Am I the only one who found the final shot of Hawk's body on the moon, accompanied by Frank Sinatra, to be so very, extremely disturbing? I mean, I get what the filmaker was trying to do, and I suppose its a fitting end. But I can't help thinking about him, stuck up there, slowly suffocating. The whole way it was put together just strikes me as morbid.
shareSorry, I don't find Hawks body on the moon nearly as disturbing as being stuck in a hospital bed being eaten alive from the inside by pancreatic cancer.
He'll die in 5 minutes (suffocating, if his air runs out, or freezing, if the battery to the heater in his space suit runs dry first).
He'll die a glorious death, he'll reach the moon (or his remains will at least).
Don't forget, he's also saving the world from six falling nuclear warheads. I know they probably won't detonate when they fall, but if they hit the US or Europe, they could still potentially start a war, (Orbiting nukes are a BIG treaty violation).
He gets to the moon before any of his buddies, dies a hero, and get's to meet his maker after doing something positive. (I know we're not saved by works, but they probably don't hurt, regardless of your theology).
"Not all who drink are poets...some of us drink because we're not poets"
What would you know B-29 clone?
(I agree btw)
SpiltPersonality
He said it himself when they were at the Blackbird (right after he learns of his cancer): It's a lousy way to die sitting there on the ground [paraphrased]. He also said he didn't want the chemo and all. It's a very fitting end for him.
shareAnd what suffering a slow and painfully agonizing death from pancreatic cancer?
Look at what Patrick looked like before his illness.
Then picture him days before his death
It must have been an agonizingly painful way to go.
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I'm reminded of an ER episode where the planes collided "Two Ships" Dr. Greg Pratt could only keep his patient alive by continuously giving him CPR. A family member of the patient asked what would happen to him when they stopped? He would simply fall asleep, no pain.
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I'd rather go with no pain. Hawk slowly suffocating would have made him pass out like he was going to sleep.
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Let's weigh the options:
Suffocation (quick, painless) -OR- Pancreatic Cancer (no cure, painful)
mash_fan_101
I think I tend to agree. It might have been better to just pan to the moon, with the song, and fade out.
shareIf you were dying and had the opportunity to make a lifelong dream come true, wouldn't you consider it a great moment?
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I thought it was a bit creepy to see his lifeless body just laying there. I understand the whole rather die on the moon his lifelong dream than to die of cancer. I would of rather seen a happier ending. Maybe a final shot of him happily alive arriving on the moon and but we would still know his fate. Rather than just see him dead laying there. A dark end a comedic movie.
shareDisturbing because it reveals the ignorance or laziness of the filmmakers.
shareYou think he'd be slowly suffocating?
Really?
Let me ask you this - after riding 6 rockets (or however many there were) at full thrust and then ALSO adding the fairly negligible gravitational pull of the moon - he'd be squashed like a bug when he arrived - SPLAT.
SpiltPersonality
.. it's a victory for him. Hawk fulfilled his dream. Who gives a damn if he died? We all die but Hawk died doing what he wanted. I'm amused at people like yourself who regard the scene as 'disturbing'.
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