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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2018 1:17:21 GMT
Which would you prefer at the end?
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Jul 30, 2018 3:10:39 GMT
Which would you prefer at the end? Sounds mean if you preferred the actual ending. I prefer because it's tragic. To be blown away by a posse after surviving the night? It sucks for Ben but better for the film if that makes sense. |
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jul 30, 2018 8:16:17 GMT
Ben survives. I never liked the ending.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2018 8:19:09 GMT
Ben dies.
Whether intentional or not, it adds a good racism element to the end.
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Post by PreachCaleb on Jul 30, 2018 14:50:29 GMT
It's a better ending the way it is.
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Post by HorrorMetal on Jul 30, 2018 14:57:28 GMT
I like Ben, he's one of my favorite horror protagonists, but I think the shocking ending is part of what makes the film so great and thus should remain intact. They really ruined it in the 1990 version.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jul 30, 2018 20:36:21 GMT
The ending is ambiguous. If he was white he may have been shot too. There's not enough information to suggest they were motivated by racial considerations, just trigger-happy.
The underlying message is that a socially organized militia that forms in response to a dangerous element is somehow monstrous in its own way--however, if you were in a house with flesh-eating zombies lurking outside, you probably wouldn't see rescuers that way.
It's not a common sense message, more of a philosophical one that it one-sided for the sake of social commentary.
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Post by rogerthat on Jul 30, 2018 22:11:50 GMT
Original ending of Ben dying. It just adds more bleakness to the film and underscores that the undead are not nearly as dangerous as fellow living humans
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Aug 1, 2018 1:04:00 GMT
Ben's death was a sad but appropriate way to end the film. I wouldn't dream of changing it.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Aug 1, 2018 2:35:22 GMT
On another similar note what about the ending of 'Dawn of the Dead'. Francine Parker suicide by thrusting her head in to helicopter blades and Peter Washington killing himself was a possible ending. I like the ambiguous ending and Peter knowing running low fuel just says 'All right'.
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Post by Nicko's Nose on Aug 1, 2018 7:29:09 GMT
The ending is perfect as it is.
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Post by novastar6 on Aug 6, 2018 5:56:24 GMT
Yes, the ending is classic, it makes the film what it is, but let's be real, SOMEBODY should've survived after all that crap.
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Post by James on Sept 11, 2018 3:15:38 GMT
As sad it was to see him go, I think the ending was justified well, considering how the movie is presented as this hopeless nightmare, and anything can go wrong. Leaves chills down your spine. Therefore, I say keep Ben's death.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Sept 11, 2018 13:11:28 GMT
It's one of the all-time great endings, it suits the mood perfectly.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Sept 16, 2018 11:51:52 GMT
The ending is essentially the point of the movie. Romero could get up his own ass with social commentary and politics sometimes, but this was the right way to do it.
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Post by jonesjxd on Oct 10, 2018 10:38:19 GMT
Good question, which would I prefer. If we were talking about the 1990 version with Tony Todd I absolutely wish he had lived, but I absolutely love his last shot alive in the movie, wounded, sitting in the basement smoking his last cigarette and laughing realizing the keys were in the place he didn't want to go the entire movie. In the original Ben presents himself as a cool headed guy, but he is every bit of the same breed of stubborn asshole that Cooper is, but he arguably treats people even worse than Cooper does. Not to say I wanted him to die, but he deserved to suffer the same fate as Cooper.
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