I’m sure this has been discussed before, but after I watched the movie The Dinner this weekend on Netflix I felt compelled to rant about the worst ending EVER of a movie. I’ve seen bad endings before but this was something I’ve never experienced before.
I won’t go into details just in case someone might want to watch this piece of crap. It stars Richard Gere, Steve Coogan & Laura Linney. So I thought it should be pretty good. HA!
Has anyone else seen this movie? What other movies would you say have bad endings?
As I’ve observed before, the 1975 movie Lucky Lady starring Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, and Burt Reynolds ([there’s a weird cast for you) hadits ending filmed three times – three different endings. The original was thought to be too much of a downer, and nobody was satisfied with the second one. All three had different feels to them.
And I know a lot of people love it, but one of the most annoying things about ** Blazing Saddles** to me was the way they ended it. It’s like they couldn’t figure out how to end it, aside from having the heroes ride/drive off into the sunset.
For that matter, I’m still kinda annoyed about the ending of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
The ending of **The Holy Grail **is brilliant, resolving a thread that was all through the movie in a perfectly logical way. It is not “flat” or tacked on and it was set up from the early going.
To the OP - I thought the Abyss was a good movie until the end. Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio had good chemistry. Kind of a gritty sci-fi, somewhat reality-based movie. Right up until the end, that is. As someone upthread said - it was like they just got tired of writing a good and somewhat plausible movie (ignoring the whole death / rebirth thing). Anyway - when I watch it now, I turn it off when Ed gets dropped into the alien’s lap.
*I disagree about it being brilliant, and just because they have a totally unrelated storyline about a knight killing a professor being looked for by police in scenes scattered through the film doesn’t make it “perfectly logical”. It’s a non sequitur threaded through the film.
I don’t remember what the heck it was called, but the last Spanish movie I watched in theaters was a drama/mystery story involving organ trafficking.
They could have ended in a cliffhanger: the Girl has been wounded badly, needs a transplant… if you were The Guy who frankly wasn’t advancing all that well with her, would you accept a compatible organ for your silence? Instead they had to hit us over the head with the information that yes, he does and she has no problem with it. The final scene gives us a very clear view of her surgical scar as she rides his dick in their fabulous apartment.
I’ve stated this here before, but this one really angered me. Leave before the ending card. You’ll then realize you watched the wrong underdog movie:
Movie focuses on a bunch of stars, almost wins the state title. Their portrayed as scrappy underdogs who almost beat a team capable of decapitating them. Now the seniors are graduating, and by golly, they gave it their all. Fade to black… then the ending card:
The next year, the team WINS the State Title.
This is more remarkable as they’re replacing all the graduating stars on offense and defense from the previous year, including the QB. Think of the 49ers winning it all the year after Montana, Rice, and Lott suddenly retired.
Well, it certainly wasn’t Get Out, which I watched last night. Holy cow, what a movie. I guess I’ll have to hunt for the thread because both words in the title are three letters.
The one that comes to mind for me is The Lovely Bones, perhaps because I recently saw it. Not a great movie by any stretch – Mark Wahlberg as dad; need I say more? – but not a bad one, either. Except for the ending. I gather the ending was faithful to the book, but that’s a lame and in this case, shitty, reason.
The serial killer gets away at the end but then (randomly) dies falling off a cliff from slipping on a patch of snow or something (stupid) like that.
The Village from M. Night Shyamalan is actually a really good movie. Until the ending arrives and ruins everything that comes before it.
To this day, I still can not believe that the obvious twist we all saw miles away was the one he actually went with. The Wolverine, which was the second stand alone Wolverine movie, was also solid. But, dude, it devolved into a horrible ending 20% or so that left me with a negative impression. I was stunned to learn that the same director made the far superior Logan(Wolverine 3).
I agree (also one of my favorite movies). It was totally stupid. It needed SOME sort of punchline after the five detectives and their consorts drove disgruntledly away, but this one was unworthy of Neil Simon*.
The Bad Seed (1956). An absurd deus ex machina obliterated the evil character, because the Movie Code at the time required it. Didn’t happen in the novel or the play, which were for grown-ups.
Not to mention Peter Sellers, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Elsa Lanchester, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Truman Capote in his only movie role, Charles Addams, et al. God, I love ‘70s movies
A Mighty Wind was a fun movie to watch. Until the end when Mark Shubb turned into a woman. Where did that come from? I have no problem with the change, it’s just blindsiding us, in ways that other Christopher Guest movies haven’t.