Your favourite endings!?!?!

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Whether it's a happy ending, a downer ending, a bitter-sweet ending, an ending that makes you scratch your head... a good film has to have a good ending right?

What are your favourites?

Heres mine



Brilliant. Hoskins is amazing here. Without a single word we see exactly what he's feeling. From utter confusion and disbelief, to rage, then we see him trying to figure a way out of his predicament. Then finally, he accepts his fate.

One of the best theme tunes ever doesn't do any harm either.
 
Whether it's a happy ending, a downer ending, a bitter-sweet ending, an ending that makes you scratch your head... a good film has to have a good ending right?

What are your favourites?

Heres mine



Brilliant. Hoskins is amazing here. Without a single word we see exactly what he's feeling. From utter confusion and disbelief, to rage, then we see him trying to figure a way out of his predicament. Then finally, he accepts his fate.

One of the best theme tunes ever doesn't do any harm either.


Great introductory post & thread.

This one here comes to mind immediately, but I'll come up with more.

"I'm finished."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1PYp-fsZOA
 
My favorite endings:
- Vertigo
- POTA (original)
- The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
- Blazing Saddles
- The Thing ('82)
- BTTFIII - yeah, that's right, I said it.
- Batman Begins
- Iron Man
 
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Casablanca. Four of the best lines in film history are in that one scene, and Captain Renault turning against the Nazis to save his best friend is my favorite moment in the history of film.
 
Titanic - that last scene encapsulates everything about the nickname ship of dreams. The music wrings every drop of emotion out of you. And it is just completely emotionally satisfying to see all the faces of the ones who we just watched die. The directing - from the location of the scene to the way the camera moves in one shot to Leo standing with his back towards the camera at first, to his turnaround with a pure smile of joy, is brilliant.

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check it out, although for some reason it is flipped in this video.
 
Great choices guys.

A few more from me are that i can't find the videos of are;

Heat, two acting heavyweights in just a mesmerising, emotional ending. Beautiful score too, which i do have a video of.



The ending of Kingdom of Heaven, where Richard the Lionheart approaches Balian to help him on the Third Crusade.

American Gangster, where Frank comes out of prison to a world he doesn't know, getting stared down by the "new" gangsters and almost getting hit by a car. Notice the subtleties of Washington's acting with the way he holds his cup as though he is still in handcuffs. Brilliant.

The Incredibles! (best superhero movie ever btw)

 
Sorry about the bad quality of the video, all I could find.

Skip to the 6 minute mark. I love the ending to John Carpenter's The Thing.

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- Lost in Translation: The ending is a great ending where Harris and Charlotte both know that their time is over. It was great while it lasted, but they both know their relationship cannot continue. They both find solace and go along their way. The song at the end of the film definitely helped. The movie had great music.

- American History X: The ending shows that racism still exists. Any race or ethnicity is capable of it and acts of racism go on even at this moment. Even though Derek changes, that doesn't mean everything is okay.

- Collateral: Vincent alludes to his own fate early on in the film. Then at the end, when you had forgotten what he had mentioned, he ends up in the same position. Symbolism was fantastic in this film.

- The Godfather: Kay's face as she fully realizes what Michael has transformed into to...priceless.
 
Donnie Darko

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Moneyball

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“Pa's got things for you to do, and Mother wants you. I know she does. Shane. Shane! Come back!"
 
American Gangster, where Frank comes out of prison to a world he doesn't know, getting stared down by the "new" gangsters and almost getting hit by a car. Notice the subtleties of Washington's acting with the way he holds his cup as though he is still in handcuffs. Brilliant.

Great choice. :up:
 
Some other ones I love:

Gone with the Wind - Scarlet realizes that Ashley will never love her and she goes crawling back to Rhett, but it is too late. He's finally had enough of her and walks out with the most famous line in film history.

Lawrence of Arabia - Lawrence fails to unite the Arab clans and is riding back to the British in a jeep when he sees a motorcycle go by, bringing the film back to the beginning where he was killed in a motorcycle accident.

Patton - Patton goes to walk his dog after being sacked from command of the Third Army and gives the best closing voiceover in film history.

"For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph - a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting."

The Godfather Part II - Michael sits alone on a bench having gained complete power and destroyed all of his enemies, but lost his family and his humanity in the process.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service - "We have all the time in the world."

Some happy endings that I love include Apollo 13, ET, and Rudy. Those never fail to turn on the tears.
 
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The NeverEnding Story -- But that's another story and shall be told another time.

The Usual Suspects. Verbal Kint gradually losing his "limp" as Kujan realizes he let Soze slip through his fingers.

The Secret of Roan Inish - the family sitting together in the new home the children have built as the seals return home.

What Warhammer said about Lost in Translation

Millennium Mambo - Vicki has survived her bad choices and started to make a real life for herself--perhaps with one of the two brothers in the snowbound town with all those film posters.

A Boy Named Charlie Brown - Lucy bending over him saying "Welcome home, Charlie Brown"

Snoopy Come Home -- Woodstock typing out the credits as Snoopy dictates

The Cement Garden -- Jack finds Julie sunbathing in a two-piece bikini

Show Me Love -- after literally coming out of the closet and bragging that the they are going off to f(*&, Elin and Agnes head off to...drink chocolate milk.
 
The Godfather II
Heat
Fresh
Predator
 
"... Then I woke up."

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A lot of people hate this ending, and to a degree I understand why. But I adore for it's uniqueness and what it says. It's incredibly daring to subvert narrative structure like this, because it's so ingrained in our consciousnesses as the audience. Even if you hate you have to admire that.
 
Also, couldn't find a good video of it, but the ending of 'Thirteen' gets me every time.
 
Alien 3
Pans Labyrinth
Oldboy
1000 litres of tears
Someone special
A Moment to Remember

and

Wolverine, now I chose Wolverine because I realised after watching it I will never watch a film concerning the x-men/wolverine or Gambit unless it's done properly in fact I'm boycotting all Fox movies except anything made my Ridley scott or James Cameron!
 
First Class was done "properly" whatever that means. And that's another ending i'll throw in there. The part where Magento and the Brotherhood breaks Emma Frost out. Great moment.
 
Inception
The Dark Knight
The Prestige
Batman Begins
Memento
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Lion King
50/50
(500) Days of Summer
Gladiator
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
The Godfather Part II
The Godfather Part III
The Lord of the Rings
 
Toy Story 3
Batman (1989)
The Terminator
Somewhere in Time
Vanilla Sky
Psycho
Edward Scissorhands
Beetlejuice
The Godfather
X-Men: First Class (Michael Fassbender in a nigh completely comic accurate Magneto costume :up:)
 
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Grease
Hitch
Captain America
The Hangover
 

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