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R. Dittmar
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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 Posted - 01/26/2006 : 8:05:35 PM
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Surely this be a topic for the minions to weigh in on:
http://www.slate.com/id/2114918/
I must concur by the way on The Usual Suspects. Surprise!! Everything you've been watching for the last hour and a half is completely and utterly meaningless! And now that I think about it, who can possibly believe that a bunch of hardened criminals would cavort with Spacey's effeminate Purple Nurple (or whatever his name was) character in the first place? |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 01/26/2006 : 8:54:14 PM
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Actually, I didn't take the attitude that everything in Suspects was meaningless. The only events that the revelation at the film's end changed were;
1) The attorney's name was not Kobayashi
2) Verbal didn't stay behind on the docks as he was ordered (to put it mildly)
3) There may or may not have been a Redfoot; if there was, Redfoot wasn't his name
That's all that changed. Everything else could have just as easily happened exactly the way the movie said it did. |
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hbrennan
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Philippines
1455 Posts |
Posted - 01/26/2006 : 10:15:22 PM
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I'm going with "Murder by Death". Funny movie. Stupid "twist" ending.
"...yet it hadn't destroyed his brain."
re: Charles "The Butcher" Benton (1956)
http://henrybrennan.blogspot.com/ |
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Dirk
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
237 Posts |
Posted - 01/26/2006 : 10:25:53 PM
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I disagree with including Man on Fire on that list. Actually I disagree more with the rationale the author gives for including it:
"Little Dakota Fanning gets kidnapped and murdered by Mexico City scum, after which her bodyguard, Denzel Washington—a down-and-out alcoholic until the little girl brought him back to life—taunts, tortures, and executes (to cheers from the audience) the people responsible. Then she turns out to be alive, and anyway, it was her debt-ridden dad who had her kidnapped, and we should probably feel bad about the people who died horribly but what's a few degenerate Mexicans more or less, right?"
Yeah, what a tragedy. In attempting to find out who kidnapped and quite possibly murdered a little girl (not to mention countless otheres), Denzel gives a bunch of vicious, corrupt gangsters what's coming to them. Jingoistic bastards! |
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kdraut
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
343 Posts |
Posted - 01/26/2006 : 10:41:22 PM
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Originally posted by Dirk
I disagree with including Man on Fire on that list. Actually I disagree more with the rationale the author gives for including it:
"Little Dakota Fanning gets kidnapped and murdered by Mexico City scum, after which her bodyguard, Denzel Washington—a down-and-out alcoholic until the little girl brought him back to life—taunts, tortures, and executes (to cheers from the audience) the people responsible. Then she turns out to be alive, and anyway, it was her debt-ridden dad who had her kidnapped, and we should probably feel bad about the people who died horribly but what's a few degenerate Mexicans more or less, right?"
Yeah, what a tragedy. In attempting to find out who kidnapped and quite possibly murdered a little girl (not to mention countless otheres), Denzel gives a bunch of vicious, corrupt gangsters what's coming to them. Jingoistic bastards!
Man on Fire is quite possibly the greatest movie ever.
The only surprise for me at the end was that he didn't have a bomb fitted with a deadman switch on himself.
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2006 : 03:01:37 AM
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| It's not on the list, but a few days ago they were showing Vin Diesel's A man apart on TV. It's a no-nonsense, halfway decent action-revenge flick, but there's a twist ending that manages to turn what little plot the film has in a meaningless mess. |
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Freschel
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
150 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2006 : 03:38:32 AM
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I nominate The Game. I think what put off most people about this movie was the "April Fools" ending. Dispite of the ending, it's still a good movie.
It's Coacoa Puffs, Bob. I have no idea why, but it fits the equation. |
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cschack
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Norway
124 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2006 : 03:44:21 AM
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How about "Blair Witch 2"? (it was on TV, so I didn't blow money on it or anything).
"We're innocent. The witch killed them"
"Well, let's look at the tapes"
"Oh no, we killed them after all"
The end.
I mean...bleh.
"Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
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dconner
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
104 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2006 : 09:22:49 AM
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| I actually like the ending of No Way Out quite a lot. It's actually set up earlier in the movie, and doesn't contradict anything that goes before (though it might not be the most obvious.) |
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MrPorter
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
102 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2006 : 09:37:10 AM
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From the recent B-Masters Cabal Video Nasties reviews El Santo pretty much nails what is wrong with the ending of The House on the Edge of the Park. It seriously undermines what could have been a damned effective film. It would have so much more satisfying to have Ricky turn on Alex, and that's where I thought it was going when I first saw it.
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MikeC
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
749 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2006 : 09:49:25 AM
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Malice.
It was so bad that I've forgotten just what was wrong
with it.
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sister mary dispair
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
USA
35 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2006 : 6:35:26 PM
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Considering this is a bad movie site I thought I'd chip in, Monster a-go-go.
"Hmmm...It says here that if a person is not married by the time they are 35 they have a better chance of being robbed at gunpoint by a desperate and somewhat bloated Christian Slater." Harvey Birdman |
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BradH812
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1294 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2006 : 6:49:03 PM
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War of the Worlds. Oops, the Martians caught a cold and croaked.
Okay, they did the same thing with the 1954 version, but there we saw humans actually fighting back, and you had the feeling after we busted our butts trying to fend off these critters, we'd earned a break. Here, it was Martians attack, people run, Tom Cruise acts like a sorry excuse for a dad. Repeat. Again and again.
Okay, the movie was pretty crappy overall, but this time around the ending was out of the blue, and it just capped off a whole lotta disappointments. |
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Triviachamp
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
254 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2006 : 9:03:08 PM
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Originally posted by BradH812
War of the Worlds. Oops, the Martians caught a cold and croaked.
Okay, they did the same thing with the 1954 version, but there we saw humans actually fighting back, and you had the feeling after we busted our butts trying to fend off these critters, we'd earned a break. Here, it was Martians attack, people run, Tom Cruise acts like a sorry excuse for a dad. Repeat. Again and again.
Okay, the movie was pretty crappy overall, but this time around the ending was out of the blue, and it just capped off a whole lotta disappointments.
That happened in the book as well.
A bit off topic but the reactions to the ending of this film have annoyed me. Why is it that the self righteous "Why is everyone so ignorant of classic literature?" crowd is so willing to take exception to Tom Cruise movies? I find this similar to how the "Remakes Suck!" and "The Slump is due to big budget crap" crowd excuses Peter Jackson.
Does this we should be praising Devlin and Emmerich for the ending of ID4?
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Dirk
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
237 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2006 : 9:45:28 PM
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War of the Worlds is an odd one, because (from what I understand - I haven't seen the movie) while the "twist" ending remains the same, practically everything else has been changed from both the novel and the 1954 version.
On the topic of Wells, one of the weirdest "twist" endings is the one they slapped onto the film adaption of another one of his novels, The First Men in the Moon. They basically ripped off the end of War of the Worlds, but made it a kind of parable about the fate of the Indians (I think - supposedly germs from visiting scientists destroy the entire population of the Moon). |
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tam1MI
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
558 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2006 : 10:31:02 PM
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| The bug-stupid "twist" ending to The Life of David Gale is probably one of the least bad things about it. I've said it before and I'll say it again: watching that movie made me want to hose myself down with industrial-strength Lysol. What a revolting piece of junk. |
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