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| WORST ENDING TO AN OTHERWISE GOOD MOVIE! |
| Matt Damon wears old man makeup and blubbers at Arlington, in "Saving Private Ryan." |
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4% |
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| All the Ewoks sing and the Jedi ghosts wave bye-bye, in "Return of the Jedi." |
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30% |
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| Yay, Dekkard isn't really a replicant and his girlfriend isn't about to die after all! Yaaay. The studio version of 'Blade Runner.' |
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| The hobbits take waaaaaaay too long to shut up in "the Return of the King." |
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30% |
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| Neo goes all Jesusy at the end of "The Matrix: Revolutions." Oh, wait, no, that whole movie sucked. |
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21% |
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| The birds mellow out (unlike in the book, where they're really going to kill everybody) in Hitchock's "the Birds." |
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4% |
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| Tom Hanks gets off the rock, but takes a full forty minutes to realize he should've married Wilson, in 'Castaway.' |
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8% |
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swetepete
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg
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 Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:49 pm Post subject: WORST MOVIE ENDINGS EVER!! |
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| I'm only including movies that were otherwise good, but really shat the bed at the end. |
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Tarmangani
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: the Calm
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Fat cop redeems himself and exorcises ghosts from his past by shooting the never die baddie in "Die Hard". What cheese! |
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Sincinnatislink
Joined: 30 Jan 2007
Location: Top secret.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| The Passion of Christ. |
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venus
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: Near Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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Apocalypto.
The movie has to me, all the makings of a cult classic. I can't believe I said that about a Mel Movie, but hey it does...
.... right up until the end where he tries to give it 'bigger picture' meaning by having the shot of the European vessels. Until then it was great, gruesome, grizzly and involving (my Jonathan Ross impression)
And that shot where he has the close up of our main character's eyes and does that swivel shot to show his pov, you lose points there for trying way to hard Mel... that's Sergio's shot, leave it alone...
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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Location: working undercover for the Man
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Pirates 2: Dead Man's Chest. wtf? suddenly everyone loves Jack and will go to the ends of the earth to get him back? and the secret to the East India Trading Company is a body part? |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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Unbreakable.
The ending of this film was so rushed, it turned a decent film into an Unwatchable one. |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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Never-ending Story
The title suggested it wasn't supposed to have one! I felt lied to.  |
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Paji eh Wong
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Fight. Club. |
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venus
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: Near Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Paji eh Wong wrote: |
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Yeah the cheesiness of the ending just didn't gel with what was otherwise a fine, dark, cynical, funny movie... |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Paji eh Wong wrote: |
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Thirded.
The examples in the poll aren't as appropriate because the endings actually fit with the movies. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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Don't forget the studio ending of Brazil. The main character doesn't wake up in a torture chamber. The studio cut simply ends with them escaping to the country side. I think it's known as the Sheinman edit or something. Terry Gilliam's contract gave him the director's cut. The movie in theaters was the movie he wanted. The studio head Sheinman or something didn't like the non-happy ending. He ordered Gilliam to make the cut. Gilliam pulled out his contract. The studio head was 100% furious. But when the movie came out on VHS and TV, the studio cut was shown. The studio head noted the contract only gave him director's cut for the theatrical release and said nothing about VHS/TV. VHS was still a very new market.
Directors never made that mistake again.
Jacob's Ladder with Tim Robbins was a lame ending. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:50 am Post subject: |
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| I really wanted to De Niro`s character to get away at the end of "Heat", would have been a less traditional/morality-tale kind of thing... |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:08 am Post subject: |
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I thought it was a fine ending. Remember, De Niro's character messed up his own getaway because he just had to get revenge.
You can surely see the irony in that. De Niro spouting off "Don't get involved in anything you can't drop in 30 seconds." And here he is; can't pass up a chance to get back at someone. Can't drop that one.
Anyway, it's hard to find any film, novel, play, etc that isn't at least a tiny bit moralizing. |
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