Okay so i knew that she wasn't going to drink the water from the spring. but all through the scene where she was running her hand through it i was like "come on just drink it" and yeah it was a good ending and i don't think it would have been a better movie if it ended with them together, but still...it would have been cool.
Thank-you muchly
Zoe
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I just couldn't stand that movie. It made me cry more than anything else. It didn't have a happy ending.
Some say, 'Yes, it did. Winnie fell in love and had a long, happy, full life.'
Well then why didn't they make a frickin movie on her and her new husband, then?! Rather than make Tuck visit the love of his life's gravestone and know she moved on and he never would? God.
Mrs. Whitlock (Pfft. Alice who?)
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AMEN!!!
shareWell, it wasn't an unhappy ending. Winnie made a brave choice and listened to what Angus Tuck said about actually having a life instead of just existing, like the Tucks.
Plus, how do you know that Winnie was the love of Jesse's life -- by that time he would have been close to 200 years old and he only really knew Winnie for a few days?
That's funny.... I finally rented the movie last night, and I actually felt like ALL of you. I was also going to make a thread out of it. You had all already beaten me to it!
While it's nice that Winnie lived a happy and MORTAL life - as opposed to a melancholy and immortal one - and that Jessie was at least happy that SHE had been happy, I was still pretty sad for Jessie. Yes he was 200 years old, and yes their "romance" could have gone a lot deeper, however, I wouldn't be surprised if that was his one and only love interest. Like with his brother, how many women could ever really accept him? The poor man's a freak of nature! Also, it was ALEXIS BLEDEL. My God, people! How many other girls would even be half as beautiful?! I'D be teary eyed... (Alexis is gone forever. I - I mean he'd - never see her again!) I was almost wishing she HAD drunk that water, for my - I mean Jessie's - sake! ;-)
And now.... I'm gonna see a super nova!
"Rather than make Tuck visit the love of his life's gravestone and know she moved on and he never would?"
Fair enough that you don't enjoy the movie, but what you pointed out above is the entire point of the story. Immortality is not a blessing, but a curse.
i think winnie was only listening to jesse's father who, frankly, knew what he was talking about. she was only trying to make the right choice and i personally think she did if the director had decided to make her live doesn't that go against the whole story and idea of life?
shareIt's a good thing she didn't drink from the spring! She would've had to wait around 100 years to see him again!
shareWhat's a hundred years when you're immortal? After that, they could have spent ETERNITY together. (How romantic...) Also, since she would have had unlimited youth and vigor, she could have just gone out to find the old boy! Just place a note before you leave, girl.
I'm coming back here, Jessee. Wait for me!
(Oh yeah, hunk muffin. I CHUGGED it!!)
XOXO Immortal Winnie
i'm glad she didn't drink, it was a fanastic ending,a sad one, but bitter sweet.
She isn't selfish, she just understands that life is precious and when you live forever your not living, your waiting. So she didn't get to love him for all etenity, he never stop loving her or so i can imagine her, him. Think the notebook, everafter or stardust, they didn't live forever but just those moments were enough and they lived through expierencing that together.
Tuck said it to Winnie the summer she turned 15: Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live. And she did.
it's a beautiful story with an ending that makes you want to wake up early for the fun of it. :)
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It certainly makes you think what's truly important.
Alison Lohman for Supergirl
I did not like the ending, Winnie had a happy life, Tuck did not.
The whole movie was made on the concept that immortality is bad well its not.
You know that the ending is virtually the same as it was in the book?
shareYou know that the ending is virtually the same as it was in the book?
shareThe problem with the ending is that he did not come back within a reasonable amount of time. About 80 years is ridiculous! Had he come back after a year or so, he could possibly persuade her to drink the water.
shareMaybe he did come back sooner, but she wasn't there. What are the chances they were there at the same time? Plus, she did go away with her family. Who knows how long she was gone. Maybe this was in the book and all this stuff I typed is moot. Anyway... it was a good movie and it made me think.
shareThe problem with the ending is that he did not come back within a reasonable amount of time. About 80 years is ridiculous!
I felt the same way!
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this was an excellent movie that very many people have not even heard of. none of my friends or family have even heard of it. i want to buy it b/c it's a wonderful family movie that makes you think and feel things.. and yeah, cry lol. i didn't love the ending but i probably would have made that same decision as winnie myself
shareI like the ending because it's not a cop-out. BUT it does make the hopeless romantic in me sad. Everyone wants to see the main characters have a happily ever after, but it's better for the sake of the movie and how it all works that there is not.
Lots of movies do this, and I love them all.
It is not God who kills the children... It’s us. Only us. -Rorschach
I love the ending. It's real, it makes this story real, yes we all wnat the happy ending (Twilight for example since the book and movie keep getting compared to it -- I think its better than Twilight) but this story is more real (minus the immortality part).
To me its about growing up, finding yourself, falling in love and never losing your youth, always being young, being free. But it comes with reality, life and love, but always moving forwards regardless of the things we lose(like Mile's wife and children). Winnie moving on and growing up and dying is a part of life but she always kept her youth (Jesse) but she still had to grow up and leave things behind.
I read this book in grade 5 (I'm 20 now) and it remains one of my favorite books because of the ending, it's real, it's about how life is full of momentary fantasy, momentary journies but they do end.
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