movie endings.
alright a list thread. what were some of the most impactful (is that a word) endings in movies. im at work so ill post back lata
yeah magnolia was weird, alls you can say is what the fuck.
usual suspects, when he loses his cripple as he walks away and says the best trick the devil ever played was making you think he was never there, or something to that extent, fuckin awesome.
american beauty }
american history x } they both die at the end, who saw that coming,
taxi driver-wow
se7en- the whole scene where hes going to the desert, just has u wondering
donnie darko makes you think about it, and the deleted scene with him crucified is like damn
and i have to put royal tenenbaums, i love that damn movie, the whole movie chaz goes through life hating his dad, and ends up being the only one who goes with him to the hospital, and the narraration is so sad, then it shows ari and uzi giving him a 21 gun salute with bb guns, alls you can do is smile. man i love it
he wasnt crucified he was impaled but still DAMN
GAWD best movie endings definitly FIGHT CLUB where is my mind is a beautiful song and damn it fits sooo perfect oh yeah an MEMENTO, the USUAL SUSPECTS, and i have to say it but dumb and dumber its too fuckin GENIUS in its stupidity!!
well i know he wasnt crucified but even the director in the commentary of that scene says something to the effect of him being crucified i think , i know he was impaled, but how hes stretched out and everything. yeah memento wasnt bad, nolans other flick following was pretty good, the whole hunter becomes the hunted aspect of it, if youve seen it youll know what im talking about, is good
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Can't think of a lot tha that haven't been mentioned already....
Fight Club-(DUH!) But it just works so well when Jack says "Don't worry everything's going to be OK" then the world just suddenly explodes and colapses. Then one of the last frames you see is just that giant dick in your face. All of this set to the tune of the Pixies. It just doesn't get any better than that.
BRAZIL- I just love it when movies first mislead you with a happy ending then give you the real conclusion. I'm a fan of downers.
CEMETERY MAN- just the last 15 minutes is totally incredible and bizarre; "Take me home now, please." "Nyah."
REPO MAN- "Otto! what about our relationship?" "Oh yeah, Fuck that."--- this flick just has so many great one liners, my current quote is one of them.
DONNIE DARKO
TAXI DRIVER- Well not really the ending but at the point when Travis Bickle puts his finger to his head and the cops come in.
"Excuse me sir, Did you wash your hands after you took that big heaping dump. You know that sign, that sign says ALL employees MUST wash their hands after using the restroom, What part of that do you not understand?"- Malcom X
"Would you care to lick my sweaty baulz after they have been dipped in the finest venerial juices and sauteed in my own ass-sweat, madam?"- Winston Churchill
Magnolia- the whole movie was fucking great, but the frogs were just...perfect.
Fight Club- nothing to say that you all don't agree on, so "nuff said."
Brazil- fucking classic, had a smile on my face when they revealed it wasn't all happy, it was so great
Requiem for a Dream- so fucking depressing I almost cried, which almost no movie ever does to me
Memento- of course; the entire movie is great, one may call it perfect.
Following- also great, also Nolan (too bad Insomnia sucked).
Reservoir Dogs- "...I'm sorry Larry, I'm fucking sorry..."
A Clockwork Orange- "I was cured, alright..."; also classic.
The Usual Suspects- one of the best movie endings ever.
Se7en- the whole ride to the desert was one of the most suspenseful scenes in movie history [the way I see it].
American Beauty- this movie is flawless, as is the ending.
12 Monkeys- great, great ending. Bruce Willis' best film, and one of Brad Pitt's many.
Arr. I knew someone would correct me, I've only seen it once. I do like my version of it though.
Ignorance, as they say, is bliss.
I'm actually downloading it right now, because I'm a cheap bastard. I want to transcribe that end monologue... It's quite enchanting and yet nobody else has written it out yet.
My work is cut out for me
i just watched barton fink, and i thought that had an excellent ending.
I'm pretty sure the car in the left lane was indicating that he was heading out of New York. They were in the right lane heading to prison before the monologue and by the end they had changed to the far left lane.
...even so that doesn't necessarily mean that's what happened, it's supposed to be open ended.
Then again, I might be wrong.
I don't think a movie like 25th Hour has much to do with being open ended. It was a factual movie, not an interpretive one. He went to prison. I don't exactly remember the details, but I remember he went to prison.
The ending to Dr. Strangelove is still one of my favorites. Also, the whole cemetery scene in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is the greatest.
my fave movie ending is actually in billy eliot. i love how at the end instead of some cheesy disney-esque big scene where he dances and you see ppl rapturously applauding and doing the whole one-tear thing, you just see him leap out onto the stage for his first entrance, and it freezes him in midair. it's such a beautiful ending to a truly thought-provoking film.
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The ending of Rebel Without a Cause always makes me cry, because it all seems so unfair. You just can't help adoring Plato (Sal Mineo character) in the movie. He's like that puppy stranded in the rain. So you can't help thinking/wishing, couldn't it all have been prevented somehow??? Did it have to end that way???
I love that movie
"I've never caught a jewel thief before. It's very stimulating."
Frances Stevens, To Catch a Thief
"Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see? You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known."
Lisa Fremont, "Rear Window"
A Clockwork Orange, definitely.
And Dr. Strangelove.
I liked the ending to Adaptation too.
SLC Punk. Very sad, but it really fit.
Also the end to Trainspotting, because the end is just like the beginning.
Mother Superior: "Would sir care for a starter? Some garlic bread perhaps?"
Renton: "No, thank you. I'll proceed directly to the intravenous injection of hard drugs, please."
There's just never enough room for all the quotes that seem necessary.
Planet of the Apes I enjoyed, but my favorite is The Devil's Advocate. "Vanity, is my favorite sin." Brilliant.
We'd all like some real friends, but what are the odds of that happening?--Cheif Wiggum
yeah i forgot slc punk, awesome ending. really sad and ironic
Another great ending is An Affair to Remember, Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant. Definitely a chick flick, but makes me cry, every time.
"I've never caught a jewel thief before. It's very stimulating."
Frances Stevens, To Catch a Thief
"Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see? You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known."
Lisa Fremont, "Rear Window"
Manchurian Candidate
wow..... twosmokingbarre's dog looks almost exactly like my dog..... creepy.
Mother Superior: "Would sir care for a starter? Some garlic bread perhaps?"
Renton: "No, thank you. I'll proceed directly to the intravenous injection of hard drugs, please."
There's just never enough room for all the quotes that seem necessary.
The Third Man
The Vanishing
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Chinatown
Notorious
The Parallax View
I heard the ending to The Vanishing is dark, disturbing, scary, and awesome. Is it worth seeing orange?
The Manchurian Candidate, one of the best movies of all time.
Another one with a great twist at the end is Vertigo.
"I've never caught a jewel thief before. It's very stimulating."
Frances Stevens, To Catch a Thief
"Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see? You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known."
Lisa Fremont, "Rear Window"
The absolute [i]worst[/i] ending was [b]Empire[/b], starring John Leguizamo.
I'm sitting through this entire movie saying goddamn this brilliant this could possibly be the best gangster drama ever written and then the director got lazy or something AND FUCKED UP THE ENDING AND ALL WAS HELTER SKELTER IN THE WORLD of Caulfok I'm done.
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I highly agree. The first half was decent, then the ending....can anyone say "Abrupt"?
The Manchurian Candidate is awesome.
I've "seen" Notorious but didn't pay attention to it at all, I actually feel bad about it because at the end I'd felt I'd missed out.
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Cool. Do you have any pictures? Maybe there related. 
He actually currently looks a bit different. We shaved him for the summer.
lol. poor shaved puppy. Damn, I wish I had a pic, but I'm not one of those cool people with a scanner. 
Mother Superior: "Would sir care for a starter? Some garlic bread perhaps?"
Renton: "No, thank you. I'll proceed directly to the intravenous injection of hard drugs, please."
There's just never enough room for all the quotes that seem necessary.
usual suspects, fight club, seven, the ring, sixth sense, american history x, and last but not least matrix
It is hard to pay attention to Notorious the first, or even second time watching. But it does have quite a twist.
Another great movie is To Kill a Mockingbird. Love the book, love the movie. From then on I wished Atticus Finch was my dad...
"I've never caught a jewel thief before. It's very stimulating."
Frances Stevens, To Catch a Thief
"Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see? You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known."
Lisa Fremont, "Rear Window"
I'm going to find a new picture of Grace now, I'm a little tired of this one...
"I've never caught a jewel thief before. It's very stimulating."
Frances Stevens, To Catch a Thief
"Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see? You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known."
Lisa Fremont, "Rear Window"
Casablanca, you gits.
Also
Apocalypse Now. (all three endings)
I watched the first five minutes and fell asleep.
Of what?
I just watched the end of Zoolander. I love the statue of all his friends who got blown up at the petrol station at the Derek Zoolander School for the kids that can't read good or whatever. That movie had it's moments...
That movie always looked really really really gay, but someone was telling me about that deal with his friends and it sounded pretty damn funny, so maybe I'll just have to sit down and watch it some time.
Do. David Bowies in it, and I like Owen Wilson. Even if he maybe just is an aging stoner surfer dude.
'Blue Steel!'
God, I spent almost £17 on that dvd yesterday.
Of Apocalypse Now. The dialogue was just so drawn out and it was just so long, and seemed so pretentious. Maybe I'll sit down again and watch the whole thing, if you say it's worth it.
I rented Apocalypse Now and the fuckers only gave me one of the two cassetts, so I've seen half of it and it was pretty good but I've still yet to watch the whole thing.
I thought that was pretty over-rated. Maybe I was just disapointed because the lead up was good.
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'Blue Steel!'
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I'm more of a eugoogleley fan myself, especially when he says "we were like brothers, and not like we had the same mom but like when black people talk". That and the gas station part.
I'm going to be first to say the obvious Fight Club for it's perfect mix of Apocalypse and Romanticism... and Pixies songs.
Past that, I think 25th hour. That entire dialogue of what could have been was great, and then they left the ending sort of up in the air so you can decide which way he went.
And Magnolia. Because I'm a sappy bastard.