What is your opinion on the ending?
Frankly, I would have prefered a 'typical hollywood happy ending' where Matt and Ryan got to together. I mean hasn't the movie reference My Best Friend's Wedding enough without making a similar ending too.
shareFrankly, I would have prefered a 'typical hollywood happy ending' where Matt and Ryan got to together. I mean hasn't the movie reference My Best Friend's Wedding enough without making a similar ending too.
shareYea it wasnt as disappointing as most gay movies are but I still wanted things a bit different. I think what sets it apart is there are actually good actors in it. Which surprises me because I'm sure the budget wasnt huge. I think another special touch was the flashback scenes were really well done. I think the acting made you feel like it was a
horrible ending.
In replying to the posts above, I don't feel it was bad acting. Considering the script they had to work with, they made it look better than it actually was. If someone were to list the hundred so-called best gay movies, ninety-seven or ninety-eight would have an unsatisfying gay-audience ending. I've never understood why they're called 'gay' movies. There's NOTHING gay about them. Each director, producer, or writer of 'gay' movies INSIST on getting 'arty' and end all of them as "Camille". The gay couple always breaks up, or one has AIDS, or another has a car wreck with the remaining lover walking alone on the beach with a narration and violins screeching all the way down to their bridges. The most successful gay film ever made, "Brokeback Mountain" HAD to end on a sad sour note so that straight audiences would feel some pathos and have less room to criticize the homosexuality.
"Kiss the Bride"...why the hell couldn't the two guys get married? Would the audience have hated it then? Some gay relationships ARE happy. They do last for years and years...but we never see their stories in gay movies. A gay person who buys a ticket, rents a video, or buys a DVD would OFTER like a happy ending, NOT leaving the theater, so depressed, one is looking for the nearest bridge to jump off or going home to take a bottle of pills or cut their wrists.
Why aren't there more "Latter Days", "Beautiful Thing", "Trick", movies. THEY are the ones which sell the most at the video stores...NOT TRAGIC (gay???) movies! Enough of the tears...Put a little love in your life...
Funny you mention LATTER DAYS, because this film was directed by the same guy.
I don't think this one had a CAMILLE ending. I mean everybody gets what they want in a strange way, or at least realized what is right or wrong in their life. If guy had gotten guy it would have felt wrong, because nothing was leading up to that. It is simply a gay MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING.
It has a great cast, but I think the ending falls apart because it gets too broad. I just didn't buy the last few scenes. But good effort.
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>>The most successful gay film ever made, "Brokeback Mountain" HAD to end on a sad sour note so that straight audiences would feel some pathos and have less room to criticize the homosexuality.<<
The ending of "Brokeback Mountain" the movie is the ending of Annie Proulx's story of the same title from her collection "Close Range." She wrote the story without any idea of it ever being filmed. The ending has nothing whatever to do with making the film palatable to straight audiences.
"The value of an idea has nothing to do with the honesty of the man expressing it."--Oscar Wilde
the ending was too good . it could have ended in another way but still the explanation given was too good . the dialogues were awesome . so i loved the ending . awesome movie toooooooooooooooooooooooo good .
shareOnly thing I could say is, it surprise me and kind of caught me off guard lol. Because I thought that they would end the marriage and Matt and Ryan would be together again, but then it turn around and goes the opposite of what I was thinking. I wouldn't say I don't like the ending, because it's kind of a happy ending after all.
share(Spoiler alert!) Frankly, I thought the wedding scene at the end was kind of lame. What's up with them just having a "commitment ceremony"---should have just gotten married, for goodness sake. But I did think it was a happy ending, because Matt finally got Ryan out of his system after all those years, and was free to really commit to his boyfriend Joey (played by the very cute Charlie David---I've seen him in a few films, and like his work).
shareDidn't like it at all. Waste of time. Just plain sappy and yucky. Define "typical Hollywood ending"? Classic sense, it means boy gets GIRL. Frivolous and drippy. Laughable in some scenes. Too predictable. Like watching an all-too long episode of "Will & Grace" (another waste of time, ho-hum).
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