Movies that are mostly amazing but are spoiled by a shite ending (1 Viewer)

[Bellatrix]

Mystic River

 

[george mcfly]

close encounters

i fucking love the ending to close encounters..it's really sad

i thought the same about the Matrix actually! after Keanu stopped the flying octopusses with his hands i thought that meant they had never actually got out of the matrix.. that would have been deadly

 

[coast to coast]

I burst out laughing when the floating in Ninth Gate started. An absolute highlight of a shit film.

Edit: If I'd quoted I replied to as I meant too, this wouldn't seem so random. Fuck it.

 

[nofriendo]

I burst out laughing when the floating in Ninth Gate started. An absolute highlight of a shit film.

Edit: If I'd quoted I replied to as I meant too, this wouldn't seem so random. Fuck it.

Yeah it came from nowhere, books books books floating chick books devil

 

[bad cop]

!ironyyy
As great as Don't Look Now is, the ending does take away from everything it's been building up to.

 

[ICUH8N]

Death in Venice

*eyeroll

 

[Charlie Bucket]

charlie and the chocolate factory (old version)
midnight cowboy
taxi driver
reqiuem for a dream
being there


not!

 

[Wilbert]

charlie and the chocolate factory (old version)
midnight cowboy
taxi driver
reqiuem for a dream
being there


not!

Was about to grill you about what the hell you were talking about until I spotted the "Not!" at the bottom.

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[hermie]

charlie and the chocolate factory (old version)
midnight cowboy
taxi driver
reqiuem for a dream
being there


not!

yea me too.remind me,what's being there again?

 

[hermie]

i have to say lost highway.such a wanky film could be redeemed by a good ending but it's just a load of utter bollocks

 

[Zeelander]

i have to say lost highway.such a wanky film could be redeemed by a good ending but it's just a load of utter bollocks

Yes.

Bellatrix; what didn't you like about the ending of Mystic River? Just the parade at the end or the actual resolution to the story? I don't think either spoiled the movie.

Can we add "Broken Flowers" to the list? The ending was fucking lazy.

 

[Unclealo]

!ironyyy
As great as Don't Look Now is, the ending does take away from everything it's been building up to.

Wrong!

 

[egg_]

Pay it Forward - hardly a great film, but made utterly despicable by the ending

Brazil - saw it for the first time the other night and I found unrelenting bleakness a bit hard to take. I might have preferred the Yank version

And as for Secretary - nota single thing wrong with that film

 

[Alan Remorse]

Brazil - saw it for the first time the other night and I found unrelenting bleakness a bit hard to take. I might have preferred the Yank version

you're actually the first person i've seen to say that - but truly, the US version is an abomination. it's such a cop out. i think if you watch brazil again knowing the ending you'd probably find it a bit easier to swallow.

the reason i love the ending so much is because although the movie is (mostly) really downbeat, you also see the flashes of hope that make their way through the bleakness - like jonathan pryce's fantasies of being a hero etc. i think it's really brave of the movie to suggest that that hope is essentially futile. it's still one of my favourite movies.

 

[the departed]

Can we add "Broken Flowers" to the list? The ending was fucking lazy.

yes.yes we can..
i really didnt like that ending. it felt like another quick punchline before the REAL ending. totally unsatisfying.
although that guy looks amazingly like a fat bill murray!that film annoyed me as a whole. i liked it. but it just felt rushed.


oh and the script was written in 2weeks. BAAAADDD...

 

[Vinnie]

The 1999 Champions League Final

 

[Jerry Twig]

And as for Secretary - nota single thing wrong with that film

sorry, i must of watched the wrong movie, cos the one i saw was crap!

 

[Charlie Bucket]

yea me too.remind me,what's being there again?

peter sellars as a butler who has been sheltered from the world and educated by tv and is let loose in society and somehow gain positions of influence by talking about gardening! excellent 70's flick (directed by hal ashby of harold and maude/coming home fame) with a transcendental ending

p.s. the last line in the movie was inscribed on Sellers' own tomb, when he died a year after the movie was released.

 

[classic seanc]

peter sellars as a butler who has been sheltered from the world and educated by tv and is let loose in society and somehow gain positions of influence by talking about gardening! excellent 70's flick (directed by hal ashby of harold and maude/coming home fame) with a transcendental ending

p.s. the last line in the movie was inscribed on Sellers' own tomb, when he died a year after the movie was released.

Is that the film with a blooper reel in the closing credits?
If it was then thats the film sellers thought would win him an oscar. When he saw the bloopers at the end he was crushed. He thought it lost him the oscar. He died soon afterwards.

That is of course if we're talking about the same film. Otherwise i'm making a fool o myself

 

[bad cop]

Is that the film with a blooper reel in the closing credits?
If it was then thats the film sellers thought would win him an oscar. When he saw the bloopers at the end he was crushed. He thought it lost him the oscar. He died soon afterwards.

That is of course if we're talking about the same film. Otherwise i'm making a fool o myself

That's the movie alright. And he was right, he should have won an oscar for it.