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posted 26-06-2008 21:07
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By the time I got to the end of Seven, I was past caring what would happen.
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posted 26-06-2008 21:12
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posted 26-06-2008 21:16
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I found it tiresome in the extreme. A director doing his level best to shock for no purpose. Which just turned the "shocking" into "boring". And I didn't see any reason to care about any of the people in it.
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posted 26-06-2008 21:25
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I liked it, me. Very stylish (sick) murders (which is what horrors/thrillers need) and a very different and well managed central conceit (ok, that was full of holes, but hey). And I found the ending effective because I thought that Gwyneth Paltrow had earlier produced a good representation of fragility that made the box revelation a real shocker for us at the same time as it hit Brad.
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posted 27-06-2008 07:49
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I found it tiresome in the extreme. A director doing his level best to shock for no purpose.
There's plenty of that shit around. I got around to seeing Saw III on the box a week ago, a sigh-inducing carnival of hollow gross-outs topped by an ending that would prompt the viewer to shout "Oh, Fuck Off!" at the end. Good films with bad endings? How's about bad films with endings designed to make what preceded it even worse than you'd seen?
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posted 27-06-2008 08:59
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How's about bad films with endings designed to make what preceded it even worse than you'd seen?
Ah. You mean Barton Fink.
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posted 27-06-2008 09:59
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I thought the book dedication in "The Lives of Others" was moving.
Hitchcock's "The Birds". It doesn't end, it just stops.
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posted 27-06-2008 14:58
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Thing about 'The Lives Of Others' - it wasn't that it was a happy ending, it was that the 'wrap-up' bit seemed (at least to me) really perfunctory and half-hearted. And cliched. It looked to me as if it had been stuck on at the behest of the studio. And his play just looked appalling - it would have bombed!
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posted 28-06-2008 15:13
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LotR:The Return of the King
An excruciating ending to what had been a perfectly silly movie.
Bad endings kill movies (or any other narrative art form, really) for em. I'd rather watch a mediocre film with a great ending than a great film with a mediocre ending.
A good example of a so-so film with a great ending is Arlington Road (Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins).
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posted 30-06-2008 21:55
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'Orphanage' has a very stiff and unconvincing 'wrap up' ending
I agree with delicatemoth - much too pat. And the very last shot suggests that we won't get what has just come before, which is a litle condescending.
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