Best film ending ever...

...WARNING, THIS THREAD WILL CERTAINLY CONTAIN SPOILERS

To give people a chance, maybe just post the film title, a clip and a brief note without actually giving away the ending?

Anyway, the Mist. A pretty decent horror that delivers one of the most downbeat and dark endings of all time, an ending that's like a punch...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwCnJ0QwK7s

BBDBB

Planet of the Apes

Canis Lupus

They nailed the ending of The Mist way better in the movie. I think even King said he preferred it.

jimmy blevins

La Haine

jimmii

Hard to top The Mist that really was a brutal finish! Brutal in a good way though.

The last scene of Don't Look Now elevated it from a series of dark vignettes that are hard to link into a real "oh NOW I get it...kind of". Memorable, if as troubling as the Mist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C-Y3oX5PyQ

bmwguy

I am going to go with E.T. Something about that final 20 or so minutes I think is just the best sequence in cinema history, absolute top class.

In fact I think I'll watch it today

Dave0301

The Usual Suspects...Kevin Spacey acts it out perfectly.

matchthis

Benjamin buttons

Cienciano

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. From the moment they discover the grave yard. Discovery, standoff, shootout and aftermath, nothing comes close imho

buried

Harakiri (1962) The last 30 minutes, the payoff is delicious. "Swordsmanship untested in battle is like the art of swimming on land"

SouthernBelle

Shutter Island
The Usual Suspects

The_Valeyard

Arlington Road

Starscream25

Star Wars the empire strikes back

jester77

What's in the box?

Ben Gadot

The ending of Gladiator is most the most powerful cinematic moment I've experienced.

I will see you again....but not yet....not yet.

captbarnacles

Spoorloos

Ted111

The Wild Bunch

Ulysses Gaze

Mad Max 2

Apart from the phenomenal chase through the desert, the last scene where the camera pans away from Max down the road as the narrator speaks and the music swells, is epic.

Boom_Bap

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xxyyzz

Deleted User wrote: »

...WARNING, THIS THREAD WILL CERTAINLY CONTAIN SPOILERS

To give people a chance, maybe just post the film title, a clip and a brief note without actually giving away the ending?

Anyway, the Mist. A pretty decent horror that delivers one of the most downbeat and dark endings of all time, an ending that's like a punch...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwCnJ0QwK7s

I saw the title of the thread and said I'd mention the mist as surely nobody would mention it

faceman

Folks as its the Film forum please give reasons for your choices rather than posting just the film titles. Thanks.

faceman

I agree re The Mist. The original Wicker Man's ending also packs a punch. I saw that movie as a teenager and my mind was blown. After all that effort as a viewer watching what the cop went through for it all to be for nothing.

Means Of Escape

Last 10 minutes of
Aguirre Wrath of God -Werner Herzog

Cinematic masterpiece

Means Of Escape

Means Of Escape wrote: »

Last 10 minutes of
Aguirre Wrath of God -Werner Herzog

Cinematic masterpiece

Oh of course. It is majestic and just so...perfectly in keeping with the themes of the film. He is finally in charge of his empire... Watched it again recently, it is a masterpiece, right down to him teetering around on the logs as the last of his sanity is also on the edge.

Ironman76

Last ten mins of Scent of a Woman. . . Hoo Haaaa!

faceman

faceman wrote: »

I agree re The Mist. The original Wicker Man's ending also packs a punch. I saw that movie as a teenager and my mind was blown. After all that effort as a viewer watching what the cop went through for it all to be for nothing.

A similarly memorable ending out of the leftfield...no one saw this coming

Warning...NSFW...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSrmSAzCwsA

philstar

it has to be this....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ0j5yGz7Bs

the way he breaks the 4th wall @1.34, pure genius!... and Sid Viscous singing My Way over the closing credits, inspired!

barney shamrock

Picture a small town cinema in Ireland in 1979. Jason jumping out of the lake at the end of 'Friday The 13th'. People were still screaming a week later.

GrumpyMe

As a counter to all the gritty shock horror...

"As good as it gets"

Couldn't get much better than ending up with Helen Hunt!:D

Blackhorse Slim

A Boy and his Dog. 70s post-apocalypse sci fi starring a very young Don Johnson. Decent if unspectacular movie, elevated by an unforgettable ending. Full movie seems to be available on YouTube, here's a spoiler- free fan made trailer:
https://youtu.be/cAPLJRKyJLk

Wedwood

The end of Godfather Part II.

Al Pacino's character orders his brother Fredo's murder and in doing so becomes the thing he didnt want - he becomes his father the gangster.

frag420

Il prob get shot for saying this but I thought the ending to The Blair Witch was awesome, made the movie for me!

At the time I was living in the states and the marketing campaign for this movie was brilliant, they had missing person posters all over the place, many people bought the whole found footage idea...added a certain reality to the film.

Kerrydude1981

I love the way Gran Torino ended, Thao gets the car and the pissed off heads on Walts family

Liam McPoyle

Martyrs for me was amazing.

The final act, the slow build up to it, the abuse and degradation getting harder and harder to watch, the closing scene with the mademoiselle, we dont get any "pay off", the ambiguity of it all and essentially telling us that some things are better off not being known. Everything about it is just perfect.

SEPT 23 1989

Godfather 3

Cunning Stunt

Primal Fear. Richard Gere and Edward Norton. Great ending!

Big Fish

When the son and dad leave the hospital and head down to the river. And all the characters are there to send him off

It was a "I have something in my eye" moment

spurious

Bonnie and Clyde. That whole last shooting scene. hypnotic, beautifully shot. Clyde's broken glasses, his shirt out, the apple, the way we knew once they stopped for the oul' lad, it was not going to end well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrmUpso_xT8

unjedilike

Dead man's shoes. I was so gripped and in the moment that I never saw it coming

Cosmo K

The Usual Suspects

Usernemises

The Departed

The way all the main characters meet their demise makes for an excellent end.

learn_more

I think The Silence of the Lambs had a great ending in that the movie was so good throughout the end could have been an anti-climax but no.

Also Aliens had a very good ending : ) Although the end was something of a copy of Alien the original it was better executed and probably the best scene of the movie. I recall a few people leaving the cinema before the final scene cause they though it was over ! Even now when you see the animatroics pre cgi it still looks convincing.

faceman

learn_more wrote: »

I think The Silence of the Lambs had a great ending in that the movie was so good throughout the end could have been an anti-climax but no.

Also Aliens had a very good ending : ) Although the end was something of a copy of Alien the original it was better executed and probably the best scene of the movie. I recall a few people leaving the cinema before the final scene cause they though it was over ! Even now when you see the animatroics pre cgi it still looks convincing.

No word of a lie, as I read this I've just been sitting chatting with Al Matthews. Aka. Apone from Aliens. He's 73 now.

Ulysses Gaze

Requiem for a Dream

Alonso77

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Such a bleak ending that feels like a kick in the stomach. Very prescient to the social issues in the States at the time.

Zaph

It doesn't have the big dramatic ending or twist that other films do, but it's the perfect ending to the greatest comedy film ever made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWS2NVX6VP0

Tony EH

Alonso77 beat me to it. :mad:




So 'Rec' (the original) gets a vote from me. That entire end sequence in the topmost apartment is extremely tense, with patient zero wandering around in the dark and illuminated only by the the main characters camera night vis. Shudder. It's unfortunate that the next films in the series were rubbish.

'The Thing'. Carpenter's masterpiece is much closer to the original novel than the 1955 'The Thing From Another World' and remains one of the greatest horror films of all time. However, it goes out, not with a bang (although that does happen), but with the quietest of whimpers and it still remains utterly jaw dropping. Is one of them the thing? Will they die? Is the thing dead? Will they be rescued? FFS JOHN!!!!

'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'. In the 1978 version, Philip Kaufman delivers one of those most rarest of Hollywood items. A remake that tops the original (technically, John Carpenter's 'The Thing' {mentioned above} wasn't a remake). Poor old Veronica Cartwright survives the whole ordeal, a character that the viewer thinks won't survive five minutes and is devastated when the ultimate reveal is delivered.

Tony EH

Canis Lupus wrote: »

They nailed the ending of The Mist way better in the movie. I think even King said he preferred it.

In some ways I prefer the ending of King's short story, although the film ending is great too.

In King's story, they drive off into the mist. There's no closure, because it looks like that's the way things are going to stay from now on. That ending was bleak, even if it ended with the word "hope", which I took more in the Nietzsche way than anything else.

Walter E GO

faceman wrote: »

No word of a lie, as I read this I've just been sitting chatting with Al Matthews. Aka. Apone from Aliens. He's 73 now.

Somebodies out in La Zenia in Spain.

Walter E GO

Trainspotting. The music just suits the mood and time perfectly as Renton screwed his mates and chose life.