Am I seriously the only one who thinks the ending to this movie is the laziest most unoriginal piece of writing ever to grace the movie screen. Its like they got them into this situation and couldnt figure out where to go so they just decided "uh lets just have them drive off the cliff. problem soved. lets go to lunch."
shareSame as guy above me. Your a complete idiot, but that's what makes watching great movies so much fun. You can determine idiots from true fans on these sites.
shareYou must be a true fan to avoid being an idiot.
Message boards are for true fans. All other opinions are not welcome.
BTW, I think it is not a great movie.
Direction, production, locations, acting: All good
Story: Not so much.
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No kidding bdk. Apparently the OP stumbled into a devoted cult here.
shareThen please explain to me what makes this such a great ending that people praise to the high heavens because I honestly don't see it. Seriously I don't get all the high praise because I really see it as a lazily written ending. So please enlighten me.
shareI suppose it depends what you want and expect to get out of a movie. If you always watch movies wanting a typical Hollywood happy ending, you aren't going to get that with Thelma & Louise. Here are two women, both of them downtrodden in a man's world and living in the southern states where women are "expected to know their place". They get caught up in an unfortunate chain of events that just snowballs out of control and at the end there is simply no escape. Louise, it seems, has already had dealings with the law before which just seemed to confirm to her that it's a man's world. So letting themselves be arrested and trying to explain how things got so out of control to the authorities is not an option to her. These women opt never to be held at the mercy of men again, be it rapists, an oppressive husband, or the male-dominated "system". So in that final moment, they resign themselves to the fact that the only real way out is to go over the edge. They do it together and then, once and for all, they are free.
Thelma & Louise was always a controversial movie that dealt with controversial themes in a controversial way. It isn't a comedy (though there are moments when you may smile), nor is it just a dumb vigilante movie with two mindless women going around killing guys and becoming an all-girl Bonnie and Clyde. It has depth and intelligence, and wasn't afraid to show those qualities in a harsh and brutal way. To me it's one of the best films ever made, and had an ending that made me want to clap and cry at the same time, watching these two women who were dealt an unfair hand then have the courage to end the game on their terms.
Without that ending there would be no movie because that was the first thing Callie Khouri thought up when she decided to do a movie. She started with the car going off the cliff and built it up from there, WHY would they do that? They're on the run, WHAT would they do to be on the run, etc.
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So letting themselves be arrested and trying to explain how things got so out of control to the authorities is not an option to her. These women opt never to be held at the mercy of men again, be it rapists, an oppressive husband, or the male-dominated "system". So in that final moment, they resign themselves to the fact that the only real way out is to go over the edge.
They had no other choice but to make it over the edge. After they fatally shot a rapist who deserved it as he probably did this to other women.
Robbed a store to get money after JD aka Brad Pitt stole their money and needed money in order to get to Mexico.
Also a cop got in their way and they did not kill him or they would had been in even more serious trouble despite letting him live, by putting him in the trunk and blowing holes for him to get some air though not enough holes.
And blew that sexist macho trucker's oil rig up despite being deserved so one would agree as he also did that to other women.
If it ended with them in prison, there would be a not so good ending. But Ridley Scott and the staff around him made the ending all so classic and legendary.
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LOL! I would have liked it best if they were not caught and made it to Mexico. However, from the very start you just knew they were never gonna have margueritas at Club Med.
That over-the-top happy ending denied, I prefer the ending as it is. Rather than be caught, locked up, demonised by the press in all probability, etc. they opted to rather die than live in such a world.
Thelma would probably have got off with a suspended sentence for armed robbery if she was caught, so Ridley Scott's intended ending of only Louise dying and pushing Thelma out of the car at the last moment, would probably not have been a bad ending.
Preferred it that they both died though, since they couldn't make it to Mexico.
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>the ending to this movie is the laziest most unoriginal piece of writing ever to grace the movie screen
I would love to know what other film you have watched which shares the ending of 2 passengers driving off a cliff then freeze framing mid fall, to then roll to credits.
I think you have missed the point of what the ending was signifying.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, for one.
Not a cliff, (I don't think the cliff was really the point anyway) but a suicidal charge - freeze the frame - roll to credits. And they did go over a cliff earlier in the movie but survived.
Remake of Breathless? (been a long time) Richard Gere commits suicide by cop rather than be caught.
Lots of movies end with the main character(s) going out in a blaze of glory rather than being captured. I don't agree with those that say T&L was a poor movie. But the ending really was kind of cliched, and done many times before.
OP needs to go back and finish their High School GED.
Evidently they missed out on passing English class.
Limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: directly proportional to its awesomeness.
Am I seriously the only one who thinks the ending to this movie is the laziest most unoriginal piece of writing ever to grace the movie screen.
I actually thought the ending was quite amusing, in a way. It's not bad, though.
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