Thunder Warrior 2
Before Thunder (Mark Gregor) drove away with his wife, the sheriff (Bo Svenson) told him he was free, the charges were dropped, and his identity now a secret. So as he was riding away, why the hell did the sheriff shoot him?
Perhaps, but it just felt so reckless and out of character to me. 1885 is still the past for him. Fiddling around with it endangered Marty’s existence as well as his own, not to mention everyone else’s; and it carried the risk of causing a temporal paradox.
I can see him having a relationship with Clara, but children are the most significant way that we touch the future. It was reckless. So I guess I ought to withdraw my suggestion that Marty meet one of the Doc’s descendants.
I’d like to know how Doc Brown could possibly create a time machine with 1880s and 1890s technology, quite frankly!
My only candidate for “worst ending” is Horton Hears a Who, because of the sudden Dance Party ending, breaking out into “Can’t Fight This Feeling”. Um, what?
I’ll have to think of more later.
[Stands up and starts wiggling his fingers at Tamerlane]
Tamerlane is renegade. He will not go to seventh level. Tamerlane is renegade. (Tamerlane starts drooling and collapses)
It’s worth buying the DVD of Zardoz for John Boorman’s commentary; he comes across as faintly embarrassed about the whole thing but quietly proud. Also, toplessness. I remember feeling sorry for the actors.
Good example of a film that could go in “stupidest movie beginnings”. I wonder if that’s how they’re supplying the rebels in Syria; a giant stone head flies up to them and talks to them about birth control before spewing out Stingers. The ending made a certain amount of sense on a metaphorical level, but were we supposed to believe that they literally sat there for fifty years? Without getting bottom sores? Charlotte Rampling with bottom sores, horrible mental image.
Beyond The Black Rainbow-
After watching the first hour of the painfully slow and boring movie which consists of nothing but discussions basically, we finally get the slow as molasses escape from the facility. Our heroine escapes and is pursued by the villain, he kills two people while looking for her, finally they face each other and as he approaches her…he trips over a branch and falls hitting his head on a rock…THE END!
One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen.
I just watched “Entrance” (2012) this week because Stephen King recommended it in “Entertainment Weekly”. There was something I liked about it but it wasn’t the ending as it was one of those films the just…ended. Ya’ know, without an ending.
Sometimes I think filmmakers who have a good idea for a movie, but no ending, just say, “Fuck it. We’ll make it and call it an art film.”
I felt the same way about “Meek’s Cutoff” (2010).
As sort of a sidebar to this topic, the 1974 version of “The Great Gatsby” had two endings. Sort of. I was working as a projectionist at a theater that ran the film when it opened. For the first week or so the final reel was a little longer with additional scenes at the very end. Then, they sent us a new final reel with some of that material removed. I much preferred the longer version, mostly I suppose because I had been watching it that way for several days. It now seemed oddly truncated when Nick walked out of the door and “The End” appeared on the screen because I knew he went and did more stuff after that.