Does any1 else think the ending sucked?

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I expected something a bit more brutal. Cheesy love crap is the staple of crappy hollywood films. Maybe they twisted it but it's still the same in the long run.

I didn't like it that much either. But the rest of the film was awesome.

the ending blew. really disappointing

the whole movie sucked. the ending was irrelavent. if you actually made it to the ending without turning the dvd player off (unfortunately i did), then you deserve to be treated to a cliche ending to a cliche movie.

The ending was AWFUL. I wish cancer guy never changed his mind about dying, his reasons were stupid and selfish, or they could both escape to Canada or Mexico or something with the baby. But the way it was ending almost completely ruined what was otherwise a quite entertaining film. One of the stupidest endings to a movie I've seen, the director, producers and whoever else should be ashamed of themselves, their must be something very wrong with them mentally to have thought that *beep* twist ending was a good idea.

The ending didn't suck for me because I saw it at Bethel Cinemas, CT, in the EXACT same theater where the climactic scene was shot. It was really surreal and completely awesome to say the least, to see the seats onscreen, look next to you, look back...

Great.

Hmmm I don't think anyone here actually GOT the film. There ISN'T an ending.

You know the Truman Show? Where right at the end he gets out of the world of the cameras and all that? And we don't see what his REAL life is like?

Well when Dawn walks into that cinema, it doesn't matter what REALLY happened after that point. That's why the movie's tagline is "REAL PEOPLE. REAL LIFE.". When the real people cease to want to be a part of TV, it ceases. (Whenever someone breaks out of the Big Brother house, what happens? They can't film it because it's outside their range.)

The POINT of the film is that in modern (or, more accurately, post-modern) times, the power of the TV narrative has taken boundless control over all our lives. Reality TV was the electric shock in the backside of it, because sitcoms just don't give you QUITE the same adrenaline rush as REAL PEOPLE.

It didn't matter that the fictional Contenders producers didn't get an ACTUAL ending (because, I believe, they gave Dawn what she wanted and backed off before she started killing innocents in the cinema) because they could just make one up and sell it to people who would buy it. The story they run (the tape broke, or some such) IS a cover-up, but it is more tense than the REAL thing because after watching for hours and hours and hours these REAL people doing REAL things, the carpet is finally pulled out from under it, yet this makes it all the more dramatic. In this case, fiction at the last saves the public from the REALITY that they so desire, yet that gives them even more catharsis.

Absolutely GENIUS film-making.

(But was anyone disappointed they killed off the teenage girl? Maybe I just had a reaction to the brutal way she died, but she seemed kind of nice!)