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The Ending

posted 10 years ago by Mikel3
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This remakes contrived silly ending ruined what little the film had going for it before. The original version was better, I don't remember it having that mixed communication nonsense where they really loved each other and the message didn't get to her. I think in the original, once she was back to civilization, where she didn't want to really go, she changed to her old privileged self again. He returned to an unhappy marriage. It was too late for him to get her back once he realized he wanted her and what he had lost. That had better impact IMO and was a better social comment on they're different classes. That is if my memory serves me well...if not then...never-mind. 

[–] agentalbert (3219) a month ago

The original is better all around in every regard. But there's no point in making a new version if EVERYTHING plays the same, so I didn't mind the ending in this. They still don't end up together. The movie was okay, but was tamed down in most regards and I didn't like it nearly as much as the Lina Wertmuller directed original, which is excellent. But this was better than I was lead to believe, and if I viewed it in a vacuum not having any knowledge of the original, I'd have liked it more.

Maybe the one thing this movie did better is that I don't remember a thing about anyone else on the boat (other than the two leads) from the original. In this one, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Elizabeth Banks make an impression, and Bruce Greenwood is good as always. So this did have that, but I'm not sure some focus on anyone other than the two leads really helps the movie. It's not like the original would have been better if we got to know the others more.