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wannabe · 04-01-2009, 06:53 PM

Anyone who hasn't seen the movie yet and gets all persnickety when people reveal major plot elements, HIT THE BACK BUTTON NOW!!!

You have been warned.

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Here we go...

I finally watched The Lost a couple nights ago. Maybe it's just that I'm still really hard to impress lately, but I didn't entirely get this. I got most of it until the end.

It didn't quite sit with me in "The Number 23", but at least it was a new way to twist, and the preoccupation with finding all the 23's was distracting enough. It sits even worse with me here, where it looks like the writer just wanted to make the guilty party be someone you never would have expected. What were the clues? I didn't see any at all. Admittedly, I don't do a good job of seeing clues and stuff, but I couldn't see anything at all that should have even suggested the ending.

I mean, it just seems like a child wrote the ending. "Then the hero whipped out his magic ring, which he'd been hiding from everyone for just in case there was no other way to survive, and then he got out of the trap and smote the bad guy and rescued the fair maiden, and they lived happily ever after." I've read a few stories like that, and my nephew used to watch a lot of cartoons like that. (Heck, I probably did when I was little too and didn't notice it at the time.) It just came out of nowhere, like the writer didn't know how to end it and just spilled a bunch of scrabble tiles onto the page and called that the end.

So, what did I miss here?

(Not saying anyone did a poor job acting, just that the end seemed stupid and I'm wondering if I missed something.)

04-01-2009, 06:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
wannabe Lacey's Man Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 266 My Profile	The Lost (beware of spoilers) Anyone who hasn't seen the movie yet and gets all persnickety when people reveal major plot elements, HIT THE BACK BUTTON NOW!!! You have been warned. -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 Here we go... I finally watched The Lost a couple nights ago. Maybe it's just that I'm still really hard to impress lately, but I didn't entirely get this. I got most of it until the end. It didn't quite sit with me in "The Number 23", but at least it was a new way to twist, and the preoccupation with finding all the 23's was distracting enough. It sits even worse with me here, where it looks like the writer just wanted to make the guilty party be someone you never would have expected. What were the clues? I didn't see any at all. Admittedly, I don't do a good job of seeing clues and stuff, but I couldn't see anything at all that should have even suggested the ending. I mean, it just seems like a child wrote the ending. "Then the hero whipped out his magic ring, which he'd been hiding from everyone for just in case there was no other way to survive, and then he got out of the trap and smote the bad guy and rescued the fair maiden, and they lived happily ever after." I've read a few stories like that, and my nephew used to watch a lot of cartoons like that. (Heck, I probably did when I was little too and didn't notice it at the time.) It just came out of nowhere, like the writer didn't know how to end it and just spilled a bunch of scrabble tiles onto the page and called that the end. So, what did I miss here? (Not saying anyone did a poor job acting, just that the end seemed stupid and I'm wondering if I missed something.)