Movies that cop-out in the end

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@Skywatcher

Here’s a related thread from 2017 (contained therein is a link to an even older thread). 

BAD Movie Endings

Thanks for the link - I see I mentioned The Vanishing there, too, as well as in this thread. I’d completely forgotten being told there that the American remake was by the same director.

@divemaster

@needscoffee

The original version of The Vanishing from 1988. I so did not expect the ending, but understood the inevitability of it.

Evidently the American remake gave it a brand new ending which ruined it.

Another instance where the “American remake” was directed by the same (Dutch) director that made the original. So as far as the sucky ending goes, he only has himself to blame for tainting his original vision.