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Boot
[Spoiler]just saw a preview screening in australia 16/01/08 and have some stuff to vent ok so i just got back from a preview screening of the movie and there are certain things i would just like to vent. first thing that isnt a spoiler at all is....the monster is fucking cool. credit to the design team.
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ok so basically. anyone who has been following the ARG from around july will be fairly pissed off with this film and its lack of mention of some key elements of the arg.
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:39 am
sami_kaye
Unfettered
I knew it was going to be a crappy ending
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:16 am
lethalvenom
Boot
i actually prefer that ending... i rather be left without an answer and speculate what actually happened
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:38 pm
m_talon
Veteran
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Any other ending besides the camera being buried along with Rob and Beth would be cliche and cheesy. Not every story has to end with the hero getting the girl and riding off into the sunset. Sometimes, no matter how well intentioned your actions were, it just doesn't work out.
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The original book does NOT end on anything remotely resembling a happy note. The hero finds out that many of the daysleepers he killed were actually normal at night. He is "Legend" because he is the evil that kills them while they sleep, and he commits suicide before the still living can execute him. He doesn't die a martyr with a miracle cure delivered. He dies as a legendary horrific monster.
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:55 pm
wrastler3
Boot
The reason for the ending you described is simple. This movie is made using a hand held camera so that everything you see is what the main characters are seeing.
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It only makes sense that the ending would seem like it sucked/be a cliffhanger because the main characters aren't going to keep filming once they are dead. So as soon as they die, its the end of the film. If they had shown the mushroom cloud from a nuke or anything like that it would have completely broken the whole point of view thing and it would be worse in my eyes. It is very similar to the Blair Witch Project in this aspect. At the end there is no one left to film, thus you don't have a very satisfying ending
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:11 pm
Richie
Veteran
my problem with the ending which basically speaks to being able to view the whole movie
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If the idea of the Hammer Down mission at the end of the movie eludes to them going nuclear on the area, the monster, was right on top of them and where the bomb was dropped. How the HELL did that video get recovered, let alone be viewable. If it werent melted by the blast it surely would not have had any data remaining on it. Even a large scale non nuke would have destroyed it.
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:26 pm
matt_the_pale
Decorated
Re: my problem with the ending which basically speaks to being able to view the whole movie
Richie wrote:
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If the idea of the Hammer Down mission at the end of the movie eludes to them going nuclear on the area, the monster, was right on top of them and where the bomb was dropped. How the HELL did that video get recovered, let alone be viewable. If it werent melted by the blast it surely would not have had any data remaining on it. Even a large scale non nuke would have destroyed it.
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While it's true that any magnetic data exposed to an EMP will be destroyed, it's also possible that the tape was protected by steel beams in the collapsed bridge (or wherever the tape was found; I haven't seen it), or any other metal debris around the tape, which acted like a Faraday cage and protected the tape from being destroyed.
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:30 pm
Ghidra99
Veteran
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There is absolutely no mention of the using any type of nuclear device. The military has conventional ordinance that can level a city without using nuclear weapons. For example, see Dresden, Germany .
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:46 pm
olasnah
Veteran
For those that have seen the film:
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:32 pm
TPMdm
Veteran
wrastler3 wrote:
The reason for the ending you described is simple. This movie is made using a hand held camera so that everything you see is what the main characters are seeing.
insert the blank thing if Hammerdown didn't work", etc. (enigmatic and IMO best ending)
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:54 pm
Richie
Veteran
You forgot the ending where Thelma pulls the mask off of the Monster and its Old Man Dithers from the haunted amusement park.
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:17 pm
rocksmars
Unfettered
"It would have been a great movie if it wasn't for those meddling kids!"
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:36 pm
OliMango
Entrenched
Richie wrote:
You forgot the ending where Thelma pulls the mask off of the Monster and its Old Man Dithers from the haunted amusement park.
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:37 pm
mercurix
Veteran
or.. It could have also ended by telling us that the main characters could see dead people and MGP had been dead ALL THAT TIME!
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:39 pm
gigantis2001
Decorated
Actually, it's "Velma." (Did anyone else watch Scooby-Doo just because you were hoping the monster would be real this time?)
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:53 pm
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