worst endings to films. (spoilers?)

[4real]

War Of The Worlds. The ending just seemed to happen too quickly.

I have no idea why people have mentioned 'Saw'. Maybe somebody could tell me.

[hawkfan44]

Arlington Road- good movie up until the swerve at the end. hated, hated, HATED that swerve. it just ruined everything that was good about that movie, and made that movie stink IMO

The Village

The Butterfly Effect (Director's Cut)

[RealDoubleJ]

War of The Worlds for the simple fact that the elder kid survived.

HE RAN INTO FRICKIN' WARZONE SPIELBERG! THE KID MUST DIE!!

[Powder/The Professor]

The remake of "Assault on Precient 13" ended so badly. It was terrible.

[amsiraK]

millie12678 said:

I agree with Kill Bill vol 2

but i was highly disappointed in the way the entire matrix revolutions ended....actually the whole movie was the ending to the trilogy and it just let me down

the village..disappointing
signs..OH yeah..water kills aliens..woo
war of the worlds..i like the original broadcast but come on..germs kill highly technical and efficient creatures from outer space..NO way

i just got finished watching Good night and Good luck- great movie but i would have liked to see how Murrow took down tv itself cuz i was NOT alive in 1950's

WHA? Murrow didn't take down TV - he took down Joseph McCarthy.

I've long voiced my displeasure of the ending of "Seven".

[Grendel]

jackrabbitslim said:

The very mention of 'My Best Friend's Wedding' makes me laugh like a hyena. A couple of ya'll know why.

Speaking of Signs though I kinda defended it earlier ( not really, but as I said it didn't bother me) it does crack me up that the aliens are advanced enough for interstellar travel/ making them groovy crop circles.. yet dumb enough to not only land on planet covered over 70% by the substance that is their one weakness AND to walk around butt ass nekkid on said planet. Them martians had brass ones I tell you whut.

That and the fact that they could master interstellar travel but couldn't figure out how to operate a door handle. ;D God I hated that movie, probably because I was all hyped up to see it with everyone telling me how good it was. I was severely disappointed.

[4real]

karisma888 said:

millie12678 said:

I agree with Kill Bill vol 2

but i was highly disappointed in the way the entire matrix revolutions ended....actually the whole movie was the ending to the trilogy and it just let me down

the village..disappointing
signs..OH yeah..water kills aliens..woo
war of the worlds..i like the original broadcast but come on..germs kill highly technical and efficient creatures from outer space..NO way

i just got finished watching Good night and Good luck- great movie but i would have liked to see how Murrow took down tv itself cuz i was NOT alive in 1950's

WHA? Murrow didn't take down TV - he took down Joseph McCarthy.

I've long voiced my displeasure of the ending of "Seven".

Again, i have to ask why? That ending is possibly the greatest ever.

Unless you mean

*** SPOILER ****

Brad Pitt being taken into a police car and Morgan Freeman quoting Hemingway(?) ?

[Johnny Danger (Godz)]

nottombosley said:

Vampires vs. Zombies

Those who have seen it (which on this board probably means - me) shall never forget it.

I saw it, but it was too horrible for me to remember the details.

[REDUNBECK~!]

2001: a Space Odyssey has a horrendous ending. The guy travels through time and space, and his reward? He gets turned into a giant fetus.

f*** Stanley Kubrick and f*** Arthur Clarke. Learn to write a comprehensible ending, f***wits.

[jdm24]

Space Cowboys, while not a great film, had an incredibly stupid ending.

Snakes on a Plane had an odd ending as well, but I guess it was fitting, given the nature of the movie.

[Doctor Tull-eus S. Venture]

4real said:

Again, i have to ask why? That ending is possibly the greatest ever.

Unless you mean

*** SPOILER ****

Brad Pitt being taken into a police car and Morgan Freeman quoting Hemingway(?) ?

EDIT: This is somewhere on the special edition DVD as an Easter egg, but I've forgotten where you find it at.

The alternate ending that was cut out seemed more fitting to me, even though I liked how Seven ended.

Somerset shoots John Doe, then he says to a shocked Mills, "I'm retiring"

[amsiraK]

4real said:

karisma888 said:

WHA? Murrow didn't take down TV - he took down Joseph McCarthy.

I've long voiced my displeasure of the ending of "Seven".

Again, i have to ask why? That ending is possibly the greatest ever.

Unless you mean

*** SPOILER ****

Brad Pitt being taken into a police car and Morgan Freeman quoting Hemingway(?) ?

I was expecting better. If they were going to have someone commit "envy", I thought they needed to actually have someone who was in a position to envy Brad Pitt's character, not just some guy who made a blip appearance earlier.

The end SCENE I didn't have a problem with, b/c as it was, it was HELLA startling. As an end scene, it was fantastic. But the ending premise kinda pissed me off.

Just my taste. I'd have preferred a little more foreshadowing before the payoff.

[jdm24]

karisma888 said:

4real said:

Again, i have to ask why? That ending is possibly the greatest ever.

Unless you mean

*** SPOILER ****

Brad Pitt being taken into a police car and Morgan Freeman quoting Hemingway(?) ?

I was expecting better. If they were going to have someone commit "envy", I thought they needed to actually have someone who was in a position to envy Brad Pitt's character, not just some guy who made a blip appearance earlier.

The end SCENE I didn't have a problem with, b/c as it was, it was HELLA startling. As an end scene, it was fantastic. But the ending premise kinda pissed me off.

Just my taste. I'd have preferred a little more foreshadowing before the payoff.

That's exactly what I liked about it. You had no idea who he was until the last part of the movie, and when he shows up it's quite startling. It made it even creepier that someone such as John Doe was guilty of envy without Mills even knowing about him. It also set up wrath quite nicely.

[amsiraK]

I just felt like it got pulled out of nowhere.

LOL - I'm usually VERY alone in my opinion of this.

[bigHEADinc]

I saw a few posters said Saw and, while not bad, it's most definitely cheesy... Saw 2 had a better ending...

And somebody else mentioned the Butterfly Effect's ending for the Director's Cut.

SPOILERZ!!!111!11
I actually loved this ending more. It was a bit more of a mindf*** that he actually went back to when he was still a baby in his mother's womb and choked himself out with the embilical cord, saving everybody a life of misery.

Here are a few of my gripes...

Freddy vs. Jason
Finally, we get the fight of a lifetime after a so-so to good movie (good being whenever either of the title characters are on-screen, bad when they're not). And who lives? Apparently both of them. If you watch the extra stuff on the DVDs, they show some sketches of another alternate ending that they had played around with. After the explosion that knocked both men into the water, the water opens up and a huge hand reaches up to grab them and pulls them under. Cut to the next shot, both men are squaring off again, but the audience is filled with demons, and Satan is sitting on his throne enjoying their fight for eternity in hell. I remember also reading about the possiblity of Satan being the Hellraiser instead, setting up for a sequel, but obviously that didn't happen either.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The ending just kinda flattened me out. I loved the movie, but the ending hurt me. I really don't know how to explain it further.

Constantine
I loved this movie, I really did, but I hated the fact that they turned him from a completely cynical a**hole to a less cynical a**hole who uses Nicorette.

The Return of Superman
Ughhh... I wish they would've just teased the fact that he had a kid and had it hidden away from him instead of him just going directly to the kid. So stupidly sappy. They could've at least drawn it out into the sequel (Which, I fear, will become Superman & Superman Jr.).

['Smart' Mark Poindexter]

I loved the end of Saw,one of the best twist endings ever.

Personally I hated the end of Superman Returns. I mean WTF!?!

[Dr. T is an alien]

Of the movies listed:

Signs: I liked it. I liked it enough to buy it. While the whole "water weakness" thing was a little wierd, it was the vibe of the ending that was supposed to be taken home.

War of the Worlds: The only real complaint is that Robbie should be dead. No questions asked. To those who complain about disease killing the aliens, bacteria are badass. Because of their high mutation rates and their rapid reproduction rates, they are very dangerous. Viruses are even worse.

Seven: This movie has one of my five favorite endings for a movie (Seven, Fight Club, Fallen, Shawshank Redemption, and Star Trek II [Spock should have stayed dead]).

Matrix:Revolutions : It's ending pretty well fit in well with most of the rest of the movie: It sucked the big one.

How about ST:TMP? It had a few cool visuals, but like most of the movie the ending really sucked. Same with ST 5, which had the additional problem for serious geeks that it threw the laws of Federation travel off.

How about the Penguin funeral in Batman Returns? (or anything from that movie that didn't involve Michelle Pfeiffer in a leather suit, for that matter?)




How about the fact that Jar Jar Binks never got killed off, but both Jango and Boba Fett were?

[Doctor Tull-eus S. Venture]

drtompki said:

How about the fact that Jar Jar Binks never got killed off, but both Jango and Boba Fett were?

That's because Jar Jar ended up being the most badass character of all time.

Because if it weren't for his bumbling antics, he would have never gotten thrown out of his home, he would have never met Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, he would have never gotten wrapped up in the Gungan movement to save Naboo, and he would have never gotten elected as Senator to the Republic, which in turn would have prevented him from making the CRUCIAL vote in Padme's absence to grant Palpatine emergency powers, effectively handing him TOTAL control of the Republic and the means to plunge the galaxy into darkness.

On second thought, that's just another reason why he should be Chimera Plexed onto a bed of razors over and over again.

['Smart' Mark Poindexter]

You see Episode III should have ended with Vader killing Binks. In fact now that I think about III has the worst ending ever. They took Vader and turned him a crybaby with a telekinetic temper tantrum.

[Dr. T is an alien]

tull said:

drtompki said:

How about the fact that Jar Jar Binks never got killed off, but both Jango and Boba Fett were?

That's because Jar Jar ended up being the most badass character of all time.

Because if it weren't for his bumbling antics, he would have never gotten thrown out of his home, he would have never met Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, he would have never gotten wrapped up in the Gungan movement to save Naboo, and he would have never gotten elected as Senator to the Republic, which in turn would have prevented him from making the CRUCIAL vote in Padme's absence to grant Palpatine emergency powers, effectively handing him TOTAL control of the Republic and the means to plunge the galaxy into darkness.

On second thought, that's just another reason why he should be Chimera Plexed onto a bed of razors over and over again.

I hate to say this, but I figure everyone knows that I am a geek anyways, so....

Jar Jar was a Representative, not a Senator. I think his influence was similar to that of Amidala's (as far as galactic politics go) in Ep I. They could make motions for the Senate to consider (Padme called for a vote of no confidence in Zod (I mean, Chancellor Valorum) and Jar Jar called for the vote to grant emergency powers to Palpatine.)