How about the ending of Altered States?
I mean, I can’t believe they just ripped off the ending of A-Ha’s “Take On Me” video like that.
I think you’re talking about Aaron Katz’s Cold Weather. Wonderful movie. Good ending.
Yes. Fortunately, the 1970’s ended.
I think I saw this late-night on TV in the 1980’s, but this one was from 1978: Fun with Dick & Jane
Dick & Jane are driving away, laughing at their success as petty crooks – and a train plows through their car? No crossing-guard or alarm bells as the train approached?
Also: I much preferred the theatrical ending to Payback. The Director’s cut ending left me with a “Huh? That’s all?”
Isn’t that the ending to Dirty Mary Crazy Larry? Have you mixed them up, or did both movies use the same stupid wtf ending? (Not to mention Vanishing Point.)
Depends on the location and the budget for such things. The train crossing down the road from my grandpa’s farm was completely uncontrolled - no lights, no bells, no gates. Just the x-shaped “RR Xing” sign on either side of the tracks. You were supposed to slow down/stop and look both ways down the tracks before proceeding.
Hmmm…those are some convoluted DMCL plots, summarized on IMDB!
Since that was my brief late-night TV Movie phase in the mid-1980’s it could very well have been either or both. Either way, quite a stupid ending (and I’m just glad they didn’t kill off Burt Reynolds/The Bandit with that trick)!
–G!
That’s it, thanks. Though I was disappointed in the ending.
I am firmly in the “not a replicant” camp, and there’s one thing about the Deckard-is-a-replicant theory that has always puzzled me. Why does Deckard become completely exhausted fighting Pris and Roy in the final scenes? By the time Roy saves him on the rooftop, Deckard can barely hold his head up! If he’s a replicant, then it should have been a fair fight, but Pris and Roy are able to mop the floor with him. If Deckard isn’t human, he must be the Yugo of replicants.
I realize that this objection can be handwaved away by saying that he’s an earlier and less powerful model. But what’s the point of sending him out on a mission to take out the escaped Nexus-6 gang if he is no more effective than an ordinary human with a gun?
How about Nightmare on Elm Street? Freddy has been coldly dismissed by Nancy, disappears, losing his power… Nancy’s friends are alive again, and then Freddy kills her mom a second time and sends Nancy and company on the car ride from Hell. And yet Nancy is alive in the third film. So did that last scene happen, or what?
It was a nightmare. An honest nightmare, not a Freddy created one.