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post #31 of 58
1/9/06 at 9:21am
The Lord of the Rings:Return of the King (no joke)

But only on the EE. I couldn't have set through more in the theaters, no matter how much I loved it. Age has lessened those capablities.

Nevertheless, on the EE I would have loved to see the ending that Cate Blanchett narrated (as she did the prologue.) I don't think it was The Scouring, as I understand that was never filmed, except the brief nod to it in Galadriel's mirror. But it seems to me I heard that the cast and crew (only) were given discs with an epilogue and I've love to see what that is.
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post #32 of 58
1/9/06 at 11:22am
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Was was the "Scouring of the Shire"?
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post #33 of 58
1/9/06 at 11:32am
The Scouring of the Shire.
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post #34 of 58
1/11/06 at 7:51pm
Todd, I don't remember much about Holy Road anymore, but

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It takes place 11 years later and Dunbar has kids. His wife gets separated from him as people try to make her a white woman with the relations to the family she was taken from in the first place. Dunbar goes to rescue his wife.


Other things go on, but the book is little of a blur to me now since I haven't read it in a long time. I felt disappointed by the ending though.
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post #35 of 58
1/11/06 at 10:40pm
Broken Flowers. I didn't like the movie at all and then there was no ending.
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post #36 of 58
11/24/08 at 8:00am
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Reviving this thread since I just watched "School Ties" again this weekend and still want more to the ending.
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post #37 of 58
11/24/08 at 8:43am

Re: Movies where you wanted more at the ending...(spoilers)..

Well, since you did revive the thread . . .

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Maybe, I am just not into the art movies. But, myself, wife, friends and from what I heard other people murmering...."Did we miss something?". I thought maybe they lost a reel to the film.
Define "art movie". After all, this forum is devoted to the notion that movies in general are an art form. And since you started this thread, the film No Country for Old Men won the best picture Oscar, and that was a mainstream success with one of the most notoriously unresolved endings in recent film history.
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post #38 of 58
11/24/08 at 8:45am

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The Big Blue (US Version).

This is probably one of my favorite movies and aside from the fact that they had Rosanne Arquette as the female lead, I really have no complaints, except that I would love to see what happens to her after he leaves her at the water. Really, I think the ending is fine, but it's just one of those, wanting to see how she goes on after he leaves kind of things.
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post #39 of 58
11/24/08 at 8:46am

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Oh yeah... and the whole movie of Twilight. Just remake the whole damn movie before the ending. The ending was actually fine.
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post #40 of 58
11/24/08 at 11:20am
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Well, since you did revive the thread . . .


Define "art movie". After all, this forum is devoted to the notion that movies in general are an art form. And since you started this thread, the film No Country for Old Men won the best picture Oscar, and that was a mainstream success with one of the most notoriously unresolved endings in recent film history.

Michael, I consider movies that are not in general release from independents. And to be honest I saw this movie in theater in Red Bank, NJ that plays a lot of these types of movies. So would Battlefield Earth be considered "Art"??
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post #41 of 58
11/24/08 at 11:34am

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Michael, I consider movies that are not in general release from independents. And to be honest I saw this movie in theater in Red Bank, NJ that plays a lot of these types of movies.
So it's got nothing to do with the nature of the movie itself, just how widely it's distributed and where it plays? That's a strange definition of the kind of movies you're not "into".

Again, I submit No Country for Old Men.

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So would Battlefield Earth be considered "Art"??
Why not? A bad piece of art doesn't invalidate the art form.
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post #42 of 58
11/24/08 at 1:00pm
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Michael,
I have no problems with art house movies. Whether they play in one theater or two thousand. I generally aren't into movies that are catergorized as art house. That being said. If a movie interests me. I will see it.
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post #43 of 58
11/24/08 at 1:33pm

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Well, don't see Doubt this December, unless you're prepared to be left uncertain at the end. The title isn't an accident.

(Of course, you'll be missing the pairing of Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman, but hey, sacrifices must be made . . . )
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post #44 of 58
11/25/08 at 10:22am
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Originally Posted by Michael Reuben
Well, don't see Doubt this December, unless you're prepared to be left uncertain at the end. The title isn't an accident.

(Of course, you'll be missing the pairing of Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman, but hey, sacrifices must be made . . . )

I would probably see it. Since I enjoy both of them.
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post #45 of 58
11/25/08 at 11:37pm

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I'll second No Country for Old Men, and for that matter Brokeback Mountain.

Someone needs to tell these directors that it's okay to actually have endings to their films.
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post #46 of 58
11/26/08 at 5:34am

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I'll second No Country for Old Men
You can't "second" something for which there was never a "first". I never said I had a problem with the ending of No Country. I also don't have a problem with the ending of Brokeback Mountain, or of Broken Flowers (which was todd's original example). I'm satisfied with all three just the way they are.

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Someone needs to tell these directors that it's okay to actually have endings to their films.
Because we really, truly respect the director's intent, don't we?
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post #47 of 58
11/26/08 at 10:22am

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I'll second No Country for Old Men, and for that matter Brokeback Mountain.

Someone needs to tell these directors that it's okay to actually have endings to their films.

I haven't seen Brokeback Mountain: no interest in it. I have seen NCfOM and I have to disagree that it has no ending. It does have an ending, just one that a lot of people don't like.
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post #48 of 58
11/26/08 at 10:32am

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The problem, one of them anyway, I had with NCfOM was that it felt as if it had no third act, like the projectionist forgot an entire reel of film.

Plus I felt that, with the exception of Bardhem, it wasn't a very good movie, Tommy Lee Jones was wasted in it IMO. He shows up, starts to investigate, retires and that's it, the rest is him just sort of hanging around.

I know it got a lot of respect etc but it just didn't work for me.

A+ villain, B- movie.
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post #49 of 58
11/26/08 at 11:10am

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Originally Posted by Inspector Hammer!
The problem, one of them anyway, I had with NCfOM was that it felt as if it had no third act, like the projectionist forgot an entire reel of film.

Plus I felt that, with the exception of Bardhem, it wasn't a very good movie, Tommy Lee Jones was wasted in it IMO. He shows up, starts to investigate, retires and that's it, the rest is him just sort of hanging around.

I know it got a lot of respect etc but it just didn't work for me.

A+ villain, B- movie.

Well, the whole point of the film, IMO, is that

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TLJ's sheriff character realizes that he has gotten too old for the job. He doesn't understand the new reality of violence that is accompanying the drug trade invading his county. He doesn't know how to handle that reality and deep down knows that his death would be the most likely result of staying on as sheriff. As a result, he decides to take the safe way out and retires. In movies, we are used to seeing lawmen, especially western lawmen, showing bravado and standing up to the villain no matter what the final consequence. This movie just shows that a real sheriff would most likely do what ordinary people do in a similar situation: put self-preservation above all else.
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post #50 of 58
11/28/08 at 12:57pm

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todd s wrote (post #1):
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Have you ever watched a movie and at the end you wanted some more story/explaination?

Yes. My most immediate candidate in this category would be Event Horizon (1997). I wanted to actually get to see this "universe of pure evil" that the story mentions, but only symbolizes through some graphic, but thoroughly conventional Western torture-imagery.

Too bad the producers didn't give us at least a glimpse of a minute or two's duration of this (supposedly) alien universe, and of what made it "evil". But, then, the cop-out usually wins in Hollywood.
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post #51 of 58
11/28/08 at 6:24pm

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I would have to say Cloverfield.....
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post #52 of 58
12/1/08 at 12:19am

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The conversation between Dumbledore and Harry, arguably the most important scene of the film was way too short and restrained. Also, it seems like the aftermath of Sirius's death should've been more weighty and its effect on Harry explored. The movie feels like it ends about ten minutes before it should.
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post #53 of 58
12/1/08 at 9:27am

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The end of The Truman Show always felt a little truncated to me.
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post #54 of 58
12/1/08 at 1:13pm
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The conversation between Dumbledore and Harry, arguably the most important scene of the film was way too short and restrained. Also, it seems like the aftermath of Sirius's death should've been more weighty and its effect on Harry explored. The movie feels like it ends about ten minutes before it should.

I always felt the HP movies should have been handled the same as the Lord of the Rings movies. A theatrical release and then an extended dvd release for the fans.
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post #55 of 58
12/1/08 at 1:14pm
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The end of The Truman Show always felt a little truncated to me.

I used to think that also. But, it makes perfect sense. Throughout the movie we are just like the tv audience in the movie...voyeurs. But, when he walks out of the "soundstage" he is off camera. And his life is private.
That being said. I would love to see how he reacts to the "outside" world.
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post #56 of 58
12/1/08 at 3:36pm

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I used to think that also. But, it makes perfect sense. Throughout the movie we are just like the tv audience in the movie...voyeurs. But, when he walks out of the "soundstage" he is off camera. And his life is private.

I never thought of it that way. That's an interesting spin on the ending. Still, it would have been interesting to see his reaction to the big wide world and the demise of Christof.
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post #57 of 58
12/6/08 at 5:57am

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Children Of Men - Wha Happened?

Broken Flowers - Truly a throw something at the screen moment.
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post #58 of 58
12/8/08 at 10:01am
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Just watched "In the Name of the King" with Jason Statham. While I won't go into the movie. The ending to me just seemed weak. He kills the bad guy and fade to black. Yes, everything was kinda of resolved. But, I wanted to see a bit more of a conclusion.
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