Posted by Haiqal Sari
Online Content Manager
Online Content Manager
Apart from a good, strong plot and excellent dialogue, a good movie requires an appropriate ending. You can’t build up a movie so well and then let it end so badly. By badly, I mean an ending that is so outrageously dumb that you can’t help but wonder “Are you serious?”
I’m sure that many of you (especially the women) have watched 2012’s The Vow. What do you think of the ending? Wait, don’t answer that, for I already know the answer: it was BAD. It’s just inexplicable for a movie to labour through the first 75 minutes making us fall in love with it, before letting everything go down the drain in the last 15.
Even my favourite movie of all time is guilty of doing this. (500) Days of Summer ended with the legendary line “Hi, nice to meet you. My name’s Summer,”….. aaaaand the screen turns black. What happens after that? Is it the start of something new? Why does this new love affair seem more interesting than the one the movie spent 100 minutes elaborating on? Please, for God’s sake, just tell me how it goes! Apart from stand-alone movies, franchises are guilty of this too. But hey, they’re franchises for a reason. Make sequel after sequel, feed the fanboys and earn a profit.
As a movie fan like yours truly, you’d understand my frustration. We’re on the same boat, aren’t we? So, this blog takes a firm stand against Hollywood’s habit of serving us unsatisfactory endings for $11 a ticket. In our blog, there’s a column where we provide you our own take on what a movie did wrong, and how it should have ended.
So what are you waiting for? Tell us what movie you’re unsatisfied with and we’ll reinvent it for you!
But before that, a quick poll for you...
Even my favourite movie of all time is guilty of doing this. (500) Days of Summer ended with the legendary line “Hi, nice to meet you. My name’s Summer,”….. aaaaand the screen turns black. What happens after that? Is it the start of something new? Why does this new love affair seem more interesting than the one the movie spent 100 minutes elaborating on? Please, for God’s sake, just tell me how it goes! Apart from stand-alone movies, franchises are guilty of this too. But hey, they’re franchises for a reason. Make sequel after sequel, feed the fanboys and earn a profit.
As a movie fan like yours truly, you’d understand my frustration. We’re on the same boat, aren’t we? So, this blog takes a firm stand against Hollywood’s habit of serving us unsatisfactory endings for $11 a ticket. In our blog, there’s a column where we provide you our own take on what a movie did wrong, and how it should have ended.
So what are you waiting for? Tell us what movie you’re unsatisfied with and we’ll reinvent it for you!
But before that, a quick poll for you...