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What was a great television show or movie except for its ending, and how do you think it should have ended? ~

Posted - March 4, 2018
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  • 17614
    The movie, The Pelican Brief, should have ended the way Grisham wrote his novel.

    Update:  It was The Firm that botched the whole movie by not using the novel's ending. This post was edited by Thriftymaid at March 4, 2018 5:11 PM MST
      March 4, 2018 12:36 PM MST
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  • 14795
    The Day the Earth Stopped Still.....I thought that the Film lacked Spin......Turns out I was right....:)
      March 4, 2018 1:01 PM MST
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  • 5835
    Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back

    Didn't have an ending. It just stopped in the middle of the story. I was so offended I never watched another Star Wars flick.
      March 4, 2018 1:07 PM MST
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  • 53526


      I agree with you that this movie's ending was horrible!  Thanks for your entry.

    ~ 
      March 4, 2018 5:14 PM MST
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  • 16830
    That was intentional. The sequel was obvious.
      March 5, 2018 6:42 AM MST
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  • 53526


      I don't dispute that it was intentional. It was a poor choice, that's my point. Even though a sequel was part of the plan, the writers, producers or director could have employed a bit more imagination and could have considered the fans, that's all. 
    ~
      March 5, 2018 7:42 AM MST
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  • 23647

    SEMI-PLOT SPOILER: "FUNNY GAMES"!!!

    It's still a masterpiece of a film to me, but Michael Haneke's original film "Funny Games," from what I remember (I've only watched it twice; it's too disturbing to me), had a short little 'denouement' scene which I found unnecessary - - from the bulk of the film itself, we, the audience, did not need to know that the games would continue with other people.

    The second-to-the-last disturbing scene, filmed exactly as it was, would have been a great ending to me. Just leave the denouement out.
      March 4, 2018 2:41 PM MST
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  • 5835
    de·noue·ment
    noun
    the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
    synonyms: finale, final scene, epilogue, coda, end, ending, finish, close; More
    the climax of a chain of events, usually when something is decided or made clear.
    "I waited by the eighteenth green to see the denouement"
    synonyms: outcome, upshot, consequence, result, end; informalpayoff
    "the debate had an unexpected denouement"
    ~google.com

    So you say there was a denouement before the denouement. Is that correct?

      March 4, 2018 3:19 PM MST
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  • 23647

    Thanks, Jewels Vern for helping me out here.
    :)

    I guess I would say, based upon your input, that the denouement scene was clear to me. Then, after this clear denouement, there was an added, unnecessary scene.
    I think.
     Ha!
    :) 
      March 4, 2018 4:05 PM MST
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  • They all suck.  Writers are simply dreadful, dreaful I tell you. :P

    edit:  wutthefecker a dreaful is. -__- This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at March 4, 2018 4:26 PM MST
      March 4, 2018 4:25 PM MST
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  • 16830
    Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Lamest ending in the history of motion pictures. Should have ended with a huge foot coming down out of the sky and squashing the Castle Aargh flat. Cue the Flying Circus music ...
      March 5, 2018 6:41 AM MST
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  • 6098
    Well this is a play but Romeo and Juliet I thought carried it rather much too far. I mean - really!  And I went to a production where they had the Prince Of Verona shoot himself in the head at the end - can you believe that? 
      March 5, 2018 6:51 AM MST
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  • 46117
    TV shows are notorious for starting out good ( the ones that DO, that is) and ending horribly.

    Mash ended well.  Horribly sad, but well.

    It lasted a long time and never really got old.  Very amazing cast and writers.

    Then we have the major disappointments.  Like all those juicy night soap operas like Falcon Crest and Dallas in the 80's that started out kind of good and then devolved quickly. 

    I mean after everyone sleeps with everyone, you naturally have to get someone kidnapped by aliens.  That is what the writers came up with in Falcon Crest.

    Now the scripts have not gotten any better, but the same old boring plot lines are followed by all the nightly dramas that are still on the air.

    I remember The Mentalist.   It started out so danged good.  I watched it in reruns so I got to watch it for hours sometimes.  Then they got cute and started messing with all kinds of things they should not have messed with.

    They ruined it and I never even finished watching it.  I couldn't deal with the mess.

    The X Files.  Same thing.  What a great and scary sci-fi, horror show.  Then they have to have Mulder and Scully fall in love.  Give me a freaking break.

    GODDDD

    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at June 2, 2019 7:51 PM MDT
      March 5, 2018 9:15 PM MST
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