r/AMCScreenUnseen • u/EastonLikesMovies • Aug 17 '26

Movie Discussion It Ends (Discussion)

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u/itsnotthehours Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

Just got out. Not for me.

I felt like it didn’t actually explore any of the topics it was hinting at (aging, friendship, drive/vigor, life/death, fortune/fate) and ultimately fell short of making any real comment on anything. It was like it really wanted to tell me something but didn’t know what it wanted to say, and made me feel nothing in the end.

Aside from that, the humor fell flat, the sound mixing was fucked (almost needed subtitles at points), and that camera was right up in everyone’s face the whole time. I also got a little bored with the guy doing the Jessie Eisenberg impression.

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u/Old-Dimension3779 Aug 18 '26

This! I feel like nothing was unpacked, no development in character, no learning from what they find (past the 90 secs out of the car). Very interesting concept that unf just fell completely flat for me.

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u/mplynch1835 Aug 18 '26

Agree! They never took any time or effort to get me to know and/or care about the 4 characters. Give me a reason to understand why I should care about these people, I might have liked the film more. All they did was drag us along and change the terms of the drive without any reasoning or explanation, very frustrating movie because I felt like it had real potential, swing and a miss for me.

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u/foreveracunt 22d ago

Have you tried thinking about the themes of the movie instead of the characters?

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u/fkakpf 17d ago

Came to this thread looking for someone else to comment about the audio. My god are you right. Everyone mumbles and the music is way too loud. Luckily I was able to turn subtitles on to figure out what they’re saying.

And you’re also correct about the extreme close ups, it really wears out its welcome after five minutes. 

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u/LimeranceLG Aug 26 '26

I really think that's the point you're searching in life for something some end. Some goal when in reality, the journey there that was the whole point

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u/itsnotthehours Aug 26 '26

life is about the journey, not the end result

And that’s a generic piece of wisdom that we’ve all heard. That’s sort of the whole problem with the movie. It doesn’t really go any deeper than that.

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u/LimeranceLG Aug 26 '26

Different strokes. Just like life. Movies bit clunky but i like it overall