I almost felt guilty for laughing, but given the context of the film, that was probably the funniest thing I've seen in ages.
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What Would Gibson Do?
It was absolutely brilliant.
shareSee to me the credits was the only part I didn't like. I thought the movie should have just ended with his heart beat stopping.
By the way, I am right behind you.
Our family couldn't agree on the credits. I didn't mind them but I thought the Chinese Elvis could have joined in.
shareOMG. I loved that ending. But Chinese Elvis is still alive, we never saw Jerry kill him, I did wanted to see him join in as well. LOL
share> But Chinese Elvis is still alive, we never saw Jerry kill him
We never saw Jerry kill Jesus either. And, I was unclear whether Jerry killed his father. And, his pets were there also and we know that they were alive. I see no problem having Chinese Elvis in heaven too.
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I think it really worked for the whole movie.
It was a way to throw the tone up at the end, otherwise it's just so depressing. In reality it is still a really dark finish, its just delusionally happy, I loved it.
I agree with this. I don't think the director wanted to end on that much of a downer, which is a strange thing to say because normally watching an insane serial killer die on screen isn't much of a downer at all. Still, he couldn't really be allowed to live, and while the scene didn't really work for me, I get why they did it and it's not enough to keep me from liking the movie.
shareThe closing credits make the entire "joke" work and it's quite effective. Before The Voices I've never seen a movie with Jesus in it that I liked...
Since the movie won't appeal to a lot of viewers there's probably no question about a sequel (none of the original cast/crew would do it but if there's $$ to be made some hack would) but the ending could be just another of Jerry's hallucinations... even total crap like American Psycho had one sequel. Jerry could move to another small town and get new pets if Mr. Whiskers and Bosco aren't found.
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The closing credits make the entire "joke" work and it's quite effective. Before The Voices I've never seen a movie with Jesus in it that I liked...
Greatest ending ever!
Before The Voices I've never seen a movie with Jesus in it that I liked...
Sorry, the ending went over my head. Can you please explain it for me? What is the "joke" it is making work? Is it his delusional perception of reality?
shareI liked how the simplistic lyrics were intended to be the best Jerry could come up with.
shareI am glad it ended that way otherwise it would have been to sad for me.
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You know, in my life of film viewing, I have seen films crash and burn in their beginnings, first, second, and/or third acts, 1 1/2 acts beginning and/or end, but I have never, ever seen a film crash and burn so hard in it's END CREDITS until The Voices. Tonal Whiplash of neck breaking levels, I first has to check that this was really the end credits to this film and then I sat their waiting for either Matt Stone & Trey Parker(and I love these guys) to come out or Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer(Kill me). To all those that haven't seen the film and want to, a word of advice, turn the film off after the scene in the white void with Bosco & Whiskers, it's the ending of the film anyways and you won't sit through an end credits segment that will just have you going:
http://youtu.be/GDQCaGlqLFY?t=6s
What a terrible way to send people off after this very great psychological drama, don't let the trailers fool you, this is 100% a drama, yes the animals and some characters get a few funny lines, but that's about it, the marketing is selling the wrong tone but to be fair I honestly don't know how they sell a movie like this. I'm going to have to think about the rating for this one a little bit, 98% of the film is great but that 2% is so bad that I just wanted to slap the film a 2.0/5 (4/10) because of it, but that isn't fair, and I know that. It's just...why would you do this, the film reached it's very well built dramatic climax, with great room for discussion and thought, but then when cut to something that feels like a very bad deleted scene from Hairspray(2007) that goes on for 4 MINUTES, I just can't win in February, I just can't win.
Actually, I rather liked the end credits sequence.
It stopped the end from being depressingly miserable.
http://youtu.be/4AsfEbxWgOg
If you really want to see a movie crash and burn in the end credits, watch Gran Torino.
Its a great film, if u overlook the easily-missed inaccuracies about Hmung culture and the self-indulgent Eastwood touches.
All until the end credits, marred by the fact that the writer/director/producer/star also fancies himself as a singer!
Even M Night Shyamalan has never been so self-indulgent.
Believe me, the Voices song would have been a lot worse if Ditty Harry had been singing it!
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I agree I thought they needed a light twist at the end but the Bollywood musical number was too much.
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I agree with you 100%
When the final scene with Bosco and Whiskers played, I was actually very, very content with the movie. It was mis-advertised as some sort of comedy, but what you got instead was a proper drama with elements of horror and just a few jokes here and there to break the darkness, with Reynolds playing a mentally disturbed individual extremely well. I was ready to give the movie a 9/10.
And then the credits came. It was like someone in the distribution department just turned around and went, "Oh. Reynolds. You're supposed to be funny. Be funny, funny man! Ha ha! You so stupid! Be ha ha funny oh we no put out movie funny man!" So they stuck that on the end to make that one idiot happy. Ugh. It just destroys everything that has been carefully crafted in the entire movie.
And I have to facepalm at all the people who say, "But it was so depressing otherwise, it needed this, herp, derp." No. No, it did not. Should they have put an amusing song and dance number at the end of Schindler's List? The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas? The Crying Game? No. This movie plainly did NOT intend to have that end-credits BS at the end.
This is not a drama. It's a dark comedy, and very similar to John Waters' Serial Mom. All the same elements. I don't get how anyone can take this seriously at all, it's just too over the top biting satire really.
Totally agree. Was about to give the movie a 7/10, but then the credits started... 6/10 it is.
People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs
Its unique film heart breaking, funny, dark, and heart warming in this order from begining to end credits.
Quick question though, he made the choice to let himself die in the ended rather than let himself live to do more evil while in a happy state. Does he still go to heaven, he accepts to let himself die because he knows he will become an unrepenting monster if he allows himself to live. Is letting oneself die consider suicide in Christian Belief. By allowing himself to die in the fire to prevent himself for turning evil in life does he still get to dance with Jesus in Heaven?
Quick question though, he made the choice to let himself die in the ended rather than let himself live to do more evil while in a happy state. Does he still go to heaven, he accepts to let himself die because he knows he will become an unrepenting monster if he allows himself to live. Is letting oneself die consider suicide in Christian Belief. By allowing himself to die in the fire to prevent himself for turning evil in life does he still get to dance with Jesus in Heaven?
For those interested, here's a video of the End Credits: http://youtu.be/4AsfEbxWgOg
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