Worst Movie Endings

[john_1958]

Originally Posted by tacoreed

How about worst movie endings:

My vote for worst endings go to Vanilla Sky, Juno, and Fight Club.

what about "the village"

[makaveli21]

Absolutely Identity. The ending ruined the entire movie for me.

[Show spoiler]Having all of the main characters being made up completely made me have no interest in any of them, thus I didn't care if any of them "lived" or "died." Worst ending ever.

[Sooner39]

The worst ending to a movie would be Saving Private Ryan. The entire movie you think you are seeing a flashback from Tom Hanks point of view. Then at the end, you realize that the movie is being told by a private that doesn't show up until the movie is almost over. How did he know the details of D-day when he wasn't there. I hate movies that take you in one direction for the special effects and then redirect you in the middle to tell the story.

[ClaytonMG]

Originally Posted by Sooner39

The worst ending to a movie would be Saving Private Ryan. The entire movie you think you are seeing a flashback from Tom Hanks point of view. Then at the end, you realize that the movie is being told by a private that doesn't show up until the movie is almost over. How did he know the details of D-day when he wasn't there. I hate movies that take you in one direction for the special effects and then redirect you in the middle to tell the story.

Weird... I didn't get that at all. The old man looked like Private Ryan (Matt Damon) to me so I just assumed it was him. Mix that with the age difference...

[Sooner39]

I get that it was Private Ryan st the grave site. The problem was that the movie followed all the details of the guys finding him. How could Ryan have known all the details it took to find him. I also understand that he could have been told these after the fact, but it was misleading. I loved the movie, but I just wish it wasn't made into a flashback of memories, when they weren't his.

[quirkmanly]

Originally Posted by Sooner39

I get that it was Private Ryan st the grave site. The problem was that the movie followed all the details of the guys finding him. How could Ryan have known all the details it took to find him. I also understand that he could have been told these after the fact, but it was misleading. I loved the movie, but I just wish it wasn't made into a flashback of memories, when they weren't his.

They're not flashbacks.

[Mouse]

Originally Posted by Sooner39

The worst ending to a movie would be Saving Private Ryan. The entire movie you think you are seeing a flashback from Tom Hanks point of view. Then at the end, you realize that the movie is being told by a private that doesn't show up until the movie is almost over. How did he know the details of D-day when he wasn't there. I hate movies that take you in one direction for the special effects and then redirect you in the middle to tell the story.

Actually Saving Private Ryan was based on true events. The film makers went around and interviewed everyone they could to try and get the "full picture" of what happened to the guys that went to find Ryan. The movie was not about Ryan but the journey the other soldiers went thru to find Ryan. Them showing Ryan at the end was him asking if he's led a good enough life to make up for all the lives lost from trying to save just him. I thought it was brilliant.

I just recently watched No Country for Old Men and have to say... HUH?! WTF?! The movie was pretty good but it left me with WAY too many questions. Like, how did the Mexicans keep finding him? How did that bounty hunter find him after only three hours? What was that crazy guys point in the movie other than killing people? Was it his drugs or his money? What even happened to the money? When a sherif just gets up and quits like Tommy Lee did in this movie it just makes me want to slap him upside the head and call him a quitter. Another thing they got wrong was any real hunter would not go out into West Texas without any water. So if the movie would of simply answered some of those questions it would of been awesome.

[makaveli21]

Originally Posted by Mouse

Like, how did the Mexicans keep finding him?

At first they had a homing device too like Chigurgh, and at the end they found out from the mother-in-law.

[DrXym]

Originally Posted by Mouse

Actually Saving Private Ryan was based on true events. The film makers went around and interviewed everyone they could to try and get the "full picture" of what happened to the guys that went to find Ryan. The movie was not about Ryan but the journey the other soldiers went thru to find Ryan. Them showing Ryan at the end was him asking if he's led a good enough life to make up for all the lives lost from trying to save just him. I thought it was brilliant.

Actually no it wasn't. Band of Brothers was based on true events. Saving Private Ryan was a work of fiction.

[DrXym]

Unbreakable had a terrible ending. Bruce Willis' character discovers out what Mr Glass did, walks away and then the film ends in freeze frame with a paragraph to explain what happened next. Up until the freeze it was an okay movie, then the freeze occurs so abruptly it feels like you've thrown out of the movie 5 minutes before the proper end.

[Ernest Rister]

Usually bright endings to dark films like the previously mentioned Blade Runner, AI, etc.

Dude, the ending to A.I. was NOT a studio-madated interference, it was Kubrick's original ending...Spielberg did not add a happy ending, he took the movie where Kubrick took it -- a fake mother made for a fake son, and the fake son happy to die along side of an illusion.

[Ectoplasm]

Worse was The Wickerman. Awful movie.

[Kyzer the Medic]

The only real groan inducing ending I can remember lately was Dead Silence.. the movie had some creepy points and then just went way overboard at the end for me..

[GORT]

Originally Posted by DrXym

Actually no it wasn't. Band of Brothers was based on true events. Saving Private Ryan was a work of fiction.

No, D-Day was a real event

[Offender_Mullet]

Originally Posted by DrXym

Actually no it wasn't. Band of Brothers was based on true events. Saving Private Ryan was a work of fiction.

Google is your friend. The Ryan character is based on Fritz Niland, who lost two brothers in Normandy and a third brother, who was M.I.A. in Burma, was presumed dead. The third brother was later found alive. Niland, (the real soldier) was dropped behind German lines as were many other paratroopers mis-dropped all over Normandy. In a way you are right though, as it's just loosely based on that soldier's experience.

lol Gort has the quote of the year so far.

Originally Posted by OARmaster

The Mist has the absolute worst ending in history.

Best movie ending I've seen in a loooooooooong time.

[SpaceDog]

Originally Posted by Sooner39

The worst ending to a movie would be Saving Private Ryan. The entire movie you think you are seeing a flashback from Tom Hanks point of view. Then at the end, you realize that the movie is being told by a private that doesn't show up until the movie is almost over. How did he know the details of D-day when he wasn't there. I hate movies that take you in one direction for the special effects and then redirect you in the middle to tell the story.

Someone who was saved in this way, and who feels that they deserved to be saved no more than the men who died saving him would have been VERY likely to seek to find out every minute detail of what happenned... specifically to honor that memory.

[Pelican170]

Originally Posted by SpaceDog

Someone who was saved in this way, and who feels that they deserved to be saved no more than the men who died saving him would have been VERY likely to seek to find out every minute detail of what happenned... specifically to honor that memory.

Exactly, you are right.

[ground chuck]

gangs of new york......

[OARmaster]

Originally Posted by Sooner39

The worst ending to a movie would be Saving Private Ryan. The entire movie you think you are seeing a flashback from Tom Hanks point of view. Then at the end, you realize that the movie is being told by a private that doesn't show up until the movie is almost over. How did he know the details of D-day when he wasn't there. I hate movies that take you in one direction for the special effects and then redirect you in the middle to tell the story.

I'm sorry for responding to such an old comment, but...wtf? How do any of us know the details of a historic event? Just because it went beyond your intellectual capacity doesn't mean it is a bad ending. The story made perfect sense. The old man was telling the story about the sacrifices made by soldiers for their country and fellow service members.

[MLK]

Originally Posted by makaveli21

Absolutely Identity. The ending ruined the entire movie for me.

[Show spoiler]Having all of the main characters being made up completely made me have no interest in any of them, thus I didn't care if any of them "lived" or "died." Worst ending ever.

Yes, I agree...thank you. Everyone else I saw it with liked that convenient as hell ending.

I didn't like the ending to The Forgotten, and I didn't like the ending to Deja Vu...actually the last third of the movie or whenever Denzel

[Show spoiler]found out they could go back in time

now that sh*t was ridiculous