They should have ended the movie right after the twist, when they show Mandy's character laughing hysterically thinking that they both got rescued. Slowly pan out and briefly show the shark swim past her. Credits. Would have had more of an impact. I still liked it though.
shareconsidering the two leads are young female stars who are (or were, I am not up to date with what is popular) popular with teens, they must have realised that a large portion of its potential audience would be teenagers and young adults. they chickened out, realising that that sort of ending would not go down well with teenage girls!
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Agreed. I felt that the very last scene was a copout. Too bad because I think it robbed the twist of some of it's impact. I still enjoyed the movie, though.
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I was actually pretty pissed off with this ending. I don't get why the filmmakers went this route. They essentially wiped out the film's best scene (the ascension scene was so intense, and it turns out it never happened) so they could squeeze in a cheap twist that takes the film on a grimmer route, but Moore's character still ends up getting rescued and in an extremely anti-climactic fashion! What was the point of that twist if she still gets saved at the end?
shareI agree. I hope the director reads this and changes it. Since they will now have a theatrical release in 2017, they can still edit the movie.
shareThe ending just pisses me off the more and more I think about it. It's like the textbook definition of wanting to have your cake and eat it, too. In case audiences think the ascension scene was too over-the-top and unrealistic (Moore fending off the sharks with a flare and surviving not one but two attacks), hey it was actually just a hallucination! In case audiences find it too grim that she was just hallucinating, hey she's still rescued by the coast guard! But in case the audience thinks that's too upbeat, hey her sister is probably still dead! Or maybe she's not dead because it wasn't explicitly shown! Seriously, the filmmakers should have just picked one direction and stuck with it.
I've read some complaints about The Shallows' ending being too over-the-top, but I thought it was an intense and exciting finale, and I appreciated that the climax embraced its crowd-pleasing, B-movie nature rather than chicken out the way In the Deep's ending did in just about every respect.
Yeah, I know what you mean. The fact she got saved anyway kind of defeats the purpose of the twist a bit. It was like. "GOTCHA! She isn't safe but here come the rescue divers.".
Sort of made it feel like they were trying to pad it out a bit.
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HIDEOUS ending.......... its actually has three endings, three places where it COULD end, and they chose the worst of the three... at least in the version I just saw.
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Wait, so what happened to the sister?!
shareShe got killed by the shark.
shareI thought the ending was just fine. Some people want a happy ending where they both escape , others seem to want a grim ending with them both dying . They ended up going with the middle ground , so tragic yet still somewhat hopeful
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