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Knowing (and a teeny tiny bit on Narnia and Burn After Reading):
As someone who doesn't like unhappy endings I never thought I would say this, but I think this movie would have been better with an Everybody Dies -ending. Can't really call that ending they did give it anything other than creepy and disturbing. First the aliens/angels/whatever spend ages on Earth torturing defenceless people with visions of death and destruction, and then when there's only moments left they brainwash those who are left to leave their families and everything they've ever known and be happy about it? And that big ship just couldn't have held more than two kids and some rabbits in addition to the aliens themselves? I'm not sure I'd want to meet the rebuilt humanity that has its seeds in such circumstances. For one thing they'd be horribly inbred, and for another, even if the aliens actually taught the kids stuff they need to know to survive before abandoning them on a seemingly uninhabited planet, which is what it looks like they did (and may I point out that earlier in the movie it appeared that they needed to be within a shouting distance to do that whispering trick), given everything I somewhat doubt I would find whatever morals they might teach completely acceptable. Of course there's always the whole brainwashing-through-the-generations option, which... No, that really didn't make the scenario any more palatable.
On the other hand, the whole movie had some creepy stuff scattered around, so maybe the creepy-and-disturbing end really does fit it perfectly. Even the source of the creepiness stays the same, so kudos for being consistent, I suppose. Can't say I particularly enjoyed the movie, but it did keep me awake and made me shiver at times - and laugh, because those blonds in black dusters stalking the kids? I really rather expected to see Spike's face somewhere in there.
Bonus points for the kids for being much less annoying than they could have been. They even managed the creepiness quite well.
I didn't mention it at the time, but a few weeks ago we watched the 2005 Narnia. Now that one had annoying kids. Not all the times, mind you, but often enough. Of course I don't even like Narnia as a book, so I guess I'm rather biased. And I have to admit even those kids weren't half as annoying as the adults in the Burn After Reading we watched earlier that night. I feel like I'm very negative person for criticizing all these movies, and that might even be true, but I still think someone forgot to put the comedy in that one for the most part. An hour an a half build-up for a couple of chuckles and a rather predictable ending was a bit much.
Please don't mind me if I'm more grumpy than usual for the next while. I absolutely hate Summer Time. Such an idiotic and useless idea, and still they keep enforcing it for most of the year. Grr.
As someone who doesn't like unhappy endings I never thought I would say this, but I think this movie would have been better with an Everybody Dies -ending. Can't really call that ending they did give it anything other than creepy and disturbing. First the aliens/angels/whatever spend ages on Earth torturing defenceless people with visions of death and destruction, and then when there's only moments left they brainwash those who are left to leave their families and everything they've ever known and be happy about it? And that big ship just couldn't have held more than two kids and some rabbits in addition to the aliens themselves? I'm not sure I'd want to meet the rebuilt humanity that has its seeds in such circumstances. For one thing they'd be horribly inbred, and for another, even if the aliens actually taught the kids stuff they need to know to survive before abandoning them on a seemingly uninhabited planet, which is what it looks like they did (and may I point out that earlier in the movie it appeared that they needed to be within a shouting distance to do that whispering trick), given everything I somewhat doubt I would find whatever morals they might teach completely acceptable. Of course there's always the whole brainwashing-through-the-generations option, which... No, that really didn't make the scenario any more palatable.
On the other hand, the whole movie had some creepy stuff scattered around, so maybe the creepy-and-disturbing end really does fit it perfectly. Even the source of the creepiness stays the same, so kudos for being consistent, I suppose. Can't say I particularly enjoyed the movie, but it did keep me awake and made me shiver at times - and laugh, because those blonds in black dusters stalking the kids? I really rather expected to see Spike's face somewhere in there.
Bonus points for the kids for being much less annoying than they could have been. They even managed the creepiness quite well.
I didn't mention it at the time, but a few weeks ago we watched the 2005 Narnia. Now that one had annoying kids. Not all the times, mind you, but often enough. Of course I don't even like Narnia as a book, so I guess I'm rather biased. And I have to admit even those kids weren't half as annoying as the adults in the Burn After Reading we watched earlier that night. I feel like I'm very negative person for criticizing all these movies, and that might even be true, but I still think someone forgot to put the comedy in that one for the most part. An hour an a half build-up for a couple of chuckles and a rather predictable ending was a bit much.
Please don't mind me if I'm more grumpy than usual for the next while. I absolutely hate Summer Time. Such an idiotic and useless idea, and still they keep enforcing it for most of the year. Grr.