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Migrant, WALL-E is effectively a polemic against laziness and commercialism, so no. Also, the first half is the best silent film since the heyday of Buster Keaton.

Zach, Raimi may think that, but the film doesn't flatly state it. I think most reasonable viewers would conclude that the punishment is disproportionate to the crime. As the film never says otherwise, we are free to disagree with Raimi's interpretation.

Everyone who complains about the third act of I Am Legend needs to remember that the first act includes a car commercial and a CG lion. It was never a good movie.

I though Extract's ending was in keeping with the rest of the film. Kind of a shrug of an ending for kind of a shrug of a movie. (That's not to say it was a bad ending or a bad movie.)

The last act of Minority Report is corny and incoherent. Characters undergo almost instantaneous personality changes: Cruise's wife suddenly realizes that she loved her husband all along or some such nonsense; Von Sydow begins behaving like a cartoon villain. Cruise returns from effective brain death with little

Right, Andre. It's an absurd scenario wherein any conceivable resolution is undesirable.

Yes, but he remains artificial, and nearing "reality" destroys him. He is fundamentally incapable of being "real." In the end, he is more "real" than anything else in the world simply because humanity is extinct and machines are unable to capture the essence of what made us human.

If the last act is real, it is one of the worst things Spielberg has ever done. If it is a construction, then I need to reevaluate that movie.

You are absolutely right. Beautiful film, though.

You're absolutely right.

I read it as the last pale echo of humanity through its art, which could never effectively capture the essence of the human experience. But I like your reading too, Balls.

Too Many Great Movies Mentioned Here:
Drag Me to Hell and The Fly end, in my opinion, perfectly, as does A.I. Funny People meanders to its close, but its last act is vital to the film's themes.

It's Kubrick's story. I also think it's an utterly brilliant, intellectually and emotionally devastating ending. But I've said enough about the film elsewhere on these boards.

*Hands out wedding cookies to all*

You JVS, Cookie?

Tolstoy's not "literary" enough for you, Ghaleon?

The axe wins that one every time, Rooney.

Naked, naked, foul.