Unforgivable endings

[May Kasahara]

The Breakfast Club where Ally Sheedy gets a makeover

Ugh, how could I forget something that never fails to piss me off big time when I watch that film. Why make an entire movie extolling the virtues of being true to yourself, and then totally compromise it by turning the gorgeous indie chick into some suburban soccer mom's dream child? What a travesty!

On a similar, if less upsetting note, the end of Pretty In Pink was a letdown. For a start, she should have gone off with Duckie, or maybe just enjoyed a period of solitude instead of obsessing about men, and more importantly the dressmaking montage sets you up for some amazing creation and then you see she's wearing...a sack.

 

[david dissadent]

A special mention for most appropriate awful ending has to go to Robert Jordan and the Wheel of Time as the author died before he could end the seemingly endless turged nonesence.

 

[david dissadent]

I always thought the ending was excellent. What's scarier than Rosemary's maternal instinct kicking in despite the fact that she's given birth to the devil. There is a book, btw and the ending is the same.

I nominate The Abyss. The film is a fantastic action adventure and racks up the tension for over two hours untill it all falls apart when the glowy underwater aliens show up to preach love and peace.

The directors cut is much much worse, the bit where all the tsunamis stop just infront of the worlds coasts.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

A.I.

The start of the film was so promising, looked awesome and a nice idea, then it just got worse and worse, ended in absolute atrocity of shit, i mean WTF was even going on?

That was the perfect ending if you see the whole film as a fairytale for robots.

Adaptation annoyed me. A film that had been clever and interesting suddenly became stupid and looked like it was being directed by the numbers. Was it supposed to be ironic, I wonder, or was it simply that Charlie Kaufman failed.

 

[dylanredefined]

Fredrick hamiltion ending of the night dawns triology was a bit rubbish

 

[Brainaddict]

or was it simply that Charlie Kaufman failed.

What? No. At a certain point he asks his brother for help writing the script and after that it turns into formulaic hollywood stuff because that's what his brother writes. You didn't notice that? I love Adaptation.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

What? No. At a certain point he asks his brother for help writing the script and after that it turns into formulaic hollywood stuff because that's what his brother writes. You didn't notice that? I love Adaptation.

Yes, I did notice that. Fail. Fail. Fail.

You can't justify a shit ending by saying 'my crap brother wrote it'.

It really smacks of the thinking: "I don't know how to end this thing. How can I find a justification for a cliched ending? Ah, I know..."

 

[Bonfirelight]

I wish Rocky IV had ended differently.

i lost so much money on that fight it's not even true

 

[Brainaddict]

Yes, I did notice that. Fail. Fail. Fail.

You can't justify a shit ending by saying 'my crap brother wrote it'.

But it was also a very entertaining ending, in a very hollywood way (which isn't always bad...) and it genuinely solved the problem of giving a story about flowers a climactic ending.
Mr Grumpy Head

 

[Lisarocket]

On a similar, if less upsetting note, the end of Pretty In Pink was a letdown. For a start, she should have gone off with Duckie, or maybe just enjoyed a period of solitude instead of obsessing about men, and more importantly the dressmaking montage sets you up for some amazing creation and then you see she's wearing...a sack.

Thats always annoyed me too. She takes a perfectly nice dress, cuts it up and makes something bloomin awful and then everyone says she looks great in it

 

[Reno]

That was the perfect ending if you see the whole film as a fairytale for robots.

Totaly agree with that. I think A.I. and especially its ending, is a rather misunderstood. The film is not without flaws, but it is so much more ambitious, complex and interesting than most of the big budget stuff that comes out of Hollywood.

 

[DotCommunist]

I don't care. I need to find out what happened to Stig of the dump.

He wakes up and it was all a dream. Lamecore

 

[bigbry]

He wakes up and it was all a dream. Lamecore

Brings Stig of the Dump down to the level of Dallas !

 

[scifisam]

Totaly agree with that. I think A.I. and especially its ending, is a rather misunderstood. The film is not without flaws, but it is so much more ambitious, complex and interesting than most of the big budget stuff that comes out of Hollywood.

It's not the robots I mind, it's the creepy Oedipal resurrection of the the mother. I actually rate the film highly on the whole, though.

 

[intrikat]

A.I.

The start of the film was so promising, looked awesome and a nice idea, then it just got worse and worse, ended in absolute atrocity of shit, i mean WTF was even going on?

One word: Spielberg.
I nominate John Fowles - brilliant (IMO) writer, but the endings always make me go - huh?

 

[Structaural]

A special mention for most appropriate awful ending has to go to Robert Jordan and the Wheel of Time as the author died before he could end the seemingly endless turged nonesence.

Really?

I'm glad I gave up at book 5.

Atonement had a bad ending but it worked on a tear jerk level. Bit Romeo and Juliet though...

 

[CalmerChameleon]

The film version of Breakfast at Tiffanys.

I was thinking that. It's a completely dumbed-down Hollywoodised ending compared to the book

 

[Maggot]

Fight Club

Good film rubbish twist. Although The Pixies song makes it more bearable.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Switchblade Romance/Haute Tension. Even allowing for it only being a fairly middling slasher film to start with the 'twist' is just staggering in its shiteness.

 

[cliche guevara]

The ending of I Am Legend was pretty crap.

 

[Stigmata]

Ugh, how could I forget something that never fails to piss me off big time when I watch that film. Why make an entire movie extolling the virtues of being true to yourself, and then totally compromise it by turning the gorgeous indie chick into some suburban soccer mom's dream child? What a travesty!

I'm not the only one then. Good.

Has anyone seen Dungeons & Dragons: The Movie? It's shite from start to finish of course, but the last scene is truly bizarre.

 

[subversplat]

Usual Suspects
Hahahah just kidding, those are amongst my faves

God damnit I was just about to agree with you then. I hate that ending - it's an hour and a half of a good story that gets a little too tied in knots for it's own good so the mystery baddie (and hence the screenwriter) just goes "Err actually this has all been a lie" to the audence, in not so many words.

Crap

I fully expect to be flamed for this though - I was last time

 

[Crispy]

One word: Spielberg.

The reincarnated mum and robots of the future were all kubrick's.

 

[cliche guevara]

God damnit I was just about to agree with you then. I hate that ending - it's an hour and a half of a good story that gets a little too tied in knots for it's own good so the mystery baddie (and hence the screenwriter) just goes "Err actually this has all been a lie" to the audence, in not so many words.

Crap

I fully expect to be flamed for this though - I was last time

Noo! Not at all! It's brilliant! Out of curiosity, did you see it close to release or recently? Because if I'd seen it for the first time recently, then the current climate of every film having a half arsed twist might have affected what I thought of it.

 

[subversplat]

I did see it after seeing some M. Night Shyamalan films, yes. I dunno, I can see the appeal of the WTFLOL twist, but I don't really like the idea of a whodunnit where there's no possibility of fingering the perp.

 

[SpookyFrank]

The wire

Seriously, I never would have guessed that the whole of Baltimore was a figment of McNulty's imagination. Really spoiled a great show in my opinion, all that existential bollocks in the final episode. And don't get me started on the aliens

 

[Nemo]

Independence Day has surely got to be up there. Of course, it's unmitigated shite anyway, but the ending is truly awful.

 

[senny dreadful]

It's not the robots I mind, it's the creepy Oedipal resurrection of the the mother. I actually rate the film highly on the whole, though.

Nah, it was all bobbins*. I ended up watching it again the other night and plot wise it really is one big mess, and both Haley Joely Osmenty and Jude Law are too awful to watch. As the ending starts to kick in you can feel the vom rising in your throat...urgh.


*apart from Teddy. And some of the visual stuff.

 

[Santino]

The wire

Seriously, I never would have guessed that the whole of Baltimore was a figment of McNulty's imagination. Really spoiled a great show in my opinion, all that existential bollocks in the final episode. And don't get me started on the aliens

You idiot, you didn't understand it at all. It was Bubbles who dreamed it all, he invented the police detail to imagine getting revenge on the dealers who beat up his friend in episode 1, series 1. If you look closely a lot of characters in later series are played by other dope fiends who Bubbles hangs out with (Brother Mouzone and Carcetti, to name but two).

 

[Fez909]

I've not seen it, but I've been told what happens at the end of the American remake of The Vanishing, and it sounds terrible. So much so that I'm voting it as unforgivable without ever even planning to watch it.