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« Reply #45 on: January 04, 2009, 10:27:34 PM »
There's a Robin Williams film...NO ...WAIT...COME BACK!!! Called Awakenings about a doctor who tries to get his patients out of long term comas. Very bleak ending.
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« Reply #46 on: January 05, 2009, 12:16:32 AM »
The worst ending I have seen recently (and probably in anything ever) was Dear Zachary, which is made 1000x worse because it is a documentary and actually happened. 
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« Reply #47 on: January 05, 2009, 08:55:14 AM »
The mist had a very depressing end. While very enjoyable it did catch me totally off guard.
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« Reply #48 on: January 08, 2009, 08:23:38 AM »
The ending of Cloverfield really got on my nerves.
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I sat through that pile of turd with it's whinging, cardboard characters only to see them run back into harm's way and die at the end. 
Not that I objected to the actual death - but maybe if it had happened 60 minutes earlier I might have felt a greater sense of satisfaction...  Hatred
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« Reply #49 on: January 08, 2009, 11:05:29 AM »
Quote from: Jack on November 11, 2008, 08:27:32 AM
The Descent - utterly pointless ending.

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So we see at the beginning that this woman is disturbed by the death of her husband and son.  This has absolutely nothing to do with anything you'll see on screen for the next hour.  Then at the end, she kills the only likable character in the whole damned movie, and THEN we're supposed to care that she's nuts and just sitting there hallucinating and waiting to be killed?  I mean, you can't end an action movie with some nonsense like that.  Hell, it would be a lousy ending for a Lifetime movie of the week. Lookingup

You do know WHY she killed the other girl though right?  I mean, there's a good reason plotwise for it.  (Well, two actually...)
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« Reply #50 on: January 08, 2009, 11:14:57 AM »
I saw this movie called Benny's Video recently, the whole movie, to me, was just boring at pointless, and the ending sucked ass as well.  I guess you could argue it's a social commentary on how the overload of video images can desensitize us to reality and whatnot, but to me, the point is lost is a dull prodding film that gives no real reason for the protagonist acting the way he does other than being an uncaring amoral piece of s**t.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised by this though, as this film is also from the guy who wrote and directed Funny Games another in the "Pointless wastes of time" annuals of cinema. 
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« Reply #51 on: January 08, 2009, 10:31:20 PM »
The end of the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Damn you Donald Sutherland! That movie ending made you want to jump out of a window.

If you want the authentic feel of accidentally backing up your car over your pet dog then watch Grave of the Fireflies [1988]. It's a great movie but man do want rip your heart out of your chest after watching it.

I absolutely hated the ending of the remake of Dawn of the Dead. I hate remakes in general especially remakes of movies which I like, but I was really liking this remake. I did up until what happened to the guy in the gun shop. That was just bad writing. They wasted too much of the movie developing a character which served no purpose. The movie just kills him off. The ending was lame as well.

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« Reply #52 on: January 09, 2009, 04:01:09 AM »
Quote from: Justy on January 08, 2009, 10:31:20 PM
The end of the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Damn you Donald Sutherland! That movie ending made you want to jump out of a window.

If you want the authentic feel of accidentally backing up your car over your pet dog then watch Grave of the Fireflies [1988]. It's a great movie but man do want rip your heart out of your chest after watching it.

I absolutely hated the ending of the remake of Dawn of the Dead. I hate remakes in general especially remakes of movies which I like, but I was really liking this remake. I did up until what happened to the guy in the gun shop. That was just bad writing. They wasted too much of the movie developing a character which served no purpose. The movie just kills him off. The ending was lame as well.



The zombie films are awful when they become remakes.

Look at day of the dead following on from dawn of the dead but not this remake...

I can not stand any of the remakes. Its rare for me to enjoy a remake unless I hated the orginal even then its hit or miss.
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« Reply #53 on: January 09, 2009, 07:25:02 AM »
Quote from: Justy on January 08, 2009, 10:31:20 PM
If you want the authentic feel of accidentally backing up your car over your pet dog then watch Grave of the Fireflies [1988]. It's a great movie but man do want rip your heart out of your chest after watching it.

I though the ending for the film was pretty good.  It's sad but it really brings the whole horror's of war full circle.  The only thing I didn't like was that the character's are already dead in the beginning because while the main male character is naive about how bad things really are you just sorta wish that he would survive and become a better person and overall be less naive about things.  No he has to go and die on us so, instead of what would have been a predictable but acceptable and some what good ( I use good in this case VERY VERY loosely) ending, we get a shocker at the start about both of them being dead already. 
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« Reply #54 on: January 09, 2009, 03:15:29 PM »
Boys Don't Cry.


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« Reply #55 on: January 10, 2009, 02:55:38 PM »
"Funny games" anyone? It got me on a killing mood, but then again, that was exactly what it was meant to achieve.
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« Reply #56 on: January 10, 2009, 06:40:25 PM »
Quote from: Neville on January 10, 2009, 02:55:38 PM
"Funny games" anyone? It got me on a killing mood, but then again, that was exactly what it was meant to achieve.

I LOVED the original; its one of my fav movies... however I haven't seen the one with Tim Roth yet. I actually really enjoyed the ending to Funny Games.
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« Reply #57 on: January 11, 2009, 06:43:38 PM »
Quote from: The DarkSider on November 09, 2008, 08:42:44 PM
Troll 2 comes to mind when the song finds the mom being eaten.   Or perhaps Ghoulies. 


I was going to mention that.  It was totally unforgivable to do that.  Just another example of the lack of knowledge of the craft that troll 2's cast/ scriptwriter had. 
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« Reply #58 on: January 11, 2009, 06:52:22 PM »
Quote from: ds21 on January 11, 2009, 06:43:38 PM
Quote from: The DarkSider on November 09, 2008, 08:42:44 PM
Troll 2 comes to mind when the song finds the mom being eaten.   Or perhaps Ghoulies. 


I was going to mention that.  It was totally unforgivable to do that.  Just another example of the lack of knowledge of the craft that troll 2's cast/ scriptwriter had. 

I have watched that ending 3 times now. I am still confused if that was ment to be a nightmare or reality. It was very badly done well most the film was very badly done but the ending was awful.

The mist has hit me the hardest recently on shock factor.
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« Reply #59 on: January 11, 2009, 10:55:00 PM »
Braveheart.  I thought it was a great movie but the ending just makes it hard to watch the movie again.  I don't know, I can watch the most disgusting slasher films, but I think Gibson's character was so well developed that I hated seeing the way he died . . . even if it was historically semi-accurate.  So great movie, downer ending.
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