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The Most Infuriating Movie Endings Of All Time
YouTube ^ | March 27, 2017 | Looper

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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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: badmovies; cinema; endings; fantasy; film; horror; movies; sciencefiction; scifi; spoilers
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To: Lexington Green
I saw Old Yeller in the theater in 1958 and loved it. I didn't read the book until well into adulthood.

I also liked the follow-on, Savage Sam, which I also saw in the theater in 1963, but I preferred the book, which I read a couple years later. The book is highly politically incorrect for this day and age.

My favorite of Fred Gipson's dog books is Hound Dog Man (New York: Harper, 1947), which, unfortunately, is out of print and will not likely reissued unless changes are made to make it more politically correct.

121 posted on 03/28/2017 10:18:07 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Reddy

The problem with Million Dollar Baby is that it was marketed as something completely different.

Everyone was saying how it was like a new Rocky movie, but with a female lead.

Then there’s the depressing descent into euthanasia. It was a giant bait-and-switch.


122 posted on 03/28/2017 10:20:00 AM PDT by Shadow44
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds, Hateful Eight, basically any Tarantino movie since “Pulp Fiction” or “Jackie Brown” has a crap ending.


123 posted on 03/28/2017 10:21:22 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Alberta's Child
Buddy of mine. Dating a Dumb Blonde. How dumb?

The two of them are headed to see "Titanic". I said, "Man, don't let me give the ending away, but the boat sinks. Har Har."

She was mad. Legitimately angry at me for telling her how it ended.

Needless to say, buddy was dating her for assets other than her brains. She wasn't on the scene for very long.

124 posted on 03/28/2017 10:22:42 AM PDT by wbill
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To: TADSLOS

Exactly... that was who the dude was... he just killed for whatever reason HE thought was right or whatever his “code” was... he said he was going to kill the wife, and he did.


125 posted on 03/28/2017 10:22:44 AM PDT by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: EveningStar

The ending of “Das Boot” always ticked me off. The real U-96 made it all the way to 1945 (though, as per the movie, it was bombed while in port), and the captain, exec and chief engineer all survived the war.

I think they could have made a much more powerful (and not hackneyed) ending with the war correspondent asking the captain “when does all this end”, and the captain’s tersely answering “when one day we don’t come back” and walking away.


126 posted on 03/28/2017 10:23:48 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: dangus
For some reason, everybody likes the movie Star Wars II (1980), but I don't like endings that leave you hanging. Star Wars III (1983) was better, but not nearly as good as the original Star Wars, which I saw five times in the theater.
127 posted on 03/28/2017 10:23:53 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: wbill

She should have just watched this....

Titanic - In Five Seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuSdU8tbcHY


128 posted on 03/28/2017 10:24:28 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: qam1

“Also Life of Pi, it ends with him saying he pretty much made the events of last two hours of the movie up”

Perhaps, but if you didn’t suspect by the time of the ship sinking scene that it was a fantasy, you simply don’t have a skeptical mind.


129 posted on 03/28/2017 10:24:45 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: EveningStar

ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN - better ending would have been to shut down the Washington Post


130 posted on 03/28/2017 10:25:59 AM PDT by doug from upland (Hey, traitor Democrats. I have a tree. I'm sure another FReeper has a rope.)
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To: DungeonMaster
Independence Day “I gave it a virus”

It's possible

Think the Japanese in WWII. One reason the Americans beat them is because we prepared for and practiced damage control while they didn't. Damage Control to them was a foreign and dishonorable concept. Likewise the German's never conceived their enigma codes could and were being broken.

The same could happen with an alien civilization, they just might never have encountered a computer virus and thus couldn't conceive of one which is why they were so vulnerable.

The dumb parts of ID4 is if you could make a virus, why just take out shields, disable weapons and propulsion also. Plus why attack with on F-15s, where were the B-52s, A10s, B1, F-16s, cruise missiles, etc?

131 posted on 03/28/2017 10:27:23 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: wbill

I pissed off a friend growing up by “spoiling” the ending to King Kong when the remake came out.

He was legitimately angry despite it being an 80 years old movie that has been referenced in pop culture a million times.

I remember saying to him, “What do you think was going to happen? He’s gonna climb back down the Empire State Building?”


132 posted on 03/28/2017 10:27:43 AM PDT by Shadow44
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To: dfwgator

I thought it was great, especially when Leo DiCaprio became a popsicle, every guy cheered.

Agreed. The last time I watched it, I was also hoping someone would pick up Rose and throw her over the side of the boat. What an obnoxious twit her character is... Leo’s character was better off drowned.


133 posted on 03/28/2017 10:28:07 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: DungeonMaster

lol, Independence Day was an entertaining, yet unbelievably stupid, movie.

Arrival
Prometheus


134 posted on 03/28/2017 10:28:16 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: dfwgator

LMAO.


135 posted on 03/28/2017 10:28:38 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (President Donald J. Trump ... Making America Great Again, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: TADSLOS

Yes, it wasn’t a bad ending, just an unsatisfying ending for those who are hoping for a “Hollywood ending”.

Chigurh foreshadows the ending constantly throughout the movie with his coin-flipping monologues and dialogues to both Brolin and Harrelson’s characters so it isn’t like the audience can claim they weren’t being warned. Even Brolin’s wife and mother-in-law foreshadow the unhappy ending that is coming. Audiences just weren’t paying attention or didn’t want to believe it.


136 posted on 03/28/2017 10:28:55 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Buckeye McFrog

You win the internet today.


137 posted on 03/28/2017 10:29:07 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Buttons12

“GWTW. It made sense but I didn’t like it. :(”

“Real Story” here:

http://www.evancarmichael.com/Entrepreneur-Advice/448/Truth-Is-Stranger-And-More-Exciting-Than-Fiction.html

This is the best on-line telling I could find quickly.


138 posted on 03/28/2017 10:30:01 AM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen)
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To: Pravious
I was also hoping someone would pick up Rose and throw her over the side of the boat. What an obnoxious twit her character is

Yeah, but she had some nice boobies.

139 posted on 03/28/2017 10:30:52 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Red Badger

Well, she took her friend with her — a glorified murder/suicide. Just because her life was a mess, didn’t mean her friend’s was.


140 posted on 03/28/2017 10:31:39 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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