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Movie should have ended at the freeze frame kiss

posted 12 years ago by Jimbo_BSD
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Forget about all the arguments of parallel universes and all that other mumbo jumbo. The freeze when they kiss and the camera pans to show everybody laughing was a very cinematic ending to the story. Maybe add in the part of Farminga in the locked room terminating the program with the scientist slamming on the door.

I don't care to discuss the plausibility of science in the film, or the ramifications of what it really means, yada yada yada.

The freeze frame kiss was a great moment. It was tragic and beautiful at the same time. I thought it was a more satisfying conclusion.

Overall I liked the movie and rated it 7/10. I had my second viewing today and am sticking with that rating.

[–] Katiedot 12 years ago

Yes, it should have ended at the kiss. Everything after that was frustrating because it completely contradicted the 'laws' of the film and set up unanswerable questions such as what happens to the real Sean Fentriss who presumeably didn't die if Colter saved the day, not to mention what happens to the people at Beleagured Castle.

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[–] KessleRun 12 years ago

Agree 100%.

The scenes after the kiss should have appeared part way through the credits or after the credits. That way every gets the ending they wanted.

[–] omoxus 12 years ago

Gee, what a major spoiler.

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[–] Jimbo_BSD 12 years ago

No not really. If somebody hasn't seen the film, saying there is a freeze frame kiss reveals nothing other than a shot in the film. It doesn't reveal the context of the shot or any major plot points. All you would know is two characters kiss. That's not exactly a spoiler. You don't know who is kissing or why.

Also, if you haven't seen the film and your browsing the message boards you're doing so at your own risk. Especially 18 months after the film was released. There are plenty of other threads with far more revealing subject titles on this board.

[–] omoxus 12 years ago

I see your point on the first reason. But the second reason isn't valid. The Godfather has been out for over thirty years, some havnt seen it yet. This film is too good to screw it up for others maybe you put "spoiler" in the title and change it a bit. I'm jus sayin'

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[–] Howlin Wolf 12 years ago

That is covered by 'at your own risk'… It is, was, will be, SHOULD be at your own risk… If you want to remain spoiler free, then don't browse the message board until after you've seen the movie… If you don't care about spoilers, then dig around to your heart's content.

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[–] ArthurDental 8 years ago

People are arguing about the ending of a film. You want to read that before you watched it? Oh boy.

[–] MommyOfMutants 12 years ago

I also agree that it should have ended with the freeze-frame ending. I thought the credits were about to roll when I saw it.

Also, the thing about him being selfish for taking over the real Sean Fentriss' body is true and not. The real Sean Fentriss would have remained dead anyways had Colter not actually stopped the bomb, so either way he's dead and at least this way everyone else gets to live.

What I think is hilarious is that now Colter Stevens is Sean Fentriss and will be expected to live as he did (including being a teacher of history) and have all of Sean's memories (as well as completely forget/hide his own). What if one time he slips and is all "Remember that time I stopped a bomb from killing us? I mean..." Or starts talking about being a soldier/fighting in Afganistan? Everyone would think he was nuts!

[–] chirpie 12 years ago

Add me as another who was mentally thinking, "Man, if the movie fades to black right here, it'd be perfect."

So close!

But... there was a hint at doomed fate at the end where he speaks the lines, "Tell him everything is going to be OK" and then you recall her assuring him that during the movie, which tips you off that there has been a successful source code mission before and there probably will be again with him being stuck at the mercy of the source code project.

That did have a spiffy cruel Twilight Zone feel to it, just not enough that I still wished for it to end with the kiss.

[–] Yorick_Brown 12 years ago

Yeah. I don't mind happy endings at all. In fact, it annoys me when people today complain about a logically fitting and deserving happy ending in a movie and wanting it to be replaced with a pointless, cynical, nihilist, unhappy one.

However, the ending to this film didn't feel logically fitting and deserving. More tacked on by studio pressure.

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[–] Super-Van 12 years ago

Yeah. I don't mind happy endings at all. In fact, it annoys me when people today complain about a logically fitting and deserving happy ending in a movie and wanting it to be replaced with a pointless, cynical, nihilist, unhappy one.

However, the ending to this film didn't feel logically fitting and deserving.

I agree 100% I normally prefer the happy endings but here the sadder ending just fit better and made more sense. Still Source Code was one of the best and most underrated movies of 2011

[–] love_cats_hate_dogs 12 years ago

The "freeze frame kiss/everyone smiling ending" did feel a little forced.

They could also have just rolled the credits at the point when Stevens said he was going to go back in and save everyone one last time.

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[–] JellyFish19 12 years ago

Thought the same thing, would have made a bigger impression on me, still a damn fine film.

[–] sasa-anakijev 12 years ago

i just thought of something ) wow, this is how it should have ended..

.. check this out.. the moment when everything freezes and goodwin turns him off-he of course dies, meaning that teacher that he was inside comes back after that moment unfreezes, wondering how come he is kissing all of a sudden ..

and the movie ends..

so, in fact he changed history, he made a new universe where the bomb doesn't go off, and the teacher survives together with Christina..

[–] sdtony42 12 years ago

Ending at the freeze frame would have made this movie one big ambigous turd.

[–] Howlin Wolf 12 years ago

There's nothing wrong with ambiguity - you're given the freedom to think without being spoonfed. Needing everything wrapped up neatly for you is laziness.

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[–] Jimbo_BSD 11 years ago

That is so wrong. Having him inhabit the body of another person and create a whole new life is far more ambiguous. Ending it at the kiss closes the loop. It's a cleaner, tighter ending.

[–] lebellue 10 years ago

That's a totally cool idea!!...Then it would have the same haunting feeling as the freeze frame and Colter seizing to exist, but still have the positive spin of Sean and everyone surviving due to Colter's heroic actions..I like it!

Yet, I still like the real ending of the movie where Colter keeps living in the new alternate universe. Which incidentally, he doesn't "steal" from Sean as some people have suggested in a few postings...There are supposedly infinite alternate universe..This is one that was brought about by Colter existing in Sean's last 8 minutes and saving Sean, and he deserved to inhabit it. Sean has many other universe's where he survived...