Best Movie Endings

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Röland
What are some of your favorite film endings or endings you think are powerful?

Some of mine.

- Blade Runner
- Fight Club
- Requiem for a Dream
- Se7en
- The Thing
- Braveheart
- V for Vendetta


I searched for this and didn't find any thread on it, but if it's been done before close it or merge it.

DanZeke25
Matrix Reloaded

Dusty
The Departed.

Because I just finished watching it for a second time.

darthsecretus30
The Departed had a good ending, but I would go more shocking than best. I thought Braveheart's ending and also Man on Fire (2004 version) were my favorite endings.

Dusty
Just to throw in a few favorites:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Oldboy
Brick
The Deer Hunter
Taxi Driver
12 Angry Men
12 Monkeys
Equilibrium
From Dusk Til Dawn
Hellboy
The Killing
Jackie Brown
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Enter The Dragon
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Elephant Man
For a Few Dollars More
'Street Mobster' or 'Gendai yakuza: hito-kiri yota'
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Le Samourai
Lucky Number Slevin
Blade Runner
Following
Platoon
The Truman Show
True Romance
Zatoichi (2003)
Se7en
Minority Report
One Hour Photo
Lord of The Rings: Return of The King
Casablanca
The Matrix
The New World
Blue Velvet
Yojimbo
Once Upon A Time In The West

DeepPink
The King
Little Miss Sunshine
Donnie Darko

Solo
Gattaca
Le Cercle rouge
Mulholland Drive
2001
Blade Runner
Out of the Past

SnakeEyes
-Gladiator
-Fight Club
-Se7en
-The Prestige
-American Beauty
-Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
-Terminator 2: Judgement Day
-Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

exanda kane
-The Godfather
-Donnie Darko
-The Departed (albeit more shocking but a wonderful example of fulfilling the audiences expectations after misleading them so much)
-Se7en

hubbywishlist
Rudy, Rudy, Rudy

Notre Dame fan or not (and I'm not), that's a great ending (even if the tackle doesn't give him much of a block).

Darth Vicious
Originally posted by hubbywishlist
Rudy, Rudy, Rudy

Notre Dame fan or not (and I'm not), that's a great ending (even if the tackle doesn't give him much of a block).

Co-sign. It is a great ending indeed!

jgiant
Godfather, The Prestige, Saw, Deer Hunter, many more i forget now.

manorastroman
sexy beast and may, because i just watched both.

Ya Krunk'd Floo
Memento, Rushmore, Carlito's Way, The Usual Suspects, Oldboy, Magnolia, The Shawshank Redemption, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are the ones that do it for me. Uh-huh-uh-uh, I like it.

manorastroman
really, any wes anderson. dignan's fake escape, the slow motion dance to the faces, hey jude and mordecai, david bowie at the movie premier...man has a talent with pop songs and slow motion.

§uffer§noopy
The Matrix Revolutions, and Man on Fire.

king_kong_is
My favorite endings are numerous, but I will say a few that are very special to me.

For starters, the last scene of Peter Jackson's King Kong (with the long shot on Dead Kong and zooming outward to fade black, and then having James Newton Howard's tragic music play over the credits) is just so incredibly heartbreaking and sad to me, a diehard Kong fan. Also, the look on Denham's face as he realises what he has done to this sad, lonely, intelligent animal never fails to make me sob.

Next is the ending to Signs. The scene where Mel Gibson and his family are sobbing after the boy has reawakened (after nearly being killed by an alien) is so moving, and helped me ressurect my belief and acceptance of good things happening in life (I'm a very pessimistic person).

Finally, I just can't let go of the last scenes of Titanic (make fun of me all you want). Just, the image of the dead bodies floating in the freezing waters, and the last scene of Rose dreaming of being with Jack just one last time really get to me.

(Yes, I do have a thing for tragic or emotional endings.)

Dreampanther
Man on Fire was one of the worst movies ever made - ESPECIALLY THE END!

Denzel Washington butchered that book, and I hope he rots in hell for it. I've read all AJ Quinnell's books, and I hope Denzel Washington gets syphilis and dies a long, slow, painful and lingering death for what he did to one of my favourite characters.

As for endings I liked -

Lucky Number Slevin was nice, I like the way everything got tied together.

Armageddon had an awesome ending as well, it's not often I find myself wiping a tear away at the end of a movie.

Once Were Warriors had a cool ending - that guy should have known better than to mess with Jake the Muss's daughter.

And Punisher as well - as you can tell, I like movies where the baddies get what's coming to them.

You guys should check out a movie called Amandla: A Revolution in Four Part Harmony as well...

manorastroman
all the wes anderson movies qualify. dignan's fake escape, the after party to the tune of the faces, hey jude and mordecai, and queen ***** at the movie premier.

i love the montage monologue at the end of annie hall, always makes me misty.

Dusty
Originally posted by Dreampanther
Man on Fire was one of the worst movies ever made - ESPECIALLY THE END!


Wow, really?

I thought that movie was awesome.

Röland
Originally posted by Dreampanther
Man on Fire was one of the worst movies ever made - ESPECIALLY THE END!

Originally posted by Dusty
Wow, really?

I thought that movie was awesome.

dave_kodak
Originally posted by Dreampanther
Man on Fire was one of the worst movies ever made - ESPECIALLY THE END!
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TOH
Donnie Darko
The Matrix
Saw
Old Boy
Hero
Jaws
The Usual Suspects
American Beauty
Planet of the Apes (68)
Evil Daed II
The Empire Strikes Back
The Silence of the Lambs
Unbreakable
Trainspotting
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
Angel Heart
Akira
Run Lola Run

Dreampanther
Originally posted by Dusty
Wow, really?

I thought that movie was awesome.

If I had never read any of AJ Quinnell's books, maybe I might have thought so too.

But seriously, do yourself a favour and go read some of the Creasy books - and you will understand why I got so p!ssed off with the way they changed the ending from the original story.

Solo
So Lucky Number Slevin, The Punisher, and Armageddon have the best endings, but Man on Fire is one of the worst films of all time?

manorastroman
just saw eXistenZ for the first in a while, and i have to say it's got quite the good ending. i also discovered that "isten" is hungarian for "god".

Dreampanther
Originally posted by Solo
So Lucky Number Slevin, The Punisher, and Armageddon have the best endings, but Man on Fire is one of the worst films of all time?

Yup, undoubtedly the worst thing that ever happened to Creasy was that stupid whiney-ass moronic moralistic preachy damned film.

If you had read the books, you would have known exactly what I was talking about...

Solo
Originally posted by Dreampanther
stupid whiney-ass moronic moralistic.
Armageddon?
Originally posted by manorastroman
just saw eXistenZ for the first in a while, and i have to say it's got quite the good ending. i also discovered that "isten" is hungarian for "god".
It did have a great ending, definitely didn't see it coming.

Eis
The Believer, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Almost Famous, Gattaca and Carlito's Way all had excellent endings.

spidey-dude
i think its great when movies have a mush mush ending big grin

Dreampanther
Originally posted by Solo
Armageddon?



No - Armageddon I loved. Man on Fire was the one that sucked, in my opinion.

Darth_Erebus2
U turn had the best movie ending ever

Flight643
Leon and Memento come to mind for great endings

Mickz
The Sixth Sense
The Shawshank Redemption
Leaving Las Vegas
The Usual Suspects
Before Sunset
Heat
Se7en
Titanic

H. S. 6
The Departed

Solo
I forgot Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, that's probably my favorite.

Andrew McLeod
American Pie 2. Seriously. It's stuck in my mind for years.

guinanie
Titanic, Somewhere in Time and Harry Potter. I love the ending of titanic movie. But most of all I love the ending of a love story movie

WrathfulDwarf
A few worthy nominations...


Fritz Lang's "M"
Planet of the Apes (original)
The Great Silence
Hellraiser
Enter The Dragon
Pulp Fiction
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Strangelove
Mr. Holland's Opus
Ladder 49

rockycairns
Braveheart
Fight Club
Memento
The Usual Suspects
Heat
Narc
Snatch
Trainspotting

D-Wag
Wicker Man (Shocking)
Departed (Shocking)
Alpha Dogs (Ok Ending)
Hard Candy (Great Ending)
Lucky Number Slevin (Great Ending)
Prestige (Good Ending)
Illustionist (Ok Ending)

spidey-dude

Bicnarok
Blade runner,, So meaningfull

manorastroman
400 blows, purple rose of cairo

Mr Parker
My favorite best ending movie is Star Wars A New Hope.

Mr Parker
Originally posted by D-Wag
Wicker Man (Shocking)
Departed (Shocking)
Alpha Dogs (Ok Ending)
Hard Candy (Great Ending)
Lucky Number Slevin (Great Ending)
Prestige (Good Ending)
Illustionist (Ok Ending)

I hope that you are referring to the original Wickerman Movvie ending.The new one with Nicholas Cage sucked and ruined the whole movie.has got to be the worst movie of the year. sick

Röland
Originally posted by Bicnarok
Blade runner,, So meaningfull

Yup, my #1 fav ending to any movie.

Rutger Hauer's lines are just amazing.

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