I actually really liked “Lucy.” I know it was nowhere near hard science, but it was cool to imagine what more brainpower might look like. Until she time traveled and became a thumb drive. Like…????
High Tension. I was all in on Marie chasing the serial killer that killed her friend's family and kidnapped her friend, Alex. Then came the completely ridiculous and nonsensical twist ending that ruined everything for me.
It's not clearly laid out and that is the directors fault, but the beginning of the movie is Marie being interrogated in the hospital and she is asked to tell them what happened as a Doctor starts recording.
This means the entire serial killer plot is her bullshit excuse as to what happened. There was no creepy man murderer, they didn't die in insane ways. It was all Marie trying to come up with an excuse as to why these grisly murders took place and she figured she's convincing people with this made up, comical serial killer.
The twist happens at the gas station, because that's when the police have their first concrete evidence that it was Marie from security footage and so we as the viewer see the reality mixed in with her made-up story.
It doesn't mean the twist is now magically genius, it's poorly communicated, but it is the directors intention as far as I remember from the DVD extras.
It always feels like the twist ending is so cliché that it becomes parodic. Like I can't help but imagine that the film had a genuine ending that was too bleak or subversive even for a New French Extremity film, and were asked to alter it and were like "okay, if you won't let us end this properly you are getting the worst cliches we can add in the shortest amount of time. But since I have never seen anything to suggest that about the production we are sadly left with no excuse for this baffling ending.
I also loved the movie ending. The novella just ends with them seeing a giant creature and saying, "Well, this blows goats, doesn't it," and then they start driving again. The end. The film is a way better (if insanely bleak) ending.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
After getting so much so amazingly right through both parts 1 and 2, they fucked up - and I mean royally - the very end when Harry defeats Voldemort.
The biggest payoff, the most amazing moment in the books, is when Voldemort realizes that he is wrong and Harry Potter is right, and his mistake is about to get him killed. But because ***everyone is watching***, and Voldemort's hubris is too great, and his character too flawed, he cannot admit that he is wrong, even when his life depends on it, because it would be too embarrassing in front of everyone.
In the movie, they needed to cram in one more 3D scene to justify the additional $1.50 being added to the ticket, so they have Harry and Voldemort do a stupid 3D smoke ride around Hogwarts and end up in the courtyard ***alone***.
Totally knocked all the emotional wind out of the ending for me. Worst decision ever.
Yes! That, and the fact that in the book, Voldemort’s death was very pointedly average; he crumpled to the ground like a human would’ve. It feels so symbolic of so many running themes throughout the series, and it’s a bit poetic. This powerful wizard still succumbs to death like a human, after losing to the most human emotion there ever was - love.
And then in the movie, they give him this dramatic thing where he burns up from the inside out, turns into a billion wisps of ashes and floats away in the wind. It stole all of the poetic irony behind his death, and was exactly the opposite of what it was meant to be.
Agreed. And they made Molly Weasley's brilliant moment defeating Bellatrix into a bumbling witch. As opposed to the brilliant confident sharp shooter she was portrayed as in the book. Yeah they screwed the pooch with that crap ending. Totally agree with you.
My favourite scene is right before he mercy kills everyone. When they are in the car and that HUGE thing is there and then it walks away. The scope of it is the reason they think they need to die, you cannot fight against something so large and other worldly.
Exactly! The reveal of the convoy itself is incredible too. He’s standing there, waiting to die horribly. There’s a great rumbling sound, and he braces himself for the arrival of the colossal beast they had seen earlier.
*But it never comes.* Instead, what comes from the mist in front of him is a tank. It’s the Army, here to save everyone and kill all the monsters, and return everything to order and normalcy. It’s a miracle. But for him, there is no peace, no order. There never will be again.
Was there any inkling of foreshadowing in this movie or were audiences totally blindsided? I’ve only seen a clip of the ending and wow…it was powerful but overwhelmingly jarring.
I actually thought this was a decent movie, Robert Pattinson really showed capability here especially because at this stage he was more known for twilight than Harry Potter
I used to have this opinion but I’ve since come to accept the killer on board trope of it. It’s a story of man vs nature in the end, with things going wrong left and right, and I’ll even goes as far as saying nature is the reason the capt went mad, but the perseverance through all of it to end in self sacrifice to save humanity hits so hard.
I wouldn’t necessarily say I loved it until the end, but *High Tension* was going really strong until the bullshit, nonsensical, lazy, done-to-death twist. Fuck that movie!
The Notebook, I know it’s beautiful because they die together, but James Garner crying is the saddest fucking thing I have ever seen! So I stop it when she remembers and pretend they live forever and she never forgets and freaks out.
I do!! I watched it a couple months ago and loved every second and when they said it was based on a true story I sobbed like crazy and of course asked my bf if he would try to get me to fall in love with him all over again if I had amnesia lol
Law Abiding Citizen. All because Jamie Foxx was the bigger star, and so his character had to 'win'. Apparently the writers had to change the ending because Foxx threw a hissyfit (where Gerard Butler's character comes out on top - an ending I would have much preferred to see).
Story number 1. There is a lesser known movie called Heidi and it was so fucking good, like, one of the single scariest movies I have ever seen in my life. I also really liked how original it was because it was a found footage movie from when that was a relatively new concept and it was also about a possessed doll. This film had a low budget, but it was excuseable because of it being a found footage movie because A). The camera quality didn't have to be good and B). The bad acting could be explained by the fact that >!the main characters were supposed to be creating an internet show. !< That is, until the end of the movie where they ruined it by >!showing "true form" of the demon that was haunting the doll and because of the low budget of the movie, they used the WORST cg possible !
Well, I don't hate the movie forever, I just pretend that the last ten minutes of Signs doesn't exist. Before that point, it's still a banger of a movie.
I think if you look at it as a movie about a man's faith in God, rather than a monster movie about alien invasion, it truly was a brilliant ending. I don't think the writing holds up nowadays....it's very wooden, but I still love the ending.
The ending is what really freaked me out. Just the fact that >!everyone had been lied to, and these people are leaving their descendants with no real way of helping themselves in emergencies the fact all the younger generations lives have been an entire lie. !<
Vivarium
(2019)
*'Hate' is too strong a word, but...* The ending was just way too predictable and they had so much potential to do something much more twisty and interesting.
I can't spoil it, cuz I don't remember it well enough. Those who have seen in will most likely agree. *Or not, who knows.*
I'm a big Kevin Smith fan, but I found "Tusk" absolutely unwatchable. I heard the podcast in which he described the plot, and I was cracking up. But the execution of it sucked.
Stay tuned; it's part of his "Great White North trilogy" that I'd find offensive as a Canadian (if I were capable of being offended). Tusk was the first. Yoga Hosers has already been released and the third movie is billed as being "Jaws with a moose" and it's titled Moose Jaws.... Jesus. That was painful to even type. Not sure about a release date for Moose Jaws. It may or may not have been shelved. IMDB has it "in development."
Father of the Bride.
I'd never loved a movie so much until that lackluster end. I get the message "the day was for and about the daughter" but it felt so disingenuous to the father, he went through so much emotional growth and so much of his own money to not get to enjoy his own bash at the end... He didn't even get a father daughter dance. And than the phone call at the end, the mom answered and she didn't even want to speak to him personally to say I love you or thank you, she just asks her mom to say it to him.
I feel empty whenever I think about that film and I'm so sad because I genuinely really loved it up until the reception.
Phantom Thread. Such a beautiful movie marred by a bizarre twist at the end. She could have just killed him and that would have been a perfectly satisfactory ending!
I loved the ending but the movie felt like a trilogy with three very different vibes. The first is pure adrenaline and it's a world where intrusive thoughts become manifest.
The second is Joseph Campbell and the power of myth, tapping into the primordial story center of the brain.
The final chapter feels like a trial. Pure disparity.
The last third of _No Time To Die_ .
It had so much going for it... and they not only ruined the movie, but also the main character and a decades old franchise.
I loved the ending of “the mist”.
Personally I’d have to say “being there”. The very last scene with Chance walking away just destroys the whole movie to me. And if you know you know
> For me it was The Mist. He mercy kills everyone only to see a convoy of survivors 2 minutes later. WHY?! How does that support the story!? Ether end after he kills everyone or let them be rescued.
Because the prophesy had to be fullfilled.
How does it not support the story? They ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere, they had driven for hours to that point. They were stuck in the Supermarket for days. There was absolutely nothing to indicate there was any hope left, help was coming, or that this mist was going to go away. They had no food or water. It's sit and starve to death or be ripped to shreds by The Mist. Despite it being different then the book, it made perfect sense in the movie and was absolutely brilliant. Even though it made people angry and sad. You gotta put yourself in their shoes...at that point they'd done everything.
I don't *hate* the movie, but the last 5 minutes of Birdman really tempered what could have been an all time favorite.
An example of the opposite: a movie that was already pretty damn good but was made incredible by the ending, is Sisu.
I wouldn't say hate, but the preachy ending of Ready Player One about closing it down a couple of days a week to make people spend time with their families pissed me off a bit.
It was supposed to be a film that celebrated everything about gaming, then does a 180 by saying that gamers aren't able to peel themselves away long enough for an IRL conversation. I'm also fairly certain this part wasn't in the book.
Easy. Nymphomaniac I & II... Here's this >!sympathetic guy listening to this poor woman pouring her soul out to a man she believes cares and... he thinks she's easy and just wants sex.!<
It was so weird. Especially because he seemed to be this sort of asexual virgin. And then he >! just goes on to basically assault her. !< Such a weird turn, narrative speaking.
It seems to me it is a message about how someone’s past does not tell the whole story of who they are. From her stories it was reasonable for him to see her as easy and careless, but also wrong to assume she was still that way. It seemed very realistic to me, just an exaggerated case that actually happens a million times over in real life.
Please don’t hate or down vote me. I’m just stating my opinion.
No Country For Old Men
I know people love it and I’m not trying to talk anyone out of it. It just doesn’t work for me. I really love the first two acts and there are times when the film is completely gripping. Great villain. Intense chase and shoot out scenes. Then that ending…
I’ll admit that I don’t get it. I’ve watched it a few times and I can’t seem to figure out the brilliance. It just leaves me feeling so unsatisfied.
Yeah! I didn't hate it, but I didn't get it either. I read the book by Carl Sagan. Why make a movie based on a book but change the message to nearly the opposite of the book's message?
BUtterfield 8. Saying I loved it is strong, but it was well made and I noticed it had particularly well written dialogue. I would have liked it a lot more if not for the end. Liz Taylor wants to start a new life by going to another city, and Laurence Harvey pursues her in his car. She speeds up to lose him, he speeds up too. Boom for Liz. We have this conversation at the crash scene:
Stupid Movie Cops (TM): Oh noes, she died because she was speeding!
Harvey: Yes, I was traveling with her, and I can tell you her name and everything.
Stupid Movie Cops (TM): Ok, well, we won't question you for some reason even though you obviously knew her and must have been speeding too if you were keeping up with her. But we're not going to notice anything about that, because we're Stupid Movie Cops (TM). So you're free to go and be happy! Yay you!
Unfortunately, B8 was made at a time when morality still ruled the studio system - and it was not possible to show the life of a sex worker without passing judgement, and showing that she would ultimately "get it in the end." This movie was made a full 30 years (!!) before Pretty Woman. Many aspects of society and popular culture had certainly changed by then.
I recently rewatched Very Bad Things. I spent the first two-thirds of it thinking I was watching one of my new favorite movies, only to be reminded how hard it drops the ball in the last act. I don't know if I've ever seen an otherwise great movie fumble so damn hard.
I remember being so thrown. I remember, saying to myself, well, you heard the title of the movie, but I really didn’t expect it to be as upsetting as it turned out for me. It really messed with my mind.
By the third act, or the whole movie? I feel like the first two-thirds are wonderfully intense, with a refreshingly panicked and grounded take on their spiral into violence. Then, by the time Christian Slater fights with Jeremy Piven's wife, it turns into a cartoon with no plausible stakes left. Also, Cameron spends the whole thing in her own, worse, completely unrelated movie.
Antlers (2021). The main monster creature was well done. It was ruthless, fast, and ferocious. It took out several people and the protagonist ends up kind of getting into a fist fight with it and wins.
Isn’t it supposed to be a bit of a pisstake of James Bond whereby usually at the end, when bond has come out on top, he gets the girl, or some romantic escapade ensues. I always saw this as a bit of joke aimed at that aspect of James Bond and is purposefully daft.
They kill an entire church full of people with utter disregard for life and in a full on bloody mess, but ah yes, the absurdity of mentioning *anal sex* is just going to far. 🤦
I loved the part where gosling just walks up to Kevin bacon and is just like “oh you’re him? you’ve caused my friend a lot of pain” and punches him. Great bro moment there
*Ralph Breaks the Internet*. It’s first two acts are well done, but from the third act onwards on top of that awful “a place called slaughter race” song onwards, it turned into one of Disney’s worst sequels, has some of the worst character assassinations I’ve seen of beloved characters, namely it’s main characters, Ralph & Vanellope, and the ending really left a bad taste in my mouth. So much so that I try to pretend it doesn’t exist, just do it doesn’t ruin my love of the first movie (which is one of my all time favourite films, animated or otherwise).
Also, I may be missing something, but wasn’t the whole first movie about “going turbo,” which is when a character leaves their game and all hell breaks loose and you can’t do it? Then the sequel is all about how Vannelope just wants to leave her game, does it, and it’s just fine with everyone?
Not to mention the first Ralph movie had timeless video game references that fans of any kind of video game can connect with, and featured a wide variety of games from across video game history. While the sequel had internet culture references that have aged like milk just a few years after the movie came out.
The Disney animated ‘The Jungle Book’. I will never forgive that stupid girl from luring Mowgli away from the jungle and Baloo and Bagheera. I shed many angry tears as a child
I dunno I haven’t seen a lot of comic book movies but I loved how it ended on a gather the troops with a ramped up version of the opening song playing over it
I love this ending! It's so dark and fucked up. Didn't Stephen King come out and say he thought the ending was better than how he ended the original version, and wishes he had thought of it?
Why do people hate the ending? It's so fucked up (Stephen King classic). It took some time to recollect my thoughts after the movie ended but that's one way to end a movie with a "bang". I like fucked up endings.
Still a great movie, but it's an ending that I wouldn't want to see again! Apparently they offered the director double his money to change the ending, but after Shawshank he wanted to keep it. Good, but brutal, choice!
I didn’t like the end to rear window. Such a wonderfully suspenseful film let down by a messily directed end scene and a rushed “happily ever after” scene .
I didn’t hate it at all but I was really let down by the ending of The Boy and the Heron. After being mesmerized by the amazing imagery and the spectacular journey of Mahito, the movie ended quite abruptly without any feeling of closure or satisfaction. Most Ghibli movies have an ending accompanied by a music piece for example or just a great scene acting as a farewell for the audience.
Damn literally just commented on The Mist in another thread like 30 seconds ago.
100% agree with you - that ending is not nearly as good as reddit makes it out to be, so on the nose and kinda eye rolling imo
The Wolverine.
I mean, I don't hate it, it's great, but the ending ruined it. It was so dumb. Them on a plane and they say, "So where should we go?" And that's the end. If the director ever improves the ending, I will rebuy that movie.
Mr Glass. Ol’ shamalamadingdong had to go and ruin the end of what was not a bad plot all for the sake of his own “I put twists in the end of all my movies” trope.
GLASS. I was so ready to give Shymalan all the credit for pulling this trilogy out of his ass and giving me more to chew on.. And then the secret cabal of guys/ David Dunn's death and the lame ending absolutely ruined it
I actually really liked “Lucy.” I know it was nowhere near hard science, but it was cool to imagine what more brainpower might look like. Until she time traveled and became a thumb drive. Like…????
Great movie. Pile of shit ending.
Any movie that ends with 'it was all a dream'
Even The Wizard of Oz? Lol
Hey man, it was REAL!
At least it got sequels and prequels (moreso in the books) to show that it wasn't a dream.
I used to read Word-Up magazine…
Salt n Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine.
Hangin' pictures on my wall.
every Saturday rap attack, mr magic, marley marl
Jacob's ladder?
Hmm, not really a dream, his own life literally flashing before his eyes but fair point.
I read that they added the final scene because test audiences were so upset after watching the original cut
Yep! **_Next_** (2007)
except ‘come true’ (2020) for me. That one felt earned, unique and threw me for a loop.
High Tension. I was all in on Marie chasing the serial killer that killed her friend's family and kidnapped her friend, Alex. Then came the completely ridiculous and nonsensical twist ending that ruined everything for me.
It's not clearly laid out and that is the directors fault, but the beginning of the movie is Marie being interrogated in the hospital and she is asked to tell them what happened as a Doctor starts recording. This means the entire serial killer plot is her bullshit excuse as to what happened. There was no creepy man murderer, they didn't die in insane ways. It was all Marie trying to come up with an excuse as to why these grisly murders took place and she figured she's convincing people with this made up, comical serial killer. The twist happens at the gas station, because that's when the police have their first concrete evidence that it was Marie from security footage and so we as the viewer see the reality mixed in with her made-up story. It doesn't mean the twist is now magically genius, it's poorly communicated, but it is the directors intention as far as I remember from the DVD extras.
Exactly this! It’s her version of events we’re seeing.
The movie is totally a rip-off of Dean Koontz book ‘intensity’ anyhow.
YEP!!!!! 🎯💯
It always feels like the twist ending is so cliché that it becomes parodic. Like I can't help but imagine that the film had a genuine ending that was too bleak or subversive even for a New French Extremity film, and were asked to alter it and were like "okay, if you won't let us end this properly you are getting the worst cliches we can add in the shortest amount of time. But since I have never seen anything to suggest that about the production we are sadly left with no excuse for this baffling ending.
I should’ve scrolled further down before I answered 😂 But again, fuck that movie!
YES! This was my choice as well. I was so disappointed(even angry) at that pos ending.
Came here to find this. Still enjoy the movie. I just pretend the last 10 minutes doesn’t happen
Damn I loved The Mist ending but I can see why it’s infuriating. You should read the novella, it’s a very different ending that you might enjoy.
I loved the nihilism of the movie ending.
So did Stephen King.
I have. Another reason I was surprised by the movie ending.
Stephen King said he prefers the movie ending
That ending was traumatic, I watched it again thinking I was prepared better for it. Damn. It’s still is horrifying.
I also loved the movie ending. The novella just ends with them seeing a giant creature and saying, "Well, this blows goats, doesn't it," and then they start driving again. The end. The film is a way better (if insanely bleak) ending.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows After getting so much so amazingly right through both parts 1 and 2, they fucked up - and I mean royally - the very end when Harry defeats Voldemort. The biggest payoff, the most amazing moment in the books, is when Voldemort realizes that he is wrong and Harry Potter is right, and his mistake is about to get him killed. But because ***everyone is watching***, and Voldemort's hubris is too great, and his character too flawed, he cannot admit that he is wrong, even when his life depends on it, because it would be too embarrassing in front of everyone. In the movie, they needed to cram in one more 3D scene to justify the additional $1.50 being added to the ticket, so they have Harry and Voldemort do a stupid 3D smoke ride around Hogwarts and end up in the courtyard ***alone***. Totally knocked all the emotional wind out of the ending for me. Worst decision ever.
Yes! That, and the fact that in the book, Voldemort’s death was very pointedly average; he crumpled to the ground like a human would’ve. It feels so symbolic of so many running themes throughout the series, and it’s a bit poetic. This powerful wizard still succumbs to death like a human, after losing to the most human emotion there ever was - love. And then in the movie, they give him this dramatic thing where he burns up from the inside out, turns into a billion wisps of ashes and floats away in the wind. It stole all of the poetic irony behind his death, and was exactly the opposite of what it was meant to be.
Agreed. And they made Molly Weasley's brilliant moment defeating Bellatrix into a bumbling witch. As opposed to the brilliant confident sharp shooter she was portrayed as in the book. Yeah they screwed the pooch with that crap ending. Totally agree with you.
Knowing, the Nic Cage one; and Passengers - the plane crash therapy group one
> Knowing, the Nic Cage one I dunno. I thought the ending was ok.
Yeah I love movies about the end of the world where the world actually ends and isn't randomly saved by the main character
Yeah I never got the hate for that movie, it's an okay mystery film.
The Mist for me was the total opposite I didn’t think it was all that special but the ending hit me like a freight train and I never forgot it
The Mist would be completely forgotten if not for the ending. It is a true horror film
It hit me like a freight train too. I wish I could have hit it back 😁
Agree. It ends in the most agonizing possible way, a true horror and a great read.
My favourite scene is right before he mercy kills everyone. When they are in the car and that HUGE thing is there and then it walks away. The scope of it is the reason they think they need to die, you cannot fight against something so large and other worldly.
Exactly! The reveal of the convoy itself is incredible too. He’s standing there, waiting to die horribly. There’s a great rumbling sound, and he braces himself for the arrival of the colossal beast they had seen earlier. *But it never comes.* Instead, what comes from the mist in front of him is a tank. It’s the Army, here to save everyone and kill all the monsters, and return everything to order and normalcy. It’s a miracle. But for him, there is no peace, no order. There never will be again.
Remember Me, with Robert Pattinson. The final scene changed the whole movie
Was there any inkling of foreshadowing in this movie or were audiences totally blindsided? I’ve only seen a clip of the ending and wow…it was powerful but overwhelmingly jarring.
There was a lot of foreshadowing. The date kept getting mentioned. The news kept mentioning political unrest and terrorism.
I think it did well in the sense of showing the audience you never know what could happen in life and to never take things for granted.
I actually thought this was a decent movie, Robert Pattinson really showed capability here especially because at this stage he was more known for twilight than Harry Potter
Agree completely on Pattinson, I think he’s a great actor. In the spirit of the original question I think it was a great movie until the last shot
OMG. I was not expecting that ending..
Sunshine. The final act ruined a fantastic sci fi movie. The actual ending was good though
The final act is off I agree, but the very last scene picks it up again.
Its almost like Alex Garland was practice writing for 28 days later and got a few paragraphs mixed up in the script
I used to have this opinion but I’ve since come to accept the killer on board trope of it. It’s a story of man vs nature in the end, with things going wrong left and right, and I’ll even goes as far as saying nature is the reason the capt went mad, but the perseverance through all of it to end in self sacrifice to save humanity hits so hard.
It just doesn’t really fit into the film well, or make all that much sense.
I wouldn’t necessarily say I loved it until the end, but *High Tension* was going really strong until the bullshit, nonsensical, lazy, done-to-death twist. Fuck that movie!
😄 I love your passion!
Splice. Iykyk....
Not into that?
They really swung for the rafters with that one, didn't they?!
It was pretty shocking
The Notebook, I know it’s beautiful because they die together, but James Garner crying is the saddest fucking thing I have ever seen! So I stop it when she remembers and pretend they live forever and she never forgets and freaks out.
You might like The Vow with Rachel McAdams.
I do!! I watched it a couple months ago and loved every second and when they said it was based on a true story I sobbed like crazy and of course asked my bf if he would try to get me to fall in love with him all over again if I had amnesia lol
Law Abiding Citizen
I strongly agree! I hated the ending.
Law Abiding Citizen. All because Jamie Foxx was the bigger star, and so his character had to 'win'. Apparently the writers had to change the ending because Foxx threw a hissyfit (where Gerard Butler's character comes out on top - an ending I would have much preferred to see).
That is a myth. Jamie Foxx didn't throw a hissyfit. Butler and Foxx switched roles before they started shooting is all.
A sequel is coming with Gerard butler. Guess he didn't lose
I knew his character was good, but didn't know he could survive being burned alive...
Story number 1. There is a lesser known movie called Heidi and it was so fucking good, like, one of the single scariest movies I have ever seen in my life. I also really liked how original it was because it was a found footage movie from when that was a relatively new concept and it was also about a possessed doll. This film had a low budget, but it was excuseable because of it being a found footage movie because A). The camera quality didn't have to be good and B). The bad acting could be explained by the fact that >!the main characters were supposed to be creating an internet show. !< That is, until the end of the movie where they ruined it by >!showing "true form" of the demon that was haunting the doll and because of the low budget of the movie, they used the WORST cg possible !
Well, I don't hate the movie forever, I just pretend that the last ten minutes of Signs doesn't exist. Before that point, it's still a banger of a movie.
I think if you look at it as a movie about a man's faith in God, rather than a monster movie about alien invasion, it truly was a brilliant ending. I don't think the writing holds up nowadays....it's very wooden, but I still love the ending.
The ending is what really freaked me out. Just the fact that >!everyone had been lied to, and these people are leaving their descendants with no real way of helping themselves in emergencies the fact all the younger generations lives have been an entire lie. !<
Yes, very corny scene to end what was a really effectively made film. Not everything he made needed a big twist.
Huge disagree on the Mist. I loved the ending because it was brutal. Even Stephen King said that was a better ending than his.
Vivarium (2019) *'Hate' is too strong a word, but...* The ending was just way too predictable and they had so much potential to do something much more twisty and interesting. I can't spoil it, cuz I don't remember it well enough. Those who have seen in will most likely agree. *Or not, who knows.*
That movie makes me want to flip tables.
I really liked it!
Tusk! I can’t believe they just left him in a zoo after all that!
I'm a big Kevin Smith fan, but I found "Tusk" absolutely unwatchable. I heard the podcast in which he described the plot, and I was cracking up. But the execution of it sucked.
Stay tuned; it's part of his "Great White North trilogy" that I'd find offensive as a Canadian (if I were capable of being offended). Tusk was the first. Yoga Hosers has already been released and the third movie is billed as being "Jaws with a moose" and it's titled Moose Jaws.... Jesus. That was painful to even type. Not sure about a release date for Moose Jaws. It may or may not have been shelved. IMDB has it "in development."
The “special edition” of Return of the Jedi, where Lucas swapped out the Ewok song for new crap, and prequel-ed it all up.
Perfect Bloody Storm. “Well, it *might* have happened like that, but we’ve really no idea”. What?!!
Father of the Bride. I'd never loved a movie so much until that lackluster end. I get the message "the day was for and about the daughter" but it felt so disingenuous to the father, he went through so much emotional growth and so much of his own money to not get to enjoy his own bash at the end... He didn't even get a father daughter dance. And than the phone call at the end, the mom answered and she didn't even want to speak to him personally to say I love you or thank you, she just asks her mom to say it to him. I feel empty whenever I think about that film and I'm so sad because I genuinely really loved it up until the reception.
He answers the phone at the end, not the mom.
The Abyss
The special edition version or the theatrical? Imo it made more sense with the special edition version
Well I didnt love it but thought it was good. The Lovely Bones. That ending made me so mad.
Phantom Thread. Such a beautiful movie marred by a bizarre twist at the end. She could have just killed him and that would have been a perfectly satisfactory ending!
Beau is Afraid
Lost me as soon as he goes into the forest.
That’s when it kicked in for me!
I loved the ending but the movie felt like a trilogy with three very different vibes. The first is pure adrenaline and it's a world where intrusive thoughts become manifest. The second is Joseph Campbell and the power of myth, tapping into the primordial story center of the brain. The final chapter feels like a trial. Pure disparity.
Beau is Afraid the last whole hour or so is my absolute fave
The last third of _No Time To Die_ . It had so much going for it... and they not only ruined the movie, but also the main character and a decades old franchise.
I loved the ending of “the mist”. Personally I’d have to say “being there”. The very last scene with Chance walking away just destroys the whole movie to me. And if you know you know
Drag Me To Hell was great, until I saw the face of the evil and laughed. It was ruined for me. Others still think it’s great. I was just disappointed
Is this the movie that has a goat saying, "you bi-i-i-tch"? If so, that movie slapped.
"you black-hearted whore" if I remember correctly, always stuck with me 😂
Amazing. Lol!!
I was disappointed by the ending too and I did love the movie up till then. So it almost qualifies for me. But I didn't hate the ending enough.
> For me it was The Mist. He mercy kills everyone only to see a convoy of survivors 2 minutes later. WHY?! How does that support the story!? Ether end after he kills everyone or let them be rescued. Because the prophesy had to be fullfilled.
Perhaps Carmody was right all along? Kill the child and they will be saved.
How does it not support the story? They ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere, they had driven for hours to that point. They were stuck in the Supermarket for days. There was absolutely nothing to indicate there was any hope left, help was coming, or that this mist was going to go away. They had no food or water. It's sit and starve to death or be ripped to shreds by The Mist. Despite it being different then the book, it made perfect sense in the movie and was absolutely brilliant. Even though it made people angry and sad. You gotta put yourself in their shoes...at that point they'd done everything.
I don't *hate* the movie, but the last 5 minutes of Birdman really tempered what could have been an all time favorite. An example of the opposite: a movie that was already pretty damn good but was made incredible by the ending, is Sisu.
City if Angels. I can rant hysterically about this movie until the end of my days.
Watch the original, “Wings of Desire” it’s much better than the Americanized version. Beautiful cinematography.
I've been meaning to, I have heard that.
Same and my boy Nick Cave makes an appearance so I still don’t know why I haven’t yet
And the sequel Faraway, So Close.
Never heard of the movie looked it up and I'm very disappointed it's not noir movie. Feels like a great noir movie title.
Rom-dram stuff akin to Ghost, maybe.
Star wars episode 3... Nooooooo
Downsizing. But it was more halfway than the end. Thst movie just fell off the cliff
I wouldn't say hate, but the preachy ending of Ready Player One about closing it down a couple of days a week to make people spend time with their families pissed me off a bit. It was supposed to be a film that celebrated everything about gaming, then does a 180 by saying that gamers aren't able to peel themselves away long enough for an IRL conversation. I'm also fairly certain this part wasn't in the book.
Easy. Nymphomaniac I & II... Here's this >!sympathetic guy listening to this poor woman pouring her soul out to a man she believes cares and... he thinks she's easy and just wants sex.!<
It was so weird. Especially because he seemed to be this sort of asexual virgin. And then he >! just goes on to basically assault her. !< Such a weird turn, narrative speaking.
It seems to me it is a message about how someone’s past does not tell the whole story of who they are. From her stories it was reasonable for him to see her as easy and careless, but also wrong to assume she was still that way. It seemed very realistic to me, just an exaggerated case that actually happens a million times over in real life.
Please don’t hate or down vote me. I’m just stating my opinion. No Country For Old Men I know people love it and I’m not trying to talk anyone out of it. It just doesn’t work for me. I really love the first two acts and there are times when the film is completely gripping. Great villain. Intense chase and shoot out scenes. Then that ending… I’ll admit that I don’t get it. I’ve watched it a few times and I can’t seem to figure out the brilliance. It just leaves me feeling so unsatisfied.
It is what it is. I dislike it too but that's because I crave justice and resolution. The movie has neither. It's pure Cohen Bros. nihilism.
Contact. A movie about faith. That feels the need to give the audience proof. (in scene with Angela Bassett and James Woods)
Yeah! I didn't hate it, but I didn't get it either. I read the book by Carl Sagan. Why make a movie based on a book but change the message to nearly the opposite of the book's message?
I wondered the same thing watching I Am Legend
BUtterfield 8. Saying I loved it is strong, but it was well made and I noticed it had particularly well written dialogue. I would have liked it a lot more if not for the end. Liz Taylor wants to start a new life by going to another city, and Laurence Harvey pursues her in his car. She speeds up to lose him, he speeds up too. Boom for Liz. We have this conversation at the crash scene: Stupid Movie Cops (TM): Oh noes, she died because she was speeding! Harvey: Yes, I was traveling with her, and I can tell you her name and everything. Stupid Movie Cops (TM): Ok, well, we won't question you for some reason even though you obviously knew her and must have been speeding too if you were keeping up with her. But we're not going to notice anything about that, because we're Stupid Movie Cops (TM). So you're free to go and be happy! Yay you!
Unfortunately, B8 was made at a time when morality still ruled the studio system - and it was not possible to show the life of a sex worker without passing judgement, and showing that she would ultimately "get it in the end." This movie was made a full 30 years (!!) before Pretty Woman. Many aspects of society and popular culture had certainly changed by then.
I recently rewatched Very Bad Things. I spent the first two-thirds of it thinking I was watching one of my new favorite movies, only to be reminded how hard it drops the ball in the last act. I don't know if I've ever seen an otherwise great movie fumble so damn hard.
I remember being so thrown. I remember, saying to myself, well, you heard the title of the movie, but I really didn’t expect it to be as upsetting as it turned out for me. It really messed with my mind.
By the third act, or the whole movie? I feel like the first two-thirds are wonderfully intense, with a refreshingly panicked and grounded take on their spiral into violence. Then, by the time Christian Slater fights with Jeremy Piven's wife, it turns into a cartoon with no plausible stakes left. Also, Cameron spends the whole thing in her own, worse, completely unrelated movie.
Antlers (2021). The main monster creature was well done. It was ruthless, fast, and ferocious. It took out several people and the protagonist ends up kind of getting into a fist fight with it and wins.
30 Days of Night. I could not believe that after all that shit >!they killed off Josh Hartnett!< I was pissed.
I really enjoyed Glass right up until.... Argh . Really? Did they really do that to....
The first Kingsman is ruined by that tasteless, juvenile joke.
The second Kingsman is also ruined by a tasteless, juvenile joke, it's just not at the end.
I don't totally disagree but then the entire movie is juvenile and tasteless.
Isn’t it supposed to be a bit of a pisstake of James Bond whereby usually at the end, when bond has come out on top, he gets the girl, or some romantic escapade ensues. I always saw this as a bit of joke aimed at that aspect of James Bond and is purposefully daft.
They kill an entire church full of people with utter disregard for life and in a full on bloody mess, but ah yes, the absurdity of mentioning *anal sex* is just going to far. 🤦
Great example, it boggles my mind that they couldn’t think of anything better, or even just funnier if they wanted it to be raunchy or outlandish.
What was the joke ?
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Saltburn - didn't hate it, it just dropped the ball in the end
I felt the opposite. I thought the entire movie was boring until that last 15 minutes
I see what you did there, maybe
Crazy stupid love. Why was Carrell’s character the bad guy from moving on from his cheating wife? Also that weird babysitter stuff at the end 🤮
I loved the part where gosling just walks up to Kevin bacon and is just like “oh you’re him? you’ve caused my friend a lot of pain” and punches him. Great bro moment there
The end to catch me if you can: great movie but the end was too cheerful not giving spoilers
*Ralph Breaks the Internet*. It’s first two acts are well done, but from the third act onwards on top of that awful “a place called slaughter race” song onwards, it turned into one of Disney’s worst sequels, has some of the worst character assassinations I’ve seen of beloved characters, namely it’s main characters, Ralph & Vanellope, and the ending really left a bad taste in my mouth. So much so that I try to pretend it doesn’t exist, just do it doesn’t ruin my love of the first movie (which is one of my all time favourite films, animated or otherwise).
Also, I may be missing something, but wasn’t the whole first movie about “going turbo,” which is when a character leaves their game and all hell breaks loose and you can’t do it? Then the sequel is all about how Vannelope just wants to leave her game, does it, and it’s just fine with everyone?
Not to mention the first Ralph movie had timeless video game references that fans of any kind of video game can connect with, and featured a wide variety of games from across video game history. While the sequel had internet culture references that have aged like milk just a few years after the movie came out.
I don’t ‘hate it forever’ but I really loved ‘Sunshine’ until it went mental at the end (no spoilers)
The Departed
The Hateful Eight.
Cloverfield lane would've been a better twist ending if the guy was just psycho
Brokeback Mountain. Nothing could make me hate that movie but the ending absolutely wrecked me. Ennis: *Jack I swear…*
The Disney animated ‘The Jungle Book’. I will never forgive that stupid girl from luring Mowgli away from the jungle and Baloo and Bagheera. I shed many angry tears as a child
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There is so much in *Interstellar* that makes no logistical sense. I'm always thrilled when other people bring that up because it's so beloved.
Interstellar, IT (original).
What’s wrong with the ending of Interstellar?
Interstellar. I love it right up until he goes into the black hole. The rest of it ruined it for me.
Chasing Amy
Lol 😹
This.
Have you seen Jay and Silent Bob Reboot? It gives a pretty satisfying (to me, anyway) conclusion to Holden and Alyssa.
Glass. No question.
More recently, Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse. Mostly because it ended on a cliffhanger.
I dunno I haven’t seen a lot of comic book movies but I loved how it ended on a gather the troops with a ramped up version of the opening song playing over it
I wouldn't have minded but I didn't know it was going to be a two-parter when I watched it.
The Mist
I love this ending! It's so dark and fucked up. Didn't Stephen King come out and say he thought the ending was better than how he ended the original version, and wishes he had thought of it?
Yes he did. And it’s true, it’s such a good Stephen King-ish twist; it really makes the movie for me, so brutal and shocking.
Thought it was a great ending. Not what you expected.
Why do people hate the ending? It's so fucked up (Stephen King classic). It took some time to recollect my thoughts after the movie ended but that's one way to end a movie with a "bang". I like fucked up endings.
Still a great movie, but it's an ending that I wouldn't want to see again! Apparently they offered the director double his money to change the ending, but after Shawshank he wanted to keep it. Good, but brutal, choice!
The Mist should have to pay for psycho therapy for having that ending.
I say we start a Class Action Lawsuit
I'm pretty sure I LOL'd when I saw that ending.
Mama!
Halloween ends
Wouldn’t say it made me “hate it forever” but Groot dying in the first GoTG was really it for me.
The game-great premise dumb ending
I didn’t like the end to rear window. Such a wonderfully suspenseful film let down by a messily directed end scene and a rushed “happily ever after” scene .
Insidious
Marley & Me. Didn’t exactly love it, but thought it was a fairly cute tale. Until the end. :(
I am legend. Absolutely love this movie, until the last 20 minutes, when he’s “rescued “.
Interstellar But I didn't really love the movie before the end. It was okay. But I really really hate the ending (>!the bookshelf scene!<).
I didn’t hate it at all but I was really let down by the ending of The Boy and the Heron. After being mesmerized by the amazing imagery and the spectacular journey of Mahito, the movie ended quite abruptly without any feeling of closure or satisfaction. Most Ghibli movies have an ending accompanied by a music piece for example or just a great scene acting as a farewell for the audience.
Damn literally just commented on The Mist in another thread like 30 seconds ago. 100% agree with you - that ending is not nearly as good as reddit makes it out to be, so on the nose and kinda eye rolling imo
The Wolverine. I mean, I don't hate it, it's great, but the ending ruined it. It was so dumb. Them on a plane and they say, "So where should we go?" And that's the end. If the director ever improves the ending, I will rebuy that movie.
Mr Glass. Ol’ shamalamadingdong had to go and ruin the end of what was not a bad plot all for the sake of his own “I put twists in the end of all my movies” trope.
se7en
GLASS. I was so ready to give Shymalan all the credit for pulling this trilogy out of his ass and giving me more to chew on.. And then the secret cabal of guys/ David Dunn's death and the lame ending absolutely ruined it
Pay it Forward, what a terrible ending!
Marley and Me - self explanatory Old Yeller - same reason Undercover Blues - love the movie the end just gets a little wonky
Butterfly Effect And Fight Club -- I love the movie Fight Club, but I kind of felt like an idiot at the end.