ROMANCE AND CIGARETTES - Thoughts on the Ending? (SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY)
ROMANCE AND CIGARETTES - Thoughts on the Ending? (SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY)
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1ROMANCE AND CIGARETTES - Thoughts on the Ending? (SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY)
Posted: 3/30/08 at 7:07pm
Anyone see this movie? I thought it was rather interesting because of the unbelievable shift in tone towards the end. It goes from light-hearted and upbeat to bleak and depressing within a finger-snap. I'm not criticizing it for this, but I just think it's really interesting to end a light-comedy with...
(HUGE SPOILER COMING)
...the lead character dying of lung cancer in a rather graphic fashion. I definitely was not expecting that.
#2re: ROMANCE AND CIGARETTES - Thoughts on the Ending? (SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY)
Posted: 3/30/08 at 7:27pmYeah, I agree it was quite shocking... maybe a bit too shocking. I liked the movie. It had some really great parts and a amazing cast, but at times it felt jumbled and a bit too off-kilter.
"If we don't live happily ever after at least we survive until the end of the week!" -Kermit the frog "I need the money... it costs a lot to look this cheap!" -Dolly P. "Oh please, Over at 'Gypsy' Patti LuPone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet!" Mary Testa in "Xanadu" "...Like a drunk Chita Rivera!" Robin de Jesus in "In the Heights"
"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#2re: ROMANCE AND CIGARETTES - Thoughts on the Ending? (SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY)
Posted: 3/31/08 at 3:58am
I really need to see the movie again and see if the comedy was darker than I remembered.
I dunno. It was just an interesting way to end a comedy.
And it's not like it's just one scene. His dying is prolonged for about twenty minutes.
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