Anyone else think that Bob screaming "Riiitttchie" with the sad guitar melody, then silence through out the entire credits would have been better. The peppy live performance snaps you out of a perfectly executed intensely emotion ending, which to me ruins it.
shareYeah, it was odd, I guess they didn't want to end it on a totally sad note, but it would have been better if they had.
sharethey should have ended the movie with the song "American Pie" playing over the credits...that's what I was expecting how it would go...
shareYeah, I can see where the OP is coming from. Something like American Pie may have worked better, or at least something a little quieter. Perhaps an original song or heck maybe even a reprise of "Sleepwalking."
shareThat was about Buddy Holly.
shareI think a zombie Richie should have emerged from his grave, followed by zombies Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and the pilot.
The Big Bopper could then yell "Hello Baaaaby!", and then they could all then start dancing to Thriller by Michael Jackson.
Then the words "THE END?" appear on the screen.
That could set the movie up for a sequel.
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shareNot really. The performance added both poignancy to the ending, plus (go figure!) the song performed was the title of the movie.
Besides, if it'd ended quietly some would've said it was simply copying the quiet credit roll at the end of The Buddy Holly Story.
As for American Pie as an end credits song, it wouldn't have fit because the lyrics which allude to the crash refer to BUDDY HOLLY rather than Ritchie. I mean, the film indicates that Ritchie was hoping for a long future with Donna, but the lyrics, at one point, talk about thinking about "his blushing bride".
That would be Buddy's wife, not Donna.
Bob screaming Ritchie at the end was over the top and cheesy to me. This movie was crap then and still stinky today.
shareTotally agree.
shareI agree showing the "La Bamba" video clip during the closing credits didn't fit too well, but then it changes to "Come On Lets Go" with no video which I think leaves it with a more haunting feel. Remember though 1987 was in the heyday of MTV and pumping that La Bamba clip was an important part of the commercial product. Another possible ending would have been old video or stills of the real Richie Valens accompanied by a few of his hit songs, the drawback of course being it would reveal how little Lou Diamond Phillips looks like Valens.
shareThey should've played the Santo & Johnny full version of "Sleepwalk" again over the end credits.
shareI agree...but this is a fairly common device in Hollywood when the protagonist dies. Apparently Hollywood feels the viewing public can't handle the star dying at the end and being sad and mopey, so they need to give us a last look at our beloved star ALIVE, or at their height.
Some of the movies that have done this escape me right now, but I've seen it plenty. One in particular that was very weird and stands out to me was William Petersen in To Lie and Die in LA. He gets shot in the face with a shotgun near the end, and then at the very very end, we get several live shots of Petersen from earlier in the movie...did the director think we forgot about him or something?
And of course in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, is shows all of the DEAD buddies together again in the end, having "Boat Drinks".
And even if you think about Pulp Fiction: sure some scenes are shown out of sequence and in flashback, but in the ending, you see Vincent Vega, who of course we know gets killed by Butch later in the timeline (but earlier in the movie).
But I'm with you...it's unneccessary and somewhat insulting to the viewer.
Interesting.
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I agree. That was a very poor way to go out. I'm assuming the producer was bent on the idea of not making the audience feel bummed out as they left the theater.
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