ChainSaW80 wrote:

^whats there to explain? The little chinese chick killed the the dude with chopsticks after she proposed to make him rich. Turns out she was wealthy it seemed but killed him anyways.

And there goes the entire reason to watch the movie....

Called-

SPOILERS ALERT

Hardly the entire reason to watch the movie, there is no great twist ending...this wasnt the sixth sense...

And I guess what confused me about the ending is why, in a story about cannibal whalers, did they need this ridiculous, out-of-context sub-story that was not at all developed yet used to conclude the film. That character was just one of the tourists, with no outstanding part or discernible focus or ambition, yet she's handed the ending - flying home victorious on an airplane sipping champagne - as if she were a principal character from the beginning.  I was like.... WTF??? How did she become so relevant?? It was just so "shoe horned" into this film that it was badly out of place..... considering how you could have ended the film. IMO.

I don't think she was wealthy--I think she took the identity of the rich woman who was her boss. That's how it worked for me. It seemed a little far-fetched, but, then again, the whole thing's a little far-fetched, so that didn't seem to be the moment to call them on plausibility!

^whats there to explain?

That's what I'm trying to figure out. I don't remember anything being confusing about the ending. Maybe I need to watch it again.

^whats there to explain? The little chinese chick killed the the dude with chopsticks after she proposed to make him rich. Turns out she was wealthy it seemed but killed him anyways.

And there goes the entire reason to watch the movie....

Called-

SPOILERS ALERT

No U.S release? Arg!!

Ey, matey, shiver me timbers!
(had to)

Nothing groundbreaking, but a very entertaining slasher flick. Some of the kill scenes were cool.

okay then...explain the ending.... if it's even possible to do so. LOL

What bugged me was that they seemed determined to break every horror plot expectation, not to make a better film, but just because they could. You're supposed to  think there's a love interest forming, there isn't. You're supposed to  think the good guy will survive, he doesn't. You're supposed to think that the most carnivorous of them all will get it, she doesn't.

After a while, it was easy to guess what would happen next, simply because whatever would happen in another film, this one would do the opposite. But it seemed just a bunch of poorly-disguised tricks, rather than an attempt to turn the genre on its head

Anyone else notice this?

I can't wait to see this one. But it's not getting a U.S. release and that really pisses me off. I'll probably have to order it from Amazon.uk.

No U.S release? Arg!!

Its also quite smart in the way that it updates TCMs themes. In TCM I always thought that the film was about the revenge of the poor on the middle classes that leave them behind.

The meat packing industry fails and the family go feral, then they turn their appetites on the kind of privileged kids that had the freedom to be freaky and free. Basically, they eat the people who have a future because theirs has been taken away.

In Harpoon, set against the background of changing attitudes to the environment, the whalers are left behind as their industry is outlawed, so this time they turn on those who took away their livelihood, in this case Eco-Tourists.