Clueless endings

[PyroChamber]

I sure there's probably already a thread on this somewhere, but what are some movie endings that (for one reason or another) you did really understand?

I don't know about anyone else, but I really didn't get the ending to Silent Hill.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

The ending to The Shining kinda left me scratching my head.

 

[Mr. Credible]

yeah, didn't get silent hill, either... still a pretty good movie, though.

heh, from the title of the thread, at first, i thought you meant the ending to the movie 'clueless'... i lolled.

 

[Jack Bauer]

American Psycho and [SIZE=-1]The Rules of Attraction
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[black_dust]

Revolver

 

[Mr. Credible]

American Psycho and [SIZE=-1]The Rules of Attraction[/SIZE]

i usually hate it when people say this about a book adaptation, but:

if you read the book the rules of attraction, you'll understand it a lot more... there's really not a point to either... it's just kind of like: things happen, blah blah blah, then it's over. no moral, nothing. the movie and book even end in the same way: (albeit at different parts) they begin in the middle of a sentence, and end in the middle of a sentence, kinf of to punctuate that it's just a random series of events in the middle of the 'grand scheme of things' that just... happens.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Ahh I see now but here's the thing I understand what the movies were about is just that I was very confused by the endings. Because:

Spoiler

Rules ends with suddenly stop to what Sean was going to do with his life.

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American Psycho ends with what just happened type of thing.

I did read American Psycho but not Rules.

 

[colossus96]

i have tried to figure out what exactly happens at the end of "basic" w/ john travolta and samuel l. jackson. i dont know what the point of the movie was

 

[Joker]

Silent Hill was easy to understand...they were dead and trapped in the afterlife hell world of Silent Hill even though they were allowed to leave the town

 

[SouLeSS]

Pan's Labrynth.

Even though I understood it, it was one of those movies that I guarentee you 80% of the people that saw it had no idea wtf actually happened (which is why it got such good reviews).

 

[GhostPoet]

Big Fish


It could be because I didn't stay to watch the end...but I don't know.

 

[dark_b]

American Psycho

what exactly happened at teh end.

 

[Mr. Credible]

Pan's Labrynth.

Even though I understood it, it was one of those movies that I guarentee you 80% of the people that saw it had no idea wtf actually happened (which is why it got such good reviews).

um... guillermo del toro has said that he left the ending ambiguous, as to let people make up their own minds regarding whether or not

Spoiler

ofelia just died, and her 'magical world' was actually her 'heaven', and she imagined the faun and everything, or her dying and protecting her brother was her final test to get back into her magical kingdom... it goes either way

so there really is no "what actually happened". it's all up to the viewer.

 

[Mr. Credible]

Big Fish


It could be because I didn't stay to watch the end...but I don't know.

ugh... you kind of made me want to punch you with that post.

we're in a thread about confusing endings, and you just said you didn't watch the ending to this movie? so, um... what?

i just... want to hit you. or maybe shake you.

either/or.

 

[Mr. Credible]

Ahh I see now but here's the thing I understand what the movies were about is just that I was very confused by the endings. Because:

Spoiler

Rules ends with suddenly stop to what Sean was going to do with his life.

Spoiler

American Psycho ends with what just happened type of thing.

I did read American Psycho but not Rules.

yeah, really the book (rules)

Spoiler

doesn't end with sean doing anything... it ends a little different from the movie, with sean picking up a hitchhiker girl and hitting on her, but still ends mid-sentence and again, without a real point, so... yeah...

but if you liked american psycho (the book) you should check out rules of attraction... besides less than zero, it's my favorite book of ellis'.

 

[Catman]

Forget ending! What about an entire movie! It took me like three times to finally realize what this movie was about!

 

[dark_b]

American Psycho and rules of atraction are connected right? they are brothers right?

 

[Carmine Falcone]

American Psycho

what exactly happened at teh end.

Nothing. Bateman gets away with it. All of it.

and damn, I need to check out Barton Fink

 

[Mr. Credible]

American Psycho and rules of atraction are connected right? they are brothers right?

sean and patrick bateman are related, yeah... but that's about the only connection between the books. patrick does have his own chapter in 'rules of attration', and sean is briefly (sp?) mentioned in american psycho, but they're both really no more that cameos, so...

bret easton ellis has an affinity for putting the same characters in his books... i dig it. i love reading up on a charater from a book i read years before.

 

[Mr. Credible]

Nothing. Bateman gets away with it. All of it.

and damn, I need to check out Barton Fink

i always thought (and i could be wrong) that it could go either way... either:

a: bateman is a killer, and he gets away with all of it because everyone is so self-centered and conformist that they can't tell the difference between one another, or...

b: he is actually just crazy, and didn't kill a single person, just fantasized about it, and doodled it...

either way, i love it.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

a: bateman is a killer, and he gets away with all of it because everyone is so self-centered and conformist that they can't tell the difference between one another, or...

yeah that's what I think aswell.


It's a fantastic movie indeed.

 

[Mr. Credible]

yeah that's what I think aswell.


It's a fantastic movie indeed.

yeah, the movie makes it more ambiguous as to whether it's 'a' or 'b'.... but either way, great story, and i'd be lying if i said i would have enjoyed the novel as much if i hadn't seen the movie first, and had bale's perfromance to envision while i read 'his' lines in the book.

i do wish thay'd make a "proper" version of the book 'less than zero'. that was a great book that got a pretty crappy adaptatation.

 

[Grim Goblin]

Magnolia!

what was up with

Spoiler

that rain of toad?

 

[Sam Fisher]

Clear And Present Danger. I was thought there'd be more but then the credits rolled

 

[crazy monkey]

The end-all, be-all of head-spinning endings:

Mamoru Oshii's overlooked masterpiece, Avalon.

Get it on fansub or HK DVD. The US release destroys it. Hunt it down, it's worth it.

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