MovieChat Forums > Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) Discussion > wtf at the ending?

wtf at the ending?

posted 16 years ago by venuism
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I am flabbergasted, was expecting some kind of closure &c. Just wow I am shook. Maybe it's because I am just young but still.

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[–] brian577 15 years ago

I know right? Terrible ending, I dropped my rating for the movie a whole point just because of it.

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[–] fang123horn 15 years ago

I actually LOVE the ending, it was SO WTF? It felt like something the Coen Brothers or Terry Gilliam would've done.

[–] brian577 15 years ago

I was thinking more like Monty Python

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[–] DrakeStraw 15 years ago

... Terry Gilliam ...

I was thinking more like Monty Python.

Actually, I enjoyed Michael Palin's Around the World in 80 Days (1989) more than Michael Todd's version. Both strayed from Verne's route, but only slightly.

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[–] doowopfan 11 years ago

Maybe the worst ending I've ever seen.

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[–] JacintoCupboard 9 years ago

We live in an era when people commonly talk for longer and about more than they need to.

The story was finished. All the ends were wrapped up. I'm happy with it.

God knows what these complainers would have made of the end to Hamlet.

[–] rsgre 9 years ago

"Tongue in cheek ending", it worked in 1956, the audience got their laugh ! The End...

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[–] SilverGameDog 9 years ago

I agree.
The movie just ended. It was so abrupt. Couldn't they have wrapped it up better with a kiss at the wedding and a slow fade out?

[–] KhurramAtta 9 years ago

That was a very unexpected ending. I wanted the movie to have some closure too.

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[–] movieghoul 9 years ago

Fogg won the wager and found true love as well. That's not closure?

[–] CalibMcBolts 8 years ago

What was the ending? I dont remember, nor do i remember it being a bad ending? I love this movie alltogether

[–] tmf_scipio 8 years ago

Fogg arrives at the Reform Club just as the clock is chiming. He says good evening to them, they respond in kind. The princess comes walking into the room. Hinshaw drops his tray of drinks. One member says: Good lord, a woman... in the club!
Fogg tells her that no woman has ever set foot in the Reform Club, stating that it would be the end of the British Empire. A painting falls off the wall, as Passepartout comes in a window. Cut to Robert Morley who says: This is the End.
Roll credits.

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