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Bad ending Spoiler

posted 9 years ago by joed1667
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****Spoiler alert**** Don't want anyone to be offended if they go any further.

Why did they end this with too many unknowns. To me, the perfect ending would've been when the pickup drives by and the occupant yells profanities at Robert Downey Jr.'s character, that the moment he raised his hands, instead of saying that this is where he's from, he should've said "I'm not going anywhere!" and then the movie ends.

[–] stbarabas 9 years ago

Because that would have been cheesy. The open ended questions with him looking at the judges chair and maybe coming back for some cake etc. were to just let you think maybe he is going to stay. Answering it outright would have been a horrible ending.

[–] joed1667 9 years ago

Cheesy is an ending that leaves you hanging. At least the one I proposed would've at least answered whether he decided to stay or not. Looking at an empty chair does not.

[–] simbatopcat 9 years ago

I like your ending much better then him looking at an empty chair!

[–] basildave 8 years ago

Yeah... also the closure with his father right before he dies was very contrived and unrealistic. Unfortunately, that's coming from first hand experience, where my father and I were estranged when he died but there was no closure and I suspect that's true for many families. The "you're the best lawyer" thing was bad as well.

[–] justanicknamed 8 years ago

IMO, it was good because it wasn't over-blown. They both saw their own faults and that the other wasn't nearly as bad as they thought they were.

[–] crissttigaldames 8 years ago

Cheesy is an ending that leaves you hanging. At least the one I proposed would've at least answered whether he decided to stay or not.

No, that's not what cheesy means.
The film doesn't need to answer whether he decided to stay or not. It's just fine to leave some open questions. Just as it's fine to answer all of them. This movie for that matter didn't leave the audience hanging on the most important issue in the movie.

Yeah... also the closure with his father right before he dies was very contrived and unrealistic. Unfortunately, that's coming from first hand experience, where my father and I were estranged when he died but there was no closure and I suspect that's true for many families.

Wait, so you think it was "contrived and unrealistic" because it wasn't your personal experience?. That makes no sense.

"Many" is not "all" families either. Other families do find closure.

For that matter, maybe the writer of this movie had an experience like yours and that's precisely what made him write a story where reconciliation and closure DO happen.

[–] kenburke0627 8 years ago

I had no problems with the ending.