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this movie was really good... then it just ended

posted 15 years ago by KAnnD86
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I enjoyed the movie right from the beginning, there were lots of funny lines, attention to detail, interesting characters. I enjoyed it even more than I was expecting to. Then it ended all of a sudden. Everything was wrapped up in a neat little bow during the last 2 minutes and that was it. It was a totally unsatisfying ending even though everything worked out and everyone was happy. I think the writer was really onto something then either got lazy and couldn't think of a better ending or had to finish on a deadline and just tied up all the loose ends without much thought to the rest of the film. Did anyone feel the same way? I enjoyed 90% of the film, the last 10% left me disappointed.

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[–] brodiew 15 years ago

I agree, in part. I was not as much disappointed in the how it ended, as much as it ended abrupty. I was wanting to see more of the transition in their lives explored in those final few minutes. I liked the upswing at the end. I just wanted more.

"If you lie to them half as good as you lie to yourself, they will believe you." -John Locke

[–] nxgn_not_not 14 years ago

I was so totally like that
& then I wasn't
because it was like so good in the rest
but then I was like I wonder if there's like a book
My main problem though
a side from the ending
was that I could not identify with just one
they all seemed 2 B part of me
very intimate

I was so moved

U can get happy in the same pant U got pissed in. - Becky Sue

[–] tallard 14 years ago

I was giving it a 8/10 for the first half, then 7/10 for the second half, but the ending dropped it to a 6/10. In the real world, statiscally speaking, if they were truly, "extremely smart" people, Vanessa would not have been a Republican, and Janet would have had an abortion.

We all know a unhappy stupid person, an unhappy drunk, an unhappy wife-beater, an unhappy child molester, there are plenty of unhappy stupid people. This kind of characterisation was a little less than... smart.

***So I've seen 4 movies/wk in theatre for a 1/4 century, call me crazy?**

[–] otaku_125 13 years ago

The heads of the Republican Party should be really smart people, in fact they should be in order to control the bunch of puppets they have. I think she was after a big goal, being a 2nd Condoleeza Rice, intelligent, but unscrupulous. And Janet could have aborted, but I think she was so tired of her own life that she decided to have the baby just to spice her life.

[–] lamont-hard 13 years ago

Most of the times endings are not rushed, the writer has several endings witch they get to pick from. They hardly ever write a story with just one ending. The movie more than likely ended the way they wanted. I happened to find it satisfying, but will say I tend to like cheesy endings that fits a movie.