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| "Fight Club;" Visa and Mastercard explodes. Pixies sing. |
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35% |
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| "Star Wars;" The Death Star blows up. Our Heroes win big honkin' 70's medallions. |
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7% |
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| "A Clockwork Orange;" Little Alex smiles and eats eggy-weggs. |
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7% |
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| "Wizard of Oz;" Dorothy doesn't admit it was only a concussion. |
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7% |
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| "Ichi the Killer;" Asano gets a chopstick in his ear. Ichi gets hung. |
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| "Raiders of the Lost Ark;" Uncle Sam gets the Ark. Indy wears a suit. |
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7% |
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| "Planet of the Apes;" Heston says 'you bastaaaaaaaaaaards." |
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32% |
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| "Schindler's List;" Schindler cries. |
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3% |
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swetepete
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg
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 Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:29 pm Post subject: Movies: Best Ending Ever? |
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What's your favorite ending to a movie?
Mine is "Fight Club," where they blow up all the credit company headquarters while the Pixies play in the background. |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:34 pm Post subject: Re: Movies: Best Ending Ever? |
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| swetepete wrote: |
| they blow up all the credit company headquarters |
Not to mention themselves. |
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Doogie
Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Location: Hwaseong City
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm not sure if you're asking for happiest or just plain best. My vote would be for the Sixth Sense. If you had no idea Bruce Willis was really dead......well, it was a great shocker. |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
Location: the end of the wor1d.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:55 pm Post subject: Re: Movies: Best Ending Ever? |
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| swetepete wrote: |
What's your favorite ending to a movie?
Mine is "Fight Club," where they blow up all the credit company headquarters while the Pixies play in the background. |
fantastic for style. i love the pixies, and i love fight club. it's one of my favorite movies. but i had some nitpicky problems with the end.
it would be nigh impossible to get the night security staff of all the buildings you wanted to blow up to join your club, particularly with the stipulation that they were all unmarried males. also, even if they did blow up the buildings, i'm sure that major credit card companies have their data backed up in secret places somewhere.
like i said... nitpicky problems. but i love the sh-t out of the movie.
my current favorite ending of a movie is 'the 40 year old virgin'. the whole cast breaks into 'the age of aquarius'. i was just thinking of how much fun it must have been to be part of the making of that movie. |
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kimchi story
Joined: 23 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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Charlotte's Web. Who doesn't like bacon?
Seriously, from the list I'm going with Fight Club.
My favorite recent ending is The Constant Gardner. Ralph as Justin Quayle, sitting there as the mercenaries arrive, knowing his paranoia has been unfounded and his love, true. Straight outta Lear...
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Doogie wrote: |
| I'm not sure if you're asking for happiest or just plain best. My vote would be for the Sixth Sense. If you had no idea Bruce Willis was really dead......well, it was a great shocker. |
I never finished the movie. What? He was dead???!!!
Of the list in this thread, my favourite is Hest breaking down and "You maniacs. You finally blew it up. Damn you. God damn you all to hell!"
The ending to Fight Club annoyed me. His character's role reversal was just too awkward, and I can't imagine anyone feeling turned on while watching a ton of buildings collapse when he was previously trying to stop it. |
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swetepete
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Doogie wrote: |
| I'm not sure if you're asking for happiest or just plain best. My vote would be for the Sixth Sense. If you had no idea Bruce Willis was really dead......well, it was a great shocker. |
I never finished the movie. What? He was dead???!!!
Of the list in this thread, my favourite is Hest breaking down and "You maniacs. You finally blew it up. Damn you. God damn you all to hell!"
The ending to Fight Club annoyed me. His character's role reversal was just too awkward, and I can't imagine anyone feeling turned on while watching a ton of buildings collapse when he was previously trying to stop it. |
Yeah, I know, but it was credit card buildings...and the Pixies, man!
That's enough to suspend my disbelief. Plus they killed Meatloaf earlier on. That bought a lot of forgiveness. |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
Location: the end of the wor1d.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| The ending to Fight Club annoyed me. His character's role reversal was just too awkward, and I can't imagine anyone feeling turned on while watching a ton of buildings collapse when he was previously trying to stop it. |
that's interesting. the bits that annoyed you were everything i liked about the ending. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| endofthewor1d wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| The ending to Fight Club annoyed me. His character's role reversal was just too awkward, and I can't imagine anyone feeling turned on while watching a ton of buildings collapse when he was previously trying to stop it. |
that's interesting. the bits that annoyed you were everything i liked about the ending. |
It's not just that it annoyed me. It ruined all the good work that the movie had done earlier. It suddenly turned from a good story to a weird psychological bit to something that seemed like it was written by a bunch of grad students sitting in a circle. |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| endofthewor1d wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| The ending to Fight Club annoyed me. His character's role reversal was just too awkward, and I can't imagine anyone feeling turned on while watching a ton of buildings collapse when he was previously trying to stop it. |
that's interesting. the bits that annoyed you were everything i liked about the ending. |
It's not just that it annoyed me. It ruined all the good work that the movie had done earlier. It suddenly turned from a good story to a weird psychological bit to something that seemed like it was written by a bunch of grad students sitting in a circle. |
did you read the book? how did you feel about the end of the book? i liked the movie ending better than the book ending. actually... all the way through, i think it was one of the cases where i enjoyed the movie better than the book. |
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tabula rasa
Joined: 03 Jan 2007
Location: Daegu, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| how about the usual supsects when the detective starts putting it all together from the bits and pieces on his bulletin board. meanwhile kevin spacey changes his awkward shuffle into a confident step and jumps into his awaiting car. he gets away and he spent the whole time feeding the cop line after line of BS. just wicked. |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| swetepete wrote: |
| Plus they killed Meatloaf earlier on. That bought a lot of forgiveness. |
dude, that wasn't meatloaf! that was bob! you can't buy forgiveness by killing bob! he had b1tcht1ts! |
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Ethan Allen Hawley
Joined: 04 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject: I said: Yeah! |
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woh yeah!
That was a great change of gears: my pa took me to see BC&TSKid when I was in elementary school; and The Sting soon after that.
Brilliant movies. Make modern stuff look bland.
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For another change of gears though...
The K-girl and I recently saw the movie Prime (Uman Thurman & Meryl Streep). The ending was really interesting to talk about with her,
cos I thought it was really positive and basically a happy ending, but she was cut up about it... bla-dee-blah.
We talked about reality versus movies etc., but that was interesting too, cos Koreans often say they don't like science fiction, cos "it's not real enough" or something
... but then when it comes to romantic comedies, a dose of reality seems suddenly innappropriate. |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:05 pm Post subject: Re: I said: Yeah! |
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| Ethan Allen Hawley wrote: |
woh yeah!
That was a great change of gears: my pa took me to see BC&TSKid when I was in elementary school; and The Sting soon after that.
Brilliant movies. Make modern stuff look bland.
* * * * *
For another change of gears though...
The K-girl and I recently saw the movie Prime (Uman Thurman & Meryl Streep). The ending was really interesting to talk about with her,
cos I thought it was really positive and basically a happy ending, but she was cut up about it... bla-dee-blah.
We talked about reality versus movies etc., but that was interesting too, cos Koreans often say they don't like science fiction, cos "it's not real enough" or something
... but then when it comes to romantic comedies, a dose of reality seems suddenly innappropriate. |
dude you just brought 'prime love' into a thread inundated with 'fight club' talk. that's like bringing your mom to a nightclub. |
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