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July 18, 2006
my favorite movie ending ever - November 17, 1998
This item appeared in the Village Voice on November 17, 1998
Movie endings are always sad for me, a forced reintroduction to the outside even when they work and please as ''film.'' I like movies that end with the promise of a worthwhile sequel or films whose momentum ends in a kind of stasis; think Tarkovsky's Solaris. The movie ending that comes clearest to mind just now doesn't technically exist, being the end of an unfinished, advance print of Blade. The cgi-jocks weren't done with the effects, so the film ended with Wesley Snipes and Stephen Dorff taking their final, climactic/conflict poses just before the words ''To Be Continued'' slammed onto the screen. I liked how they actually ended Blade, but I keep coming back to that other moment, the way it suggested a movie that never stopped, a movie perfect in its incompleteness and therefore never able to disappoint.
[ebog note: Why is EBOG reposting old articles?]
Posted by ebogjonson in garchival, screened, on July 18, 2006 10:56 PM
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