Even the guy's name -- Anton Chigurh -- makes the hair on my neck stand up. LOL.
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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I know what happened and I didn’t have to “follow it closely” to do so. It was deliberately obscure and deeply unsatisfying, a betrayal of the expectations of its loyal audience.
I can’t imagine that a “fan” hated the ending of the Fellowship of the Ring... unless they had (or needed) a hip replacement surgery. OK, Post 8 minutes before the end, “You can leave if you want to.” But those who love Middle Earth can stick around to dwell in the world so bitterly fought over for the previous... uh, ten hours.
Worse Star Wars ending: Return of the Jedi. I think the ewoks get a bad rap. Jar Jar Binks sucks for several reasons: (1) he appears completely unnecessary throughout the entire first movie. (2) He is shoe-horned into just about every scene. (3) He is patently ridiculous: why say “mee-sah” instead of just “I” or even “me?”, why the Jamaican vibe?
The ewoks have none of these problems. They are remembered as cutesy teddy bears, thanks to the plush toys, but they were nasty, fearsome, cannibalistic warriors, central to the plot, sparingly used, and with a meticulously developed society.
No, the problem with the end of Return of the Jedi was that the battle action was simply a do-over of A New Hope.
“I am Legend” DID tease with the notion that Will Smith’s character was the real monster; it simply avoided the black and white of declaring that he was. Besides, this is pulled punch is even more notable in the original Total Recall, but it gets none of the hate. Although, “Nah, it didn’t happen” is no way near as fun as “you’re the real monster!”
I remember now.
The Phantasm series ends the same way
Also Life of Pi, it ends with him saying he pretty much made the events of last two hours of the movie up
“Munich” was a blatant rip-off of “Sword of Gideon”.
For me, it had to be “No Country For Old Men.”
So what they’re saying is, crap movies have crap endings???
Wow, who’d have thought?
YES! Just leave the absolutely positively dead son out of it. You can’t show all that death and destruction (human gore fertilizing entire plains?) and then say, “But, oh, *perfectly* happy ending.”
Incidentally, that’s one “ending” LOTR: ROTK *did* leave out: “The Rousting of the Shire,” wherein we learn of the sad effects of Mordor’s domination
I think after they introduced the Trinity Killer the series struggled, especially with Rita dead and Dexter more or less kind of in arrested development.
The last season was absolute garbage that chose tawdry symbolism over coherence and substance.
I agree, it was a pitiful end to what was a great show.
>>>The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), where Klaatu announces to the assembled scientists that the nations of Earth must learn to be peaceable, or else a peaceable interplanetary organization will kill every living creature on Earth and destroy the planet<<<
I never understood why they would threaten to turn Earth in a burned out cinder when they were capable of just shutting off the Electricity.
Do that and we can’t launch anything into Space to threaten “the other planets”.
Still had the coolest Robot and the coolest Spaceship.
When asked how they guy got in and out of the Robot Costume when there were no visible seams, Robert Wise the Director said they actually had two Costumes. One with a zipper in the front and another with a zipper in the back.
I only caught one scene they screwed up where you can see the openings under the Robots Chin so the Actor could breathe. Then again, imagine an Alien Space Ship landing in D.C. with only two Army Privates assigned to guard it.
Still one of my favorite Sci Fi Movies. The remake was horrible.
I can't disagree with you. Especially because it was a really good movie up until the ending.
I thought it was great, especially when Leo DiCaprio became a popsicle, every guy cheered.
LOL!
I keep insisting that over half the population worldwide, but primarily the U.S. (That's all I care about because it affects me directly, and the only thing I might be able to do something about) and this only adds to my certainty.
Why do people who seem never to have grown up insist on conflating movies and TV as the real world?
Don't they realize that Hollywood is Insanity Central? Just think of the imbecilities that comes out of most Hollywood types. Dumb as rocks millionaires with professional sports as the only competition, well, perhaps needing to throw the California legislature into the mix.
It has been recognized that genius and insanity are more often than not a symbiotic condition. The rampant use of drugs within the "entertainment" industry doesn't help.
IT'S ALL FAKE, FOLKS!
If you need to stress about movie you don't like, you may be part of the problem.
Contemporary entertainment is simply something to experience when you can't find something more important to do, or are literally unable to do. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Movies and TV are fake universes.
Just make up your own endings and move on.
Or make your own movies.
Even the guy's name -- Anton Chigurh -- makes the hair on my neck stand up. LOL.
I’m going to even have to put “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” up there. The ending was so abrupt.
The really bad part of Titanic’s ending is that the girl is on that huge steamer trunk and lets Leo freeze to death, then the camera pans up to an overhead shot, where the audience is shown there is CLEARLY ENOUGH ROOM for both of them to get on the trunk.
So she basically just let him die for no reason. I mean I didn’t even like Leo at all, and I got dragged to see the stupid movie involuntarily, and I still thought that was ruined the whole thing.
That was an unsettling ending, but that was the point of the movie. There was no happy ending. There was no ending...just a presumed continuation of bad things to come- just like Cormac McCarthy writes it.
The Sopranos ending was pure genius, and if you follow closely, you know exactly what happened.
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I’ve read that the Sopranos ending borrows from 2001, which many people find to be infuriating. I love it, though.
Thelma and Louise ...oh wait, that whole movie sucked.
How'd you feel about the 2min walk-past in "The Third Man"?
Of the 8 listed, I've seen *1*, "Signs", and didn't think the ending should have made the list. It was mostly mediocre, imo.
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