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I hated the ending yet I can't stop thinking about it SPOILERS

posted 12 years ago by mdm42
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With Amanda getting locked up and screwed over. I think the ending was very cruel to the audience. I mean we invest so much in these characters and our hope builds then they just sh$t on us and the characters. It angered me, not really how I wanna feel leaving a movie. Having said that, i can't stop thinking about the ending. Maybe that's why it worked in an odd sense. I don't expect a happy ending but I just felt this ending was a big "Gotcha" instead of ending it the right way. It was unfair to everything that came before it IMHO.

[–] Tyler-A-Arse 12 years ago

For a while I wondered if Amanda and Paul were gonna make it out. It became clear they weren't since they make it back to the nuclear reactor and were starting to break out and get sick. So something had to happen to end it for them. Are you mainly saying the way it ended for her, or just the fact you think she should've made it out.

[–] mdm42 12 years ago

A little of both but mainly what happened to her. I mean she lost all her friends, was helpless and then basically locked up to die.

[–] PeterSouth 12 years ago

It seems that sad endings with no survivors have become a trend nowadays, and there is a reason for that. For years people have been complaining about the cliché happy ending in films. The filmmakers listened and did something about it.

I too prefer a happy ending - or at least an ending with survivors.

[–] DoctorDraconian 12 years ago

Just saw it yesterday. I also couldn't stop thinking about the ending. All alone in a dark chamber.....I KNEW something/somebody would leap out.

Even worse, I wonder exactly how the mutants killed her and the others. Did they strangle them? Did they bite them all over? Do they kick, beat, scratch and tear? They're not zombies, but you have to wonder just how fried their brains are from radiation to mutilate others.

Just sick curiosity, I suppose, lol.

[–] joyridewheee 12 years ago

Just fyi...I know this is a movie, but your brain doesn't turn crazy from radiation. You have to get a super high amount of radiation all at once to get CNS (central nervous system) syndrome (form of radiation sickness); at which point you would die within 3 days just due to increased pressure on your brain. You'd have severe nausea & vomiting within minutes of exposure, have difficulty breathing, have convulsions, and may lose consciousness/go in a coma. It's a sick way to go, but you wouldn't go crazy. You wouldn't have time or energy to go crazy cause you'd be dead pretty quick.

[–] Angelwkw3 12 years ago

It seems that sad endings with no survivors have become a trend nowadays, and there is a reason for that. For years people have been complaining about the cliché happy ending in films. The filmmakers listened and did something about it.

If you are talking about horror movies specifically I'd say the majority end in a similar fashion. Bad guys win or pop up for one last scare to show the audience they aren't really dead.

I think it'd actually be more of a shock to see people, especially more than one, LIVE for a change.

[–] mfsportz141 12 years ago

Honestly, I was hoping that the guy with cap was going to make it because he seemed to be the only one who had any common sense. He wanted to leave to find help and come back, he observed his surroundings while they were on the move, picked up a tire iron while they looked for Uri (the other two didn't have a weapon of any sorts), found a map in the heat of the moment, etc.

This girl didn't cause me to feel anything for her mainly because right before the shizzle went down, she saw someone in a window on her camera and didn't say a damn word. That really annoyed me and I feel like she could have prepared the group more by just telling and showing them.

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[–] saimin2 12 years ago

I don't think it would've mattered anyway. The guy at the end was going blind he'd gotten so much radiation, and the girl had visible burns on her face. The two had been inside the reactor. IMO the guy was lucky to be shot to death and her only slightly less lucky if the mutants strangled her, because she was going to die a horrible death of radiation sickness in short notice.

[–] danmax67 12 years ago

I hated how they threw open the door, without any guards around, to a room full of mutant maniacs who had recently escaped no less. What should have happened is the mutants should have run out the open door, killed the scientists and started the cycle anew.

[–] windtunneldan 12 years ago

I guess we know how the mutants escaped in the first place. Poor security standards.

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[–] Pumpkinjack65 12 years ago

you should see the alternate ending cause that one would of been depressing shifted the tone of the movie

[–] jabberttp 12 years ago

What's depressing is your constant use of the phrase "would of". The phrase should be "would have". If nothing else, please learn that.

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[–] Samclyde2 11 years ago

"We invested so much in the characters?" We did? I'm not quite sure what you saw in them.

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[–] FranLovesBetteD 11 years ago

I think the ending was very cruel to the audience. I mean we invest so much in these characters and our hope builds then they just sh$t on us and the characters.

I felt just the same way. It was pretty much like Eden Lake. It's kind of frustrating.

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[–] Rena_Mahone 9 years ago

It's normal to feel that way - it was meant to shock the audience. The type of ending that both depresses you, makes you angry, and sticks with you afterwards. It's just how a bad end works.
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