Favourite Movie Endings

[NobBe Nobbs]

Ronseal - does exactly what it says on the tin.

For me, the final scene of This Is Spinal Tap always gets me;

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Tap on tour, fully reformed, yet another drummer, doing TIGRYT, it is the everything. FUCK YEAH SPINAL TAP

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

Blazing Saddles.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Great thread Be. Nice one (Y)

For me, best endings include:

+ Zatoichi's dance finale.

+ Crank

+ Carry On Up The Khyber's "Banquet scene"

+ Amelie (I'm an old romantic)

+ Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

+ Sunshine

+ The Proposition

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I marked out when Guy Pearce's character Charlie Burns came into Captain Stanley's house as Mrs Stanley is being raped and Captain Stanley has been beaten by Burns' brother and then Charlie just shoots the rapist (his old ally) at point blank and then shoots and kills his older brother, in the end saving the man who forced this proposition on him in the first place....It's such a satisfying moment.

+ Dog Soldiers

Also far too many others.

[Summers]

The Departed.

The Devils Rejects.

Fight Club.

Reservoir Dogs.

[therockbox]

28 Weeks Later spoilers:

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When the infected are running through the subway and then towards the Eiffel Tower.

I think it's brilliantly done and sets up the third perfectly.

[Summers]

28 Weeks Later spoilers:

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When the infected are running through the subway and then towards the Eiffel Tower.

I think it's brilliantly done and sets up the third perfectly.

Actually, agreed.

[A-Dub]

The Usual Suspects.

[CQI13]

Aside from what's been mentioned:

*American Beauty

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With Kevin Spacey NOT having sex with Mena Suvari, and finding out the consequences of turning away the neighbor.

*The Prestige

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Discovering the twin situation.

My brain is fried, can't think of much more at the moment

And how could I forget The Others.

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[FireDoughnut]

The Others

Great ending to an otherwise meh film.

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[LexChaney]

-The Prestige

- The Illusionist

- Gangs of The Dead

- Unknown

- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

[NobBe Nobbs]

There's nothing stopping you from...well, elaborating a bit on it, you know.

[Future-Shock]

I hope this doesn't start a huge thing, but I loved the ending to The Mist.

Others I highly enjoy

Planet Terror

Death Proof

From Dusk Till Dawn

The Usual Suspects

Heat

The Warriors

[VerbalPuke]

Romper Stomper.

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I loved it from the first time I saw the film. The slight bit of irony involved when Davey uses the instrument of death on his ex-buddy Hando while each are fighting for their life. The instrument of death was a Hitler youth knife that Davey purchased, but borrowed money from Hando to purchase it. Hando purchased his own death.

Taxi Driver.

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I was glad to see Travis Bickle survive and come out a hero in the end. He may have used lethal means, but his actions at the end of the movie were heroic.

[Guest Crockmaster]

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.

The tension of the duel is made unbearable by Morricone's musical score - before the unpredictable ending which ties in perfectly with events earlier into the film. And not to mention how the final lines of the movie meld into that theme tune.

[Kaney]

Taxi Driver.

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I was glad to see Travis Bickle survive and come out a hero in the end. He may have used lethal means, but his actions at the end of the movie were heroic.

Bit of a different interpretation:

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I always thought the ending bit where he's a hero was all in his mind. All through out the film Travis yearned for acceptance, wishing he was a somebody. Now, at the end, he got shot a ton of times. I'm fairly sure he was supposed to have been in a coma, so I always figured the cutouts of him proclaimed a hero, everyone loving him etc was just a fantasy made by Travis himself, especially since he had a full head of hair again and seemingly no problems from, as already mentioned, being shot a fuckload times.

I thought that was more poignant, but obviously everyone comes out with their own thoughts on it.

[Benji]

The ending was left open to interpretation purposefully, but no matter how you look at it though it's an awesome ending.

[MyKILLv2.0]

The Usual Suspects.

That's the only one that came to my mind, though I'm sure there are plenty of others if I give it more thought.

[Benji]

I'd like to put Big Fish in this, it's one of few endings I genuinely felt sad about, it's such a brilliant story all the way through you can't help but love Edward Bloom.

[Pesci]

The Prestige and The Departed are a couple of recent(ish) ones I liked, and when I saw Eternal Sunshine recently I thought the ending helped drag the film up a couple of notches. Reservoir Dogs will always be one of my favourite endings, if not my favourite, I love the whole Mexican Standoff and the interaction between White and Orange afterwards. Oh, and the ending to American Beauty isn't anything special in terms of subject matter but I think the way the last five or so minutes of the film are put together is fantastic.

[Future-Shock]

Reservoir Dogs is awesome because as Orange and White are talking you can hear the OTHER ending in the background.