Good films ruined by the ending...

[moanthebairns]

littlebasher said:

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

Sorry, your correct.

[EarlOfHazard]

Jonesy23 said:

Pesty said:

EarlOfHazard said:

Law Abiding Citizen

Yes.

If only they'd had the balls to swap the fates of those two characters at the end - if it had been the other way around it would have been much better and darker.

Amen to that! It was the smug look on Jamie Foxx's face that did it for me.

[deanobeano]

James Cameron's The Abyss

As a scuba diver I was enjoying correct references to decompression and narcosis etc (non high pitched voices aside)

And then they end up back on the surface AND THEY DONT FOOKIN EXPLODE OR ANYTHING!!

You should have seen my face in the cinema...

...well you couldn't, cos it was dark

[miniman]

Whilst I'll accept it might fail on the "Good" part, Con Air spoils itself by going on for 20 minutes too long after the plane crashes in Vegas.

[deanobeano]

James Cameron's The Abyss The Directors cut

As a scuba diver I was enjoying correct references to decompression and narcosis etc (non high pitched voices aside)

Endured the additional 60 odd minutes of footage.

All apprehensive about the ending...

...would it be any different?









And then they end up back on the surface AND THEY DONT FOOKIN EXPLODE OR ANYTHING!!

You should have seen my face in the front lounge, in front of the DVD player...

[General Price]

miniman said:

Whilst I'll accept it might fail on the "Good" part, Con Air spoils itself by going on for 20 minutes too long after the plane crashes in Vegas.

The Vegas scene was pretty crap though.

[Pesty]

deanobeano said:

James Cameron's The Abyss

As a scuba diver I was enjoying correct references to decompression and narcosis etc (non high pitched voices aside)

And then they end up back on the surface AND THEY DONT FOOKIN EXPLODE OR ANYTHING!!

You should have seen my face in the cinema...

...well you couldn't, cos it was dark

but you were fine with the aliens made of water.

[Halmyre]

Pesty said:

deanobeano said:

James Cameron's The Abyss

As a scuba diver I was enjoying correct references to decompression and narcosis etc (non high pitched voices aside)

And then they end up back on the surface AND THEY DONT FOOKIN EXPLODE OR ANYTHING!!

You should have seen my face in the cinema...

...well you couldn't, cos it was dark

but you were fine with the aliens made of water.

One of the characters does make a throwaway remark about how "we should be dead" and someone replies "maybe they changed us", which admittedly is a bit weak.

For me, the big plot hole in The Abyss is why Lieutenant Bat-st-Crazy Coffey (Michael Biehn) was allowed anywhere near sharp objects.

[Negative Creep]

moanthebairns said:

littlebasher said:

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

Sorry, your correct.

Just because a film is depressing doesn't make it bad. I thought it was a good film and liked the way they ended with just a glimmer of hope for the future.

As has already been mentioned, War of The Worlds frustrates me no end. There's parts that are brilliant, especially the design of the tripods, and it can be rather unsettling to watch them wiping out people like insects. I had no problem with the scene where the military takes one out, since after watching what they did to us it brings some satisfaction, but then there's that awful final scene on a virtually untouched street.

For horror films especially, anything with a reveal that the killer/monster/evil force isn't actually defeated. These days it would be more of a shock to have a straight happy ever after ending.

[grumbledoak]

Bladerunner, as released?

A.I. had a happy ending tacked on it, but that doesn't qualify on the "good film" bit.

[ESOG]

I have all of your suggestions beat, you ready.....

American Werewolf in London!!

Easily and indisputablly THE worse endingto any film ever made. I remember my friend and I sitting in stunned silence for a moment then looking at eachother and both shouting obscenities on how completely ridiculous and abrupt the film just cuts to the credits.... Just, BAM!!! Done.

[Johnnytheboy]

Possibly controversial, but the (original) Italian Job.

[Evangelion]

Johnnytheboy said:

Possibly controversial, but the (original) Italian Job.

That ending was supposed to set the scene for the sequel, which unfortunately never got made.

(I say unfortunately; I could be wrong - who knows, the sequel could have been absolute ste, as are most films with a number 2 on the end.)

[Brigand]

Kill List - it was going quite well until it just went weird and all Wicker Man in the final ten minutes or so.

[XB70]

JonRB said:

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.

Australian radio station quite a few years ago - caller calls in for something or other then, mid-sentence, she gives the twist away (it had just been released!) The delay did not catch it and cue the host abusing said caller for wrecking it for everyone.

Was a long time before I bothered to watch it and even then, only the once

[Inertiatic]

xjay1337 said:

Knowing was shockingly bad ending.
Great film though.

Terrible from the point in the film you can see the Scientology nutters got heavily involved

[Daniel1]

Brigand said:

Kill List - it was going quite well until it just went weird and all Wicker Man in the final ten minutes or so.

Definitely a contender - it was really good up to then

[Pesty]

Johnnytheboy said:

Possibly controversial, but the (original) Italian Job.

I think the ending makes it. I wish we had more endings like that in Films especially US films. about the only thing i liked about NCFOM which has also been mentioned in this thread

[CRA1G]

Johnnytheboy said:

Possibly controversial, but the (original) Italian Job.

One of my all time favorites... Can't even think how many times i'v seen it over the years, me as a kid and then with my kids but i know what you mean the ending sort of does leave you a bit deflated.....

[Negative Creep]

ESOG said:

I have all of your suggestions beat, you ready.....

American Werewolf in London!!

Easily and indisputablly THE worse endingto any film ever made. I remember my friend and I sitting in stunned silence for a moment then looking at eachother and both shouting obscenities on how completely ridiculous and abrupt the film just cuts to the credits.... Just, BAM!!! Done.

Are you sure that you're thinking of the correct film? He gets shot, turns back into a human and it ends. Beyond adding a cliffhanger of him having bitten someone I don't see why it needed to go on for a second longer?