What are your favourite movie endings?

[ghostsofgiants]

I just finished watching Alejandro Jodorowsky's "The Holy Mountain" and it has one of the best endings I've ever seen.

The ending is described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Mountain_%28film%29

So what are your favourite endings. (If you describe what the ending is, maybe tag it as a spoiler in the subject line.)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Chinatown, Vertigo, Some Like It Hot, A Clockwork Orange, Godfather I and II.

EDIT: Blood Simple's ending is great as well, particularly that last line, and The 400 Blows' ending/last freeze-frame is amazing.

[Paladin]

20. GREAT List!

At the ending of "Vertigo," I never know whether to laugh or cry, looking at Jimmy Stewart at the top of that bell tower. Whatever agonies he's feeling, they're all self-inflicted.

My addition to this thread: the ending of "A Very Long Engagement," a grossly underappreciated French movie, equal parts love story, war epic, and detective/murder mystery. (Watch for Jodie Foster in a stunning, uncredited role, speaking flawless French.) Have some Kleenex handy for the ending, which wiped out an entire theater the night I saw it (including me). Highly recommended......

[Wetzelbill]

2. The Shawshank Redemption, Taxi Driver, Ran, Amores Perros...

The Color Of Money, Giant...

That'll do for now, I guess. :)

[bridgit]

3. Shawshank is a cool ending, also The Game, many others...

:thumbsup:

[Wetzelbill]

4. I almost said The Game too

David Fincher's films always end interestingly. Like The Game. Fight Club. Se7en. :)

[bridgit]

6. i do like his stuff, his visuals are immediate/primary shots & i like that...

:)

[hellbound-liberal]

13. It's hard to beat the Shawshank Redemption but One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest comes close

The movie ends when Chief suffocates Nicholson and says "I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me". Then he picks up the fountain, hurls it through the window and leaves the asylum.

[Wetzelbill]

38. My cousin played Chief in a HS play, haha

(we're Indian) He's huge too, like 6'4 330. I guess he was hilarious. But yes, that is a great ending. Just an amazing film.

Shawshank is one of the most satisfying endings ever. Just makes a person so happy. Love that film! :) Thanks for the reply, now you got me thinking about watching some good movies. :)

[ForrestGump]

5. "Birdy"

has an especially cool one.

I had my wife watch that entire long movie just for the ending (by which I mean the very last shot). I'm not sure she ever forgave me. :D

Just watched The Truman Show again last night...not only is the end sequence great, but the "what else is on?" thing with the security guards is both perfect and says an awful lot about society.

[bertha katzenengel]

7. Shirley Valentine and The Usual Subjects.

"I hope he stays a while. He needs a holiday."

"I can't feel my legs, Keyser."

[Swede]

8. Roy Baty's soliloquay in Blade Runner really stuck with me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTzA_xesrL8

[NightWatcher]

9. The end of Romero's Night of the Living Dead

[trof]

10. Where the guy gets the girl and everybody lives happily ever after.

;-)

[hellbound-liberal]

12. Officer and a Gentleman was the first one that came to mind for me

[ghostsofgiants]

28. Happy endings are lammmmmmme.

Okay, not always, haha.

We watched The Seventh Seal in my religion class last semester and one of the other students complained because it didn't have a happy ending. THE SEVENTH FUCKING SEAL!

[tanyev]

11. Joe Vs. The Volcano.

Joe: "I'll tell you one thing, though."
Patricia: "What?"
Joe: "Wherever we go, whatever we do..."
Patricia: "Yeah."
Joe: "...we're gonna take this luggage with us."

[wildhorses]

14. i loved the way 'dogville' ended

also 'thelma and louise'
'alpha dog' ended pretty good (fianlly!!!)
'half-nelson' ended cool, sorta like a non-ending
'knotting hill' was a sappy ending but, i liked it.
'almost famous' had a cool ending

[kedrys]

15. Generically? Sh*t blows up and everybody dies

That's not to say I don't enjoy a good light romantic comedy from time to time... :P

[Calliope]

16. Cinema Paradiso

Ending was perfect.

[Danger Mouse]

18. I love that movie!

:D

[Twillig]

17. The Blue Max--

A very cold-blooded decision by the General (James Mason) to save honor. Doesn't turn--just stamps the official paperwork for Stachel (Peppard).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Max

[Danger Mouse]

19. My favorite ending is 'Once Upon a Time in the West'

...always gets me a little.
I also enjoyed the endings for 'Solaris,' 'Brazil,' 'Ghost Dog,' 'The Royal Tenenbaums,' and 'Ghost World,' among many others.
A good ending is very important.

[Sabriel]

21. Das Boot

Although I can't say I LIKED it, it was my very first exposure to the idea that not all movies end like U.S. movies tend to.

Yikes.

[taterguy]

40. I agree

I was only a teenager when I saw it but I it caught me totally by surprise

[Catshrink]

22. "oh shit, there goes the planet"

Not quite the end of SpaceBalls, but one of my favorites.

Also, the classic:

"Louis, this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

[geardaddy]

23. Twin Town

I love 'Myfanwy' and the revenge is sweet and painful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjcpD49HLnA

[MAGICBULLET]

24. Goodfellas

Henry Hill talking about ordering some spaghetti with marinara sauce and getting egg noodles and ketchup. So great, along with Scorsese's homage to The Great Train Robbery right after it.

[hippiechick]

25. Amelie

When she's about given up on meeting the dude she's been crushin' on, and her neighbors (who she's "secretly" been "helping") decide to "secretly" help bring them face-to-face.

I cry everytime I watch it. O8)

[jobycom]

27. One of my favorites, too. nt

[jobycom]

26. Lone Star-- the best movie ever about Texas. (Partial SPOILER!!!)

The John Sayles movie is about a sheriff (Chris Cooper) investigating a 40 year old murder in a Texas border town dealing with race and immigration issues as the economy declines. The murder victim is a past sheriff (Kris Kristoferson), and the chief suspect was the legendary sheriff who replaced him (Matthew McConaughy), who was also the father of the current sheriff. To add another dimension, Cooper's character reignites a romance with his childhood sweetheart (Elizabeth Pena), a Latina schoolteacher whose mother, along with Chris Cooper's father, forced them apart 23 years ago.

I don't want to give away the entire ending because anyone who hasn't seen this movie should put it in the top of their Netflix queue before continuing reading this post, but the upshot is this: everything that happens, from the romance to the murder to the back story, is created by the racial tension of this Texas bordertown, and that tension threatens to sink the romance by the end of the film.

The final scene has the Anglo sheriff and his Latina history schoolteacher sitting on the hood of an old car at an abandoned scrubbrush-choked drive in theater, holding hands, and they decide the only way to make it work is to start over. She says they have to forget their past, forget all the problems, and then she adds the last line of the film:

"Forget the Alamo."

If you're Texan, it hits you square in the gut. If you're not, maybe it doesn't mean as much. :)

[LibraLiz1973]

29. The Usual Suspects, It's a Wonderful Life, The Breakfast Club

Presumed Innocent, Seven

[Adsos Letter]

30. 4 of them

"Planes, Trains, and Automobiles"

"Casablanca"

"Saving Private Ryan"

"Seven Days in May"

[steelemagnolia]

31. I have two

The final scene in And Justice for All
& An Officer and a Gentleman

[Seabiscuit]

32. "You've Got Mail" - ShopGirl meets her e-mail pen pal in the park and it turns

out to be Joe Fox, the guy who put her out of business and tells him: "I wanted it to be you. I wanted it to be you so badly."

Maureen Stapleton as Birdie Conrad: "I tried to have cybersex once, but I kept getting a busy signal."

[nytemare]

33. "Joy Luck Club"

Where the older sisters meet the younger coming off the boat, expecting their mother they don't know has passed on. How bittersweet.

[Tikki]

34. Hands down....Close Encounters of the Third Kind, also...

Repo Man, Rock and Roll High School and a movie named Slam Dance.



Tikki

[ghostsofgiants]

36. Haha, Repo Man is a good one.

[unsavedtrash]

35. Shawshank Redemption and An Officer and a Gentleman

I don't know why but I have to make sure both end correctly.

[edbermac]

37. Psycho

She wouldn't even harm a fly...

[cloudbase]

39. Casablanca

of course.

[NewJeffCT]

41. Godfather I and II

The scene where all Michael had all the bad guys killed while the baby is being baptized...

and then, with Michael swearing to Kay that he didn't kill Carlo, but then as she leaves, she sees the scene where Michael has become the new Godfather as the door closes.

And, Godfather II with the killing of Fredo.

[Strawman]

42. The Dutch version of "The Vanishing"

Not the American remake.

[ghostsofgiants]

46. Good call!

[fight4my3sons]

43. Shining Through

[Aristus]

44. "Local Hero", where the Houston oil executive has fallen achingly in love

with the little Scottish village his company wants to raze and put up an oil refinery. Well, the refinery scheme doesn't pan out (thankfully) and the oil exec returns to Houston. He loves and misses the place and people so much that he calls the village's only phone booth as soon as he gets home. The film fades out on the phone in the village booth ringing over and over to the tune of Mark Knopfler's "Going Home."

Wonderful. :-)

[Pendrench]

45. Citizen Kane n/t

[HERVEPA]

47. The Graduate (spoiler)

If any of you youngun's out there never saw it, you should!




looking at them. ALL SOUND STOPS, except for Ben's
voice in the distance shouting "ELAIN ELAINE ELAINE."

264 ELAINE'S POV - CARL

Frozen frame.

265 ELAINE'S POV - MR. ROBINSON

Frozen frame.

266 ELAINE'S POV - MRS. ROBINSON

Frozen frame.

267 SHOT - ELAINE

Her face turning quickly to look up at Ben.

268 ELAINE'S POV - BEN

Frozen frame. His face twisted with passion, his body
spread-eagled against the glass.

269 CLOSEUP - ELAINE

looking up at Ben.

ELAINE
(screaming)
Ben!

[Throd]

48. Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry

Kinda hard to have a sequel

[likesmountains 52]

49. Waking Ned Devine..

[Mad_Dem_X]

50. The Usual Suspects.

[mitchum]

51. "Aguirre The Wrath of God"

[NewWaveChick1981]

52. I love for my movies to have a Scooby Doo ending...

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