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This was actually really good but the ending RUINED IT

posted 14 years ago by vinnychase
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From the moment the four of them got in the water after the boat sank I was on the edge of my seat. But as they caught view of that piece of land I started to dread the ending. I knew what they were going to do but I just hoped for once...they wouldn't fall into that unoriginal trap. So the first guy dies, then his girlfriend. So now you have Luke and his ex girlfriend who reveal that they love each other and all that non sense. They are within arms length of the reef and what happens? The girl survives and Luke DIES. Are you ****ing kidding me?

I am so unbelievably sick of this ridiculous, feminist catering ending we get from pretty much every movie these days. The man dies and the woman survives. For no reason at all. There was no reason to kill off Luke and let his girlfriend survive. He was the survivalist among them all and did what he could to keep them all alive. This story was supposed to be based on true events. Well guess what? In real life the MAN survived and the woman died. But no they just had to follow that typical female, white knighting script of making sure the lone female makes it to the end. And then they had the audacity to write that text at the end that explains how the girl was rescued to fool people into thinking that actually happened in real life when in reality the man was rescued instead.

Not trying to sound sexist at all I'm just so god damn sick of it because I just watched the movie "Frozen" and the same thing happened in that movie. The girl in the movie was unbelievably stupid and she gets to survive even though she made the most survival mistakes.

[–] ScorpionTDC 10 years ago

Honestly, them changing it from the real event just to have a "final girl" instead of a "final boy" just comes across is incrediby sexist/misandrist to me.

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[–] BruceLi19 10 years ago

The ending sucked. Tha movie sucked then too.

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[–] Filimon 8 years ago

I Think Luke felt responsible for the Group. He was the one in charge and the one with experience of the sea and indirectly put the others in this situation. He would sacrifice himself for the others if he had to. He would definetly want his girl to make it. The ending was dramatic...as expected.

[–] JurijFedorov 8 years ago

The only reason she survives is because she is a women and therefore weak and fearful, not because she thinks like a woman.

First, he can't climb up on the rock because she can't help him. This is why he pushes her up. Could they have had him getting up first? Maybe, somehow. But that would ruin the ending as another way up was possible. The ending is him being killed by the shark because she is too weak and neurotic to help him up. Him being up there would totally ruin that as he would have easily pulled her out of the water. Therefore there is no pick and choose here. This is what they could do.

She cannot save him because she is too small. He can save her because that's the only way they both have a chance to survive it all. That's what script writers do. They give characthers traits and then build the story on these traits.

Would you rather have her pushing him up like some Supergirl? And then him being too weak to pull her up? That would be a totally crap ending.

[–] Dan_Garten 8 years ago

Oh.

[–] NikkiPanda24 (1) a year ago

I actually just watched it and I'm a female and I 100 percent agree with this it's always a female who survives at the end.