Good films ruined by the ending...

[southendpier]

it is not even a good film; but the claymation epilogue to Danny Boyle's "A Life Less Ordinary" was arse-wipingly bad.

[jdw100]

Mr Kitten said:

StuntmanMike said:

I thought it was the best horror I had ever seen, the the frigging thing started to fly and the film went downhill fast, but the first half was utterly brilliant.

I've got to agree with that.

Me too.

[Terzo123]

No country for old men.

Thought it was great right up to the ending, where i had to go back and watch the last 30 minutes again, and realise that yes, that really was how it ended.

[defblade]

Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Should have ended to the side of the mountain, not half an hour later.

[Terzo123]

defblade said:

Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Should have ended to the side of the mountain, not half an hour later.

It dragged on, and on, and on.

[Some Gump]

There were 4 logical endpoints that they could have picked before the final ending. At least they skipped the 6th enpoint, when sam gave frodo that really gay look, then full on bricked in frodo's mouth.

[Jonesy23]

monthefish said:

It.

Scary as hell until they revealed 'it' was just a big spider.

But it was an *alien* spider! Pennywise the demon clown turning out to be some ancient thing from outer space living under the town just didn't work.

The book was just the same, and just like a lot of Stephen King stuff; the endings tend to be bks after a decent build up. He either runs out on inspiration or gets bored and throws on whatever ending he can write down fastest.

[Jonesy23]

Terzo123 said:

It dragged on, and on, and on.

I remember House of Flying Daggers being the same, with a comical number of 'hero defeated/suddenly recovers' scenes one after the other.

[Justin Cyder]

Jonesy23 said:

I remember House of Flying Daggers being the same, with a comical number of 'hero defeated/suddenly recovers' scenes one after the other.

on that basis, we ought to be all moaning about more than one of the Matrix films & more than the ending too. He recovers miraculously & not only in the machine world.

[Jonesy23]

Justin Cyder said:

Jonesy23 said:

I remember House of Flying Daggers being the same, with a comical number of 'hero defeated/suddenly recovers' scenes one after the other.

on that basis, we ought to be all moaning about more than one of the Matrix films & more than the ending too. He recovers miraculously & not only in the machine world.

I think the problem with HoFD was they pulled the same trick about 6 times in 15 minutes, it got to the point where people were just laughing at it. Once or twice in a film is OK.

Note: I saw HoFD maybe sixth months before the UK cinema release, so it may have been re-edited compared to what I saw.

[surveyor]

JonRB said:

XB70 said:

Evangelion said:

Pay It Forward. Why did the little boy have to be killed at the end?

Never did get around to seeing that but no need now! :-)

Maybe the thread should be renamed "Films whose ending is ruined by someone who doesn't know how to use spoiler tags".

I'm sure someone will post the twist in the ending to The Sixth Sense shortly.

I thought the ending on this was excellent, and told a story in it's own right. As well as breaking me.

[Hub]

Source Code - they had to go all Hollywood and bolt on a completely unnecessary and contrived twist after the logical end to the film, leaving you feeling dissatisfied.

The Prestige - ok it doesn't ruin it completely, but it always annoys me that this amazing film is ultimately believable until it goes all sci-fi at the end.

Agree about Sunshine too.

Most disaster films are anti climactic, and just about all rom-coms are disappointingly formulaic!

Edited by Hub on Wednesday 17th September 21:37

[mike-r]

xjay1337 said:

Knowing was shockingly bad ending.
Great film though.

I quite liked the ending, but purely because it didn't stick to Hollywood convention of everything working out alright. About time the earth got destroyed.

[PhillipM]

Shaoxter said:

War of the Worlds.

And more recently I quite enjoyed Non-Stop until the ending.

The ending of War of the Worlds (film and book), is kinda the entire central point to the story...

[OceanEyes]

As Above So Below(was average all the way through, the ending killed it)

And Cloverfield. Ending was stupid as fk

[Shaoxter]

PhillipM said:

Shaoxter said:

War of the Worlds.

And more recently I quite enjoyed Non-Stop until the ending.

The ending of War of the Worlds (film and book), is kinda the entire central point to the story...

Yeah the problem I have is not with the plot but the sudden and anticlimatic finish.

[moanthebairns]

The Road - End thread

[Hugo a Gogo]

Moominho said:

Downfall. Can't believe the main character commits suicide at the end!

spoilers!

[littlebasher]

moanthebairns said:

The Road - End thread

The thread title is "Good films ruined by the ending..."

Not films that make you want to commit suicide after watching

[oddball1973]

I know its not strictly a film but the last episode of Twin Peaks sucked donkey balls - it was brilliant all the way through and then they fked it all up with that backwards talking midget and hall of red curtains