I read reviews for this film on a few different horror sites, and they apparently love everything about this movie, except for the ending. I read Ebert's review, where he praises the film but twice mentions that the ending sucked. Is there anyone else who hates the ending? I personally thought it was one of the best things about the film.
sharegreat ending. man is doomed.
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Roger Ebert hated the ending? crap I am reading his review and I missed it :(
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The ending was amazing, for this film. But like Scream, it inspired a wave of far poorer, lazier imitators. The ending to ROTLD was the perfect mix of absurd and truly bleak. Its imitators were merely aesthetically bleak, and used the "nuke" ending merely as a poor commentary on the apathetic government.
shareThe ending was a cop-out. O'Bannon couldn't find a way out of the situation he created, so he went to nukes instead.
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I thought it was a satisfactory ending. One group of people thinks they're going to be ok, only to die in a fiery explosion, while the other thinks they're about to die a horrific death, only to be spared by a much quicker one, while the zombies all look on just before they're reduced to ashes. And what's meant to be a solution ends up setting off a chain of events that starts the whole thing all over again. I also keep thinking about Tina, and how the last thing she sees before she dies is the melted foaming face of her boyfriend coming to devour her as he's eerily drawing out her name. *Shiver*
shareI thought it was a perfect ending; great ending to a great horror comedy.
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I have weird thoughts on this. I think the issue isn't the ending itself, but the final fight with Tarman that makes the ending feel too rushed. Had that final encounter gone differently (say: Tarman surprises the group and is able to kill Chuck, and severely injure Casey, who the survivors drag down the stairs, but now its clear she might turn and they may have to kill her) it would have gone better.
Then that final phone call to the army would have been tenser. The issue was 4 uninjured survivors locked in the basement. Didn't fit the rest of the movie, and Tarman deserved another 2 or 3 min of screentime.
Eh? That would have been crap.
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