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Posted: 2/25/2022 4:54:47 PM EDT
[#1]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Y’all need to watch the alternate ending. Much better. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Law Abiding Citizen. Y’all need to watch the alternate ending. Much better. Link? Didn't realize there was one. |
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Posted: 2/25/2022 4:56:21 PM EDT
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The Empire Strikes Back. You have to understand, that in the context of its original release, there were only two Star Wars movies. People hadn't "gotten it" yet that all the episodes really add up to one huge story, and some of the episodes aren't going to "end" per se. I remember people were fucking livid that after the great feel good ending of the 1977 Star Wars movie, Empire just sorta "stopped" and left you hanging. A lot of folks, including me, were so pissed that we swore off the rest of the movies. I didn't even see Return of the Jedi until some friends dragged me to the dollar movie one Saturday afternoon. With that release, of course, it was well known that the movies were meant to be episodic and not stand-alone movies, but the audience didn't start out knowing that. The 1977 Star Wars and Empire weren't retitled with the episode numbers until much later.
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Posted: 2/25/2022 4:58:21 PM EDT
[#3]
Quote HistoryQuoted: “Law Abiding Citizen” Exactly! The wrong guy won in the end. |
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Posted: 2/25/2022 4:59:41 PM EDT
[#4]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Might as well get this out of the way now… No Country for Old Men. The ending doesn't suck. Lol.... |
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Posted: 2/25/2022 5:07:50 PM EDT
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Earliest, worst let down ending i recall was 2001: A Space Odyssey. I was a kid when it came out, so there is that. Saw it again in adulthood. Reconsidered after figuring it out. The end was perfect.
Gran Torino's ending bummed me out, but i thought it out. The character was already on Death's door. He chose his way out to help those close to him that needed it. He was old, but still had a soldier's protective heart. To quote another movie character, the samurai Katsumoto: "It was a good death." |
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Posted: 2/25/2022 5:34:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Empire Strikes Back. You have to understand, that in the context of its original release, there were only two Star Wars movies. People hadn't "gotten it" yet that all the episodes really add up to one huge story, and some of the episodes aren't going to "end" per se. I remember people were fucking livid that after the great feel good ending of the 1977 Star Wars movie, Empire just sorta "stopped" and left you hanging. A lot of folks, including me, were so pissed that we swore off the rest of the movies. I didn't even see Return of the Jedi until some friends dragged me to the dollar movie one Saturday afternoon. With that release, of course, it was well known that the movies were meant to be episodic and not stand-alone movies, but the audience didn't start out knowing that. The 1977 Star Wars and Empire weren't retitled with the episode numbers until much later. Really? I saw that in the theaters, and although we were all bummed at the cliffhanger, we were all aware that Lucas already had the next one planned. What sucked was having to wait 3 years to get closure. Most other movie series where the next is a continuation are released within 12-18 months. |
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Posted: 2/25/2022 5:41:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Really? I saw that in the theaters, and although we were all bummed at the cliffhanger, we were all aware that Lucas already had the next one planned. What sucked was having to wait 3 years to get closure. Most other movie series where the next is a continuation are released within 12-18 months. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The Empire Strikes Back. You have to understand, that in the context of its original release, there were only two Star Wars movies. People hadn't "gotten it" yet that all the episodes really add up to one huge story, and some of the episodes aren't going to "end" per se. I remember people were fucking livid that after the great feel good ending of the 1977 Star Wars movie, Empire just sorta "stopped" and left you hanging. A lot of folks, including me, were so pissed that we swore off the rest of the movies. I didn't even see Return of the Jedi until some friends dragged me to the dollar movie one Saturday afternoon. With that release, of course, it was well known that the movies were meant to be episodic and not stand-alone movies, but the audience didn't start out knowing that. The 1977 Star Wars and Empire weren't retitled with the episode numbers until much later. Really? I saw that in the theaters, and although we were all bummed at the cliffhanger, we were all aware that Lucas already had the next one planned. What sucked was having to wait 3 years to get closure. Most other movie series where the next is a continuation are released within 12-18 months. I remember it well. People thought the idea of Vader being Luke's dad sucked too. My best friend said, "Fuck that. I'll never pay to see another one." I do think most people were aware that Lucas planned to make three movies, but they were still pissed at Empire's cliffhanger. I'll never forget that. |
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Posted: 2/25/2022 6:10:23 PM EDT
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Roots
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Posted: 2/25/2022 8:55:56 PM EDT
[#9]
The Revenant.
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Posted: 2/25/2022 8:57:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Revenant. Watch Man in the Wilderness, same story, better ending |
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Posted: 2/25/2022 8:58:31 PM EDT
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Blazing Saddles.
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Posted: 2/25/2022 11:01:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Seraphim Falls That's a good choice for this thread. |
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Posted: 2/25/2022 11:02:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Mule. Not a great movie by any means, but..........  I didn't think it was that bad. |
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Posted: 2/25/2022 11:04:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Prestige. I wanted to drive to Hollywood and punch the screenwriter in the face. That movie was outstanding, ending included. |
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Posted: 2/25/2022 11:10:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Deathly Hallows pt 2. Horrible ending and no where near the book ending. Beat it nerd |
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Posted: 2/25/2022 11:14:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Man on fire should have gone with the alternate ending. I don’t know what the alternate ending was, but I always hated the ending of that movie |
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Posted: 2/25/2022 11:19:55 PM EDT
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Avengers Endgame
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Posted: 2/25/2022 11:22:22 PM EDT
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Layer Cake
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Posted: 2/25/2022 11:48:05 PM EDT
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Uncut Gems. The frantic panic attack inducing plot of bad choices to FINALLY win and got shot in the fucking face.
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Posted: 2/26/2022 8:37:16 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Prestige. I wanted to drive to Hollywood and punch the screenwriter in the face. I’ll drive, get in. |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 8:59:53 AM EDT
[#21]
The Equalizer. Seriously. A fucking hardware store??
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Posted: 2/26/2022 9:07:04 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Blazing Saddles. After an hour of greatness, Mel Brooks ran out of material and tacked on the studio sequence. Absolutely this. WTF was he thinking? Look at the flipped ending of Young Frankenstein to see that he knew how to do it. He just failed miserably with Blazing Saddles. |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 9:15:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Revenant. The real life end of the story was an even bigger let down. |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 9:35:34 AM EDT
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Titanic. There was plenty of room for Jack. Bitch let him freeze.
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Posted: 2/26/2022 9:38:04 AM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Kind of like life, huh? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Might as well get this out of the way now… No Country for Old Men. After all that build up what a let down. Maybe yours, but not mine. I'm riding a rocket-sled all the way to the end. |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 9:42:50 AM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah, but in that case it was a great FIRST 20 minutes followed by a whole lot of WTF. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: From Dusk Till Dawn |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 9:45:28 AM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The Empire Strikes Back. You have to understand, that in the context of its original release, there were only two Star Wars movies. People hadn't "gotten it" yet that all the episodes really add up to one huge story, and some of the episodes aren't going to "end" per se. I remember people were fucking livid that after the great feel good ending of the 1977 Star Wars movie, Empire just sorta "stopped" and left you hanging. A lot of folks, including me, were so pissed that we swore off the rest of the movies. I didn't even see Return of the Jedi until some friends dragged me to the dollar movie one Saturday afternoon. With that release, of course, it was well known that the movies were meant to be episodic and not stand-alone movies, but the audience didn't start out knowing that. The 1977 Star Wars and Empire weren't retitled with the episode numbers until much later. |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 9:46:50 AM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Another vote for: Law Abiding Citizen Collateral Amazing movies up until the last 5 minutes of each one. Yup. Was happy to see in this thread that LAC was the first one mentioned. |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 9:48:56 AM EDT
[#29]
Anything involving that fuckwad Stephen King.
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Posted: 2/26/2022 10:14:35 AM EDT
[#30]
True Romance
Click To View Spoiler Heat Click To View Spoiler No Country for Old Men Click To View Spoiler Collateral Click To View Spoiler Django Unchained Click To View Spoiler Law Abiding Citizen Click To View Spoiler |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 10:16:21 AM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Anything involving that fuckwad Stephen King. No way! Jordy Verrell in Creepshow, He suck starts a shotgun 
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Posted: 2/26/2022 11:15:14 AM EDT
[#32]
Under the dome
I know it's a book not a movie, but the ending was trash. |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 11:23:19 AM EDT
[#33]
Law Abiding Citizen Of The most egregious.
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Posted: 2/26/2022 11:23:52 AM EDT
[#34]
Ghostbusters Afterlife
Oh boo boo. We miss you, Egon. We’ll stretch out the ending for your horrible cgi ghost. |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 11:25:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryHarsh but fair. |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 11:27:25 AM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep, the bad guys won. Cabin by the Lake (2000) was decent until the final few scenes. Those scenes had so much WTF that it ruins the whole movie. I was pissed off that I wasted an hour and a half on it. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME ON THIS MOVIE A screenwriter, who lives in a cabin by the lake near Los Angeles, drowns young women, then goes back to visit their bodies and do their laundry. I'm not the first to stray intoTV. The first thing I thought of was battle star Galactica |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 11:40:19 AM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Silverado, huh??? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The Natural History of the World part 1 Silverado Silverado, huh??? The only thing that would have made it better is if there was a threesome scene with Kevin Kline, Rosanna Arquette and Linda Hunt. (Movie would have been better if there was a mid movie scene of Jake nailing Phoebe in a hay loft, but we're talking endings) |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 11:51:48 AM EDT
[#38]
Das Boot (The Boat)
Aguirre, Wrath of the Gods Both long and drawn out with bummer endings (i.e.: German) |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 12:17:52 PM EDT
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I guess I misunderstood the post. There are movies that have endings that are plausible or make sense within the context of the story, but they aren't the best or most logical ending. The endings of both Law Abiding Citizen and Collateral were bad because they didn't really fit the spirit of the characters and plot to that point. But at the same time they weren't out of left field.
I love Falling Down and the movie gets better and more relevant every year. The interpretations get more in depth every year. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if there are college courses on the themes. Its ending followed the spirit of the movie. It would have been plausible to have a bubblegum ending where D-FENS reunited with his family, but it wouldn't have been a good one. This was the problem with LAC and Collateral - bubblegum endings to relatively dark and heavy movies. They made some sense but made the movie worse. |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 12:28:02 PM EDT
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On the other hand, there are endings that seem almost completely random. Some are cheap deus ex machina and some just don't really make sense. Sunshine is a prime example of a great movie that went way off the rails. Shutter Island, Fight Club, Ex Machina (appropriately), The Mist, The Prestige, AI, and I'm sure plenty of others had "twist endings" that were way out of left field and ruined an otherwise decent movie.
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Posted: 2/26/2022 12:32:18 PM EDT
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The Departed.
Who was Dignam (Wahlberg) really working for and what was the real reason for Sullivan’s (Damon) murder? |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 12:46:57 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The Prestige. I wanted to drive to Hollywood and punch the screenwriter in the face. Why? Is a teleporter any more satisfying than a duplicator? The Prestige was good. |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 3:20:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No shit, Silverado's ending was classic western. Every good guy gets to cap their own personal nemesis in a cinematic way and they ride off in to the sunset. The only thing that would have made it better is if there was a threesome scene with Kevin Kline, Rosanna Arquette and Linda Hunt. (Movie would have been better if there was a mid movie scene of Jake nailing Phoebe in a hay loft, but we're talking endings) Exactly, "classic". I was expecting more & I got let down. Not every movie needs a happy ending to make it "great" |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 3:23:57 PM EDT
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I wouldn't call it a good movie. But if one were to ignore the post credits scene in Black Widow and chop off the part after the cops show up to arrest Natascha at the end. The part where she's talking to her fixer that adds nothing to the story, it would have been a much better movie in my opinion.
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Posted: 2/26/2022 3:43:04 PM EDT
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Collateral
Sucker Punch The Equalizer Man on Fire No Time to Die - holy shit that ending sucked. |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 3:45:49 PM EDT
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In Charelton Heston's autobiography he talks about the movie "Will Penny". It was a great western and he said that there were two possible endings and they didn't decide until almost the end of filming which to use.
One was a "happy ending" and the other were a "sad ending". They decided to go with the sad ending. Heston said he opposed that decision but was over ruled. He said it cost them millions in income from the movie doing poorly and probably cost him an Academy Award for his part. People like happy endings. |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 3:49:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In Charelton Heston's autobiography he talks about the movie "Will Penny". It was a great western and he said that there were two possible endings and they didn't decide until almost the end of filming which to use. One was a "happy ending" and the other were a "sad ending". They decided to go with the sad ending. Heston said he opposed that decision but was over ruled. He said it cost them millions in income from the movie doing poorly and probably cost him an Academy Award for his part. People like happy endings. That is 1 of the best westerns, & The Wild Bunch, & Nevada Smith. Life isn't fair or just. |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 4:01:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Empire Strikes Back. You have to understand, that in the context of its original release, there were only two Star Wars movies. People hadn't "gotten it" yet that all the episodes really add up to one huge story, and some of the episodes aren't going to "end" per se. I remember people were fucking livid that after the great feel good ending of the 1977 Star Wars movie, Empire just sorta "stopped" and left you hanging. A lot of folks, including me, were so pissed that we swore off the rest of the movies. I didn't even see Return of the Jedi until some friends dragged me to the dollar movie one Saturday afternoon. With that release, of course, it was well known that the movies were meant to be episodic and not stand-alone movies, but the audience didn't start out knowing that. The 1977 Star Wars and Empire weren't retitled with the episode numbers until much later. They gave us what we needed, not what we wanted, and we didn't know we needed it until many years later. Sometimes the audience isn't ready and Empire is definitely one of those cases. It's too bad they botched ROTJ because Star Wars was headed in an awesome direction at that point. ROTJ is where the fan service started in earnest with Star Wars and it hasn't let up since. "Throw in another Death Star for the rebels to blow up because people love that crap and maybe some space teddy bears because we will sell the shit out of that merch." At the end of the day, nearly everything in the Star Wars universe is directly derivative of ANH and ESB. There's very little in the way of new ideas in subsequent Star Wars movies that isn't firmly grounded in things that were introduced in those two movies. |
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Posted: 2/26/2022 4:05:19 PM EDT
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Once apon a time in Hollywood. Enjoyed the movie, and the ending wasnt really bad, just felt ….. rushed.
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Posted: 2/26/2022 4:11:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Absolutely this. WTF was he thinking? Look at the flipped ending of Young Frankenstein to see that he knew how to do it. He just failed miserably with Blazing Saddles. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Blazing Saddles. After an hour of greatness, Mel Brooks ran out of material and tacked on the studio sequence. Absolutely this. WTF was he thinking? Look at the flipped ending of Young Frankenstein to see that he knew how to do it. He just failed miserably with Blazing Saddles. Spaceballs kind of dances around that area too. Once they hit the evacuation sequence and you have the Bearded Lady and the Bear it's kind of like "Well, we're done here." |
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