I just watched Mystic River last night and I'm REALLY lookin for someone who's seen it. I pretty much liked it all the way through cause the it remains a mystery the whole way through til pretty much the very end. Not many movies can keep you guessing the whole way through.

But what I wanna know is anyone's opinion on the actual ending. I was pretty disappointed with the events at the end of the movie. It really left me hangin. Has anyone else seen it?

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JamCan, just found this thread when I was searching for something to read.

You didn't like the ending? Not a surprise for me. I read the book first. Pretty darn close to the book too. Not many movies actually do that.

Sean Penn is amazing.

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Yah he is but I still hated the ending because the guilty got off scott free.

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Maybe in the eyes of the law. But, their lives were changed forever.

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Great movie but sad how the killed the wrong guy when he didn't even kill his friend's daughter. Man their lives were messed up.

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Anyone see "The House of Sand and Fog". Another sad movie where no one wins.

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That's funny.... this is the first I've seen this thread--and we watched Mystic River last week--then House of Sand And Fog the very next night! What a coincidence.

Mystic River: I liked this movie. It truly is sad at the end, but the acting was great, the filming was terrific--some great camera work and a good score to support it. I think they captured the "old neighbourhood" beautifully. Sean Penn sure outdid himself in this movie. Even down to the portraying the repressed anguish and pain suffered by a man who just found out that he killed a friend for nothing. Someone said he got off "scott free" but not really--not if you look into his eyes at the end of the movie. What a powerful piece of acting that was, imho.

House of Sand and Fog: I liked this one too. Both the main characters had an equal amount of justification as well as flaw--so you couldn't really root for one or another. I thought Ben Kingsley was terrific (as usual) and it was made even more legit by having an Iranian actress playing his wife. I don't really like Jennifer Connely much, but in this one she did a decent job.

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Do you read, U? If so, both of those books are even better then the movies and are well worth the read, even after having seen the movies.

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Actually...I can't read. I've been blind from birth and I have a voice activated input device for my computer keyboard. But thanks anyway.

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Can I ask how you do all those cool graphics? I am kind of computer illiterate and pretty much muddle my way through most things. Learning Quark at work now and it is stumping me. Wish I could do all those cool things you do to pictures.

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Aha...I've used Photoshop for about 12 years... mostly for business, so I've gotten pretty quick at it. Quark is good, although I've always used Pagemaker (same sort of thing) because I prefer the interface.

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