Your favorite movie ending.
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ScourgiousJinx
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One of the most amazing endings is in Apocalypse Now. The filming, acting, directing, writing, editing, music, everything is amazing throughout the entire film but the ending is particularly flawless. The emergence from the water, the death of Kurtz/sacrifice, the exit to the boat, to the final images and words...
"The horror...the horror."
"The horror...the horror."
SciFiMuseum
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Good topic. Of course everyone has their personal opinion and none are wrong. I agree that Blade Runner has a really good ending but for me, when I was a child it was Star Wars. I watched it over and over. No one talking, the epic ceremony music as our heroes get their well deserved medals and then a cool sudden transition to the credits. However for me the greatest ending of any movie in any genre has to be a western! 'THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY" It is perfect, the cinematography, the Ennio Morricone score, the performances during the duel using just facial expressions, slight movements, close ups that get closer. There are single shots that are copied over and over in other films including Lord of the Rings and many others. In fact when I went to film school we were asked this very subject as a class assignment and all the students showed their examples to the others and I used this as mine.
Prop Collector
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Arrival is up there.
Axlotl
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I've seen Memento a dozen times, and I still don't know what happened.
The Dark Knight is pretty far up there for me. Commissioner Gordon’s monologue combined with Hans Zimmers score gives me chills every time.
OzReturner
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I really like the way that The Truman Show ends. There's hope for Truman, a selfish, but emotional appeal from Christof, a real surprise (for me) when he unexpectedly runs into the outer wall with his boat, and they really nailed the audience reaction to him leaving. They are jubilant, but quickly look for something else to watch, which is how we all are upon completing a show we like. Happy to be concluded, sad that it ended, but ready to move on to something else.
And if I could throw in one of the best TV endings ever... it would be the conclusion to the Newhart sitcom. For those not around when the show aired in the 1980s, it centered around author Dick Loudon (Bob Newhart) who moves to a small rural Vermont town with his wife Joanna to run an inn / B&B, to give himself some space to write. And the townsfolk are basically crazy and nutty to various degrees. In the series finale, a Japanese investment corp. buys the whole town and opens a golf resort. Everyone in town sells their property to the Japanese business and become rich. Dick is the only holdout, refusing to give up his lovely little inn. Think of what happens to Carl in the Pixar movie "Up".
The now adjacent Japanese built golf course constantly riddles the sides of Dicks' hotel with golfballs. As he finally gives up in exasperation with the whole scenario, he steps outside and gets whacked in the head with a golf ball. Only to pass out... and wake up in his PRIOR sitcom, the Bob Newhart show! A false rumor was spread that the finale was going to have Dick die and go to heaven, and have George Burns play God. But what they did was even better, bringing Suzanne Plechette back to play his wife Emily from the prior sitcom. They then ended the scene (and series) with the credits and outro music from the previous sitcom.
The now adjacent Japanese built golf course constantly riddles the sides of Dicks' hotel with golfballs. As he finally gives up in exasperation with the whole scenario, he steps outside and gets whacked in the head with a golf ball. Only to pass out... and wake up in his PRIOR sitcom, the Bob Newhart show! A false rumor was spread that the finale was going to have Dick die and go to heaven, and have George Burns play God. But what they did was even better, bringing Suzanne Plechette back to play his wife Emily from the prior sitcom. They then ended the scene (and series) with the credits and outro music from the previous sitcom.
That's the one that popped into my head, but I thought "No that's the most messed up ending!". Such a messed up twist.
Jeez.
I never saw The Mist.
So I watched the ending on Youtube......holy **** that's messed up.
Winner, right there.
The Iron Giant had a pretty good ending too!
PHArchivist
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Had to make the list!
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