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Posted: May 11 2009 07:53 pm

I'd like to nominate Looney Tunes: Back In Action. I am a huge mark for Joe Dante, and the film is largely entertaining. At the very end though, it's revealed that everything that happened in the film was fake, and Bugs Bunny was just trying to trick Daffy into being in a movie with him again, something Daffy was "fired" from Warner Bros. for early in the film because he was sick of being upstaged by Bugs.

I feel like I was cheated, and I want a real ending.

Posted: May 12 2009 01:22 am

All 7 consecutive endings to Return of the King Rolling Eyes

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1. The ending to the Bakshi "Lord of the Rings". Great movie and it was running a little long, but after the battle of Helms Deep the narrator says "...and the forces of darkness were driven forever from the the face of Middle Earth..." At it just ends. No sequel.

2. "Knights" with Kris Kristofferson and Lance Henriksen. If you've seen this movie you know that a). it's awesome and b). the ending is retardedly compressed into a 2 minute chase and narration montage. This is after a 30 minute martial arts training montage.

Posted: May 12 2009 07:52 pm

Matrix Revolution
The Village (In fact, just about every M.Night folm after 6th Sense)
Return of the Jedi (Really, it's very stupid when you think about it.)

Posted: May 12 2009 08:47 pm

I would say Monster A Go-GO. I only saw it through MST3K, but look it up if you don't know about it. It is bad. If we are going to nominate Star Wars movies The Phantom Menace is awful though.

Posted: May 13 2009 12:53 am

God, there are so many...

The only one I can think of off the top of my head is "The Knowing." Yes, that movie again. No, I will never pass up a chance to pummel it further into the ground.

Speaking of random aliens showing up for no reason whatsoever, I can't believe no one's yet said "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."

Ross Rifle wrote:

All 7 consecutive endings to Return of the King Rolling Eyes

Blasphemer! Your license to be a practicing nerd is hereby revoked until such time as you make amends by composing a ballad in Peter Jackson's honor!

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: May 13 2009 12:59 am

Terminator 3.

Also, while the movie itself was complete garbage, Pay It Forward had an ending that made me want to puke.

Posted: May 13 2009 01:18 am

UsaSatsui wrote:

Terminator 3.

Also, while the movie itself was complete garbage, Pay It Forward had an ending that made me want to puke.

YES! Cannot believe I forgot that. Rarely have I been as pissed at the end of a movie as I was by that. Sad part is, I really liked Kevin Spacy's performance. Too bad the movie itself was utter shit.

Posted: May 13 2009 03:09 am

I just think it could have been pulled off better. Like, short fades instead of making me stand up, read to leave the theatre 5 god-damned times. And then sitting there for 5 mintues after the movie did end just to make sure.

Posted: May 13 2009 03:17 am

Thorton02 wrote:

1. The ending to the Bakshi "Lord of the Rings". Great movie and it was running a little long, but after the battle of Helms Deep the narrator says "...and the forces of darkness were driven forever from the the face of Middle Earth..." At it just ends. No sequel.

You're kidding right? I actually fell asleep watching it.

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I wasn't a fan of the wrestler ending, but that might just be because it's fresh on my mind now

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lordsathien wrote:

Thorton02 wrote:

1. The ending to the Bakshi "Lord of the Rings". Great movie and it was running a little long, but after the battle of Helms Deep the narrator says "...and the forces of darkness were driven forever from the the face of Middle Earth..." At it just ends. No sequel.

You're kidding right? I actually fell asleep watching it.

Listen, before little kids had Peter Jackson's epic to watch, this was the closest thing Tolkien fans could get to awesome. The narration was great, they used live action behind a red screen and then drew over it to get the Nazgul right. I think the Nazgul in this movie were more bad ass than in Peter Jackson's.

I'll give you the fact that Frodo sounded like Davy Jones from the Monkeys and Sam was obviously a retard who was sexually abused by every male hobbit in the shire, but this movie rules without question.....except for the ending.

Posted: May 13 2009 04:29 pm

Ross Rifle wrote:

I just think it could have been pulled off better. Like, short fades instead of making me stand up, read to leave the theatre 5 god-damned times. And then sitting there for 5 mintues after the movie did end just to make sure.

I disagree. I thought it was a very eloquent way of signaling the "ending" of each story point, and that it worked quite well. Like white space between sections in a book. It let the stories wrap up gently, and put a solid period at the end of each one. I liked that.

On the other hand, I guess if I had been waiting to get up and got faked out a couple of times, that would have been annoying. But since I generally sit all the way through the credits of movies I really like anyway (if only to show respect), I didn't have that problem.

Posted: May 13 2009 04:51 pm

I didn't hate pay it forward, it was good for it's intended audience. A feel good/bad story that is supposed to make you appreciate life and "inspire" you. It was "good" for people who eat that shit up and it had Kevin Spacy.

Posted: May 13 2009 04:52 pm

For Return of the King you should be glad they left The Scouring of the Shire chapter out of the movie. The book's ending is even longer.

Posted: May 13 2009 04:59 pm

jackfrost wrote:

For Return of the King you should be glad they left The Scouring of the Shire chapter out of the movie. The book's ending is even longer.

Plus, its just fucking depressing. Its one of the rare times I've liked how a movie handled something better than the book.

Not that it doesn't WORK in the book, and intellectually it makes sense. But my heart was really, really glad to see the Hobbits back home and happy after all they'd been through.

Of course, we did miss out on Merry and Pippin leading the resistance and kicking ass, but oh well.

Posted: May 13 2009 06:27 pm

Knyte wrote:

Matrix Revolution
The Village (In fact, just about every M.Night folm after 6th Sense)
Return of the Jedi (Really, it's very stupid when you think about it.)

Well fuck you Knyte, I loved ROTJ, and still no matter what, it is my favorite movie of the series. So screw you!

Posted: May 13 2009 06:43 pm

The Day After Tomorrow and Sunshine come to my mind.

Posted: May 13 2009 06:58 pm

Dr. Wily wrote:

Knyte wrote:

Matrix Revolution
The Village (In fact, just about every M.Night folm after 6th Sense)
Return of the Jedi (Really, it's very stupid when you think about it.)

Well fuck you Knyte, I loved ROTJ, and still no matter what, it is my favorite movie of the series. So screw you!

I just find it completely ludicris that you have this gigantic empire who controls hundreds of worlds, and have a massive galatic army be completely and utterly defeated because:

A. Teddy Bears with sticks defeated the Empire's Special Forces
B. The Emperor was killed.
C. Darth Vader resigned. (So to speak)
D. The 2nd Death Star was destroyed.

What about the other millions of loyal members of the empire, did they just quit because their leader was dead? You're telling me there was no equivilent to the Speaker of the House of Representatives? (ie the Guy who becomes President of the US if both the President & Vice-President die) Also, if the rebellion had been in existance since shortly after the birth of the empire, they couldn't acheive in years what a tribe of care bears did in an hour?

And, yes I realize that the books explain what happens after ROTJ, and how the empire still exists with people like Vice Admiral Thrawn, etc. But, guess what, that shit didn't exist when ROTJ came out, nor was even planned. The ending of the movie was set up for you to believe that suddenly everything was happy and perfect after the Death Star exploded and the Emperor died. Fuck, even AFTER the books came out, when Lucas re-did ROTJ, he didn't show any hint of evil still existing. He just added in more planets celebrating that happy days had arrived.

I'm not saying the movie sucks. I'm just saying the ending does. Three movies all wrapped up in a sugar coated package of "happily ever after".

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Knyte wrote:

Dr. Wily wrote:

Knyte wrote:

Matrix Revolution
The Village (In fact, just about every M.Night folm after 6th Sense)
Return of the Jedi (Really, it's very stupid when you think about it.)

Well fuck you Knyte, I loved ROTJ, and still no matter what, it is my favorite movie of the series. So screw you!

I just find it completely ludicris that you have this gigantic empire who controls hundreds of worlds, and have a massive galatic army be completely and utterly defeated because:

A. Teddy Bears with sticks defeated the Empire's Special Forces
B. The Emperor was killed.
C. Darth Vader resigned. (So to speak)
D. The 2nd Death Star was destroyed.

What about the other millions of loyal members of the empire, did they just quit because their leader was dead? You're telling me there was no equivilent to the Speaker of the House of Representatives? (ie the Guy who becomes President of the US if both the President & Vice-President die) Also, if the rebellion had been in existance since shortly after the birth of the empire, they couldn't acheive in years what a tribe of care bears did in an hour?

And, yes I realize that the books explain what happens after ROTJ, and how the empire still exists with people like Vice Admiral Thrawn, etc. But, guess what, that shit didn't exist when ROTJ came out, nor was even planned. The ending of the movie was set up for you to believe that suddenly everything was happy and perfect after the Death Star exploded and the Emperor died. Fuck, even AFTER the books came out, when Lucas re-did ROTJ, he didn't show any hint of evil still existing. He just added in more planets celebrating that happy days had arrived.

I'm not saying the movie sucks. I'm just saying the ending does. Three movies all wrapped up in a sugar coated package of "happily ever after".

you are not alone:

http://www.cracked.com/article_16570_6-most-depressing-happy-endings-in-movie-history.html

Posted: May 13 2009 09:10 pm

Chile Guy wrote:

The Day After Tomorrow and Sunshine come to my mind.

Day After Tomorrow I could give you, although that was more just "really depressing" than "bad" imho. But Sunshine? Really?? I always found that to be one of the most sublime and beautiful endings of any movie I've ever watched.

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the wrestler

this is an awesome movie but the end while some people liked it and i did get it, i just didnt think it was a good ending. is he gonna die? i dunno

Posted: May 18 2009 05:34 am

UsaSatsui wrote:

Terminator 3.

EPIC FAIL.

The Dawn of the Dead remake. If the movie ended when it was supposed to, it would have been great. Instead, some asshole decided that just because the credits were rolling didn't mean the movie had to end. And so, THE SURVIVING CHARACTERS GET KILLED OFF DURING THE FUCKING CREDITS. Who the fuck does that?

There are exactly two appropriate things you can show in a credit sequence:

1) bloopers/outtakes
2) a magazine/newsreel montage that brielfy explains the fallout of the main characters blowing up the Stay Puft Marshallow Man or whatever the hell they did.

Subsequently, there are exactly two appropriate things you can show in an after-credit sequence:

1) A random joke
2) A teaser for the sequel

But the actual movie fucking ends the second the credits start rolling. If you have more story left to tell, THEN MAKE YOUR FUCKING MOVIE LONGER.

Posted: May 18 2009 06:28 am

Syd Lexia wrote:

UsaSatsui wrote:

Terminator 3.

EPIC FAIL.

The Dawn of the Dead remake. If the movie ended when it was supposed to, it would have been great. Instead, some asshole decided that just because the credits were rolling didn't mean the movie had to end. And so, THE SURVIVING CHARACTERS GET KILLED OFF DURING THE FUCKING CREDITS. Who the fuck does that?

There are exactly two appropriate things you can show in a credit sequence:

1) bloopers/outtakes
2) a magazine/newsreel montage that brielfy explains the fallout of the main characters blowing up the Stay Puft Marshallow Man or whatever the hell they did.

Subsequently, there are exactly two appropriate things you can show in an after-credit sequence:

1) A random joke
2) A teaser for the sequel

But the actual movie fucking ends the second the credits start rolling. If you have more story left to tell, THEN MAKE YOUR FUCKING MOVIE LONGER.

Totally agree. I'm sure there's one or two exceptions out there, but I can't think of them and they are no doubt the ones that prove the rule anyway.

But why all the hate for the T3 ending? Its been years since I've seen it, but I don't remember it being particularly bad. Skynet nukes the world, John starts the resistance, and sets the stage for Salvation, right? Or am I forgetting something?

Posted: May 18 2009 06:36 am

No, that's what happens. And it was awesome. You expect Arnold to save the day, because Arnold ALWAYS saves the day. But instead, he just saves John Connor and Kate Brewster.