What Movie Ending are You Still Unresolved with?

[akumushi]

Originally Posted by icehog3

Thanks Clayton....I have read the book, but I still find myself unsatisfied with that ending.....yet it's still my favorite movie of all time.

I agree that the ending, and maybe even the movie as a whole, is a little disappointing compared to the novel. Kubrick has a tendency to do his own thing and use the book as a starting point (he excised the entire last chapter of "A Clockwork Orange" and actually improved on the book IMO), but regardless, he makes his own work of art that is independent of the "inspiration" when he makes a film. It's funny that two of his films have already been mentioned in this thread. I agree that 2001 makes no sense at the end The Shining is by far and away the scariest book I've ever read and my favorite novel by Stephen King

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by akumushi

I agree that the ending, and maybe even the movie as a whole, is a little disappointing compared to the novel. Kubrick has a tendency to do his own thing and use the book as a starting point (he excised the entire last chapter of "A Clockwork Orange" and actually improved on the book IMO), but regardless, he makes his own work of art that is independent of the "inspiration" when he makes a film. It's funny that two of his films have already been mentioned in this thread. I agree that 2001 makes no sense at the end The Shining is by far and away the scariest book I've ever read and my favorite novel by Stephen King

I actually love the movie, especially Nicholson's performance which captures rage and madness like no other actor has....just that picture bugs me.

[akumushi]

Originally Posted by icehog3

I actually love the movie, especially Nicholson's performance which captures rage and madness like no other actor has....just that picture bugs me.

It's a great film no doubt, I just happened to read the book first, while I was driving a boat up to Vancouver in seas that almost sank us, and the book had come from the collection of a recently deceased person's collection with a bookmark from her that showed she had never finished it, so needless to say, the movie never quite got creepy enough to live up to the hype Oh, and don't read "A Decent Into the Maelstrom" by E.A. Poe when the swells are 30 feet and you have gale force winds at your bow

[OLS]

In terms of No Country for Old Men, I GET the ending, but I guess I was not overly satisfied with it.
I guess I am going to have to read The Shining, since I was creeped out by the movie, but not
overly scared. I don't really scare easy. I think that's a result of how movies are made. If you
frame the shot to the left, the monster is about to enter from the right. If the music gets a lil wiggy,
somethings about to pop up out of something else. And on and on and on.

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