The Best Movie Endings
 

Which movies did you think were great the whole way through, and then when you thought it couldn't get any better, they blew you away at the end?


The ones that I can think of now:

Se7en
Identity
Fallen
The Sixth Sense

Love Actually
Crash
Grindhouse: Deathproof and Planet Terror

This is essentially a "What's you favorite movie" thread lol

The Lives of Others

The Prestige

Not really. None of these were my faves but the endings were memorable. And the bolded was a good one!

The Others
Hide and Seek
Scream 4 (when the killer was revealed, my mind froze and needed re-booting)

Yesss. One of my favorite holiday movies. So many good moments.

Yes!

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (for that time period)
Knowing
Insideous

There are some others, I just can't think of the titles right now.

Fight Club - the clues were all over the place and I did not picked it up. The second time watching it, it all made sense.

The Sixth Sense
Breaking Dawn (now I have read the books but my coworker, who hadn't, was shocked last night at the end of the 1st movie).

I Know What You Did Last Summer...one of the guys in the group I was with literally jumped like 3 feet in the air. It was hilarious.

And no, this isn't a "Favorite Movies" thread, because I would never say that IKWYDLS was my favorite movie.

"No Way Out"
"Momento"
"Rapture"
"Divided We Fall" (depending on how the ending is interpretted, but for me a punch in the stomach)
"Blair Witch Project" (not necessarily a great movie, but the ending messed me up)

"Love Actually" is one of my favorites, too! I never get tired of it.

Another that really touched me was the end of "Moulin Rouge". It wasn't a surprise per se, but it was I've seen it at least 50 times and I still bawl my eyes out, every dang time.

The end of "When Harry Met Sally" was really good, too, way back when. I loved the line "when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

I really thought I posted yesterday, but I guess I didn't.

Anyway:

Witness for the Prosecution
Psycho

Yes! I love When Harry Met Sally! Still a favorite of mine.

I also meant to add Good Will Hunting and Forrest Gump. Which are also probably my favorite two movies overall as well.

This.

THIS.

Endings I love:

The Blind Side
Rudy
The Pursuit of Happyness
Sliding Doors
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Working Girl
When Harry Met Sally
Wizard of Oz
Dead Poet's Society

American Psycho.

I didn't see this one:

THIS! I was shocked at the end. I had no idea. Yeah, that one blew my mind.

Love When Harry Met Sally, Dead Poet's Society, Rudy, and The Blind Side.

Also add Love Actually. I also love the end of The King's Speech.

Oh, and The Cutting Edge. totally cliche but it takes me back to being 17!

I really like movies that have references to other stories not necessarily connected to the storyline you are watching. My favorite is the sly allusion in the Russell Crowe flic 'Master and Commander' when the doctor tells Capt Aubry that he was sorry the young Midshipman lost his hand in the first battle scene as he knew the Captain and the boy's father were friends. The conversation tells you who the boy is and his connection to another famous but non-related story. It is said in passing and you either catch it or not. Its a sort of director/writer's in-joke. Did anybody catch it?

As to actual endings I like, there is an old film noir detective story from about 1939 or 1940 which is just a routine cop story, with no connection to any other stories, where two detectives work a case and finally track down the culpret. In the last scene the cops corner the bad guy in his apartment, kick in the door and tell him to drop his gun and come quietly. As one of the cops walks toward the bad guy he pulls out his revolver and fires at the cop, apparently missing him from a range of about two or three feet. He is subdued and led away while the second cop says to his partner, 'to miss you at that range either he had to be the world's worst shot or you are Superman'. First cop says, 'yeah, real lucky I guess!' As they walk toward the door the first cop looks at the camera, smiles, and readjusts his shirt to cover a bullet hole, ricochet tear and what looks like part of the big "S". End of flic, roll credits. I saw this when I was a kid and have never been able to find it again. Does anyone remember seeing it and/or remembering the name of the movie?

Are you sure it wasn't just an old Superman episode?

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The Graduate. It's not a feel-good or even satisfactory ending, but it is so perfect for the movie. And I mean the last 15-30 seconds when they're on the bus.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. One of my favorite books, too.

The Godfather. Favorite opening line in a movie, too; "I believe in America."

[QUOTE=dekeguy] I really like movies that have references to other stories not necessarily connected to the storyline you are watching. My favorite is the sly allusion in the Russell Crowe flic 'Master and Commander' when the doctor tells Capt Aubry that he was sorry the young Midshipman lost his hand in the first battle scene as he knew the Captain and the boy's father were friends. The conversation tells you who the boy is and his connection to another famous but non-related story. It is said in passing and you either catch it or not. Its a sort of director/writer's in-joke. Did anybody catch it?

As to actual endings I like, there is an old film noir detective story from about 1939 or 1940 which is just a routine cop story, with no connection to any other stories, where two detectives work a case and finally track down the culpret. In the last scene the cops corner the bad guy in his apartment, kick in the door and tell him to drop his gun and come quietly. As one of the cops walks toward the bad guy he pulls out his revolver and fires at the cop, apparently missing him from a range of about two or three feet. He is subdued and led away while the second cop says to his partner, 'to miss you at that range either he had to be the world's worst shot or you are Superman'. First cop says, 'yeah, real lucky I guess!' As they walk toward the door the first cop looks at the camera, smiles, and readjusts his shirt to cover a bullet hole, ricochet tear and what looks like part of the big "S". End of flic, roll credits. I saw this when I was a kid and have never been able to find it again. Does anyone remember seeing it and/or remembering the name of the movie?


[QUOTE=WhiteRose1912;2108354]Are you sure it wasn't just an old Superman episode?

No, it was a regular "B" Movie of the early 1940s that just had that throw-away scene at its very end. I probably ought to write and ask Robert Osborne if he could track it down.
As to the first question, did you figure out the connection in "Master and Commander"?

Sayonara with Marlon Brando.

It's changed from the book to make it happy instead of sad and Hollywoodize it....but I love it anyway. :)

And yeah, Blair Witch's ending was wow. When the credits rolled you could hear the whole movie theater start to breathe again.

Primal Fear with Edward Norton and Richard Gere -- now *THERE* is an ending for you!!

Back to the Future -- the original!

With "Mr. Fission" and then "Roads? Where WE'RE going we don't need roads."

So awesome I never wanted to see the sequels. Perfect ending!

I'll echo
No Way Out
Momento

and add
Dangerous Liaisons
Holes (maybe better in book form, but it's just a great wrap up)

plus a couple of foreign films with very memorable endings:
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring (VERY satisfying after the many hours of viewing required -- great movies)
My Neighbor Totoro -- perfect because it doesn't give 100% closure, which would be trite, but you just know/feel that everything will be OK

"It's A Wonderful Life"