# Pointless endings thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-endings-thread/386834 "2007-01-05T17:09:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-endings-thread/386834/41 "2007-01-07T22:43:48Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] Did you miss the significance of… [/quote] No I didn’t miss it, I just don’t see how it improves the movie in any way. The “accentuation” you refer to was already present and the implication you refer to is not only undercut by numerous other elements of the film, it fails to add anything of value to the story. The recut may be closer to Ridley Scott’s “vision” (or at least what he claimed his vision was, years later) but that doesn’t make it a better, more coherent film. I’m somewhat impassioned on this subject (:D) but to avoid hijacking this thread, I’ll start a new one sooner or later detailing my analysis of the original cut and presenting the premise that the recut was a waste of time. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-endings-thread/386834/42 "2007-01-08T04:09:39Z")
[QUOTE=JohnT] The X-Files. Turns out that Mulder’s sister was not kidnapped by aliens but was “merely” killed. All the alien stuff Mulder apparently made up because of psychological trauma. :rolleyes: X 2^10^10^10 [/QUOTE] WHAT ?! :eek: Please tell me you made that up. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-endings-thread/386834/43 "2007-01-08T04:47:38Z")
[QUOTE=Diceman] WHAT ?! :eek: Please tell me you made that up. [/QUOTE] Can’t do. ☹ I loved some of the season 7 episodes (_First Person Shooter_, _Brand X_, _Je Souhaite_) but the show was pretty much in decline by that point. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-endings-thread/386834/44 "2007-01-08T05:16:16Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] Can’t do. ☹ I loved some of the season 7 episodes (_First Person Shooter_, _Brand X_, _Je Souhaite_) but the show was pretty much in decline by that point. [/QUOTE] Wait wait, really?! You seriously aren’t wooshing us here? Because I couldn’t stand to sit through the last couple seasons, but knowing that still makes me sad. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-endings-thread/386834/45 "2007-01-08T05:49:04Z")
The Farrah Fawcett movie _Extremities_. She plays a woman trapped in her own home by a rapist who has her keys. She manages to turn the tables on him and trap him in her fireplace. She realises that he has set things up so that if she calls the police he will make her seem like a spurned crazy woman as no rape has taken place. So she contemplates murdering him. Her housemates return and they argue about the moral dilemma - if she does the right thing he will be freed and will come and rape her later, however if she kills him… So then From out of the blue we suddenly find out that he is a serial rapist. From a radio/TV broadcast IIRC. So now it is possible to call the police and have him jailed for life. Moral dilemma solved. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-endings-thread/386834/46 "2007-01-08T06:14:16Z")
[QUOTE=stegon66] The ending to _Trees Lounge_ wasn’t pointless or even all that inscrutable - what it was was perfect. Remember that throughout the film we see an elderly barfly; near the end of the movie Steve Buscemi’s character (a novice barfly himself who is going nowhere fast) learns that the old guy has been taken to the hospital after keeling over at the bar. Buscemi orders a beer and a whiskey and the film ends with him just sitting there with the realization that he himself is on that same path as the oldster. (I haven’t seen the movie in awhile but I believe he actually picks up the whiskey but sits it down before drinking it.) [/QUOTE] I agree, it was a great ending. Great movie, too. Someone here recommended it to me. Whoever it was, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-endings-thread/386834/47 "2007-01-08T07:18:06Z")
[QUOTE=Captain\_C] Wait wait, really?! You seriously aren’t wooshing us here? Because I couldn’t stand to sit through the last couple seasons, but knowing that still makes me sad. [/QUOTE] Seriously not a whoosh. Check out _Sein und Zeit_ and _Closure_ in season 7 for the relevant stuff. I didn’t even bother turning on the TV anymore by the middle of season eight. I still refuse to believe there was a season nine ever made, produced, or created. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-endings-thread/386834/48 "2007-01-10T17:30:36Z")
> [@](#): > > Seriously not a whoosh. Check out Sein und Zeit and Closure in season 7 for the relevant stuff. IIRC, they started foreshadowing back in Season 3 that Mulder’s memories of the abduction weren’t accurate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-endings-thread/386834.md?page=2)