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patrickl:
The ending was interesting. A bit out of character with how the characters are portrayed throughout the rest of the movie, but still.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: koolmoecraig on November 17, 2007, 05:06:45 pm ---Saw it.
It's so-so. The ending was horrible.
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This says all that needs to be said. There were obnoxiously stupid things throughout the show, like people standing around gawking rather than running (Pharmacy). The ending was ---smurfing--- retarded, and it had as much to do with the melodramatic opera lady screaming at the top of her lungs for like fifteen minutes than anything else.
Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote ---I still did not like the military part of the ending. I would have preferred him walking into the mist, and the screen going dark. The military thing was stupid and tacked on.
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But the military showing up right at that moment is what made it so ---smurfin---' tragic! Here he thought all hope was lost. Out of gas, seemingly no end to the mist in sight, and he lives up to the promise he made to his son ("Don't let the monsters get me").
The fact that moments after he kills everyone but himself, the military shows up, just makes it such a "I can't ---smurfing--- believe he just did that...for nothing!" moment. Two more minutes and they would've been rescued.
Or would they....?
Was Ms. Carmondy right all along? Would the mist have cleared if he hadn't have killed everyone? Was it God's revenge?
We'll never know.
BTW, I emailed Drew Struzan about whether or not prints would be made available of his Dark Tower poster shown in the opening of the film and he said it would not. He said it was out of his hands.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 06, 2008, 08:09:16 pm ---There were obnoxiously stupid things throughout the show, like people standing around gawking rather than running (Pharmacy).
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Yeah that really annoyed the hell out of me too.
The ending was horrible as endings go, but I thought it was a nice joke. The movie (book?) seemed to be taking itself waaaay to serious throughout the whole story. I felt the ending made up for that a bit. At least it lifted my spirits. I was pretty upset with the whole unbelievable movie and the fun at the end sure helped me forget that --smurf excrement-- that I just wasted my time on.
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 06, 2008, 08:09:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: koolmoecraig on November 17, 2007, 05:06:45 pm ---Saw it.
It's so-so. The ending was horrible.
--- End quote ---
This says all that needs to be said. There were obnoxiously stupid things throughout the show, like people standing around gawking rather than running (Pharmacy). The ending was ---smurfing--- retarded, and it had as much to do with the melodramatic opera lady screaming at the top of her lungs for like fifteen minutes than anything else.
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Well I just watched this on DVD and after the horrible ending I was reminded of this thread. shmokes sums up my thoughts on it pretty much. The people investigating the sound, then standing around and fighting in the pharmacy was just so amazingly stupid. The ending was just too out of character for them and of course they throw in a lame twist ending that I could see coming a mile away. All I was picturing when the credits rolled is M. Night Shyamalan jumping out and saying "What a twist!" (robot chicken anyone?)
I hate it when a movie has such potential to be great, but fails simply because they wanted to add more action scenes by making the characters temporarily morons and a lame twist ending.
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