horrorfilmx wrote:
reddog122 wrote:
horrorfilmx wrote:
I vote Paths of Glory. Although maybe that's another thread.


I love Paths of Glory as well. My only caveat with the film is its pat ending which lets the viewer out of the movie with a sense that justice has somehow been served, but to me feels like a cop out. Still it's a masterful film, which I can argue, almost all of Kubrick's are.



I don't follow you. A dozen or so innocent men are murdered by the military in spite of the hero's (Kirk Douglas) attempts to save them. It doesn't feel like justice served at all. Ironically Kubrick wanted a "happy" ending but Douglas as producer refused to allow it.
I always thought that when Adolph Menjou throws George Macready under the bus to "satisfy" Kirk Douglas' sense of justice at the end of the movie,  it just doesn't jibe with what went before,  it almost feels tacked on to give the audience some sense of relief or satisfaction.