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Worst movie ending you have ever seen?

  • 17-08-2009 12:03am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭karlog


    I thought the ending to War of the worlds was a bit of a joke. That film was great up until the ending:(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    Lord of the Rings. Why can't you feckin end it long before they even start jumping on the bed? Let alone 20 mins later ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 972 ✭✭✭MultiUmm


    I Am Legend. What cack.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Probably Planet of the Apes (the remake by Tim Burton).
    I mean
    what the heck? Aperham Lincon? Ef off!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    MultiUmm wrote: »
    I Am Legend. What cack.

    But it was from start to finish :/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 770 ✭✭✭Dublindude69


    No Country For Old Men. It didn't even have an ending.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭indough


    karlog wrote: »
    I thought the ending to War of the worlds was a bit of a joke. That film was great up until the ending:(

    given the source material i dont think you could expect a much different ending


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭karlog


    indough wrote: »
    given the source material i dont think you could expect a much different ending

    Of course there could of been different ending, even with the same source material. The ending to war of the worlds was way too abrupt.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭indough


    karlog wrote: »
    Of course there could of been different ending, even with the same source material. The ending to war of the worlds was way too abrupt.

    but the ending is an abrupt anti-climax in the source material

    there was never going to be an america saves the world independence day style ending, it would have gone against the whole point of the story


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Maybe its the romantic in me but,

    V for Vendetta =
    V dies
    Michael Collins =
    Michael Collins dies
    Leon =
    Leon Dies
    Braveheart =
    Willaim Wallace is hung, drawn and quartered - and then dies
    Hamlet =
    Everyone dies


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭pwd


    karlog wrote: »
    I thought the ending to War of the worlds was a bit of a joke. That film was great up until the ending:(
    I thought "war of the worlds" when I saw the thread title, before opening it.
    I agree!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭pwd


    pwd wrote: »
    I thought "war of the worlds" when I saw the thread title, before opening it.
    I agree!
    animal farm also. (animated)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭KerranJast


    pwd wrote: »
    I thought "war of the worlds" when I saw the thread title, before opening it.
    I agree!
    That was the way the ending is ment to be. The film is meant to hammer home the failure of humanity to deal with the invaders and the fact it was something as simple as bacteria that finished them off not nukes or guns or LAZORs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭pwd


    the reincarnation of the annoying teenage son was what p!ssed me off not the bacteria thing


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    syklops wrote: »
    Maybe its the romantic in me but,

    V for Vendetta =
    V dies
    Michael Collins =
    Michael Collins dies
    Leon =
    Leon Dies
    Braveheart =
    Willaim Wallace is hung, drawn and quartered - and then dies
    Hamlet =
    Everyone dies

    Spoiler your post man, there are people on here who may not have seen the films and you just ruined the films for them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭karlog


    indough wrote: »
    but the ending is an abrupt anti-climax in the source material

    there was never going to be an america saves the world independence day style ending, it would have gone against the whole point of the story

    I know that the point i'm trying to make is this.

    Tom cruise blows up the tripod with a grenade. Next scene shows tripods crashing as aliens start dying from earth microorganisms. END.

    They could of at least spread it out a bit more. They obviously didn't have enough money in the budget for it i guess.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    No Country For Old Men. It didn't even have an ending.

    ROFL!!

    Seriousl......??? :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,024 ✭✭✭JokerD


    Probably no one had ever even seen this but I remember I was told to watch it when I was young, 'The Incredible Shrinking Man'. Can't say what disapointed me as its a spoiler. Weird choice one I know:D, I'm sure theres more but this came to mind straight away.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭indough


    i know what your saying, but the original story is all build up with no real pay off, its not really much different to the book in that regard imo, and although i think personally it was a pretty terrible movie i dont see how they could have made shown the ending much different

    its for the same reason i refrained from mentioning 'no country for old men' in here, as they both lack a satisfying ending but they are not really supposed to have one


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Spoilers people, use them.
    FearDark wrote: »
    ROFL!!

    Seriousl......??? :eek:

    Ignore him, he's a troll.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭indough


    the ending in the remake of 'the fly' wasnt a patch on the originals, imo, as that was some of the funniest stuff id ever seen (unintentionally of course)


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    Spoilers people, use them.



    Ignore him, he's a troll.

    Troll, how?

    As I remember
    the "baddie" ended up with the money, which is exactly what the movie was about, remember he crashed the car and paid the kid a one hundred dollar bill to borrow his jumper because he was covered in blood...

    Hence an ending. A clever ending, which thickos wouldnt get!

    Now jog on...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    FearDark wrote: »
    As I remember
    the "baddie" ended up with the money, which is exactly what the movie was about, remember he crashed the car and paid the kid a one hundred dollar bill to borrow his jumper because he was covered in blood...

    Hence an ending. A clever ending, which thickos wouldnt get!

    That wasn't the ending though.
    The film ended with Tommy Lee Jones's character Ed Tom Bell coming full circle, he starts the film telling us how he doesn't understand the world any more, about the violence that shocked him, and throughout the film he's always lagging behind. He says he can protect Llewellyn Moss and Carla Jean, but he can't. It's his story, it starts with him and it ends with him. He's the old man the title refers to.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5YXZ9RtOms

    If not that, Shawshank redemption.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭karlog


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5YXZ9RtOms

    If not that, Shawshank redemption.


    What's wrong with shawshank redemption?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    I just didn't care for the ending. It insisted upon itself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,255 ✭✭✭anonymous_joe


    That wasn't the ending though.
    The film ended with Tommy Lee Jones's character Ed Tom Bell coming full circle, he starts the film telling us how he doesn't understand the world any more, about the violence that shocked him, and throughout the film he's always lagging behind. He says he can protect Llewellyn Moss and Carla Jean, but he can't. It's his story, it starts with him and it ends with him. He's the old man the title refers to.

    I think the problem is that it's a story within a story and the story within the story has a deeply unsatisfying ending in a childish, romantic way.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭chezzer


    I just watched Knowing ........

    what absolute TRIPE !!!!
    Aliens being Angels !!! you can see the wings , the kids at the end representing Adam + Eve in the garden of eden with the tree of life ? pseudo religious scientific CRAP ....

    Poor Nic Cage, he hasn't been in a good movie in a long while now ...


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    chezzer wrote: »
    I just watched Knowing ........

    what absolute TRIPE !!!!
    Aliens being Angels !!! you can see the wings , the kids at the end representing Adam + Eve in the garden of eden with the tree of life ? pseudo religious scientific CRAP ....

    Poor Nic Cage, he hasn't been in a good movie in a long while now ...
    Religion and science
    in the same sentence, first time for everything I suppose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭uncleoswald


    karlog wrote: »
    What's wrong with shawshank redemption?

    Well Darabont did tack on a re-shot happy ending at the studios request. It was meant to end with
    Morgan Freeman riding off on the bus wondering if he'll ever see his friend again
    .

    Darabant eventually came around to the less ambiguous ending and was happy to keep it. Me I probably would have preferred the original ending but I don't really mind it either way. Its probably why Darabont decided to go all out with the ending of The Mist.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    Random wrote: »
    Lord of the Rings. Why can't you feckin end it long before they even start jumping on the bed? Let alone 20 mins later ...

    Because the book has about 10 endings also


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    KerranJast wrote: »
    That was the way the ending is ment to be. The film is meant to hammer home the failure of humanity to deal with the invaders and the fact it was something as simple as bacteria that finished them off not nukes or guns or LAZORs.

    That ending might have cut it when Wells wrote the book but can you actually tell me that super advanced aliens, who have been "Watching" our world for millions of years, planted tech in the ground, would not have seen and mitigated for bacteria?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭mukki


    chezzer wrote: »
    I just watched Knowing ........

    what absolute TRIPE !!!!
    Aliens being Angels !!! you can see the wings , the kids at the end representing Adam + Eve in the garden of eden with the tree of life ? pseudo religious scientific CRAP ....

    Poor Nic Cage, he hasn't been in a good movie in a long while now ...


    now thats the film i thought of when i read the thread title

    i'd say they had 3/4's if the film made when the realised they needed an ending so made one up real quick


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,195 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Agreed..

    The ending of 'Knowing' was one of the worse in recent memory.

    The film up to that point was quite watchable.. but that ending was just woeful!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭Dubhthamlacht


    Genova - you're waiting the whole movie for something to happen and then at the end, it was like, "that was it?, **** sake!". I want the 90 minutes of my life back for having watched that pile of muck.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    I just didn't care for the ending. It insisted upon itself.

    Ah yes Family Guy...



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭indough


    That ending might have cut it when Wells wrote the book but can you actually tell me that super advanced aliens, who have been "Watching" our world for millions of years, planted tech in the ground, would not have seen and mitigated for bacteria?

    well they could hardly have changed the ending

    it was probably a poor choice of story to remake though, not that the story itself was poor but it couldnt work very well in the modern setting


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭indough


    Its probably why Darabont decided to go all out with the ending of The Mist.

    now that was an ending


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,081 ✭✭✭ziedth


    I thought the ending of garage was borderline criminal but imo tye ending to lord of the rings was awful, i know it follows the source material but regardless it was awful.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,255 ✭✭✭anonymous_joe


    ziedth wrote: »
    I thought the ending of garage was borderline criminal but imo tye ending to lord of the rings was awful, i know it follows the source material but regardless it was awful.

    The Lord of the Rings ending doesn't follow the source material at all, there's meant to be another adventure in between the endings, but they never did it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Signs

    Not a bad movie, but a terrible plot device with which to end the film.

    Actually very similar to War of the Worlds in its ridiculousness
    So they are X thousands/millions of years more advanced than we are, yet they fail to spot the obvious weakness of being sensitive to bacteria/water. Ya. right.

    And AI. I really wasn't crazy on it. Just entirely changed the pace of the movie, although it did a good job of maintaining the happy/melancholy conflict. If they had just ended it (
    under the water
    ) the final note of the film would still have been the same. Instead they dragged it on for twnety more minutes and tried to cram in some pseudo-scientific-theological-quantum physics makey-uppy stuff.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 160 ✭✭MetalDawg


    basquille wrote: »
    Agreed..

    The ending of 'Knowing' was one of the worse in recent memory.

    The film up to that point was quite watchable.. but that ending was just woeful!

    I totally agree I rented it recently and I thought the ending was appalling. Wtf? I'm not going to spoil it, but take it from me it was sh1te.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 745 ✭✭✭misswex


    Titanic - the whole film was pretty crap but the ending where she throws the necklace into the ocean - soooooooooo bad!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,905 ✭✭✭✭Handsome Bob


    Magnolia- to this day I still don't get why it
    rained frogs
    . It happened eh? That's nice to know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,081 ✭✭✭ziedth


    The Lord of the Rings ending doesn't follow the source material at all, there's meant to be another adventure in between the endings, but they never did it.

    Thank god, it was long enough :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,255 ✭✭✭anonymous_joe


    ziedth wrote: »
    Thank god, it was long enough :D

    It was definitely too long, they should've just ended it at the first ending, and not bothered with the
    whole Bilbo going over to the Wesht, to escape back to his traveller family... I'm getting this confused with something else I just know it.


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I can't believe that no one has mention what are perhaps the two worst endings in the history of cinema.

    The Invasion: It goes from
    Nicole Kidman in mortal danger to 6 months later where everything is back to normal and her husband who was not 2 minutes ago trying to kill her, now eating breakfast while reading the newspaper across the table from her.

    The Happening is somewhat similar and all the worse for it. The ending is such a cop out, they don't even try to explain it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    I agree with The Happening
    Oh no Europe we mustnt have learned our lesson...booo


    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
    1. Aliens 2. Noone wants Shia as Indy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,975 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    indough wrote: »
    there was never going to be an america saves the world independence day style ending, it would have gone against the whole point of the story

    War of the worlds is definitely the worst film ending ever...was really enjoying it up to the end...couldn't believe they made it so abrupt

    Maybe if they spent a few quid showing the devestation or something...anything would of been better than that ending!

    The blair witch project woulld be second...terrible film

    No country for old men would be up their too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,975 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    I just didn't care for the ending. It insisted upon itself.

    I was in the middle of a long rant as I think the reason it's the best film ever(well ever according to imdb.com anyway) IS solely because of the wonderful and inspiring ending but then I realised you mean that very last scene...the thing is hollywood been hollywood they'd never allow a film to end like the short story does...I think it would of been that bit more unforgettable if they ended it where the shory story ends though as you'd always be wondering if they ever met again...

    I forgot about knowing...rubbish ending but sure what part of the film wasn't rubbish!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 799 ✭✭✭Indie18


    I hate the end of all those horror films where in the end the hero of the story is sitting some place, after defeating the ghost/killer and then the ghost/killer comes out of nowhere and then a cut to black. So predictable.


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