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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

hey !@#$$#, the ending of Eastern promises SUCKED ASS. it brought the movie down from a solid 5 star rating to a 4 star rating.

It felt tacked on and "hollywood" happy.

no, the hollywood ending would have been he gets out & lives w/ that chick happily ever after. there was a foreshadowing with that girl that he fucks in front of that guy getting "rescued". it was not unexpected. sure the ending is happy for the midwife and the whore's baby and the etc-- but he self-sacrifices in order to provide that. in hollywood movies the sacrificed hero is magically saved by his good deeds somehow--ok, not in terminator 2-- but he wasn't "human".

i guess, i don't know. i wasn't disappointed at all with eastern promises. it was not implausible. for him it's a very dark fucking ending though.

about the short story-- yeah i hear you, of course it is like that. in some cases more like a novella. screenplays are usually 100 pages doublespaced with lots of instructions so yeah.

if you're ever craving a visual piece that feels more like a novel please check out the wire dvds, start with season one, and follow them-- brilliant tv, from a great writer.

i have disc 1 of berlin alexanderplatz (a miniseries directed by fassbinder) and i've yet to watch it.

anyway i gotta get back to work but please check out killer of sheep. you'll love it for what it is-- a brilliant, beautiful movie.