Good films ruined by the ending...
Discussion
Negative Creep said:
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?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.
Justin Cyder said:
singlecoil said:
No need for anyone who hasn't watched it (that would be me) to watch it then.
It's been out for 33 years. Were you a bit too busy?There's quite a few films of that age or even older that I haven't seen, and I daresay a couple that I have seen that you haven't. I shouldn't think I would ever have wanted to watch that particular film anyway, but none of the people who have spoken about spoilers have mentioned a time limit, so it was more a gentle hint than anything else.
singlecoil said:
Justin Cyder said:
singlecoil said:
No need for anyone who hasn't watched it (that would be me) to watch it then.
It's been out for 33 years. Were you a bit too busy?There's quite a few films of that age or even older that I haven't seen, and I daresay a couple that I have seen that you haven't. I shouldn't think I would ever have wanted to watch that particular film anyway, but none of the people who have spoken about spoilers have mentioned a time limit, so it was more a gentle hint than anything else.
Negative Creep said:
I did think about spoiler tags, but given the topic, age of the film and that I was replying to a post that specifically mentioned it |I felt it unnecessary
Exactly. Where do you draw the line? Casablanca? Battleship Potemkin? It's reasonable to think giving away the ending of a 33 year old film isn't going to constitute a terrible life wrecking spoiler.Justin Cyder said:
Negative Creep said:
I did think about spoiler tags, but given the topic, age of the film and that I was replying to a post that specifically mentioned it |I felt it unnecessary
Exactly. Where do you draw the line? Casablanca? Battleship Potemkin? It's reasonable to think giving away the ending of a 33 year old film isn't going to constitute a terrible life wrecking spoiler.Negative Creep said:
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?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.
singlecoil said:
No need for anyone who hasn't watched it (that would be me) to watch it then.
I know what you mean about spoilers, I’ve had a few spoil things for me, so feel your loss. But I don’t feel Negative Creep intended to spoil it for you. There is no need to watch it if you don’t think it’s your cuppa, however, before the end, there’s some good film making to entertain you. It’s dated and of its time but well worth a watch with a strange mixture of comedy, horror, romance, a naked young Jenny Agutter…. sorry, another spoiler… great score…My nomination for a ruined ending to a good film would go to Schindler's List.
Take a ghastly true story, film it in a raw, visceral way, then, just so the audience doesn’t go to the post movie meal feeling too upset, add a couple of scenes of overly sweetened maudlin sentimentality. A trait of Spielberg who can’t help himself double coat a layer of Schmaltz to many of his films endings.
Edited by Bacardi on Sunday 21st September 21:47
Negative Creep said:
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?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.
singlecoil said:
No need for anyone who hasn't watched it (that would be me) to watch it then.
I know what you mean about spoilers, I’ve had a few spoil things for me, so feel your loss. But I don’t feel Negative Creep intended to spoil it for you. There is no need to watch it if you don’t think it’s your cuppa, however, before the end, there’s some good film making to entertain you. It’s dated and of its time but well worth a watch with a strange mixture of comedy, horror, romance, a naked young Jenny Agutter…. sorry, another spoiler… great score…My nomination for a ruined ending to a good film would go to Schindler's List.
Take a ghastly true story, film it in a raw, visceral way, then, just so the audience doesn’t go to the post movie meal feeling too upset, add a couple of scenes of overly sweetened maudlin sentimentality. A trait of Spielberg who can’t help himself double coat a layer of Schmaltz to many of his films endings.
Edited by Bacardi on Sunday 21st September 21:48
The Truth about Emanuel.
This got terrible reviews largely because the studio tagged an extra ten minutes onto the end.
If the story ended where it was clearly meant to, the whole thing wold have been cast into doubt by what was clearly meant to be the last line and, thus, would have been fantastic.
I love the film, but largely because I choose to ignore the tagged on 'happy' ending.
This got terrible reviews largely because the studio tagged an extra ten minutes onto the end.
If the story ended where it was clearly meant to, the whole thing wold have been cast into doubt by what was clearly meant to be the last line and, thus, would have been fantastic.
I love the film, but largely because I choose to ignore the tagged on 'happy' ending.
Countdown said:
And for the bloke that posted the ending to "Titanic" - thank you very f
king much !!!!!
My Sister and her friends were going to see this at the cinema when it came out, this was the following conversation between her friend Laura and my mate Gordon.king much !!!!!Laura: it looks great, i've avoided all the advertising as i don't want the movie ruined.
Gordon: The ship sinks.
Laura: f
k you for ruining it, no point in seeing it now. (storms off)Everyone else in the room: stunned silence
Back on subject, the worst ending i've seen in a while had to be Spielberg's remake of War of the Worlds. All the s
t that happens then you find out everyone including his son survived. This might also be on par with A.I, another movie spielberg ruined. You can actually tell where Stan Kubrick s script ended and Spielberg turned into a family movie (aka where it went st).singlecoil said:
Negative Creep said:
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?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.
Evangelion said:
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 s
te, as are most films with a number 2 on the end.)I tend to find neatly engineering the ending of a film for a sequel in such a way tends to guarantee that a sequel will not be made.
Evangelion said:
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 s
te, as are most films with a number 2 on the end.)THX said:
Did somebody say Revolver?
I made a point of watching it yesterday. Can't help but feel there's a good film in there, somewhere, but it got lost in the editing room... I'm no great smarty pants but few film plots have ever confused me (they're never that complicated, really) but that thing left me BAFFLED.
Still, it looked good. Very comic book and before comic book really came into vogue.
I watched this on a random one not knowing anything about it and it seemed ok from memory. I might watch it again. I made a point of watching it yesterday. Can't help but feel there's a good film in there, somewhere, but it got lost in the editing room... I'm no great smarty pants but few film plots have ever confused me (they're never that complicated, really) but that thing left me BAFFLED.
Still, it looked good. Very comic book and before comic book really came into vogue.
The only film I can think of being exceptionally poor towards the end is Belly (which I'm sure most of you won't care about). Nas was awful. Whoever decided to cast him as one of the main characters needs their head examined. The other rumor was that they ran out of funds and had to scrap the ending and it shows.
That being said it's quite a well shot film if possibly a bit dark.
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