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Maybe I don’t bother watching these movies in the first place because I don’t notice this.
 
TK421 said:
Maybe I don’t bother watching these movies in the first place because I don’t notice this.
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Yeah, I’m just left confused by the whole article. It’s all just a bunch of vague ranting that only alludes to but never explores concrete examples. To make matters worse, an exception is made for horror because ambiguity plays to the horror, but the same exception is not granted to psychological thrillers, where ambiguity is often used to mess with the audience.

I can’t even really comment on if a movie needs a “real ending”, because after reading the article, I’m not even sure what the criteria for a “real ending” is. The closest I can get is that conflict needs to be resolved, but isn’t conflict resolved in some of the example movies given?
 
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Yes, I agree with the Washington Examiner article. One movie he mentions by name is Five Easy Pieces. I remember watching that on first release and being disappointed with it for that very reason.
 
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One movie he mentions by name is Five Easy Pieces. I remember watching that on first release and being disappointed with it for that very reason.
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Um, when did feature films with no real endings start becoming particularly commercial? Five Easy Pieces was released way back in 1970.
 
Two years earlier there had been Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey, which (from memory) just tails off at the end with a sequence of moving abstract colored dots. That didn’t prevent it from becoming an Oscar-winning box office success. I’ve met people who say it’s their all-time favorite movie.
 
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Two years earlier there had been Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey, which (from memory) just tails off at the end with a sequence of moving abstract colored dots. That didn’t prevent it from becoming an Oscar-winning box office success. I’ve met people who say it’s their all-time favorite movie.
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It doesn’t end with coloured dots really, it ends with what in the book.is called the ‘star child’, and those who.have read the book will know what it means.
 
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But the book wasn’t published until after the movie had been released, I think. I read something once about Clarke saying he’d agreed with Kubrick that the book and the movie would be released simultaneously, and complaining that Kubrick broke his promise.
 
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