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Best Movie Ending of All-Time?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by schiezainc, Jun 12, 2008.

  1. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Yes - original with Burt Reynolds
     
  2. Beach_Bum

    Beach_Bum Member

    I like the end of Glory, where they storm the fort and you think they're going to win until they run into the cannon ...

    And I second the last scene from Pulp Fiction and the very underrated True Romance -- though the best scene in that movie is in the middle (Dennis Hopper).
     
  3. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Was that the original with Davy Jones, or the remake with Bruce Willis? :D

    Second your mention of Rounders, though. On one level, you get the sense he hasn't learned his lesson. On another, you see a guy who was dying a slow death without the thing he truly loved -- gambling -- and went through hell to get his passion back.
     
  4. pressboxer

    pressboxer Active Member

    Ratatouille
     
  5. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    Some that haven't been mentioned ...

    "Didn't See It Coming" Shock Value ...
    On Her Majesties Secret Service
    Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (remake)
    The Ring

    The Original Maximum Violence Ending ...
    The Wild Bunch

    Cheeseball, Yet Poignant ...
    Star Trek II

    Iconic Film Noir
    Kiss Me Deadly (the cut where Mickey Spillane doesn't get away)

    David Lean Epic Division
    Bridge Over The River Kwai ("Madness ... madness!")

    Best Hitchcock Ending
    Vertigo

    Best Ending Featuring A Vengeful Transsexual Beheading The Coolest Male Prostitute Ever Put On Celluloid, Killing A Lesbian By Shoving A Gun In Her Mouth, And Murdering Nazi Martin Bormann By Stabbing Him To Death On A Beach
    Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls
     
  6. It's really just an honor to be nominated in that category.
     
  7. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    As I wrote when I brought it up before....."Game Ball"
     
  8. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Lost in Translation but in a frustrating as hell sort of way because what the hell did Murray tell Scarlet?!
     
  9. KJIM

    KJIM Well-Known Member

    Can't think of many note already listed, but I'll add:

    Outbreak - great helicopter chicken scene with Hoffman and Sutherland on mics
    It's a Wonderful Life - who doesn't tear up?
    A League of Their Own - love the HoF wrapup
     
  10. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    The Grapes of Wrath, although it should have ended with Tom Joad's speech, not Ma's cornball manifesto as the banjo symphony rattles out a jaunty rendition of "Red River Valley."

    Guess feel-good finishes were pretty much mandatory in 1940. ::)
     
  11. SportsDude

    SportsDude Active Member

    "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
     
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