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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Yes. Potter essentially steals $8000, almost gets Bailey framed for it, and it “works out” only because a town full of people who are already broke manage to scrape together just enough money to make up for the money lost.
Potter doesn’t “win”, but you have to figure he was pretty happy with the outcome.
Although having a scatter-brained person who could misplace money so easily working as a bank employee is probably asking for trouble.
Nothing was resolved but a lot of people were dead.
Why? Because of the loss of a perfectly good '66 T-Bird?
I never liked the last half hour or so of ‘Dances With Wolves’.
The movie premise was compelling, as a young man who cheated death, got a glimpse of the old west “before it is gone”. I love the West anyway.
However, the writers couldn’t resist the theme of “White man bad, Native American good”. That was far too simplistic, as there was all sorts of BAD happening back then, and yes, our government was mostly at fault.
What would have been better IMO, was once Costner left the Soldier Fort, that was the last we saw of it etc. Instead, it would have been better and perhaps more poignant, had he lost his life in a meaningless battle fighting for the Sioux against the Pawnee. Sort of a bookend ending, mimicking how the story began, except this time, not so lucky.
I didn’t think “Now you See Me” ended that badly — especially if you watch “Now you See Me 2”, which cleverly played on all the questions you SHOULD have asked in the first movie, but has an ending that is completely at odds with the concept, and makes the “hero” of the first movie out to be a complete idiot — if you think about it for 5 seconds.
Yep.
Three Days of the Condor.
Actually, picking nits, the proper quote was: “I gave it a cold...I gave it a virus. A computer virus.”
And that wasn't at the end of the movie. But you're correct. The whole premise was beyond stupid. Just the sort of slop that the youngsters who were the target audience would eat up.
Yeah, not a feel good story AT ALL.
I liked the twist they did on that in the 1980s version of The Twilight Zone, where the aliens show up, and the humans all of the sudden come together in peace, but what the aliens really wanted was a planet of warriors, not peaceniks, and they tell the earthlings they're going to destroy them because they're weak.
Yeah - don’t think I’d go to see that one.
Didn’t like seeing Jim Brown buy it at the end of The Dirty Dozen. Bummer. It would had been nice to see a few others survive as well.
Did you mean "A Beautiful Mind" about John Nash the mathemetician/whackjob?
bfl
Yes like the abortion of science on Deadpool where our hero lit oxygen to escape the vacuum chamber.
To the terminally dedicated to be politically incorrect deliberately, that is a low hurdle.
When I read that Disney's Song of the South was to be withdrawn forever, it aroused my competitive spirit.
I spent a month searching, and discovered copies from Britain were available via Canada. I ordered twice, and the shipments were seized by American customs, and never delivered.
Finally, I realized that my wife is Canadian, and her daughter visited at least once a year.
You see where I'm going?
I had to bribe her, literally, because she was sure she would be arrested by customs, but finally got my copy.
First thing I did was make 15 copies, to give away to others in the same dilemma that I had.
My only hope is that the people who received the copies have "paid it forward...
The Never Ending Story. Actually, I was happy that the movie had an end of any type.
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