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Great Ending/Revenge is Sweet (SPOILER)

posted 19 years ago by joeann_21
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I caught most of the movie last nite on Fox network (uncut it seemed also), sorry that I missed the first 1/2 hour though. I caught onto to the plot and the movie was pretty interesting, though it did somewhat remind me of DePalma's other earlier movie, Carrie. But in any case Amy Irving was great and John Cassavettes was a great scoundral, he seems to be natural at that.

I usually don't like blood and guts gore in horror films, but I loved how at the end Irving gets Cassavettes blown to bits as he deserved nothing less.

[–] gorgsharpy 19 years ago

Don't you see that De Palma blew up Cassavettes just knowingly to give you exactly what you longed for. Revenge. And you bought it, swallowed it carelessly down and accepted it as justified.

[–] rrb 19 years ago

Your point?

[–] WarpedRecord 19 years ago

He won't be back. They never come back. And yes, it's always a he.

[–] universaldennis 12 years ago

Exactly! It's AWESOME!

[–] Explorerfrey10 11 years ago

It wasn´t revenge. It was a necessity. It´s the rebellion of people like Amy against the state, that wants to abuse them for their own needs and then throw them in a dustbin, when they are no longer needed. She knows she has to flee from that place if she wants to survive and save her life, her family and that of others like her, including their families. That means among other things she has to deal with Cassavettes mercilessly and with all the others, who stand in her way in this matter.

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[–] brandomarlon2003 18 years ago

It was a great ending but the effects looked fake. I know it was just the 1970's and things hadn't evolved but I still have to say it looked fake and wasn't disgusting to me.

[–] youngmancane_13 18 years ago

He exploded in a big cloud of blood. What more do you want?

[–] MoreBS 18 years ago

He didn't just explode...HE EXPLODED 13 TIMES!(Yeah, I was sad enough to scan back and count)

Even for a De Palma film, this was a bit much.

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[–] trozosdeunachicaenrusia 18 years ago

It was an awful ending. Illogical, badly acted, and predictable.

It does not make much sense that Cassavettes went unprepared to talk with the girl, when he knows that she is dangerous and has seen everything. De Palma saw that the "bad guy" had to die, because the script leave no other option, and the villain has not enough charisma to survive w/o the spectator feeling bad about it.

The effects are OK for 1978, but not so good to see them 13 times (if we rely on MoreBS).

I love Amy Irving but when she is doing those moves when she is preparing the explosion it seems laughable, on the other side Cassavettes didn't seems to give a damn about the whole movie and one can imagine him laughing out loud when he saw the final scene.

[–] tnp91-1 17 years ago

Even though Amy Irving's acting was a bit cheesy, I still enjoyed the body exploding scene at the end of the movie better than the ones in Scanners. The main thing that I loved was the fact that back then, movies didn't used C.G. (computer graphics) special effects, so the murder scenes looked better and scarier and definitely not fake than the ones that they use now in todays movies.

[–] movieperson113 17 years ago

Well I don't know about the ending being ILLOGICAL.

If you can believe in psychic powers then immediately you can throw logic right out of the door in this movie.

Both Stevens and Irving have the same powers in the movie. So near the end when the guy lies dying he seems to tranfer his powers to her.

Since they both can make people bleed from the inside out with Irving's character not really knowing how to totally control her powers in a fit of fear and rage make the guy explode seems plausible in the realm of this fictional work.

[–] jmillerdp 11 years ago

While I love many, many other horror movies much more than "The Fury," this film easily has the best ending to a horror movie ever!

When I saw the film at 14, I wasn't into gore. But, I was absolutely floored by the insane ending, with gallons upon gallons of blood, and the dozen-plus edits of the scene, from every angle and with every level of regular and slow motion.

Supposedly, Rick Baker and company were practically astounded themselves at the amazing amount of fake blood they were using! Trivia-wise, this film was one of the few pairings of film's greatest creature effects artists, Rick Baker and Rob Bottin (who went on to do Carpenter's version of "The Thing.").

Plus, the absolute perfection of the final slow-motion image where Cassavete's fake head spins in the air, right in the center of the frame, is priceless! Making that happen, given the complexity of the scene, is beautiful!

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[–] sillyspaghetti 10 years ago

Ha! I love this ending as well. It's poetic justice. That POS was using Robin and Gillian to exploit their powers. That ended up with Robin killing Susan (very disturbing, in my humble opinion), falling to his own death and his father committing suicide following it all.

I thought I recognised the title of the film. And, after watching it again just now, I remembered having seen it before. It still is kinda freaky and I was pretty darn scared seeing it as a kid.

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