Man, you want to talk about disapointment, I didn’t realize I had accidentally put on side B of the DVD first. I watched the first few minutes of the real beginning completely confused, wondering why they had chosen to show a flashback just when I thought the plot had been getting good. :smack:
If I get his point, then my example would be Changing Lanes. A not great but still pretty good movie until it smears test-audience feces all over itself in the last five minutes.
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That’s a cop-out. The movie wants us to care about the characters, but then it abandons them without any resolution whatsoever.
Maybe some of you will disagree, but The Grudge.
It seemed like they got bored of filming and just turned off the camera at the point where it “ends.”
If they ever make The Little Friend by Donna Tartt into a movie, it will have no ending. The book doesn’t have one… I thought it was just me, but at least 1/2 of the reviews on Amazon have the same complaint. Maybe she forgot to send them the last chapter :dubious:
My own personal interpretation for what was happening in Time Bandits:
[spoiler]As God is explaining the plot to Randall, he explains that Randall hadn’t stolen the map; God gave it to him to test his creation — and yet he simultaneously forgives and punishes them anyway (accepting them back, but cutting their salary by 19% backdated to the beginning of time). It’s a great representation between the difference between free will and determinism, and the paradox of eternal reward: nothing happens that isn’t God’s will, but we mortals are still on the hook for our actions.
The same thing happens to Kevin, with his parents, as happened with Adam and Eve: don’t touch it, it’s evil — and yet they still do, presumably because God wanted them to — and they’re still punished for it. It’s an unresolved ending because the nature of good, evil, and free will are philosophically unanswered. I don’t think we’re meant to understand it.
Evil himself (David Warner) was part of God’s creation, who seems to think that Evil turned out rather nicely. Naturally, Evil thinks he created himself (“no one created me! I am all-powerful!”).
The appearance of Sean Connery at the end was just a nod to all of the toys Kevin had in his room, which may have inspired him to imagine or dream that it had all happened; but since his parents were two smoking piles of ash, we can be fairly sure that it had.
And, of course, we pull back from there to a drawing of the blueprint of the universe, which is rolled up and carried off by God — it was all part of the plan, apparently.[/spoiler]
Gesundheit.
Monster-a-go-go, although in that case I suspect the creators simply ran out of money and called it the end of the film.
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And then there’a always The Blob ending, a THE END follwed somewhat later by ?
The Thing (John Carpenter’s) makes good use of this ? ending without having to resort to actually using the ?
“Adaptation” comes to mind.
I’d have to disagree with you there. It is a great film but the ending compliments the mood/theme of the film pretty well.