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Apr 2 12 11:48 AM
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Grant wrote:For me, there's a whole string of COMEDIES with depressing endings, and I don't mean just dark comedies. One is "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" - I know comedies are supposed to be mainly about things going wrong not right, and I'm not saying adultery is a WONDERFUL thing, but that story just seems determined to keep its main character from having a pleasant time. Heck, that's even true of things in the past, like the character's depressing anecdote about his first sexual experience. No offense to Neil Simon, but give me a "shallow" sex comedy any day over a "thinking" one like that!
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jamesenstein31 wrote:Chaplin had so many sad endings, though I guess there was a positive spin to them. Remember the end of THE CIRCUS? That was a beautiful shot.
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Apr 2 12 4:14 PM
Rick wrote:Well, I don't remember how it was played in the movie (lousy movie, by the way, but a decent play), but the idea is that, while he is foiled at his adulterous intentions, it ultimately leads him to realize that he loves his wife, and he really doesn't want to cheat on her. So it (the play, anyway) ends with the guy calling his wife for the sneaky assignation he'd intended for another woman. I'd actually call that sort of a happy ending. Maybe you're reacting, though, to the movie itself, which is a pretty dreary thing.
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Dr Acula wrote:Kids
Apr 4 12 4:16 PM
Rick wrote: and it'll be the twelfth of never before I subject myself to GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES again.
Apr 4 12 4:45 PM
Wich2 wrote:Has a producer never tampered with a director's film outside of the U.S.? Knowing producers, I'd doubt that very much... -Craig(P.S. - ...and Stevens, and Lubitsch, and Wilder, and Wyler, and Vidor, and Cukor, and Fleming, and Walsh, and...)
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Victor Frankenstein wrote:I guess Failsafe has a pretty freakin depressing ending....
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Apr 16 12 5:18 PM
Liz wrote: Going back to comedies, last night TCM showed a bunch of Harold Lloyd comedies and one of them was HAUNTED SPOOKS. Compared to ASK FATHER, which was shown earlier and was hilarious, this short was not only not funny, but completely depressing, not to mention racist.
Apr 16 12 5:19 PM
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