Just caught a flick on Netflix that I'd never heard of called "Peacock", with Cillian Murphy and Ellen Page. Watch the first couple of minutes of this movie and you'll want to watch the whole thing, trust me. The movie overall was pretty good (Cillian Murphy was never in my opinion that great of an actor, after this I'm going to find everything he's ever done), but it got to a point where the main thing you've been waiting to happen is about to happen, and the credits start rolling. Crap! Why do they do that? Anyone else have a movie you really liked until the end?
Good movies with bad endings
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jonks
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SW: EP1. I consider the beginning of the movie the opening scrolling SW cinematic and everything after that is part of the ending.
In the opposite direction, 50 First Dates was a shit movie, and yet the last 5 minutes are awesome, as the film reaches a poignant logical conclusion.
In the opposite direction, 50 First Dates was a shit movie, and yet the last 5 minutes are awesome, as the film reaches a poignant logical conclusion.
Saint Nick
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Totally agree.
Books are worse, you spend a lot more time reading a book to get to a crap ending. My wife read Stephen King's "The Long Walk" and threw the book across the room when she finished it (I personally thought the ending was good).
surfsatwerk
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gorcorps
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Agreed, though the movie lost me much earlier than that.
Specifically:
When he killed people that were pretty much innocent, and had very little connection to the original case and crime. When he killed that young lawyer lady with the car bomb the movie was ruined to me. But maybe that was the point... he got carried away. Still, the movie went downhill quick after that part.
Also,
Hancock w/ Will Smith
Jeeebus
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Steven Seagal dies in
Machete and Executive Decision
The type of scenes you can watch over and over and over.
Oh yea, I love that in
Executive Decision he doesn't get a chance to do anything in the movie, they just had him in there so he could die.
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The movie that was up for an Oscar this year, best actress I think, that involved a young hillbilly ("that's racist!") girl looking for her father.
WTF indeed.
WTF indeed.
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I actually thought the ending to True Grit quite good. It's realistic that she never met those guys again in those days.
How did you want the ending to be?
Ehh nm I think you're talking about Winter's Bone
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Gooberlx2
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What specifically was disappointing?
Maybe I don't remember the ending well enough other than
her dad winds up as dead the whole time. She gets to vacate the warrant and keep the house. Her life and family situation still sucks donkey balls.
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AstroManLuca
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Sunshine. And by "ending" I mean "the entire second half of the movie," which was complete crap because they changed gears from an interesting if implausible sci-fi movie to ZOMBIES IN SPAAAAACE.
Why can't anyone make a suspenseful movie where the antagonist is nature itself? They always start that way but they have to go for the cheap thrills and include a monster of some kind. And instead of suspense they just go for as much blood and gore as possible.
Why can't anyone make a suspenseful movie where the antagonist is nature itself? They always start that way but they have to go for the cheap thrills and include a monster of some kind. And instead of suspense they just go for as much blood and gore as possible.
Castaway. Tom Hank's character goes through all of those challenges and emerges as a man who has conquered nature and survived. Then what happens? He comes home and his wife kicks him to the curb because it would be unfair to her new husband to try to recapture their past. Then he goes on a ridiculous package delivery trip and the movie ends like a deflated balloon.
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