The Movie Thread

Just saw <i>S. Darko.</i>
For a while there I thought it was on track to win a Clerks 2 award for surprisingly decent sequel to an impossible to follow original... but the way they didn't even bother tying up any of the loose ends, I've got to give this a Babylon A.D. award instead.(Cool movie until the ridiculously unsatisfying ending.) Sometimes I really doubt their commitment to Sparkle Motion.

Seriously, if anyone here can come up with a plausible explanation on how the ending of S. Darko makes any fucking sense, I'll paypal you $200 in gratitude money.

For that matter (and this one might be <i>possible</i>, so I'll size the bounty in a more conservative fashion), if anyone here has a plausible explanation for why the protagonist in Lucky Number Slevin kills that cop towards the end, I'll pay you $50.
I mean seriously, the ending of <i>Slevin</i> was so brilliant except for that one inexplicable detail- I totally get why everyone else had to be killed, but why off that cop?
 
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Just saw <i>S. Darko.</i>
For a while there I thought it was on track to win a Clerks 2 award for surprisingly decent sequel to an impossible to follow original... but the way they didn't even bother tying up any of the loose ends, I've got to give this a Babylon A.D. award instead.(Cool movie until the ridiculously unsatisfying ending.) Sometimes I really doubt their commitment to Sparkle Motion.

Seriously, if anyone here can come up with a plausible explanation on how the ending of S. Darko makes any fucking sense, I'll paypal you $200 in gratitude money.

For that matter (and this one might be <i>possible</i>, so I'll size the bounty in a more conservative fashion), if anyone here has a plausible explanation for why the protagonist in Lucky Number Slevin kills that cop towards the end, I'll pay you $50.
I mean seriously, the ending of <i>Slevin</i> was so brilliant except for that one inexplicable detail- I totally get why everyone else had to be killed, but why off that cop?
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Ok I'll bite. How about, why not? Its a movie. It can be simply to
enhance the atmosphere the directors trying to invoke and create the credibility the film seeks to establish in the viewers minds-- somebody is ruthless enough to commit wanton murder.
If the character is of no further use for the plot then they're expendable. In Life we might hate that a guard or cop gets killed in a senseless way but film.
 
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Ok I'll bite. How about, why not? Its a movie. It can be simply to
enhance the atmosphere the directors trying to invoke and create the credibility the film seeks to establish in the viewers minds-- somebody is ruthless enough to commit wanton murder.
If the character is of no further use for the plot then they're expendable. In Life we might hate that a guard or cop gets killed in a senseless way but film.
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I get what you're saying, but you <i>have</i> seen Lucky Number Slevin, right? Everything else fits together so perfectly, except for that one scene. The protagonist being such a calculating & meticulous character, it just feels completely out of place for him to go and commit a seemingly random & pointless wanton murder just for the hell of it.
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As for Taken: I liked it.... but they probably should have consulted with a doctor, EMT or junkie to learn how narcan (the antidote to heroin and other opiates) actually works before filming. Narcan is a quick injection, taking just a couple seconds to administer- not an all night IV drip affair. Also, the patient never reacts to it by staying asleep/passed out. She'd have been <b>very</b> awake and alert, very quickly.
 
I watched Long Days Journey Into Night.

It is almost three hours long and the players are talking a mile a minute so that it won't last another two hours. I presume it all takes place in one room.
I watched it for an hour. What a rotten flick with a good cast. Beware.:mad:
 
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I watched Long Days Journey Into Night.

It is almost three hours long and the players are talking a mile a minute so that it won't last another two hours. I presume it all takes place in one room.
I watched it for an hour. What a rotten flick with a good cast. Beware.:mad:
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Thats a damn shame, you left at the worst time.. its slow going but it just gets better and better. though its best seen on the stage.

The director of this made the best movie of all time: Twelve Angry Men
 
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THIS is a hokey chick flick? No shit?!

Damn, it's a good thing you warned me! I guess me & the guys down at the gun club are gonna have to pick something else for tonight. I'm thinking we should check out <i>Runaway Bride</i> instead. That one's just bound to be a great guy movie, right?
 
I'm always looking for movies with <b>brilliantly unexpected twist endings</b>. I'll name my favorites, and hopefully someone can point out a few more good ones that I've missed:

Top shelf:

Lucky Number Slevin
The Sixth Sense
Angel Heart

Honorable Mentions:

The Skeleton Key
Jacob's Ladder

Loser movies that try to belong with those mentioned above, yet fail miserably:

The Village
The Life of David Gale


So... any more?
 
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