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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Oct 19, 2018 20:38:26 GMT
Hadn't seen it for many a year, but having recently joined the site, and gleefully jumping into the Horror Board's October challenge, I thought it was long overdue a revisit. After what I think must be at least 25 years since I saw it the first time, I loved it until there was a point with about 30 minutes to go where I started gritting my teeth in realisation that I hated the ending. Yeah yeah, sue me . I would have had Mia and Cloven Hoof Child jump out the window, but I guess the point is Satanists rule and conquer even Sinatra's then wife! I still marvel at the quality on show, and now own the film, but it bothers me that it bothers me. Anyway, thoughts on Polanski's movie welcome of course, but also interested to know if you have any classic films where you love it in spite of the finale? Dunno if the spoiler thing worked, first time and all that. Forgive me for I know not what I do...  |
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Post by teleadm on Oct 20, 2018 16:07:15 GMT
I agree the ending was a sort of an anticlimax. jumping into absurd black comedy.
For those who haven't seen the movie, I don't wan't to say too much.
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Post by snsurone on Oct 20, 2018 17:40:42 GMT
To tell the truth, I'm underwhelmed by the ending of THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, an otherwise superb movie.
IMHO, it would have been more effective if the final scene was of our heroes together at Homer's wedding, and the three click their champagne glasses as Al toasts "the best years of our lives."
Fade out slowly to "The End".
But no--it ends in the standard Hollywood clinch between Fred and Peggy!
Very anticlimactic, I think.
Welcome to our little family, hitch!
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Post by delon on Oct 20, 2018 19:55:25 GMT
I guess Red River (1948) fits the criteria for me. I love the film, but I honestly wish director Hawks didn't alter the ending from an original novel or at least decided to resolve conflict between Matt and Tom in a different way.
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Post by OldAussie on Oct 20, 2018 20:54:15 GMT
I guess Red River (1948) fits the criteria for me. I love the film, but I honestly wish director Hawks didn't alter the ending from an original novel or at least decided to resolve conflict between Matt and Tom in a different way. Sensational movie with what looks like a hurriedly tacked on happy ending. Still one of my all time favourites though. |
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Post by snsurone on Oct 20, 2018 21:07:01 GMT
I guess Red River (1948) fits the criteria for me. I love the film, but I honestly wish director Hawks didn't alter the ending from an original novel or at least decided to resolve conflict between Matt and Tom in a different way. Sensational movie with what looks like a hurriedly tacked on happy ending. Still one of my all time favourites though. I felt the same way about the find scene of MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS It's as though the production had run out of money, so there was a pasted together ending consisting some of the most stupid dialogue in movie history! |
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Post by llanwydd on Oct 21, 2018 0:44:16 GMT
No Way Out (1987). In my opinion the ending ruins the entire film. If not for that it would be a neo-noir masterpiece.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Oct 21, 2018 1:08:31 GMT
No Way Out (1987). In my opinion the ending ruins the entire film. If not for that it would be a neo-noir masterpiece. I really like the way No Way Out ends |
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Post by Rufus-T on Oct 21, 2018 1:22:43 GMT
Doctor Zhivago - I am not too crazy how it ended, but still love the movie.
No Country For Old Men - though I am slowly coming to term to that ending.
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Post by petrolino on Oct 21, 2018 1:36:15 GMT
Doctor Zhivago - I am not too crazy how it ended, but still love the movie. No Country For Old Men - though I am slowly coming to term to that ending.
I really enjoyed the first two thirds of 'No Country For Old Men'. The final third left such a bitter taste in my mouth I may never revisit it by choice.
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Post by Rufus-T on Oct 21, 2018 2:04:19 GMT
Doctor Zhivago - I am not too crazy how it ended, but still love the movie. No Country For Old Men - though I am slowly coming to term to that ending.
I really enjoyed the first two thirds of 'No Country For Old Men'. The final third left such a bitter taste in my mouth I may never revisit it by choice.
I was pissed when I left the theater. The more I understand the movie, the more I found the ending made sense. It was not a conventional ending. The last 3rd was surely not as interesting as the first 2/3. I saw it a few more times since and enjoyed that first 2/3 very much. I still think that it was a very good movie overall. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2018 2:07:06 GMT
Hadn't seen it for many a year, but having recently joined the site, and gleefully jumping into the Horror Board's October challenge, I thought it was long overdue a revisit. After what I think must be at least 25 years since I saw it the first time, I loved it until there was a point with about 30 minutes to go where I started gritting my teeth in realisation that I hated the ending. Yeah yeah, sue me . I would have had Mia and Cloven Hoof Child jump out the window, but I guess the point is Satanists rule and conquer even Sinatra's then wife! I still marvel at the quality on show, and now own the film, but it bothers me that it bothers me. Anyway, thoughts on Polanski's movie welcome of course, but also interested to know if you have any classic films where you love it in spite of the finale? Dunno if the spoiler thing worked, first time and all that. Forgive me for I know not what I do... I wouldn't sue you, I don't rate the movie at all, although I may consider a rewatch at some time. |
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Post by petrolino on Oct 21, 2018 2:08:46 GMT
I really enjoyed the first two thirds of 'No Country For Old Men'. The final third left such a bitter taste in my mouth I may never revisit it by choice.
I was pissed when I left the theater. The more I understand the movie, the more I found the ending made sense. It was not a conventional ending. The last 3rd was surely not as interesting as the first 2/3. I saw it a few more times since and enjoyed that first 2/3 very much. I still think that it was a very good movie overall. It did make me add the book to my long list of books I'd like to read. I've not read anything yet by Cormac McCarthy who's a giant of American fiction so I do intend to start soon. But considering how talented the Coens are, I found this anti-climax resolutely uncinematic at the time. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2018 2:18:45 GMT
I was pissed when I left the theater. The more I understand the movie, the more I found the ending made sense. It was not a conventional ending. The last 3rd was surely not as interesting as the first 2/3. I saw it a few more times since and enjoyed that first 2/3 very much. I still think that it was a very good movie overall. It did make me add the book to my long list of books I'd like to read. I've not read anything yet by Cormac McCarthy who's a giant of American fiction so I do intend to start soon. But considering how talented the Coens are, I found this anti-climax resolutely uncinematic at the time. I love McCarthy's prose style, except for the lack of quotation marks to indicate dialogue. Why does he get to break the rules? |
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Post by OldAussie on Oct 21, 2018 2:20:17 GMT
No Country For Old Men ending -
1st time I saw it I felt cheated.
2nd time I saw it I was blown away.
My take on it - Llewelyn Moss' fate is inevitable, we don't need to see it. Ed Tom Bell's reaction to all that has happened gives the film its title. The last 10 minutes of the movie is unexpected, audacious, and brilliant.
Of course, I could be wrong.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Oct 21, 2018 7:14:53 GMT
I don't like the ending to Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
I think it's a cheap cop out especially given that at the end of the first film he is so upset that they "blew it up" or assumed they did (how can he be sure?).
Maybe better if the missile didn't work and the apes slaughtered the mutants.
Taylor laughing as he is dying.
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Post by london777 on Oct 22, 2018 3:02:38 GMT
This one does not meet either of your criteria:
Limbo (1999) dir: John Sayles
It is not a great film and you cannot be disappointed with the ending because it does not have an ending. It just stops, as if Sayles had run out of film, or of money. Perhaps he had.
So why do I include it? Because I have always liked John Sayle's work but have found him too self-conscious to be among the greatest directors. Either too nakedly preachy or the threadbare budgets show through. Limbo, however, I was thoroughly enjoying and thinking that at last Sayles had made a movie with a serious story but in a totally entertaining "commercial" style. I really wanted to know what would happen next. Then it just stopped. Was I disappointed!
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Post by london777 on Oct 22, 2018 3:12:05 GMT
No Way Out (1987). In my opinion the ending ruins the entire film. If not for that it would be a neo-noir masterpiece. I agree. That extra twist caused it to fall off the podium. It was not there in The Big Clock (1948) dir: John Farrow, but I do not know if it was in the original novel of the same name by Kenneth Fearing, from which both movies are derived and omitted from the earlier film? Lots of potentially good films from that decade were spoiled by the impulse to add extra twists. I call it the Chubby Checker Syndrome. |
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Oct 22, 2018 6:05:00 GMT
Doctor Zhivago - I am not too crazy how it ended, but still love the movie. No Country For Old Men - though I am slowly coming to term to that ending. The ending to No Country For Old Men is divisive if nothing else. I'm squarely in the YAY camp. |
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Post by hi224 on Oct 22, 2018 6:36:09 GMT
The Stranger does this for me actually.
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