Greatest endings

[wickednick]

Soylent green "PEOPLE SOYLENT GREEN IS MADE FROM PEOPLE!!!"
Planet of the apes
Army of Darkness
Shaw Shank Redemption
The Truman show
American History X
Fight Club
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

[Evan3]

Dunners wrote:


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Obviously you dont realize, that this was not the end, but the beginning of MUCH more angst for young Parker.

Here are my favorites.

# 1. Primal Fear: twist in the middle and the end

Devil's Advocate
Memento!!!
American History X
American Beauty
He Man: Masters of the Universe
The Omen

[Rob Phillips]

Not having always been a minister . . . I have in my time seen GASP Pornography . . .

How do you tell if you're in the middle beginning or end of a pornographic movie? They all start with sex, have a few words between scenes (such as  "Hey! Let's $%#@" [aka "lets's have sex"]), so is there actually a more formulaic medium, or even more ending, than porno? I saw on O'reilly (on Fox News) an interview with one relatively young . . . uhh . . . performer? . . . entertainer? She had been in over 600 movies (she was 23 or 24 / Jenna James I think), the question I would like to have asked is "how do you keep from getting bored"? At least with B-Movies they change the script and you can tell the beginning from the end . . .

I guess I'm getting old . . .

Thoughts?

Rob

[Neville]

How could I forget? John Carpenter's The Thing.

[jmc]

I would have liked to have seen American History X with the original ending--I think it's on the DVD but I haven't seen it--it has Edward Norton shaving his head and becoming a Nazi again, which is a lot more realistic in my opinion.

[SkullNinja]

Roger Corman says he doesn't recall if he actually filmed it or not, but the rumored ending of X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes with Ray Milland doing the Oedipus Rex on his eyes and then turning to the camera with bleeding sockets and intoning "I can still see!" would have been superbly chilling.

Return of the Living Dead's ending is very ironic with the army nuking Louisville, KY to destroy the zombies only to have the rain carry the trioxin to another location.

[bono_212]

Darn, I got on here hoping no one would have said this yet, but I believe the Greatest movie ending was the end of American Beauty.  
Also:
Planet of the Apes
Road to Perdition
and
Shawshank Redemption

Thanks to those who agree with me ;).Rob Phillips wrote:

[Max Gardner]

If it hasn't already been mentioned here, Carpenter's remake of "The Thing" had a pretty damned good ending.

[peter johnson]

Many wonderful endings listed here, with some redundancy --
One that's just the best ever, and nobody mentioned it, is:
CASABLANCA
I just had occasion to see it again recently:
"Major Strasser has been shot . . . Round up the usual suspects!"
"Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship . . ."
The whole final 10 minutes of this film contain some of the greatest lines ever written for the screen, and they all build upon each other until . . . stirring music, fade to black.  Show map of Africa.  
Perfection!!
peter johnson/denny crane

[Ozzymandias]

I won't spoil it but The President's Analyst has a great ending. There is even a joke to it.

[retardo]

Sleepaway camp

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[Master Blaster]

I always thought that ending would have been more effective if it had been the fetus in the box.

[Master Blaster]

Actually I withdraw that. I just realized how stupid that is since she was only a few weeks pregnant. Maybe thats why I dont write scripts for a living.

[Master Blaster]

And I'm replying to a post from over a year ago! OK, now I'm officially a complete idiot!

[bono_212]

Oh, I must add one more ending...I really, really, really, liked the ending to Pay it Forward.  I thought it was the perfect way to end such a great movie.

And, this post isn't over a year old.