Movies that were good until you saw the ending

[Latarian Milton]

perfect stranger tbh. the first time i saw that movie i thought halle berry was a good woman the whole film till the end when her sissy colleague revealed the truth.

[redzero]

Strongly agree with your take on Seven -there would have been no better ending. It added to the movie.

Strongly disagree about No Country however.
I realize they were trying to be poetic and ended the movie with his retelling the wistful dream-but I still thought it was more that the screenwriter wrote himself into a corner and took the lazy way out. Lazy writing IMHO.
Plus the fact that the first 90-95% of the movie was so well written--it was a big letdown.

You do know that No Country For Old Men was adapted from a book, right?

[Latarian Milton]

Supertroopers, great comedy til the end. Then it was just sad.

the modern comedies aren't quite different movies to you than chaplin's classics tbh.

[ynh]

Off the top of my head.. Pretty much any movie where the good guy wins when the villian is the more likeable character.

Otherwise.

Inception ... sorry this was just lazy
Signs.. could of been so good
Predator 2
I'd also have to agree with No Country for Old Men.

[ynh]

Oh and agreed with The Godfather also.

[koriwhat]

How about a series rather than movie.

Dexter, season 4. Downer of an ending.

east bound and down.... but at least season 2 is here now.

[silverblk mystix]

You do know that No Country For Old Men was adapted from a book, right?

It doesn't really matter.
Usually the book is better but a good screenwriter will find a way to translate it to the screen and if something isn't playing out well as a screenplay-then he could re-write a part to make it more powerful as a movie.

The fact that it was a book makes me think the screenwriter was actually lazier than I already thought he was because I thought the ending was weak.
Apparently a lot of critics and moviegoers liked the ending though.

[monosylab1k]

And, not to post it up, but in response to the thread's premise, the first movie that comes to mind is Species.

Now, let's be clear, this is not meant to suggest that any part of Species is high quality film making: it's not. The movie is completely cheesy, in fact. Hilariously so. But the first time I saw it, the theater lost power and we weren't able to watch the final 30 minutes. Up to that point, I found it thoroughly enjoyable for mindless summer popcorn entertainment. I went back a week later to watch it again, since the theater gave everyone rain check tickets, and again found the movie to be largely enjoyable right up until the part we'd missed the first time. The final half hour of that movie turns the whole thing from dopey fun to painfully bad.

All I remember about that movie was s. Lots of s. But I was 12 when it came out, so that's all I remember about anything.

[monosylab1k]

It doesn't really matter.
Usually the book is better but a good screenwriter will find a way to translate it to the screen and if something isn't playing out well as a screenplay-then he could re-write a part to make it more powerful as a movie.

The fact that it was a book makes me think the screenwriter was actually lazier than I already thought he was because I thought the ending was weak.
Apparently a lot of critics and moviegoers liked the ending though.

In other words, you didn't know it was adapted from a book and were talking out of your ass.

But maybe that was just the your forgot.

[desflood]

Because I've been on an '80's movie kick lately;

Silver Bullet.

Half decent werewolf flick right up to the end, but then... "I love you too, Marty." WTF? Sometimes cheese and gore go well together, but never, EVER like that.

[ididnotnothat]

Can't really say any ending ever ruined a movie for me.

[Drachen]

All I remember about that movie was s. Lots of s. But I was 12 when it came out, so that's all I remember about anything.

This is kinda how I felt about Hackers. It was PG-13, but it had s in it so that was my most memorable part.

[Girasuck]

Rat Race is a good one. That would be in my all-time Top 10 movie list if the ending was different. I can't stand Smashmouth.

[Fabbs]

I'd also have to agree with No Country for Old Men.

yep.

[JoeChalupa]

I wonder why movie producers stopped using "The End".

[DJ Mbenga]

didn't like inceptions ending. taxi drivers ending was cool when i thought it was all his imagination only to find out scorcesse said it was all legit and an attack on the media instead. that ending is weak.

[CuckingFunt]

didn't like inceptions ending. taxi drivers ending was cool when i thought it was all his imagination only to find out scorcesse said it was all legit and an attack on the media instead. that ending is weak.

Why would you have thought the ending of Taxi Driver took place all in Bickle's imagination? And why would that make it more satisfying?

[silverblk mystix]

In other words, you didn't know it was adapted from a book and were talking out of your ass.

But maybe that was just the your forgot.

yeah maybe...if you knew me you might say i often talk out my ass..

no shame in my game..

but it has been quite awhile since I saw that movie and i have forgotten alot of other , too

but the thread le does refer to movies that you saw and thought were good --until you saw the ending...

and that ending still sucks --to me.

Somehow, it gets YOU pretty butthurt that I wasn't in enchanted with No country...it just tears you a new one that I didn't walk out of the theatre whistling the andy griffith theme song through my a-hole and dancing like fred- in-astaire while smiling ear-to-ear and helping old in ladies crossing the street and shouting out loud...WHAT A GREAT IN' MOVIE---BUT---BUT---THAT ENDING---WHHOOOOOO--- --YOU NEVER SEEN AN ENDING TIL YOU SEE THAT ENDING!!!!!!!!

[z0sa]

if you knew me you might say i often talk out my ass..

I think most posters here realize that without "knowing you" too well. Not that we'd want to.

[MannyIsGod]

you might as well have just said "I don't know about movies". Both of those endings were terrific.

Gonna have to school more ignorant mfers about NCFOM

[MannyIsGod]

Saving Private Ryan had a terrible ending. But the absolute worst was War Of The Worlds. Spielberg had a run of really ty endings for a while there.

You can blame HG Wells of that ending.

[MannyIsGod]

You might as well tell the world you support rapists and criminals with that photo of those hoodlums in the sig.

Those movies were highly overrated and those endings were from some smarmy punk screenwriters who watched one too many movies with unconventional endings and thought they were clever. The critics and dumb s like you bought it, though.

I have forgotten more in my life than you will ever learn in your entire lifetime.

How was the NCFOM trying to be clever? That storyline was extremely straightforward but its obvious you were too stupid to understand it.

[MannyIsGod]

Strongly agree with your take on Seven -there would have been no better ending. It added to the movie.

Strongly disagree about No Country however.
I realize they were trying to be poetic and ended the movie with his retelling the wistful dream-but I still thought it was more that the screenwriter wrote himself into a corner and took the lazy way out. Lazy writing IMHO.
Plus the fact that the first 90-95% of the movie was so well written--it was a big letdown.

How the is that lazy writing? That makes no ing sense.

I swear to god NCFOM is the least understood movie talked about on Spurstalk on a regular basis and its so damn obvious.

[MannyIsGod]

Oh, and as for the OP - 3:10 to Yuma's ending was ing TERRIBLE.

[Spurminator]

Frailty is another one.