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The Mist and Open Water. Yeah, that ending for The Mist was terrible. There's really nothing like the feeling of getting to the end of a movie you're otherwise liking and being like, "What? I sit through this thing and that's how they end it?" The Call was another one like that. Not a fantastic film, but I thought it was a competently made and entertaining little action-thriller, but the final scene (literally, the last minute or so of the movie) was very disappointing. Not to mention a complete betrayal of the characters you just spent ninety minutes with. I love that ending, so did by all reports the guy whose story the film was based on , STEPHEN KING. It's about as pitch black and dark as you can get, a very bad choice was made, but given the available facts a UNDERSTANDABLE ONE, what follow is powerful and there is one there we can all agree on. NO ONE FORGETS THE ENDING OF THIS FILM. Ford A. Thaxton
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The Abyss I haven't seen it again since its original release, but I remember loving the film until the last few minutes.
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Get carter. I wanted him to stay alive and kill more northerners!! Thats a joke by the way, make that coffee to go.
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Jul 18, 2013 - 1:56 PM
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MusicMaker
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The Grand Champion Worst Ending: WAR OF THE WORLDS (Spielberg) I was really into the movie, but the ending was just... awful. Just awful. I snorted and laughed. Honorable Mentions: INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL Wow. Just horrid. BUT- this one is not the grand champion of horrible endings, because the whole thing was pretty bad. It's not just the ending that does this one in. THE PARTY* Peter Sellers is the funniest man alive for an hour, and then the movie has one of the worst final 30 minutes of all time. The whole thing just gets stupid and random. To be fair, though, I'm not sure how one is supposed to properly "end" comedies like this. Which leads to.... MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL* Wha...? This ending is just horrible. But, as with THE PARTY, I'm not sure how it *should* have ended. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY I am a smart, well-educated, reasonably well-cultured man. I am a cinema and storytelling buff. I enjoy science fiction, and I enjoy philosophy and big questions. I appreciate nuance, ambiguity, abstraction, and poetry. But to this day, this ending frustrates me to no end. BACK TO THE FUTURE: PART II When I saw this in theaters as a kid, followed by the teaser for Part III, the entire audience gave a major groan and booed. We felt completely ripped off (remember that this was all pre-internet, and none of us knew that the 2nd installment would end on such a cliffhanger, or that there was even a Part III). It didn't even leave us with some major discoveries to chew on, as at least was the case with EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. *Bonus feature - How to properly end a comedy: HOT FUZZ I've always felt this comedy did an incredible job with the ending. Comedies often go off the rails by trying to get bigger, zanier, crazier, and then ending in some sort of screwball "finale" that I end up finding just stupid. Either that, or everything just resolves unexpectedly in a stupid way out of nowhere. HOT FUZZ avoided this tendency and still managed to build to a big finish by completely changing the *type* of parody/comedy that they were doing. A whole genre shift- but still with parody in mind. As a result, it was a complete change of gears that got me interested all over in a new way for the last act of the film. Well done! And for what it's worth, the ending of THE ABYSS has never bothered me like it seems to bother everyone else. I don't love it or hate it, but it doesn't ruin the movie at all for me. I love this movie. In my opinion, it is James Cameron's best.
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Jul 18, 2013 - 2:17 PM
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Michael24
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WAR OF THE WORLDS (Spielberg) I was really into the movie, but the ending was just... awful. Just awful. I snorted and laughed. To be fair, that is the actual ending to the story and not something exclusive to the Spielberg version. I was actually surprised they stuck with it, as I figured audiences today would find it too lackluster and anti-climactic. I liked that they kept it, though, and didn't force a cliched epic scale military showdown with the aliens or anything like that. EDIT: Oops. If you were talking about the son turning up alive at the end, yeah, that was a sour moment. About all these bleak endings, though, such as The Mist, I go to movies to be entertained and forget about my troubles. I have enough uncertainty and depressing crap to deal with already, so the last thing I want to see when I'm expecting entertainment is a movie that leaves me feeling down and in the dumps. That's why World War Z was such a much welcome breath of fresh air. While not everything was back to normal, it ended on a really positive, uplifting note that had me feeling good as I left the theater, and my brother and I had a very fun, spirited conversation during the car ride home. We were like, "Now that's how you end a movie."
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