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What's you favorite movie ending?
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There are a lot of them, but I was always struck by the ending (I mean very ending, after the credits) of "Young Sherlock Holmes".
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I can never go against an Eastwood movie, so, I'll put up the original Dirty Harry as another favorite.....no follow up, nothing, just Clint blowing the psychopath away, with his original line of, "Did I fire six shots, or only five...", then just walking away.
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You must admit it's the Ennio Morricone music that makes that scene, and the ending. That is a good one.
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Top of my head:
Seven WARNING: Some graphic language in Seven
Gladiator, too. No vid.
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My all-time fav is the Throne Room scene in the original Star Wars (aka IV "The New Hope"). Has kindof an eschatological feel to it, don't you think?
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Originally Posted by BobVigneault  | Would anyone explain to me why Citizen Kane is considered the greatest movie of all time? i watched it (probably didn't pay attention too well) and I was unaffected.
is the Rosebud thing just left open for people to speculate about or what? 
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For me 'rosebud' represents that all of Kanes striving had been vanity (the lesson of Ecclesiastes) and that the only thing he had ever really valued was his sled "Rosebud". He was yanked away from his childhood and his sled. Losing his sled had left him with a longing for something that he just couldn't put a name to so he collected everything under the sun. As he was dying he realized that it was his sled that he had been longing for, or rather his lost childhood and innocence. There's a variety of explanations of the 'rosebud' enigma - this is mine.
The camera angles and lighting as well as the acting make Citizen Kane so very unique.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Sixth Sense
Soylent Green
Fight Club
The Usual Suspects
Planet of the Apes
Psycho
Mystic River
Seven
No Way Out
Midnight Cowboy
The Skeleton Key
12 Monkeys
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Originally Posted by BobVigneault For me 'rosebud' represents that all of Kanes striving had been vanity (the lesson of Ecclesiastes) and that the only thing he had ever really valued was his sled "Rosebud". He was yanked away from his childhood and his sled. Losing his sled had left him with a longing for something that he just couldn't put a name to so he collected everything under the sun. As he was dying he realized that it was his sled that he had been longing for, or rather his lost childhood and innocence. There's a variety of explanations of the 'rosebud' enigma - this is mine.
The camera angles and lighting as well as the acting make Citizen Kane so very unique. | Pretty good snopsis there Bob. My daughter had to write a paper on the Movie in college a few months ago. I like the allusions to Ecclesiastes. She wrote her paper on one of the camera angles that Wells did that focused on the Father / Mother and Young Cain interaction as he was being "farmed" out to a "better life."  |
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Anybody remember the Never Ending Story, talk about false advertising, the movie ends (probably the best part of it too)!
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Originally Posted by caddy Quote:
Originally Posted by BobVigneault For me 'rosebud' represents that all of Kanes striving had been vanity (the lesson of Ecclesiastes) and that the only thing he had ever really valued was his sled "Rosebud". He was yanked away from his childhood and his sled. Losing his sled had left him with a longing for something that he just couldn't put a name to so he collected everything under the sun. As he was dying he realized that it was his sled that he had been longing for, or rather his lost childhood and innocence. There's a variety of explanations of the 'rosebud' enigma - this is mine.
The camera angles and lighting as well as the acting make Citizen Kane so very unique. | Pretty good snopsis there Bob. My daughter had to write a paper on the Movie in college a few months ago. I like the allusions to Ecclesiastes. She wrote her paper on one of the camera angles that Wells did that focused on the Father / Mother and Young Cain interaction as he was being "farmed" out to a "better life." | Kane is usually admired for its innovative approach to camera movements to create intimacy with the audience, prior to many of these innovations cinema was less its own art form and more often a play on film.
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I can't believe that no one has mentioned the absolutely awe-inspiring ending of Monte Python and the Holy Grail. Or for that matter Strange Brew...
I know this isn't the ending, but it's classic, none-the-less.
The ending on both these movies is similar. At the end of Holy Grail it just keeps playing music over and over. At the end of Strange Brew, they come back for a movie review. It's a beauty!
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The Princess Bride.
Grandson: Grandpa?
Grandfather: Yes?
Grandson: Maybe you could come back and read it to me again tomorrow?
Grandfather: AS YOU WISH.
(So I'm a bit wimpy and sentamental wanna make somthin' of it?  )
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Originally Posted by victorbravo There are a lot of them, but I was always struck by the ending (I mean very ending, after the credits) of "Young Sherlock Holmes". |
Vic,
One of my favorite movies. I think that Spielberg had to be planning on a sequel. That's my only explanation for that strange scene during the credits.
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Originally Posted by MrMerlin777 The Princess Bride.
Grandson: Grandpa?
Grandfather: Yes?
Grandson: Maybe you could come back and read it to me again tomorrow?
Grandfather: AS YOU WISH.
(So I'm a bit wimpy and sentamental wanna make somthin' of it? ) | I thought it was established in another thread that The Princess Bride is a "guy movie". As a matter of fact I'm sure that it is so because I made that point.  
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Originally Posted by victorbravo There are a lot of them, but I was always struck by the ending (I mean very ending, after the credits) of "Young Sherlock Holmes". |
Vic,
One of my favorite movies. I think that Spielberg had to be planning on a sequel. That's my only explanation for that strange scene during the credits. | No, they were just showing you the origins of Moriarty and his relationship to Holmes.
Spielberg was only executive producer, Barry Levinson was the director.
In its time the movie was criticized for being too much like "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" with the pagan cult and the secret chambers with human sacrifices, I have it on DVD, it actually is a landmark movie because it is the very first film to use CGI SFX.
The stain glass knight that attacks the priest in the Anglican Church is the first computer generated character in cinematic history and it was 1985.
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Originally Posted by MrMerlin777 The Princess Bride.
Grandson: Grandpa?
Grandfather: Yes?
Grandson: Maybe you could come back and read it to me again tomorrow?
Grandfather: AS YOU WISH.
(So I'm a bit wimpy and sentamental wanna make somthin' of it? ) | I thought it was established in another thread that The Princess Bride is a "guy movie". As a matter of fact I'm sure that it is so because I made that point. | Definite guy movie. My wife has never seen it and I used to be able to provide multiple quotes from it. Not having seen it in a while, all I can say is, "Have fun stormin' the castle!"
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Originally Posted by No Longer A Libertine I have it on DVD, it actually is a landmark movie because it is the very first film to use CGI SFX.
The stain glass knight that attacks the priest in the Anglican Church is the first computer generated character in cinematic history and it was 1985. | I too like this film and would like to own it, but have never been able to find it when I have some $ to spare.
Thanks for the trivia also. 
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