Still Frames at the end of movies

[Scully1888]

I hate when the final scene of a film ends with a still shot. It's cheesy as hell and it's very awkward sitting looking at it while the picture fades slowly to black and you don't want to leave until the credits appear.

See No Evil, Hear No Evil is an example of this, but by far the worst criminal is the first Tomb Raider film - has to be a still shot for about 7 or 8 seconds surely!

Oh aye, and Streetfighter does it too.

I just think it's really cheesy. The only film that managed to successfully do it in my opinion and not be too cheesy was Rocky.

[RicochetShaw]

Hmm, I thought it was brilliantly done in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

I've never really thought of the technique as being annoying.

[Squirrel_X]

I agree with you totally. It reminds me of japanese cartoons where at the end all the characters are on the screen and they all jump in the air, opening their mouths in a REALLY big smile, and shouting "YAH GO GUYS! YAH!" while they are making a thumbs-up hand signal to the tune of some really cheesy music. I mean I like anime, but sometimes the engrish translations and inherent kookiness of these things causes hilarity to ensue. Ok that was 5% applying to this thread and 95% elsewhere, but you get my point.

[Scully1888]

Yup.

And I know it's not just me that hates these things, because the old episodes of Police Squad! used to spoof them at the end by having Leslie Neilsen and the rest of the cast just stand there motionless while the credits rolled. :)

[The Postmaster General]

Nah - Don't fuck with a classic staple. The freeze is gold, if it's in its place. Crocodile Dundee was a good freeze, and I stand behind that.

However, you are right that it can be very cheesy.

A fun thing I like to do is predict when a movie will have a freeze. I do that often - predict how a movie will end.

[psycho path]

What I hate even more is when a still image stays till the end of the credits, with the names and stuff running over it.

[Jon Lyrik]

Originally posted by RicochetShaw
Hmm, I thought it was brilliantly done in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

I've never really thought of the technique as being annoying.

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What he said. I don't mind it.

And it was brilliantly done in Cassidy/Sundance.

[Zebra 3]

Originally posted by Scully1888
And I know it's not just me that hates these things, because the old episodes of Police Squad! used to spoof them at the end by having Leslie Neilsen and the rest of the cast just stand there motionless while the credits rolled. :)
I remember those, makes me think on the latest Clorets gum commercial. A couple of 70s looking detectives using bad breath as an interrogation tool. Like Police Squad, they too at the end stand there motionless, while you can see other cops moving in the background.

[Corpse Candle]

I would agrue that THREADS had extra effect from this method;)

[JurassicMik]

I thought the ending of Sleepaway Camp used freeze frame pretty well.

[Scully1888]

Originally posted by JurassicMik
I thought the ending of Sleepaway Camp used freeze frame pretty well.

Meh, I'm not so sure. I think they used the worse of the two memorable shots. If they'd have used THAT shot as the freeze frame I'd agree.

[bankholdup]

The 400 Blows used it excellently as well.

[ParileseMonster]

I like the remake of Cat People. I like David Bowie's song for Cat People however I do not like it when the movie ends and there is a still shot and it sits there for what seems like a hella long time during the first verse of the song with no movement or credits until the corus of the song starts.
It is annoying as hell to me!

[APzombie]

Hannibal used it very well.

[Psychopathic287]

I thought the freeze frame at the end of Jacob's Ladder was actually very good.

[FeverDog420]

Jacob's Ladder's final shot wasn't a freeze-frame.

[Psychopathic287]

Originally posted by FeverDog420
Jacob's Ladder's final shot wasn't a freeze-frame.
Yes it was, it was a freeze frame of Jacob walking down the street with his son...

[Weasel]

Does anyone remember the freeze frame at the end of STREET FIGHTER? God, that was cheesy. All the characters in a row, looking at the camera, in position for combat, screaming, and the title, STREET FIGHTER, appears beneath them. Worst. Ending. Ever.

[Tuukka]

Once Upon A Time In America had a brilliant final freeze frame.

[Lynn Minmei]

Originally posted by Tuukka
Once Upon A Time In America had a brilliant final freeze frame.

Amen.


Go see Gallipolli. One of my Top 10 favorite films of all time, and it has the best freeze frame I've ever seen.

[Mr.HyDe807]

OH this reminded me of the family guy epidsode where Peter is agenius at playing a piano while drunk, and once he finishes and everyone cheers. You see a girl in the audiencethrow her hat in the air and her and the hat freeze while the people standing next to her look at her like "WTF?" lmfao!

I really dont mind the still frames at the end,as long as thee not gay {the still frame in teen wolf with michael j. fox was the bomb diggity yo!}

[movieguy1021]

It became my favorite movie yesterday, but I found the still shot at the end of THE DEER HUNTER annoyed me.

[Dead Parrott]

Originally posted by Corpse Candle
I would agrue that THREADS had extra effect from this method;)

I'll say it did. One of the most effective uses of a still shot i've ever seen in a film.

[movieguy1021]

Originally posted by Mr.HyDe807
OH this reminded me of the family guy epidsode where Peter is agenius at playing a piano while drunk, and once he finishes and everyone cheers. You see a girl in the audiencethrow her hat in the air and her and the hat freeze while the people standing next to her look at her like "WTF?" lmfao!


Wasn't that supposed to be a parody of the Mary Tyler Moore show, where in the opening song she throws her hat in the air?

[bankholdup]

Originally posted by movieguy1021
Wasn't that supposed to be a parody of the Mary Tyler Moore show, where in the opening song she throws her hat in the air?

Yeah, it was.

[Mr.HyDe807]

Oh , well i didnt know

[Cronos]

i was going to start a post about this some time ago

i hate it when they do this, it is so fucking irrirtating, one of the freezes i really hate is Cujo, a pretty good film until it freezes at the end

i get very pissed off when whey do this and even if i really liked a film, it lessens it for me

[LoomisFan]

I absolutely HATE the freeze-frame at the end of Highlander 2: The Quickening!