worst. ending. ever!
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shareYou mean where we find out the whole movie was a dream? It's been done before.
shareYeah it's kind of a cliché almost now. Like Adam Sandler's movie "Click" you just knew at the end it was going to all be a dream-like experience to teach him a valuable lesson and that he'd be okay in the end. That movie wasn't bad though.
shareFunny you should mention "Click" It's been done before too. I saw an episode of the tv show "Weird Science" back in the 90's where one of the teen geeks created a remote control that could control time.
shareThere was also a Twilight Zone episode where someone had a watch that could stop time.
shareOh, is that the idea? That Wisdom dreamt the whole thing? I wasn't sure about that. I thought the final shot was just to show the memory of a "hero".
shareAny filmmaker should be ashamed of using "it was all just a dream" as an ending. It was an overused cliche even back in 1986! Sadly filmmakers still use it. When Brian DePalma used it for "Femme Fatale" a few years back some people in my audience yelled, "Oh come ON!" and stormed out of the theatre. It shows contempt for the audience and is just a cheap lazy trick that writers use when they can't come up with a logical ending.
shareThe funny this is, that same year, it was also used to resolve a cliffhanger on "Dallas". Granted, that was done to overlook the fact that Patrick Duffy returned to the show, and they had to do something about the fact that his deceased character was really alive. Not sure there were too many ways you could write yourself out of that one ("Dallas").
Regardless, it's a huge slap in the face to the audience, and it sounds tacked-on to make deadline. The only time "it was all a dream" was clever was on the "Newhart" finale.
Oh stewardess...I speak jive.
just what was in that bath water, exactly?
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