Worst movie endings

[Mizzougrad96]

Seven

Gwyneth Paltrow getting killed never sat well with me. "Awwww whaaaat's in the booooooxxxxxx?"

That would have made my best list. I wish more movies had an "Oh My God!" moment.

Same here. When he gets out of the cab covered in blood.....that is the most intense last 20 minutes of a movie I can recall.

I remember as Pitt shot Spacey, one of my buddies who was with me at the movie whispered "Wrath" under his breath as he was shaking his head in disbelief.

I also remember the Morgan Freeman quote that ended the movie...

"Ernest Hemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part."

 

[shockey]

I also remember the Morgan Freeman quote that ended the movie...

"Ernest Hemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part."

that's funny, 'cause i really consider the last line being, 'whatever he needs' from freeman as pitt is driven off in the back seat of a squad car. i'm not big on voiceover endings.

 

[DanOregon]

Michael Bay owns this category:
Agent Paxton: Congratulations, Dr. Goodspeed. You did it.
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed: Thank you, sir.
Agent Paxton: You know, for a while there, I didn't think you were going to make it. Well done, son. So where's Mason?
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed: Vaporized. Blown out to sea.
Agent Paxton: Blown out to sea, huh?
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed: Yeah.
Agent Paxton: [smiles] Poor biscuit."

"Miss Stamper? Colonel Willie Sharp, United States Airforce, ma'am. Requesting permission to shake the hand of the daughter of the bravest man I've ever met. "

Rafe: Danny, you can't die. You can't die. You know why? 'Cause you're gonna be a father. You're gonna be a daddy. I wasn't supposed to tell you. You're gonna be a father.
Danny: No, you are.

 

[Care Bear]

Agree 100% with Chef on No Country for Old Men.

I immediately thought of that M. Night Shyamalongadingdong movie with Mark Wahlberg and the killer trees. That was just a stupid, awful ending. Acting was atrocious, too.

 

[DanOregon]

The Village was a bit of a letdown as well. I was interested until the twist - then I wasn't.

All of M. Night's movies would work just as well without a twist - his twists usually demolish the compelling relationships between characters built up over the previous 90 minutes and the viewer is just left with a "huh?!"

 

[PCLoadLetter]

The end of "Pay it Forward" made me want to throw things at the screen. It managed to be both patronizingly sugary and depressing as heck.

One of the worst cliched pieces of shirt of all-time.

That's the one where Haley Joel Osment died for your sins, right? Yeah, no thanks.

The worst is easy for me: "Falling Down" with Michael Douglas. For 3/4 of the movie he's an ordinary guy who snaps at all the indignities and assholes he deals with in everyday life, and he absolutely gets you rooting for him. Then at the end they say "well, he's had really bad personal problems and his marriage fell apart and he's mentally unstable, and he's just generally a horrible, dangerous man." Just incredibly chickenshirt filmmaking.

 

[brandonsneed]

For the life of me I can't remember the name of it, but it had Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg and it involved cops and mafia and such, and in the end basically everyone in the movie dies. It was the biggest cop-out ending I've ever seen. Like the writers couldn't figure out how to wrap it up when they go to the end, so they just said "F- it, let's just kill them all." Great movie up until about those final 10 minutes, when it becomes a POS movie.

Think you're thinking of The Departed, maybe. And yeah it was a total shock, everybody getting shot up, but I actually liked it. It was different. I dug it.

 

[brandonsneed]

Agree 100% with Chef on No Country for Old Men.

I immediately thought of that M. Night Shyamalongadingdong movie with Mark Wahlberg and the killer trees. That was just a stupid, awful ending. Acting was atrocious, too.

Yeah. Those were both amazingly bad.

 

[lantaur]

I can't think of a nominee, but just an FYI that American Graffitti used the "what happened to ..." before Animal House.

 

[Shoeless Joe]

i find too much of a jolt out of the film...

Seven

Gwyneth Paltrow getting killed never sat well with me. "Awwww whaaaat's in the booooooxxxxxx?"

That would have made my best list. I wish more movies had an "Oh My God!" moment.

well, i'd agree it's 'the worst' if by 'the worst' you mean most painful/disturbing/unforgettably upsetting... but certainly not 'the worst' in terms of 'bad.'

and whoever said 'million dollar baby' gets a big thumps up from me. the ending was just part of the reason i never got the big whoop over the film, which lands very high on my 'most overrated list,' which should be our next 'films' thread. i can already assure you that, much to my disagreement,' many folks 'round here will include 'field of dreams' in the discussion...



p.s. as for the 'where are they now?' ending , they only work when the cast is comprised of young characters. ... but they're not-so much 'the ending' for the film, more of an extra bone tossed during the credits. more recently replaced by 'outtakes,' which can be funny but is too much of a jolt back to reality, imho.

Yeah, I wasn't assigning "worst" on terms of bad movie ending, but the disturbing part.
I've actually only seen it once because it was disturbing to me. My wife was watching it not that long ago, and I just flatly told her "turn that shirt off, I don't want to see it."
I honestly don't know why it bothers me so much more than any other countless movies or even the nightly news, but it does.

 

[wedgewood]

One of the alternate endings to Clerks, Dante got held up and shot. Some here would probably cheer ...
Guess it would've saved me from having to sit through Clerks 2.

 

[slappy4428]

Rudy.
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