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Was There a Writer's Strike in the Last 10 Minutes..?

posted 9 years ago by Esperite
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Geezus. 129 min of my life wasted.

Was actually keen on trying to follow along until the character gets so despondent that he throws his life away, is able to land flat on his back, and did not even $hit in his pants on the way down.

Get's lifted from certain death, and 10 minutes later is buying drinks at the bar and offering to pay half of the tab.

Good thing he picked the correct edge of the roof to jump from. Nice friends that would have you get to the point that you would throw everything away.

Why would they work so hard on the rest of the movie just to end up with "this" as the "payoff"...?

Look, I don't pretend to be the most sophisticated of cinema veritae, but it's like they brought in the second team for the ending, that was never in the room with the first team.

[–] LoneWolfArcher 9 years ago

Agreed the ending has some problems, but I think the point was that their psychological testing asking with vast knowledge of the player's history made them able to precisely predict the player's actions.

Not necessarily plausible, but movies like this require some suspension of disbelief.

[–] Maxative 9 years ago

I watched this last night and the ending completely ruined it for me. I'd have been happier if he had actually gone off script and shot his brother.
I know he was a millionaire but they destroyed his house with graffiti, ruined his suits, sabataged his career and ultimately had him reenact his father's suicide and he acts like he's just left a haunted house at Disney.
He didn't even know what CRS was or did and they trust him to be 100% in his psych test.
At least now I know what that Simpsons episode was parodying when Homer drinks the forget-me-not-shot to forget his party and gets pushed off the bridge by Patty & Selma.

[–] mslady89 8 years ago

Exactly. They ruined this man's home and he's just like "it's ok, I understand, I forgive you all"

This movie annoys me so much. Ridiculous

[–] snelling 8 years ago

One of the best movie endings of all time. Sort of like "The Wizard of Oz" for adults.

"'Extremely High Voltage.' Well, I don't need safety gloves, because I'm Homer Simp--" - Frank Grimes

[–] avortac4 (3746) 3 years ago

It wasn't a home. It was just a house, a building.

He made a trade-off between 'peace of mind' and 'material stuff'.

One made him miserable, the other made him happy. I think it was a fair trade-off, he doesn't need that big house anymore, he doesn't need to DESPERATELY CLING to material stuff anymore, now that he's internally liberated to be able to ENJOY LIFE.

One 'ruined house' is nothing compared to being internally liberated, you materialistic !@%"s.

People here obviously never read Zen koans. In those, it's even acceptable to get a finger cut off to become enlightened. What's a little physical damage to temporary objects that you can't take with you anyway when you leave this world, compared to internal peace and happiness?

Really.. think about it.

[–] BourbonKing (5778) 3 years ago

The criticism in this thread is about the final 10 minutes and the final reveal. We were led to believe that the Game was a scam to hijack and then steal the Van Orton holdings after he's drugged and dumped in Mexico. Whoever Zen Koans is has no bearing on this movie's delivery and for me the ending was rather mild and anti-climactic with Nicholas implying to Debra Unger that he'd like to play along in another "Game" in Australia with her. It's cute, but the transition and juxtaposition against the events that unfolded an hour earlier make it feel like a cheap payoff.

[–] Poozer91 (610) 3 years ago

It's not a good movie and David Fincher even agrees. Fincher later admitted in interviews that he was not proud of the movie, explaining his working relationship with his wife, longtime producer Ceán Chaffin, the filmmaker said he picks her brain, and that they'll often disagree:

"She was extremely vociferous, for instance, when she said, "Don't make The Game" and in hindsight, my wife was right. We didn't figure out the third act, and it was my fault, because I thought if you could just keep your foot on the throttle it would be liberating and funny."

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8759) 3 years ago

I would argue that Fincher is being a little too hard on his own film.

Yes, much of it is implausible and strains credulity, to put it mildly, but it's still an interesting and enjoyable film that has some thoughtful things to say about the human experience.