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Agreed. Honestly expected the film to end with the whole family standing in the snow just after the "rescue."

― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 01:38 (nine years ago) link

it even faded there iirc. might as well have been return of the king. (i was projecting and i reeeeeeeally wanted to go home.) but yes, pretty, weird. that one scene in the middle with the loud music was a theater staff favorite.

― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 01:59 (nine years ago) link

this was way better than Hot Dog The Movie

Now you've gone too far.

― Eric H., Wednesday, 29 April 2015 04:14 (nine years ago) link

Agreed. Honestly expected the film to end with the whole family standing in the snow just after the "rescue."

― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Wednesday, April 29, 2015 1:38 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seriously

can anyone think of a good explanation for the ending

― carles the jekyll (imago), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 13:28 (nine years ago) link

"Liking 3/4" of movies is my thing.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 13:40 (nine years ago) link

It wasn't necessary & the film might have ended better earlier but I don't see anything wrong with it aside from that? It was a good scene in a film of good scenes imo (w/o spoiling too much, i did like the feel of the final few minutes)

Also she wasn't acting selfishly, she was acting sensibly & protectively which is consistent

― nults of 2 ppl don't amount to a will have beens in this crazy (wins), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link

Anyway loved this film & look forward to voting for it in next years poll

― nults of 2 ppl don't amount to a will have beens in this crazy (wins), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link

Also yes great to see skiing in something other than a fucking bond film

― nults of 2 ppl don't amount to a will have beens in this crazy (wins), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 13:44 (nine years ago) link

yeah the very closing scene was a nicely-judged bunuel homage

― carles the jekyll (imago), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 13:47 (nine years ago) link

very despondent despite the release

― carles the jekyll (imago), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 13:47 (nine years ago) link

can anyone think of a good explanation for the ending

― carles the jekyll (imago), Wednesday, April 29, 2015 8:28 AM (53 minutes ago)

I haven't read any reviews so I don't know if it's been criticsplained, but it seems clear that everything after the snow avalanche was the human avalanche, everybody getting caught up in a massive release of potentially destructive energy that peters out at the end as it reaches the bottom of the hill. I liked the structure and the parallels, unsubtle as it was.

― WilliamC, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 14:30 (nine years ago) link

That's a good way of putting it, WilliamC. Also thought it was suggesting that the bourgeoisie have a very strong survival instinct, whatever tensions and cracks there might be in the nuclear family unit (whereas the prole bus driver is more reckless, driving into danger).

Could also be read as a tribute to the Italian Job.

Both Force Majeure and Play are a bit too long, so I can understand wanting to excise the tonally very different last sequence of FM, but if I was going to be prune anything it would be some of the stuff with the other couple, which felt more schematic to me.

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

Anyone besides the one person who apparently voted for it in this poll see The Way He Looks? I'm still beaming from watching it an hour later.

― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Saturday, 30 May 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

have now seen 'boyhood' and 'actress' and def rate both - boyhood would be somewhere top-3, actress is prob like 7th-8th

my ballot

The Newburgh Sting
Palo Alto
Finding Vivian Maier
Adult World
The One I Love
Land Ho!
Blue Ruin
The Humbling
Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart
Life Itself
Happy Christmas
Inherent Vice
Bansky Does New York
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Young and Beautiful
Watermark
Jodorowsky's Dune
Birdman

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, February 25, 2015 2:10 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 14 June 2015 00:17 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

Netflix Instant Watch update for 2014 nominees here (and a few others I'd either recommend or are interested in):

― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 August 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link

― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 August 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link

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