What 's the ending? - Monster a Go-Go (1965) Discussion

[–] Emperor_mordred 19 years ago

it's probably the most disappointing ending in movie history...

********SPOILERS**************** (if anyone cares anyway)
the 'monster' is an astronaut that disappeared when returning to earth, he turned into a very large guy with radioactive scars on his face (they do disappear from time to time...)

when the good guys are ready to kill him in a tunnel (they know his location, but didn't had visual contact), he just disappeared!

then someone on the radio tells that the astronaut was found alive and well (and at his normal size)

why that this happens is explained very cleverly by the narrator:
"who or what was landed here? is it here yet or has the cosmic switch been pulled?
The line between science fiction and science fact is microscopically thin"

Clever ending?
********SPOILERS******************

By the way my favourite movie ending ever is the one from Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
though, there are some minor similarities between them if you think about it;-)

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[–] waynepenner 19 years ago

I think its fairly simple ... they ran out of money and the budgeting process was just as inept as everything else in this film so they didn't find out until someone went out to buy another plastic mac - er I mean radiation suit.

They obviously made up the ending over a couple of beers at the local tavern.

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[–] drstrangelove112 19 years ago

or maybe the movie just sucked. As for you thought that maybe they thought this over a few beers is probably right. Maybe drugs were involved as well.

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[–] angel624 17 years ago

Thing is, they were trying to do a major-league plot twist to make people go "Holy crap-a-dapple-doo, I didn't expect that!" (I'll give them credit; I didn't expect it) But, the thing is, a plot-twisting ending needs a plot to go with it.

If the movie had been interesting, the ending could have worked, I think...but...it wasn't, so it didn't.

There is one terrifying word in the world of nuclear physics: Oops.

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[–] Scott_Mercer 16 years ago

A piece of garbage.

Basically stabs the audience in the back, and tells us that everything we have been watching DIDN'T ACTUALLY HAPPEN. WTF???

I made a point of namechecking MAGG in my review of IDENTITY, another film that betrayed the audience and wasted our time with a "mindblowing twist."

Filmmakers, spare us anymore "mindblowing twists", please!

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[–] MrBook_ 15 years ago

No one knows, because no one has ever made it to the end.

I AM NOT MONTEL WILLIAMS.

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[–] bbmaps 15 years ago

That seems to have included the poor slob assigned the thankless task of editing this stuff into a cohesive plot. You can almost see where he gave up, and just started taking in whatever was handy to fill out the expected running time.

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[–] cbarnes91 11 years ago

Although the movie as a whole was poor quality, yet still somewhat creepy, I thought the ending was intriguing, in a twilight zone type way.

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[–] uberfox 8 years ago

You made it to the end of the movie? You are alive?

Well I think you deserve the award instead of BRUCE jenner.

You sir are rather special to handle that *beep* more than 30 seconds let alone all the way to the end.

Holy *beep* can I have your autograph?

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[–] Desdecardo78 7 years ago

The ending is sort of like riding a dumpster on fire into traffic and being hit by a dump truck.

It's so bad and abrupt that it is probably the worst produced ending ever. Manos's ending is just disturbing. This is just a terrible stink burger. It's like "oh! It's over? And the astronaut was found thousands of miles away? What the stink were we watching?"

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