# Absolutely shocking movie endings (Uh, yeah, SPOILERS) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 30, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432 "2003-05-30T02:10:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/1 "2003-05-30T02:10:01Z")
I am terrible at remembering how movies end, especially if the ending is generally happy. Shocking or twist endings tend to stick in my mind better. One that totally floored me and stuck with me for awhile was **The Grifters** with John Cusack and Anjelica Huston: I can’t remember exactly how it happens, (someone throws something at him?) Cusack is drinking something (or someone throws the glass at him?), the glass breaks and cuts his juglular vein and he DIES!!! Right in front of Anjelica Huston who is his mother! She does nothing to help him, leaves him dying on the floor and drives off. Oh, how that ending absolutely stunned me!! What are some other totally shocking and stunning movie endings? Please remember to use spoiler tags!!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/2 "2003-05-30T02:19:18Z")
The Usual Suspects is definitely the movie that shocked me the most, when it was revealed that Verbal Kint is Keyser Soze. Recontextualizes EVERYTHING in the whole movie! Also, Memento, when we find out that Leonard probably killed his own life, and has been homicidally tilting at windmills the whole movie. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/3 "2003-05-30T02:45:32Z")
I was shocked by the ending of Sixth Sense. Took me totally by surprise. (No spoiler, folks. If you’re one of the three people on earth who don’t know how this movie ends, I ain’t gonna ruin it for you 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/4 "2003-05-30T02:48:23Z")
Not so much shocking as sad - The end of The Pledge ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/5 "2003-05-30T03:06:34Z")
Seven. The one movie that truely left me speechless at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Nichol\_storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Nichol\_storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nichol_storm)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/6 "2003-05-30T03:08:17Z")
The Others took me completely by surprise – and I usually figure out how a movie is going to end ten minutes into it! Another great one is Strange Days when Mace and Lenny split up at the end. I was shrieking at the TV screen, “You dufus, she’s so obviously in love with your stupid ass!” Then Lenny goes back for her, and all is right with the world. 🙂 .:Nichol:. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/7 "2003-05-30T03:52:38Z")
Regarding _The Usual Suspects_: So we ever really know for CERTAIN that he is Kayser Soze? Places in the Heart: This one is my favorite ending for a movie. The scene is a Communion service in a church. Characters begin to pass the Communion plate to each other. You see enemies sitting next to each other. Then you realize that you are also seeing people who have been killed in the movie. There is no explanation given, but it surely made me feel great! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/8 "2003-05-30T04:11:40Z")
I was floored when I learned that Soylent Green is: …still people! ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/9 "2003-05-30T05:00:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zoe \* > \*\*Regarding _The Usual Suspects_: > > So we ever really know for CERTAIN that he is Kayser Soze? > > \*\* Well, considering that the composite drawn up by the Hungarian survivor of the dock massacre looks just like Kint, I’d say, probably yes. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/10 "2003-05-30T05:02:09Z")
Well, Zoe in _The Usual Suspects_: The only other survivor of the assault on the ship (the burnt Hungarian guy who kept screaming “Keyser Soze”) was able to describe Keyser’s appearance to a police sketch artist. When the drawing of Keyser Soze was faxed to the station house where Verbal was being interrogated, it was revealed that the face on the drawing was that of Verbal. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/11 "2003-05-30T05:02:35Z")
2001: A Space Odyssey. Whoa!!! Best. Ending. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/12 "2003-05-30T05:17:43Z")
-I’ll second the **Pledge** …i don’t think i’ll ever that depressed after a movie ends… -I’ll also second **7even** , the day after i saw the movie i was furious, i couldn’t come to grip with how cruel the ending, i was literally beside myself. ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/13 "2003-05-30T06:34:03Z")
I was completely unsurprised by the ending of _The Others_… I had that one pegged inside of 20 minutes while I was watching the movie. On the other hand, _The Pledge_ was a sad surprise of an ending. The biggest surprise I had recently was at the end of _Session 9_. when we learn that… … the main character visciously murdered his wife and infant child… It’s quite a nasty shock. Enough to make me never want to see that movie again, even though it was a very effective horror film overall. ---
**Author:** ![godzillatemple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@godzillatemple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/godzillatemple)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/14 "2003-05-30T12:24:31Z")
Little Kevin wakes up to find the whole thing was just a dream and then… “Mum, Dad – don’t touch it! It’s EVIL!” His parents then explode and the fireman who rescued him turns out to be Sean Connory, who was King Agamemnon in Kevin’s “dream.” The film ends with Kevin all alone looking around lost and forelorn. I was young when I saw the film, and that scene really left me very disturbed at the end of an otherwise funny, uplifting movie. Terry Gilliam is one seriously disturbed guy… Barry ---
**Author:** ![AV8R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@AV8R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AV8R)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/15 "2003-05-30T14:07:51Z")
I saw the original _ **Planet of the Apes** _ when I was about 8 years old, and that ending totally blew me away. I think it was Rod Serling who conceived of that ending, and it was pure genius. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/16 "2003-05-30T18:29:58Z")
Count me as one of the people most decidedly _not_ surprised by the ending of **7even**. It’s an effective ending, granted, but I saw it coming a mile away. Especially with the heavy foreshadowing given by John Doe (Spacey’s character --\> he didn’t have a name, did he?) on the ride there. Effective, yes, surprising, no. Snicks ---
**Author:** ![Peg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Peg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peg)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/17 "2003-05-30T20:22:04Z")
Do we really need spoiler boxes if “Spoilers” is in the thread title? Anyway, the ending of _Presumed Innocent_ was a great twist. The staging/editing for _Usual Suspects_ was also superbly done. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/18 "2003-05-30T21:50:27Z")
I think we need spoilers, since someone who is interested in these kind of movies (who, me?), but hasn’t seen that particular movie would not be pleasantly surprised to see the real surprise spoiled beforehand. That said, I agree with yours, **Peg**. And I’m completely with those who saw the ending of Se7en coming up real soon, what with all the attention to paid to the family situation of Brad Pitt’s character. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/19 "2003-05-30T22:08:59Z")
The end of No Way Out. It totally blew my mind when I found out that Kevin Costner WAS Uri . ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432/20 "2003-05-30T22:47:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wolfian \* > \*\*Seven. The one movie that truely left me speechless at the end. \*\* You beat me to it. Wow. Still gives me chills. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolutely-shocking-movie-endings-uh-yeah-spoilers/178432.md?page=2)