Movie should of ended when… (spoilers)
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Stovepipe99 — 9 years ago(September 24, 2016 06:16 PM)
Can I ask you: were you expecting that ending?
Because of the Cloverfield name in the title, I was 99% sure that it was going to be alienswith only a few wavering moments of doubt.
Maybe the "gear shift" into sci-fi at the end didn't bother me as much because I was so expecting it. Were you expecting it and let down by it? Or not expecting it and unimpressed with the way that the movie moved from one mode (thriller) to another (sci-fi/action)? -
duelmasterjay — 9 years ago(September 30, 2016 03:09 PM)
As soon as it went to aliens it lost all its credibility. It was a good mystery what happened on the outside, did he kill his daughter and abduct another to replace her(that wasn't even explained well or at all) but once aliens came into the picture I got angry
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jezfernandez — 9 years ago(October 08, 2016 01:12 AM)
I tend to agree. The bunker dynamic was much more effective, even if there was a genuine threat of some description outside. The souped up alien ending totally jarred with the subtle tension that had gone before.
I wondered if he'd mutilated the pigs himself; also, they could have done something with the woman outside to make it more ambiguous. For example, made her injuries look like a car accident - she was asking for medical attention rather than refuge?
I enjoyed the bunker, mystery solving (who was the girl in the photo), making the suit, etc. Once she got outside, it dropped the ball. Perhaps they tried too hard to make it a "blood relative" to Cloverfield, though there doesn't seem to be much connection. Unless the aliens are looking for their lost alien boy who was last seen trashing Manhattan? -
Stovepipe99 — 9 years ago(October 09, 2016 07:09 PM)
I enjoyed the bunker, mystery solving (who was the girl in the photo), making the suit, etc. Once she got outside, it dropped the ball.
I enjoyed the cognitive dissonance that the real existence of the aliens presented.
As a person (and specifically a woman) I totally understood where Michelle was coming from. You wake up chained to some random dude's wall and he tells you that you need to spend the next TWO YEARS with him in order to stay safe? On a human level I was like "Yes, knock him over the head, grab those keys, and get yourself OUT OF THERE!".
But as a viewer (and given the Cloverfield name), I just knew that the alien attack was going to be real. So at the same time that one part of me wanted her to get out of the bunker by any means necessary, another part of me knew that escaping could/would be fatal. I always think there's something really powerful when a character in a horror movie is doing exactly what you'd do in their position, and yet as a viewer you know it's the wrong action.
I also liked the irony that having to harden her resolve and go for broke in order to escape from Howard is likely what gives her the nerve at the end to face her fears and attack the alien. Had Michelle from the beginning of the movie been picked up by the alien, she would have been toast. Facing down a human monster prepares her to take on an inhuman one.
Could the movie have been just as good without the alien part at the end? Definitely yes. With a few tweaks there could have been no threat or a non-alien threat and the movie could have still worked (though, again, I like the jarring nature of knowing that Howard was a monster and also a savior).
Do the aliens add anything to the story? I mean, I think so in a thematic sense. A much more rote ending would be if she like went back to an abusive boyfriend/husband and punched him in the face or something. Horror/thriller/action movies often have that moment where the formerly meek character stands up to a bully from the beginning. I kind of liked that the movie went really big instead of just showing Michelle emerging from her experience and being more assertive in her relationship or something.
The bunker dynamic (and in particular the three central performances) is undoubtedly the strength, but I don't find that the alien element derails it. -
jezfernandez — 9 years ago(October 10, 2016 01:33 AM)
All good points and I'd agree on everything. The last ten minutes just felt like they'd ripped off War Of The Worlds and tried to pay off audiences who liked the Cloverfield universe. Knowing JJ Abrams, I was prepared for some kind of left-field link to the original movie.
Do you remember Signs? I really thought the twist would be that there were no aliens and the threat outside the house was something completely different. I was most disappointed by the ending on that one too. -
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Lycian — 9 years ago(October 29, 2016 05:17 PM)
Disagree with OP.
If the film ended there then it would be a cliche. A hollywood crap.
This ending is a true twist and an original idea.
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kobethagame — 9 years ago(November 12, 2016 02:06 AM)
I almost always read a movie's synopsis when i'm gonna watch one.. and i'm very grateful i didnt do it this time.. i rated it 8/10..
Having that said, the movie shouldve ended when she saw an airborne alien with tentacles going towards her and said "come on".. lol -
bigman0692000 — 9 years ago(November 28, 2016 09:30 PM)
I agree. I think when she stands on top the truck, and sees the alien spaceship in the background over the corn field would have been a better place to end it.
They should have ended the movie like they started it in an open ended way just leaving it open after she sees the aliens, and realizes it was all true. -
minhas4 — 9 years ago(November 29, 2016 10:24 PM)
There's a lot of examples of overbearing girl-power in movies. This isn't one of them. Just because the protagonist is a woman doesn't mean it's feminist. At no point is she out wrestling men or doing anything a woman could not do. Quite the opposite. There are multiple scenes where Howard physically dominated her. She outsmarts him in the end, but he got the better of her several times in the movie.
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