Getting very very tired of this terrible trend in movies to simply have no resolutions. Seems only in comic book fantas
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songod-95003 — 10 years ago(August 31, 2015 09:55 PM)
Getting very very tired of this terrible trend in movies to simply have no resolutions. Seems only in comic book fantasy films do we get an actual ending! The Avengers defeat the bad guy(s), the Guardians of the Galaxy as well. With these indie flicks and Hollywood dramas? No. No beep idea what actually happened. Vague to the point of maddening.
Some may say "Well reality doesn't always have resolutions" and yes indeed that is true. If I want reality I will watch documentaries (though they very often have the entire tale from beginning to end -
had this been one no doubt an addendum would reveal that bones were found five years later and confirmed to be the girls but no cause of death established. Additionally the parents and remaining child moved to South Africa shortly after the events of the film.
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But no. Once again we are left to ponder wtf happened. This technique worked for a while but it has been overdone. It has become a lazy way for screenwriters to not have to come up with an end. Wasn't it in the Stephen King film "Secret Window" that Johnny Depp's character says "Once you have an ending you have the whole story"?? I may be paraphrasing that but the point is without a concrete ending whatever comes before it is just st.
So regardless how well acted, filmed, and directed; this film was simply "st". -
jason_leo — 10 years ago(October 03, 2015 12:56 AM)
Amen to that there are a few copycat trends that make me want to throw up.
Trend 1
Blairwitch hyped itself as a found footage film. I missed the hype and approached it as any other horror movie and because of my creative mind found it scary as hell and i don't get scared often.
Then every other 5th movie was a found footage it really was insulting how movies started by stating it was real footage as if that added something to the film?.
Trend 2
Build a film up and sell out on the ending because you are not capable of doing one.
Some films really play this up so the whole point is the ending which then doesn't occur.
Two examples that come to mind are CUBE and a foreign film about a invisible barrier that appears. There is nothing worse than a film leading up to a point then stopping. -
songod-95003 — 10 years ago(October 03, 2015 12:28 PM)
Agree with both of your points. The FF trend has been over milked. It works in some instances but typically ends up being annoying when the camera person craps themselves at the climax and drops the camera allowing us only to see feet or shadows or falling bodies and never actually what is happening. Others start off as home shot but then kind of give up and have scenes that could not have been shot from a hand held users perspective; this destroying the illusion (worse than that is casting familiar faces in these films which right away says "its a movie").
The build up to nothing is a variation on the no ending. Some films are so open ended the whole film falls into it's dark hole of a non-ending. I have seen some horror films, not necessarily low low budget ones, where it seemed the production ran out of funds! They had no ending cause they had no money to shoot it! That is how abrupt some of these films have ended!
Maybe one day both these trends will end and we'll have endings that make sense and found footage will remain lost. -
jason_leo — 10 years ago(October 03, 2015 12:59 AM)
There should be a spoiler tag on imdb for movies of this type stating drop off ending or such then i wouldnt bother.
Just like Les miserables theatre show should have a warning that there is only singing no spoken parts so that people dont blow 100 on it