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Good thread idea.

Most ppl would say Blair Witch Project, but I absolutely loved the ending personally.

The second half/end to Nocturnal Animals could have been done a whole lot better, was very disappointing.

Disagree with Kill Bill 2 on the link there- love Kill Bill 2 as much, if not more than the first one.

Also they had a different ending to Fatal Attraction, they changed it when test audiences were screaming "kill the bitch" in test screenings.
 
If anyone bothers to click through all the pages on the link, it'd be great if you could list the movies.

For me law abiding citizen owns this thread. Only movie where the ending was so shit compared to the start that I still watch it but switch off halfway through and treat it as the ending. Trying to go for a happy Hollywood ending but they get it the wrong way around, totally guessing wrong on who the good guy is.
 

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Jurassic Park II, though you could argue it begins to go downhill even before they go to America, where his daughter kills the raptor with acrobatics.

Good sequel until the second half.

And spoilers be damned, this movie is old. :)
 
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Knowing (Nic Cage) - IT WAS ALIENS WITH NUMBERS (I agree but the whole film was a s**tshow)
AI - Kid cant be a human but gets a reunion with his mum is some weird dream thing
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows - Bad makeup for the old potter crew (this was also a bad call, bad makeup but a good ending IMO)
Prometheus - They all ran straight under the ship and Xenomorph types didn't need to be there
Savages - It was all a dream (I didn't mind this film and don't remember thinking the ending was bad)
Alien Resurrection - As with Knowing the ending sucked but so did the rest of the film
April Fools Day - No idea, never heard of the film
LOTR Return of the King - Never seen it
Signs - Why come to Earth with the water thing. Not really an ending issue more a plot issue but to me that wasn't really the point of the film, I don't have any issue with this ending
Kill Bill Vol 2 - If you think this ending was bad (as they do for a lack of fight scene) you missed a lot in the film, not the least of which being that Bill was about 90 years old
Sunshine - Don't even know what their issue was with this, people die instead of talk, this was a horrible call by the listmakers
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull - See Knowing and Alien Ressurction
Superman - Nah mate, this film is classic
Rat Race - No idea never saw it
I Am Legend - Ive seen this discussed before (probably because the alternate ending sounds pretty awesome) but I really didn't mind it
The Village - As with Signs I think Shyamalan gets a pretty bung wrap. I thought having a blind chick go off for the medicine seemed a lot dumber than the ending
Planet of the Apes (Mark Wahlberg one) - Yeh agreed this was stupid
The Devil Inside - Never saw it
2001 A Space Odyssey - If your complaint is that the ending didn't make sense explain the rest of the film to me. I love this movie visually but I have no idea what was happening for most of it.
 
Carbine Chaos said:
Jurassic Park II, though you could argue it begins to go downhill even before they go to America, where his daughter kills the raptor with acrobatics.

Good sequel until the second half.

And spoilers be damned, this move is old. :)
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I don't think the LOTR Return of the King had a bad ending per se, it just had about seven endings, which was overkill. I think the thing that kinda ruined ROTK was the giant eagles picking up Sam & Frodo off the rocks as lava flowed around them, everyone immediately thought why didn't they just ride the eagles in there in the first place and saved all the hassle.
 
phantom13 said:
The List
AI - Kid cant be a human but gets a reunion with his mum is some weird dream thing
Prometheus - They all ran straight under the ship and Xenomorph types didn't need to be there
Sunshine - Don't even know what their issue was with this, people die instead of talk, this was a horrible call by the listmakers
2001 A Space Odyssey - If your complaint is that the ending didn't make sense explain the rest of the film to me. I love this movie visually but I have no idea what was happening for most of it.
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I'm sorry for people that saw these movies to have bad endings.
Each one left some important and interesting questions, open.
 
I'm not saying it was a bad ending, but the ending of Back to the Future 3 would have set up a paradox that Doc Brown worried about so much.

The 2015 McFly family live a pretty crappy existence, caused for the most part by Marty's car accident in 1985 when drag racing with Needles which messed up Marty's future. One of the problems of the 2015 McFly family is that Marty and Jennifer's son Marty Jnr is a non-assertive wimp bullied mercilessly by Griff Tannen, and the reason Doc takes Marty to 2015 is to prevent Marty Jnr being involved in a robbery set up by Griff and his gang. This sets off a chain of events - old Biff stealing the time machine to give a sports almanac to himself in 1985, the nightmare alternate 1985, Doc and Marty returning to 1955 to prevent the problems caused by Biff owning the almanac and their adventure in the 1885 Wild West - before Marty returns to 1985, these events preventing the car accident and Marty and Jennifer's bleak future. So the McFly family of the future would have been very different and therefore the problems with Marty Jnr and Griff would not have occurred in the first place, preventing the need to travel to 2015 to fix them and therefore preventing the chain of events that stopped the car accident from occurring.
 

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On a related note, one of the worst things a sequel can do is to take a successful ending to the first film - where characters learn and grow or achieve something - and destroy it.

Three examples - Zoolander 2, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 and Wog Boy 2. These films were all poorly received sequels and had other issues - not least that too much time had passed to make a sequel - but the problems in all three sequels began with this very issue.

The ending of Zoolander sees Derek Zoolander happily married to Matilda with a young son and successfully running the 'Derek Zoolander Centre for Kids Who Can't Read Good' with the assistance of Hansel. But in the sequel, it is said that the poor construction of the centre caused it to collapse (Zoolander's fault) soon after construction, killing Matilda in the process. From there, Derek lost custody of his son and also fell out with Hansel, with the pair estranged for many years.

Paul Blart Mall Cop ends with Paul marrying Amy who he heroically rescued, and the two appearing very happy. The sequel begins with the revelation that Amy left Paul less than a week after the wedding and filed for an annulment, and for good measure Paul's kindly mother is ruthlessly killed by a truck, putting the titular character right back where he was at the start of the first film only far less happy. I get that they wanted Paul to have a new love interest and the film did have more problems aside from this, but surely it could have been handled better.

At the end of the Wog Boy Steve finds love with Celia and Frank with Celia's younger sister Annie, with the latter pair getting married. The sequel, 11 years later shows Steve back to his old womanizing ways (despite being much, much older) with no mention of what became of Celia, and Frank is going through an acrimonious divorce with an unnamed wife.
 
i enjoyed rat race, but the ending sucks bad

emuboy said:
I'm not saying it was a bad ending, but the ending of Back to the Future 3 would have set up a paradox that Doc Brown worried about so much.

The 2015 McFly family live a pretty crappy existence, caused for the most part by Marty's car accident in 1985 when drag racing with Needles which messed up Marty's future. One of the problems of the 2015 McFly family is that Marty and Jennifer's son Marty Jnr is a non-assertive wimp bullied mercilessly by Griff Tannen, and the reason Doc takes Marty to 2015 is to prevent Marty Jnr being involved in a robbery set up by Griff and his gang. This sets off a chain of events - old Biff stealing the time machine to give a sports almanac to himself in 1985, the nightmare alternate 1985, Doc and Marty returning to 1955 to prevent the problems caused by Biff owning the almanac and their adventure in the 1885 Wild West - before Marty returns to 1985, these events preventing the car accident and Marty and Jennifer's bleak future. So the McFly family of the future would have been very different and therefore the problems with Marty Jnr and Griff would not have occurred in the first place, preventing the need to travel to 2015 to fix them and therefore preventing the chain of events that stopped the car accident from occurring.
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but if he doesn't go back to 1885, he wont learn that he doesn't need to fight or race when someone calls him chicken/yellow, so when he goes back to 1985 and Needles calls him chicken, he learnt not that he doesn't need to race him, had he not got back to 1885, that wouldn't have happened, and he would have raced Needles and had the accident and present 1985 would have continued, i think that makes sense, my head was hurting thinking off and reading that
 
jackn said:
If anyone bothers to click through all the pages on the link, it'd be great if you could list the movies.

For me law abiding citizen owns this thread. Only movie where the ending was so shit compared to the start that I still watch it but switch off halfway through and treat it as the ending. Trying to go for a happy Hollywood ending but they get it the wrong way around, totally guessing wrong on who the good guy is.
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So true. Especially in today's day and age where lot's of people seem to not have much confidence in the judicial system.

I read somewhere that the original ending had Gerard Butler's character prevailing but Jamie Foxx didn't like that idea so they changed it. Not sure if true but would have been better IMO.

Another one I'd like to suggest is Green Street Hooligans 2 - hilarious but utterly ridiculous haha. Basically 2 rival sets of prisoners play a game of football to determine who gets early release.
 
No doubt there's some deeper reason to the ending, but I wasn't a fan of the ending of Contact.
After what was a pretty intriguing first 2 and a bit hours of the film the ending felt so anti-climactic I couldn't help but feel cheated by it.
 

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Carbine Chaos said:
Jurassic Park II, though you could argue it begins to go downhill even before they go to America, where his daughter kills the raptor with acrobatics.

Good sequel until the second half.

And spoilers be damned, this movie is old. :)
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In hindsight, The Lost World should have been a mockumentary with Pete Postlethwaite's character hunting dinosaurs.
 
emuboy said:
On a related note, one of the worst things a sequel can do is to take a successful ending to the first film - where characters learn and grow or achieve something - and destroy it.
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Austin Powers was guilty of that too.

Wars of the Worlds where Cruises stupid son lives was dumb. But liked how they kept the HG Wells ending.

I am Legend film ending is terrible because the movie uses the book title but not the actual ****ing point of the title!

Spiderman 3's ending was a real bummer to go out on.

Source Code had an ending that was supposed to be good for the protagonist but what about the poor guy he replaced?

Robocop 2 just ends.... what about all that stuff about his wife? No resolution there?
 

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