^ Didn’t watch the last few seasons of te Sopranos.
What? Go home now and do it. Seriously. Take a sick day.
Sweep_the_Leg:
higgmond:
I guess it depends on how you define satisfying endings. I certainly agree that not all stories should have a happy ending, but it does seem as though many authors/screenwriters go out of their way to create twists at the end that really seem to have no basis in the overall story. I don’t need to know the remaining life story of every character, but don’t make the ending so ambiguous that I don’t know who’s dead or alive, or who’s guilty or innocent.
So you didn’t like the ending of the Sopranos?
For me, a satisfying ending doesn’t have to fall into a category of happy, definitive, or even absolute closure. It should be rewarding though. King’s The Stand is a great example of this. I read the unabridged version and 800 pages later I got to what was perhaps the lamest ending of any book I’d read aside from King’s Dome . It’s a testiment to King that I still really enjoy his books. 95% of the content is really great. Just those last few pages you can almost hear King say, “screw it. Aliens did it. The End.”
Edit: American Psycho (some of you may know I’ve read this a couple times) is a good example of a book that doesn’t really even have an ending and I consider it to be a fantastic way to end Bateman’s story. So there doesn’t even need to be closure. Basically, the author just needs to illicit any emotion other than “god damn it, that was lame” from me and I’ll consider it a good ending.
How did you find the ending of breaking bad?
Black_Swan:
I get the preference, but come down on the other side on this. I think the authors are trying to make the somewhat theoretical view that the story’s about the journey and not our need for closure. If no authors finished stories at some point I’d want more complete endings, but as an occasional novelty used by select writers, I don’t mind. Plus, King tends to leave things open to create a feel that the horror may be continuing and leave a mystery around it.
I’m not really a horror guy, so I’ve not read King or even seen many of the movies/shows derived from his work. I don’t always need closure either, but a lot of times it seems as though the author had a great idea for a story, but couldn’t come up with an ending so they decided to create some really artificial twist and called it thoughtful.
Very good/awesome. If I take the entire 5th season and call that the ending, I’d say it started off pretty slow, but the third to last episode, Ozymandias, is one of the best episodes of TV ever. And the very end was about as perfect as they could have made it.
I feel like ozymandias was the real ending, and that the last 2 episodes were filler. But good filler.
I’ll probably go see this. The first time I watched IT as a kid, I got bored because clowns don’t scare me. Hopefully this one will be a bit scarier.
My co-worker saw this last night. She said it was “fking scary. Bring extra underwear.”
Anybody else?
i saw their box office sales. its one of the best for that category. as for watching it. i’ll catch it on netflix unless this chick im seeing keeps pestering me about it.
pokhim
September 13, 2017, 2:19pm
#31
I seen in. On an IMAX, one of the biggest screens i’ve ever seen.
I thought the movie was pretty good for a horror…
system
September 14, 2017, 2:41am
#32
Hollywood is finished. Stalinism doesn’t exactly breed creativity.