The Magnificent Ambersons is disqualified from this list because it was done against Welles' wishes.
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I can't pretend I liked the way No Country for Old Men ended (although I still like the film).
There's also the original theatrical release of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), where the studio bolted on an optimistic ending.Comment
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'Brazil' the US release.Comment
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Vanilla Sky
[Spoiler below]
He woke up and it was all a dream!Comment
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I don't remember the rest of the film being much cop either.Jongudmund wrote: Vanilla SkyComment
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Fair point, Stumpy.Comment
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The end to the original cinematic version of blade runner stinks like a dead dogComment
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Unfortunately it's never going to be Star Wars.Comment
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BirdmanComment
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The animated Animal Farm from the 50s for changing the entire fucking point the book was trying to make.Comment
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Lost in Translation
The rest of the film isn't any better than its ending, mind.Comment
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Whisky Galore!. Ridiculous.Comment
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No Country For Old Men trumps all. The ending is simply appalling.Comment
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Kill List is another bad one. The first 80 minutes are quite good, then it decides to go into a shite parody of The Wicker Man.Comment
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Gone Girl.Comment
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Agreed. In fact most, if not all, of the second half of it was poor.WOM wrote: Gone Girl.Comment
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Agreed, but still not enough to spoil the whole thing.Green Calx wrote: No Country For Old Men trumps all. The ending is simply appalling.Comment
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Vanity Fair.Three Times A Reddy wrote: The animated Animal Farm from the 50s for changing the entire fucking point the book was trying to make.
I was on a sleeper train back to Somerset about ten years ago and remember reading a puff piece in Great Western's on-board magazine featuring a puff-piece with James Purefoy (apparently he was a porter at Taunton Hospital once apon a time...) ahead of the film's release in which he described the book as a "ripping yarn".
I didn't get round to watching the film till 8 years later when I was round at a friend and, having read and fallen in love with the book by then, noticed it was on that evening. For some reason I had Purefoy's castaway comment about the book in my mind as I watched the film.
Without revealing too much the ending of the film, and the culmination of the whole book is completely changed. In my mind the film is now eternally marked as fodder for the kind of prat who describes one of English literatures masterpieces as "a great yarn".Comment
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At least there were mitigating circumstances with Animal Farm, I suppose.
There was an awful lot of pressure on Halas-Batchelor (probably chosen because no American studio wanted to touch it), what with the CIA part-funding the film and obviously at that time not wanting a conclusion where it seems than Stalinism has won out.Comment
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But the film doesn't make out that Stalinism has "won out", it makes out that the only way to replace the (Stalinist) regime of the pigs is with a (yet further) popular revolution, which is meant to be desperate and hopeless but in the film somehow comes across as uplifting.
Maybe it was what was going on in North Korea and China at the time that the American film-makers were scared of portraying as a positive thing?Comment
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I still don't "get" the ending of Donnie Darko. In the sense that I don't understand how it loops back to the start. But I have only ever watched it when I've had a few.Comment
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Not the "worst", but Hitchcock doesn't exactly resolve The Birds. The humans just leave the stage.Comment
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