[JSN]

Originally Posted by BayAreaGuy

Same with the Ghandi movie starring Ben Kingsly, they showed him getting shot at the very beggining.

lol, huge spoiler.

[icepick]

Originally Posted by BayAreaGuy

That was dumb who they showed the very end in the beggining of the movie. Ruins the whole thing. Same with the Ghandi movie starring Ben Kingsly, they showed him getting shot at the very beggining.

Dude, I remember seeing that Ghandi movie in high school. he gets shot right in the beginning and lets out a weak "oh god." not to sound like an ass, but it's freakin hilarious.

[Bas Rutten Gear]

Originally Posted by JSN

having him die for the cure was the logical ending. he was a christlike figure. it would have felt like a cheap feelgood hollywood ending to me if he lived.

Yeah but it gave that cheap feeling in the end by killing him. Oh let's kill him in some stupid heroic fashion. It accomplished what you didn't want it too.

The whole last 3rd of the movie went downhill.

[BayAreaGuy]

^^^^^^


Going back to that Ghandi movie, I also saw it in high school and the teacher started the movie past the beggining and everyone was like "wtf? Why not start it from the begging? Oh well..."


Then after it ended she rewinded it and showed the beggining and it was "ohhhhhhhhh......I see what you did there" lol




Same with that movie The Insider (Russel Crowe and Pachino. Story about the tobacco industry). The teacher showed it in health class and didn't start it from the beggining, so it was hard to follow since you don't know what's really happening.

I saw the beggning on tv and it showed Pachino's character (news investigator/reporter or something) being blindfolded and driven all across Lebanon and then meeting the leader of Hezbollah for an interview.

It was like "no wonder the teacher didn't show that shit- the whole class would have been like 'hey this looks cool', and then the movie would have switched to being about the tobacco industry which is a big step down". lol

[blackthorne]

Originally Posted by Bas Rutten Gear

Yeah but it gave that cheap feeling in the end by killing him. Oh let's kill him in some stupid heroic fashion. It accomplished what you didn't want it too.

The whole last 3rd of the movie went downhill.

Tag to that the fact that they did nothing with the lone smart "vampire" expect have him and Smith butt heads in the most retarded way possible. That was a sub plot that should have been better explored.

Good call on Sunshine and its last block. I still enjoy the film a lot, but it wasn't the twist that annoyed me so much as it was how they presented the "villain"- smeering vaseline on the camera, and shaking it like it had epilepsy was just too distracting.

[Magooglie]

Originally Posted by StillinKansas

AI--it had a Spielberg ending..

It had a horrible ending.

[james123]

I wrote this in another movie thread but it pertains to the issue of baffling endings:

Originally Posted by james123

Just saw Hidden (Cache), by Michael Haneke. It's a fusion of Hitchcock and Antonioni, with thriller elements involving the discovery by a talkshow host that his home is being spied upon by a mysterious voyeur whose identity at the conclusion of the film isn't even revealed. Well made but pretentious French film that contains too many unexplained plot points and mysteries, as well as scenes that continue for longer than necessary (ie, static camera shots that linger on and on in the manner of Antonioni's The Passenger.) The celebrated final shot, which runs for about ten minutes during teh final credits, is said to provide a clue to the film's central puzzle, but I didn't get it. Maintains a sense of dread for most of its duration, but disappoints as it basically becomes a set up with no payoff (ie, all mystery and no solution.) Hate films that do this to the audience, though Hidden was showered with awards on its release several years ago.

Has anyone actually seen this movie and figured out the ending?

*****Spoiler********

The ending shows the Arab guy's son and the white guy's son meeting up on familiar terms after school. It supposedly solves the mystery of the video tapes but I can't get the connection.
The movie has a creepily effective atmosphere and is actually well-made, which is why the answer to the mystery bugs me so much (if the film seemed like a hack job I probably wouldn't be bothered with it.)

[Marsupial]

The first two that spring to mind are Minority Report and A.I.

Originally Posted by RemoWilliams

The Matrix..........
it killed old school great Special Effects as we know it.

No it didn't.

I assume you mean the use of CGI in The Matrix which, if carefully considered, is actually a lot more restrained and subtle than, say, George Lucas' over-indulgence in the Star Wars prequels, The Phantom Menace being released only a few weeks after The Matrix.
The 'bullet-time' technique used by John Gaeta in The Matrix had been pioneered by Michael Gondry in his music videos.

Industrial Light & Magic (and others) had been pushing the envelope of special effects since at least the first Star Wars movies anyway. The advancement of the technology is an inevitability that has nothing to do with individual movies.

[Nihilistic]

oh ok shit, WORST ENDING EVER:

Seraphim Falls



I totally forgot how absolutely shitty that movie was until i started looking for mustache pictures and came across Brosnan

[Bullitt68]

Originally Posted by Oeshon

My vote goes for The Bone Collector

Oh God, I completely forgot about that piece of shit. That series from Jeffrey Deaver had some of the best books I've ever read, and then when they decide to adapt one, not only do they not even pick the best book, but they change almost everything and, with such a shitty adaptation, completely ruin the series for any future filmmaker who may have wanted to adapt one of the books.