Best Movie Endings
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.
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
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.)
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...