And So It Comes To This - Those Endings Where You Say To Yourself "It Was Building Up To That?" Part 1

The Thing That Couldn't Die*

where "The Thing" dies. Very abruptly. With no real explanation why. After a scene where he declares he has to drink human blood only to rule out everyone present on some pretty flimsy grounds. As tense scenes go it's not really up there with that bit in The Shining where the kid goes into that room is it? Did the writer of this toss really sit down and think that an ending where the monster, and I say monster meaning "man in olden times clothing", finally rises after 80 pointless minutes building up to it only to berate his potential victims for being too old or an alci, talk about picky for someone who's been buried for 300 years, was in some way brilliant? Maybe he was looking at doing something that fucked with the conformity of the genre, a sort of anti-ending? Then again he was probably just a talentless fud who had taxed his brain coming up with all the other non-events in the movie. Just to be clear, don't see this!

*Possible other feature sprouting from this - The Movie Titles That Lie