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The end really killed me spoilers

posted 12 years ago by JohnBelwell
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I was watching this movie on the TV.

It started really weird but it continued nicely.

It was between a dumb yet nice comedy and a movie in which they crashed a prison van to help the prisoner escape so they can kidnap him and torture him,and ended up having a guy who was in for tax fraud,and of course i don't remember its name.

However,the damn ending killed me,they seemed to have done a really nice movie until i saw the ending.

Seriously,they shot the door? And it ended?

Otis was too upset to go to work so chances are the guy they killed was irrelevant.

Give me a break,that was a really sloppy end,as sloppy as the endings of the TV Series episodes which you don't care if they give you closure as you have the next episode to see.

[–] SimplyirreBraggissible 11 years ago

I watched this earlier on AMC and I watched the whole thing on AMC's Halloween marathon, but I have to admit it really did fail at what it was trying to accomplish.

It was supposed to be a dark comedy that parodies horror/serial killer films but it pretty much crapped out towards the middle and is so uneven in tone. It was a fun, kind of entertaining movie but nothing to write home about.

And yeah - I rewatched the end - and it looks like Otis is the dead pizza delivery guy. His face is covered but hes clearly a big guy and fat. It doesn't make much sense why Otis - who knows the address, phone numbers, names of, etc. - of the people hes delivering pizza to and was the main reason he kidnapped Riley going into a buzz-saw goes willingly, maybe hes just totally suicidal at that point. He only associates with two people on Earth: his now-dead brother and "Kim." Maybe he wants to die.

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[–] CaffeineFever 11 years ago

And the fact that he didn't seem to go to work unless his brother made him tells me it wasn't him. Sometimes the ambiguous ending is a good thing but in this case I feel like it was just lazy and stupid. Add to it that the retarded sociopathic brother just discharged a shotgun in a residential area, multiple times through the fackin front door, I don't think the father needs to worry about going to prison anymore. I don't know if it's true in every state but in my state it's mandatory prison time for discharging a firearm in a residential area. I really kind of liked the movie up until then too. I feel like I just ordered a delicious banana split and watched in anticipation as it was brought to my table only to have a bowl full of crap placed in front of me.

[–] SimplyirreBraggissible 11 years ago

^ Pretty much sums it up.

Great premise. Decent script. But the whole movie just imploded on itself and became crap. I don't regret watching it but I'll never sit through it for a second viewing.

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[–] dangus 9 years ago

On reflection, it's obvious that Otis has survived and is waiting for the sequel. All we are shown is a large dead pizza delivery person. Not the person's face, not their car.

[–] HippieDrillSealOfApproval 8 years ago

Yeah, the ending sucked. Overall the film was pretty uneven for me. Great premise and a solid cast but through most of the film the way the characters behaved seemed off kilter and odd and not in a way that enhanced the film. It felt like the filmmakers wanted to make a black comedy but didn't quite know how to execute it.

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