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Has anyone else seen a movie that they've enjoyed the whole way through, only to find the ending is utter trash?
It must be hard to draw everything to a decent conclusion, and please everybody in the audience, but sometimes what happens completely ruins everything that went before it.
One such example would have to be 'House on Haunted Hill' that I saw at the weekend. I enjoyed the film throughout. A bit of gore and horror, no intelligence required. We got to the last few minutes. 3 characters had found a way out of the house. One of them sacrafices himself to save someone else. All very noble, and she escapes. That's fine, leave it there please. But no, the ghost is still after someone else. This guy is confronted by the ghost and what does he say "But I was adopted!" yeah that's going to stop it, isn't it? It kinda fits in with the film, as the evil was after relatives of people that previously worked in the house when it was a Psyciatric Institution, but the line just sounds daft.
Worse was to come though. This guy is still standing by the hatch that has since closed, with the evil thing closing in on him. What happens? One of the characters that had earlier died comes back as a ghost, pulls a rope, and the hatch opens. Nooooooooo! Terrible! No good ghosts! Why was everyone else that was killed absorbed into the evil, but not this guy? Why was he a good ghost now, and what did he care if someone else died?
Oh that was so stupid!
Anyway, where was I?
Oh yes, bad endings.
Sometimes films get shown to test audiences to see what they think of it. In the past this has lead to endings being changed. More often than not, to something happy rather than a bleak ending. Surely this can't please the director overly? But I guess it's all about money, and the audience has to come away happy from what they've seen.
Some of the better endings I can remember, from the top of my head include Fight Club, The Truman Show and Shallow Grave.
Other poor endings would have to include Batman and Robin and Eye of the Beholder.
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Post contains spoilers for House on Haunted Hill. If you do not want the end of this film given away to you, then read no further.
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Post contains spoilers for House on Haunted Hill. If you do not want the end of this film given away to you, then read no further.
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Has anyone else seen a movie that they've enjoyed the whole way through, only to find the ending is utter trash?
It must be hard to draw everything to a decent conclusion, and please everybody in the audience, but sometimes what happens completely ruins everything that went before it.
One such example would have to be 'House on Haunted Hill' that I saw at the weekend. I enjoyed the film throughout. A bit of gore and horror, no intelligence required. We got to the last few minutes. 3 characters had found a way out of the house. One of them sacrafices himself to save someone else. All very noble, and she escapes. That's fine, leave it there please. But no, the ghost is still after someone else. This guy is confronted by the ghost and what does he say "But I was adopted!" yeah that's going to stop it, isn't it? It kinda fits in with the film, as the evil was after relatives of people that previously worked in the house when it was a Psyciatric Institution, but the line just sounds daft.
Worse was to come though. This guy is still standing by the hatch that has since closed, with the evil thing closing in on him. What happens? One of the characters that had earlier died comes back as a ghost, pulls a rope, and the hatch opens. Nooooooooo! Terrible! No good ghosts! Why was everyone else that was killed absorbed into the evil, but not this guy? Why was he a good ghost now, and what did he care if someone else died?
Oh that was so stupid!
Anyway, where was I?
Oh yes, bad endings.
Sometimes films get shown to test audiences to see what they think of it. In the past this has lead to endings being changed. More often than not, to something happy rather than a bleak ending. Surely this can't please the director overly? But I guess it's all about money, and the audience has to come away happy from what they've seen.
Some of the better endings I can remember, from the top of my head include Fight Club, The Truman Show and Shallow Grave.
Other poor endings would have to include Batman and Robin and Eye of the Beholder.
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Post contains spoilers for House on Haunted Hill. If you do not want the end of this film given away to you, then read no further.
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If you want to see good ending watch any episode of The Sopranos, for a great spine tingling ending coupled with great music and fabulous camera work. Also the ending to the Godfather Part I was brilliant, especialy if you know what happens in No.II.
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I would have to say that i like films were the bad guy wins at the end as, to me, it's more realistic than the hero overcoming immense odds only to win get the girl and have a happy ending. I would have to say that the film "Seven" has got one of the best endings in a film i have seen. Not going to spoil by those reading but i like it a lot.
Darkreaper
Darkreaper
I did have some problems with the end of The Truman Show, so be quite honest, but I liked the way that he just walked off.
I never actually saw the end of The Matrix. After Neo realised he has the chosen one and got back to the 'real' world I have no idea what happened. The video was of such poor quality all I got was a bit of flickering and some of the sound.
Mind you I wasn't overly blown away by what went before, so wasn't that bothered.
I enjoyed the ending to The Lost Boys too.
"One thing I never could stomach about this town, all the damned vampires"
Fade to credits
I never actually saw the end of The Matrix. After Neo realised he has the chosen one and got back to the 'real' world I have no idea what happened. The video was of such poor quality all I got was a bit of flickering and some of the sound.
Mind you I wasn't overly blown away by what went before, so wasn't that bothered.
I enjoyed the ending to The Lost Boys too.
"One thing I never could stomach about this town, all the damned vampires"
Fade to credits
Arrrrgh!! I thought the Truman Show was a terrible ending, but there you go, diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks I suppose.
Great endings imho have to be films like Total Recall, The Matrix (the whole film was good, therefore the ending was good by default), Gladiator, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Cape Fear (the original AND the recent version both did the ending well).
Sometimes the film is so good that the ending can still be 'off key', but only because it was so totally unexpected as an ending (Leon and Arlington road spring to mind that fit this category, both have 'unexpected endings'). But still good ones.
Bad endings are usually categorised by one of two things, or in some cases both. Either something blows up spectacularly ending the movie, or it's a Bond film, where all you get in the last 5 minutes is 007 having a snog, (with only one or two notable exceptions).
Great endings imho have to be films like Total Recall, The Matrix (the whole film was good, therefore the ending was good by default), Gladiator, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Cape Fear (the original AND the recent version both did the ending well).
Sometimes the film is so good that the ending can still be 'off key', but only because it was so totally unexpected as an ending (Leon and Arlington road spring to mind that fit this category, both have 'unexpected endings'). But still good ones.
Bad endings are usually categorised by one of two things, or in some cases both. Either something blows up spectacularly ending the movie, or it's a Bond film, where all you get in the last 5 minutes is 007 having a snog, (with only one or two notable exceptions).
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Post contains spoilers for House on Haunted Hill. If you do not want the end of this film given away to you, then read no further.
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Has anyone else seen a movie that they've enjoyed the whole way through, only to find the ending is utter trash?
It must be hard to draw everything to a decent conclusion, and please everybody in the audience, but sometimes what happens completely ruins everything that went before it.
One such example would have to be 'House on Haunted Hill' that I saw at the weekend. I enjoyed the film throughout. A bit of gore and horror, no intelligence required. We got to the last few minutes. 3 characters had found a way out of the house. One of them sacrafices himself to save someone else. All very noble, and she escapes. That's fine, leave it there please. But no, the ghost is still after someone else. This guy is confronted by the ghost and what does he say "But I was adopted!" yeah that's going to stop it, isn't it? It kinda fits in with the film, as the evil was after relatives of people that previously worked in the house when it was a Psyciatric Institution, but the line just sounds daft.
Worse was to come though. This guy is still standing by the hatch that has since closed, with the evil thing closing in on him. What happens? One of the characters that had earlier died comes back as a ghost, pulls a rope, and the hatch opens. Nooooooooo! Terrible! No good ghosts! Why was everyone else that was killed absorbed into the evil, but not this guy? Why was he a good ghost now, and what did he care if someone else died?
Oh that was so stupid!
Anyway, where was I?
Oh yes, bad endings.
Sometimes films get shown to test audiences to see what they think of it. In the past this has lead to endings being changed. More often than not, to something happy rather than a bleak ending. Surely this can't please the director overly? But I guess it's all about money, and the audience has to come away happy from what they've seen.
Some of the better endings I can remember, from the top of my head include Fight Club, The Truman Show and Shallow Grave.
Other poor endings would have to include Batman and Robin and Eye of the Beholder.
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Post contains spoilers for House on Haunted Hill. If you do not want the end of this film given away to you, then read no further.
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Post contains spoilers for House on Haunted Hill. If you do not want the end of this film given away to you, then read no further.
**Warning** **Warning** **Warning** **Warning** **Warning** **Warning**
Has anyone else seen a movie that they've enjoyed the whole way through, only to find the ending is utter trash?
It must be hard to draw everything to a decent conclusion, and please everybody in the audience, but sometimes what happens completely ruins everything that went before it.
One such example would have to be 'House on Haunted Hill' that I saw at the weekend. I enjoyed the film throughout. A bit of gore and horror, no intelligence required. We got to the last few minutes. 3 characters had found a way out of the house. One of them sacrafices himself to save someone else. All very noble, and she escapes. That's fine, leave it there please. But no, the ghost is still after someone else. This guy is confronted by the ghost and what does he say "But I was adopted!" yeah that's going to stop it, isn't it? It kinda fits in with the film, as the evil was after relatives of people that previously worked in the house when it was a Psyciatric Institution, but the line just sounds daft.
Worse was to come though. This guy is still standing by the hatch that has since closed, with the evil thing closing in on him. What happens? One of the characters that had earlier died comes back as a ghost, pulls a rope, and the hatch opens. Nooooooooo! Terrible! No good ghosts! Why was everyone else that was killed absorbed into the evil, but not this guy? Why was he a good ghost now, and what did he care if someone else died?
Oh that was so stupid!
Anyway, where was I?
Oh yes, bad endings.
Sometimes films get shown to test audiences to see what they think of it. In the past this has lead to endings being changed. More often than not, to something happy rather than a bleak ending. Surely this can't please the director overly? But I guess it's all about money, and the audience has to come away happy from what they've seen.
Some of the better endings I can remember, from the top of my head include Fight Club, The Truman Show and Shallow Grave.
Other poor endings would have to include Batman and Robin and Eye of the Beholder.
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Post contains spoilers for House on Haunted Hill. If you do not want the end of this film given away to you, then read no further.
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