The sleazy, treacherous whore wins and poor Michael Douglas loses. At least Mortensen's slimy playboy gets it, but that's not enough. How I wish for a second alternate ending, with the hooker dead and Michael being victorious, getting away with everything.
I would have to agree, I was cheering for Douglas all along and hated to see him die. A simple divorce would have sufficed.
"OMG, it even has a water mark"
-PB
he was trying to kill her and emily was defending herself...im glad that
douglas died...
I am glad he died. He just wanted her money.
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I wish he would have killed her.
War does not decide who is right, war decides who is left.
Well none of the characters are likeable...in the sense of being righteous.
In real life, (looking at it from an objective standpoint), you wouldn't fault the woman in that situation...unless you were a self-aggrandizing pig who always has to have everything on your terms. Men like that deserve what they get...which is to get cheated on, (and I'm a man saying this!) So Michael's character got what he deserved.
That notwithstanding, being the huge MD fan that I am, I too was rooting for him to win at the end...but we all know the bad guys rarely ever win on the big screen.
What exactly did he do to get cheated on? I mean, if my wife was that rich, cheated on me, I'd have her killed as well.
War does not decide who is right, war decides who is left.
I guess you weren't paying attention to the movie...it's okay.
share Either that, or I didn't get to see it all from the begining. I guess you shouldn't assume so many things, and look so pathetic. It's O.K.
War does not decide who is right, war decides who is left.
Wow...you really showed me...I am staggered by your pedestrian wit.
share Pedestrian? What? Are you in some sort of military and think that you are special?
War does not decide who is right, war decides who is left.
*Sigh*
share lol. What a dork.
War does not decide who is right, war decides who is left.
LOL! You should have accepted that first defeat, going on & on, post after post, you basically just embarrassed yourself in this thread. ADVICE: Never allow the opponent to glimpse your slow wit, you should've just exited the conversation earlier on.
By Grapthar's Hammer.......what a savings.
im sure you would....you live in fantasy land
shareYou are effed up, dude. With that attitude, you are *guaranteeing* that you'll get cheated on, if you're lucky enough to get a relationship in the first place.
shareOr unlucky enough. Relationships are overrated. 50% chance of divorce (where a woman gets all your stuff and you have to pay her forever), 10-30% chance that "your" children aren't even yours because she is a cheating slut.
Who the hell needs that?
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WHAT?!!!
Nothing is tragic; everything is unreal!
BS! When a man is cheated on it's his fault. When a woman cheats on the man it's his fault again. If a man kills a cheating wife he is a horrible monster. If a woman kills a cheating husband she only gave him what he deserved.
Feminist "logic"...
I must concur that I didn't like the ending either. I wanted to see Douglas walk away with everything.
shareI Agree. I didn't like the end either.. The movie seemed so perfect to me till that point.
I was hoping for Douglas. The movie seemed like Titanic. Leo Caprio takes more than half of the movie trying to survive, then he dies in the end for Cate Winslet live, find other guy, and learn how to ride horses!!
What exactly did he do to get cheated on? I mean, if my wife was that rich, cheated on me, I'd have her killed as well.
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johnny_calhoun,
He didn't do anything.. His main concern seemed to be his business, not parties and other girls. She just got tired of him (as, eventually, lots of wifes, rich or not, get tired of their husbands) and found another guy, so she began cheating him.
Since he was quite bankrupted, and couldn't count on her (she would drop him at any moment), he had the plan to kill her. Some decades ago, in some countries, the legal justice would consider him right, since she cheated him in the first place, and offended him morally. If she was faithful, he wouldn't need that, since he would be able to count with her help.
i thought the ending was good
i dont think emily was a bad person, even thought she was having an affair
she had wanted to tell her husband, but was persuaded not to by the vigo character
MD was a sleeze bag because there was no reason to blackmail some one and plot a persons death
Emily was the only morale(besides the affair) person in the whole movie
> Emily was the only morale(besides the affair) person in the whole movie
That's like saying that the play was very enjoyable for Abraham Lincoln (except for the shooting)
I think the ending was perfect, although I was a little surprised that the detective was less than suspicious. Anyway, this was a great piece of entertainment and I've never spoken with anyone that didn't like the story.
shareI think David (Viggo) should have lived.
sharei didnt really like emily but i disliked stephen even more. i agree that he was only trying to get her money and killing someone over having an affair is unjustified.
but i think that the character of emily is hardly one to like or feel all that much sympathy for. or that could just be that i dont like gwyneth p. haha
I found it hard to feel a lot of sympathy for Emily as well, but I guess I must dislike Gwyneth Paltrow as much as you do.
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Both Emily and Stephen are in the wrong. And I think Emily cheats because Stephen is a different person away from everyone else
sharelife aint fair, good movies usually aren't either.
shareHe didn't want to kill her for the money... remember, he was surprised when she said to him in his office 'is it because you are in financial trouble.. margin calls.. ' etc and he said 'what? the whole city is full of money' genuinely surprised that that would have anything to do with the situation. He did it because he was losing control over her. I think he had plenty stashed away.
share(**SPOILER** but if you've read this far then you know that)
No, that's not really how it happened and it downplays his excellent improvisation in that scene. Of course he is surprised that she knows he is in financial trouble and will try to remove that as a motive, you can see him thinking on his feet and his grim satisfaction until the wonderful moment when all his good work is about to be unravelled by the obvious by Gwyn wanting to go to the police, and then he starts again.
As for the main topic - not the best ending but the alternative is much worse through stretching possibility too far, hardly the perfect murder when there are so many unpredictables.
Completely agree with the original poster
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