Favorite film with an open/ambiguous ending?

[DinoLast]

Actually.. it is.

May/June 2010



Bale signed on to star in 3 Terminator movies. So at the very least.. he'll be in them. And it appears McG will be back as well. Sorry for the bad news.

Well if McG makes the next one, I won't bother watching it.

 

[Batty]

I keep remembering new ones

Total Recall

That's because you were just implanted with that memory.

 

[Devil_666]

That's because you were just implanted with that memory.

 

[DinoLast]

That's because you were just implanted with that memory.

Yeeeeeaaaaarrrrrrrg!!!!

 

[plasmid303]

You know, I loved how ambiguous Total Recall was, until I found out that a sequel was supposed to be made. Pretty much threw one theory out the window.

 

[CelticPredator]

Actually.. it is.

May/June 2010



Bale signed on to star in 3 Terminator movies. So at the very least.. he'll be in them. And it appears McG will be back as well. Sorry for the bad news.

Gorramit.

 

[Maglor]

In that case.. ALL movies are ambiguous unless they specifically lay out an event in detail. I think Superman can fly. But since no movie specifically explains HOW Superman is actually able to fly, in detail, there's no way for me or anyone watching to know if he's actually flying around. I mean I can see it with my own two eyes, and it's obvious when you watch the movie. But according to you, it's impossible to have a brain and have the ability to understand things that aren't explained to you like a 5 yr. old child.

Okay, if you want to compare Superman's flying to what people are saying about Mulholland Drive than it would work like this:

Superman's ability to fly "represents" time.

Or. Superman's ability to fly "represents" the effect of socialism on the post-modern world.


Anybody can say that a thing or event "represents" something in any movie, but you don't know what anything represents in any of Lynch's movies. And I honestly believe that Lynch himself doesn't usually know.


Or maybe he doesn't think anything "represents" anything and he's surprised and amused to hear peoples put meaning into some of this stuff in his movies.

 

[Cap'n Cook]

Inception.

 

[Reinhardt]

Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels

Awesome movie!

Without really thinking, these come to mind:

The Thing
Prince of Darkness
Jacob's Ladder
Back to the Future Part 2
The Shining
2001

 

[meth head]

Most nights i lay there thinking about the ending of

 

[Maglor]

*scrolls down...*

 

[pixletwin]

Children of Earth
Castaway

 

[Maglor]

Oh yeah, I forgot that Castaway had an ending like that. I agree that it worked well and added to the movie.

 

[Batty]

Wilson turned out to be a volleyball!

 

[Maglor]

 

[karamazov80]

Milo and Otis has a deceptively ambiguous ending. Think about it.

 

[wofford29]

In recent memory a few that haven't been mentioned...

Revanche
A Serious Man

 

[Estel]

The Conversation.

Brilliant film.

 

[Devil_666]

Anybody can say that a thing or event "represents" something in any movie, but you don't know what anything represents in any of Lynch's movies. And I honestly believe that Lynch himself doesn't usually know.

You still don't get it.

Go read your own posts in the Inception thread (another ambiguous movie). Then you'll see how ridiculous your posts in here concerning Mulholland Drive are. The difference is, you feel that you understood and "got" Inception. But since you obviously didn't understand and "get" Mulholland Drive you immediately declare that it has no meaning and refute anyones explanation because in your opinion it's impossible to explain and "get" it, since you didn't. You're even claiming that the writer/director had no clue about its meaning.

Same could be said about Inception and Christopher Nolan.

Anybody can say that a thing or event "represents" something in any movie, but you don't know what anything represents in Inception. And I honestly believe that Nolan himself doesn't know.

But you would immediately disagree with that, right? Because again, YOU feel like you understood Inception.

 

[plasmid303]

I just thought of another one!

The Quiet Earth. One of the most under-appreciated sci-fi films ever. Nails the feeling of desolation almost perfectly, much better than recent "last guy on earth" films like I Am Legend (although I liked that one).