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false happiness/closure.
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false happiness/closure.
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Iron Man is a wonderful popcorn film. There's nothing wrong with pure entertainment as long as it's well made and sincere.
I don't consider great films with bad endings to be great films. If you can't sustain the film, then you've failed at part of the job. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenade's. I guess I'm questioning the entire concept of this thread.
I don't consider great films with bad endings to be great films. If you can't sustain the film, then you've failed at part of the job. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenade's. I guess I'm questioning the entire concept of this thread.
That's why the movies I mention here wont make my top lists, but might be definitely movies I would enjoy...
There should be a thread for Bad Movies, Good Endings.
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The one that comes to mind that many people here I think agree with.
High Tension.
High Tension.
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The one that comes to mind that many people here I think agree with.
High Tension.
High Tension.
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There should be a thread for Bad Movies, Good Endings.
All bad movies are good when they end.
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Resident Evil: Retribution was my one-pointer
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Iron Man is a wonderful popcorn film. There's nothing wrong with pure entertainment as long as it's well made and sincere.
I don't consider great films with bad endings to be great films. If you can't sustain the film, then you've failed at part of the job. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenade's. I guess I'm questioning the entire concept of this thread.
I don't consider great films with bad endings to be great films. If you can't sustain the film, then you've failed at part of the job. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenade's. I guess I'm questioning the entire concept of this thread.
Agreed, Spielberg's sentimentality completely changed the tone of the film.
WARNING: "Minority Report" spoilers below
...there's always the interpretation that everything that happens after Cruise's character is arrested is actually a hallucination that he has in cryo-prison (as foreshadowed by the warden talking about how the prisoners' wildest dreams come true).
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Iro doesn't post much, but when he does.....it's amazing.
Munich is the one film of his that is almost completely devoid of hope and/or schmaltz.
Don't those paragraphs contradict one another?
That's what makes Munich so great; it's Spielberg putting true frustration and anger on the screen.
It's called the exception that proves the rule. Have you honestly ever seen a Spielberg action film with a downer ending? Hell, he has some of the most over-the-top deus ex machina scenes ever put to film; War of the Worlds and Raiders of the Lost Arc, for example, and you think he's capable of giving a false ending like that to Minority Report?
That's what makes Munich so great; it's Spielberg putting true frustration and anger on the screen.
That's what makes Munich so great; it's Spielberg putting true frustration and anger on the screen.
Now I Am Legend, on the other hand...
WARNING: "I Am Legend" spoilers below
Really, the idea of a "dying dream" is the only way I can really accept everything that happens in the third act - starting with the idea that Will Smith, stuck in a crashed jeep surrounded by vampires and losing consciousness, is suddenly rescued by a woman and her kid who just appeared out of nowhere and were capable of driving off the vampires and saving him. Then he finally succeeds in curing the vampires - admittedly possible, but awfully convenient - and sacrifices himself so the woman and kid can escape to find more people and help save the world - all through the magic of editing that doesn't show how most, if any, of this is plausible. Just...damn. Up until the third act, it was a decent enough genre movie, CGI monsters notwithstanding.
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Maybe it was you Nausicaa that recommended the book I Am Legend to someone else so that made me want to go and read it, such a great book with an amazing ending. The Will Smith movie and the book have one thing in common and that is his name Robert Neville.
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