Saving Private Ryan had a horrible ending, like much of Spielberg's work. The movie was awesome. It was gritty, it was exciting, the story and film making made the audience care about the characters. Because of that they didn't need to add in a POS ending which didn't further the story, but simply was an attempt by the film maker to get the audience emotional. It was sappy, unnecessary and made it seemed like Spielberg either didn't trust his film making earlier on to draw that response naturally, or felt the audience wasn't capable of investing themselves in the movie to elicit that response. Whatever the reason, the ending to that movie combined with how great the first part was, just turned out to be pitiful and lame.
Well it could be worse, you could have an empire taken down by a bunch of teddy bears, good thing nobody was ever stupid enough to film.....
I'm kind of surprised at the "No country for old men" mention - it's pretty faithful to the book and mimic the way it ends, what are the Coen Bros. supposed to do, write in a fictional "Heat"-style shoot-out between Antoine and the cartel and the cops?
I couldn't think of a movie, but knew someone would remind me of one. The Abyss ended almost completely ruined an otherwise good movie.
That's a poor excuse to end the movie the way they did. Like I've said earlier on. They were in no danger after escaping to the car. If they've shown such hardship since their escape from that grocery store than I would understand that there so no hope. I thought it was a cheap shock value the director try to pull. I have not read the book but what the book ending said is true that should've been that way because to grown to care about the characters and I didn't like how they fought out of the grocery trying to survive to end up that way.
Absolutely. The ending brought tears to my eyes b/c I had become so wrapped up in the story and some of the characters...and it was indeed poignant. But it was also cheap. FAR too many loose ends and unanswered questions. They didn't need wrap up the entire story in a neat little package, but they certainly could have done much better.
the car provided a way to keep away, once it ran out of gas, how were they gonna outrun the creatures? they heard the noise and didnt want to go out that way
I don't understand that, I mean they establish through the whole movie that they weren't safe in a solid structure like the store, so why would they be safe in a car? Just because they weren't experiencing anything that moment, it would have been a safe assumption they were done for since they were out of fuel and ammo and the creatures would be showing up sooner or later.
You and me must have been watching different movies. When they got out of the store, IIRC, one of them was killed by a giant crab/lobster creature. It had been established for some time, how dangerous it was out in the open. I think it is a faulty assumption that once they got in the car, they were going to be safe. Who's to say that another giant lobster creature wouldn't have picked their car up and killed them all? Darabont does a masterful job, IMO, of creating an atmosphere of you just don't know what is going to happen. Then when the ending happens, it is one of true resonance. It took a lot of guts, I think, for him to come up with that ending but it really worked considering how he had developed the mood for that movie.
Sorry to say that the ending to Stripes didn't live up to the rest of the movie either. Stripes is a great movie, but that's only because the first half of the movie is strong enough to carry it. The last 1/4 of the movie was pretty crappy.
The first Fast & Furious movie It was so rushed and made absolutely no sense, there was no build up or anything, just boom everyone dies Dom runs away
Pretty much any decently funny comedy ever goes straight to hell when they actually have to tie up the plot line.
