Okay, so this was an okay film, had some laughs, some funny songs, the plot was a bit predictable but what can you do with such a subject matter??? Then came the ending. What was that? I was suprised when they all died but what on heaven and Earth was the final song about. They are up there in heaven looking down at their funeral, and their family and friends are looking back!!! While singing Season in the Sun?!? Who out there can make any sense of that?
shareAfter not laughing once for the entire movie I laughed uproariously when the plane crashed and when the blokes appeared in the clouds me and my mate just looked at each other and pissed ourselves. I'm not sure if it was meant to be funny but it was hilarious - unfortunately for the wrog reasons.
Yesterday seems as though it never existed.
Death greets me warm now will just say GOODBYE.
They died?!
I walked out of this film around 3/4 of the way through. It was so f--king crap. But if I knew Mick Molloy was going to die, I defenitaly would have stayed around.
There are multiple monkeys in my pants.
it was like to show... you know.. you know how like all great rock stars die in plane crashes. like lynyrd skynyrd and buddy holly and the big bopper and aaliyah and all of them. the day the music died and whatnot. also its a sweet way to finish a movie. eh, just kill them all, then we won't have to resolve *beep* !
shareI really liked the film but not so much this part, the begining of that scene was also a continuation of the running joke where corey would always stuff around with the controls so that bit was funny
shareYeah i thought the running gag of messing with dials was funny, but the funeral song seemed wierd and too drawn out.
shareMmmm, this is possibly the worst movie I have ever seen, well the bit I saw before I walked out of the cinema. I try to look for the positives in any movie but this was so unbelievably awful and cringe-worthy. They are all obviously too good of mates and didn't want to hurt anyones feelings by explaining that this was soooo damn crap, that or they just wanted the cash.
sharewell yeah it was obviously meant to be funny. It wasn't meant to be dramatic! It was deliberately an over the top extra cheesy ending
It was probably my favourite part of the film. Definetely what you'll walk out of the cinema talking about, and what you'll think about afterwards. But if you liked the rest of the movie but not the end, I guess it could have distorted your opinion of the film.
Yeah thats true, i know it was meant to be overly cheesey and all that, but I dont know, i just didnt find it that funny i guess.
shareYeh i sat through most of it cringing, thinking "if the grandma dies in the film, i will lose all faith in australian cinema". A worse thing occurred that day, my friends. You know like how in a little kid's story written for a year 3 writing exercise where he doesnt know how to end it so he makes everyone die in it. For shame, Mick.
Morbid and lame!
Couldn't agree more.
Bring back Charlie the Wonderdog.
Or get Micallef, McCaffrie and Tony Martin to write with you next time.
Look at the history of music. A plane crash is the only fitting way to end the movie. Think John Denver, Buddy Holly, Lynard Skynard...all artists who have died in plane crashes and had fame increased by it. The death is meant to elevate their status and compare them to some of the greats in that great big recording studio in the sky.
The whole thing about the singing from heaven is, i read, a parody of another 'famous movie'. Unfortunately Empire magazine didnt think it was necessary to say what the movie was...but there obviously was a point to it, its up to you, me, and google to find out what
Ok...what was the point of the ending? The guys die in a plane crash caused in part by the Gary Eck character casually turning and twisting knobs...end of story. What really jumped the shark was the fact that the celebrants could actually see the dead guys doing their "Seasons In The Sun" harmony - which did not make a whole heck of sense.
The song was great, the singing was great (though I felt gypped knowing that Robbins, Malloy and co were actually lip-synching to another group's vocals).
If that was supposed to end the film on a high point, it didn't...and instead of all of them dying, all of them should have throttled Corey!!!!
"Live long and prosper"
worst. ending. ever.
it was a good way to completely ruin an ok movie and make it a *beep* movie.
unoriginal and unimaginative and i expected better from some of australia's funniest men. maybe they aren't so funny anymore...i don't know.
I just saw this film and reckon it was an absolute piece of crapola.
It was realy obvious and badly written, and yeah the ending sucked.
The acting was terrible. They should have at least hired some really actors and not a bunch of comedians who are obviously friends.
Some of the songs were amusing and that was about the only redeeming feature.
I think you need more money to make a film like this so that it feels authentic, or something.....
But would you prefer a film that ended like so:
'All the guys, after playing at the Grammys, realise that their own humble lives are much better than being famous, and so go back home, after learning their lesson'
That would have been absolutely terrible. A stereotypical hollywood ending. Personally, I like the 'plane crashes, everyone dies' approach, especially since it led up to jokes such as the 'black box' release, which to me is one of the funnier jokes in the film, and the cloud sequence, further parodying pop-music's image.
Just a personal opinion though :)
They never got to the grammys! Get your facts right!
shareMaybe i wouldnt hate the ending so much if it didnt have the cloud sequence.
shareOk, as a forty someing, I get the ending, Michael Gudinski(Boomstien )had it coming for a start, "the blackbox went platinum", Seasons in the sun came out when I was fourteen and I have always hated the song, At that time there where a few songs sung by "dead people" Remember "Tell Laura I love her" Now every time I hear "Seasons in the sun" instead of getting angry I will smlie, thinking of the end of Boytown.
And if that does not help, Try being married for seventeen years, thats 204 "Special times on the month" you will have to go through,
I think the movie was very funny, I think older people will find it funner.
best movie everrrrr =]
sharei went into this movie not expecting much - i thought it would be ok, but that was all.
after seeing boytown, i thought it was hilarious! especially the ending, coz it shocked me - i love the 'black box went platinum' joke at the end. the ending was unexpected until you see corey messing with the controls. and i think to myself 'oh the plane is going to crash. they can't do that'. but they did and it was hilarious :-)
If we weren't meant to eat animals, how come they're made of meat?
To be honest, I loved the movie. And at the end when the plane crashed, my friend and I looked at each other and cried!!! But I do agree, it would be a way I'd end a story if I couldn't think of anything! Either that or '...then I woke up'....
But it was a good movie, 7.5/10
it WAS suppossed to be stupid as in not serious, anyone who thought it was is an idiot too.
shareNobody thinks it's serious...some of us just think the ending wasnt funny and didnt want to see characters we invested our 2 hours into die. Even though its a comedy, u still expect it to fit with film convention.
and ive been thinking, if a movie wants to do black humour at the end, i am happy to support it. the movie "the ladykillers" was hillarious for that reason...If the characters died and then it cut to the closing documentary part it would have been ok, but the clouds with the seasons in the sun...it annoys me just thinking about it. I know its different but what i compare the ending to is 40 year old virgin where he sings at the end...I'm all for breaking the 4th wall but that just annoyed me. thats my opinion.
and you know, filmmakers today are hating the typical hollywood ending and trying not to do it, but honestly the reason why they used to do typical endings is because it works. and also australian cinema doesnt have the history and success rate to do innovative endings. it seems try-hard-ish.
call me old fashioned but killing your lead characters when its not black comedy is amature hour.
you do make a good point...
shareI thought this was an uncreative cop out movie ending.... I was like the writers were thinking.... hrmmm we had better wind this story up now.... but how? I know lets kill them all off! What a cop out! I thought this movie was pretty good up until that point- not award winning stuff but entertaining...
As for 40 Year old virgin..... that movie dragged on and on and on and then on some more.... the singing scene at the end just confirmed how crap the movie was... I do see how you draw the comparisons between the two film endings!
Wow ...the ending was a shock. I totally agree the ending sucked it was a good movie until then. I thought it was disappointing.
shareMy problem with the ending is that it came out of absolutely nowhere. If the previous 80-odd minutes had been black comedy, or had a cynical edge to it, it would have worked. Except that the previous 80-odd minutes had been standard feel-good comedy material
I get the whole "rock stars die in a plane crash" thing; that's not the issue. The issue is that this wasn't a warped, cynical take on the rock world, it was a male-bonding comedy, and the problems the characters faced were largely human problems, not rock star problems. By the end of the movie, we're not thinking of Glenn Robbins' character as a has-been singer, we're thinking of him as a husband and a father with a unborn child on the way. It's really not funny when somebody like *that* dies.
I'm not calling Mick Molloy's talents as a comedian into question here, I just think that black comedy really isn't his thing. Or at least it's not something that comes naturally to him.
Just watched it again on the plane. Someone must've agreed with all the attack on the ending - it wasn't there. Just them getting into the plane and singing, and that was it. That in itself was a weak ending but perhaps marginally better than the original.
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I just got the DVD from Target for $6.99!
The ending just showed them in the cockpit and Corey twiddles the knob and the plane crashes.
Was there a different ending?
The movie was crap BTW, hubby and I just looked at each other at the end and groaned!
The song about the 'special time of the month' had me cringing in my seat!
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I think it should've ended with them singing the Boytown 06 song.... that would have been a better ending.
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