Best Movie Ending of All-Time?

[Boom_70]

The Longest Yard 1

Solid choice, Boomer. I assume you mean the original.

Yes - original with Burt Reynolds

 

[Beach_Bum]

I like the end of Glory, where they storm the fort and you think they're going to win until they run into the cannon ...

And I second the last scene from Pulp Fiction and the very underrated True Romance -- though the best scene in that movie is in the middle (Dennis Hopper).

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

Hot Fuzz

 

[Batman]

12 Monkees - Also very clever

Was that the original with Davy Jones, or the remake with Bruce Willis?

Second your mention of Rounders, though. On one level, you get the sense he hasn't learned his lesson. On another, you see a guy who was dying a slow death without the thing he truly loved -- gambling -- and went through heck to get his passion back.

 

[pressboxer]

Ratatouille

 

[Bubbler]

Some that haven't been mentioned ...

"Didn't See It Coming" Shock Value ...
On Her Majesties Secret Service
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (remake)
The Ring

The Original Maximum Violence Ending ...
The Wild Bunch

Cheeseball, Yet Poignant ...
Star Trek II

Iconic Film Noir
Kiss Me Deadly (the cut where Mickey Spillane doesn't get away)

David Lean Epic Division
Bridge Over The River Kwai ("Madness ... madness!")

Best Hitchcock Ending
Vertigo

Best Ending Featuring A Vengeful Transsexual Beheading The Coolest Male Prostitute Ever Put On Celluloid, Killing A Lesbian By Shoving A Gun In Her Mouth, And Murdering Nazi Martin Bormann By Stabbing Him To Death On A Beach
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls

 

[DemoChristian]

Best Ending Featuring A Vengeful Transsexual Beheading The Coolest Male Prostitute Ever Put On Celluloid, Killing A Lesbian By Shoving A Gun In Her Mouth, And Murdering Nazi Martin Bormann By Stabbing Him To Death On A Beach
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls

It's really just an honor to be nominated in that category.

 

[outofplace]

The Longest Yard 1

Solid choice, Boomer. I assume you mean the original.

Yes - original with Burt Reynolds

As I wrote when I brought it up before....."Game Ball"

 

[Songbird]

Lost in Translation but in a frustrating as heck sort of way because what the heck did Murray tell Scarlet?!

 

[KJIM]

Can't think of many note already listed, but I'll add:

Outbreak - great helicopter chicken scene with Hoffman and Sutherland on mics
It's a Wonderful Life - who doesn't tear up?
A League of Their Own - love the HoF wrapup

 

[Starman]

The Grapes of Wrath, although it should have ended with Tom Joad's speech, not Ma's cornball manifesto as the banjo symphony rattles out a jaunty rendition of "Red River Valley."

Guess feel-good finishes were pretty much mandatory in 1940. :

 

[SportsDude]

The look inside the incinerator at the end of Citizen Kane. (Question for fellow Welles fan Alma: didn't you think Scorsese was quoting the ending of The Third Man near the end of The Departed?)

And among all these journalists, does anyone want to wrestle with the philosophy that closes The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance?

"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."