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Aug 26, 2013 - 2:10 PM
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Ado
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The ending never bothered me. It was the movie itself, that took all the interesting ideas that I thought were in the original STAR WARS and threw them in the trashcan, that got my goat. And as much as it became the darling movie of an elite group, including Pauline Kael who hated the first one, I have been delighted that the box office, rentals and sales of EMPIRE has consistently been the least of the first 3 episodes. The audience at least agrees with me.
Morricone,
Empire is certainly the darkest of the first three pictures. It is perhaps equal or second in darkness to Revenge of the Sith, but certainly a better picture as Irvin Kirschner was a real director.
That pretty much explains the box office of the picture. The first Star Wars was pretty straight Saturday matinee throwback, and as such a fun romp, and Return of the Jedi, there is a little turmoil and inner struggle there but it hardly compares the struggles of Luke and finding out your father is the Galactic Satan, and he cuts your hand off too. Additionally, it is probably the deepest dive into the mythos of Jedi spirituality, and that material is a bit amorphous and a bit too non literal for a lot of the bubble gum crowd of the first picture.
Beyond that, box office success rarely identifies the merit or quality of any given picture. Just look at the domestic gross of The Phantom Menace, beyond the first three pictures. And sorry, but that is a trash can lid of a movie all around. If you need further evidence for the lack of correlation between box office just look at the massive money hauls of all the Transformer pictures.
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He wanted an ending? Well, Whedon, you first -- set by example.
"Buffy the Vamprie Slayer"
No ending. The Sunnydale Hellmouth was closed, that's all. There are other Hellmouth's across the world, as previously stated. And a great deal of demonic activity in Cleveland, so we hear.
The situations and future of all the characters are left in doubt or unresolved, including new characters who never got properly developed.
"Angel"
No ending. Nothing is accomplished. There was no overall bad guy except Wolfram & Hart, and only the corporate building facade in Los angeles, was destroyed. As previously shown in the series, it has offices across the world and that wasn't exactly a make or break location.
There was no over-reaching goal, just a day-to-day battle, fighting the good fight.
The situations and future of all the characters are left in doubt or unresolved (especially if you followed the excellent comic continuation by Whedon). Our heros are left at the beginning of a battle against overwhelming odds.
Same for all his shows. Though I would give "Firefly" a pass since it never got a full season and was cancelled. But the movie, "Serenity", also has no kind of ending (especially considering that was all we were going to get) and leaves all the characters in limbo, except the dead ones.
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