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| UK vs US ending (actually saw it now)(spoilers) by Liz Enkittengasm 08/27/2006, 7:59pm PDT | ||||
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| The UK ending would have been what they telegraphed throughout the whole movie. The US ending was just nonsensical. I couldn't tell what was actually supposed to happen right at the end - is she supposed to be crazy now and seeing dead people? Did the asian chick make it out and is now going to kill and eat her? No clue.
There's a bit right before the ending where she falls down and closes her eyes - that was obviously where she started dreaming that she got out. So basically they just cut out the last part where the obvious thing that's about to happen happens. In a movie that so reliably rings the dinner bell before serving up its gotchas, it was weird to have the consequent never arrive at the end when the antecedent was so obvious. Overall: worth watching but it's not the revolutionary return to good horror movies that the hype suggests. I would say it's definitely sub-28 Days Later (a movie that it clearly emulates in terms of style). p.s. I can sorta see how it would have been better if the monsters had all been in the main characters head, but at the same time it would have sucked, because that happens so often in movies. Maybe what would have been good: the main character is in a mental institution and the staff is trying to reconstruct what happened in the cave from the camera footage, and then HOLY FUCK ITS TRUE. Or something. I don't know. I liked that it was really gory in parts, wouldn't want to lose that aspect of it. It gets an A+ for graphic eye gougings, though no extra credit is given for doing the same thing twice. |
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Descent is DEEEEcent by 08/20/2006, 9:11pm PDT  I can't believe that you *wanted* that ending. by 08/20/2006, 10:20pm PDT Re: I can't believe that you *wanted* that ending. by 08/21/2006, 5:04am PDT UK vs US ending (actually saw it now)(spoilers) by 08/27/2006, 7:59pm PDT okay good, commenting before you saw it would have been silly by 08/27/2006, 8:20pm PDT Re: okay good, commenting before you saw it would have been silly by 08/27/2006, 9:00pm PDT Man by 09/03/2006, 10:38pm PDT Thanks pal NT by 09/03/2006, 10:51pm PDT |
