of calvary was unsatisfying. no particular reason i just certainly didnt feel satisfied about it.
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Dec 14, 2016 21:20
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The end of most of kubricks movies were unsatisfying.
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bag em and tag em posted:Kingsmen. Not that kingmen was good at all but the whole "we have to stop the villain from killing millions of people!..........by killing millions of different people......lol yeah!" Kind of pissed me off. To be fair, they didn't kill millions of people - they killed hundreds of people who were ok with killing millions of people - more than fair trade imo.
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The show  was bad too.It should have ended 3 or 4 seasons prior with me saying "I'm not enjoying this anymore" and then I stop watching. I also stopped watching The Walking Dead why do you ask? Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was a garbage ending to a garbage movie. Knowledge was their treasure! The last Hunger Games movie had a really stupid ending too.
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Dec 14, 2016 22:18
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canyoneer posted:The show congrats on getting that far on lost.. thats some willpower right there
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Monster a Go-Go has the worst ending ever conceived and is almost unwatchable on every level.
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You guys bitching about Kingsmen has made me remember how bad Kick-rear end mangled the end of the comic book, which IMO is the only halfway decent thing Mark Millar has ever written. In the comic, the kid who decides to become a superhero finally decides to tell the love interest/best friend that he's not actually gay, and she leaves him in a huff of disgust (before getting her current boyfriend to kick his rear end). Hit-Girl's dad wasn't actually a badass, but a loser who ran away from his failing marriage and took his kid with him. The briefcase he was carrying wasn't mob intel, it was rare #1 comic books he was saving to sell, and he dies like a chump. In the end, Kick-rear end saves the day the way anyone would - with a gun. The whole point is that superhero fantasies are completely inapplicable to the real world, and it's not subtle about it at all - if I'm recalling correctly, it even ends implying that someone inspired by Dave's misadventures is going to jump off a building to try to fly. In the movie, Kick-rear end telling his friend that he's not gay makes her totally fall for him instantly. Big Daddy was a badass all along and dies after a heroic fight and a tearful, Enfield-esque goodbye. Kick-rear end doesn't kill the mob boss with a regular gun that he grabbed from a mook - no, he kills him with a goddamn jetpack and bazooka. The whole movie turns into a weird farce of itself, where Dave continuously has his insane beliefs reinforced and verified over and over again, and the theme morphs into "superheroes are cool, try to be a superhero."
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Every horror movie that cops out the last half and switches from a cool monster or ghost into a person being possessed. Amityville Babadook The Conjuring This is just off the top of my head. Started really fun and spooky, then just a bunch of "oh we need to stop [parent] and have a 15 minute exorcism like we loving do."
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How hard up do you have to be for entertainment to watch past s3 of lost, or any of TWD whatsoever? Nevermind anything past the runway sequence in the first hunger games which was worse than made for tv scify trash.
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Rolo posted:Every horror movie that cops out the last half and switches from a cool monster or ghost into a person being possessed. Agree on conjuring.. gave me the chills for the first 30 and then it fell apart
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The Protagonist posted:How hard up do you have to be for entertainment to watch past s3 of lost, or any of TWD whatsoever? I think it is often either a result of the sunk cost fallacy or the viewing turns into hatewatching.
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The Protagonist posted:How hard up do you have to be for entertainment to watch past s3 of lost, or any of TWD whatsoever? I liked all seasons of its hard to find sci fi with no aliens nor outer space stuff nor robots, all of which annoy me
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Rock the boat posted:Agree on conjuring.. gave me the chills for the first 30 and then it fell apart I loved the lead couple, genuinely enjoyable ghost hunter characters then faaaaart. Especially the sequel. Ghost nun and grand dad alone made the movie entertaining enough. No need to make yet another exorcist sequel.
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The Protagonist posted:How hard up do you have to be for entertainment to watch past s3 of lost, or any of TWD whatsoever? I'll defend The Walking Dead's pilot as a pretty good standalone zombie movie. That show peaked in it's first 2 hours. But yeah Lost is dumb and bad and I kept watching it out of inertia. There wasn't a lot of good TV in the second half of that decade.
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Drunk Nerds posted:I liked all seasons of What about the polar bear and the black smoke monster?
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I've always hated the big campy show tunes ending of Blazing Saddles. Haven't seen the whole thing in a while though. Also it seems like a lot of comedies go for big stupid endings. Maybe it's died down but it was a thing for a while.
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canyoneer posted:The show I think that the most disappointing aspect about Lost was how the writers pretended that they had a real plan for the show. Most of the mysteries had half-assed explanations, and there were still plenty of loose ends left after the show ended. I thought that Walt would actually have some kind of relevance to the plot....but nope.. nothing.
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I actually saw the pilot episode of Lost when it first aired and thought it looked like it had a shred of promise that would almost certainly be shat upon in short order, and never watched another episode. Glad that my prediction appears to have been correct. 
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