Movies that were good until you saw the ending

[clambake]

the abyss

[silverblk mystix]

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

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.

[Oh, Gee!!]

Every m night shamaylan movie.

And citizen cane: psyche!

[David Bowie]

Fight Club.

It's my favorite movie, but I don't really like the ending. I really liked how how the friendship between Tyler Durden and the main character played out in the throughout the movie. When they turned out to be the same person, it was a sort of a let down.

[Oh, Gee!!]

And how did shooting himself in the face kill tyler but not himself

[Sense]

Memento..... it kept you guessing throughout the movie and in the end gave no answers, lol just pissed me off more

[BlackSwordsMan]

godfather 1

[redzero]

Memento..... it kept you guessing throughout the movie and in the end gave no answers, lol just pissed me off more

Are we talking about the same Memento here?

[Sense]

Are we talking about the same Memento here?

I don't know? nor do I care if we are?

[silverblk mystix]

Memento..... it kept you guessing throughout the movie and in the end gave no answers, lol just pissed me off more

The movie was played backwards...

the ending was at the beginning.

I guess there should be a spoiler alert or something in this thread.

[Drachen]

It wasn't all played backwards (if I remember correctly). The black and white scenes started at the beginning and went backwards toward the middle. The color scenes started at the beginning and went forward to the middle.

[redzero]

I don't know? nor do I care if we are?

I don't know, you seem confused. The ending revealed exactly what was going on throughout the movie.

[Sense]

I don't know, you seem confused. The ending revealed exactly what was going on throughout the movie.

I understand that, what I'm saying is... I kind of wanted an answer rather than it leaving you guessing..

and since it happened at the ending that's why I said it.

[The Reckoning]

The Black Godfather

[Wild Cobra]

How about a series rather than movie.

Dexter, season 4. Downer of an ending.

[CuckingFunt]

Memento..... it kept you guessing throughout the movie and in the end gave no answers, lol just pissed me off more

By the time the credits role on Memento, you have all the answers. All of them.

[CuckingFunt]

It wasn't all played backwards (if I remember correctly). The black and white scenes started at the beginning and went backwards toward the middle. The color scenes started at the beginning and went forward to the middle.

Opposite. Black and white scenes go forward from the beginning, color scenes go backward from the end, and they meet in the middle.

[CuckingFunt]

Some of the answers in this thread are... well, I won't say dumb, because I try my hardest not to argue matters of taste, but... some of the answers in this thread are... unexpected.

Se7en, for instance. Without the ending, that's nothing more than a police procedural with a somewhat Biblical spin. Still well written and well acted, in all likeliness, but not at all special. The thing that sets it apart is the absolute sucker punch of an ending in which, as a viewer, you're every bit as conflicted as Brad Pitt's character; you want him to do what he eventually does, but are sick with the realization he's allowing Spacey to complete his plan. Any other ending would have ing castrated the film. Including the ending they almost shot, frankly.

And No Country for Old Men has, easily, one of the most graceful endings in recent film. Bleak as , but with the same eerie stillness of the preceding two hours. Another case where I think the movie is made special by its final act.

American History X and There Will be Blood... I find those ones a little easier to let slide. I liked both endings, personally, and quite a lot, but can at least see the argument that perhaps AHX is a little melodramatic for its own good and that Daniel Day Lewis' final moments are amusingly hammy.

[CuckingFunt]

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.

[Trainwreck2100]

Rat Race-Funny slapstick till the ending with smashmouth

[Drachen]

Opposite. Black and white scenes go forward from the beginning, color scenes go backward from the end, and they meet in the middle.

Ok, I saw it right after it came out on DVD (this tells you how long its been), so thanks for clarifying.

[Drachen]

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

[Trill Clinton]

"A Low Down Dirty Shame"

[Trill Clinton]

How about a series rather than movie.

Dexter, season 4. Downer of an ending.

Ahh man, that ending was great.

[silverblk mystix]

Some of the answers in this thread are... well, I won't say dumb, because I try my hardest not to argue matters of taste, but... some of the answers in this thread are... unexpected.

Se7en, for instance. Without the ending, that's nothing more than a police procedural with a somewhat Biblical spin. Still well written and well acted, in all likeliness, but not at all special. The thing that sets it apart is the absolute sucker punch of an ending in which, as a viewer, you're every bit as conflicted as Brad Pitt's character; you want him to do what he eventually does, but are sick with the realization he's allowing Spacey to complete his plan. Any other ending would have ing castrated the film. Including the ending they almost shot, frankly.

And No Country for Old Men has, easily, one of the most graceful endings in recent film. Bleak as , but with the same eerie stillness of the preceding two hours. Another case where I think the movie is made special by its final act.

American History X and There Will be Blood... I find those ones a little easier to let slide. I liked both endings, personally, and quite a lot, but can at least see the argument that perhaps AHX is a little melodramatic for its own good and that Daniel Day Lewis' final moments are amusingly hammy.

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.