Posted on 03/28/2017 9:24:33 AM PDT by EveningStar
There's nothing quite as frustrating as a bad movie ending. Failure to stick that landing in the final act can totally ruin an otherwise great film, or give us one more reason to hate one that was already a dud. Here's a look at some of the most annoying movie endings in recent memory. And it should go without saying, but spoilers ahead…
The Matrix Revolutions | 0:23
X-Men: The Last Stand | 0:59
Signs | 1:44
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | 2:43
Now You See Me | 3:27
I Am Legend | 4:15
Man of Steel | 5:14
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 6:06
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I also liked the follow-on, Savage Sam, which I also saw in the theater in 1963, but I preferred the book, which I read a couple years later. The book is highly politically incorrect for this day and age.
My favorite of Fred Gipson's dog books is Hound Dog Man (New York: Harper, 1947), which, unfortunately, is out of print and will not likely reissued unless changes are made to make it more politically correct.
The problem with Million Dollar Baby is that it was marketed as something completely different.
Everyone was saying how it was like a new Rocky movie, but with a female lead.
Then there’s the depressing descent into euthanasia. It was a giant bait-and-switch.
Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds, Hateful Eight, basically any Tarantino movie since “Pulp Fiction” or “Jackie Brown” has a crap ending.
The two of them are headed to see "Titanic". I said, "Man, don't let me give the ending away, but the boat sinks. Har Har."
She was mad. Legitimately angry at me for telling her how it ended.
Needless to say, buddy was dating her for assets other than her brains. She wasn't on the scene for very long.
Exactly... that was who the dude was... he just killed for whatever reason HE thought was right or whatever his “code” was... he said he was going to kill the wife, and he did.
The ending of “Das Boot” always ticked me off. The real U-96 made it all the way to 1945 (though, as per the movie, it was bombed while in port), and the captain, exec and chief engineer all survived the war.
I think they could have made a much more powerful (and not hackneyed) ending with the war correspondent asking the captain “when does all this end”, and the captain’s tersely answering “when one day we don’t come back” and walking away.
She should have just watched this....
Titanic - In Five Seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuSdU8tbcHY
“Also Life of Pi, it ends with him saying he pretty much made the events of last two hours of the movie up”
Perhaps, but if you didn’t suspect by the time of the ship sinking scene that it was a fantasy, you simply don’t have a skeptical mind.
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN - better ending would have been to shut down the Washington Post
It's possible
Think the Japanese in WWII. One reason the Americans beat them is because we prepared for and practiced damage control while they didn't. Damage Control to them was a foreign and dishonorable concept. Likewise the German's never conceived their enigma codes could and were being broken.
The same could happen with an alien civilization, they just might never have encountered a computer virus and thus couldn't conceive of one which is why they were so vulnerable.
The dumb parts of ID4 is if you could make a virus, why just take out shields, disable weapons and propulsion also. Plus why attack with on F-15s, where were the B-52s, A10s, B1, F-16s, cruise missiles, etc?
I pissed off a friend growing up by “spoiling” the ending to King Kong when the remake came out.
He was legitimately angry despite it being an 80 years old movie that has been referenced in pop culture a million times.
I remember saying to him, “What do you think was going to happen? He’s gonna climb back down the Empire State Building?”
I thought it was great, especially when Leo DiCaprio became a popsicle, every guy cheered.
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Agreed. The last time I watched it, I was also hoping someone would pick up Rose and throw her over the side of the boat. What an obnoxious twit her character is... Leo’s character was better off drowned.
lol, Independence Day was an entertaining, yet unbelievably stupid, movie.
Arrival
Prometheus
LMAO.
Yes, it wasn’t a bad ending, just an unsatisfying ending for those who are hoping for a “Hollywood ending”.
Chigurh foreshadows the ending constantly throughout the movie with his coin-flipping monologues and dialogues to both Brolin and Harrelson’s characters so it isn’t like the audience can claim they weren’t being warned. Even Brolin’s wife and mother-in-law foreshadow the unhappy ending that is coming. Audiences just weren’t paying attention or didn’t want to believe it.
You win the internet today.
“GWTW. It made sense but I didn’t like it. :(”
“Real Story” here:
This is the best on-line telling I could find quickly.
Yeah, but she had some nice boobies.
Well, she took her friend with her — a glorified murder/suicide. Just because her life was a mess, didn’t mean her friend’s was.
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