Good endings (little spoiler, but not much)

[PhilmPhanMan]

Watched One Missed Call last night. (stop here if minor spoilers ruin the experience for you)



I thought it was a decent movie up until the ending which is becoming so commercially predictable these days. Does anyone else feel a bit "set up" by these open ended endings?

I thought the camera work was superb.

[Vodstok]

I havent seen it, but i alspo have no intention to, so no harm done here :)


I am sick of the open ended endings. or the ones that seem to tend with out any resolution. Spanglish comes to mind.

As a writer myself, i fell there is a certain obligation to the viewer/reader to make the time they spend on your story worthwhile. a 2 hour movie with no clear resolution isnt daring or brilliant, its annoying. I watch movies to be entertained, and the same goes for reading, so when creators get too clever for their own good and make stories that just end, or leave you with unanswered, unresolved questions, then they come off as lazy or trying to be too clever.


Movies like The Usual Suspects can be blamed for that, Se7en too. They were excellent movies with incredible twists, and Se7en specifically leaves you feeling empty.

But they were well done and werent just trying to be clever, they had purpose.

So oftne now people seem to want to put in a twist just because, well didnt everyone call thoseother twists brilliant? So any twist is brilliant right?


What the hell ever happened to just telling a good story. Alien was a great movie, and no real twist there.