Disappointing movie endings

[Sheamus' Suntan]

Have you ever watched a film, got up to the last half an hour and thought "Hey, this is fluffing good!"?

Then realised...there is only half an hour left, and there's a shit load of storyline to go. There's a million and one things left unresolved and you're sat thinking..."Hang on a second...how does this ALL add up?"

My prime example of this is Limitless.

Now this film, on release was deemed as the "next matrix." It has the next generation of film stars in it, Bradley Cooper (Face from the new 2010 A-team, Phil from Hangover II), Abbie Cornish (Sweat Pea from Sucker Punch) and has an old legend in Robert Deniro, as it were, "passing the torch" into Bradley in this film.

This cast is built up by an absolutely amazing story which centres around a drug (NZT) which heightens the neurones and synapses in the brain, allowing 100% usage as opposed to the regular 10% usage of the brains total power. The start builds itself up VERY much like Fight Club, setting itself up to be an INCREDIBLE cross breed of Fight Club and Matrix. In fact, at the beginning of the film, I thought I was in love. The film reminded me of Fight Club highly, and FC Has to be one of my favourite films.

The issue is...while the premise was good and the introduction was brilliant, the ending was...well poor to say the least. It actually ruined the entire film for me. Now...films, in my mind are made stronger by the start and the end. In reality, what happens in the middle...is less important. Important still, but not as important as a strong end and a strong finish. Limitless ruined that for me. It made the film forgettable, because truth is, the ending was VERY forgettable.

I'd of had Eddie Morra develop the drug on, and sell it "main stream", having the whole world become susceptible to the drug, giving everyone access. From here on, have the dangers of the drug become known (watch the film to find out), while the world has become addicted to the drug, thus starting a survival issue between those who have become addicted and those that are not, and have Morra become the world's source for this, with everyone gunning after him.

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Or alternatively in the film, have the character who he borrows the first amount of money from get hold of the drug and have him begin to "push it" as a black market drug. One person gets wind, starts selling, and soon battles begin over the drug, to which in the end, Eddie Morra has ultimate control of the manufacture over...so it becomes up to him, money and power, or stop manufacturing the drug, with people wanting more and him refusing to give.

Have there been any films that you've seen where the endings have actually RUINED the film?

If there has, how would you have rewritten the ending to suit the end of the film?


**As a precursor. I did not want to "spoil" the ending of Limitless as it is fresh on DVD [released over the past few months] and I am aware not everyone will have seen it. Spoiler tags DO highlight a bit of a spoiler HOWEVER they do not ruin the entire plot line - read at your own risk.**

 

[Fire Marshall Bill]

I think I get what you mean. Sometimes movies are built up well but the payoff or climax just isn't that great. While I liked Limitless, it's ending did leave a little to be desired.

The problem is the way they built the movie up and how it actually played out were pretty different. They built it up as De Niro having more of a part of Cooper's competition. But in reality he was hardly a factor. And when they did finally have their own confrontation it was right at the end and was very brief.

Another movie that comes off very misleading like that is Empire. While not a great movie, they still built it up in a more intriguing way than it played out. John Leguizamo is a drug dealer who finds himself an opportunity to get out of the business by investing it in a get rich quick type scam but is inevitably screwed and now he has to get back the money he borrowed.

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The problem in the movie is they spend so much time building up his drug dealer lifestyle that they spend very little time on the actual story of him and the investor. In the end he gives it to the investor, gets screwed, tries to get it back but can't and is killed in less than 30 minutes or so.

If I had to add something to that I would've added more of a chase so to speak. I mean that in both directions. The investor having to swoon John Leguizamo's character a little more. Then Leguizamo going through more to find the investor. Something along those lines. It was just really sad the way it played out how in the end really they were both just in over their heads.

From the perspective I'm looking at it, you really more have to blame the marketing of the movie, but I guess they do what they can to make money. From your perspective, it's more about the writing of the story than anything. In the case of Limitless, I would definitely have preferred if they wrote it a little more complete. While the basic idea behind the drug was very intriguing to me and kept me interested in the movie, I would've liked to see how De Niro and Cooper's stories would've come together a little more. But in the end it was one of those movies where you get all excited to see how it plays out, it gets there and you're like "that's it?"

 

[Loveless]

This is an easy choice

What Should Have Happened

After an entire film of Will Smith hunting vampires, killing them, kidnapping them and experimenting for research, the vampires converge on Smith's house trapping him inside. Eventually they break in while Smith hides in his basement watching them. It's at this point he realises that they're only trying to save a vampire child that he has kidnapped and they are infact not evil, they have communities, family and care for each other and it's actually Smith who is the villain or Legend of the title. They are normality and he is the monster they're afraid of, an obsolete remnant of an inferior race.

What Actually Happened

He blows them all to fuck.

Yep, let's forget the entire point of the film and instead of a thought provoking compassionate ending, lets just blow shit up. Absolute fucking travesty.

 

[Chess]

I thought the ending to Limitless was actually OK. Bradley Cooper took drugs, got smart, made millions and nearly died. He then killed or manipulated everyone around him who could ruin his reputation, he fixed the drug so he could continue using it without dying and in the process got to keep his girlfriend, millions and become a senator. If this film was meant to be anti drugs it clearly failed as in the end it showed drugs are good and cool as long a you don't die.

As for I am legend here is a link to the better alternate ending.

http://www.noob.us/entertainment/i-am-legend-alternate-ending/

My suggestions to bad endings are:

Matrix Revolutions - Not just the ending but the whole movie was a dissapointment. After a really enjoyable first two movies all we got was a massive gun fight and no real ending, no explaination or real conclusion to what/who Neo was.

More recently Buried upset me. This was a hard movie to watch (still entertaining) and I was expecting some form of light hearted ending, unfortunately this was not the case and therefore you left the film feeling upset and sad for a few hours.

 

[Deexter Jorgan]

Both films were extremely bad endingwise, how about one of the obvious:

The Hangover Part 2

With the first film being amazing well written, directed and well acted by the cast the second film was always going to pale in comparison, the first part of the film progressed rather well having all members of the cast work their magic in terms of dialogue and funny incidents which led to their investigation of the events leading upto their current situation, it followed the blueprint of the firrst rather well in terms of this.

But thats where it ended, the ending did not make sense at all and really spoiled the movie as a whole:

(note if you do not like spoilers dont click the button)

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tu then has an epiphany and the trio rushes back to the hotel and find Teddy in the elevator unharmed (albeit still missing a finger). Teddy had woken up in the middle of the night to get more ice for his severed finger (after the first bucket of ice had melted) but became trapped after the power went out. The four use Chow's speedboat, the keys for which were in Teddy's pocket, to travel back to the wedding reception. Arriving on land just as Lauren's father is about to cancel the wedding, Stu makes a defiant speech where he rejects being boring and instead states that he is in fact quite wild. Impressed, Lauren's father gives the couple his blessing. After the wedding continues on, Alan presents Stu with a special gift at the post-reception dance: a musical guest performance by Mike Tyson. Teddy later discovers that he had taken many pictures during the night on his mobile phone. Once again, the group, along with Tyson, agree to look at the pictures together once before erasing the evidence of their exploits. The screen goes black as the group (in response to the first film) exclaim in shock to the photos (which, just like the first film, play over the ending credits).

After watching the ending i was extremely confused, it was totaly unrealistic and felt that the resolution given was just placed there to end the film rather then actually provide some closure.

in a sense it leaves a rather negative feel to an otherwise positive film.

 

[Gelgarin]

The Ghost Writer

A faultless example of how a strong cast and a talented director can almost manage to salvage a flawed screenplay. Polanski brings his A game in the director's chair and McGregor and Brosnen turn in strong performances as the male leads. The action is gripping and suspenseful, the dialog is sharp, the cinematography is excellent, the plot engaging and the score augments everything perfectly...

...and all of that is ruined by a completely illogical ending. It's a political thriller, so the ending is a course a plot twist, and as such I'm not going to spoil it. Watch the film, or better yet, don't. What I will say however is that the final twist manages to be both a massive cliche, and utterly illogical. I don't mean its dumb or that its questionable, I mean that it flat out doesn't make sense. I actually watched the film through a second time to ensure that I hadn't misunderstood things, but I hadn't, the ending is simply illogical.

It's a shame really, because if the production team had spent a little less time trying to find actors who physically resembled prominent politicians for the sake of controversy, and had instead spent a little more time tending to the script then we'd have ended up with one of the better political thrillers of the decade. Instead we got a 120 minute waste of time that I utterly regret bothering with.

 

[wrestlingfan]

I thought the ending to Limitless was actually OK. Bradley Cooper took drugs, got smart, made millions and nearly died. He then killed or manipulated everyone around him who could ruin his reputation, he fixed the drug so he could continue using it without dying and in the process got to keep his girlfriend, millions and become a senator. If this film was meant to be anti drugs it clearly failed as in the end it showed drugs are good and cool as long a you don't die.

As for I am legend here is a link to the better alternate ending.

http://www.noob.us/entertainment/i-am-legend-alternate-ending/

My suggestions to bad endings are:

Matrix Revolutions - Not just the ending but the whole movie was a dissapointment. After a really enjoyable first two movies all we got was a massive gun fight and no real ending, no explaination or real conclusion to what/who Neo was.

More recently Buried upset me. This was a hard movie to watch (still entertaining) and I was expecting some form of light hearted ending, unfortunately this was not the case and therefore you left the film feeling upset and sad for a few hours.

I thnk Limitless would be a good movie, in a sequel if it took place maybe in a few years in the future, in an apocalyptic world showing the dangers of the NZT Drug.

 

[Nate DaMac]

More recently Buried upset me. This was a hard movie to watch (still entertaining) and I was expecting some form of light hearted ending, unfortunately this was not the case and therefore you left the film feeling upset and sad for a few hours.

I get what you're saying here, but I don't feel the same way. To me, it was a nice change of pace to see a movie end realistically. Terrorist kidnappings rarely have happy endings so instead of sugarcoating it, show people what is actually more likely to happen. I can't lie though, that shit was gut-wrenching and I felt bad for the guy. That is what leads me to believe it was a good flick because it managed to draw emotion from me.

One that comes to mind for me is Law Abiding Citizen. Not that the ending didn't make sense or anything because I thought it was just fine and hell, logical for Jamie Fox to end up on top. But I can't fucking stand Jamie Fox and his character annoyed the piss out of me. I wanted him to get blown the fuck up.

 

[Mitch Henessey]

I actually didn't have a problem with M. Night Shyamalan before this film, but The Village is the main reason why I despise this man now a days. I've seen this film a few times over the years, and if i need a good laugh, I can always rely on this one.

This film featured a pretty good cast, and the acting was very solid here, the story was mysterious, and this film featured a few characters, who I could really care about. And the creatures who lived in the woods were a nice addition here. They were the monsters, who would attack the townspeople, and the creature abductions/attacks did add some nice suspense here. But this film really falls apart at the end.....

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Ivy (Bryce Dallas Howard) leaves the village. She is trying to find help and medicine for the dying Lucius Hunt (Joaquin Phoenix). But when she finally escapes the village, she runs into a park ranger, and he has a car! Why does this sound weird? Well, The Village is supposedly set in the 19th Century, and the townspeople in the village do live a 19th century lifestyle, but the real modern world STILL exists beyond the cement walls??? Apparently, the townspeople couldn't handle the outside modern day world, and they wanted to live in a more peaceful and calm time period, so the village was created.

Yeah, I thought this big plot twist was pretty fucking stupid. You can't handle the modern day world, so you build a fake town, and turn the clock back to the 19th century? You can't escape everything. Murders, crime, and other bad things will always exist, and there's nothing you can do to stop that.

But wait, it gets better!

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So Ivy finally finds some medicine, and guess what happens, when she finally reaches the dying Lucius? The film ends! That's right, she kneels beside the love of her life, and then the credits start to roll, as he's on his death bed. This was such a terrible ending, and Shyamalan took the easy way out here. I think he was trying to deliver a big shock, but he failed miserably, because this ending doesn't leave you with that "OH MY GOD WHAT HAPPENED!!!" feeling. It leaves you with that "Really? That's it?" feeling. This film actually does a nice job of building some suspense, and they mystery of the creatures is intriguing, but the ending doesn't deliver. You don't get that satisfying payoff here, because the ending falls flat.

The Village could've been something special, but Shyamalan's screenplay ruins this film. This film was a gigantic piece of shit, and this is where Shyamalan's downfall began.

 

[Serious Mozzarella]

Matrix Revolutions - Not just the ending but the whole movie was a dissapointment. After a really enjoyable first two movies all we got was a massive gun fight and no real ending, no explaination or real conclusion to what/who Neo was.

This. After what felt like the ultimate "holy what the fuck" moment at the end of Matrix: Reloaded, I expected some serious answers. But what I got in Matrix: Revolutions was a majority of the story pushed aside for extremely long, drawn-out war scenes. The war scene was cool and all, and the final fight was awesome, but when you're making the third movie of a trilogy, the number one thing on your mind should be closure.

Instead, what we got was an explanation as to why Neo can use his powers outside of the Matrix that was not only lazy, it made no fucking sense. It was explained much better during the Matrix: Online storyline, but really, it shouldn't have had to explain the biggest, gaping plot hole in recent film history.

 

[Cena's Little Helper]

Contact with Jodie Foster and Matthew McCoonaughey. I had to sit through two hours of sappy, shit drama to find out there weren't any aliens. What's up with that delirium?

 

[Sheamus' Suntan]

Contact with Jodie Foster and Matthew McCoonaughey. I had to sit through two hours of sappy, shit drama to find out there weren't any aliens. What's up with that delirium?

In all fairness to you. You sat through a film with Jodie Foster and Matthew McCoonaughey. That takes some balls my friend. Foster's voice sets me off...she's like a female sean connery.

Anywayyy...NEXT FILM FROM ME:

PoP surprised me. Seldom is it that a game can be translated into a film - WELL. There's been a LOT of attempts at it and they all seem to go horribly wrong, so when Prince of Persia came out with all guns blazing, it seemed...too good to be true. Until you get to the ending.

The ending just seems...unreal in comparison to the rest. Now I know, I know, you can turn back time. Yeah. It's unreal anyways but...well the ending just sorta stuck with me...as an ending of "couldn't you think of ANYTHING better?"

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In case you don't know. The prince finds where the sands of time are stored and wants to go back to before it all began. Main bad guy (forgotten his name) finds them also, and attempts to destroy the hourglass so things stay as they are. Prince almost falls off a platform with his love interest, she falls to an untimely doom, he manages to summon the strength to get up and stab the magical, giant hourglass with the dagger of time, thus rewinding time completely back to the start of the film where he undoes the whole intro of the film.

Right now I'm stuggling to think of how I would do it differently. Its been about a year since I saw this film and I really would need to rewatch it to work out the point in the plot where it could safely be changed.

 

[Hollywood Naitch]

This is an easy choice

What Should Have Happened

After an entire film of Will Smith hunting vampires, killing them, kidnapping them and experimenting for research, the vampires converge on Smith's house trapping him inside. Eventually they break in while Smith hides in his basement watching them. It's at this point he realises that they're only trying to save a vampire child that he has kidnapped and they are infact not evil, they have communities, family and care for each other and it's actually Smith who is the villain or Legend of the title. They are normality and he is the monster they're afraid of, an obsolete remnant of an inferior race.

What Actually Happened

He blows them all to fuck.

Yep, let's forget the entire point of the film and instead of a thought provoking compassionate ending, lets just blow shit up. Absolute fucking travesty.

Perfect choice, I immediately thought of I Am Legend too.

I had never thought of the ending that you suggested, I just believed there had to have been a better way to end the movie than the one that was chosen. I would 100% go with your suggestion, and have Smith hand over the "child" that he has been working on in his lab, and have the creatures all leave the house.

Then, as he already knew about the potential of the human community existing somewhere out there, Smith, the woman and her son could walk out of Will's house and the army of creatures could part down the centre, allowing the 3 humans to walk past to their car and drive away.

I think that could have been a great ending, emphasising what you said about how the creatures have their own community and are infact scared of Will Smith's human, and just want to reclaim one of their own from his lab, with Will realising that they think he is the bad guy.

Obviously, some other elements of the movie would have to change for this to work, but I honestly believe that putting our 2 suggestions together would definitely improve the ending of the story.

 

[MattyB]

This is one of my choices just because of the cliff hanger the oracle leaves off in the end is neo dead or not, Im disappointed because I feel like we will never know the answer. I will take this post back if in the future their is a Matrix 4

 

[Mustang Sally]

"Splash" with Tom Hanks and Darryl Hannah.

At the end of the movie, he decides to go with the mermaid and live the rest of his life in the freakin' ocean. He can never come back on land, never see his brother or his friends, except maybe to wave at them while they stand on the beach. Hell, even she can go back to land by drying off and growing human legs while she's there, but he can't do shit except exist underwater the rest of his life.....and he doesn't grow fins, or gills, or nuthin'.... so he's environmentally unsuited to his new life.

Food? No more burgers & fries, no more steak or fruit. He can eat fish, that's it. Sure, he could probably still eat the other stuff, but how would he get it if he can no longer exist out of water? Ever eat soggy pizza?

And if Alan and Madison break up? She swims away with her options open while his ass is stuck in the water with nowhere to go and no one to be with. Shitty deal, guy!

I thought the movie would end with him staying on shore in Manhattan while she returns to the sea.....still able to visit him for a week at a time. A much better alternative, no? I loved the movie but the ending sucked flounder.

 

[Captain Mike]

I actually found the closing moment of Limitless to be perfect, that final confrontation between Dinero/Cooper was done brilliantly. You didn't need to see Cooper's quest to make the drug more susceptible and such, you just needed that last conversation where he revealed that he had found a way and verbally bitch slapped Dinero, awesome movie I thought!

I see the point of Matrix: Revolutions, it really did leave a lot of questions needing answers and a trilogy should not end that way. The war scenes were great and all like previously mentioned but there needed to be more Matrix World stuff included, more explanation and a little less debate over what coarse of action to take.

One movie where I thought the ending was a bit of a cop out was My Sister's Keeper. I haven't read the book but my fiancee has and once she told me what happened in the book's ending I immediately thought it would have made a better ending for the movie. I felt the movie's ending was a real cop out that really just went for the happy ending ting instead of really pushing the controversial themes in the story. Sometimes happy endings are not always the best endings and this was a case of that...

 

[Guardian of Takhisis]

Originally Posted by Loveless View Post
This is an easy choice



What Should Have Happened

After an entire film of Will Smith hunting vampires, killing them, kidnapping them and experimenting for research, the vampires converge on Smith's house trapping him inside. Eventually they break in while Smith hides in his basement watching them. It's at this point he realises that they're only trying to save a vampire child that he has kidnapped and they are infact not evil, they have communities, family and care for each other and it's actually Smith who is the villain or Legend of the title. They are normality and he is the monster they're afraid of, an obsolete remnant of an inferior race.

What Actually Happened

He blows them all to fuck.

Yep, let's forget the entire point of the film and instead of a thought provoking compassionate ending, lets just blow shit up. Absolute fucking travesty.
Perfect choice, I immediately thought of I Am Legend too.

I had never thought of the ending that you suggested, I just believed there had to have been a better way to end the movie than the one that was chosen. I would 100% go with your suggestion, and have Smith hand over the "child" that he has been working on in his lab, and have the creatures all leave the house.

Then, as he already knew about the potential of the human community existing somewhere out there, Smith, the woman and her son could walk out of Will's house and the army of creatures could part down the centre, allowing the 3 humans to walk past to their car and drive away.

I think that could have been a great ending, emphasising what you said about how the creatures have their own community and are infact scared of Will Smith's human, and just want to reclaim one of their own from his lab, with Will realising that they think he is the bad guy.

Obviously, some other elements of the movie would have to change for this to work, but I honestly believe that putting our 2 suggestions together would definitely improve the ending of the story.

Not sure if you two have read the book but Loveless's ending is slightly similar to the ending of the book. There is an older movie called "The Last Man on Earth" starring Vincent Price that is a little closer to the ending of the book and would probably be better.

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Neville comes across the seemingly uninfected woman, Ruth, abroad in the daylight and captures her. After the initial shock of seeing another human wears off, Neville becomes suspicious of Ruth and is skeptical of her story. He also notices that she is strongly against the killing of the vampires — he feels that if her story of survival was true, she would have become hardened to their fate, nevertheless the two live in a wary state of tolerance. Eventually the two grow closer and one night Neville finds Ruth about to leave. Suspicious, he questions her motives, but ends up relating all of the trauma of his past to Ruth, who attempts to comfort him and the two make love. Afterwards Ruth agrees to let him take a blood test on her the following morning, she knocks him out just as he realizes she is infected. When he wakes up, Neville discovers a note left by Ruth. In it, she tells him that the infected have slowly been able to adapt to their disease to the point where they can spend short periods of time in sunlight and they are even attempting to rebuild society. They fear and hate Neville since he has unwittingly destroyed some of their people along with true vampires (dead bodies animated by the 'germ') during his daytime excursions and view him as a predator. In their quest to capture him, the infected sent one of their own to Neville. Ruth warns Neville in her note that her people will eventually attempt to capture him by force, and that he should leave his house and escape while he can. Neville disregards Ruth's warning, through not wishing to leave his house, and is eventually captured by an ambush party of mercenaries used by Ruth's society to kill any true vampires they encounter.

After his capture, Neville is held in a prison, awaiting execution, and is visited by Ruth; she informs him that she is a ranking member of this new society but unlike the others she doesn't fear and hate him. She tells him she had come to his prison to try and help him escape but that is now impossible. She acknowledges the need for Neville's execution, and slips him pills, claiming they will "make it easier." Emotionally broken, Neville finally accepts his fate and tearfully asks Ruth not to let this society get too brutal and heartless. Ruth kisses him and leaves.

Neville goes to his prison window and gets a glimpse of all the infected milling about in the yard waiting for his execution. When they spot him, he sees the fear, awe and horror in their eyes and he understands to them he is a scourge, just as they were a scourge to him at the beginning of the novel. Previously Neville saw the destruction of the infected survivors as a right and a moral imperative to be pursued for his own and mankind's survival, but now he finally acknowledges defeat. He is the only known immune human left in the world, the only survivor of the "old race".

He glimpses a future society where infection is normal and he, Neville, is a murderous biological deviant. As he turns away and swallows the pills, Neville grasps the reversal that has taken place and that just as vampires were legend in pre-infection times now he, an obsolete exemplar of old humanity, is legend in the eyes of the new race born of the infection. As his perspective shifts Neville is able to chuckle even as he dies, his last thoughts being "[I am] a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend."

I think mine would have to be

My dissapoint comes more from the fact that I thought they were leading up to one more scene

Spoiler

Them escaping from prison.

But it never happened. They just ended it with them looking out the window. I'm not super disappointed just a little upset. I'm trying to remember if any other's really upset me and I can't think of any right now.

 

[Dutchboy241]

Sunshine

I'm a huge Danny Boyle fan and I love all his movies.The first 2/3 of this movie were fantastic. It built believable and strong characters, it had atmosphere, the plot was simple and believable. It was hard science fiction at it's best.

Then they throw in "there's a serial killer on board angle". The movie becomes "Jason X" with better production values. I didn't mind the introduction Pinbacker but having super sun man running around with the strength to lift a person with one hand and walk like he's carrying nothing is ridiculous. If it wasn't for Capa (Cillian Murphy) making that awesome jump (marvelous scene) the final 1/3 of the movies is a failure

I still like the movie, it's great. However they took something that could have been a classic and made it a messy.

 

[Wolf Pac]

Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer
The whole reason I watched this is for Galactus. I waited & waited patiently only to see he was a damn cloud.

Blade 1
The film had an alternate ending which I'll post below, where Blade sees Morbius standing on some rooftop which was to set up Morbius as the villian in part 2 unfortunately David Goyer did not go this route. I'd rather Morbius had been in Blade 2 than the reaper storyline.
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Blade 3
This was a confusing ending. All the vampires were supposed to be wiped out once Blade killed Drake but then Hannibal King in the voiceover says "Blade was still out doing what he does best & that the war will never end". But I dunno, if they ever release Blade 4 maybe Morbius will be the villian since his vampirism is biogenetic and not the exact same as the original vampirism disease, thus there is a chance that unlike true vampires, Morbius survived the vampire-killing virus spread.

I wasn't disappointed with the Blair Witch Project's ending but I do wish they could've shown the Blair Witch. I wanted to see what she looks like.

 

[Davi323]

Signs. So, the aliens invade Earth, which is 75% water, when even a glass of water kills them? WHAT THE FUCK kind of logic is that? Are these aliens who are supposedly intelligent enough to master interstellar space travel so fucking stupid that they don't bother to scan the surface for shit that can kill them first? Really?

 

[Poop Master Flex]

These 2 movies really stick out to me:

1) New Moon (it happens when a gf of yours wants to watch it)
2) House on Haunted Hill

The reason I chose these 2 movies was simple, they didn't even HAVE a fucking ending, they just stopped.

A lot of females argued with New Moon "Well that's how the book ended", I say SO THE FUCK WHAT. Movies based on books often make it different to entertain the fans, just because the book had a lazy ending that means the book does too? I know I'm not the audience they were shooting for but for Christ sake if you write a book or movie end it in some fashion, don't just stop it abruptly. Take LOTR for example, they all followed 1 giant story arc but every book actually had an ending, they didn't just stop and pick up where they left off, that's how you do it.

House on Haunted Hill is a movie for the most part I didn't even mind, they are getting chased then its sunny out and everything is fine, the survivors get their money and thats it? Really? That's the best you could come up with? If there was ever the definition of a "Crab People" ending this was it (except crab people made me laugh).

 

[Father Uncle Oscar]

I'm honestly shocked this hasn't come up yet.

This is one of my favorite superhero movies (although I don't bother to see that many). I'm assuming you know that the movie is just a WWII storyline backed up by really good acting and a lot of action, so I'm just gonna skip right to the ending.

Spoiler

Captain America finds himself in an airplane plummeting, so his girlfriend, Peggy Carter, starts planning a date for the two of them. Captain America crashes and dies. Or does he?

Steve Rogers (Captain America, for those who don't know) is then seen waking up in a bed in what looks to be a 1940's New York City hospital room. The radio is playing a Brooklyn Dodgers game as a woman walks in and tells him he is at home. Rogers quickly confronts the woman, claiming he was at the game playing on the radio. He then rushes outside to find present-day Times Square. Samuel L. Jackson, playing his role of Nick Fury, then walks up to him and tells him he's been asleep for 70 years. And to top it all off, Rogers looks over his right shoulder and says, "I had a date." Credits.

Now, I know this is supposed to promote The Avengers, but you could have at least let him survive and keep saving people's lives until SLJ needs him. To kill him off and bring him back, though it does remain half accurate as Captain America did die in the comics, is completely uncalled for. It kills all of the momentum the movie built. And they didn't even do it after the credits. I would have preferred they show that scene, followed by the Avengers trailer, both after the credits.

Still, it's the worst possible ending to a great movie.

 

[Captain Mike]

I'm honestly shocked this hasn't come up yet.

This is one of my favorite superhero movies (although I don't bother to see that many). I'm assuming you know that the movie is just a WWII storyline backed up by really good acting and a lot of action, so I'm just gonna skip right to the ending.

Spoiler

Captain America finds himself in an airplane plummeting, so his girlfriend, Peggy Carter, starts planning a date for the two of them. Captain America crashes and dies. Or does he?

Steve Rogers (Captain America, for those who don't know) is then seen waking up in a bed in what looks to be a 1940's New York City hospital room. The radio is playing a Brooklyn Dodgers game as a woman walks in and tells him he is at home. Rogers quickly confronts the woman, claiming he was at the game playing on the radio. He then rushes outside to find present-day Times Square. Samuel L. Jackson, playing his role of Nick Fury, then walks up to him and tells him he's been asleep for 70 years. And to top it all off, Rogers looks over his right shoulder and says, "I had a date." Credits.

Now, I know this is supposed to promote The Avengers, but you could have at least let him survive and keep saving people's lives until SLJ needs him. To kill him off and bring him back, though it does remain half accurate as Captain America did die in the comics, is completely uncalled for. It kills all of the momentum the movie built. And they didn't even do it after the credits. I would have preferred they show that scene, followed by the Avengers trailer, both after the credits.

Still, it's the worst possible ending to a great movie.

WOW!

Have you read the comics at all or know anything about them because that paragraph would suggest no. He never died, he was suspended in frozen animation basically all that time. That is what happened in the comics, instead in the comics I think he stopped a rocket instead of that wicked looking spaceplane thing. I thought the ending was great and it set up awesomely for the Avengers and made room in that movie next year for some great story that doesn't involve Captain America being unfrozen or adapting to the modern world so much. I am guessing that will happen to a degree but without that movie ending it could have bogged the Avengers movie down heaps and gave less time to an awesome team movie storyline.

 

[Father Uncle Oscar]

WOW!

Have you read the comics at all or know anything about them because that paragraph would suggest no. He never died, he was suspended in frozen animation basically all that time. That is what happened in the comics, instead in the comics I think he stopped a rocket instead of that wicked looking spaceplane thing. I thought the ending was great and it set up awesomely for the Avengers and made room in that movie next year for some great story that doesn't involve Captain America being unfrozen or adapting to the modern world so much. I am guessing that will happen to a degree but without that movie ending it could have bogged the Avengers movie down heaps and gave less time to an awesome team movie storyline.

No, I have never read Captain America. I was basing this solely off of what I heard, and I heard that Captain America died. I think it's because of that that I thought the ending was terrible.

 

[GrandSword]

When I read the title of this thread I immedaitley thought:

The whole spinning thing at the end (trying not to spoil anything) was really hard to swallow, and I walked out of theatre cursing Spielberg and Lucas as Radiers of the Lost Ark to me is the greatest movie ever made...