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Movies where the end did not live up to the build up

posted 3 months ago by WarrenPeace (2267)
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Rudy

OK so he finally gets to play in a football game where whatever it is he does did not matter or have any impact on the game at all.
The team really did not need him since they won without him.

Mr. Holland's Opus

Throughout the movie he keeps talking about his frustrations at not being able to finish composing his symphony piece.
Then when we finally get to hear it, well, my garbage disposal, tornado sirens and nails on a chalkboard combined makes better music than he did.

What else?

[–] AndyKing1967 (35057) 3 months ago

Lesbian Dwarf Orgy - it was not the happy ending that I was anticipating.

[–] WarrenPeace (2267) 3 months ago

I hate when that happens.

Like I was disappointed with X-Men since I was not expecting to see something PG-13 rated with that title.

[–] AndyKing1967 (35057) 3 months ago

I was surprised to see Vin Diesel in a film entitled XXX.

[–] WarrenPeace (2267) 3 months ago

Yeah, since his name does read like that of a porn actor.
Now he is in a Fast X.

[–] Mustang (5274) 3 months ago

Being fast is not what they tend to look for in a X rated actor. We wish him the best.

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4080) 3 months ago

Right? Just wanted to jerk off before going to bed but I had to watch a Vin Diesel movie.

Not the worst porno I've ever watched. 3/10.

[–] AndyKing1967 (35057) 3 months ago

I know what you mean, I typed in XXXX and all I got were Australian lager adverts - instant floppy 😡

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4080) 3 months ago

Hate when that happens. I thought, hey, maybe if I reduced the number of Xs, I'll finally get my porno.

Then I found X (2022). A horror movie that involves people making a porno.

Just what I was looking for. Gruesome murders AND porn? Stop. My penis can only get so erect.

[–] FentonMeiks (1240) 3 months ago

now, have you ever made it to the end of an Asian Babes movie?

[–] AndyKing1967 (35057) 3 months ago

No, normally just the first 5 minutes.

[–] Zarkoff (951) 3 months ago

The false narrator ending of Flight Club really annoyed me. Yes, I know most people love it.

[–] jk90us (5815) 3 months ago

Most of them.

[–] zeesha (1779) 3 months ago

The Mist (2007)

Director Frank Darabont altered the ending of Stephen King's novel, made it like giving middle finger to moviegoers like me who was vastly engaged in at that point. The whole crisis that builds up as an alien invasion or hell let loose turns out to be just a challenge of bad weather and pest control.

[–] sslssg (30266) 3 months ago

Yet Stephen King loves the movie ending.

[–] zeesha (1779) 3 months ago

I like Stephen King but we don't have to agree with his take.

[–] sslssg (30266) 3 months ago

Nope. A lot of people feel the same way as you do.

[–] WarrenPeace (2267) 3 months ago

I love the ending to The Mist where we get an unhappy one instead of the usual, "We made it," happy one.

We need more like this to have regretful actions of the wanna be hero that end in consequences.

[–] zeesha (1779) 3 months ago

Why you are wrong about the ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0M_0_ikbeM

[–] WarrenPeace (2267) 3 months ago

That is one take of it.

Here is another.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ls52nH42eE

No matter what opinions nerds give I still love it.

[–] zeesha (1779) 3 months ago

If you like it, I'm happy for you. We can all agree that "hopeless could be destructive" if that's what this film is really about.

But as the nerdy youtuber rightly points out that the crisis isn't like a "bad weather or pest problem," and it won't go away if David just keeps hope and waits a few more minutes until the mighty army marches in with tanks and flamethrowers. Sacrifices have to be made like in many of those old-school horror movies.

If you have doubt, just think about this: both David and Melissa McBride's characters go into the fog to look for their families, hoping they're still alive. David then discovers that his wife has died in the most horrific way, and Melissa McBride's character and her children are rescued at the end. Make sense?

[–] WarrenPeace (2267) 3 months ago

I disagree with the idea that the sacrifice ended the mist monsters.
That instead it was just a matter of bad timing.
A sacrifice is suggesting that it was magical and it wasn't.
The calvary was coming through no matter what.

If you disagree, that's fine.
Movies are always open for our own takes on them and there is never a right or wrong for what we think it means even if it differs from the director and others who made it.

[–] zeesha (1779) 3 months ago

That instead it was just a matter of bad timing.

David's wife dying in horror has nothing to do with "bad timing" or "lack of hope", will you agree?

A sacrifice is suggesting that it was magical and it wasn't.

In this case, a better choice of words would be "biblical":
https://www.theholyscript.com/what-is-sacrifice-in-the-bible/

The calvary was coming through no matter what.

How did the army get rid of the 50 feet giant monster? Wouldn't the people in the car hear the tanks firing at those monsters as the army coming through?

...it differs from the director and others who made it.

Do you expect the director to admit that he screwed us all with a "gotcha" twist in the end?
https://screenrant.com/mist-movie-ending-mrs-carmody-right-human-sacrifice-stephen-king/

[–] WarrenPeace (2267) 3 months ago

"David's wife dying in horror has nothing to do with "bad timing" or "lack of hope", will you agree?"

Sure, I agree even though I was not thinking of his dead wife at all.

"How did the army get rid of the 50 feet giant monster? Wouldn't the people in the car hear the tanks firing at those monsters as the army coming through?"

If you re-watch the ending there is a tank leading the way of the vehicles.
If it had fired at the monster it probably would have either destroyed it or wounded it at least to have made it fall down.
So I don't think the tank fired at it.
Instead the only weapons we see them using are flamethrowers which are silent and you can see some giant bugs on fire at both sides of the road.
They will get the giant monster later.

https://youtu.be/YL8L-eaiOlA
Starting at 2:36

"Do you expect the director to admit that he screwed us all with a "gotcha" twist in the end?"

I have no idea what Darabont's thoughts are for what his ending means.
Just saying that to suggest it is biblical is your interpretation that you share with others of which I don't share in that.
There is no right or wrong since every scene in every movie is up to the viewer to decide how they want to see it.

Screen Rant suggests they are not being a final authority on your ideas for what the ending means since keywords in that linked idea are: might've, possible, a certain way of reading, one interpretation and, "it's quite possible that the mist only began evaporating once Carmody's chosen sacrifices to God had been made."

Whatever we want to think the ending means is what it means to us and there is nothing wrong for however one wants to think of how it means to them.

I don't look that deeply into it.

The only issue I have with the ending is trucking civilians through there at all instead of taking them someplace safe until the, "All clear."
Of course we gotta see that the woman who left the store earlier and her kids survived.
So that is why that truck is there to add dramatic effect.

[–] zeesha (1779) 3 months ago

They will get the giant monster later.

The only issue I have with the ending is trucking civilians through there at all instead of taking them someplace safe until the, "All clear."

Good point.

[–] GolfnGuitars (2438) 3 months ago

"Tin Cup." I despise the ending.

[–] Tina (603) 3 months ago

Ricky Stanicky started off fun but about half-way after the oarty, it turned into a Hallmark movie.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20765) 3 months ago

The Boss (1973)

The beginning of this Fernando Di Leo crime film has a stone faced Henry Silva in a workman’s uniform with a large case entering a building. Inside is a private theater where a group of mobsters are just sitting down to watch a porn movie, while drinking and joking around. Silva sneaks into the projection booth and assembles a rifle fitted with a rifle grenade attachment. As the movie starts he fires several grenades into the theater blowing them all to smithereens and catching the room on fire. While making his escape a guard appears in the hallway and instead of using his pistol he fires a grenade, which direct hits, blowing him to bits. The opening credits begin while showing the roasted bodies in the theater as a prog rock theme plays.

Nothing to come later in the film reaches this level of awesomeness. 😀