Saw this movie tonight on Amazon and while for the most part this movie was good, real problem with the ending. I don't know if I've ever wanted to punch a director more at the end of a movie then this one. What an unbelievably crappy way to end a movie. It's one thing to have a unneeded happy ending or unneeded bad ending, but this had no damn ending.
They could of done so many things with that ending...could of made a twist or done a lot of things, instead it was like a big F U to the audience. I would of absolutely loved this movie if it would of ended differently.
Great film. Very tense scenes throughout. Michael Shannon and especially Aaron Taylor-Johnson (future Bond?) just nailed it. And Gyllenhaal continues to be on fire.
Great film. Very tense scenes throughout. Michael Shannon and especially Aaron Taylor-Johnson (future Bond?) just nailed it. And Gyllenhaal continues to be on fire.
I just felt like they took the easy way out and left it very ambiguous. If you were going to do that I'd rather then end it with him laying on the ground outside the trailer after he woke up. The last two minutes was just odd.
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it had an appropriate amount of ambiguity. This often does not go over with American audiences (Sopranos) but I thought it worked well. Leaves the viewer asking questions.
Great film. Very tense scenes throughout. Michael Shannon and especially Aaron Taylor-Johnson (future Bond?) just nailed it. And Gyllenhaal continues to be on fire.
I just felt like they took the easy way out and left it very ambiguous. If you were going to do that I'd rather then end it with him laying on the ground outside the trailer after he woke up. The last two minutes was just odd.
I don't think it was an easy way out. Susan's life was being pulled out from under her (her new husband cheating and her career taking a nosedive) and she clasped onto this one glimmer of hope of something that would make her actually happy. Edward, IMO wrote the book in part as a revenge piece but also to officially move on with his life and prove himself (something he was never able to do with Susan).
I'm not sure what ending couldn't have been better to be honest. We are left thinking and wondering a bit, but not so much so that the ending is truly ambiguous.
Funny, I didn't think that ending was ambiguous at all. It was just subtle.
He's not coming. He's never coming. She threw away love. She murdered their life together. (You got that that was the point of the story within the story, right? That's why "Tony's" murdered wife is a redhead like Amy Adams.) Now she regrets it, wants to reconnect, but Edward is leaving her in the lurch, just like she did him.
Do they spell that out for us? No. That's what I love about the movie. It's demanding. It requires some puzzle-solving.
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I just felt like they took the easy way out and left it very ambiguous. If you were going to do that I'd rather then end it with him laying on the ground outside the trailer after he woke up. The last two minutes was just odd.
Funny, I didn't think that ending was ambiguous at all. It was just subtle.
He's not coming. He's never coming. She threw away love. She murdered their life together. (You got that that was the point of the story within the story, right? That's why "Tony's" murdered wife is a redhead like Amy Adams.) Now she regrets it, wants to reconnect, but Edward is leaving her in the lurch, just like she did him.
Do they spell that out for us? No. That's what I love about the movie. It's demanding. It requires some puzzle-solving.
I could of cared less if he showed up, I actually thought they could of done some interesting things with who showed up, but that probably would of dramatically changed what he was going with.
It (thankfully) stopped short of spelling out for the viewer "now you know the feelings of devastation & abandonment I endured." But the point was adeptly made.
The person who played the detective or one of the rapists, you find out it wasn't really Edward who wrote it, etc... Just some quick off the top of my head examples.
It was a take on telling a revenge tail. If the ending didn't focus on Edward/Susan, it wouldn't have made much sense.
It was a take on telling a revenge tail. If the ending didn't focus on Edward/Susan, it wouldn't have made much sense.
I know it would of meant that, I think that would of been an interesting twist. Or the book could of been real, as in it really happened.
the movie had a point. Hold grudges. pay people back. great.
Arrival had one of the coolest endings to a movie. How could you hate that ending? it was brilliant.
The ending to Animals was leaving her flat on a dinner date. I cannot think of a more boring, depressing, mundane and shitty way to end a movie. And I wasn't looking for blood, guts and theatrics. A point would have been nice.
lately, hollywood is pushing the envelop on "different and edgy" --some have worked. Some have fallen flat. This fell flat in my view. It started strong. Ended weak.
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and thought the ending was better than her other movie Arrival. That movie needed a better ending.
Arrival had one of the coolest endings to a movie. How could you hate that ending? it was brilliant.
The ending to Animals was leaving her flat on a dinner date. I cannot think of a more boring, depressing, mundane and shitty way to end a movie. And I wasn't looking for blood, guts and theatrics. A point would have been nice.
lately, hollywood is pushing the envelop on "different and edgy" --some have worked. Some have fallen flat. This fell flat in my view. It started strong. Ended weak.
lol glad to know it wasn't just me.