Why does everyone hate
Why does everyone hate the ending? I think it's exciting and awesome.
shareI really liked it too. The whole thing just kept twisting and surprising me. I haven't actually been surprised by a movie in a long time
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I liked the ending. Actually, it almost seems like
JJ Abrahms was setting up a way to make a sequel.
Yay more people like it too!
I mean, from what I've read people don't like it because its too big and explosion and CG-filled. But its not like it ruins the movie. Its not like it comes out of left field or anything. Its just the scene that would logically be there, only they had a big budget to make it awesome.
We all knew it was either a yes or a no. That the world was messed up outside or it was a no, and Goodman's character was a nut. Turns out it was a yes (and he was also a nut). And turns out, it was an invasion. Which again, is not surprising, or out of left field. It was an awesome culmination of the guessing game we were playing the entire movie.
I liked the nature of the ending, but the issue is with the scene where she kills an alien mother-ship with a Molotov cocktail improvised inside of a pickup truck about to be eaten. An implausible action movie ending to a movie that, until said point, was far more deserving.
shareYes, I liked everything but that scene...I was reminded of Independence Day where Jeff Goldblum diverts the alien spaceship attack from his laptop...this scene has the same cheesy feel to it and may have been better off leaving it out.
shareJust saw it tonight, I thought it was great, and I usually hate everything! I had no idea where the movie was going, I love it.
shareyep...just watched it a while back. I liked the movie before the ending. After seeing the ending I loved it!
shareWhy does everyone hate the ending?
Because it felt like two completely different films. If they had been well interwoven with each other that's a different story. But they weren't. The one film ended, all the plot strands of this tense, well acted, grounded thriller had come to a close, all the characters bar the protagonist killed off. Then another sci-fi OTT film began... for the last 5 minutes. It was just stupid. I'd have preferred everything to have turned out ok than this 'Oh, by the way... Here's some aliens' crap.
Fair play, the ending was bold, brave and gutsy. But just because something is bold doesn't mean it can't be stupid. From the trailer and all the good reviews I got the impression that the film had something really clever and unexpected hidden up it's sleeve, so I probably got my hopes up a bit too much.
After it finished I got the feeling that they took a decent, unremarkable little thriller, filmed an alien battle to wack on the end, inserted a couple of alien references throughout, chucked in the odd Cloverfield reference and changed the title, all to make the film marketable to the public. Which worked for them I guess, the film was a big hit.
But here's one more thing to chew on- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was absolutely lynched for exactly the same reason. Why should we give this film a free pass. share
Because it felt like two completely different films.That's part of what I thought was cool about it, though. It reminded me of From Dusk 'Til Dawn in this aspect.
And I think that in this film, it's important that it feels like two different films.
**********SPOILERS FOLLOW**********
The dilemma throughout the first approximately two-thirds of the film is whether John Goodman is a sociopath or whether he's telling the truth (well, or if he's a sociopath who's telling the truth). If he's telling the truth, then it's important for the world to seem completely different once Michelle emerges from the shelter. And it did. It was as if she were Alice falling up a rabbit hole into a horrific Wonderland. share
Omg! FINALLY someone who agrees with me :D!! The "two different film" feel was refreshing & needed, imo.
You referenced two of my favorite films, too.. :)
Because it felt like two completely different films. If they had been well interwoven with each other that's a different story. But they weren't. The one film ended, all the plot strands of this tense, well acted, grounded thriller had come to a close, all the characters bar the protagonist killed off. Then another sci-fi OTT film began... for the last 5 minutes. It was just stupid. I'd have preferred everything to have turned out ok than this 'Oh, by the way... Here's some aliens' crap.
Exactly how I felt. It was a bit of a plausible (or possible) psychological thriller that turned into a "monster movie" of sorts. The two just don't go together, especially not tacked on to the very end. I thought a better ending would be that he and that woman who was banging to be let in from outside were actually abductors who "collected" victims and this whole thing was a ruse or something. Or maybe if she escaped in the end, only to find that everyone was happy with bright sunny skies and kids playing outside, to show the irony of all she had been subjected to for nothing. share
@SWLinPHX-2 Or maybe if she escaped in the end, only to find that everyone was happy with bright sunny skies and kids playing outside...
Now that would've been a great ending. Too bad the studio didn't have the guts to do it.