Movies You Liked With Endings You Hated?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

And don’t get me started on Mildred’s hair!

[Towlie]

1. The Final Countdown

The Final Countdown

A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

It would have been fun to watch, but no...

The ship, with all of its advanced weaponry, returns without doing anything at all.

[Snackshack]

2. The...

Counselor.
Empire Strikes Back.
Avengers: Infinity Wars.

[PJMcK]

3. Sliver

An exciting thriller with a lot of contemporary social commentary.

There were two endings and both sucked.

[Towlie]

4. Knowing

Knowing

M.I.T. professor John Koestler (Nicholas Cage) links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe.

The end of the world is coming. The story follows two innocent young children and the viewer wonders how they could possibly be saved. It seemed like a challenging puzzle, but at the end, aliens in a spaceship resembling Ezekiel's Wheel rescue them. It was quite literally a deus ex machina, or "god from the machine", which is a highly criticized plot device.

[Ron Obvious]

5. The Truman Show

A truly interesting idea which, in better hands, could have been a SF classic instead becomes a vehicle for that tedious git Jim Carrey and ends with a thoroughly conventional feel-good ending. What a waste of potential. Same applies to Spotless Mind, another concept which could have been great but was let down by the execution and casting.

[dameatball]

6. Seven

[Laffy Kat]

9. Oh god, yes.

For those who have never seen it---DON'T!

[gratuitous]

7. Blow Out

Mostly overlooked 1981 offering from Brian de Palma starring John Travolta and Nancy Allen. Travolta plays a sound tech, and the movie opens with him recording night sounds of birds and crickets and stuff to use for movies and television programs. He hears a car zooming by on a nearby mountain road and points his directional microphone. There's a bang, the car has had a blowout, and careens off the road, killing the driver. It's only when he gets back to his studio that Travolta discovers there's more to the crash than just a blowout.

The story moves along nicely and suspensefully, but the ending? Ish.

[Ron Obvious]

10. That goes for Blow Up as well

Which is the film that Blow Out was derived from. I suppose that ending was meant to be ambiguous and artistic.

[JonLP24]

19. Good choice

[tazkcmo]

8. Cujo

The kid died in the book.

[hostalover]

24. Yikes! That's why I preferred the movie!

[hunter]

11. The happy ending pasted onto the end of Blade Runner's original theatrical release is a classic.

I still remember that feeling of

It was so clumsy, in a Star Wars Holiday Special sort of way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner#Versions

[First Speaker]

12. How about the studio's "happy ending" for Brazil...?

...now that was a truly strange decision…:-/...

[Harker]

33. An abomination. n/t

[rurallib]

13. Contact

Seemed to really build up to a very anti-climactic ending.

Got to agree about Ebbing, Missouri also.

[First Speaker]

15. "Contact" ending is a classic Idiot Plot...(***WARNING--SPOILERS***)

...OK. The Wicked Bureaucrat--James Woods, naturally--tries publicly to make Jodie Foster doubt the whole experience by suggesting that the Sinister-but-Good-Guy billionaire--John Hurt--was the one behind the whole business. He drew up the original plans for the Alien Transporter, it was all a plot. Fine. But as time went by, someone, somehow, would surely have talked. There would have had to be tens of thousands of people involved in something this big and complex. The FBI, the media, everybody, would have been all over this, searching for the evidence. Had it existed, it would have been exposed almost right away. No one could have kept this big a secret. And if there had been no evidence, then Jodie's story was the only alternative, and the whole world would have accepted it in very short time. In fact, if Jodie had had the simple presence of mind to just tell Woods to his face at the hearing: "Put up or shut up"--there would never have been an "issue" at all. But apparently, no one in the whole society thought to say this...

[Generic Brad]

14. That's my pick too

Brilliant all the way around and fell as flat at the end as the Twin Peaks reboot.

[Stallion]

16. I Watched Gore Vidal's 1962 Political Drama-"The Best Man" this week

at least the Nixon character lost-but Henry Fonda was the best man

BTW I had never known that Vidal took several shots at William F. Buckley even back in 1962. He had a sniveling, sycophant character carrying a Conservative Review book in his hand asking both candidates right-wing crazy questions-that character is quite obviously Buckley. They really hated each other to their core

Great movie that still stand the test of time over 50 years later

[Xolodno]

17. Well...

Master and Commander: Far Side of the World....very much a "Hollywood ending".

...and I'll get some flack for this, well, because, it was a crummy movie to begin with....

"Showgirls"

...and one more...

"Eyes Wide Shut"

[DetlefK]

18. That new Predators-movie. SPOILER.

At the very end it turns out that the mysterious escape-pod has survived and it contains... a gift for the humans?

Then why was the first Predator willing to kill humans to protect the ship if the plan was to give the humans this gift all along?

And what was the gift?

A superweapon that is even more overpowered than the overpowered Predator who killed the overpowered Predator who killed the humans... which has just killed future Predator-movies, because now there's nothing at stake when Predators invade Earth in future movies because the humans are now stronger than the Predators.

[Baitball Blogger]

30. The gift:

The end to predator movies.

[JonLP24]

20. The Pledge with Jack Nicholson

[Tikki]

21. More than sometimes I will skip the ending to a movie or TV show....

..make up an ending myself.

Seems to happen when the show isn’t detail oriented enough or is somewhat boring.

Tikki

[mucifer]

22. Blackkklansman towards the end not the actual ending . SPOILERS

I really did love the movie. The problem is I watch too much tv old and new cop shows. I'm not proud of it.

So when Flip had his cover blown and the girlfriend was saved from the bomb at the very last minute of course I couldn't suspend my disbelief. It just REALLY felt like fiction so much for me that I went home I had to research what happened and found out there was no bomb and Flip's cover was never blown.

The actual ending tying it into the trump era was amazing. I would definitely recommend the movie. I just had some trouble with a chunk of it.

Of course if they were telling the true story it would have been a lot more dull. So there's that.

[Stuart G]

23. Star Wars...1980 "The Empire Stikes Back".. 2nd Star Wars Movie...

I was pissed as can be after watching it because I knew I would have to come back to see the next edition. (which I didn't know there was going to be) It is often considered the best of the entire series, but I just wanted an end, as opposed to waiting 2 or 3 more years to see the so called, "conclusion" Yes, I was really pissed when I walked out of the theater that night.

[Ohiya]

25. Dirty Mary, crazy Larry

[Iggo]

28. When I was a kid, that felt like a statement on the random, on impermanence.

I was all, "Ooooooooh!"

Now that I'm older, it looks more like the old "Anti-social Behavior Must Always Be Punished" rule.

[John Fante]

26. Psycho

For a film that had the guts to kill off its protagonist halfway through, it wimped put with the psychiatrist scene.

I didn't need a detailed explanation of what made Norman Bates tick. It felt tacked on (for the dumbasses in the audiences).

[ZZenith]

27. 2001: A Space Oddysey

Maybe I am just not smart enough to make sense of it, or maybe it’s intentionally inscrutable, but this Kubrick fan has always been bothered by it.

[Doreen]

29. Wicker Man

It is not that the hero got killed in the end but how both the original and remake made the burning death so real. It just bothered me.

[Baitball Blogger]

31. Sadly

The movie’s ending was true to itself because it is so disturbing. No other movie has affected me in that way. When my husband saw the remake at home I warned him and told him I would not watch it with him. I was on the other side of the house when I heard his screams and knew he had reached the end.

[TheBlackAdder]

32. "W" If the GOP weren't corrupt, that movie would never had been made, since he'd still be a nobody.

[red dog 1]

34. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid