Worst Movie Endings Ever.

[BurtWorm]

Poll question: Worst Movie Endings Ever.

Some blockbuster in the 1970s or 1980s started the trend of movies having six or seven endings because the makers couldn't decide which one to pick--or the producers decided to pick several movies to please any taste.

[nuxvomica]

1. re: other Zemekis movie: "Contact"

[BootinUp]

20. hey

I like Contact. thought the ending was ok ;)

[ProdigalJunkMail]

30. Contact's ending sucked...

especially if you had read the book...the movie TOTALLY missed the point of the book...they could have solved that little problem in about two minutes...was there ever a director's cut???

theProdigal

[BootinUp]

32. Well you piqued

my interest, I might have to get the book. Should have, I always liked Sagan. Not sure on the Directors Cut.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

37. the book is excellent

IMHO if you are not concerned about scintillating dialog. Very thought provoking...

theProdigal

[terrya]

34. There were several differences from the book.

In the book, the President of the United States is a woman. In the movie, Zemeckis used footage of Bill Clinton and morphed it into the movie (ala "Forrest Gump"

Also, in the book, 5 people travel in the spacecraft (as opposed to only Ellie, Jodie Foster's character)

[ProdigalJunkMail]

36. oh yeah...there were myriad changes in the movie

and most of them centered around Jodie Foster getting the lion's share of the face time...but, the ending of the movie completely misses the point of the spiritual journey that Ellie goes on. Completely pisses me off!!! But, hey, the effects were pretty cool...

theProdigal

[Ediacara]

72. I'll admit, I have not read the book

But at the end of the movie when Ellie was being savaged by the special commission, I was yelling at the TV, "Run the experiment again!!!"

She's a scientist, isn't that the whole point of science to experiment? The machine wasn't destroyed, it would have cost perhaps $1,000 to raise the pod back up to the loading platform, and perhaps that much in electricity. We already know that the pod and occupant just fall into the net and are perfectly safe.

If you want to prove your case Ellie, tell that jackass savaging you to go to Japan and get in the damn machine and see for himself!!!!!!!!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

73. sorry for the late reply

in the book (I cannot remember if this is in the movie or not but I recall a reference to it) Ellie 'father' tells her that the door is closed now and will be for a while...she asks about coming back (to CygnusA) and he says, "small steps, Ellie. Small steps."

The book is much more about a seeking that Ellie has regarding spirituality. She goes from hard-core scientist with no spiritual side, through a relationship that begins to build the spiritual in her, to confirmation of something 'greater' at the end of the book...an intelligence that predates the universe.

DAMN good book...highly recommended and will give you a whole new perspective on the movie.

Happy Reading!
theProdigal

[Liberal Veteran]

75. Yeah, the mother/father/stepfather plot was totally absent. (book spoiler)

And in my opinion leaving out the conflict between the man she believed to be her stepfather (who was actually her real father) and herself out of the movie was a letdown.

The book was a wonderful journey from both the spiritual aspects to the technical aspects. The movie, although good, was just so-so overall.

[Cush]

70. Agree. 'Contact' was a total letdown

[ProdigalJunkMail]

74. i was all but screaming at the end

oh well, i imagine Carl will have something to say about it in the next life...

theProdigal

[terrya]

2. "Clue". It had a couple of unsatisfactory endings.

And an unsatisfactory beginning...and an unsatisfactory middle...

Terry

[arwalden]

7. I did it. I killed Yvette. I hated her soo much. Flames.

Flames. Burning on the side of my face. Breathing, breath. Breathing, heaving breath.

[thom1102]

8. That was his job. He was an illusionist...

"But he never RE appeared, did he?"

"He wasn't a very good illusionist."


I LOVE that film...I liked the ending where everybody did it

[terrya]

13. A movie in the same vein that was MUCH better..."Murder by Death"

Peter Sellers, Peter Falk, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Elsa Lanchester, James Coco as the world's greatest fictional detectives...with Truman Capote(!) as Lionel Twain...screenplay by Neil Simon...

Perfect. :-)

Terry

[arwalden]

43. "Oh... That's Probably The Cook. --- Come In."

Darling, the poor woman's stone deaf.

Oh, your're right. So sorry...

COME IN!

-- Allen

[terrya]

59. "Sam...why DO you have those muscleman magazines in your office"?

:hi:

Terry

[Rufus T. Firefly]

21. "Are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests?"

"You don't need any help from me sir"

"That's right!"

[terrya]

9. That was the ONLY part of "Clue" I liked.

Everything else...

Ick.

Terry

[Bertha Venation]

22. I miss Madeline Kahn so much.

I loved "Clue," with all its hokiness.

"I'm the butler, sir."

"And what do you do?"

"I butle, sir."

[MissMillie]

45. Madaline Kahn

Sublime comedy!!!!! I truly miss her talent.

[Ediacara]

68. I LOVE CLUE

And that line, is absolutely the funniest line (and reaction from the crowd) in that movie, and maybe in any movie ever made! I can say that line perfectly, and that is the only acting skill I have :-)

[ZenLefty]

3. Last Samurai was a real disappointment (warning: spoiler)

He should have died in the end. It was the difference between a good samurai movie and just another Tom Cruise flick.

[Kahuna]

4. Fight Club.

:thumbsdown: I would have hoped to see that lunatic in restraints, rather than riding into the sunset with the girl.

[youngred]

46. in the book he does

should def read the book, its much better than the film

[Heyo]

5. High Crimes.

It turns out he *did* do it?!

What a load of crap!

I had too much emotionally invested in that movie for it to turn around like that...:o

Heyo

[BurtWorm]

6. Dead Again has one of my least favorite endings.

When Derek Jacoby reveals that he is the Emperor Claudius reincarnated! What a rip-off! ;)

[wryter2000]

64. Dead Again was a total ripoff (spoiler alert!)

The big ah-ha! was that the woman was the reincarnation of the man and vice versa. But if you look back at her memories, she was remembering things the man from the past couldn't have known.

[rucky]

10. The Passion

they were obviously setting it up for a sequel - a-la-Jason.

[BurtWorm]

12. I can't wait for Passion XIII: The Final Chapter

Jesus Takes Manhattan :scared:

[rucky]

16. Jesus vs. Ghandi will kick ass too.

n/t

[LionInWinter]

25. What about Jesus vs. Colin Mochrie?

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/colinquest.php

[SaveElmer]

11. Planet of the Apes remake

To this day I do not understand it...but I know it is stupid. Up to that point I kinda liked the movie!

[terrya]

15. Didn't Matt Drudge reveal the ending of "Planet" ahead of time?

He found out about it and was pissed off. He revealed the ending on his site.

Terry

[furrylitldevil]

48. I second that remark

Burton did something terrible to that movie, and I'm still trying to figure out what it was.

[Astarho]

61. That ending made no sense!!

I mean how did Thade get to earth in the past from the ancient ruins spaceship! There was never any clue they could go to alternate realities, if that's what it was.

Without that ending, the movie would have been OK.

[Canuckistanian]

14. Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Shocking, violent, senseless and pointless.
;(

[skypilot]

18. Not trying to pick a fight but...

...most murders are shocking, violent, senseless and pointless. I thought that movie was about someone who was living on the edge and eventually fell off. It does happen.

[Canuckistanian]

27. Yeah, you're right but..

That's not what I call entertainment.

[skypilot]

33. No, that's not entertainment but...

...it was unsettling. I guess I like to be unsettled more than entertained sometimes.

[rucky]

17. Soylent Green is PE-POLE!!!! IT'S PEEEEEPOOOOOOLE!!!!

[BootinUp]

19. I believe it was called "Basic"

Recent flick with John Travolta, worst movie I ever saw. Written by someone on serious drugs AFAIK.

[IronLionZion]

58. Yeah that movie blew big time

and the director is clearly a dumbass. You don't even need to watch the movie to deduce that, you can just see his interview on the DVD.

[Vladimir]

23. Jeepers Creepers

It felt like they had run out of the budget and just cut halfway through the story. Closely followed by Bad Boys II, which was the most ridiculous, if not worst, ending ever IMO.

V

[Ladyhawk]

24. Frailty

God, I hated that movie.

[bif]

26. "After Hours" has the worst ending ever.

In fact, it was stupid on purpose because the studio said it wouldn't release the movie with it's original anding.

[lazarus]

28. Titanic

Rose should have jumped in. All that time, and she still had a priceless diamond? Yeah, I'm sure her kids didn't need any help financially or anything.

[grannylib]

29. i thought the ending to The Bourne Identity was lame, but then the whole

movie sucked

[ProdigalJunkMail]

31. the ending of Contact sucked...

big time...completely out of line with the book...

theProdigal

[ronnykmarshall]

35. The Muppets Take Manhattan

WHOA!! Didn't see that one comin!

[T_i_B]

38. Blair witch II

Not the best of films anyway, but that ending really does suck.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

39. there was a blair witch two?

jeez...out of the loop on that one...

theProdigal

[T_i_B]

41. I wouldn't say...

...that you missed all that much with either film.

Mind you, the ending was about the only decent thing in the first one.

[Champ]

40. The Pledge with Jack Nicholson

I felt sorry for him.

[hatrack]

42. AI

It took what had been an interesting premise and reduced it to 99.44% syrup in the final 10-minute smarm-fest.

[terrya]

44. AI was two different movies, IMO.

The first part was pure Kubrick (that's where Spielberg kept to the original idea of the film)

The second was pure Spielberg. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing. :-)

Terry

[Liberal Classic]

47. Bingo

Spielberg's attempt to put a sappy end to Kubrick's distopia left a sickly sweet taste in my mouth. Anyone with half-a-brain can see the movie ends with David looking at the Blue Fairy.

[tigerbeat]

52. "minority report" ending MUCH worse

i was riding with the movie....then cruise's character gets put in that psycho-jail and i'm screaming in my head "END IT HERE!!!! END IT HERE!!!!" and that bastard spielberg tacked on a cheese-o typical action-movie ending. bleh.

i re-watched AI recently and i have to admit that the ending didn't bother me as much this time. yeah, it's overwrought, but it's definitely not a "happy" ending and it is in keeping with the tone/theme of the rest of the film. "minority report" has a cheap ending to an otherwise top-notch dystopian film.

[furrylitldevil]

49. Howard the Duck

It goes without saying that one of the worst movies of all time had one of the worst endings of all time

[Demonaut]

50. "IT" Stephen Kings crappy movie..............and book

[jpak]

51. Saturday Night Fever

WTF???

[Kat45]

53. The third Matrix movie.

It was supposed to explain everything--at least that's what they said--and it just left everything more confusing than ever.

[Bossy Monkey]

77. "It doesn't make sense!" -- Commander Lock

I almost died laughing. In fact, I treated the whole movie as a comedy, and so got great enjoyment out of it. I sense that people who took it seriously were somewhat less satisfied.

[Butterflies]

54. Ghostworld

Ghostworld came into my head because I saw it recently (not because it's the worst movie ending ever.)

I wanted to see where she went on the bus.

[neverborn]

55. Beyond All Doubt -- DONNIE DARKO

This movie had so much promise and they didn't finish it -- it felt like they just threw stuff at the last 5 mins and ended one of five plot planks.

ARGH!$

[Minstrel Boy]

56. Any "surprise" ending with touchy-feely aliens.

"The Abyss" and "Mission to Mars" come to mind.

[oxymoron]

57. The Sound of Music.

They lived.

j/k

[geniph]

60. Panic Room

It really pissed me off that they had Forrest Whittaker's character come back to save the day for the poor helpless little female. It was a total cop-out, and up to that point, the movie had almost worked. That ending just pissed me off on so many levels.

[mlawson]

62. The Birds, has it over all the others.

The family just gets in their car and drives away. They have only a small coupe, but yet the little girl is allowed to take up half the valuable luggage room, with a cage of BIRDS!!!!! After all they have been through!!

"WTF", is a term of understatement here.

[TheMightyFavog]

63. The 1940 Version of Our Town

Completley fucks up the entire point of the entire work by tacking on a Hollywood ending. Emily wakes up... Turns out the entire third act (where Emily is dead) was all nothing but a dream!!!! :grr::grr::grr::mad::mad: To think that Wilder actually let Frank Craven and Harry Chandlee get away with shit like that!

[NightTrain]

66. OMFG! Glad I never saw it.

n/t

[NightTrain]

65. Interview With The Vampire.

Tacked-on Hollywood tripe that had nothing to do with how Anne Rice's novel ended. :puke:

[a_random_joel]

67. The Ring.

Flame away.

[Maeve]

69. Damn! You beat me to it!

Would have prefered for it to have ended about five minutes sooner...

[ButterflyBlood]

71. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

n/t

[Nikia]

76. Empire

I suppose that was the point, that he could never get away from what he was. I was very disappointed though.

[Dogmudgeon]

78. Dirty Larry and Crazy Mary

--bkl