Films With Effective Endings You Dislike

[InformationGeek]

To put this in other words, let's say you are watching a film and you are enjoying it.  It's good for whatever genre it is, but then you reach the ending of the film.  After it is all over, you think the ending worked and was effective, but it just didn't sit with you well.  You didn't like it or you hated it, ruining the movie in some sense for you.

The biggest example of this for me was Final Desination.  The ending was fine and it worked since you can never escape death, but it just didn't seem right to me.  I think the big problem was that it seemed rushed and stupid in comparission to the original ending in mind.  It's like they thought, "Hey!  We can make this a series so let's forget the ending we had and throw something together."  I like the original ending, because it seemed like the escape death, for now at least.  You know they'll die at some point, but not right then.

I'm also not a fan of the endings where the killers win even if it is a 'good' and alright ending.  Now don't get me wrong, I'm fine perfectly fine with bad endings and all, like the original Halloween (You know, Mike has escaped and he'll be back sooner or later to finish the job) or The Cave.  It's just that I don't enjoyed or like the main hero characters getting killed off at the end since I spent a majority of the film getting to know them or learning about them (No matter how paper thin their backstory is) and then seeing them get slaughtered.  It always leaves me feeling like, 'that's it?  They're dead?  Does this mean a crappy sequel sooner or later?' (*coughoriginalStepfordWivescough*)

That's just my feelings and stuff... anyways, what about all of you?  You know movies that had endings that you didn't like despite them being effective, clever, or good?

[Rev. Powell]

The ending of the Coen Brothers latest movie, A SERIOUS MAN.  It's kind of... abrupt (I won't spoil it).  There's a good thematic reason for it and the final image is clever, I just wasn't prepared for the movie to end all of the sudden and felt cheated.

[Paquita]

I don't like endings that leave me feeling a need for closure.  Like the good guy kills the bad guy and then the credits start rolling... well I wanna know what happens next! Or when some dude saves a girl that he loves from some jerk bad guy and it takes a long time and its a big deal and in the end they just waddle off together.. NO!!  I wanna see them get married and the bad guy looking sad in jail!

[Leah]

Monster A-Go go, need to say more?

[Jack]

Dark Waters - There are killer sharks on the loose, because the Navy is conducting experiments with them onboard a huge sub.  In the end, the "good guys" blow up the sub, and Lorenzo Lamas makes a speech about what a great man the guy was who blew it up.  Um, he was a mass murderer.  He killed at least 100 people who had nothing to do with the research, they were just keeping the submarine running.  Actually I didn't like anything about that movie, so it probably doesn't fit your criteria.  But the ending was awful.

Chupacabra Terror - A chupacabra is loose on a cruise ship, and people do all sorts of things to try and kill it.  In the end, they just do some more stuff to it, but this time it works!  Sorry, but if all that other stuff didn't kill it, neither would that.

Doomed - People are being chased around an island by zombies.  In the end, one guy survives, and makes his escape on a boat.  But the boat is full of zombies!  Predictable, and it was just like any other 10 minutes of the movie.

[RCMerchant]

The end of DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY p**sed me off. They hit a train! AGH!
VANISHING POINT-Kowalski did hari Kari! GAK!
THELMA AND LOUISE-yeah-It was Gena Rowlands--She looks like my old girlfreind back in the 80's-and scumbags drove her offa cliff! F#CK!

Fer yer lookin' enjoyment-DIRTY MARY-CRAZY LARRY trailer-!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10qd_Oz4Xy0

[RCMerchant]

Cripes! How did i ferget the end of EASY RIDER?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMc-T6z0YyM

dam hillbilly scumbags! Killed Billy and Capt.America!

[Leah]

Gone in 60 seconds (1974) the remix with Nick Cage is much better.

[RCMerchant]

Gone in 60 seconds (1974) the remix with Nick Cage is much better.

Wha? How?  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-TlxADdA4

I apologize-yer a Bad Movie fan-and that is an awful remake.

[akiratubo]

VANISHING POINT-Kowalski did hari Kari! GAK!

That was the only way Vanishing Point could have ended.  I thought it was perfect.

[RCMerchant]

Agree! But it was dam sad anyhow. Gee...he was a polack-he had more glumpskis and pierogs in his future! He had so much to live for!

[Leah]

Gone in 60 seconds (1974) the remix with Nick Cage is much better.

Wha? How?  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-TlxADdA4

I apologize-yer a Bad Movie fan-and that is an awful remake.

no, the ENDING with the guy driving away with the other Mach 1 that the lady had. and it shows that he drives away then the credits roll, it doesn't show him giving the car to the bad guys.

[RCMerchant]

Gone in 60 seconds (1974) the remix with Nick Cage is much better.

Wha? How? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-TlxADdA4

I apologize-yer a Bad Movie fan-and that is an awful remake.

no, the ENDING with the guy driving away with the other Mach 1 that the lady had. and it shows that he drives away then the credits roll, it doesn't show him giving the car to the bad guys.

I apologize. Yer right. That was a bad ending.








I regess. That was a bad endin

[Leah]

Gone in 60 seconds (1974) the remix with Nick Cage is much better.

Wha? How? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-TlxADdA4

I apologize-yer a Bad Movie fan-and that is an awful remake.

no, the ENDING with the guy driving away with the other Mach 1 that the lady had. and it shows that he drives away then the credits roll, it doesn't show him giving the car to the bad guys.

I apologize. Yer right. That was a bad ending.








I regess. That was a bad endin

tis okay

[Jack]

Cripes! How did i ferget the end of EASY RIDER?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMc-T6z0YyM

dam hillbilly scumbags! Killed Billy and Capt.America!

I really, REALLY wish that Two Lane Blacktop had ended the same way.  I would have laughed my butt off