>>211596226 (OP)
Turbo moronic take, King said this ending was better than the book.

>>211596406
King is a hack.

>>211596226 (OP)
>It made grug feel no happy, grug no like

>>211596406
King who, Charles? Who gives a fuck what he thinks.

>>211596226 (OP)
>The Game
>Shutter Island
>Jacobs Ladder
>The Usual Suspects
>Once Upon a Time in America
Anything where the story is revealed to be much more mundane than what it has been showing and leading up to.

>>211596406
Run out of fuel, "hmm shall we look for supplies in any of the nearby houses? Or just grab a nearby car and keep driving?" Nope, instant group suicide attempt. Runs out of ammo, walks like 5ft from the car, and the entire US military is just, THERE.

It's so stupid it feels like a fucking sketch. How do you not hear multiple fucking TANKS driving straight at you? Why would you just instantly give up? Book ending made more sense, this was just darabont trying so hard for a forced downer ending it loops back round to comedy

>>211596638
>Why would you just instantly give up?
Almost like the movie was trying to say something about herd pressure and what happens when you choose to lose all hope, diametrically opposite of what happened in the novel but 30 times more effective than "muh God there is name of a city in static we should THE END"
Almost like her passing by him with her kids alive, highlights his terrible mistake of giving up. Apparently even Mist is too complicated for autists "literally meing" themselves into the narrative.

>>211596562
>The Game
You can really tell it was supposed to end five minutes earlier, but that must not have played well with test audiences so they tacked a happy ending to it.

Boomers didn't know any better. They didn't have the internet back then to teach them how corny this type of writing was.

>>211596638
From a practical standpoint I think he (Darabond) intended us to feel like they were in the car for a long time, but since it was the last few moments of the movie its tough to convey visually. I agree in the in the movie it feels like the murder happens 15 mins after they escape the store, when they actually spent multiple hours in the car trying to reach safety. Only to see GIANT monsters and fog that obscures them. You also have to remember what he's (main character) seen up until this point. They couldn't even get to a car in the parking lot safely. The only thing they know for certain is in the mist is an absolutely brutal death, likely only 20ft away. These have been truly torturous deaths at the hands of the creatures too. I'd certainly rather shoot my son than have him end up an incubator like the MPs. From a film making standpoint, this>>211596638

>>211597187
Ah the themes make up for an ending that belongs in a happy tree friends episode, got ya.

An ambiguous ending is better than what we got, this is akin to the Thing ending with them both shooting themselves. Only to find out they're both not infected, then the rescue team arrives seconds after they're dead.

>>211597783
>Ah the themes make up for an ending
Did you miss the entire second act of the movie and them going insane in the supermarket, attributing the mist to God's punishment and that everyone is dead is just a question of who dies first?
Nah, that's totally not part of it.
Forget that the woman leaves in the beginning of the movie too, begging people to help her, but they see her venture as hopeless despite her clearly being right.
Yes, it's only the ending that brings up people losing hope and doing something fucking crazy or cruel.
Again, it is fucking incredible that something as basic as Mist's ending is dismissed by "nah I wouldn't do that, lmao goofy aah shit lol"
Keep scrolling the phone, bud.

>>211597771
If you want to do that in a way that makes sense, don't have all of THIS just feet from the characters. Just have them give up and then slowly zoom out on their car, or show the army weeks later finding them. Not seconds after, and literally right next to them.

>>211596638
>Nope, instant group suicide attempt.
guess you missed the part they drive for hours witnessing horrors beyond human comprehension

>>211598214
Yeah, but 'the' anon wouldn't do that. So neither should the characters in the movie.
It's that easy.

>>211598157
The point is that salvation could be right in front of you. Literally. Your Mike Stoklasa "fix" removes all emotional impact from the moment.

blue balled ending to this miniseries

The ending of the short story is a lot bleaker desu. Yeah, it sucks this random jackoff killed his kid or whatever but the world at large will be fine and we'll get some kino of stealth bombers dropping nukes on Cthulhu. It's better than everything being fucked permanently by mist monsters and crazy earthquakes.

>>211596226 (OP)
More like movies that ruin the ending. The whole thing had a woke anti-Christian propaganda slant to it.

>>211596406
Have you watched Maximum Overdrive? King is potato when it comes to films.

>>211598609
>The whole thing had a woke anti-Christian propaganda slant to it.
Yes, she should have been a jewish fundamentalist in rural Maine of a Christian nation. That would totally convert all the people in the store to follow a rabbi in a sacrificial doomsday clique. Brain rot drooling out of your ears. Wipe it.

>>211596226 (OP)
brazil

>>211598609
Oh piss off you fucking knob.

>>211596226 (OP)
>Endings which ruin the entire film
The Ruins (irony duly noted)

They should have stuck to the book.

>>211599055
>>211599267
yeah, the "happy ending" for dark, otherwise good movies is so lame.

>>211596226 (OP)
Alien 3 torpedoes Aliens right in the bussy.

>>211599423
Good. The franchise didn't need an expanding list of side characters with plot armor aggregating.

>>211599423
Aliens was sloppa

Nah, the ending fits the movie quite well, since the whole thing is anti-life.

>>211599423
why did they not just have ripley be captured and end up on the prison planet that way? Instead of having newt be incinerated by pod crash off screen?

>>211599996
If it's anti-life why does the military successfully clean up the infestation?
It turns an apocalyptic event into a failed invasion

>>211596226 (OP)

>>211600186
That's just it, the film conveys the utter impotence of a single man, the insignificance of his dreams, the frailty of his family (kills own child, wife dies, his literal family tree collapses in a storm). All of his efforts to save the people he loves was for naught. But oh, the army will save us don't worry.

At least some of you can see the ending for the kino that it is. Maybe there's some slight hope for this board after all.

>>211596406
King doesn't understand how to write endings

>>211601541
Endings are never as cool as the secret and mystery before it

>>211600356
Turned the movie off after this

>>211596226 (OP)
The part that has always bothered me about the ending is that they clearly establish the army coming up behind the truck which means they must have driven past an entire armored batallion with flamethrowers marching rightnext to the road.

>>211598063
You have convinced me. I haven't read the book, however.

>>211601678
I don't know how many times it has to be explained to you. They couldn't be free of the mist until expiation. God demanded sacrifice. No sacrifice, then you stay in the mist. Once you expiate the kid, then you're free and the Army can show up. Maybe we have to say it slower so you'll finally get it

I just watched the movie Sneakers. In the final minutes of the movie, they hand over a powerful hacking device to the government to get their payment. Then, in the last 15 seconds, they reveal that they actually kept the device, and a news anchor says the Republican Party just lost all their money and no one knows where it's gone. As soon as that sentence is done, he says "in other news, Greenpeace and the United Negro College Fund just received record profits". Then the movie ends. The movie talks about hacking the government constantly, and what they could do if they erased all currency or all records of property. But the Hollywood writers couldn't really imagine any usage of such a device beyond "fuck republicans".

>>211596226 (OP)
That ending was possibly the absolute best ending in that genre, you moron.

>>211602148
How is that bad again?

>>211601833
Nice head canon faggot

>>211602268
They just spent the last minutes negotiating with the NSA about all the money and rewards and cleared criminal records they were gonna get for handing over this doomsday level threat over to them. Then as they give it they go "btw it's just junk, don't actually look into it" and James Earl Jones goes OK. Then it cuts to a news anchor gleefully talking about how Republicans are too stupid to find their own money. So I guess the government was just OK with giving them all that stuff for nothing while the gang became the biggest threat to America and rigged the election. It just falls apart at the end, everyone acts like idiots except for the hero

>>211596226 (OP)
I don't like bad endings in movie but in this case I liked it. Especially because it was realistic that eventually humans would blast those insectoids.

>>211601678
Im driving south, you're driving north. I turn left onto 1st at 12:00, you turn right onto 1st at 12:05. I stop to get gas, you drive past the gas station from the same direction I just came and see me even though I've never driven past you. Is spacial reasoning really that hard for you?

Night of the living dead kind of it’s pretty annoying after everything that happened and daw of the dead original almost had the 2 survivors off themselves for no reason really but they decided to change it

>>211602205
>best ending
>in that genre
lol lmao horror is such a garbage genre

>>211596226 (OP)
To Live and Die in LA comes to mind. Great movie until le subverting expectations the last five minutes

>>211596226 (OP)
that ending was great, grimm, depressing and dark, it makes the whole film a little bit better

>>211602676
Nah, the ending is kino. It fits with everything else that has happened and if you can't see that then you didn't pay attention

Worst part was that godawful caterwauling track over the whole ending sequence. Who's fucking idea was that?

>>211602968
He shouldn't have been upset by the death of his son at his own hands, and moral ramifications of murdering people who trusted him? Or you just mean it sounds like a wilhelm scream, easily placed as ADR?

>>211598157
>the woman who walked into the mist to get her kids survives and gives a condescending "told you so look" to the protagonist because... because she just does, okay??
lmaoing

>>211603190
>>211602205

"But it's the absolute best ending in the entire genre!"

>>211602809
the chungus cop taking the bad cop mantle is retarded and there's no build up to that whatsoever

I liked the monsters, wish the movie would show us more bizarre creatures

>>211604933
>movie is called To Live and Die in LA
>is surprised when one main character Lives and the other Dies in LA
Media. Literacy.

>>211598583
This remains my favourite TV show of all time.

>>211596226 (OP)
Heh, I guess he was in the mist the whole time!

>>211596226 (OP)
And I am sitting at the same board with "people" like OP, or this >>211596638
retard
I never used
>filtered
But this is the exact situation. Maybe it's because you saw movie only once?

>>211599184
Bongs speak like retarded children. Nobody can take them seriously.

>>211596406
King is a retarded pedo, who cares what he thinks?

>>211602809
Lisa Gerrard had been in a few "epic" movies like Gladiator by that point, so it wasn't an unprecedented choice. However I think it was cheap and lame anyway because I like the song and don't think the movie earned it.

>>211606241
Meant for
>>211602968

>>211596226 (OP)
>Vampirism is cured by a blood transfusion

>>211602968
The director was so far up his own ass, he thought this goofy monster mash where the bagboy gets eaten by Tentacles from Planet X was actually le serious thought provoking horror story.

>>211598583
>gets daughter back
>room still exists which leaves the possibility of other episodes happening
I don't see a rpoblem

>>211596562
>>211597210
>The Game
>muh nihilism
The happy ending was always in the script and is the entire point of the film, it's even referenced eariler when Douglas meets the guys at the club, you guys are just filtered doomers

>>211596226 (OP)
>nobody has said rosemary's baby yet
come on now

>>211608667
It's not the lack of nihilism that makes it dumb, it's the series of events that had to take place for the ending to happen. It's absurd.

>>211598736
Maximum Overdrive is the only good thing King worked on

>>211607418

Ya that one bugged me too. Vampire movies have a hard time getting everything right

>>211608700
what is the problem with it?

>>211608667
You want me to suck your cock? Is that what you want? Is that how your "game" ends?

Aliens at the end of AI
like wtf?

>>211596226 (OP)

This scene.

The lobotomy ruined Sucker Punch.

I'm still mad decades later

>>211610744
Explain. It makes complete sense for the character. And it's not even ambiguous in any way, they narrate why he did this.

>>211596226 (OP)
The ending is what makes the entire point of the film stick, you fucking turbo-sped.

>>211610837
I have no problem with the killer's motives, to me 99% of the movie is perfect, but despite it being very grounded in reality, they pulled a super natural element at the last second which took me completely out of it. You could argue that it was supposed to be metaphorical or whatever, but having those last shots of pure fantasy felt really bad.

>>211611444
>but despite it being very grounded in reality
Sincerely, what are you talking about? His sense of smell is unambiguously supernatural, and he has no smell of his own. The whole point and tragedy of his character is that he is clearly not human. Who is obsessed with the idea of putting 'love,' which he associates with beauty, into a bottle?
For Christ's sake, he sits in a cave for 7 years (I don't remember if it's said in the movie, but in the book it is so). This entire story is full of fantastic and supernatural elements.
You realize that covering beautiful women in fat will not produce a love perfume too?
Where did you see realism?
>You could argue that it was supposed to be metaphorical
It's not. It's very literal. He made the father of a child he murdered proclaim that he loves him.
He looks at this and ponders how strong this aroma must be to produce this emotion. Except he can't feel any of it; he can never actually understand what he created. He made a perfume that forces people to love, but he himself can never love anyone.
That's why he dips himself in it and returns to the gutter from which he came from.
It's an incredible ending.

>>211596226 (OP)
A dream fake-out is always bad, but this one is especially agonizing because they were clearly alluding to it, and it would have been incredibly ironic for this character, who toyed with everyone throughout the story, to not see danger under his nose. I heard it's because they wanted sequels, but still.

This was so fucking stupid it still makes me seethe. Not that TDKR is some masterpiece, but that they even thought this frame should be in it is just insulting.

>>211611073
What's the point of the film?

>>211602420
Drumpf lost deal with it cinderello.

>>211608900
It's worth remembering that they exhaustively tested him to determine what would lead him down the path he went on. Also his brother was in on it. They knew the guy inside out. That's the point of the 'game'- to push someone to their limits until they rediscover themselves and appreciate life anew. It's a basically just a cool metaphor for 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger', so naturally he can't die. Great movie.

>>211611117
Yeah, it's really bizarre and shitty considering how great the movie is otherwise.

>>211602205
Yes, yes (you) are.
Also, watch more movies.