The whole plot felt artificial and unnatural. There are so many plot holes in it (like the camera stuff), it almost ruined the whole movie for me. Also no way he would live with her again after she murdered someone and mentally abuses him everyday. 5/10 because it's a good looking Fincher.
Has a movie ending ever garnered legitimate anger from you before?*
My pick for this would be this horror movie from a while back called The Devil Inside
Not only was it already a pretty meh movie, not only did it end on a cliffhanger, not only did it cut to black with text telling you to go to a website to get your ending, not only was that website full of nothing but clips from the movie you just saw, but the website doesn't even fuckin' work anymore. This exists on every copy of that movie. It's permanently dated. When I saw this in theaters, the audience went from silence to audible groans to shouting. I've had plenty of movies that I didn't like before but this is one of the only one's that's ever actually made me upset with what they tried to pull.
What's your pick, Era?
*If your answer is The Last Jedi or "No because I'm an adult", you will be drawn and quartered, and then politely asked to leave
Your not wrong, symptom of filmmakers trying to be clever when it's not needed and I never got the hype for Usual Suspects. As much as this is a rotten thing to say (though not as rotten as them being who they are) I have genuinely hoped that the revelations about Singer and Spacey would make people retroactively look at the movie worse, not that it should have to have that and I apologize for thinking it since my distaste for a movie doesn't justify what happened to the victims and if I could change that I would.
This is actually quite a good film.
I rewatched the film recently and apart from the ending I enjoyed it more than the initial screening. It looks really good and has some really tense individual scenes/sequences (mostly in the first half of the film). It's certainly better than the Spielberg film it follows (The Terminal).
Do you mean The Grey with Liam Neeson? If not disregard this post, if so I have thoughts. Yes the ending was in the trailer which sucks but without context or knowing.
Ex Machina ending is great. Shows you who she really was the whole time.The ending completely undoes all the good will and likeability of the AI character. I also don't buy her motivations whatsoever. What she does is unrealistically heartless and basically a complete 180. The ending ruins the whole movie for me.
I liked the movie too except for the ending...
This movie was total shit and I do not say that lightly or throw that claim around.
It's quite rare I truly dislike movies and shit on them, but this is one of them.
It's not just bad, it's truly awful.
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Now while this is a pretty good movie (but a bit overrated)...
I absolutely hate that Javier Bardem's character got away with everything he did and ended up winning. Fuck that. Him killing Josh Brolin's wife like that too just pissed me off. I wanted to see this guy die so badly. Fuck this movie for letting him get away.
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This fucking movie
Similar to No Country For Old Men, had extremely unlikable villains whom I just wanted to see killed.
These two dipshit kids just terrorize a family the entire movie.
The worst part about it is the movie fully tricks you into thinking they get fucked cuz there's an entire act where the couple fights back and you see the punks get killed...ONLY FOR THE MOVIE TO LITERALLY REWIND ITSELF IN SOME FUCK YOU TROLL MOVE AND SHOW THAT THIS ACT DIDN'T REALLY HAPPEN.
FUCK. THAT.
AND FUCK THIS MOVIE. I HATE IT.
If that was the denouement of Ferris Bueller it would be in my short list of best movies ever.
Have not seen the movie but it is based on a famous children's book that was about coping with death. As someone who grew up with the specter of death looming over them due to my father dying while I was a baby and the fallout from that I read that book a lot and to this day it holds a special place in my heart. So yeah it is for children, and while I don't know how the movie did it and you may not have personally liked that stories to help children who have to cope with real life death (one of the major reasons we ha e stories in the first place, to help us decipher the real world)is a real thing.
Ugh, what an incredibly unpleasant movie, the ending especially.
Fuck this movie
I had the same feelings about it. Just feels like a more realistic "trick" that still had some fucked up aspect to it could have been more effective for me (like if he was killing random people as a part of it or something).
Don't quote me on it, but I THINK it actually does make sense, it just gets excessively convoluted between time dilation AND the technological advances humanity made.
It was asters intention to make that play on two levels though. He's a sick fuck. In a good way.
The ending completely undoes all the good will and likeability of the AI character. I also don't buy her motivations whatsoever. What she does is unrealistically heartless and basically a complete 180. The ending ruins the whole movie for me.
