I was talking with Mr. Casual about movies on MSN, and somehow he mentioned something about how one little part of the movie can ruin the rest, and I've got a prime example... Red Eye. I watched this movie a while back, and while it didn't really register at first, it all came back and hit me. The movie started out great, and when things really started heating up on the plane, it was very interesting. Then the ending roles around. What a load of crap! Anyone who has seen the movie will know what I'm talking about. The ending makes the movie seem like a ditsy girl power flick, instead of a thriller. It really ruined the entire film. A proper ending would have been something like Jackson Rippner walking Lisa Reisert off the plane and escorting her back to her house, while the family is successfully assassinated in the hotel, and maybe the final scene could have been Jackson walking away, talking on the phone with someone saying "The job is done." Anyway, the point is, I hate it when movies go gay at the end just because some idiot thinks all movies should end all lovey dovey and happy, etc. I want to see a movie where the protagonist loses for once, and loses hard too.
I'm looking up some stuff on him now... and I have to say some of it looks pretty good. I'm definitely going to have to check out "The Beyond"! Thanks for the recommendation.
Alot of people think the matrix trilogy ended really badly, but i actually liked it. The fact that we dont know if neo lost or won pretty sums the philosophy of the movie.
Neo won and the philosophy behind was that Neo was portrayed as jesus. Well thats how I took it at the final movie.
pretty much all M. Night Shyamalan movies, the revelation is always something thats too simple or makes you say thats it?
Davinci Codes' ending was pretty good in my opinion. I never read the book, btw, just saw the movie tonight.
I read the book...in anticipation of the movie... First off, the book is just horribly written. Sure, Dan Brown did a lot o' neato research and put it to interesting use in his book...but the book just reads poorly. They changed a lot in the movie...and well...I thought it was worse for it. They also changed the end too...a lot. Oh...and I thought the movie was pretty bad in general...unngh...waaay too long too. If they wanted to do a Dan Brown movie, they should have done Angels and Demons. If you want to see a movie like The Da Vinci Code...but more entertaining, see National Treasure. That's just fun to watch...and a great soundtrack too. On topic: I agree that all of M. Night Shamimmisspellinghislastname's films have horrible endings. Unnngh...Signs....how I hate you. I hate all of that guys movies though. I feel I have a good senses of what movies are going to be good and bad...but friends drage me to em anyway. On that note, see Thank You for Smoking--good fun.
Anybody seen that Sharon Stone movie Sliver? Stupidest ending ever. There's all this tension because she thinks the guy she's been banging is some kind of serial killer, then you find out that no, his only problem is that he is attracted to women that look just like Sharon Stone and is guilty of using the same pick up lines on all of them. Then she takes a gun and blows away his super-duper spy camera equipment and says "Get a life." Roll credits. Lamest shit ever. I fucking hate Sharon Stone. You know I read the book a few years ago, and along with Hitchiker's Guide it's the only other book that actually made me laugh out loud. Is the movie any good? Becasue it would just ruin it for me if this movie sucks.
"An American Haunting" was good until the ending. The ending was so bad that it actually ruined the rest of the movie.
Artificial Intelligence was pretty good until halfway through. Then it gets somewhat good again, and it has at least two good moments that would have made decent endings.. until the actual ending which is absolutely atrocious.
Well the whole Matrix movie series is heavily inspired by Neuromancer (awesome great book by the Way) so Neo is more like Case, and much of the whole movie, is a blatant, (but good) ripoff of the book. But hey I am not complaining And well he is maybe a JC in the movie, but well.. who would want to have a sloppy superhero flick ?
Hell yes. The ending is typical Spielberg shite. That AI is the last film Kubrick worked on is a shame.
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy was actually much more upbeat, and easier to grasp than the first movie that was like 4 hours long and was on 2 VHS tapes. Overall it was pretty good. The movie Davinci Code was a great movie adaption of the book. The only movies directed by Shamalayn that were pretty good were Unbreakable and Sixth Sense.
I never got around to reading the book, but I plan on doing so soon...but having not read it, I thought the movie was funny and entertaining...one of the better ones I've seen for awhile. I'll let you know what I think after I've read the book.
