Connor's Official Juno Ending Debate Thread

[EI 903]

let's talk about the ending to The Mist

it sucked.

Discuss

Best ending ever.

 

[Watcher]

let's talk about the ending to The Mist

it sucked.

Discuss

Stephen King said he wished he came up with the movie's ending when he wrote the original story. I have to agree because it was certainly one of the most shocking endings to a film I ever saw.

 

[Connor Bible]

I've heard about that movie's ending. Fucking brutal...

 

[CatParty]

Imagine how much better Juno would've been with The Mist's ending.

 

[Connor Bible]

^Now there's an idea! Juno wasn't pregnant with a healthy baby boy, but some horrible Lovecraftian abomination, and Vanessa wishes to exploit the... thing for her own unscrupulous ends!

 

[exball]

^Now there's an idea! Juno wasn't pregnant with a healthy baby boy, but some horrible Lovecraftian abomination, and Vanessa wishes to exploit the... thing for her own unscrupulous ends!

I like how every possible alternate ending for Juno you can possibly come up with has Vanessa looking to exploit the baby.

Why was this quality thread locked?

Spoiler: Deep

Discuss.

 

[Mogambo]

let's talk about the ending to The Mist

it sucked.

Discuss

Loved the ending, though I would have been just as satisfied without the tanks coming in. Honestly, we've had enough movies where the army or government come in to save the day. The tragic ambiguity of David being left alone after killing everyone else would have been fine. He'd still be in the same predicament, but for all we know the rest of the world would have been going down with him. Just my two cents.

Why was this quality thread locked?

Spoiler: Deep

Discuss.

Because it would have frightened Ellen Page?

 

[Watcher]

Loved the ending, though I would have been just as satisfied without the tanks coming in. Honestly, we've had enough movies where the army or government come in to save the day. The tragic ambiguity of David being left alone after killing everyone else would have been fine. He'd still be in the same predicament, but for all we know the rest of the world would have been going down with him. Just my two cents.

I think the tanks coming in highlighted the tragedy a lot more. The entire film dealt with themes like paranoia, and at the very end because the characters weren't willing to stay and wait it out they suffer for it.

Indeed this is something the director Frank Darabont highlighted in an interview. He mentioned numerous parallels to the Twilight Zone episode "The monsters are due on Maple Street" which is likewise a story all about paranoia of monsters guiding your decisions.

"The story is less about the monsters outside than about the monsters inside, the people you're stuck with, your friends and neighbors breaking under the strain."

 

[Connor Bible]

I'm reviving this thread, for I am fucking bored.

Still, I guess life with Vanessa won't be torturous, if not exactly sunshine and roses. If there is an advantage, Juno's son will have to do less scraping to make something of himself.

 

[Watcher]

I'm reviving this thread, for I am fucking bored.

Did you REALLY need to bump this thread that's been dead for 6 months? The last few pages have just been derailed shitposting

 

[Connor Bible]

Did you REALLY need to bump this thread that's been dead for 6 months? The last few pages have just been derailed shitposting

I got nothing better to do.

 

[Uzumaki]

I got nothing better to do.

Take up chess.

 

[Marvin]

Take up chess.

No way, learn to play Go.

Computers are already beating Russians at chess. Soon they'll be beating humans. Go's the game to play.

 

[Uzumaki]

No way, learn to play Go.

This is way better advice. I was actually going to suggest Go originally but changed it to chess because I wasn't sure how the sentence would parse to people unfamiliar with the game. But, yeah, learn Go.