can someone just tell me how this ends??
i really wanted to see the movie but it wasn't playing anywhere near me. i read the book, and liked how it ended, but i was just curious if they changed the ending like they do in most movies.
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It was lame. They're about to say their vows and Tom just says "without words I have nothing so Lila says she'll say the words for him then it rains and everyone runs away....I didn't get it. lol
shareyeah that was stupid. not a good movie either imho..
sharePlus Tom said: without words i am nothing... i guess they didn't push through with the wedding...
shareWhen he said "With out words, I have nothing" and Lila responded with something like "I'll just say it for you" I feel like it summed up the entire movie. Words symbolizes Laura (Katie Holmes) because, in the more obvious sense, she's a writer, but also because "Ode to a Nightengale" played a role in their relationship and their reunion before the wedding. Tom was terrified of his relationship with Laura and how crazy it made him and Lila made him feel safe. Still, he obviously liked still having Laura around and being able to go back to her whenever he wanted. Tom really can't ever make a decision - even something small like what side his hair should be parted on.
Lila loved Tom, but I think she knew - just as her mother tried to hint to her and all of her friends discussed - that he would never completely be hers. It hurts her, I think, but she spends most of the story in a state of conflicted denial. As a result of this, she thinks she can make things happen the way she wants them to. If she pursues what she wants enough, she believes it will happen to her. That's why she's so controlled in everything - even her little sip of alcohol, piece of candy, cigarette routine.
Laura, at the same time, has a hard time letting go. She has all of the same friends - even though they drive her nuts sometimes and she can't be honest about how she feels with them. She drives the same car. She loves the same guy.
I'm not saying Tom should be with Laura or Lila or anyone really. I just think the ending symbolizes all of the main conflicts in the plot. It's meant to be slightly ambiguous, in my opinion. The only clear message I really saw came with the rain. They all fought so hard to be something and keep their secrets and make things perfect, but the rain was saying that you can't force things and you can't always plan things out. Sometimes they just happen.
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that summed up the movie perfectly
sharethat is a great post! I really liked this film I found it very engaging.
shareYou actually made me like the movie a little bit more after reading your post.. Well said!
shareEveryone thinks Tom was ambivalent, but clearly he knew exactly who he wanted. It's easy to write Lila off because she's such a stick in the mud, but the harsh reality is Tom proposed to Lila, not Laura. Who he loved is immaterial because he made his choice. I felt for Laura, but when a man chooses someone else in front of God and everybody, it's time to move on.
shareI disagree. Tom is a Hubble- as in The Way We Were. He was not brave enough to be with someone who made him so happy and excited. He was a swim champ, yet he was scared of the water. Same thing, he was in love with Laura- but was scared about how excited, intense and happy they were. I think the rain and the yell of emotion- at the end symbolizes that he was no longer afraid of the water anymore.
shareGreat post Musicfreak! It's so refreshing to read a clear cogent intelligent post from somebody. It's so rare. Thank you.
shareI strongly disliked the ending but reading your post almost made me reconsider... I love posts likes these.. wonderfull job @brizzosaurus
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It was lame. i didnt get the ending to the movier either. did katie holmes and josh duhamel end up together or not? the ending kinda pissed me off. i think that i wacthed the whole movie for no reason.
shareDo you thing Lila and Tom got married or was the rain a sign that it wasn't meant to be?
shareI think it was his *beep* way out. No they did not get married.
sharethe point of the ending is that Tom had never made a decision for himself. he didn't want to go through with the wedding but he didn't have the courage. the rain made his decision for him. Tom was ambiguous throughout the entire film, even going as far as having to ask his friends which side to part his hair on. the reason he thought Lila was the one should marry is because she never really gave him options and she was controlling. she even asked if she could say his vows for him at their wedding. Tom and Laura even have a discussion about his ambivalence at one point. Tom had no idea what he really wanted.
shareDo you thing Lila and Tom got married or was the rain a sign that it wasn't meant to be?
shareI definitely felt the rain was a sign that Tom and Lila were definitely not meant to be together but leaves you uncertain whether Tom and Laura will get together
shareThat ending was horrible. The film sucked.
shareIn the book it was much the same ending but Tom tells Laura he can't go through with the marriage and in the movie he kind of just screams at the top of his lungs and Laura laughs.
shareI think they do a good job implying that Laura and Tom will be together. The wedding stops, and the two of them are left laughing in the rain. Symbolism, anyone? plus, they both acknowledge in the movie that they had a perfect love, and he is just scared of that. I liked the ending. I just wish they had given Laura the line "Love is like an ocean". And I also wish they had showed the "two truths and a lie" game played in the book.
shareI thought the ending was great. One of my favorite things about an otherwise so-so movie. It's clearly implied Laura and Tom will end up together and the wedding isn't going to happen.
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Sounds like a good book! I also inferred that they would be together. It wasn't all laid out for us, but I definitely took the rain as a sign it wasn't meant to be, and they were the only two out in the rain, soul mates, really. It's like their attempts to be apart are thwarted and they have to be together. :)
shareI also thought it was a good ending. Tom knew he would be miserable with Lila and that he never stopped loving Laura. Too bad Lila was so stubborn about hearing and denying the truth. It would be good to read the book now that I have a picture of the characters in my mind.
shareI quite liked the ending too, and I loved the movie on the whole.
I suppose I get why most people are on Tom's side here, but I definitely felt for Lila the most. Tom is stringing two women along and Laura is sleeping with her friends fiancée - Lila, to me, is the only one not doing anything wrong.
(Just throwing it out there. I do understand where Tom and Laura are coming from, and I get that Lila seems to be quite a difficult person and perhaps not a perfect friend - but still, I'm on her side in this.)
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I tend to like the preppy movies but this was so flimsy. The ending would have had greater impact if the rest of the movie had allowed you to get invested in the characters.
I kind of felt there was an unspoken element to Lila's character. Getting together with and then marrying her best friend's ex (whom she dated for 5 years!!) is strange behavior considering how different Lila and Tom were to begin with. I felt for Laura most of the movie, even if she were the one to break it off with Tom in the years past, it was Lila who broke the bond of friendship in my opinion.
shareare you kidding? lila stepped into lauras teritory when she started dating the man laura was still involved with, along with a string of other things lila copied off laura. Laura was the one who got the run around. and Tom needs a kick up the bum for letting his soul mate down the way he did.
share^This is what I got out of the ending too but honestly Tom isn't mature enough to be in a relationship. In fact none of the "romantics" were mature but I won't talk about all of them. Lila was immature because she started dating a man who was dating her best friend and then turns a blind eye when her fiance is obviously not over his ex. I didn't buy his reason for being "afraid" during his and Laura's relationship. His nonsensical excuse sounded like the typical fear of commitment and loss of "freedom." He never seemed committed to marrying Lila and always seemed distracted and uncomfortable around her (which Lila pretended not to notice.) And after his passionate poetry-soaked reunion with Laura hours before the wedding, what kind of jerk then acts like nothing happened and still intends to get married to another woman? ~One who refuses to man-up and make a choice. I liked Katie Holmes in this btw.
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i think its obvious that Tom and Laura did end up together...it was a stupid ending but they wasted all these years of not being together so yeah I think the audience really should have no doubt that Tom and Laura finally end up together...the rain was def a symbol that Tom/Lila were just NOT meant to be ..i wish at least the writers would have told us what each character ended up doing w/their lives at the end- the only thing I am certain of is that Tom/Laura actually do end up together, but to me that was a given. I wanted to know more about the other characters, the ones that were married, and the other ones who were single...dumb ending; liked that Tom/Laura ended up together though bc they had so much chemistry than Tom/Lila..To me it seemed like Lila just was going thru the motions through out the whole movie and she only was getting married just to do it (no reason at all, bc i don't think she really loved Tom anyway)...
shareI guess I am the only one who feels they went ahead with the wedding. she making sure she would say and do what was needed for it to happen. The film indicates this ending more so then he and Laura getting together. It's funny how posters see movies [including myself] how we want to see them verses what the movies actually is trying to say. I do not like Romantic movies ending on weather they do or don't get together. It makes whom you root for a definitely maybe and it sometimes just does not work.
shareI'm on that "they went ahead with the wedding" boat as well. Sure the rain washed away all the rituals and formalities, giving Laura and Tom a moment to embrace their true feelings. But thunderstorms are known to last only for a while. Everyone will eventually come back and go ahead with the original plan one way or another.
shareah, dont expect an ending cos it doesnt give you one!.
i dont believe it suggested one way or the other if the wedding went ahead or not
and so what was the reason for telling a story if it doesn't have an end? i think some people maybe need to get some career advice (writers obviously)!.
It starts to rain, everyone goes inside except the love birds, who stay in the rain staring at each other.
shareI think it shows that Josh the Groom was saved by God from actually marry the Anna pacquin character. I think we can assume based on the look between Katie Holmes and Josh Duhamel that they end up together.
shareIt ended with the realization that I just completely wasted two hours of my life. That movie was horrible.
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