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The Ending (SPOILERS)


I already posted this on another thread, but I thought I might as well talk about the ending as its own post here.

I think the ending was fine. What didn't work well was the choice of Norman Greenbaum during the end credits. Probably one of the darkest endings as of 2017 I've seen in a while, and then Spirit in the Sky comes on in the end credits. Also, I think it would've worked better if was edited differently to impact the ending harder. In fact, the dark ending should have gone further.

Say the ending focused on Jake Gyllenhaal's pod as one scene, and then cut to Rebecca Ferguson's. Just have the movie's end focusing on her hurdling into deep space, no music in the background, just her screaming and the controls going awry, then cut to outside the pod where we can't hear her scream (because in space no one can hear you scream), and watch as the pod drifts further, and further until you can't see it anymore, and then...Directed by Daniel Espinosa. No Spirit in the Sky, no music. Just pure silence as the credits play over the shot in space, and maybe as the credits continue to roll, the camera pans over to earth, and we see lights from all around the world begin to go off. Maybe its like an accelerated montage were HUGE fires break out, maybe a several HUNDRED explosions, and it just ends with the total destruction of Earth.

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Interesting.

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yeah I agree the choice of music for the credits completely destroyed the darkness of the ending... it really didn't fit the movie

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You are right. That song ruined everything, everyone around me was puzzled.
The music before that was actually fine, I thought it suited the ending well.

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The only thing I was thinking about the ending was this. In a world with armies, big bombs and other kinds of weapons. Would this creature be a real apocalyptic thread? We didnt see it grow bigger than it's final form (although it looked strange and messy in the end in the pod) and we didnt see it reproduce. Ok maybe it would kill a thousand people before it would gain attention of the world. But is it indestructable? on ISS they fought it with fire and stuff.

Any thoughts? What are the chances of the being and or of humans?

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Consider this - one cell from this organisms grows into a copy of this creature without any outside help (if there's oxygen and heat). No matter how you try to destroy it, you will simply spread more cells around. This creature landing on Earth really was an apocalyptic event. Having said that - I dunno why these creatures would die on Mars.... unless.... they moved below ground, where there is heat, water and air (within water).

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That is an interesting idea of course, the copying from one cell is indeed it's most dangerous aspect.
Would cells be able to escape if they drop a bomb on him?

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It's quite obvious from the film that these creatures are able to withstand extreme heat (in fact, they might actually benefit from it).
The only question is, would it also be able to withstand a nuclear blast - and what would happen to its cells then. A standard bomb, however, is unlikely to do much damage or its cells.



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It will have sex, catch herpes and die!

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This being hollywood and having seeing 'war of the worlds', I'd expect nothing less.

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Spirit in the Sky playing immediately after the end scene was totally unsuitable for this movie, what would have worked better is similar ambient noise at the beginning of the movie Alien, when the letters are forming, a pure homage and perfect atmosphere for the vastness of space.

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Best would be if they had kept the same ending as in the movie, but had 30 seconds of slience at the beginig of the end credits...

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