About the ending


Could the director not think up a better ending? Talk about lack of creativity! Everything up to that point was good.

B+

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It felt like he was trying to be edgy or artistic or something. I bet he could talk for hours about the meaning of the ending.

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The ending was a phoned-in disappointment and any attempt to "artistically" explain it would only set off *beep* detectors.

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True, but its all the rage with independent movies.

It's more credible to say "I didn't want to pigeon hole the ending like any major studio product would, by forcing a resolution on the viewer, I wanted to let them decide for themselves what happened next"

which can easily be substituted for "I couldn't think of a way to end it and ran out of time or money for a decent screen writer"

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True, but its all the rage with independent movies.

It's more credible to say "I didn't want to pigeon hole the ending like any major studio product would, by forcing a resolution on the viewer, I wanted to let them decide for themselves what happened next"

which can easily be substituted for "I couldn't think of a way to end it and ran out of time or money for a decent screen writer"


Bingo.

Since when does properly resolving your story translate into "major studio pigeon holing"? There's nothing risky or cute about this type of ending, it just feels lazy.

Call me old fashioned, but as a paying audience member I expect and demand there to be some kind of resolution/climax, even if its not the one I want, there should still be one. This movie simply ends with no clear winner or loser and makes the whole film look moronic.

Don't try to cash in love, that check will always bounce.

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100% agree. The ending indeed sucked. As they were walking away with the music swelling i was going: "No, no!" because i knew the credits were about to roll...
no closure about anything, the baby, the job, his marriage. Very, very unrewarding experience, especially since the rest of the movie was fairly enjoyable, so this was really annoying and disappointing.

"the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing"

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Agree. It seemed like a total cheesy cop out.

"Love isn't what you say or how you feel, it's what you DO". (The Last Kiss)

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W T F!

this ending was ridiculous!

they didn't even bother to write an ending. just - everything works out! don't worry about how!

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everything does not work out at all. it was a totally cynical ending. figure out the message of the film.


sheesh
§ Al-Qaeda, Jihad, Great Satan, bomb, explosive, death, Allah

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if you figured out the theme of the movie the ending makes sense.

sheesh.

§ Al-Qaeda, Jihad, Great Satan, bomb, explosive, death, Allah

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Lazy writing at the end. Make that no writing at the end, it basically just shut down.

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The ending sucked! Lazy! I want to know how things worked out. Don't show me it did without showing me how. Very frustrating!

Aliens are taking over the earth. Weigh it!

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Meh, all movies are not the same. Some have neat endings, some don't. Haven't you ever read a novel or short story with an open ending? It forces you to take the whole narrative as a whole and reflect on it. When you force a narrative to be a steep downward hill towards a big ending, the rest ends up not mattering at all.

This movie wasn't perfect but I found the ending to be in line with the rest of the movie.

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I thought it was obvious but here it is..

Pete takes the executive job he was offered by the headhunter who called near the end. He was reluctant to do it because he wanted to follow his passion with music. However, ever since his wife found out about to affair, in order to save the marriage he takes the job. Thus him moving to west coast and being well off with his family.
She of course stays with him and 'forgives' him because the money was right (hence title price check).

Mandy of course got the job she wanted and is in west coast as well, nothing hard there.

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Yeah that was my impression too. He moves to the west coast and is forced to take the corporate job (that's why he's gotta work on Sunday at the end). Basically sells out and takes the higher paying job for the sake of his family. The ending was pretty pointless, kinda like this movie.

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Not that much of a beginning or middle either, but hey: It's great to see Parker Posey in anything.

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I agree w/you.

The movie kinda seemed to go all over the place and then the ending was just like there.

I did like the ironic plot twist about him ONLY attending Dartmouth & NOT actually graduating from there.

The rest of the movie was pretty hysterically funny. I esp laughed @ the part where PP actually is on the floor having a temper tantrum. LOL

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Yeah, I assumed he took the corporate job for his family's sake. There may be some doubt as to the paternity of the baby, but she did tell him he didn't have to have anything to do with him. It worked out.

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warmfire,

that was my impression too.

it was an odd movie, though. LOL

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