Most Absurd Movie Endings
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I just finished watching The FP (basically, a movie about gangs that solve conflicts with Dance Dance Revolution), and it has one of the most absurd movie endings I've seen in a while. Though, it wasn't really out of place, because the whole movie was absurd. Some other wacky movie endings were:
- Cabin Fever. One word: Pancakes!!!!
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. I predicted the ending, but I never thought they'd go there. The logistics of planning such an ending and getting that many people involved is just baffling.
Which movies have you seen with less than traditional endings?
I haven't seen any of those you mentioned, but "The Mist" had a really really outrageously absurd ending.
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It's at least better than the Norwegian movies, as they usually ends when everybody in the movie dies. Norwegians appenertly find this quite natural....
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I just finished watching The FP (basically, a movie about gangs that solve conflicts with Dance Dance Revolution), and it has one of the most absurd movie endings I've seen in a while. Though, it wasn't really out of place, because the whole movie was absurd. Some other wacky movie endings were:
- Cabin Fever. One word: Pancakes!!!!
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. I predicted the ending, but I never thought they'd go there. The logistics of planning such an ending and getting that many people involved is just baffling.
Which movies have you seen with less than traditional endings?
Perfume, as you stated. It was also an implausibly weird movie. Recently: The dark knight rises - oh, well. The software was patched by batty bat man, sir. Find him at the French cafe. That's Bollywood style for ye. :laugh:
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It's at least better than the Norwegian movies, as they usually ends when everybody in the movie dies. Norwegians appenertly find this quite natural....
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Classic tragedy. It's not the question who will survive, it's only about how they all die unavoidably.
At least artificial intelligence already is superior to natural stupidity
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Classic tragedy. It's not the question who will survive, it's only about how they all die unavoidably.
If only that was the case. Some comedies also have this plot like Dead snow[^]. This movie is actually a little funny, but wierd... And then ther is the Troll Hunter[^], also a comedy/adventure/something with lots of death... The list goes on and on...
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A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. Jean-Luc Godard Though I'm partial to his other quote: All you need for a movie is a girl and a gun.
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Perfume, as you stated. It was also an implausibly weird movie. Recently: The dark knight rises - oh, well. The software was patched by batty bat man, sir. Find him at the French cafe. That's Bollywood style for ye. :laugh:
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
Perfume, as you stated. It was also an implausibly weird movie.
I found it amazing that it could be adopted for the screen at all. But implausibly weird? In what way? It's good read (even though the middle part bores virtually everyone).
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
Perfume, as you stated. It was also an implausibly weird movie.
I found it amazing that it could be adopted for the screen at all. But implausibly weird? In what way? It's good read (even though the middle part bores virtually everyone).
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peterchen wrote:
But implausibly weird? In what way?
The magic potion of a perfume that he mixes up is totally weird! Olfactory senses are different for people, and there's no one single perfume that will make a mob go crazy in love. I know it's based on a text, but the way several scenes were depicted was totally weird. I'm not saying that I know how better could it be done; perhaps me knowing a little about olfaction and perfumery made me laugh at it. It's like programmers laughing at a movie scene (while others are awestruck) where a whizkid "hacks" into the FBI's network by attaching his pocket calculator to it with a wire and typing something. It's just wrong. :)
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Which ending, there were at least 5 AFAICT?
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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I just finished watching The FP (basically, a movie about gangs that solve conflicts with Dance Dance Revolution), and it has one of the most absurd movie endings I've seen in a while. Though, it wasn't really out of place, because the whole movie was absurd. Some other wacky movie endings were:
- Cabin Fever. One word: Pancakes!!!!
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. I predicted the ending, but I never thought they'd go there. The logistics of planning such an ending and getting that many people involved is just baffling.
Which movies have you seen with less than traditional endings?
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Any Spanish horror movie: they have wonderful stories with an interesting plot, but at some place the money or the intelligence ends suddenly like the movie itself. A pity indeed. PS: Any spanish film that's not an horror film ends up being so horrible that could be considered an horror film.
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Pardon me sir, but i must discuss this, spanish movies are almost always lacking intelligence, except REC 1 maybe, which was so good the americans needed to make a poor 1 to 1 copy called Quarantine...
Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!
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I haven't seen any of those you mentioned, but "The Mist" had a really really outrageously absurd ending.
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I just finished watching The FP (basically, a movie about gangs that solve conflicts with Dance Dance Revolution), and it has one of the most absurd movie endings I've seen in a while. Though, it wasn't really out of place, because the whole movie was absurd. Some other wacky movie endings were:
- Cabin Fever. One word: Pancakes!!!!
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. I predicted the ending, but I never thought they'd go there. The logistics of planning such an ending and getting that many people involved is just baffling.
Which movies have you seen with less than traditional endings?
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Crank and Crank 2: one word: Splat! what a weird movie..
Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!
Mendor81 wrote:
Crank and Crank 2: one word: Splat!
There is a crank 2?! I thought one was enough for mankind. :laugh:
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Pardon me sir, but i must discuss this, spanish movies are almost always lacking intelligence, except REC 1 maybe, which was so good the americans needed to make a poor 1 to 1 copy called Quarantine...
Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!
"Los otros", "El orfanato", "Los abandonados", "El espinazo del diablo", "Los ojos de Julia", "Darkness", "Abre los ojos". All of them are great movies (and all of them are better than REC IMHO) but apart of "Los otros" (with Nicole Kidman) and "Abre los ojos" (which Hollywood also made it's own version) they all lack of a good final. From my point of view, REC is a so-so film, it's not bad, but it ends more or less in the same line than the rest of the film itself. It is original but if you remove Barcelona from the footage... You have only to see the IMDB points on this film: 60K votes+/- and a 7 in Spanish, but if you go to see the Quarantine IMDB page... it only deserves a 6 and not so much people has voited it... Regarding the fact Hollywood want to make 1 to 1 copies... I guess that it is quite normal. Time ago I went to the cinema to see "Let me in" (the original film from the north of Europe) and I enjoyed it a lot. My wife has not seen much vampire movies and I thought this would be a good one for her to start with. We went to the cinema to see the Hollywood version. It was as nice as the original one, not much improvements there, even the CGI were almost the same, but... actors that appeared on the film were americans. We are so used to see them in films that even myself found the Hollywood version more "close" to my standards. I loved the original one and I loved the Hollywood one (they were almost identical), but the Hollywood one managed to get closer to me. This is why Hollywood port films that are good to their style. It's like what happens when catalan people go to the cinema to see films in catalan... it stills feels strange at the beginning. PS: "the machinist" is another great movie with a great ending, but again one of the three exceptions that confirm the rule.
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Mendor81 wrote:
Crank and Crank 2: one word: Splat!
There is a crank 2?! I thought one was enough for mankind. :laugh:
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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"Los otros", "El orfanato", "Los abandonados", "El espinazo del diablo", "Los ojos de Julia", "Darkness", "Abre los ojos". All of them are great movies (and all of them are better than REC IMHO) but apart of "Los otros" (with Nicole Kidman) and "Abre los ojos" (which Hollywood also made it's own version) they all lack of a good final. From my point of view, REC is a so-so film, it's not bad, but it ends more or less in the same line than the rest of the film itself. It is original but if you remove Barcelona from the footage... You have only to see the IMDB points on this film: 60K votes+/- and a 7 in Spanish, but if you go to see the Quarantine IMDB page... it only deserves a 6 and not so much people has voited it... Regarding the fact Hollywood want to make 1 to 1 copies... I guess that it is quite normal. Time ago I went to the cinema to see "Let me in" (the original film from the north of Europe) and I enjoyed it a lot. My wife has not seen much vampire movies and I thought this would be a good one for her to start with. We went to the cinema to see the Hollywood version. It was as nice as the original one, not much improvements there, even the CGI were almost the same, but... actors that appeared on the film were americans. We are so used to see them in films that even myself found the Hollywood version more "close" to my standards. I loved the original one and I loved the Hollywood one (they were almost identical), but the Hollywood one managed to get closer to me. This is why Hollywood port films that are good to their style. It's like what happens when catalan people go to the cinema to see films in catalan... it stills feels strange at the beginning. PS: "the machinist" is another great movie with a great ending, but again one of the three exceptions that confirm the rule.
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Okay in part i agree with you on the movies you mentioned. Don't get me wrong i like how spanish movies are evolving in the last 5 years they're getting better and better (well not all of them like " Fuga de cerebros" for instance) Honestly what i would like to see is that people enjoy more our own productions than the copied (pardon my expretion) "Crap" from Hollywood. Why do they have to remake a perfectly good plot with good actors, just because they are not americans?.. Another thing that bugs me of (as a spanish person) are those monumental screw ups in american movies regarding other countries histories/culture. Best example is the mentioning in the movie "Knight & day" with Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and a SPANISH Actor Jordi Mollà. Where Jordi Mollà has to say that one of the most famous festivals (and very well described by hemmingway btw) is located at Sevilla, which is kind of an insult. That would equal to if i said that the statue of liberty is placed in Washington, or that the Independence day is on 6th of November :doh: If you copy/make a movie of/from a country/version at least keep the facts straight.
Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!
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Okay in part i agree with you on the movies you mentioned. Don't get me wrong i like how spanish movies are evolving in the last 5 years they're getting better and better (well not all of them like " Fuga de cerebros" for instance) Honestly what i would like to see is that people enjoy more our own productions than the copied (pardon my expretion) "Crap" from Hollywood. Why do they have to remake a perfectly good plot with good actors, just because they are not americans?.. Another thing that bugs me of (as a spanish person) are those monumental screw ups in american movies regarding other countries histories/culture. Best example is the mentioning in the movie "Knight & day" with Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and a SPANISH Actor Jordi Mollà. Where Jordi Mollà has to say that one of the most famous festivals (and very well described by hemmingway btw) is located at Sevilla, which is kind of an insult. That would equal to if i said that the statue of liberty is placed in Washington, or that the Independence day is on 6th of November :doh: If you copy/make a movie of/from a country/version at least keep the facts straight.
Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!
Mendor81 wrote:
Honestly what i would like to see is that people enjoy more our own productions than the copied (pardon my expretion) "Crap" from Hollywood.
Why do they have to remake a perfectly good plot with good actors, just because they are not americans?..To get an environment, and a feeling of proximity. To get the possibility to feel closer to the actors...
Mendor81 wrote:
Another thing that bugs me of (as a spanish person) are those monumental screw ups in american movies regarding other countries histories/culture. Best example is the mentioning in the movie "Knight & day" with Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and a SPANISH Actor Jordi Mollà. Where Jordi Mollà has to say that one of the most famous festivals (and very well described by hemmingway btw) is located at Sevilla, which is kind of an insult.
That would equal to if i said that the statue of liberty is placed in Washington, or that the Independence day is on 6th of November :doh:
If you copy/make a movie of/from a country/version at least keep the facts straight.They make movies and in some cases they don't hesitate to document a lot so Seville sounds good enough out of Spain to be put on a movie... I guess... I agree you though on that point. They should put a little bit more of effort. Anyway, we are still selling sevillanas and toros so, we are guilty of being seen like that out of Spain... In one of my travels to the USA someone there asked me about what it felt to have a king... In Brasil asked me about castles... perceptions are always biased...
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Mendor81 wrote:
Honestly what i would like to see is that people enjoy more our own productions than the copied (pardon my expretion) "Crap" from Hollywood.
Why do they have to remake a perfectly good plot with good actors, just because they are not americans?..To get an environment, and a feeling of proximity. To get the possibility to feel closer to the actors...
Mendor81 wrote:
Another thing that bugs me of (as a spanish person) are those monumental screw ups in american movies regarding other countries histories/culture. Best example is the mentioning in the movie "Knight & day" with Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and a SPANISH Actor Jordi Mollà. Where Jordi Mollà has to say that one of the most famous festivals (and very well described by hemmingway btw) is located at Sevilla, which is kind of an insult.
That would equal to if i said that the statue of liberty is placed in Washington, or that the Independence day is on 6th of November :doh:
If you copy/make a movie of/from a country/version at least keep the facts straight.They make movies and in some cases they don't hesitate to document a lot so Seville sounds good enough out of Spain to be put on a movie... I guess... I agree you though on that point. They should put a little bit more of effort. Anyway, we are still selling sevillanas and toros so, we are guilty of being seen like that out of Spain... In one of my travels to the USA someone there asked me about what it felt to have a king... In Brasil asked me about castles... perceptions are always biased...
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Joan Murt wrote:
To get an environment, and a feeling of proximity. To get the possibility to feel closer to the actors...
Your probably right on that one, but then again, why do we have to re-import that movie here in our theaters...seems a bit awkward... :sigh: don't know
Joan Murt wrote:
In one of my travels to the USA someone there asked me about what it felt to have a king... In Brasil asked me about castles... perceptions are always biased...
Yes i can imagine that. It is a fact though that you have ignorant and dumb people that don't give an elephant about other countries in every country/culture. Too bad you find most of them on the internet though... I'm sorry if i offended anyone, wasn't my intention. Just my opinion. I'm a great fan of movies nearly from any corner of the world, therefor i sometimes get a little to enthusiastic about these little screw ups. Your right with one thing, we can't expect people to know our culture if we're still selling the same old stereotype of the spanish way of life... sad but true. Sadly enough that goes to all of us, for the other we are at first sight what we pretend to be, until they know us a bit more.
Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!
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Firstly, I'd like to think that I know a little more than most others here about perfumery and olfaction. Here's my collection of fragrances (this photo does not have the expensive attars, niche and vintage bottles, and a few ones that were customised for me): https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/gDMjNuVKaVm-97iZYKHhF6unNC4pxdCt6ZkRB32B0AM?feat=directlink
peterchen wrote:
But implausibly weird? In what way?
The magic potion of a perfume that he mixes up is totally weird! Olfactory senses are different for people, and there's no one single perfume that will make a mob go crazy in love. I know it's based on a text, but the way several scenes were depicted was totally weird. I'm not saying that I know how better could it be done; perhaps me knowing a little about olfaction and perfumery made me laugh at it. It's like programmers laughing at a movie scene (while others are awestruck) where a whizkid "hacks" into the FBI's network by attaching his pocket calculator to it with a wire and typing something. It's just wrong. :)
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
So you are saying you are into fragrances and haven't read it? But.. but.. That's like writing a compiler without having read the Dragon Book. GO READ! :D He does have some blunders, suhc as "the smell of stone and metal" which - as Grenouille is ordorless himself - wouln't have any. Still, it's rightfully considered a masterpiece and certainly an interesting exploration what smell means. His "magic masterwork" is certainly the inevitable climax of his conjecture, so I certainly wouldn't defend it to death; also what makes the book great piece of literature isn't the chemistry of smell. However, for the sheer interest: Let's accept that for his condition and his education, he developed extraordinary skills in extracting, isolating, and preserving fragrances. Let's accept further that fragrances trigger an emotional, impulsive reponse that's hard to control by the cortex. All it needs now is a fragrance that we can all agree is - well, hot! making it irresistible to a majority. Some people do have a certain magic that most can agree on but that is hard to pin down. And if you capture the majority, you capture the ood ones out, too: the reaction of the affected will trigger their smell to change. Contrast this to an environment that has rather primitive good smells, and is dominated by the sickening. An equivalent would be dropping an McDonalds in the middle of a remote tribe that only knew to eat roots and the occasional unsalted, stringy meat. The sheer caloric pleasure overload would turn them helpless.
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