Favourite Endings

[Tony_Montana]

Mine:
- Last of the Mohicans (1992 version)
- Braveheart
- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Sams speech at the end+Gandalf coming to the rescue)
- Terminator 2 (I was in tears when I first saw this at the age of 7)
- Scarface (the final shootout of course)
- The Good, the bad and the Ugly (from the bit when Tuco finds the cemetary onwards)

[Lord Nikon]

This thread must have been done 10 times before. But ok. I'll indulge you. It contains NO spoilers because I don't feel like writing the ending to every movie, but if you are any type of a movie goer you have seen all of them already. In no order.

BEST ENDINGS

SAW
Field of Dreams
Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction.
American Beauty
Fight Club
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Usual Suspects

WORST ENDINGS
Hide and Seek
Identity
Kill Bill II
Se7en (Not One of the Worst, But Most Over Rated I think Even though I liked the movie.)

[Tayzlor]

I made a first draft of this list, but ended up with over fifty. So I am limiting myself to twenty.

2001: A Space Odyssey
The 400 Blows
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Apocalypse Now
Casablanca
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
Five Easy Pieces
Ikiru
In Cold Blood
La Dolce Vita
Magnolia
Manhattan
Nashville
Notorious
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Paris, Texas
The Right Stuff
Seven Samurai
Taxi Driver
The Third Man

[Buck Turgidson]

The Hill
Five Easy Pieces (Nice call :cool: )
The Thing (Carpenter version)
The Candidate

[BadCoverVersion]

Being There - Probably the best bar none.
The Wicker Man - Unforgettable!
La Dolce Vita
Withnail & I - Heartbreaking...yet painfully amusing in it's honesty.
Ratcatcher - Beautiful.
Dr. Strangelove
Arlington Road
Harold & Maude - Strangely sweet.
Vertigo
La Haine
24 Hour Party People - Curtis and Hamnet returning for one last boogie. Magic!
The Third Man
House Of Sand & Fog - Devastating!
Performance - The biggest head-fuck going.
Brighton Rock - A far superior ending to the book in my mind.
Dogville - That devastating last chapter topped off with Bowie's Young Americans. Perfect!
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

Plus a tonne more.

[Raging Bull080]

The Shawshank Redemption (my favorite ending ever)
The Third Man (to be specific the incredible last shot is breathtaking)
The Godfather
Chinatown (maybe the most unjust ending in movie history, but it works absolutely perfectly)
Vertigo ( the passion and tragic irony is truely awesome)
Seven
Citizen Kane (of course)
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Saving Private Ryan
Raging Bull
The Wid Bunch
Mystic River
Hihg Noon
The Usual Suspects
Sideways
Million Dollar Baby
Glory
Adaptation
and there are alot more that I won't list now

Worst ending- Red River (the 1 that jumps strait into my mind)

Looking at my list, 2 things come to mind. First most of the movies I listed rank high on my favorite films list, therefor I must come to the conclusion that a great ending is almost necessary for me to love a film, ofcourse there are some exceptions. Also I seem to be drawn to tragic unhappy endings.

[Hannibal21]

SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Citizen Kane - Watched it in the theatre the other day, and I have to say that no other moment in that film, no matter how maginificent, hit me as hard as the revelation of "rosebud". To top it off, seeing the sled incinerating in the fire during the final moments literally sent a chill up in my chest and created a force so strong that I could hardly breathe, I could only watch and be amazed, devastated, and content with that very image, all at the same time.

Casablanca - This one is pretty self-explanatory, possibly my favorite ending ever. Befitting, and Rick's speech moves the hell out of me every time I watch it.

Paris, Texas - Beautiful, absolutely STUNNING. The final moment where Kinski and Hunter meets, and the scene before that with Kinski and Stanton's final confrontation, are some of the most powerful, flawless moments ever put on film, I could not cry, but I could feel my heart shattering as Stanton's words open up to reveal who he really is, and when he watches from out the window, before driving away, realizing that he has finished his work.

Vertigo - A lot of other endings in Hitchock films are fine too, but this beats them all, the conclusion never fails to contradict my expectations of what's going to happen to the characters.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Sad, perfect, wonderfully played out.

[morricone]

Don't give away details about the scenes or anything. If you're going to do that, put a spoiler warning in dammit!

2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Ikiru
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Right Stuff
Five Easy Pieces
Citizen Kane
Seven Samurai
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Shawshank Redemption
Chinatown
Rocky

[Lord Nikon]

Why the hell would you read the type after the movie listed if you haven't seen it? Everyone else didn't have spoilers on there movies. Then you see a movie with a long paragraph after it. What did you think he was saying about the movie? Jeez, be more thoughtful before you read about a movie THAT TALKS ABOUT THE ENDING that there might be spoilers.

[morricone]

Originally posted by Lord Nikon
Why the hell would you read the type after the movie listed if you haven't seen it? Everyone else didn't have spoilers on there movies. Then you see a movie with a long paragraph after it. What did you think he was saying about the movie? Jeez, be more thoughtful before you read about a movie THAT TALKS ABOUT THE ENDING that there might be spoilers.

Well, it sort of gave away the plot, and I don't want to know which scene comes after the other beforehand. I'd like to watch the movie not knowing what's coming.

[Trinity]

These are a few off the top of my head, and obviously there will be SPOILERS:

Splendor in the Grass - Natalie Wood's voice over at the end gets me every time.

Gone with the Wind - not the “Frankly, my dear” stuff, but Scarlett’s monologue that comes after it

The Gay Divorcee - Fred & Ginger dancing out of the room, going in between and over furniture - quite a contrast to the elaborate production numbers earlier in the film. So simple and so beautiful.

Queen Christina - for the final close-up, Mamoulian instructed Garbo to keep her face blank for every viewer to fill in and that approach resulted in one of he most memorable and fascinating final shots ever.

[Buck Turgidson]

Originally posted by Trinity
Splendor in the Grass - Natalie Wood's voice over at the end gets me every time.


That whole sequence is simply killer. The visit, everyone privately ruminating on what might have been...plus, she looks better than she ever did any place or any time else in that cute little dress and hat...it's just magic :cool:

[Patrick Bateman]

Citizen Kane
Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction.
Rocky
The Wicker Man
American Beauty
Superman
RoboCop
Fight Club
The Usual Suspects
Terminator
Terminator 2
Scarface
SAW
JAWS
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
the 6th sense
Psycho
Halloween
Halloween 2
Friday the 13th
TCM
Empire Strikes Back
House of Sand and Fog
Boyz in the Hood
Adaptation
Escape from New York
Memento
Boogie Nights
As good as it Gets
Gone with the Wind

[Gian-Sergio]

Kill Bill
The Seven Samurai
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
Raging Bull
Casablanca
La Dolce Vita
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Pulp Fiction
Taxi Driver
West Side Story
Citizen Kane
Ikiru
All About Eve
Dr.Strangelove or:How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
GoodFellas
Psycho
Once Upon A Time In The West
Bowling For Columbine
The Wild Bunch
Apocalypse Now
The Battle Of Algiers
Amores Perros
Scarface
City Of God

[Heavenley]

The Sixth Sense
The Others
The Village
The Shining

[Cronos]

Once Upon A Time In The West
Saw
Kill Bill
Scarface
Cube
Fight Club
Seven Samurai
Last Samurai
The Wicker Man
In The Mouth Of Madness

[JumpinJackFlash]

About Schmidt
Boogie Nights
Citizen Kane
A Clockwork Orange
Collateral
Dead Poet's Society
Dr. Strangelove
Edward Scissorhands
The Evil Dead
Frenzy
Lost in Translation
May
Pulp Fiction
Se7en
Spider-Man 2
The Thing (1982)
The Truman Show
Witness

[Beatrix Kiddo]

Lost in Translation
Love, Actually
Pulp Fiction
The Shawshank Redemption
Sleepless in Seattle
The Empire Strikes Back
Kill Bill 1 + 2
Adaptation
Terminator 2
Memento
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

[Tagia_Romero]

My favourite EVER:

The Rex comes to the rescue at the end of 'Jurassic Park'. Talk about a roaring triumph.

[HeavyFknMetal]

Best Endings (In No Particular Order):
Reservoir Dogs
Shawshank Redemption
The Usual Suspects
Taxi Driver
Straw Dogs
The Professional
Battle Royale
Se7en (some of you say its overrated, I loved it)
The Village (I liked it some of you can go to hell)

Worst Endings (Again, In No Particular Order):
Sleepaway Camp (If this were in order that would be number one)
Gettysburg (the south should of won)
LOTR The Return of The King

[brodeurnumber1]

Originally posted by HeavyFknMetal


Worst Endings (Again, In No Particular Order):
Gettysburg (the south should of won)


You do realize that the North actually won the War? What are they supposed to do, twist facts?

My Favorites:

The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars
Return of the Jedi
Fight Club
The Truman Show
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill Volume Two
The Shawshank Redemption
Rocky
Raiders of the Lost Ark

[HeavyFknMetal]

That was merely a joke

[shawn-o]

My favorite movie endings

Crimes and Misdemeanors
Mission: Impossible
Pulp Fiction
The Usual Suspects
Annie Hall
Return of the Jedi (Ewok Dance!!!)

In Recent Years
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
The Ring

[eurydice]

"My favourite EVER:

"The Rex comes to the rescue at the end of 'Jurassic Park'. Talk about a roaring triumph."

I love that shot too. With the banner and the roaring.
Some other favorite last scenes and or endings:
The final shot of Nights of Cabiria (got to be one of the greatest final shots of all time-IMHO-as well as*)
The Ring (climax)
La Strada
Sunset Boulevard *
Star Wars (not last scene, but general ending) "Stay on target. Stay on target." ;)
Jaws
The Sixth Sense

When was the last time you were in a movie theatre when the entire audience actually cheered at the ending?
For me it happened as a little kid with Jaws (I'm still afraid of the ocean)
Star Wars as a kid-when it came out
and the first Lord of The Rings (because nobody could believe Jackson
actually pulled it off-I still can't believe it!) :)

[SpacePuppet]

Casablanca
Pulp Fiction
The Shining
Jaws
The Sixth Sense
Fight Club
Halloween (creepiest ending ever)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Se7en
Mystic River

[ChemicalRomance]

Se7en
Fight Club
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Heat
SAW
Pulp Fiction (the whole mindset of it. "just walk the earth...")
The Shawshank Redemption
Million Dollar Baby (Last lines are so eerie...)
Kill Bill: Volume 1
Memento
The Sixth Sense

[Toshirô]

The following are my favorite endings.

Psycho
The Sixth Sense
Taxi Driver
The Usual Suspects
Memento
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
SE7EN
Dressed To Kill

[jaw2929]

Swimming WIth Sharks
K-Pax
Usual Suspects
Se7en
Life of David Gale
American Beauty (I'm seeing a Spacey trend!)
Fight Club
American History X
Primal Fear (And a Norton trend :))
Road to Perdition
Reservoir Dogs
Freddy vs. Jason ;)
Seed of Chucky (Pure hilarity!)
Army of Darkness
One Hour Photo

[shawn-o]

I wanted to add a few more...I forgot some

Saw
Freddy Vs. Jason (Pretty funny)
The Usual Suspects
Mulholland Drive (Just weird all the way through)
Fight Club
Both Kill Bill movies

[shawn-o]

I put Usual Suspects twice....wow!

Let's pretend that never happend

While im here im gonna ad Signs, Unbreakable and The Sixth Sense to my list...Go Shymalalon...go...i probably spelled his name wrong...oh well...

[Rick-James]

The Empire Strikes Back
Kill Bill, Volume 1
Escape From L.A.
Unbreakable
25th Hour
Leon
Shaun of the Dead
Heat
Evil Dead II

[wyodebbie]

Age of Innocence
American Beauty
Angel Heart
Being John Malkovich
Doctor Zhivago
Gattaca
Hustler
Notorious
Piano
Vanilla Sky
Wolf