The ending
So all 3 are getting ready to get int the chopper and Sarah opens the chopper door and zombie hands come at her. Next scene they are on a island relaxing.
Wtf?
They ran out of money
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I've never really cared for the ending. There's nothing really ambiguous about it, but it seems like it's supposed to be. I mean you throw a dream in at the end and it usually means the whole thing had all been a dream or at least a portion of the film had been, but in this case it basically just serves as a way of cutting to the end without showing the actual escape. It really does seem like they ran out of money, as another poster said, I don't know if that's the case though. But the only thing that was made ambiguous by the ending was the specifics of how they lifted off.
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Lol no, they had already actually escapes in the helicopter got to the island where they were, when she woke...the whole part of them opening that mesh gate and running to the copter was a dream and they had already made a escape and she fell asleep on the beach and had a nightmare
they did not run out of money, that was the way it was meant to end
Lol no, they had already actually escapes in the helicopter got to the island where they were, when she woke...the whole part of them opening that mesh gate and running to the copter was a dream and they had already made a escape and she fell asleep on the beach and had a nightmare
Lol, no sh!t. That's what I said, I realize they made their escape and that part was a dream. But when they left in reality they presumably opened the mesh gate and made their way to the chopper. What I said was the only thing it left to the imagination was actually showing them escape.
they did not run out of money, that was the way it was meant to end
I said "seems like", just responding to the person above me. In that the ending feels rushed and out of place. As for how it was meant to end, it wasn't like that, because the script they ended up using was VERY different from the original due to the studio cutting the film's budget in half. It was a very different story with a different ending.
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The ending is a bit dampener squib, but it's worth noting the movie opens and closes with Sarah having a nightmare, (dawn also opens with Frans nightmare) so there's something in that I suppose.
shareYeah, it makes a nice bookend. But neither nightmare affects the plot any, so it seems like a pretty big choice just to add that little extra bookend. Though the one at the end does serve as a device to jump ahead. I'd think they could just as easily show them lifting off and later showing them on the beach. Was it always supposed to have a happy ending? I mean once they got away from the "Gone With The Wind With Zombies" and decided on this film? I could buy that it was supposed to end with the zombie in the chopper, only to have test audiences force them to reshoot a happy ending. But as somebody said, if it weren't a dream what the hell was that zombie doing chilling out in the chopper? I guess the fact we're talking about it means it worked in some fashion.
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I thought she dreamed the whole movie. Or she was just dreaming what she had been through but everything is fine when she woke up.
sharethis is a great movie but yeah that ending is *beep* up.
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I like the ending. I think they escaped but in her dream she doesn't and it's the "what if" of opening the helicopter door and zombies being in there and you don't escape. I dream about things that I managed to scrape out of in real life but my dreams have the bad ending of what else could've happened.
share100% agree with Lovelyjugs - never thought of the ending in any other way.
Always presumed they made it, were safe - and for the first time in a long time looking towards the future.
With that change in fortune always comes the thinking of what if and how things could easily have not worked out - as simply as a Zombie being in the helicopter when she opened the door.
Just the fact a zombie would of been in that helicopter whose doors were shut, for no reason etc always read to me it was complete fiction and made up in Sarah's mind rather than something that actually happened.
it was more abrupt than Hitchcock's North By Northwest, and that's saying something
so many movies, so little time
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