was anyone else annoyed?
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film_rat — 18 years ago(April 14, 2007 02:19 PM)
I felt annoyed that she left her baby, but making her come back at the end would have been too much of a clich happy end, this was not the tone of the movie.
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JohnnyBoy1020 — 18 years ago(July 19, 2007 07:54 PM)
I love the movie, but the ending was so open ended. I would have rather the movie go on an extra twenty minutes or so to find out what happened to the two most important female characters. The Frances McDormand character retrurned her key when she thought Bobby Deniro was giving up the grandson. Since he ended up adopting the kid, wouldn't she take him back? And when Gina suddenly split, I was expecting her to come back into the fold eventually, so imagine my suprise when she never did.
We never find out what James Franco was tried for and how much time he had serve. I don't think they had enough evidence to convict him on any of the murders. Still you have to wonder whether he would ever get out of prison or whether Robert DeNiro was just being artificially optimistic in front of the kid. I guess since neither of the women were on the beach with them we can assume they all went their seperate ways. But in a intense character study like this one, I'd like to have some closure about what happened to them.
Did Frances McDormand meet another guy and move out of the building? Did Gina end up ODing in some black dude's back seat. What prison did Franco go to and for how long? These are the kind of details I'd like to know. There were just so many loose ends. The movie had so much momentum and it just ended without giving the audience any degree of certainty. Yeah, I commend them for not going with the most cliche Hollywood ending they could think of. But the ambiguity of the ending is what makes it a very good movie instead of being a great one.
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jeanniemotherof3 — 14 years ago(May 15, 2011 07:44 PM)
I feel both the woman were out of the picture, Vincent clearly stating just the three of them going to Key West. I am kind of glad, I think the three of them have lots of lost time to catch up on. I think that will be awsome as they bond and begin again. I also feel they would both end up with two new, and much better, woman in the end. I would have liked to know that for sure but I did really enjoy the ending, He moved back to Long beach it looks like, and had his grandson till his son got out which probably was a short sentence. Then I like to believe they all lived happily ever after!
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metallicorphan — 13 years ago(February 13, 2013 05:26 PM)
I just finished watching the film as it was on BBC1,and while i thought it was good i would at least of liked to of known what happened to his son,DeNiro's girlfriend okay i guess didn't come back and neither did the baby's mum,but at least tell us how James Franco's character got on
it said at the end credits that it was based on true events,so it's not like one of those films where you can make your own ending and take what you can from the film
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LocoHero — 13 years ago(February 13, 2013 05:56 PM)
Everyone is taking the final scene far too literally.
Just because he's sitting on the beach with Angelo the end, it doesn't mean Angelo's mother isn't around or that he didn't make it up with his own girlfriend. The scene just shows that he was taking responsibility at last. -
jeanniemotherof3 — 14 years ago(May 15, 2011 07:37 PM)
Hey! (a few years later, I might add) De niro is incredible in any role he plays no matter the movie, so don't knock him cause you did not like the movie, that could be understandable, but his acting is never "crap"
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onegreendress — 15 years ago(March 26, 2011 03:03 PM)
I think the better ending would have been just shots of the grandson on the beach, maybe with Deniro's shadow or somethingbut just with the focus on the boy, it's like the video of the Franco character that Deniro watched earlier.