# The movie whose ending sucketh biggest. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2006, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058 "2006-01-15T06:47:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/101 "2006-01-18T16:07:43Z")
> [@](#): > > In all fairness, that’s how the book pretty much ends. > > The movie still sucked however. Yeah, but the movie didn’t have the same plot as the book, so having the same ending really doesn’t make a lot of sense. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/102 "2006-01-18T16:10:38Z")
> [@awldune](#): > > No hate for _The Return of the King_? Not only was the ending unbearable, it kept going for what seemed like hours. I’ll agree with you only on the fact they kept making you wonder “Okay, is it over now?” because of all the fade-outs. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/103 "2006-01-18T16:55:36Z")
I loved the ROTK ending. After three movies of three hours each, I wanted a long wrap-up. I wanted to see all of the characters. I wasn’t ready to just let them go. Someone should give the ending of It, although everyone probably knows it: After a great, detailed, in-depth book on horror and growing up, King cops out and makes the ending monster a stupid giant spider. I was disgusted. He thought, “oh, everyone’s afraid of spiders”…well I’m not. I’d have preferred a giant tentacle beast. Pratchett writes better monsters that come from the Dungeon Dimensions. The Shining: In the book, the black cook - I forget his name - saves the woman and child, and the house burns down. I don’t know if back then they couldn’t show a black man being heoric in a film or what, but in the movie there’s some maze thing and they run round and round and round forever, and I forget what else happens but it drags on interminably. I think someone already mentioned the Firm. The Stand, also, what a stupid deus ex machina. I was so pissed. I invested so much in these characters and really liked them and God burns them and everybody else to bit. What a crock. What a waste of time. I have never reread the book since. Erm…The Blair Witch Project would be one, but the whole movie sucked so bad it didn’t matter anyway. Also Spielberg’s War of the Worlds. Yuck. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/104 "2006-01-18T17:15:50Z")
The Star Wars ending is also a strong allusion to Triumph of the Will. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/105 "2006-01-19T04:46:46Z")
> [@Scupper](#): > > Going back to Spielburg, **Minority Report** continues his streak of tacking on horrible endings to great movies. > > After a brilliant, twisted and heartbreaking moment where Tom Cruise realizes that the man he’s predestined to murder is the man who murdered his son, he tries to fight fate but the guy grabs at his gun and it goes off, killing him anyway. Then an entire BS afterplot is tacked on to pin the blame on Max von Sydow’s character for rather stupid reasons and totally invalidate the devastating impact of the previous revelation. Nice job, Steve. Not sure I understand, it’s quite clearly explained before Tom Cruise accidentally shoots the guy that he was, in fact, not the person who murdered his son. ---
**Author:** ![Leviosaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Leviosaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leviosaurus)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/106 "2006-01-19T04:57:31Z")
> [@Martin Hyde](#): > > Not sure I understand, it’s quite clearly explained before Tom Cruise accidentally shoots the guy that he was, in fact, not the person who murdered his son. It’s been years since I read the book, but as I recall It \*was \* the guy who killed the kid, and Cruise’s character shot him _quite intentionally_, with malice and forethought, and got hauled away by the cops with a smile on his face. I like that ending a LOT better than Spielberg’s. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/107 "2006-01-19T06:30:35Z")
> [@Ferret Herder](#): > > Re. The Blair Witch Project: > … > However, that last scene literally made me gasp. I found it more powerful than anything else I’d seen since the film started. Can someone explain the ending to those of us who haven’t seen it? I’m all curious now. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/108 "2006-01-19T06:51:14Z")
> [@Leviosaurus](#): > > It’s been years since I read the book, but as I recall It \*was \* the guy who killed the kid, and Cruise’s character shot him _quite intentionally_, with malice and forethought, and got hauled away by the cops with a smile on his face. I like that ending a LOT better than Spielberg’s. I’ve never read the book, although I was vaguely aware of it’s existence, but in the movie the guy admits point blank that he was _paid_ to act like he was the guy who killed Tom Cruise’s son, Lamar Burgess (von Sydow) set this up to get Cruise out of the picture, the guy agreed to do this for Burgess because Burgess promised to give his family a substantial sum of money after his death. When the guy realized that his family wasn’t going to get any money because Cruise had him figured out he fought with Cruise forcing the gun to go off and then fell backwards through the window after being shot. Also, the book was actually a short story so I doubt it had as much story to it as the movie, the point where that guy gets shot in the movie is nowhere really close to the end, and if the movie ended there it would have left a lot unresolved. ---
**Author:** ![Spiral\_Stairs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Spiral\_Stairs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiral_Stairs)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/109 "2007-07-28T12:12:18Z")
ETA: Please report me so I can be deleted! (Message is an artifact of my stupidity.) ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/110 "2007-07-28T14:47:57Z")
I’ll nominate [No Way Out (1987)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093640/). ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/111 "2007-07-28T16:39:06Z")
[QUOTE=TellMeI’mNotCrazy] Amen to that. I even started a thread once, inspired by that scene, called “Worst Delivery in the History of Movies” or something similar… Is it raining? I hadn’t noticed. Gah! [/QUOTE] Of course she also gets the “Worst actress in an otherwise excelllent movie” award also. I feel confident that there will be a “worst actress over a career award” in her future at some point. ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/112 "2007-07-28T16:43:22Z")
Head gopher on the set of “The Clearing:” “Boss, I am sorry but we ran out of film.” Director: “Oh don’t worry we won’t need any more. The writer is too drunk to finish.” “That’s a wrap everyone, the cast party will be at the usual place.” ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/113 "2007-07-28T17:03:22Z")
[QUOTE=Speaker for the Dead] I wholeheartedly agree. That was really funny. I’m giggling as I go to make myself tea. [/QUOTE] And people say we’re lowbrow. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/114 "2007-07-28T17:09:50Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] _Agnes of God:_ Two hours with no hint of any supernatural elements in the story and you’re going to give us fucking **stigmata?!** :mad: [/QUOTE] But isn’t the “God” thing a clue about there being something supernatural? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/115 "2007-07-28T17:11:22Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] I think someone already mentioned the Firm. [/QUOTE] Nope, not yet. What was it you didn’t like about its ending? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/116 "2007-07-28T17:34:17Z")
[QUOTE=Talon Karrde] Can someone explain the ending to those of us who haven’t seen it? I’m all curious now. [/QUOTE] [spoiler]These college kids, whom are really really really stupid, get a camera, a bunch of film, and some weed, then march off to East Bumblefuck Maryland in search of a local legend about the “Blair Witch”. According to legend, this witch lived in the forest and killed her victims by having them face a wall in some abandoned house in the woods. Anyway, the kids go marching off into the woods with a bit of camping gear to look for the Blair Witch. They get lost. They can’t find their way back. (This getting lost and disoriented is part of the BW legend) One of the idiots purposely destroys the only map they have. They hear scary sounds in the woods at night - one of the kids goes missing. There are these weird things in the trees. Finally, two of the kids come upon a house, the BW house. There’s a lot of yelling, shaky camera work, confusion, and the very last shot is of one of the kids facing the wall, head down, according to BW legend. End of movie - what actually happened to them is left to your imagination. Yeah, I too thought the kids were completely stupid and deserved a little BW-bitch slapping, but that last shot - it’s the only film scene I’ve ever dreamt about in my entire life. It was a great ending.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/117 "2007-07-28T18:18:42Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] The Superflu caused so much pain, oh! And with evil a raging volcano Flagg’s triumph seemed certain Until King rang the curtain By pulling a _Deus ex ano!_ :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] Ano? I don’t understand. ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/118 "2007-07-28T18:28:21Z")
Oh and to actually add something to the thread, I’ll offer up _V for Vendetta_. What’s-her-face is imprisoned and tortured for weeks, after which V releases her and reveals that he was the torturer. WHF gets pissed at him for about two nanoseconds and then accepts his methods and proceeds to do his bidding. Yay, happy ending! ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/119 "2007-07-28T18:52:49Z")
[QUOTE=Team of Scientists] Ano? I don’t understand. [/QUOTE] Deus ex ano: “Lord of the ring”. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/120 "2007-07-28T19:06:32Z")
[QUOTE=Team of Scientists] Oh and to actually add something to the thread, I’ll offer up _V for Vendetta_. What’s-her-face is imprisoned and tortured for weeks, after which V releases her and reveals that he was the torturer. WHF gets pissed at him for about two nanoseconds and then accepts his methods and proceeds to do his bidding. Yay, happy ending! [/QUOTE] Hmm. [spoiler]Isn’t she actually quite pissed at him, still, and leaves him for the better part of a year? He asks to see her again, once, before he dies and she says OK. Sure, she gets over her anger rather quickly, but I do think it is intimated that the letters she got in her cell are just the same letters as he got in his and that she realises/is told that what she’s gone through is exactly the same as he did. And he had to make sure he could trust her not to tell on him before setting her free? Not trying to rationalize her behaviour, which seemed awkward in the film, but I don’t really think it qualifies for a “worst ever” contest?[/spoiler] As for me, I loved the Blair Witch Project ending. Well, at least the first movie. And there **were no more movies** , after the original. Understood?! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058.md?page=7)