What did yall think of the end?? ***Spoilers

Honestly I usually would be surprised that the hero of the film would give his life to save the rest of the people in danger how ever in this I could not care less the main character I did not take to much which is surprising since I'm a fan of the actor but just this film ugh I hated all the characters they could have all died and I wouldn't care so when he was dying I was like nothing I didn't care cos there wasn't much to the character so I'm surprised the hero died cos you wouldn't expect it usually but I just didn't care lol sorry for the rant

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I was surprised when Eben injected himself with the infected blood as lead characters in movies like this usually don't parish.

When Eben and Stella were holding each other while Eben was burning and disintegrating I found that to be quite sad.



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I thought the ending was silly and contrived, but it also made me sad.

Perhaps the reason endings like that resonate with us is because the death of the partner is a metaphor for the impossibility of romantic love. Even if you and your beloved stay together, in a sense, you have to let each other go. That can disillusion people who want to believe that love is transcendent.

It's also a metaphor for the person who devotes his life to supporting for his partner and then ends up in a hospital ward, holding her hand as he goes. They aren't so different, really, sacrifices of valor and time.

Or perhaps Hartman's character was a little too in love with death to be in George's life. Perhaps he was too destructive and chose to literally dissolve in her arms instead of ruining her future.

Silly film, in many ways. But the ending seemed both trite and classically resonant: Beauty and the Beast, Eurydice as Orpheus.

It was a terrible ending. First off, he injects himself when he is in a room of people. Why couldn't he have gone outside first? Secondly, when he fights the vampires to give Stella and the kid time to run into the building, the bitch just stands around, gawking. Also, how the hell did that kid Gale or whatever his name was survive 30 days? Also, why would the lead vampire fight one-on-one. You have twenty vampires, just swarm him and get it over with. Finally, there was absolutely no reason for him to inject himself. They made seem that Stella and the kid would have to survive for 24 hours in the cold with the burning oil running through the town but twenty minutes later the sun comes up. The scary looking vampires were cool, although they looked wierd, almost ferret-like. Better than Twilight vampires but give me Kate Beckinsale in a leather catsuit any day.

Yeah, I dislike the end. Just believing he was going to be "good" when he monstered out was silly, and the whole "wait until the sun comes up and burn" death of the reluctant vampire is something I've seen a few times, and I'm not even such a connoisseur of the subgenre. I was half expecting the case would be that because he'd not been a vampire long, the sun would just burn it out of him and he'd be fine. Maybe that would be corny, but I wouldn't have found it any more corny.

I still enjoyed the film quite a bit, lots of nice atmosphere.


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Before the ending the movie was gritty and realistic. Turning himself into a vampire was a little cheesy.


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Pretty lame. As someone else pointed out, the reason for him to inject himself was so he could challenge the dude to a fight and distract him whilst what's-her-ass escaped. Whilst that's contrived and silly enough to almost cripple the ending of the movie in itself, the fact that she doesn't use the distraction for an escape and the inexplicable belief that he would be the exception and be a "good" vampire (which of course he is... ughck!) really makes the whole thing irritating to watch. Tacking on to that the the not incredibly convincing defeat of the head vamp and the sacrificial sunrise stolen from the end of Blade 2 and it takes this movie down from a 4/5 to a 2/5 for me.

I liked the movie up to that point but I hated the ending. I'll suspend my disbelief to encompass all manner of supernatural ghouls if that's what I've signed up for, but logic and behavior have to make sense in and of themselves and not be disfigured nonsensically to service your bullet point story arch. Just lazy writing really.

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