Immediately after the film ended I thought to myself, 'that would have been so much more interesting if they had just left off that whole last scene'.
It was a classic case of the Hollywood tidy ending, the feel good ending, the everything is in it's right place so I can feel comfortable now ending.
Why not the ambiguous ending that keeps us scratching our heads and talking and guessing?
Am I the only one who feels this way?
I honestly think that the "true" Hollywood ending would have been Mud letting Ellis and Neck know he was still alive somehow - like leaving his shirt in front of their door, or a cross made from nails on the dirt bike.
There were plenty of things left out that can leave you disappointed and feeling that it is a real life-like ending. Parents breaking up, no kiss from the girl friend, house getting destroyed...
I felt that the ending was fitting and warranted. :D
this scene was very important. it was to show Mud, even though the heart is broken, there is a new path for him.
this entire movie was about love and the pain after it, that scene was to show pain after love can be replaced with a new life ahead, maybe even better.
Amen, brother. You and another guy nailed it, the sun rises the next morning and you get on your saddle n try again.
It was a great movie and great ending, gave me faith in movies again. If you guys get the chance or don't know, the guy singing in the movie is the directors brother Ben Nichols, from a GREAT band called Lucero. They play some great music and I've met the guys once n can honestly say as my dads a musician, that these guys are great folks n sincerely appreciative of support.. Check em out!
Loved the movie. Just left me with a small smirk on my face, ya know? Just one of those endings I left happy in a way. Whoever said it's Huck Finn-ish is damn right, mixed with Shawshank Redemption.
I damn loved it!
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Guys, Guys! This is not 'Bourne Ultimatum'... The movie did not call for that kind of ending. There're plenty of other parts of the movie that get us thinking. This movie is about truth about love, and human relationships through the eyes of the boy and how he comes of age to deal with it. You guys putting too much attention on mud... Reminds me of 'Great Expectations'.
shareI didn't hate the ending. More ambiguous might have been OK, but I like that the old guy sort of "became his Dad" which was a theme throughout the movie.
- But that Beach Boys tune at the very end! That was so insanely, horribly out of place, all i could do was shake my head in amazement & disgust.
Immediately had me think Michael Shannon's character was again doing some kinky scuba gear dirtyass *beep* with his latest girl/conquest LOL.
blah blah, any movie with a decent ending is a "hollywood ending" if he died and Reese witherspoon was seen eating his head on a shish kebob, you'd call it a hollywood ending.
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I, for one, do not like an ambiguous ending. It drives me crazy not to know things for sure. I was happy with the ending.
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I completely agree - I would have ended the movie where Tom just travels on the river and basically taking Mud's place where he is going to the Mexican gulf to escape his past. So we dont know if Mud is alive or not. Did Neck's uncle picked him up or not, we dont know.
Thats my ending.