Bad movies with good endings?

[Trevor]

Dark Phoenix

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFqHffUDYU0

Goosebumps when you see the flaming phoenix in the sky.

[M.10rda]

What did you like about it?

[Trevor]

What did you like about it?

Not much about the movie itself but the ending, seeing Erik and Charles together again was nice: that flaming phoenix in the sky gave me goosebumps.

[M.10rda]

Yeah. Magbender Fassneto was generally the highlight of the films in which he appeared - both the performance and the treatment of the character. The one scene per movie where Quicksilver gets to do his thing was always enjoyable as well.

I'm a harsher critic than most when it comes to the X-movies. Huge lifelong fan of the comics, and there's so little that the movies adapt faithfully, besides Magneto and Quicksilver. I realize most viewers don't care as much about the source material, or are more forgiving. I took a (first?) date to see WOLVERINE: X-MEN ORIGINS when it was in the theaters and felt like I had to apologize to her when the movie ended as I thought it was one of the worst movies I'd seen in years (even w/ a perfectly cast Liev Schreiber). She didn't understand what the issue was. She was just happy to see Gambit for a few minutes.    Naturally the relationship didn't last.

[Gabriel Knight]

MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE. The ending is disturbing and fitting, too bad the execution of the whole thing is a disaster. One of the few movies I actually think it deserves a remake.

PARTS: THE CLONUS HORROR. It's poorly made, but the plot is great, so much that it was ripped off by Michael Bay but without the excellent original ending.

And of course the first SLEEPAWAY CAMP. f**k that ending, seriously.

[Jim H]

Dragon Family is a Hong Kong action melodrama kind of thing.  It's just not good.  Bad characters, gruelingly cruel to its characters (there's a mass murder at someone's funeral).  I don't know, just not good or fun, unfocused and poorly written.  But then it has a pretty great action finale, choreographed and action directed by Lau Kar-Leung, one of the best to ever live.  Just watch it on its own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avdv55XsVNM&t=1s