# Greatest Closing Scene... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 2, 2000, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-closing-scene/43666 "2000-12-02T01:43:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-closing-scene/43666/41 "2000-12-04T17:18:53Z")
The series was nothing special, but the end of _Yotoden_ was just brutal. The heroine just howling over and over, drives home that she’s really lost everything . . . Or thats’s where it _should_ have ended. They thougt it would be fun to tack on a pretentious “history is made by people” bit that totally kills the mood of the first part. _Key the Metal Idol_ proably should win some kind of award for the most ambiguous ending. In the, “Is this a happy moment, or should I be disturbed?” sense. And because you didn’t specify movies, I feel obliged to mention _Fallout_ . . . ## God, I’m such a geek . . . “I had so many things I wanted to tell you . . .” ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-closing-scene/43666/42 "2000-12-04T17:27:01Z")
> [@](#): > > Blackadder goes forth, Goodbyeee: > The final scene of the final episode of this WWI Blackadder series. Stunning, and not funny at all. But man, does it grab you. Maybe > because the rest was all so hilarious, making the contrast even sharper? It took my girlfriend and I _days_ to recover from that. We watched the entire Blackadder series over the course of a week, so it was a pretty serious investment. After watching hours of totally unrealistic comedy, Blackadder got terribly real. I am surprised no one mentioned _Karakter_. Especially you, Coldfire. 😉 As Katadreuffe leaves the police station after being questioned about the violent death of his father, he instantaneously revises the entire course of his relationship with his father. In a moment of epiphany, he sees him for a moment, finally seeing his father as the man wanted to be seen. Stunning, stunning ending. MR ---
**Author:** ![toonerama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@toonerama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toonerama)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-closing-scene/43666/43 "2000-12-04T19:59:50Z")
Don’t recall if it’s the very end, bit it’s at least close … 1931’s “Public Enemy” James Cagney’s death on the steps. Corny, but in the context of this great old prohibition-era drama, it’s perfect. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-closing-scene/43666/44 "2000-12-05T01:00:11Z")
\*Limbo The Heartbreak Kid Lost Highway Grand Illusion Zentropa Boudu sauvé des eaux Dead Man The Edge Do the Right Thing\* ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-closing-scene/43666/45 "2000-12-05T01:01:28Z")
Ooh! ooh! Forgot: \*Breaking the Waves Dancer in the Dark\* ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-closing-scene/43666/46 "2000-12-05T01:09:22Z")
I thought the ending of **Stand by Me** was pretty poignant. The narrator describes how his childhood friend died breking up a fight, he looks up at his kid playing with his own buddy, and he types the final line to the story: “I never had friends again like the friends I had when I was twelve. Does anyone?” ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-closing-scene/43666/47 "2000-12-05T01:14:08Z")
_Fail Safe_ --people going about their business, then the action stops as the bombs go off… ::whistles “We’ll Meet Again”:: ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-closing-scene/43666/48 "2000-12-05T02:39:54Z")
**Army of Darkness** (the ending they went with). I laughed, I cried… 🙂 And if we’re going to count anime endings, I’ll go with the **Neon Genesis Evangelion** movie as well as **Kite**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-closing-scene/43666.md?page=2)