I was just thinking about this movie and how it deserves the high definition treatment for a re-release.
I heard that in the initial release of the movie - maybe it was a test screening or an independent theater type release - Spab died at the end. And he was just like "S.F.W.".
However I have to say, the guy getting the girl, you have to have that kind of ending. A satisfying ending makes the movie. You about have to write the ending first.
THe novel ends with Wendy dead, Babs in jail, and Spab in a 20 year coma. So that was the author's original ending. In a way, it's more satisfying.
shareA 20-year coma? Now that's indifference!
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MUCH prefer the movie's ending then!
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The movie's ending makes no sense at all! Indeed it violated the entire premise of the movie (SFW). It is supposed to attack the media? Say "SFW". The message is really that NIHILISM goes absolutely nowhere and the Media only practices it just as strongly as Spab does.
shareThe movie was an criticism on the media and how much hype they give surrounding a breaking story. The ending proves this because (spoilers) after Babs shoots Spab and Wendy, the attention shifts away from them and focuses only on her and her message of "Everything Matters".
"Eternal damnation your just reward. A servent of our lord, by your accord." - Slayer
A happy ending works good for a movie... but who, on their deathbed, isn't going to be thinking 's.f.w.', regardless of their beliefs in life? We all die, it's inevitable. What's important is how we are remembered once we are gone...
And i wouldn't necessarily want to be known as a hopeless nihilist...
"Cinema was made for fantasy, rather than normal types of stories." - Ray Harryhausen