The ending (spoilers)
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Shuttle
love_cats_hate_dogs — 15 years ago(January 18, 2011 09:06 AM)
You need to throw in an ending like this every now and then.
If no one gave us a film with a downbeat ending, you'd know the good guys will win every time and everything will be OK by the end and there is no tension.
This film was not perfect but I am glad such films exist, at the very least to make other films better.
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Trioxin_Zombie — 14 years ago(March 27, 2012 07:11 PM)
The ending was awesome so it was. It is time we see more endings like this. I am sick and beep tired of seeing the final girl cliche over and over and over. That ending is killing the horror genre. It's holding it back!. It's making it tiresome, predictable and stale. More endings like this one please. If you don't want to see such endings then stick to Hannah Montana.
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DWhitney89 — 13 years ago(April 20, 2012 12:26 AM)
Hadn't seen this movie in a few years and I saw it at an FYE previously viewed so I bought it. I had been looking for it for a while now and was so glad to have finally found it. Anyway, just got done re-watching it for the first time in a few years and I loved it! I still remember how shocked I was by the ending and still am as I write this. I think the ending is brilliant because it not only goes against the typical single survivor, but it also makes the film and its plot seem more real because obviously these things happen. They most likely don't happen as dramatically as they did in Shuttle, but obviously young women have been kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery before. Watching the ending really makes that idea hit home for me.
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NovaIncognito — 13 years ago(December 14, 2012 09:40 AM)
Am I the only one who realized that it was slave-trade as soon as he asked if either of them had tattoos? I am surprised that people were surprised.
And while the guy was pretty clearly shot in the head at a point (and from a range) that would result in permanent brain damage, I wasn't even really surprised to see him magically resurrected and as deadly as ever.
Let's be honest. This man had one of his hands sliced open rather severely, survived a bus wreck without being seated or fastened, was stabbed deeply in the leg, and shot in the head. All in a days work. I think he deserves that damn 40k and I think this movie would be a terrific example for children to never give up if you are passionate about your cause.
I just can't get as upset or riled up as some people do when idiotic things happen in moviesparticularly movies of this sort. And what I don't get about that is that these people are angry because the movie isn't realisticyet, despite the lack of realism they are complaining about, they seem invested to a confusing degree in said unrealistic movie to be able to get that worked up over a character doing something unrealistic.
Am I missing something or does it seem like the world is becoming more and more populated with people who apparently find it almost an infinite amount easier to whine, complain and just act downright hateful towards things, ideas and particularly other human beings as opposed to being cordial, productive and understanding?
I mean, we aren't even talking about people seeing the glass as half empty, but people who despise the glass and its contents all together!
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the_zookeeper — 13 years ago(February 18, 2013 02:06 AM)
Nova, I knew it was a human trafficking movie almost immediately, and I do not know why.
I am working my way through a degree to fight sex trafficking, and I hope to help bring home just one person before I am old and yucky and am tossed into the retired community. Because of this, many of the comments on the board bothered me a bit. I love a good horror flick more than most (I made my kid into Pinhead for his tenth Halloween), but when a movie is this graphic one would hope for others to feel, well, something.
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