# 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:** 7
**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, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/121 "2007-07-28T19:40:05Z")
[QUOTE=Gukumatz] …but I don’t really think it qualifies for a “worst ever” contest? [/QUOTE] True, but it did sour a movie that I was otherwise enjoying for the most part. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/122 "2007-07-28T20:08:26Z")
[QUOTE=Team of Scientists] Ano? I don’t understand. [/QUOTE] Here are the endings for the singular first declension (IIRC) in Latin: -us -i -o -um -o with “ex” a noun would take the ablative ending -o. Therefore the nominative form would be . . . As for _Return of the King_, my attitude toward the ending(s) is irrevocably colored by our theater experience. My husband had with great hubris drunk a large (read: 55 gallon drum) Diet Coke during the movie. By the time of the coronation, he was dancing in his seat and leaving finger marks in the chair arms. As each successive fadeout failed to end the movie, he started making desperate and malevolent strangling sounds. As for Blair Witch (which I also thought sucked royally all the way through), I thought the relevant thing about the legend was that the witch would take kids to the cellar in twos, put one facing the corner, and murder the other while he listened. So when Our Heroine rushes into the basement and sees her buddy standing facing the corner, it is a little creepy. The effect is spoiled when one has spent the previous 60 minutes rooting for the witch, however. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/123 "2007-07-28T20:12:23Z")
[QUOTE=RikWriter] I loved the ending of Frailty. I thought it was awesome. [/QUOTE] Me too. Part of it, I was able to guess…but the other part just went the opposite of what I thought. I also really liked “Addams Family Values” and its 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, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/124 "2007-07-28T20:12:38Z")
Anus. :smack: An even subtler pun. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/125 "2007-07-28T23:03:24Z")
We watched something a couple of weeks back that, while not the worst, would probably be in the running. I forget the title - maybe _The Depot_ (it’s about a dwarf who inherits an old railroad depot from his deceased boss). _It has no ending_. One moment the main characters are chatting about something inconsequential, then _boom_ - the end titles roll by. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/126 "2007-07-28T23:13:05Z")
[QUOTE=wolfman] Harry Potter. Set up a big nasty bad guy, build to the final confrontation, and the good guy wins by touching him? Then old fart comes in to say that he never bothered before to mention good guy is invincible because him mom loved him. Horrible, horrible stupid ending. [/QUOTE] While the ending to Philosopher’s Stone is a bit lame, I think the ending to the rest of the books and movies in the series are excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/127 "2007-07-28T23:39:05Z")
[QUOTE=Finagle] The original Star Wars had a pretty bad ending. Not the whole blowing up of the Death Star, but rather that stupid processional where they’re all given medals amidst cheering and waving. It was just so \* lame \*. [/QUOTE] I’m not a Star Wars fan by any means, but I forgot all about that ending. I’m with you on your assessment. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/128 "2007-07-29T00:26:13Z")
[QUOTE=brickbacon] I can’t believe nobody has mentioned **Signs** and **The Village**. They need no explanation. M. Night Shyamalan is King of the Crappy Endings. [/QUOTE] **Signs** is possibly the only movie to have a _worse_ ending than **It**! Of course, everything Shitmalan touches turns to absolute suckage anyway. Since some of us had the guts to criticize ROTK, I would like to add **Transformers**! Not only did this movie head straight downhill after the _first fifteen minutes_ , [spoiler] the final battle scene was a total overblown mess,the whole concept of the kid having to save the world was absurd even for an action flick, and Megatron’s death was telegraphed more often than the Titanic’s SOS! But all the Pepto-Bismol in the world couldn’t prepare me for that last glurge speech by Optimus. GAWWWWD! And _then_ , we are treated to Shia LeBouef and Megan Fox making kissy-face _on top of Bumblebee_ with the other perv robots _watching them!_ EWWWWWWW![/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/129 "2007-07-29T01:02:22Z")
My two would be: The Forgotten: It builds up to be an incredible psychological suspense thriller, then becomes some retarded ass sci-fi film. The woman is not crazy and aliens IIRC abducted her son. The second would be First Blood In the Morrel novel, John Rambo is not any more a hero that Teasle is. In the book, Rambo is a serial killer who is fighting this small town sheriff’s department as though it was a military operation. The only right way to end it is both he and Teasle die. A stalemate that give both what they truly deserve. I know why it was done, but it doesn’t work for me. SSG Schwartz ---
**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 29, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/130 "2007-07-29T01:16:45Z")
[QUOTE=BJMoose] We watched something a couple of weeks back that, while not the worst, would probably be in the running. I forget the title - maybe _The Depot_ (it’s about a dwarf who inherits an old railroad depot from his deceased boss). _It has no ending_. One moment the main characters are chatting about something inconsequential, then _boom_ - the end titles roll by. 😕 [/QUOTE] [The Station Agent](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340377/). I can’t say I recall the ending (which may say something in itself), but I do recall liking the movie. ---
**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 29, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/131 "2007-07-29T01:18:44Z")
[QUOTE=want2know] …Of course, everything Shitmalan touches turns to absolute suckage anyway… [/QUOTE] Out of curiosity, do you feel this way about the Sixth Sense? I saw that without knowing the twist beforehand, and I thought it was pretty magnificent. ---
**Author:** ![Incensed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Incensed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incensed)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/132 "2007-07-29T01:39:59Z")
[QUOTE=Spiral Stairs] Out of curiosity, do you feel this way about the Sixth Sense? I saw that without knowing the twist beforehand, and I thought it was pretty magnificent. [/QUOTE] I’m with you on that…but the rest of 'Night’s (he gave himself that nickname, IIRC-can you say ‘tool’?) films have been horrible. _Signs_ was a B movie made with A players and money. _Unbreakable_ was better, but still unimpressive-some of my dumbass friends thought the ending was some sort of enlightening experience. I just looked at them like, “Really? You didn’t figure out how this all worked the first or second time you saw Sam Jackson’s character?” I haven’t seen _The Village_, don’t want to either. ---
**Author:** ![I\_m\_Ron\_Burgundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9fc29f/32.png) [@I\_m\_Ron\_Burgundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_m_Ron_Burgundy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/133 "2007-07-29T01:43:06Z")
magnolia and the two towers ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/134 "2007-07-29T01:52:54Z")
[QUOTE=Incensed] I’m with you on that…but the rest of 'Night’s (he gave himself that nickname, IIRC-can you say ‘tool’?) [/QUOTE] His real name is “Manoj Nelliyattu” and given the propensity of Indians to have their names made fun of in the USA, can you blame him? His last name’s regularly made fun of - otherwise decent folks on this very message board have made fun of it - so he clearly made the right move there. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/135 "2007-07-29T02:23:41Z")
[QUOTE=Spiral Stairs] [The Station Agent](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340377/). I can’t say I recall the ending (which may say something in itself), but I do recall liking the movie. [/QUOTE] That’s the one. The ending is easy to forget because _it isn’t an ending_. It’s an interesting slice-of-life thing, but they took “slice” a little too literally. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/136 "2007-07-29T02:32:51Z")
[QUOTE=Spiral Stairs] ETA: Please report me so I can be deleted! (Message is an artifact of my stupidity.) [/QUOTE] If you’re worried about the zombie factor of reviving an old thread, no need to. Simply posting to an old thread to say “me, too!” might not be the best use of server resources, but if you have something to add to the discussion, you’re welcome to do so. Zombie threads really aren’t much of a worry in Cafe Society like they are in, say, MPSIMS. So, you be jammin’.. ---
**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 29, 2007, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/137 "2007-07-29T03:42:04Z")
[QUOTE=SkipMagic] If you’re worried about the zombie factor of reviving an old thread, no need to. Simply posting to an old thread to say “me, too!” might not be the best use of server resources, but if you have something to add to the discussion, you’re welcome to do so. Zombie threads really aren’t much of a worry in Cafe Society like they are in, say, MPSIMS. So, you be jammin’.. [/QUOTE] Thanks. I had actually meant to start a new thread (on unhappy endings in movies), but accidentally appended my post to the end of this thread (which I had run across while searching to determine if my new thread would be duplicative). I edited out the substance of my post on this thread and turned it into a new thread, which was my original intention. So, as usual, I had nothing to add. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/138 "2007-07-29T04:38:28Z")
[QUOTE=Kizarvexius] My nomination would be _The Green Mile_ (interesting that there are so many Steven King movies listed). Yes, the ending of _The Green Mile_ is faithful to the novella – in fact the whole movie is extremely true to the book. But the ending is so – I don’t know – bleak. Here’s this beautiful story about a miraculous person, very Christ-like in his role, who is innocent yet suffers a horrible and unjust death, yet still manages to bring some justice into the world. And what’s the ending? The man who witnessed the event is rewarded with an abnormally long life – bit it’s a lonely existence that consists mostly of watching everyone he loves wither and die. God, how depressing. [/QUOTE] I’ve tried to think of a way the guards could have saved him, but it would involve the complicity of the medical examiner and hearse driver as well as John himself, who is so simple and pure of heart that it is unlikely he would be any party to his faked death. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/139 "2007-07-29T04:55:41Z")
[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] [spoiler]Don’t blame it on the movie–in the graphic novel, Evey doesn’t even leave the Shadow Gallery after her imprisonment, just trains herself and gets ready to follow V’s orders like a good soldier. To be fair, though, she goes through a huge emotional epiphany (in the graphic novel _and_ the movie), standing outside in the pouring rain, where she realizes how her stay in prison made her stronger and ready to fight. You could argue that it was necessary for her to finally stand up to the demons of her past and the present government, or that it’s the moment where V finally breaks Evey, but her whole attitude change wasn’t completely out of left field. [/SPOILER] ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058/140 "2007-07-29T06:17:47Z")
[QUOTE=awldune] No hate for _The Return of the King_? Not only was the ending unbearable, it kept going for what seemed like hours. [/QUOTE] I actually fell asleep in the theater when this first came out. I still don’t know exactly what happens in the end. I get the jist of it, but as for details, I’m lost. It was SOOO boring. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-whose-ending-sucketh-biggest/340058.md?page=8)