Das Boot
Most everybody survives and gets back to dry land. Then they all die in an air raid. Laugh? Laugh? It’s enough to put you off getting killed altogether.
One-Hour Photo
Sy is upset because he realises the father in his perfect adopted stalked family is having an affair. But he doesn’t kill anyone, he just follows him to a hotel with his lady friend, threatens them with a knife and takes degrading pictures of them in sexual positions. Then he’s busted by the police who establish in questioning that this is a parallel of the abuse Sy received as a child from his own father. The movie ends with Sy choosing to remain, mentally, inside his safe photographic reality. The man is quite insane, but he knows right from wrong better than anyone else in the movie.
Vanilla Sky
He’s in cryogenic stasis and dreaming the whole thing. Yes, you read that right. Yes, it’s crap, isn’t it?
Blair Witch Project
[spoiler]Brian: (describing a screening of the movie) Nothing’s happening… nothing’s happening… nothing’s happening… it’s over. A lot of people look pissed.
Casablanca
She goes with Victor. Your dad tries not to cry.
Saving Private Ryan
The old man at the start is Private Ryan. Tom Hanks gets killed. So do lots of other people including Phoebe’s brother off Friends. The essential message is that you should feel guilty about this (and about laughing like a jackass throughout the beach landing scene).
ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
He doesn’t get to go home. You think he does but at the end the Agencies capture him and give him a lobotomy. Then he trudges back into the ward drooling and the Chief smothers him with a pillow and smashes through the wall with the sink.
Star Trek II, III and IV
Spock dies. But he doesn’t really. Then they save the world with whales. Saved you a few hours there.
Pirates of the Caribbean
Jack Sparrow (Depp) is a ghost. He gets fixed.
The Sixth Sense
Bruce Willis is an arseho- I mean, a ghost. The little boy doesn’t get any less annoying.
The Others
They’re all ghosts. Nicole Kidman doesn’t get any less annoying. In fact she gets more annoying.
The Matrix: Reloaded and The Matrix: Revolutions
They weren’t expecting to actually have to do sequels so more fool you for calling their bluff. Lots of stuff happens that doesn’t make any sense and Trinity dies, which is quite good. I think it’s a draw at the end.