Films that have the perfect ending
06-29-01 | 10:31 AM
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Originally posted by filmguy
Actually, Marc, there is kind of an answer to the ending in Traffic, which I liked as well. At the end Del Toro is watching a baseball game. If you watch the movie again, one of the characters (I forget which one, I beleive the assassin) makes a comment about liking baseball, about it being the safest place in the world or something like that.
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Actually, Marc, there is kind of an answer to the ending in Traffic, which I liked as well. At the end Del Toro is watching a baseball game. If you watch the movie again, one of the characters (I forget which one, I beleive the assassin) makes a comment about liking baseball, about it being the safest place in the world or something like that.
Originally posted by Marc Colella
Traffic: No definitive answers, just DelToro watching a baseball game.
Traffic: No definitive answers, just DelToro watching a baseball game.
06-29-01 | 09:19 PM
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A few films that end "perfectly" in my book:
The Edge
The Great Train Robbery
Zulu Dawn
Citizen Kane
Walkabout
Seventh Seal
The Age of Innocence
Taxi Driver
The Grifters
The Spanish Prisoner
The Winslow Boy
The War Lord
El Cid
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Fahrenheit 451
The Usual Suspects
Beautiful Girls
Blair Witch Project
Romancing the Stone
Braveheart
Legends of the Fall
The Lion in Winter
Glory
Chinatown
Papillon
Das Boot
Patton
Lolita (Lyne's version)
Witness
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Professionals
Shane
The Searchers
The Wild Bunch
Silverado
Body Heat
The Edge
The Great Train Robbery
Zulu Dawn
Citizen Kane
Walkabout
Seventh Seal
The Age of Innocence
Taxi Driver
The Grifters
The Spanish Prisoner
The Winslow Boy
The War Lord
El Cid
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Fahrenheit 451
The Usual Suspects
Beautiful Girls
Blair Witch Project
Romancing the Stone
Braveheart
Legends of the Fall
The Lion in Winter
Glory
Chinatown
Papillon
Das Boot
Patton
Lolita (Lyne's version)
Witness
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Professionals
Shane
The Searchers
The Wild Bunch
Silverado
Body Heat
06-30-01 | 01:21 PM
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Casablanca.
Maltese Falcon.
Wild Things (sorry).
Maltese Falcon.
Wild Things (sorry).
07-02-01 | 03:49 PM
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After Hours
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (my favorite ending line)
Babe (perhaps the most perfect ending ever)
Sunset Boulevard
Pennies from Heaven
Vertigo
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (my favorite ending line)
Babe (perhaps the most perfect ending ever)
Sunset Boulevard
Pennies from Heaven
Vertigo
07-03-01 | 03:13 PM
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... looking at the above, I'd totally forgotten FIELD OF DREAMS, which fits the criteria 100% - as the camera pans away you see ... well, a sight that (if the film's grabbed you) can't fail to bring a tear to the eye.
... what WAS the last line of WILLY WONKA?
... BOOGIE NIGHTS also fits the bill - just the image (unforgettable for some, an everyday sight for some of us lucky ones
) and then the credits
... others I really like are SOUTHERN COMFORT, which is an all-round excellent film, but the ending (slow motion, don't-know-what's-about-to-happen) rocks
... and call me soft but I've always liked the very last frames of ROXANNE with Steve Martin - the music's really tender, and oh it's all so HAPPY ...
Surprised nobody's mentioned Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid yet either ... best freeze-frame ending ever?
... what WAS the last line of WILLY WONKA?
... BOOGIE NIGHTS also fits the bill - just the image (unforgettable for some, an everyday sight for some of us lucky ones
) and then the credits... others I really like are SOUTHERN COMFORT, which is an all-round excellent film, but the ending (slow motion, don't-know-what's-about-to-happen) rocks
... and call me soft but I've always liked the very last frames of ROXANNE with Steve Martin - the music's really tender, and oh it's all so HAPPY ...
Surprised nobody's mentioned Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid yet either ... best freeze-frame ending ever?
07-04-01 | 11:20 AM
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American Beauty (the ending was actually changed from early story boards)
Seven
The Usual Suspects
You've Got Mail! (my favorite movie)
I could go on, but those are the best.
-pedagogue
Seven
The Usual Suspects
You've Got Mail! (my favorite movie)
I could go on, but those are the best.
-pedagogue
07-04-01 | 01:40 PM
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There were some good ones named here so I'll add those that weren't:
Mean Guns (very powerful)
Hurlyburly
Jade
The Eye of the Beholder (extremely sad)
Under Suspicion (1992, Liam Neeson)
Mean Guns (very powerful)
Hurlyburly
Jade
The Eye of the Beholder (extremely sad)
Under Suspicion (1992, Liam Neeson)
