Movies that are ruined by their endings

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Urgoslav_sl said:
The Book of Eli

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Seeing her look just as good as she did more or less in every other movie shes been is really killed the post apocalyptic vibe. Really though 99.9% of all movies that deal with some form of civilization collapse miss it on the look of characters, they look so pretty and clean. The .1% is the Road, and they fucking nailed it.

I hated the ending to No Country For Old Men. Hey guys Im a super smart and wise guy but my undoing is going to be a cheap hooker.
 
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Das Boot - a movie where you start to root for the Nazi's soldiers, see their humanity, is rare. Then they got bombed in the harbor after all those trials. What a jip. It's like there's a message in there somewhere...
 
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Rime_sl said:
The Descent.

The original UK version shows that her 'escape' at the end is all a hallucination. She is trapped in the cave with the monsters and about to die. The US version has her get out and make it back to the car, while still hallucinating. But the sequel makes the US version the canon.
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That doesn't mean that The Descent's ending is bad, it just means that the sequel is a cash-grab piece of shit that Neil Marshall had nothing to do with. Better to just file it away with other sequels that don't exist like, say, Highlander 2.
 
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Talenvor_sl said:
The Mist.

Wasn't all that great to begin with, but the ending was so damn depressing.
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I loved the ending of the Mist. Not all movies should have a 'happy' ending. Heck, King himself said the movie version of the Mist had the better ending and that if he had thought of it when he was writing the book, he would have used it.
 
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the mist ending in the book was a million times worse, the story just stops, literally. i thought the movie ending was just fine. and gavinrad, i have no clue which highlander had MVP because i shut it off when space bikers tried to kill connor mccloud in part 2. i thought MVP was one of them.
 
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No, MVP was the villain of highlander 3, the hover bikes and futuristic bullshit was highlander 2. Not that 3 was a masterpiece.

MVP is the only actor to ever survive being bitten by Jaws though.
 
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It's been mentioned here but fuck 'the game' ending was bad.

I watched that film after a friend recommended it, 'nuff said there.

Yeah the film was a massive effort to drop a big "Wow wasn't expecting that!!" twist ending. Logic and all was just thrown away. So afterwards if you ran your mind back over the movie and thought about what was really going on, it was just stupid.

And the last scene where he's pulled off the safety matt and told that everything was fine and he's totally happy and cool with what he'd been through. I was the one who wanted to grab an ax and go all American Psycho on them.

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Not like it ruined the movie, just a silly over-rated scene. But the ending of 'A few good Men' the much quoted "You can't handle the truth!!" scene where Tom Cruise basically goads Jack Nickelson's character into a tirade about how hard core and tough he is . . . and then he openly admits that he ordered men to kill the guy. And then is all nose in the air, "Now if you're done with this silly trial I'm going back to my base" not expecting to be in any sort of trouble. Just stupid, can't see why it's so well regarded - just my opinion
 
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Talenvor_sl said:
The Mist.

Wasn't all that great to begin with, but the ending was so damn depressing.
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Even Stephen King said he thought the ending of the movie was more ballsy than what he was willing to do in the book. The book ends with them stuck in a Hojos somewhere in Massachusetts (the way he describes the scene, I can almost think he was describing an old Hojos in West Springfield, MA) and some radio transmission that mentions Hartford, CT...but they have no gas and they have to risk going outside to refill the car. That's how the book ends...basically the "we're not dead, there's some slim hope, but we're in a kinda fucked situation". The movie dashes hope and everyone dies, then moments later the hope comes a little too late. The film had a better ending, IMO. Kind of in the vein of the Outer Limits show they used to have on Showtime, where you had 2 types of ending: Hopeful ending or the "We're all fucked" ending. There was very little middle ground ;p

And the person who posted Leon/The Professional....dafuq? The bit with Matilda at the end didn't ruin that awesome movie. Besides, that movie helped me "win" some forum thread long ago in the EQ era where people posted movie quotes and people had to guess them. Obviously, people just googled that shit, so I chose a one word quote that would be recognizable to anyone who saw the movie, but (mostly) google proof without context ;P

 
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Skyfall.

First half was fine, second half was shit BUT... oh god that ending... I thought I'd fallen into an alternate parody universe. WTF were they thinking having the rebooted Bond films apparently now slot into continuity BEHIND the 60s ones.
 
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Chris_sl said:
Skyfall.

First half was fine, second half was shit BUT... oh god that ending... I thought I'd fallen into an alternate parody universe. WTF were they thinking having the rebooted Bond films apparently now slot into continuity BEHIND the 60s ones.
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I'd say the whole movie was pretty bad. I hate saying that because Daniel Craig has been my favorite Bond, but Casino Royale set a ridiculously high bar that the rest haven't met.
 
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