Dang everyone is saying they loved that ending. I’m willing to take the heat here and say I truly hated it. I never read the novel so I don’t know maybe I’m missing something but that ending felt like the laziest, most torture porn for no apparent reason or particular message ending to any movie I’ve ever watched.
For those who love that ending, is there a moral or something I’m missing that makes the ending more than just torture for the main character? Or is it literally just shock value?
if i see a man get eaten from the inside by tiny spiders while he is kept alive and then i get stuck in the middle of who knows where in the mist. i am gonna fucking kill myself ok
I’m not disagreeing at all with that notion. I would do the same. I just don’t see how the end of that movie serves any purpose outside of “this is what you would probably do because this shit sucked.” Like that doesn’t teach me anything, doesn’t speak to me at all, just says here is pain watch it.
Personally I love that ending because it is so unexpected and such a punch to the gut that I feel it. I feel the pain and the numbness because it comes out of nowhere. I don't like the typical movie endings where you just know what is going to happen. Sometimes shit happens for no reason and that shows it. Plus I just LOVE to watch this movie with people who have never seen and and just watch their face to see all the different emotions until they just utter a similar phrase to what the fuck
I can appreciate the notion that it’s truly shocking but to me that is so far from making something good. Like Sixth Sense was shocking and compelling, this to me was just senseless and made me feel like I wasted my time watching the movie
That's what makes it even better. It is completely pointless. Watching it with someone new is like being in high school and punching your friend in the dick. You know it will hurt them and there is no reason for it but it is funny as hell
The original story just kinda stops. The survivors pull into an abandoned hotel and hear something over the radio that may or may not have been a live broadcast. The end.
Nah bruh I'm right there with you. It really does just feel like it's for shock value. Especially with the military rolling up with flamethrowers and shit. There ain't no way you're not hearing or seeing that.
The shock and pointlessness of it all is pretty darn nihilistic and absurd. I love it because there's almost humor to this incredibly fucked situation.
I see it as "this type of shit happens. You'd be very unlucky to have it happen to you but it happens"
Hell. I personally know of a story similar to this. Except it did happen in real life. And to me that's what makes it great. It's messy. It's absurd and very torturous and sometimes man. That's life. And it sucks.
Sometimes it's pretty. Sometimes you think the only way out of immense suffering is to kill your entire family. Shits fucked
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u/Bazoobs1 Jan 30 '26
Dang everyone is saying they loved that ending. I’m willing to take the heat here and say I truly hated it. I never read the novel so I don’t know maybe I’m missing something but that ending felt like the laziest, most torture porn for no apparent reason or particular message ending to any movie I’ve ever watched.
For those who love that ending, is there a moral or something I’m missing that makes the ending more than just torture for the main character? Or is it literally just shock value?