Posted on 03/28/2017 9:24:33 AM PDT by EveningStar
There's nothing quite as frustrating as a bad movie ending. Failure to stick that landing in the final act can totally ruin an otherwise great film, or give us one more reason to hate one that was already a dud. Here's a look at some of the most annoying movie endings in recent memory. And it should go without saying, but spoilers ahead…
The Matrix Revolutions | 0:23
X-Men: The Last Stand | 0:59
Signs | 1:44
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | 2:43
Now You See Me | 3:27
I Am Legend | 4:15
Man of Steel | 5:14
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 6:06
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Excuse me for saying this; but, the problem may have been you going to a movie with the number 3 in the title. Some sequels pull it off, but most really never come close to the original.
If she was old enough to vote, please don't tell us!
Then why did the assassin get so banged up in the car wreck? What did that prove? Because THAT was the ending.
Thanks. That was better than the sequel.
I don't even remember that one.
The two classic series endings are Newhart, where the whole series turns out to be a dream that the Bob Newhart of his other series had, and St. Elsewhere, where the whole series apparently turns out to be an autistic child's fantasy. The first was brilliant. The second awful.
I do remember the finale of Michael C. Hall's other series Six Feet Under, which showed how the characters in the series would live and die in the future on a time scale stretching far into the future. It was also very clever, but a little too dictatorial for the show's creators to assert their authority in that way.
The ending of The Sopranos was a classic let down, but it got people talking, which was probably the idea. I wasn't impressed by the ending of Man Men either, but I had a lot of problems with that show.
Yeah, but they were limited by the facts.
Not a great movie anyway but the first and last parts of the movie felt like they were from two different scripts and somehow got stuck together.
And the world ends.
I guess we can add the one where John Cusack foresees the end of the world.
And Cusack survives.
That one actually made sense. He would have been rendered sterile from the radiation from the venting.
The title really didn't fit either.
Now I feel OLD ... I do not recognize most of these and have seen fewer.
Worst Ending ... Lonesome Dove Mini-Series ... BECAUSE it ended ... it should immediately loop back to the beginning and start over.
The first clue should have been the free tickets. :)
This is the original source:
The Scarlett story that will not die
by Wesley Pruden
Pruden on Politics
The Washington Times, November 18, 1994
I cannot find this online any more but I cut and pasted it into a Word file years ago. The whole column (a page and a half) is fascinating and would have made a wonderful sequel when fleshed out.
I’m sure I cannot post the whole column, but here is the last paragraph:
“The parson held a royal straight flush, drawing an ace, a king, a queen, a jack and a 10 in a suit of spades. This hand has not been seen since in either St. Louis or on the river, but the story has a good end. The girl became the matriarch of a leading family of her state. Scarlett got religion, too, and opened a home for half-breed foundlings in the Cherokee Nation, and died there in 1903. There is a marker in the Methodist cemetery in Tahlequah. Lying next to Scarlett is a stone of Batesville marble inscribed “Unknown, 1832-1901.” Spread beneath the dates is an engraving of a royal straight flush.”
That is, in fact, the twist ending of Pierre Boulle's original novel (on which both movies were based). In the novel, the protagonists travel centuries into the future (due to time dilation) and find a planet inhabited by intelligent apes orbiting Betelgeuse. When they return to earth, they find the apes have taken over.
In the 2001 movie, the ending is much the same, except that Mark Wahlberg's character travels back in time to the movie's present, where the apes have, again, taken over. (Though why this should have happened is somewhat inexplicable.)
#116 Anyone would let Leo freeze to death as he believes in global warming just for the irony : )
Their marriage was bad. He was a creep and she divorced him. But she remarried him after he won the Nobel.
Agreed.
Well duh ... he was sick in the head, wasn’t right “In the Head” (Braveheart)
It was almost like he lived a Hollywood life so that they would re-play it for him.
Who knows?
I wanted "Our Man" drowned. (OK actually a lot earlier. I wanted him sitting on that floating shipping container, while the Virginia Jean sailed off.)
The Departed.
Everyone dies!
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