RichC2

Agreed with Cube 2: Hypercube.

I still enjoy the first 70 minutes though Actually I like it up through



oh and I liked AI's ending.

-Rich

NCMojo

Yeah, that's why I hated the ending of Apollo 13. I just felt it was so unrealistic -- no way those guys could have survived that. And Bonnie and Clyde had a lot of people getting shot up, people dying. I hated that too.

My list of worst endings:

Gangs of New York
Is this how the book ended? Or is this what happened in real life? In any event, the ending was so anticlimactic, and so disappointing.

Chasing Amy
I love Kevin Smith, loved the movie -- but as I always tell people, "When you reach the point in the movie where it feels like the movie is about to end... get up and shut off the VCR. When they are cuddling together at the end, and the movie seems like it is going to end -- shut off the movie."

The Game
I swear, my wife and I saw the ending coming a mile away, and both of us were saying, "Oh, God, no. Please don't end the movie end this way. If the movie ends this way... oh God, no. Please no." A thoroughly riddiculous movie, a thoroughly riddiculous ending.

Planet of the Apes (remake)
Actually, I have succesfully deluded myself into believing that not only did this ending not actually occur... but the movie itself never happened...

gongon78

Lake Placid & Deep Blue Sea...for now.

REL77

You know that this is a true story right??? THat that actually happened that way and that was the real outcome

PolloDiablo

I think the little winky face at the end of that paragraph was supposed to show that he was being sarcastic

BernieStolar

Dreamcatcher

chowderhead

I did not like AI's ending as I agree with many of the previous posters here.
I vote for Congo. IIRC, it was an of an ending. Absolutely horrid.

FuzzyBallz

I was just about say the same for whoever said the ending for Titanic was bad. Man, it's called history, those poor and rich people all died.

Now for my choice, I'd have to pick... I'll have to get back to you on that, can't recall anything from memory atm.

fmian

I'll be the first mention Shawshank Redemption and Minority Report. While the ending's weren't the worst, I think that in contrast to the rest of the movie they stank pretty bad.

Shawshank should have ended when:



And Minority Report should have ended when:

Panda Phil

Final Fantasy:The Spirits Within. The ending of that thing is quaranteed to suck all the joy out of your life.

Also any slasher or monster flick where the monster springs back to life in the last scene of the film.

And for anyone who's seen the alternate ending of CLERKS, if it'd been used, that would've been the worst movie ending EVER. Dunno what KS was thinking at the time.


So can you tell I'm not a big fan of grim endings?

inri222

Sliver
Boxing Helena

REL77

I hated the ending to Boiler Room. I was really upset with it. I thought it should have ended like the alternate ending on the DVD

lookslikeme

SPHERE

I wish I could just forget that 2 hours of my life!

zuffy

First to mention Independence Day. That ending is f***ing retarded. The whole movie is retarded.

I agree with the following too:
Sphere
Arlington Road
Final Fantasy: Spirits Within
Deep Impact
The Core
House on Haunted Hill (remake)

devilshalo

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

devilshalo

I was just about to put that down. No fair that they could will themselves to forget... I just wish I could have.

C.H.U.D.

I have to go with The Game. Talk about a wussy, cop-out happy ending. If it had ended the way it should have ended, it may have been a great film, but the ending they went with ruined the entire film.

Oh, and I think the final scene of Shawshank Redemption is the best scene in the entire film. Fruity? Oh please.

HistoryProf

The grand champion here is easily Unbreakable....i've never enjoyed a theater experience less.....

fmian

Like I said, not the worst ending ever, and it doesn't ruin the movie in any harsh way, but in contrast it was pretty bad. I took a film class during University were we had to compare literature to it's screen adaption, and everyone in the class seemed to think the ended was too sappy. I can't remember exactly how the book ends but it doesn't go so far as to show them meeting up. It is just my opinion though and everyone is entitled to their own.

Joe Schmoe

AI (just when I thought the movie couldn't get any dumber, the ending did just that)
Contact (the end felt like a rip off)
Independence Day (the whole thing was a turd but the crop duster was really ridiculous)

DonnachaOne

Odd that you bring this up!

To me, Shawshank has an ambiguous ending.

Also, in MR - Gideon says something to the effect that when a person is haloed, that person dreams vividly.

SunMonkey

I would tack on the the entire last half an hour as the worst ending for Planet of the Apes (2001).

My pick, though, actually goes for one of my all time favorite movies - A Nightmare on Elm Street. It may not be the worst ending on its own, but when it is slopped on to one the best horror movies of all time, that makes it tops (bottoms) to me.

Another poor ending on a great movie is Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I understand that it was because they ran out of money and stuff, so it isn't THAT bad all things considered.

DarthMarino

Not sure if I think it's the worst ending ever, but I always find the last 10 minutes of suicide kings to be a bit of a letdown. The movie works great developing as it does then they try the whole multiple twist thing which never does anything for me.

Pointyskull

AI isn't the worst, imo, but it's far from the best. It went on much too long.

I wish it had ended That would have been bee-yoo-ti-full.

Pants

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If A.I. ended there it would be an awful ending. Oh sure, it's ironic, in a Twilight Zone kind of way, but a motion picture has to have a real ending, not some enigmatic ironic cliffhanger. Spielberg's making a movie, with 3 acts, a beginning, a middle, and an end. So often today H'wood movies are all second act and often end w/out a conclusion, but rather cop out with a TZ style "twist". Spielberg isn't making a "twist" movie. It wouldn't be in A.I.s best interest to have a clever ending. A.I.'s ending certainly riffs on 2001:ASO, so for that I will criticize it, but it goes on because it must have a conclusion. You guys want clever over complete. You'd rather have an incomplete narative that's clever then a resolved narative.