What the FUCK happened at the end of Tim Burton's

[iamkeysersoze]

Please help me. It's doing my head in. Could this be the worst, most inconceivable twist in film history? Even the end of The Usual Suspects made sense. So did The Sixth Sense. Sort of. So can YOU explain it?

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[Yammeryammeryammer]

I think somehow Tim Roth's character went back through time to before Wahlberg got there and formed an ape civilization with human technology or something. But actually, I think Tim Burton knew the first movie's ending couldn't be beaten, so he slapped the first half assed idea he came up with onto the end of his movie and called it a 'shock' ending.

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"Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. Then, when you do start to criticize him, you're already a mile away, and you have his shoes." -CEO of Stebner Getting Hit By a Car Productions Ltd.

[StudentBoardMember]

Yeah that was pretty crap, when I saw it some guy in the audience shouted 'it's an ape' when we saw the back of the statue's head, everybody laughed, like me I imagine they were all pissed at the movie's lameness.

If you want a good twist go see Memento.

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[SoulJacker]

+++++This isn't exactly at post regarding Guerilla film-making, is it chaps...++++

Anyway, you guys are way off the mark with the ending...

...In reality LEO arrived on earth during Halloween. The POD crash-landed as the policeman where attending their annual Halloween Monster Ball. As this was a pretty big call - UFO lands in City! - None of the pigs had time (nor wanted) to change and that?s why they were all dressed up as apes...simple

PS
Since this pile of poo took place in 2039, why did they need a monkey-driven pod to explore the electromagnetic storm????

Considering we can send unmanned subs to explore the depths of the ocean, why didn't they have unmanned pods controlled by the station with all the 'advanced technology' they had????

Save the costumes and makeup, this movie was rather disappointing....

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[GrizzlyAdams]

They needed a monkey driven pod so that they could make a movie about it ..... doh

didnt an episode of x files mention something about the future of space exploration being based on AI robots....

becasue they dont eat etc.

I wonder if this is why NASA keeps crashing 180 Million dollar automatic probes into the surface of Mars - to prove you need a monkey to flip the switch and thus keep them in busniess
( anyone can fire rockets into space with robots on board. )

and yes this is not a film making post. but neither is 80% of the other posts either.

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Grizz:

I dont care who wins an Oscar until I do

[SoulJacker]

...and yes, the situation won't improve if people keep posting BS like this...

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Jay & Silent Bob DO NOT LICK BALLS.

[Electric Sheep]

Here's the explanation.
When coming to the end of the script, Tim Burton decided to celibrate by smoking a doobie the size of the washington monument. He lights it up and puffs away. He then decides how to end it. "What if Abe Lincoln was, like, a monkey?" The rest is History.

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I don't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out.

[Twitch]

The ending was in a Kevin Smith comic before it was in any movie. Burton HATES Smith.

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Yeah, I can't think of a funny quote to say.

[iamkeysersoze]

I just found out this week that the twist used in the film was the twist used in the original book. So now. But the book was a puddle of piss anyway so, like book, like film I guess.
Good luck now.

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