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


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?

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Not exactly the end as far as I remember but Face/Off it goes for so long that by the time you get to the boat chase scene I was bored.

School of Rock that boring adult orientated FM rock song they play for the contest is terrible. The stuff he was playing at the start was way better.

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FACE/OFF...BORED...???...SURELY YOU JEST.

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Stop calling him Shirley.

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Everybody wants some!

It's not like there's a build up... Or a plot.... Or and ending...or anything worthwhile watching in it.

To sum it all up, I hate everybody wants some!

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THE MOVIE IS ABOUT THE FEEL AND THE VIBE OVER PLOT...I QUITE ENJOY IT.

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The Terminal (2004) - Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. Good movie, stupid ending.

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The correct answer is The Usual Suspects.

That ending is the closest thing you'll get to a chunky shart on limp celluloid.

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The Academy would beg to differ.

Best Original Screenplay (1995)

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Yeah, some years they get it absolutely wrong. What's your point?

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Guess the WGA got it wrong, too?
https://www.wga.org/writers-room/101-best-lists/101-greatest-screenplays/list

Everyone is wrong, but you're right? Ha!

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Everyone else gets to share their contentious opinion, but I don't? Here's my prior posted rebuttal:

I'll preface this with the admission that we have nearly 30 years of hindsight on this movie, yet as soon as one applies a bit of logic and reason to pull at its threads, the whole narrative unravels.

First off, the events recounted in the film amount to maybe one step up from the "It was all a dream" ending, effectively amounting to nothing of consequence. If the story bears no consequence, then why does it matter? There's no true mystery, and the misdirection as a result is unfulfilling.

Another element that I grow ever more appreciative of the more I see it pulled off is identifiable motives. Why does the crook sing like a songbird to the cop? He's not under duress or any obligation to spill the tea. Why does the cop listen and also believe the crook's story - especially when the crook describes events that he did not witness and has no reason to know about from the other characters? These titular Usual Suspects aren't friends and don't even particularly trust one another, so it's already a pretty big suspension of disbelief that they would know much about each other's personal lives, let alone care enough to reminisce.

There's also the late stage coincidence that's a bit too tidy and lucky, which is that sketch getting faxed in at the most fortunate/unfortunate moment. What if that fax had come in midway through the story instead of at the end? How is the crook going to talk his way out of that complication? That to me is more intriguing than the movie as is because it ratchets up the suspense and forces the story in a different direction.

I grant that the cast is stellar and the overall production creates an effective noir-like mood, but the story is basically a dressed-up version of that time you got called into the school principal's office and had to make up a bunch of malarkey on the spot about how it was all the other kid's fault.

In terms of Stephen Baldwin's most notable work, Bio-Dome (1996) is a movie that holds up better under multiple viewings. Think about it.

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It's a free country (for now) so everyone is entitled to their opinion...even if it's terrible.

But a real film connoisseur would have the good sense to preface such an opinion with something like...I know this is regarded a classic script by most people, but it's not my cup of tea.

And as for why Verbal/Keyser talked to Agent Kujan, most viewers understand afterwards that it's the equivalent of a cat toying with a mouse.

You're definitely an army of one when it comes to this classic.

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The Usual Suspects ended beautifully with Keyser Soza pulling the rug over Chaz Palminteri's eyes with an entire story concocted of things that just happened to be lying in his office, including the Kobiashimaru which just happened to be the stamp underneath Paliminteri's coffee cup.. 😂 It does make me wonder how bad he got heckled for allowing this to happen and Kevin Spacey getting away??

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From above:

...the story is basically a dressed-up version of that time you got called into the school principal's office and had to make up a bunch of malarkey on the spot about how it was all the other kid's fault.

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Wonder Woman 2017. I really liked the film until the final act..

Felt like they were building up to something about the evils of humanity & stuff but nah, Ares, The God of War was pulling the strings all along

If you kill him, World War 1 just magically stops. Ya that shit was super dumb.

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I just thought it was lame or dumb to have WW be some kind of an immortal goddess.

I was never under that impression and think it should be that way.

Plus the sequel was just so horrible and forgettable.

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Ya, her origin was retconned like a decade ago in the comics.

Went from "clay baby given life by the Gods" to basically Zeus's daughter.

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They definitely should have kept Rudy out considering what happened when they put him in!

https://youtu.be/nuPd4L7_0uQ?si=MeXO2GMi3beCd7xz&t=117

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LOL
So true!

(I actually re-watched that recently. What a great coincidence!)

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Law-abiding citizen, a great movie but oh god that ending.

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That blame goes to Jami Fox, truly.

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Blame goes to the writers, tbh. They dropped the ball big time with that shit ending.

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Fox pressured that the 'good' guys should win, so the ending was changed. Otherwise, we prolly would have got the ending we wanted. Well, that's what I've read in the past.

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Just looked it up, and apparently, it was one of those movies that had a lot of rewrites & was being written as it was being filmed.

And they considered a bunch of endings. Including one with Foxx's character killing Butler by hand & going to prison for it.

But Foxx couldn't change the ending cause he wasn't a producer on the film. Butler was though...

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Interesting...

Perhaps my memory is getting worse than I've presumed.

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No, it's not you. That was apparently something that was circulating the Internet for a while.

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Yes, I guess I latched onto that narrative in the past. It must have stuck lol. :)


Nonetheless, I really do believe I'm losing my memory. It's a bit frustrating.

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What happened?

"Spoilers" never bother me.

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The Good guys win and the Bad guys lose, or rather the Bad guys win and the Good guys lose.

It's just a matter of perspective and who has the power to write history.

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