What movie were you fully into and enjoy while it chugged along, but the final scene was so bad that it made you hate the whole movie?

Pay It Forward


Planet of the Apes (Burton)

I agree with Planet Of The Apes. Although the ending didn't make me hate the movie, I just didn't like the ending. The movie was pretty entertaining throughout. Then the last 10 minutes just didn't seem to fit.

Agree with you about Pay It Forward. The horrible ending combined with the overidealism just clinched me not liking a movie that could have been very good in the hands of a better director.

And the Planet of the Apes ending was just plain dumb, too.

Just as a preemptive measure:

Nobody say A.I.

That arguement is played out

Adaptation

About A Boy

Devil's Advocate

What's wrong with the last 10 minutes of About a Boy?

I've said it before, but the last 30 seconds of My Fair Lady almost ruins the whole thing for me.

Also, Dangerous Lifes of Altar Boys and as mentioned above Planet of the Apes (2001).

I got one more - and it's a big one:

American Beauty

Bah!!

Grant's character's behaviour at the talent show totaly goes against everything he was set up as - I just don't buy the idea of him changing his ways just because he kind of cares for some kid. It was far too cliched and would never, ever happen in the real world.

Minority Report! The last 20 minutes killed the movie.

The last 10 minutes of Memento seemed to be a cheapshot at the audience. But I didnt really like the other 110 minutes.

Already covered by "South Park," but still:

Contact

The last ten minutes of About A Boy are vastly inferior to the book's ending, which has a much more nuanced and realistic. (The rest of the movie was very, very failthful to the book.)

I hated the last ten minutes of Training Day ... the whole chase bit was obviously put in to Attract the Action Crowd.

The very ending of Changing Lanes wasn't so bad, but you could tell it wasn't the way the movie was *really* supposed to end.

Minority Report did seem like a copout, but I think Spielberg was trying to deliver a Hollywood action flick similar in tone to his old school Indiana Jones type films. But still....

The last bit of Speed 2 really killed the movie for me. Where the bad guy is getting away - in a plane no less - and can't help but stare backwards until he inevitably runs into a friggin boat. I mean, seriously, he's in a plane and is flying so low that he'll hit a boat's antenna and doesn't bother watching where he's going?

Up until then I thought the movie was merely a horrible waste of time, but that sapped part of my brain from my head and took three years off my life.

Panic room was entertaining, until the end part

How should contact ended?

Wow, I'm surpised no one has mentioned this one...
The Ninth Gate

An American Werewolf in London

(Even though this is one of my favorite films, I am still let-down by the abrupt ending).

Uh, I'd say the ending to American Beauty was a lot of things, but definitely not cliche.

You want to talk about cliche? Let's talk about the ending for The Usual Suspects. . .

Just kidding.

Till again.

Se7en. And the Game, come to think of it. Good movies up until the crappy ends.

And Rules of Engagment. I just felt the whole trial thing got resolved WAY too quickly. ALL the evidence was piling up against the guy then Tommy Lee Jones just makes a nice speech and turns it around??? WTF?? And no spoiler tags either, the ending sucked. Don't see the movie. I actually think that is one movie that could have benefited by being just a bit longer, fifteen or thirty minutes longer or so, just long enough to make the ending a little more plausible.

Death to Smoochy

The first 3/4 was a hilarious and biting satire on the machinations behind kids sing-along shows.

Adaptation



Signs



The Bourne Identity

...err... even though I hated the movie, it was pretty obvious the

...if it didn't end that way, it would have been even worse IMHO.

hitchcock's rebecca (at first, do not flame me, yet)

How about spoiler tags? Thanks for ruining the movie btw

I can't believe i'm the first to say: Unbreakable....I wanted my money back after the end of that manipulative crap.