Logical Conclusions

[RobertScorpio]

Sometimes scifi movies, hell any movie, just defy the imagination with some of their crazy endings and resolutions. can you think of a scifi movie that, at the end, you though to yourself "hmmmm, that made sense. Someone knew what they were writing about".

And on the flip side, can you think of a movie where at the end, when the solution was found with 'science' you just shook your head and laughed at the idiocy of it?

Rob
Scorpio

 

[Spiderpope]

The Core. But then its not just the science at the end that was ludicrous.

 

[Lapis Exilis]

The Fifth Element's ending was extremely apropos, as was Unbreakable's and both worked because they managed to be very original takes on very old forms. The Fifth Element is essentially an Arthurian romance (enchantment needs to be broken = the coming destructive force, the needed magic is the Holy Grail, i.e. Love), and Unbreakable's superhero/ villain dichotomy (that said, as much praise as Unbreakable gets, it's Second Act makes little sense).

Oft-cited for a WTF? ending - Event Horizon, so much promise, so little payoff. The explanation of what was going on was actually okay, but the execution of the Third Act was goofy. And Sunshine - neither the explanation nor the execution made the slightest bit of sense.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Yeah, "Sunshine". It was like the last reel of a different movie got put in there.

 

[RobertScorpio]

The Fifth Element's ending was extremely apropos, as was Unbreakable's and both worked because they managed to be very original takes on very old forms. The Fifth Element is essentially an Arthurian romance (enchantment needs to be broken = the coming destructive force, the needed magic is the Holy Grail, i.e. Love), and Unbreakable's superhero/ villain dichotomy (that said, as much praise as Unbreakable gets, it's Second Act makes little sense).

Oft-cited for a WTF? ending - Event Horizon, so much promise, so little payoff. The explanation of what was going on was actually okay, but the execution of the Third Act was goofy. And Sunshine - neither the explanation nor the execution made the slightest bit of sense.

We just watched UNBREAKABLE last weekend..love that movie...

rob

 

[Cicero]

It wasn't science fiction, but Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban dealt with time travel better than almost any other movie I've seen - it was entirely logically consistent, and, aside from its mechanism, quite sensible.

 

[Skellington]

It wasn't science fiction, but Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban dealt with time travel better than almost any other movie I've seen - it was entirely logically consistent, and, aside from its mechanism, quite sensible.

I was going to say pretty much the same for Twelve Monkeys.

 

[RobertScorpio]

It wasn't science fiction, but Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban dealt with time travel better than almost any other movie I've seen - it was entirely logically consistent, and, aside from its mechanism, quite sensible.

I was going to say pretty much the same for Twelve Monkeys.

Not sure about Harry, since I havent seen it yet, but I agree with 12 monkeys.

Rob

 

[Mistral]

12 Monkeys was great. On the other side of the coin- Sphere. And for endings that just leave you scratching your head- Dark City. I remember thinking, "Is it real, or is it Memorex?" Also, one movie that hits both sides of the coin-The Abyss. The theater cut had me wondering where the other part of the conclusion was and the director's cut left me going- "Aha!"

 

[RobertScorpio]

12 Monkeys was great. On the other side of the coin- Sphere. And for endings that just leave you scratching your head- Dark City. I remember thinking, "Is it real, or is it Memorex?" Also, one movie that hits both sides of the coin-The Abyss. The theater cut had me wondering where the other part of the conclusion was and the director's cut left me going- "Aha!"

ABYSS director's cut is really the only one I think is fastly better than the theatre cut. I didn't like the Abyss, but really liked it after the Directors cut.

Rob

 

[Kegg]

Soylent Green's shocking twist ending is right up there with "Luke I am your father" among twist reveals that everyone knows about (the line pertaining this is probably more recognisable than the film itself), but it does build rather organically - if horrifically blackly - on the scenario presented in the film.