Might be the worst ending in movie history...

Rating: 1/10 (25 March 2008)

I won't go off on it too much because it seems that a lot of people on here agree with me and have already said most of it better.
I watched the special features on DVD, and seeing the conversation with Frank Darabont and Stephen King shocked me. To see that King also liked the ending didn't surprise me a whole lot, it was actually pretty King-esquire, what bothered me was hearing Frank reveal that not only did he insist on the ending being not changed in the slightest, he actually took a smaller budget and less time to film just so he could implement this horrific ending.
I believe what Darabont did to the ending was not only in bad taste, but an insult to movie fans. An ending like that isn't just bad, it's a slap in the face. It's like saying, "here, THIS (SLAP!) is what you get for driving to a theatre and paying $40.00 for three movie tickets, $12.00 for a small popcorn, investing two hours of your life, getting to know lots of characters, coming to care about them, and oh yeah, supporting me and my family. (SLAP!) one more time. Have a nice day."
And to those people who like the movie and think the only reason we hate it is because "we don't want to admit a movie affected us this much...?" To you I say this: This movie DIDN'T affect me, I didn't even watch most of it. Luckily I was warned by a caring friend about the ending and watched parts of it on his DVD. The whole movie theatre thing was hypothetical to prove a point. From what I have seen of it, the movie itself didn't look very good either.
Something is wrong with Stephen King lately, and I think he's lost his mind. First this, and now he actually let Eli Roth get hired to make Cell into a movie. The same Eli Roth whom he once said he didn't like because his movies were tasteless violence with no substance? Really Stephen? I just don't know about him and his projects anymore. I just don't know. I may stop being a fan.