The official "What the Hell was that" thread.

[Guest Ripper]

Ok, this thread is for anyone to explain the end of any movie that you have seen that the ending was a little confusing to say the least. I guess it goes without saying...there will be some spoilers.

 

My list is:

 

1: Stephen King's Night Flyer: I have seen this movie so many times and I still don't get it. It obviously was suppose to be some kind of deep meaning, but it went right over my head.

 

2: Magnolia: I love this movie...I have seen it plenty of times. But I don't get the meaning behind the frogs raining down. I have tried to look at it from a million different angles but I can't figure it out.

 

3: Eyes Wide Shut: Ok, what was the deal with the mask on the bed...Was Kidman actually one of the women at the party due to the dream and the mask being on the bed, or am I missing something. I mean, I caught all of the meaning as it applied to Cruises character and his scewed belief of relationships and women, but what the hell did that ending mean.

 

4: Eye of the Beholder: It kinda just...ended. I mean...what was that suppose to mean.

[Guest godthedog]

2. there's no real symbolic MEANING behind the storm of frogs. it's just part of the "weird shit happens" theme, it's totally out of nowhere, & it comes at a time when a lot of the characters think it can't get any worse for them. it's there to complete the character arcs, in my opinion.

 

3. i think you're looking a little too deep into it. seems to me that 'dr bill' just left it on the pillow himself in a big freudian slip.

 

does anyone have any of their own theories about the end of '2001'? besides the traditional "man symbolically looking beyond his years and being reborn" theory?

[Guest Ripper]

"3. i think you're looking a little too deep into it. seems to me that 'dr bill' just left it on the pillow himself in a big freudian slip."

 

 

I was thinking that at first, but it was something about how neat it was and that look of shock when he saw it.

 

Oh, and thanks on the Magnolia thing...I can stop thinking about it now.

[Guest Ravenbomb]

Cast away. He shouldn't have gotten off the island, IMO, and the ending where he stares at the car as it drives off is just...WTF?!

[Guest crandamaniac]

Cast away. He shouldn't have gotten off the island, IMO, and the ending where he stares at the car as it drives off is just...WTF?!

I think they was implying that Tom Hanks's character was planning on going with the woman in the pickup truck, but i'm not sure about that.

 

 

The one movie that confused me at the end was Existenz . What the heck was going on there?

[Guest Karnage]

Jurassic Park 3...what kind of ending is that?!

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

the ending to Existenz:

the entire movie up until the final scene was a game, including the opening scene, and Existenz was just a game within a game. Jude Law and the girl whose name I cant remember were anti-game terroists, there to sabotage the product testing that was going on for Trancedenz, which was the name of the game they were playing all along.

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

1: Stephen King's Night Flyer: I have seen this movie so many times and I still don't get it.  It obviously was suppose to be some kind of deep meaning, but it went right over my head.

I'm not sure what you find confusing about the ending of Night Flyer, it was pretty straight and narrow story. Are you referring to the very end when all the corpses come to life and he starts chopping them up with an axe? That was simple. The vampire made him hallucinate, causing him to chop up the bodies, that way HE would get blamed for the crimes, taking the heat off the actual vampire. It's really that simple.

[Guest The Amazing Rando]

Magnolia's ending...The Meaning...

 

 

Every main character had slowly been driven into a crazy depression that basically drove them crazy....and just when they thought their lives couldn't get any worse...

 

it rains frogs...

 

and not only that...only two of the characters are really "stunned" (the cop and Bill Macy's character) and the rest just kind of watch in silence...not really worrying at all...

 

There worlds were so delusioned and shattered....not even FUCKING raining frogs could make them snap out of their void...

 

and it pulls in with the irony or coincidence that is the first two "scenes" of the movie...

 

They all had their own worries...their own problems...but it is nothing compared to a plague of raining frogs....

[Guest MDH257]

the ending to Existenz:

the entire movie up until the final scene was a game, including the opening scene, and Existenz was just a game within a game. Jude Law and the girl whose name I cant remember were anti-game terroists, there to sabotage the product testing that was going on for Trancedenz, which was the name of the game they were playing all along.

I figured there was no reality and the entire world was a game within a game within a game within a game.

[Guest J*ingus]

Cast Away: I think they were emphasizing that, for the first time in years, Hanks had the power to make a real choice: whether or not to go after the woman in the pickup truck.

 

Eyes Wide Shut: I always assumed that one of Them put the mask on the pillow, just to fuck with him even more.

[Guest El Satanico]

Magnolia's ending...The Meaning...

 

 

Every main character had slowly been driven into a crazy depression that basically drove them crazy....and just when they thought their lives couldn't get any worse...

 

it rains frogs...

 

and not only that...only two of the characters are really "stunned" (the cop and Bill Macy's character) and the rest just kind of watch in silence...not really worrying at all...

 

There worlds were so delusioned and shattered....not even FUCKING raining frogs could make them snap out of their void...

 

and it pulls in with the irony or coincidence that is the first two "scenes" of the movie...

 

They all had their own worries...their own problems...but it is nothing compared to a plague of raining frogs....

Well that's about the best explanation of the ending to Magnolia that i've seen. That's about what i got from the ending but i wouldn't of been able to phrase it that well.

 

 

I suppose we have to give credit to the powers of The Amazing Rando for this great explanation. The Amazing Rando's magic continues to astound all that witness it.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

the ending to Existenz:

the entire movie up until the final scene was a game, including the opening scene, and Existenz was just a game within a game. Jude Law and the girl whose name I cant remember were anti-game terroists, there to sabotage the product testing that was going on for Trancedenz, which was the name of the game they were playing all along.

I figured there was no reality and the entire world was a game within a game within a game within a game.

I kind of took the sense of a lack of reality as motivation for the group that wants to destroy the gaming technology. I saw it as one of the scenarios definitely being reality, but since the game and reality are pretty much exactly the same, reality ceases to matter at all. The way the games were named Existenz and Trancendenz seemed to suggest the games allowed you to transcend your reality, making your "real" life meaningless.

[Guest Ripper]

1: Stephen King's Night Flyer: I have seen this movie so many times and I still don't get it.  It obviously was suppose to be some kind of deep meaning, but it went right over my head.

I'm not sure what you find confusing about the ending of Night Flyer, it was pretty straight and narrow story. Are you referring to the very end when all the corpses come to life and he starts chopping them up with an axe? That was simple. The vampire made him hallucinate, causing him to chop up the bodies, that way HE would get blamed for the crimes, taking the heat off the actual vampire. It's really that simple.

Actually, I mean after all of that when the girl is looking at him and they kept replaying the qupte that he said earier in the movie (somthing about never print what you believe or some shit) and the girl get this "Oh...now I get it" look on her face. What the fuck did she get.

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

Actually, I mean after all of that when the girl is looking at him and they kept replaying the qupte that he said earier in the movie (somthing about never print what you believe or some shit) and the girl get this "Oh...now I get it" look on her face.  What the fuck did she get.

Ohhhhh. Even though she new there really was a vampire and that he had murdered everyone (she saw him leave at the end), she decided to go along with the reporter being the murderer instead, because it would be a story everyone would believe, and she would get the big scoop and it would make her career (which it did), rather than tell the truth about the vampire.

 

"Never believe what you publish, never publish what you believe".

[Guest Evolved Primate]

The ending of Night Flyer depressed me...

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

That would have been the best explanation of Magnolia ever...if a real one didn't exist.

 

I cracked this one on the drive back from the theater.

 

Remember at the beginning of the game show?

 

There were 2 noticable signs in the crowd.

 

1 of which was a passage from the bible. Like John 3:16...but a different one.

 

SO I get home...crack open the bible...and sure enough the answer to the frogs is in it.

 

The passage was something along the lines of "And if they cannot forgive, I will send down upon them a rain of toads" or something of that ilk.

 

Now look at every character in the movie..they all needed to be forgiven for something.

 

Tom Cruise and his father meet eyes before he dies and all is forgiven...

 

The old guy would have shot himself if the frog hadn't knocked the gun out of his hands.

 

Macy would have been in deeper shit for robbing the place had the frogs not come.

 

and so on.

 

The only 2 characters not in need of saving were the cop and the nurse guy.

 

But in short...it's all about the bible.

[Guest El Satanico]

Oh i already knew about the Bible references.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

Well...it kind of makes the frogs understandable...since that was the point to the entire movie.

[Guest kane3212321]

Mulholland Drive, "Silencio" what the hell was that. I understood the story but straight away after I was confused as hell til I walked myself through the movie.

 

Lost Highway, now this I had no idea about this, the two personalities and all that confused the hell outta me.

[Guest cdstunner66]

The one I could never figure out was American Psycho. Was he really killing people or was it all a fantasy? I even read the book trying to find out, but that didn't help. By the way, the book is twice a sick as the movie. I highly recomend it.

[Guest sk8420kid]

Anyone have an explanation to the ending of Pi. I figure the whole movie the number (which is supposed to be the true name of god) is inside Max's head and it is slowly driving him insane, which is what the scar thing on his head is supposed to represent. At the end, Max is driven to the edge of his own sanity and destroys his lab, only to get a quick vision from god (which is what the white represents). So Max realizes all of this, burns the number, and lobotomizes himself to destroy his brain power and the number (I don't believe he kills himself, although alot of other people do). I think it is a somewhat happy ending, because the last shot of the movie is on the trees, the same thing Max was looking at when he was naming all the patterns earlier in the movie. He realizes that the patterns are everywhere in nature, but now he can't see them like he used to, and for the first time the whole movie, he smiles, something I think is very overlooked.

[Guest El Satanico]

Well i figured the ending of Pi meant that the number led to the meaning of life and he didn't want anyone knowing.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

In American Psycho he really was killing people. The story was a satire of the 80's yuppy lifestyle, in that everyone was completely self absorbed and entirely unconcerned with anyone else. Ellis demonstrated the point by showing that the ultimate 80s guy could be a psychotic killer and get away with everything, because everyone would be too self centered to notice.

[Guest sk8420kid]

In Requiem For a Dream what the hell is Tappy Tibbons third rule. I no the first two are no red meat and no sugar, and I've looked everywhere on the dvd for an answer but can't find it. Is it something that they only revealed in the book?

[Guest Angle-plex]

Vanilla Sky was a little weird. I never really got if he was waking up from a dream, or that whole thing was a dream.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

Vanilla Sky had several interpretations to it. According to the director (whose name I cant remember for the life of me), none of them were actually correct, it was all open ended. It could be that everything that happened was straight forward, and happened exactly as explained, or everything was a dream, or it was a coma hallucination after the car crash, or he died in the car crash... or several other things.

[Guest Army Eye]

In Requiem For a Dream what the hell is Tappy Tibbons third rule. I no the first two are no red meat and no sugar, and I've looked everywhere on the dvd for an answer but can't find it. Is it something that they only revealed in the book?

There actually is an easter egg on the DVD somewhere that shows you how to see the third rule. I don't own the DVD but that's what I have read. A search for 'tappy tibbons easter egg' should turn up the method.

 

Anyway, the third rule is 'no orgasm'

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

In American Psycho, he never commited any of the murders, it was all in his mind.

 

In Vanilla Sky, it's explained that after the night in the club, where he collapses on the street, it's all a dream from there since he was frozen. It was explained in VERY specific detail if you pay attention at the end. It's not confusing at all.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

the murders in American Psycho were most definitely not in his head. If they were, that would negate any social commentary the movie and book were making. Bret Easton Ellis and the director of the movie have said they were not in his head.