The most obviously tacked-on movie endings ever (Spoiler tags).

nkarafo

nkarafo

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Just finished watching 10 Cloverfield Lane and, wow... i don't remember the last time i have seen such an afterthought ending in any movie. I'm 100% sure the movie originally ended
at the scene where the protagonist sees the alien ship and realizes what's going on
. That would be a great ending.

But then, some exec decided that instead of the credits, they should
drag the whole thing into a pointless action sci-fi scene that had nothing to do with the rest of the movie i just watched. And then end it in a Walking Dead survival style or something
. In fact, as i was watching that final part, i almost forgot about what movie i was watching in the first place.

Is there any movie that has a worst case of "this ending doesn't belong in that movie"?
 
Lord of the Rings Return of the King: The thread.

When I had to piss so bad my kidneys were about to explode a la Grandpa Simpson and thought "thank God it's over!"










Then another 30-40(?) minutes happened.It just kept going with stuff that felt unnecessary.
 
Most Recently....

The Witch.

The most retroactively damaging ending I've seen in a while. Just made the entire slog of the movie I watched altogether more uninteresting.

Another one is Looper

Well....the entirety of movie was a mess, but the last half was really just icing on the cake of an already bad movie. It turns the stupid up to 11 at the end.
 
I didn't have a problem with 10 Cloverfield Lane's ending. I agree that seeing the ship was just as good an ending, but the extra parts didn't feel tacked on to me.

It's an interesting franchise for sure. If they do a third film I'm wondering what style it will take.

But yeah ROTK. "Hey I heard you liked endings, so we put an ending in your ending and....." etc.
 
sikkinixx said:
Lord of the Rings Return of the King: The thread.

When I had to piss so bad my kidneys were about to explode a la Grandpa Simpson and thought "thank God it's over!"




Then another 30-40(?) minutes happened.It just kept going with stuff that felt unnecessary.
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Good for you that they didn't include the Scouring of The Shire then.
 
joe2187 said:
Most Recently....

The Witch.

The most retroactively damaging ending I've seen in a while. Just made the entire slog of the movie I watched altogether more uninteresting.

Another one is Looper

Well....the entirety of movie was a mess, but the last half was really just icing on the cake of an already bad movie. It turns the stupid up to 11 at the end.
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What? That ending is the whole point of the movie. The Witch isn't about
a family being terrorized by a witch, it's about how and why girls becomes one.
 
The problem with that is
10 Cloverfield didn't create enough doubt that Goodman's character was lying, mostly because of the woman with the melting skin desperately trying to break in. You could guess that maybe Emmet had gotten fooled by Goodman's character (forgot the name, Howard?) into getting in the bunker, but the movie was trying to sow doubt about whether he had just kidnapped Winstead's character for his own sick purposes and was lying to keep her there, or whether kidnapping Winstead was just so he could have someone to be with right after he learned of the alien attack.

There needed to be something in there to cast doubt on the infected woman, something that would make them think Goodman's character had hired her to come by in movie makeup and make a scene to convince Winstead's character to stay. Without that doubt you can't just go with the ending the OP suggested. I kind of agree the action sequence was a little forced, but they had to put something in there other than "welp, aliens after all," because the infected woman was right there.
 
Judge Dredd (1995)

Despite Rob Schneider's character being very obviously killed off right before the ending, there are some quick, awkward cuts afterward that show him alive in a gurney, making a few more lame jokes. What makes this blatant reshoot footage all the more glaring is that neither Dredd nor Hershey acknowledge him at all during the ending, despite him being a few feet away on the top of the steps.

https://youtu.be/kcD_lHIEGxo

Just...why?
 
F4NT4STIC Four -
The group deciding on their name. Not only does it do the cliche "Wait, what did you just say"/"Say that again..." bit, but there is absolutely zero energy from the group in that scene. I would not be shocked to find out it was written on the day of while they were doing the reshoots.

Suicide Squad -
Deadshot getting to spend time with his daughter and Flag showing him a modicum of respect was well done. But the wrap-up for the other characters was poor. Boomerang just yells, Croc has BET (Eugh), and Harley gets her Expresso machine. Then Joker storms to rescue her. Even if there was a more abusive aspect to their relationship that was cut out, nothing about them works in the movie. She didn't decide to leave him, the helicopter was shot down. She thought he died. It wasn't like she chose the team over him. So then he comes to get her (again) as some big end of movie tease, but it just feels tacked on so a popular character can close out the movie. The movie should have just closed out with Deadshot or Waller.

War of the Worlds -
The son surviving and the whole family waiting at the end. Microbes being what stops the aliens at the end didn't bother me. What bothered me is that the son somehow survived and was sitting pretty with the family. And they're all just chilling in the house like nothing is happening. One dude was in a sweater vest or some shit. It's just way too hard to swallow. It felt like a focus tested happy ending that they decided to go with.

10 Cloverfield Lane - I liked the ending. But I'll agree it felt tacked on.
 
sikkinixx said:
Lord of the Rings Return of the King: The thread.

When I had to piss so bad my kidneys were about to explode a la Grandpa Simpson and thought "thank God it's over!"










Then another 30-40(?) minutes happened.It just kept going with stuff that felt unnecessary.
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The ending could've been handled better, but when you're closing out an epic trilogy with a big cast it's important to give a sense of proper closure for everyone and everything. I don't think much if any of ROTK's ending was unnecessary.
 
nkarafo said:
But why? What more does that
action scene reveal except that "huh, aliens"?
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10 Cloverfield Lane Spoilers:
It shows she's done running away from things. It goes something like this, (maybe) abusive boyfriend, she runs, majorly abusive captor, she fights back, but she runs, freaking aliens, she fights like hell, but then, does not run, she choose to join the fight.

Something to that effect.
 
And I'm in agreement with the OP on 10 Cloverfield Lane. I dont really have a problem with
aliens
being the actual cause of what happened, but the execution was a jarring change of tone, complete with the line "Oh, C'mon", which told me that I wasnt supposed to take any of it seriously.
 
supermarioworldE said:
Judge Dredd (1995)

Despite Rob Schneider's character being very obviously killed off right before the ending, there are some quick, awkward cuts afterward that show him alive in a gurney, making a few more lame jokes. What makes this blatant reshoot footage all the more glaring is that neither Dredd nor Hershey acknowledge him at all during the ending, despite him being a few feet away on the top of the steps.

https://youtu.be/kcD_lHIEGxo

Just...why?
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I knew you'd say that.
 
obin_gam said:
What? That ending is the whole point of the movie. The Witch isn't about
a family being terrorized by a witch, it's about how and why girls becomes one.
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The fact that
witch is something that is right out of a loony toons cartoon sketch, complete with flying on a fucking broom. The whole talking goat is satan part....leaves nothing to the imagination. They couldn't even come up with their own idea for the witch or the abilities. Watching them float around a campfire at the end while giggling like idiots broke all the tension the movie created, after hearing the goat speak broke all the immersion created by those two little brats, which was genuine...until it actually started speaking. It was nonsense and banal.
 
Paganmoon said:
10 Cloverfield Lane Spoilers:
It shows she's done running away from things. It goes something like this, (maybe) abusive boyfriend, she runs, majorly abusive captor, she fights back, but she runs, freaking aliens, she fights like hell, but then, does not run, she choose to join the fight.

Something to that effect.
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This could've been done differently.
 
joe2187 said:
The fact that
witch is something that is right out of a loony toons cartoon sketch, complete with flying on a fucking broom. The whole talking goat is satan part....leaves nothing to the imagination. They couldn't even come up with their own idea for the witch or the abilities. Watching them float around a campfire at the end while giggling like idiots broke all the tension the movie created, after hearing the goat speak broke all the immersion created by those two little brats, which was genuine...until it actually started speaking. It was nonsense and banal.
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I don't have an issue with the idea of what happened, but the execution wasn't great. Especially that absolute last scene for sure.
 
I liked the endings of both Cloverfield, ROTK, and the Witch. None of those were tacked on to me.
 
fr0st said:
This could've been done differently.
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Yes it could've. But it didn't feel tacked on (to me), you could argue it was a bad ending (I'd again disagree though :)), but not tacked on, as in they changed the ending after the fact or something.

Well, I guess you could argue that as well, but I don't see anything to suggest it was.
 
Morat said:
Sunshine. The entire last third of the film is an insult.
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As much as I love the first 2/3rds of Sunshine, I've actually grown to really enjoy the last 1/3rd over the years. Yeah, it's a huge genre shift but I think it's pretty well done even if it is jarring the first time you watch it.
 
Booser said:
I thought that was pretty obvious?
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I honestly didn't know that. A friend suggested the movie to me because i liked movies about abductions and such. I thought Cloverfield is just a name. I mean.... English is not my native language but couldn't it just be a field of clovers?
 
joe2187 said:
The fact that
witch is something that is right out of a loony toons cartoon sketch, complete with flying on a fucking broom. The whole talking goat is satan part....leaves nothing to the imagination. They couldn't even come up with their own idea for the witch or the abilities. Watching them float around a campfire at the end while giggling like idiots broke all the tension the movie created, after hearing the goat speak broke all the immersion created by those two little brats, which was genuine...until it actually started speaking. It was nonsense and banal.
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I liked the devils reasonable offer. I liked the framing of the absolute final shot. Her walking into the woods after the goat would have been enough though.
 
The literal last minute of Cloverfield Lane was pretty shit and eye-rolly, but I had no issue with anything leading up to it, nor did it feel tacked on. They did a pretty good job of
Chekov's Gunning the alien fight right from the beginning.
 
Stinkles said:
I liked the devils reasonable offer. I liked the framing of the absolute final shot. Her walking into the woods after the goat would have been enough though.
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It would have been a hundred times better with a one sided conversation with the goat, only hearing her....and then walking into the woods with the goat by herself.

Since the goat was shown to be antagonistic, it would have been up to the audience to wonder if what happened was real or part of her delusions.
 
Paganmoon said:
Well, I guess you could argue that as well, but I don't see anything to suggest it was.
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I thought that the whole point of the movie was to figure out what's going on outside the bunker and what Goodman's character is hiding. So in the end, we finally see what's going on. Every answer was given. But then it
drags on to an action scene that felt completely pointless (to me)...
That was exactly how my friends who watched the movie with me felt btw.

Your take on the main character's development does make some sense but i think they should have done it differently.
 
I watched a movie last night that I feel OP would really like the ending of based on this thread, but unfortunately naming it in context of this discussion would probably spoil it, or at least ruin the effect. What a conundrum.

It's on Netflix US and came out within the last few years.... so just watch everything?

edit: And for what it's worth, I thought the ending of The Mist was really poorly done.
I thought they gave up way too easily in the face of assumed danger. The idea was fine, but it needed to be handled differently.
 
joe2187 said:
The fact that
witch is something that is right out of a loony toons cartoon sketch, complete with flying on a fucking broom. The whole talking goat is satan part....leaves nothing to the imagination. They couldn't even come up with their own idea for the witch or the abilities. Watching them float around a campfire at the end while giggling like idiots broke all the tension the movie created, after hearing the goat speak broke all the immersion created by those two little brats, which was genuine...until it actually started speaking. It was nonsense and banal.
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I liked that everything was
completely literal to the folk-tale legends. I can (thirdly) agree with that the ending shot could have cut to black a tiny bit sooner. Like with all the women around the bofire.
 
louiedog said:
I watched a movie last night that I feel OP would really like the ending of based on this thread, but unfortunately naming it in context of this discussion would probably spoil it, or at least ruin the effect. What a conundrum.

It's on Netflix US and came out within the last few years.... so just watch everything?

edit: And for what it's worth, I thought the ending of The Mist was really poorly done.
I thought they gave up way too easily in the face of assumed danger. The idea was fine, but it needed to be handled differently.
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I agree about the Mist as well. Although i didn't feel it was a tacky ending. Just a really stupid one.
All four, supposedly reasonable people in the car agreed to kill themselves and nobody thought it might be a bad idea, nobody was scared to do it, nobody tried to suggest something else, etc

Also, could you post the movie you are talking about in a spoiler tag? My curiosity to know what movie is it is stronger than my will to watch it without spoiling it somehow. :P
 
nhlducks35 said:
Unbreakable
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The ending is great because it's the ultimate "Reality Ensues" moment.

Price thinks he has finally come into the comic book story he's wanted to be in. He is the archemesis to a hero who represents what he is not. He thinks it'll be a comic book relationship where they fight each other over and over. Instead Dunn just turns him in to the police. Incredibly uneventful that a text scroll is perfectly fine. Quite tragic.

Unbreakable is great.
 
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