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What?
After the COLOSSAL misfire that was the Amazing Spider-Man series, and the overwhelming success of the MCU?
Yes. Yes it was needed.
Definitely earned. The movie certainly isn't perfect, I had a few problems with it, but it's not a bad movie by any stretch of the imagination and is a great return after three duds in a row.
Oh there's plenty more.
What?
Rarely? I see white man/black woman pairings almost every time I leave the house.
I enjoyed Logan quite a lot, but it loses points for essentially being a superhero remake of Children of Men.
I get that they couldn't directly adapt Old Man Logan because of the rights issues involving Hulk and others, but they could have come up with something more original.
What metric are you using to determine that "no one really cares" about Spider-Man? You went and asked everyone?
I just think I'm going to miss Laura Harrier, assuming she's really out of the picture for good.
Aunt May discovering he's Spidey comes right before the credits.
The mid-credit scene is Vulture in prison.
You are a disgrace to your username.
They don't fit because they're unknown to YOU?
Who would you have cast then?
Are you trying to say those movies DIDN'T have ambiguous endings? Seriously?
I guess I shouldn't be surprised if you thought Total Recall was unambiguous.
The Thing (1982) is one of the most perfect films of all time. Brilliantly written and directed. The ending is entirely up to interpretation.
The ending is not a cop out, nor is it lazy. It's a perfectly bleak ending that makes the film resonate long after the credits roll.
As for the AFI Top 100 list, I seem to remember Taxi Driver and The French Connection both being on there.
It's the second link. The rest of the links just reiterate that the ending of the film has been a subject of debate for 27 years.
[url]http://lmgtfy.com/?q=total+recall+ending[/url]
Dude, the ending is famously ambiguous.
Just ask the guy who made the film:
"Total Recall doesn’t say whether it’s reality or it is a dream, you know? It’s really saying there’s this reality and there’s that reality, and both exist at the same time, because you look at Total Recall there is never a preference, let’s say, taken by me or the scriptwriter, to say this is really what he dreams about and this is the truth."
“I wanted it to be that way, because I felt that it was – if you want to use a very big word – post-modern. I felt that basically I should not say ‘This is true, and this not true.’ I wanted – and we worked with Gary Goldman on that, not the original writers – [and we] worked very hard to make both consistent, and that both would be true. And I think we succeeded very well. So I think of course there is no solution. Hey, it’s both true. So I thought, two realities; that it was innovative in movie language at least, to a certain degree, that there would be two realities and there is no choice."
None, the ending is better left ambiguous.
The ending to Total Recall is famous for not clarifying whether Quaid really went to Mars, or was actually just experiencing an implanted memory before lapsing into a coma.
You could make a clear case for either scenario in all those endings though. That's the point.