I liked the movie, I thought it was pretty good and a lot better than some of Adam Sandler's other films like Mr Deeds, but I completely hated the ending. The whole idea of the entire thing being a setup felt to far fetched and forced. They should have just left it at being real.
shareIt definitely was not explained and would have made sense if it were all real. I couldn't get 100% if the patients were real, the car was real, if his boss was in on it, if the mother was real, if Arnie was real...felt muddled.
shareI thought it was a lazy ending. Like saying "it was all a dream".
shareI agree. The ending was a copout, just like most movies with the "it was all a dream" endings. And the whole scene at Yankees Stadium was so stupid. Sort of like the ending of "Never been kissed", where the hero kissed someone in a stadium full of many people. In real life, most of the fans would not be cheering at them kissing cause they just wouldn't give a **** because they don't even know them, and they'd be getting annoyed at all of that holding up the game.
shareTwist endings usually break the rest of the movie, because they don't make sense. 'It was all a dream' is just a lazy cop-out, but it can make sense.
A typical twist like this, breaks the movie, because it's so improbable.
How did they arrange the 'free seat' in the airplane, for example? They had to basically be able to afford at least three seats nearby. (Unless that supposedly was a 'coincidence', which wouldn't be that likely)
First the 'other guy' that takes Sandler's character's seat - then the 'free seat' and of course Nicholson's character's seat. Just so they could sit next to each other? Doesn't seem plausible to spend that much money for that.
The only way I can see it happening, is if they arranged everything with people that were flying there anyway, but how would they still arrange the 'empty seat'?