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A movie with an ending you liked even though many didn't?


"Jacob's Ladder"

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No Country for Old Men

It was in the typically and deliberately ambiguous Coen brothers style.

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what's ambiguous about it?

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It’s straight forward.

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For one thing, the viewer is left wondering what became of Chigurh.

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you could say that about a lot of characters in any movie, but that's not the same as saying the ending to the story being told is ambiguous. As the other poster said, it's pretty clear.

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Why would an explanation like this even be necessary unless the ending contained ambiguity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l37O0iZxfGw And like I already mentioned, anyone who's familiar with the Coen brothers knows it's a key element in their style.

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If it's an ambiguous ending, it can't be explained. You're conflating some people not getting "it" with "it" not being there or "it" being left open to any number of directions. Yes, you have to pay attention. Yes, you have to think. No, that doesnt make it ambiguous. That's why I asked what you found ambiguous. You gave me something that applies to every movie and now a video going over the entire film (which I agree with 90% -- but there's some glaring omissions) with "Ending Explained" in its title. It doesnt say "Ending Unclear" or "Ending Open". There's plenty of films with intentionally ambiguous endings, where the viewer is invited to fill in the final blanks. This isnt one of them. The Coens followed McCarthy on this one.

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Wrong ! It's apparent you don't have a clear understanding of the word. Ambiguity is about questions, vagueness, speculation. So, Bell ruminating about his dreams wouldn't require some of that ? The video was about the ending, not the entire film, which indicates even further that you have comprehension problems. The example I gave you applies to every movie? What a boneheaded response. I've wasted more than enough time on your pseudo intellectual babble. Go back to school but it probably won't do any good.

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That's what I thought. You cant give anything but Chigurh's future and then a video as a stand in for the ambiguity in the ending you can't come up with yourself. Tell me more about the Coens style but the only thing you can mention is something so silly as that. I guess Silence of the Lambs has an ambiguous ending too -- b/c for one, what became of Lecter?! And two, what became of Starling?! That patented Jonathan Demme ending that leaves more questions than answers!

And the video uses "Ending Explained" as a grabber when so much of it goes over the setup, genre, thematics, style, etc as a way to inform the explanation of that ending. And no, Bell's dreaming isnt cryptic at all. It's yet another example of the statement being made throughout. Just b/c you needed a video to hold your hand and spell it all out doesnt mean it's ambiguous. There's thousands of videos like that for films. Some viewers being unable to see it doesnt mean it's not there to be seen. No Country isnt Barton Fink. Pay attention and you'd see the difference.

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Yadda, yadda, yadda

If anyone needs hand holding, repeatedly going over the same ground and having something pointed out....it's you. There's no way you could agree with 90% of that video (which you now are trying to discredit) yet remain so inanely fixated on the word "ambiguous." I mean, it's really beginning to look obsessive. And you're not even arguing constructively but quibbling over nonsensical mental connections. Do you feel a need to argue tonight just for the sake of it? It sure looks like it. Or are you stoned or half drunk? If that's the case, I can halfway understand it.

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Yadda, yadda, yadda


Clever and original. Well played.

And the rest a desperate attempt to obfuscate. B/c despite being such a Coen connoisseur, you could only redirect to a link to give the analysis you couldn't. I guess Googling the title and "ambiguous ending" is the best you can do when looking inward yields only "for one thing, the viewer is left wondering what became of Chigurh". B/c explanation videos exist is the other thing? Who would bring up a movie without being able to give chapter and verse as to why it fits the description they just put forth?




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*Yawn*

Just more convoluted psychobabble. I guess you don't have the excuse of being stoned or half drunk. There isn't enough boredom in the world to compel me to keep responding to you.

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yet you just did

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Since you can't comprehend plain English, I guess it's absurd of me to think that you could read between the lines.

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replying again?

and who's obsessed and... drunk? stoned? frothing at the mouth?

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a lot of people seemed to be underwhelmed by 'it comes at night's ending, but i thought it was wonderfully bleak & grim.

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Apocalypse now.

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I loved the ending to Jacob's Ladder.

I would say Return of the King. I know that the sheer length of the ending(s) and the deviations from the book had a lot of people annoyed, but I liked all the endings. I invested so much time into those movies that I wanted time to say goodbye. I do understand why others didn't though.

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I love that ending. The only real mistake ROTK suffers from in my opinion is leaving out the death of Saruman.

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I haven't watched the non extended versions in so long I had forgotten that they left that out of the theatrical version.

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It's such a weird edit so i can understand you would. By all logic it should have been in there. Christopher Lee was pissed about it. It's not like they even explain what happened to him in another scene, so unless you watch the extension you have no idea. I think they might've said something vague about him being trapped in his tower forever, but it's not good film making or story telling to completely leave out the fate for what was the main villain in the last movie.

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The Blair Witch Project

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Love that ending!

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People have a problem with that ending?

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You kidding? It's a very polarizing movie. People either love it or hate it.

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Never heard that about the ending specifically.

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There's a whole bunch of people who piss and moan that you don't get to see anything

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Wow, I don't get that. That would've ruined it.

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Agree

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Secret Window

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The Cowboys 1972

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Nightmare City (1980)

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