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The Best and Worst Film Endings ever.....

Post by TANGODANCER » Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:58 am

Feel-good happy endings like "I've had the time of my life" from Dirty Dancing, Robin Hood gets the girl, panoramic spectacular endings like Last of The Mohicans, Arnie blows everybody off the planet type stuff, Clint Eastwood rides off into the sunset etc; what do you see as your favourite film ending ever?

And what were your worst?
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Post by Verbal » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:01 pm

I'm afraid I'm going to have to be predictable and say The Usual Suspects. Superb.
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Post by enfieldwhite » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:01 pm

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Post by superjohnmcginlay » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:03 pm

Dawn of the Dead.
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Post by Tombwfc » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:14 pm

I'm not sure if it's the best (though it's certainly one of the best films IMO) but I thought Memento had a brilliant ending.

Now, if you'd said the worst film endings ever, I could go on for about a week.
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Post by boltonboris » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:17 pm

Tombwfc wrote: Now, if you'd said the worst film endings ever, I could go on for about a week.
If you saw/see 'Drag me to Hell' that could be in there... Feckin ridiculous
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Post by ratbert » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:18 pm

The Seventh Seal. Life affirming (despite what's said about Ingmar Bergman).

And Usual Suspects is a good shout until you realise that the whole film you've just watched is a total lie!
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Post by Verbal » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:19 pm

Tombwfc wrote:
Now, if you'd said the worst film endings ever, I could go on for about a week.
Have you seen 'Next' with Nicolas Cage Tom? That ending was so bad it actually defied belief.
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Post by TANGODANCER » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:20 pm

Tombwfc wrote:I'm not sure if it's the best (though it's certainly one of the best films IMO) but I thought Memento had a brilliant ending. Now, if you'd said the worst film endings ever, I could go on for about a week.
Okay, I've added that in. Go for it. :wink:
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Post by superjohnmcginlay » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:22 pm

boltonboris wrote:
Tombwfc wrote: Now, if you'd said the worst film endings ever, I could go on for about a week.
If you saw/see 'Drag me to Hell' that could be in there... Feckin ridiculous
I think its supposed to be.
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Post by Verbal » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:23 pm

ratbert wrote:The Seventh Seal. Life affirming (despite what's said about Ingmar Bergman).

And Usual Suspects is a good shout until you realise that the whole film you've just watched is a total lie!
It is grand story telling though. Plus you watch it the second time and you see so much more.

That's a point actually - Next *SPOILER* has a similar the-last-ninety-minutes-didn't-exist thing but is done so appaulingly that the cinema I was in laughed when the twist came.
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Post by boltonboris » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:24 pm

superjohnmcginlay wrote:
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Tombwfc wrote: Now, if you'd said the worst film endings ever, I could go on for about a week.
If you saw/see 'Drag me to Hell' that could be in there... Feckin ridiculous
I think its supposed to be.
Possibly, but a dancing Frenchman, who 10 seconds earlier was a swearing Goat, just takes the biscuit
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Post by TANGODANCER » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:27 pm

One of my own favourite endings was in "Sum of all Fears", where the bad guys were assassinated whilst Bruce Sledge sang Nessun Dorma. Really atmospheric.
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Post by Verbal » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:35 pm

La Haine. Suspenseful to the max. Also, a brilliant film.
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Post by H. Pedersen » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:37 pm

Best - Donnie Darko.

Worst - Godfather III.
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Post by blurred » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:41 pm

Verbal wrote:La Haine. Suspenseful to the max. Also, a brilliant film.
Saw that in the local cinema the other week - love it. Shame they had the American rather than English subtitling on, but still...
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Post by William the White » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:45 pm

The best - Battle of Algiers - just a sheer exuberant dance of joy and rebellion...

Closely followed by Kameradschaft - chilling...
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Post by Tombwfc » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:55 pm

Verbal wrote:
Tombwfc wrote:
Now, if you'd said the worst film endings ever, I could go on for about a week.
Have you seen 'Next' with Nicolas Cage Tom? That ending was so bad it actually defied belief.
No I haven't, but it can't be as spectacularly dumb as the endings to films like The Village, Hide and Seek, Signs and The Number 23. Basically, if it's directed by the fella who did the Sixth Sense, and you aren't watching the Sixth Sense, or if it transpires [SPOILER - BUT IT'S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD] that it's actually been the main character all along (unless you're watching The Usual Suspects), then it's a shitty ending.

I'd include the remake of the Planet of the Apes too, but I don't have the heart. It's just sooo stupid, so ridiculously daft, that I kinda like it. It's the "Duck Island/Moat Cleaning" of shite movie endings. You can't be angry about something like that.
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Post by Verbal » Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:02 pm

Tombwfc wrote:
Verbal wrote:
Tombwfc wrote:
Now, if you'd said the worst film endings ever, I could go on for about a week.
Have you seen 'Next' with Nicolas Cage Tom? That ending was so bad it actually defied belief.
No I haven't, but it can't be as spectacularly dumb as the endings to films like The Village, Hide and Seek, Signs and The Number 23. Basically, if it's directed by the fella who did the Sixth Sense, and you aren't watching the Sixth Sense, or if it transpires [SPOILER - BUT IT'S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD] that it's actually been the main character all along (unless you're watching The Usual Suspects), then it's a shitty ending.

I'd include the remake of the Planet of the Apes too, but I don't have the heart. It's just sooo stupid, so ridiculously daft, that I kinda like it. It's the "Duck Island/Moat Cleaning" of shite movie endings. You can't be angry about something like that.
Ah yes, Hide and Seek is ridiculous as well. And any film directed by M. Night "OOOH, A TWIST!" Shymalan will always try to put in a ridiculous ending.

But I still believe Next tops it by a distance.
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Post by Montreal Wanderer » Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:16 pm

Verbal wrote:I'm afraid I'm going to have to be predictable and say The Usual Suspects. Superb.
Being old-fashioned I prefer the movie from which the line was taken - Casablanca.
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