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10 Good Movies Ruined By Bad Endings
Screen Rant ^
| August 7, 2014
| Andrew Dyce
Posted on 10/13/2014 7:51:22 PM PDT by EveningStar
Whether writing a movie, TV series, novel, or any other form of storytelling, one fact rises above all: endings are hard. The sentiment is proven on a yearly basis, as countless films deliver an intriguing premise, compelling action, or powerful messages, only to fumble with the closing act. Sometimes, the films final impact can be so poorly executed, it leaves audiences wondering whether the film that preceded it was even worth the trouble.
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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cinema; endings; film; movies
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To: Baynative
2001 is the all time winner for bad endings. It seems as if they just ran out of ideas and hoped everyone was stoned while they burned up miles of film on light show garbage.2001 was a lousy film -- PERIOD! It was completely unintelligible from start to finish. However, it was a good movie to get stoned to as I saw many people toking pot in the movie theater.
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posted on
10/14/2014 2:26:42 AM PDT
by
Stepan12
(Our present appeasement of Islam is the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.)
To: onedoug
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posted on
10/14/2014 2:33:21 AM PDT
by
PhiloBedo
(You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
To: EveningStar
World War Z - really wimped out in the end.
To: DeaconBenjamin
Khartoum I thought it was an exceptionally good movie, about as historically accurate as possible, and the ending reflected the most heroic of the available accounts of < SPOILER ALERT> Gordon's death. Actually considering current events maybe there will be a remake, "Kobane", without the heroism, only the bloodshed. About 10,000 residents of Khartoum where slaughtered, and they were never offered the opportunity to surrender.
To: yarddog
2001: A Space Odyssey. I hated the ending but I also hated the beginning and the middle. I even hated the credits.
...and the popcorn sucked too!
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posted on
10/14/2014 4:07:05 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Don't harsh my buzz homie......)
To: Baynative; All
2001 is the all time winner for bad endings. It seems as if they just ran out of ideas and hoped everyone was stoned while they burned up miles of film on light show garbage.
It is incomprehensible, until you read the book; that explains the ending much better than they did in the movie.
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posted on
10/14/2014 4:55:18 AM PDT
by
notdownwidems
(Shellback pollywogs! U.S.S. William H. Standley, CG-32 1977-80)
To: EveningStar
And don’t forget the edited “Love Conquers All” version of “Brazil”.
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10/14/2014 5:07:18 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
To: EveningStar
Superman (1978) had a horrific ending, as it broke a cardinal rule of DC comics’ Superman: You cannot change the past. I would maintain that that movie was ruined when they hired Mario Puzo to do the script. They would have been better off with one of the comic book writers (Cary Bates, Len Wein, John Broome, Gardner Fox) with a screenwriter partner.
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10/14/2014 5:10:35 AM PDT
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Dr. Sivana
("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
To: DeaconBenjamin
I saw Khartoum a week ago on one of the movie channels.
It’s awful.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
It struck me as a generally well made movie that ran out of money before they finished the story.
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10/14/2014 6:08:00 AM PDT
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DeaconBenjamin
(A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're NOT talking real money)
To: EveningStar
“The Devil’s Advocate” is the Pacino movie, right? There was a line in that movie that was really blasphemous...I can’t recall what it was, and I don’t want to. But it was so bad that chills went over me. I said to my husband,
“We really have to leave”, and we did...we walked out.
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10/14/2014 6:20:46 AM PDT
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CatherineofAragon
((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
To: SeaHawkFan
"Scarlett is a selfish narcissistic bitch." She was. I didn't dislike her as much as syrupy-sweet doormat Melanie, though.
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10/14/2014 6:22:10 AM PDT
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CatherineofAragon
((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
To: Thorliveshere
"The Mist. Loved the rest of it (except for the mischaracterization of Christians at the grocery store), but I hated that ending soooo much." Yep, that's Stephen King, all right.
"The Mist" was a great adaptation of, IMO, one of his best shorter stories...until that ending. It was like a punch in the stomach. After seeing it, we were depressed all the way home.
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10/14/2014 6:24:38 AM PDT
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CatherineofAragon
((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
To: Migraine
I always thought the perfect ending to Castaway would be when he hands the woman the package she says: “Oh, my satellite phone, It's OK I got a replacement.”
To: EveningStar
Add the movie “Gone Girl” to this list. Just went and saw it. Great movie, right up to the disappointing ending.
To: FredZarguna
Great post.
I’d forgotten that tidbit about Rosebud.
It had to have Marion Davies, not his wife.
To: FredZarguna
The film was NOT based on the novel. The novel was written during the making of the film and after the script was finished.
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10/14/2014 9:22:09 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: FredZarguna; ifinnegan
The sled/Rosebud thing is a red herring and is irrelevant to what makes the film great. The actual subject of the film is the modernist mode of storytelling - collecting fragments and seeing how they are interrelated and whether the same event can be seen differently from different people. It’s praised because it was a huge influence on other filmmakers and opened up new avenues of cinematic storytelling.
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10/14/2014 9:35:32 AM PDT
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Borges
To: Borges
The film is truly awful, and one of the best examples of “Emperor’s New Clothing” ever devised.
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posted on
10/14/2014 9:37:15 AM PDT
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FredZarguna
(His first name is 'Unarmed,' and his given middle name is 'Teenager.')
To: Borges
No it was not. They were written at the same time as a collaborative effort between Kubrick and Clarke, based on Clarke's earlier short fiction, and Kubrick is on record saying that he rejected the ending because he'd already done it once before.
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10/14/2014 9:39:10 AM PDT
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FredZarguna
(His first name is 'Unarmed,' and his given middle name is 'Teenager.')
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