Worst/Bad movie endings
 

What are some movies that you thought were really good all the way through, but when they got to the ending of it you were like "you've got to be kidding me. Seriously?"

In this thread we talk about bad movie endings.

I didn't like the ending of "The break up". I'm sure there will be more, I just can't think of any right now besides the one I mentioned.

Atonement and Remember Me! Awful.

OK, these two are not "bad," but totally unexpected: "No Way Out" and "Raputure" (which was actually a really good movie, but got awful reviews)

Skyline. Woof, that was 2 hours I wanted back because of the ending.

I also got that reaction with Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but in a completely different way.

Blair Witch Project. Massive fail.

Captain America...totally contrived ending to set up sequel opportunities. Ugh!

Sweet November.


Ditto on Remember Me.

lol
I totally forgot about Skyline. Yes, that was bad, really bad. I didn't like the ending in Super 8 either. Well...I didn't like that movie, at all.

Agree.

Also, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, Castaway and Knowing.

I actually liked the ending to Remember Me, depressing though...

Yeah now that I think about it Sweet November's ending was pretty bad. I think I liked it at the time though.

That whole movie was terrible. Just so, so bad.
I just thought it took every story from that event and bastardized it. I wish it had been something more mundane. That would have made it better for me.

The Village. From scary to boring in one minute.

Gone With the Wind.

One day.


I was so mad.

You're serious? You liked that the movie ended with a completely bizarre, out-of-place and otherwise-unexplained DEATH ON SEPTEMBER 11TH?

Titanic. Who the hell drops a diamond that effing big into the damn ocean?

Same!!! My roommate loved it though. I was not a fan.

I loved loved loved the book...until the end. Not sure I can watch the movie. I am not sure I buy Anne Hathaway in that role. As I was reading, I pictured someone much different.

Now that you mention it... yea, it was terrible. And that's a shame, because I really liked the rest of the movie.

LOL.


I have to say, the ending to 'I am Legend' was pretty damn bad.

Lol..well I guess? Idk, I just didnt see the Sep 11th thing coming until the scene where the little sister is in school and the date is on the chalkboard...so maybe I just liked the whole "surprise! its 9/11/01" twist..Ill have to watch it again, only seen it once.

Worse. If he had just died after hanging on for hours, he should have floated when she pried him loose and let him go. He sank, so he would have had to have still been alive when she was rescued?

:0 Well, that's terrifying

The Skeleton Key. I don't know that it was bad, per se, but it left me with a queasy feeling. Made me wish I hadn't watched the movie.

I love The Wizard of Oz and it's "was it a dream or wasn't it" ending. And it is THE ONLY movie that is allowed to use this convention. I was so mad at Atonement I sneaked into another movie to get my money's worth. I cannot tell you how much I hated that movie.

I loved that ending! I would have listed it as one of my favorites.

I love Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but it's difficult for me to watch because I know I'll just hit that disappointing, unsatisfying, unfunny brick wall at the end. Still a great movie, but why couldn't they have given it a proper ending?

I came in here to list these two. My work is done. ;)
iConcur. :eek:

I kinda think they meant it that way.

I don't hardly ever make it past the Knights who say Ni, anyway. The first 30 minutes or so are the best part anyway, and I could watch that on loop, but it does go downhill quite fast.

Generally speaking, I hate any movie that ends by setting up a sequel.

I also didn't like the ending of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. I know the ending followed the epilogue of the book, but I didn't like the epilogue in the book either.

I actually didn't mind the epilogue (though it does bug me that everyone else I talked to actually saw the adult Draco and I missed him), what completely wierded me out what the fact that Harry broke the elder wand rather than restoring it to Dumbledore's crypt.

YES!!! I really wanted to see Harry's final talk with Dumbledore's portrait. Returning to wand to Dumbledore's tomb was Harry's way of peacefully accepting "what will be." Breaking it was taking fate into his own hands which he had thus far refused to do. That scene was totally against his character. :(

Agreed. And it's not like they didn't have time to do that either. They split the book in two, they had time. And don't even get me started on the 'King's Cross' scene. Sooooo baddddd.

Especially if a sequel is never done. An example would be the Planet of the Apes remake done with Mark Wahlberg. I actually enjoyed the movie but they left it for a sequel and nothing happened. I hate that!

A few years ago they made the Stephen King book "The Fog" into a bad movie. The end in the book is much more mysterious and creepy rather than the straight up goofy ending the movie had!

Even though I know what happens at the end of Titanic, I still had hope that everyone would be okay! hahaha

I liked the King's Cross scene though I wish the tone had been more innocent and light rather than serious.
To this day, I still can't watch only half of Finding Nemo. I know what happens but I can't turn it off until they find him! :p

Ugh! Knowing was shaping up to be such a great movie and then that ending came out of nowhere. Terrible.

Ugh, yes! I haven't read the books, but the ending of them all at the train station was so unnecessary, hokey, and unbelievable. The movie should have ended with them all on that bridge at Hogwarts.

Well the epilogue in the books was basically to let things come full circle and show how things are better including for Remus and Tonks's son. And remember the core of the movie watchers are those who have read the books. While the book readers represent that a *lot* had to be tweeked/deleted to make it into a movie, *that* scene was *not* going to get cut.

Besides, as I said upthread, the scene on the bridge isn't even in the book, in the book, after voldemort dies, Harry, Ron and Hermione go back to the Headmaster's office, talk to Dumbledore's photo, indicating that the want will be placed back in Dumbledore's Crypt and Harry heads back his room in Hogwarts...

The ending of Watchmen pissed me off because it was so different from the graphic novel.

Agreed with Atonement. Along the same lines, City of Angels.