Movie endings that just made you mad...
By uicbear
@uicbear (1900)
United States
February 9, 2009 8:13pm CST
Do you know what I mean? They set you up, draw you in and then at the end of the movie you are like, what the heck just happened...that's not right! Two movies like that for me Are Saving Private Ryan(Tom Hanks, Matt Damon) and Children of Men(Clive Owen).
With Saving Private Ryan, you start out in the cemetary and they focus in on the old mans eyes like he's remembering and then the next scene is you looking through Tome Hanks view. So you would presume the old man in the cemetary is Tom Hanks, right....WORNG! I won't go any farther in case someone is intrigued and hasn't seen the move. That one just plain out lies to you.
The movie Children of Men does something else that many dramas do, they get you emotionally involved with a character and have you hoping for that happy(or somewhat happy)ending. They bring you so close and then, DENIED!
So those are the movies whose endings just don't sit right with me. How bout you? Is there a movie whose ending you think is just wrong?
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19 responses
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
10 Feb 09
The Original Stage Show LSOH was based on DID have the plants winning,but Test Audience surveys for the movie showed people preferring a more upbeat ending,so they made the change..but even at the end,With Seymour and Audrey getting the happy ending,You see a little Audrey 2 in the flowerbed,so you know it's not yet all over!
@Anora_Eldorath (6028)
• United States
10 Feb 09
I hated the ending to The Break Up, it made the entire movie pointless.
I couldn't stand Silent Hill, and the ending was atrocious.
The Grudge ending was stupid, but then again I really disliked the entire movie.
The ending to both The Cube, and Cube Zero.
I liked both Children of Men and Saving Private Ryan.
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@crimsonladybug (3112)
• United States
12 Feb 09
Finally, I'm not the only person who thought the Grudge was a complete waste of celluloid!
@uicbear (1900)
• United States
11 Feb 09
Now, just cause the ending doesn't sit right with me, doesn't mean that I don't put it down as a movie I like. It just has a little asterick by it in my mind that's all.
I know what you're saying about the break up. I had a hard time with that movie just because they got so nasty with each other. I thought the movie was a comedy going in and it really is not near a comedy. So I was just kind of taken aback by the whole thing.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
10 Feb 09
I don't like it when they show you the end first and you have no clue as to what is going on as you don't know how you got there! THen at the end, you figure it out, and get mad cause there were so manything in the show that now make sense but you would have enjoyed the show so much more if you knew then what you know now!
The Notebook was like this.. a great movie.. and about half way through I figured that James Garner as the old man, was the young man in the storyline, but it wasn't till the end that I figured out that the old woman he was supposedly helping, was really the young girl in the storyline and they had gotten married after all they went through and now this was the end of their lives (dementia)... but the story never actually told you that! So so many things now made sense but I had to work so hard to figure it out! ANd I would have enjoyed it better if I had known who they were! But that's show buz for ya!
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@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
11 Feb 09
I thought that was appropriate based on the theme of the show and what they were trying to portray. True love and all. Kind of like they both had had it and just said goodbye. I also didn't mind the flashing back and forth, just that I didn't catch that she was the same person... I thought he was just helping a friend because he missed the woman he loved and all. IT was good, I have not been able towatch it again tho!
@dogsnme (1264)
• United States
10 Feb 09
I thought the same thing when I first saw SAVING PRIVATE RYAN...that the old man was Capt. Miller. But, I wasn't upset when I found out that it was really Private Ryan. I don't feel that the movie lied in that sense. It was just an interesting little twist that was thrown in. That has been done in a lot of movies. That little "twist" actually got to me... emotionally. It touched my heart when I realized that the grave he was visiting was that of Capt. Miller. And it still touches me in the same way every time I watch it. As far as CHILDREN OF MEN goes, I have it on DVD and I didn't even think it was good enough to even be remembered.
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@dogsnme (1264)
• United States
11 Feb 09
I understand your point. The first time I saw the movie, that scene did make me go, "what?...huh?" But each time I watched it I realized how effective that "twist" was. I also know what you mean about getting too attached to the character. But, it's that character development that makes the movie so good.
@uicbear (1900)
• United States
11 Feb 09
I still think that the cemetary scene directly leading to a scene with Capt Miller was misleading. But I did like the movie on the whole and was crying hysterically by the time Ryan was told to "Earn this...."
I think part of my problem is getting to attatched to the character . Then when that twist happens, it just doesn't feel right.
@thezone (9394)
• Ireland
10 Feb 09
For me it was Kill Bill: Volume one. I went to see it in the movie theatre and was so excited, and the film was excellent, only at the end to realise I have to wait for the next part of it!!! I must have had my head in the sand at the time, Kill Bill: VOLUME ONE kind of says it all 
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@cortypants (604)
• United States
10 Feb 09
The Village was just awful, made me mad that I wasted an hour and a half of my life for that!! LOL! And the end of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 ticked me off, too!
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@Anora_Eldorath (6028)
• United States
10 Feb 09
I loved The Village. It was such a statement of today's society and world views. Of course, I love all of his movies; he's a very good story teller.
@uicbear (1900)
• United States
11 Feb 09
All, in all, the ending of The Village didn't really bother me too much. I was disappointed in the movie as a whole. I expected more.
I haven't actually seen the 3rd pirates, but in ;looking over some of the responses here, it looks like you're not alone!
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
10 Feb 09
I hated the ending to Pay It Forward. You know what happened to the boy. I was hoping that he lived, but they have to kill off the white kid. I have not seen Children of Men, but I hated when they used the old stereotype that only non white people deserve to propagate and us white people are so horrible, etc. etc. It reminds me of that movie Testament when the only person to survive was this child with Down Syndrome as if to say, that person was so innocent and pure, that this is what the world should been populated with.
It seems there was a period where the movies made very depressing endings, where evil triumphed, etc. I do wonder who was sponsoring those movies anyway? A guy in a red suit with a horned tail and a pitchfork? 
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@sweetpeasmom (1325)
• United States
10 Feb 09
I have watched many movies in the past few years that have just left me wanting more with their stupid endings. Like they do not know how to end a movie once they start it and just end it some where and I do not understand the movie. Stupid movies.
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@Amberina (1541)
• United States
10 Feb 09
The Village..........I HATED the ending!!!! I was like WTF!!! I didn't need to know the truth! Lie to me make me believe that there really is a monster out there who eats people after dark if they go into the forest! I would have loved to care my kids with that just to make sure they came in before dark LOL. Hey I would have told them the truth when they got older....maybe.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
10 Feb 09
yeah the children of men movie pissed me off with that!! so did vacancy.. jeeze there have been several movies recently but i cant remember the titles.. it seems like the new style and it sucks!
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@crimsonladybug (3112)
• United States
10 Feb 09
Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End. Jerry Bruckheimer and Johnny Depp neither one had (have) any intention of doing a fourth movie but the end of the third movie was totally left open for a fourth. There's Will and Elizabeth with this problem of him living forever and Barbosa sets off to find the Fountain of Youth. The End. WTF?!?!?! You're really going to leave it like that??
And Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In the beginning, he's in Nevada and stumbles into Area 51. Which gives you the impression through the whole movie that the Mayans either were extraterrestrials or were led by (or possibly abducted by) aliens but then at the end it takes this screwy other dimension twist that makes the alien theory seem plausible.
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@uicbear (1900)
• United States
11 Feb 09
My co-worker warned me about this movie before i watched it, so i was kind of prepared for what happened. But once again it falls under the whole, wait you survived all this other nonsense and now that there's a possibitlity of a happy ending, now you're going to die? Yea, i don't much appreciate that.
@forslahiri (1042)
• India
10 Feb 09
Hi,
I live in India and wish to throw some light on Bollywood(M'bai)movies.Most of the endings in Bolywood commercial movies are very much predictable,And I feel they are created by directors keeping in view of majority audience's likings.Thus in majority cases the Endings are wrong as it is far away from real Life.
=Lahiri,Kolkata,India.
@uicbear (1900)
• United States
11 Feb 09
I don't mind realistic endings, and i don't always like the "....and they lived happily ever after..." endings either. But every once in a while, a movie will get you to care enough or invested enough to where the ending feels like it should be a certain way. It'll be different for different people just because of personal taste and interpretation.
@ZenGenesisX (7)
• Philippines
10 Feb 09
Mortuary. The ending was pretty cliche-ish and was pretty bad. The movie was good in the beginning, until the latter parts where everything became chaotic. The ending made my impression go from bad to worse.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
13 Feb 09
City of Angels. i had my daughter watch it with me and she got soooo mad at me at the end
now i have to tell her if it ends good or bad. lol
now i have to tell her if it ends good or bad. lol
@jessi0887 (2788)
• United States
10 Feb 09
THere have been a couple of movies that have drop off endings. Kind of like well what happened after that or something like that. I can't remember which movies it was that disappointed me but thats the thing if a movie disappoints me weather it was because it was bad altogether or the ending sucks then i usually never remember those movies.
@ddfreedie (690)
• India
10 Feb 09
whoa whoa whoa......i cannot forget sixth sense...wat a climax....
hats off 6^:)
@uicbear (1900)
• United States
11 Feb 09
Well, that it just the opposite. that was a twist that I actually enjoyed. It clears up alot of things that happen throughout the movie. And although yoou are quite shocked by the reveal, questions are answered. It's those movies that leave you hanging or questioning other things after the end that irritate me.
@limitbreaker (253)
• Philippines
10 Feb 09
Haha. I agree with that. Some movies are so very interesting but in the end having bad endings that you could not ever imagine that might happen.
