#34474 - Fri Jan 25 2002 01:09 AM
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Without a doubt in my mind, the worst ending to any film or book is that all the events turn out to be a dream of the main character! The 1939 "Wizard Of Oz" is a prime example. I also remember Fritz Lang's "The Woman In The Window", his 1944 thriller with the worst dream ending af all time: after getting mixed up with murder and blackmail, Edward G. Robinson attempts suicide...only to be wakened from his dream! Isn't that STUPID? I mean, he's about to kill himself, then "it's all a dream"? SEEEESHHHH! tjoeb};> 
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#34475 - Fri Jan 25 2002 01:30 AM
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Corny as it was, I liked "The Wizard of Oz".  I remember watching it when I was litle on our Betamax... *grin* I think the worst ending ever has got to be "American Psycho". That movie just made no sense at all. The ending didn't clearly tie together all the things it was supposed to (I had to have it explained to me by someone who had read the book before I understood what was going on). Another bad movie ending was "The Lord of the Flies". In the book you completely understand that Ralph was crying for the fate of humanity, but in the movie version that doesn't get across (again, unless you are already familiar with the book). It just looks like little wimpy Ralph is crying because nobody wanted to play with him his way.  If you're going to make a movie from a book, you have to keep in mind that not everybody who sees it will have read the book, no matter how popular you think the book is. The movie, and everything you are supposed to read into it, should be able to stand on its own.
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#34476 - Fri Jan 25 2002 06:26 AM
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I loved the movie American History X, but the ending made it lose some status in my mind. Not because Danny died, but because of the mistakes they made. When he got shot, the papers go flying, then in the next shot they are neatly rolled in his hand, then on the floor. The movie flowed so smoothly and then to end it with such a large mistake— I think that was a pretty bad ending for an excellent movie.
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#34477 - Sat Jan 26 2002 01:52 AM
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After the credits started rolling at the end of American Psycho, I looked over at my husband, and said "HUH?" He was just as confused as I was! It had to be the worse moving ending I've ever seen. Well, Terry, maybe you just don't like "The Wizard of Oz" in the first place? I love it, but I know some people who say it bores them stiff-too sweet. I also like movies with a hopeful note at the end-like GTTW-I just figured Rhett came back, didn't you?
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#34478 - Sat Jan 26 2002 02:08 AM
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I think one of the worst endings to one of the best movies is What Lies Beneath. Even if he did try to kill her, couldn't she have just forgiven him, like I would have done? Probably just because it's Harrison Ford.
Another with a pitiful ending is The Mighty. Freak dies at the end.
The movie was narrated, so why couldn't it have told about his death later?
One more. The Mosquito Coast was a great movie but ended awful.
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#34479 - Sat Jan 26 2002 02:43 AM
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I agree with Lady and Linda with American Psycho having one of the worst endings. I have never even heard that there was a book...I just went to the movie with some friends and even they had no clue how to rate it. I have never seen the original movie of The Planet of the Apes, but I have seen the newer version of it. The rest of the movie was really cool, but the ending was totally dumb. I mean where the guy comes back to earth and it's taken over by apes. Maybe that's how the original version ends also. I don't know... Another movie was Jurassic Park 3. The first Jurassic Park was good. I've never seen the second one. Though I have seen the third and let me tell you that it was getting old. Have any of you seen "FX?" I think that the theme and plot of the movie was excellent, but the movie itself was not all what it had seemed. -------------------- What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the one who made you cry?
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#34480 - Sat Jan 26 2002 04:05 AM
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I agree that the ending of the remake of The Planet Of The Apes made no sense at all except to leave it open for a sequel.
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#34482 - Mon Jan 28 2002 03:55 PM
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I have always been disappointed by the ending in Hitchcock's "The Birds". His original script called on having the main character finally escape to San Fransisco, where he sees the golden gate bridge covered in birds. That would have been such a cool ending.. But alas it ends with him just driving through a field of birds.
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#34483 - Tue Jan 29 2002 12:02 AM
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Here's a confession, in "2001 a Space Odyssey" I could never get that darn ending. And I didn't find it that spectacular. Castaway seemed interminable. Dark, dreary, get on with life buddy, let that woman get into the house, or else get her into the car, but do it! I loved the Wizard of Oz's ending with her timbre of voice and her seeing the people who were familiar to her and saying "you were there, and you..and you.." and no one treated her like she was crazy!
Just thinking about it gives me the chills.
It's the transition between the dream state and reality that I like. [ 01-29-2002: Message edited by: Bruyere ]
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#34484 - Fri Feb 01 2002 02:43 PM
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'Bicentenial Man' I thought was going to be good and it started out great, but then in the end it became awful.
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#34485 - Fri Feb 01 2002 03:02 PM
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I just watched Planet of the Apes the other day and I agree with what others said. It doesn't even come close to the original, entertaining wise. Anyone catch Charlton Heston's cameo? Close Encounters of the Third Kind not only had a bad ending, the whole movie was a bore! Yawn. [ 02-01-2002: Message edited by: Brainy Blonde ]
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#34486 - Sun Feb 03 2002 12:05 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by Lanni:
[QB]I loved the movie American History X, but the ending made it lose some status in my mind.Not because Danny died, but because of the mistakes they made. When he got shot, the papers go flying, then in the next shot they are neatly rolled in his hand, then on the floor. QB]
LOL I never noticed that in the movie but now I have to watch it again. I can't believe I missed such a huge mistake as that.
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#34487 - Sun Feb 03 2002 12:07 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by Terry:
I have always been disappointed by the ending in Hitchcock's "The Birds". His original script called on having the main character finally escape to San Fransisco, where he sees the golden gate bridge covered in birds. That would have been such a cool ending.
I heard that too and I would have to agree with you.
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#34488 - Sun Feb 10 2002 05:58 PM
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In regards to Planet Of The Apes, I had heard that Burton jumped into it late in the project and had to kind of put together what he was given and that was at least something for him to use to his advantage. Anybody know what I'm talking about?
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#34489 - Sun Feb 10 2002 08:53 PM
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Ooh completely agree with everone on Planet of the Apes remake and The Birds! Has anybody else read The Birds, the original by Daphne du Maurier? I read it before seeing the movie, and I'm not sure which I liked better. They both had really sucky endings. I actually liked Gone With the Wind. I think it made a really good transposition from book to silver screen. I've not yet seen another movie that followed its book so closely. Oh! And tonight I saw Evolution. Talk about your all-time sucky endings. I mean, come on! Shampoo? Did their writers actually sit around and ask each other "How sucky can we make the ending of this movie?" I was so psyched the first time they tried and it didn't work. I said to myself "Oh, good! Now they'll have to think of a REAL solution!" Why on earth did David Duchovney quiz X-Files "for his career" to work on movies like this one!?
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#34490 - Mon Feb 11 2002 05:32 AM
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I really think we all agree on 'American Psycho', the only reason I watched the movie was because my brother called me and asked if I could explain the ending to him.
Has anyone seen the movie 'Desperate For Love' with Christian Slater? It may have been a good movie but there is NO ending, the movie is based on a true story and in real life they never found out who the killer was, so the movie just leaves you going, "HUH?".
After watchin the DVD bonuses on 'Clerks' I was glad they went with the ending they went with. In the original ending Dante dies, that would have just made the whole movie suck.
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#34491 - Sat Sep 07 2002 09:38 AM
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I am glad I am not the only one who didn't understand the ending to the new "Planet of the Apes" ette 
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#34492 - Sat Sep 07 2002 08:32 PM
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Without a doubt, Vanilla Sky. It makes me mad just to think about it! All that was just... a dream I guess... and then at the end, he dies! Doesn't he? It's really hard to tell.....
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#34493 - Mon Dec 30 2002 03:50 PM
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I remember a movie I've seen about 1 year ago, it was called "Horror 101", though I don't know if this is the original title. Maybe you know it... it was set in a college where filmmakers studied (damn German... what's the English word for "Filmhochschule"?!), and they took a course in how to make horror movies. During the movie, the students vanished one after the other, and so on. It was really suspenseful, but the ending was total crap! I would have loved the ending as follows: The teacher (who turned out to be a psychopathic murderer) is just a normal teacher with a sense of black humor, and the whole thing about students vanishing and apparently being murdered is nothing but the final exam of this course... no more, no less. But no, the teacher had to be a dangerous murderer, and all the students ended up as dogfood! I hated it! It was so, well... predictable.
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#34494 - Fri Jan 03 2003 12:24 AM
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In reply to:
Here's a confession, in "2001 a Space Odyssey" I could never get that darn ending.
And I didn't find it that spectacular.
I have to admit, I loved the ending of '2001', once I figured it out, of course (or at least came up with my own meaning. It may not be what Kubrick had in mind). I've seen it so many times now, but I still get a kick out of it.
I think one of the worst movie endings I've seen was that of 'So I Married an Axe Murderer'. That film was absolutely hilarious right up until the end (especially Mike Myers playing his own character's Scottish dad), but it really seemed like the filmmakers had no clue how to tie up the plot. It just became silly, and not particularly funny, in my opinion.
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#34496 - Fri Jan 03 2003 12:02 PM
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I always hated the ending of Citizen Kane, in which Dorothy clicks her heels together three times, says "there's no place like home" and then awakens to realize that Colonel Jessup actually ordered the Code Red on Santiago.
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#34497 - Fri Jan 03 2003 09:05 PM
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Well, I hated "2001" and the first "Star Trek" movies simply because they seemed way too long and boring. Bad endings? Let me count the movies... 1. "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" You know, the one where they meet 'God'. Find someone who didn't think the ending was a let-down. 2. I hate to say this but "Godsford Park". The credits started rolling and I was left thinking "what?! Wait! It's over? But who did it? Huh?" I think they spent so much time trying to introduce all the characters (and I still was wishing they had nametags) that the end of the movie just seemed WAY too rushed! 3. "Pearl Harbor" I saw the movie thinking it was going to be centered around the attack, not a love story. I'm sorry, but it could have been a great movie about the attack - the whole middle of the movie was amazing! But the love story sort of detracted from it, IMHO. I'm not one of those people who likes a romantic action film (or an action romantic film), I sort of like one or the other. 4. Hate to add another one to the list but... "Star Trek: Nemesis." Could they have made it any more obvious that Data's 'brother' was going to be significant for SOME reason after Data deactivated him? And what was this with Picard freezing? Has he ever frozen up when he's had a job to do before? I kept thinking "if Janeway were here she'd be kicking that guy's butt and never looking back - even if it was a clone of her!" And then Troi being so unprofessional on the bridge - it's a wonder they let her pilot the ship. (And just so you know, I really did like the movie, but I am one of those people who will nitpick Star Trek to death  And that's all I can think of now...
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