# Movies that when they ended you went "Whaaaaat?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaaat/678612 "2014-01-12T21:46:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaaat/678612/141 "2014-01-23T05:16:15Z")
How about the ending of [Altered States](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-UGirt-C4o)? I mean, I can’t believe they just ripped off the ending of A-Ha’s “Take On Me” video like that. ---
**Author:** ![irritant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@irritant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irritant)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaaat/678612/142 "2014-01-23T08:16:17Z")
> [@Nom\_de\_Plume](#): > > I don’t remember the name of the movie. It was very low budget. Some guy worked night shift in a factory but wanted to be a private eye. His partner at the factory and he start a case where they try to rescue some old girlfriend who’s caught up in drugs . They end up having to steal a purse from the bad guys. They get the purse… and then the movie just ends. No resolution. Just over. I wondered if the filmmaker just ran out of money or something. Anyone else see this? I think you’re talking about Aaron Katz’s _Cold Weather_. Wonderful movie. Good ending. ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaaat/678612/143 "2014-01-23T20:35:58Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > [Re: Thunderbolt & Lightfoot…] > Yet another in that string of early-mid-70s movies with pointlessly downer endings. God, does it never end? Yes. Fortunately, the 1970’s ended. I think I saw this late-night on TV in the 1980’s, but this one was from 1978: Fun with Dick & Jane ## Dick & Jane are driving away, laughing at their success as petty crooks – and a train plows through their car? No crossing-guard or alarm bells as the train approached? Also: I much preferred the theatrical ending to Payback. The Director’s cut ending left me with a “Huh? That’s all?” ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaaat/678612/144 "2014-01-23T20:58:04Z")
> [@Grestarian](#): > > I think I saw this late-night on TV in the 1980’s, but this one was from 1978: Fun with Dick & Jane > > Dick & Jane are driving away, laughing at their success as petty crooks – and a train plows through their car? No crossing-guard or alarm bells as the train approached? Isn’t that the ending to _Dirty Mary Crazy Larry_? Have you mixed them up, or did both movies use the same stupid wtf ending? (Not to mention _Vanishing Point_.) ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaaat/678612/145 "2014-01-23T21:06:00Z")
> [@Grestarian](#): > > I think I saw this late-night on TV in the 1980’s, but this one was from 1978: Fun with Dick & Jane > > Dick & Jane are driving away, laughing at their success as petty crooks – and a train plows through their car? No crossing-guard or alarm bells as the train approached? Depends on the location and the budget for such things. The train crossing down the road from my grandpa’s farm was completely uncontrolled - no lights, no bells, no gates. Just the x-shaped “RR Xing” sign on either side of the tracks. You were supposed to slow down/stop and look both ways down the tracks before proceeding. ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaaat/678612/146 "2014-01-25T05:32:11Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Isn’t that the ending to _Dirty Mary Crazy Larry_? Have you mixed them up, or did both movies use the same stupid wtf ending? (Not to mention _Vanishing Point_.) Hmmm…those are some convoluted DMCL plots, summarized on IMDB! Since that was my brief late-night TV Movie phase in the mid-1980’s it could very well have been either or both. Either way, quite a stupid ending (and I’m just glad they didn’t kill off Burt Reynolds/The Bandit with that trick)! –G! ---
**Author:** ![Nom\_de\_Plume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaaat/678612/147 "2014-01-26T08:18:14Z")
> [@irritant](#): > > I think you’re talking about Aaron Katz’s _Cold Weather_. Wonderful movie. Good ending. That’s it, thanks. Though I was disappointed in the ending. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaaat/678612/148 "2014-02-09T06:13:28Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > I take the discussion between Deckard and the chief to be the first time they’ve ever actually met - Deckard’s “memory” is that he used to be a Blade Runner but quit. He was taken out of storage, or built, or reprogrammed, specifically to solve the problem of the six escaped Nexus 6’s. I am firmly in the “not a replicant” camp, and there’s one thing about the Deckard-is-a-replicant theory that has always puzzled me. Why does Deckard become completely exhausted fighting Pris and Roy in the final scenes? By the time Roy saves him on the rooftop, Deckard can barely hold his head up! If he’s a replicant, then it should have been a fair fight, but Pris and Roy are able to mop the floor with him. If Deckard isn’t human, he must be the Yugo of replicants. I realize that this objection can be handwaved away by saying that he’s an earlier and less powerful model. But what’s the point of sending him out on a mission to take out the escaped Nexus-6 gang if he is no more effective than an ordinary human with a gun? ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaaat/678612/149 "2014-02-09T10:00:49Z")
How about Nightmare on Elm Street? Freddy has been coldly dismissed by Nancy, disappears, losing his power… Nancy’s friends are alive again, and then Freddy kills her mom a second time and sends Nancy and company on the car ride from Hell. And yet Nancy is alive in the third film. So did that last scene happen, or what? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaaat/678612/150 "2014-02-09T13:42:05Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > How about Nightmare on Elm Street? Freddy has been coldly dismissed by Nancy, disappears, losing his power… Nancy’s friends are alive again, and then Freddy kills her mom a second time and sends Nancy and company on the car ride from Hell. And yet Nancy is alive in the third film. So did that last scene happen, or what? It was a nightmare. An honest nightmare, not a Freddy created one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaaat/678612.md?page=7)