Greatest Movie Ending?

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If your favorite is not listed, please reply with your choice.

[Lyric]

1. I had to pick Night of the Living Dead, because

that's the only movie on your list that I've actually seen. :hide:

[bertha katzenengel]

2. "I'm having an old friend for dinner."

*slurp*

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear bob_weaver...

You listed one of my all-time favorite movies!

The Shawshank Redemption!

Oh, that ending gives me goosebumps!

Hell, let's face it......the whole movie does...

:woohoo: :woohoo:

[BlueIris]

4. Alright, it's close, but for me it's still the end of "The Usual Suspects."

[Fleshdancer]

6. I second that n/t

[LibraLiz1973]

35. I third that

From the list given I voted for Shawshank... but the end of The Usual Suspects was KICK ASS

[wildhorses]

5. thelma and louise/butch cassidy and the sundance kid

:bounce::bounce:

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Which 'Body Snatchers' ending?

There were two. The original had Dr. Bennell running through the streets screaming "YOU'RE NEXT! YOU'RE NEXT!" The studio then added a "happier" ending with him in hospital, trying to explain it all to a couple of doctors who think he's insane, when another doctor (or an intern) corroborates his story and they call the FBI.

Trivia: In the 1978 remake, Kevin McCarthy (Dr. Bennell) had a cameo, running through the streets of San Francisco screaming "THEY'RE COMING! THEY'RE COMING!" before he's struck by a car.

That one had a pretty good ending, too. :D

[BarenakedLady]

8. I like to make that noise

"Aaaaaagggggghhhhhhhhh"

eta: hard to type in written form

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. When?

:evilgrin:

[BarenakedLady]

11. Errrr

:spank: :spank: :spank: :spank:

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9. "You're next! You're next!"

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. That has to be the creepiest face made by an actor in the history of film. -nt

[cmkramer]

12. How about "Some Like It Hot"?

Jack Lemmon: "I can't marry you, Osgood."

Joe E. Brown: "That's okay."

Jack Lemmon: I don't love you."

Joe E. Brown: "That's okay."

Jack Lemmon: "I can never have children."

Joe E. Brown: "We'll adopt."

Jack Lemmon (pulling off his wig) "Oh, don't you understand! I'M A MAN!"

Joe E. Brown: "Well, nobody's perfect".

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17. I had that one on the list, but dropped it, because

I decided that was the greatest "closing line" of a film, and that deserves a poll of its own.

[Jade Fox]

39. Well, nobody's perfect, Bob!

:)

[cmkramer]

13. How about "Some Like It Hot"?

Jack Lemmon: "I can't marry you, Osgood."

Joe E. Brown: "That's okay."

Jack Lemmon: I don't love you."

Joe E. Brown: "That's okay."

Jack Lemmon: "I can never have children."

Joe E. Brown: "We'll adopt."

Jack Lemmon (pulling off his wig) "Oh, don't you understand! I'M A MAN!"

Joe E. Brown: "Well, nobody's perfect".

[Mr. Blonde]

15. Fight Club

The Pixies start playing, and the buildings come down. It's great.

[opiate69]

16. Sunset Boulevard...

"All right Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up,"

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19. This is all there is... there's nothing else.

[opiate69]

18. Or, The Usual Suspects...

[Lindsey]

21. It's not a "classic" and I know there are other endings that are

legendary, but the ending in Primal Fear blew me away.

[BlueIris]

23. I kinda liked the ending to "Primal Fear," too.

[jpgray]

20. This is just to say Au Hasard Balthazar is fucking awesome

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24. The first time I watched it, I was bummed out by it. But

it stayed in my mind a long time, and I watch it every once in a while just to appreciate the art of great filmmaking, even if I think the storyline is unrealistically harsh and brutal.

[jpgray]

25. It's a bit ridiculous how much Gerard gets away with in particular

But watching something like that and then seeing a new Hollywood action production is a real study in contrasts.

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28. I have known a few Gerards in my life, so I found his character realistic, although

in "real life" I think the law and/or society would catch up with him sooner or later. What I didn't like is that Marie kept going back to him over and over, especially near the end. I can't see too many young women being that foolish. But you never know, people do foolish things.

[jpgray]

30. I think the idea is she's digusted with her father, who keeps "making obligations for himself"

And Gerard makes absolutely zero obligations for himself. Her final disillusionment with that idea seems to come from her time spent with that miserly guy. Poor Jacques, though. :D

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31. What I got from that, is that she had a choice of who to be with, and she made the wrong

choice, and this made me think about choices I have made and will be making in my future.

[jpgray]

32. That's how I saw it at first too, but then someone I was with saw it another way

Which is what is so great about Bresson's style--he leaves room for people to bring a lot of themselves to the story. Have you seen Diary of a Country Priest? It's another sort of emotional snuff film, but it's great!

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33. Yes, I've seen "Diary of a Contry Priest," and "A Man Escaped"

and I thought they were both outstanding. I think my next Bresson film will be Pickpocket.

[datasuspect]

22. salo

razor, meet eye.

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26. Isn't that the beginning of "Un Chien Andalou?" Or does that happen in Salo?

I've never had the stomach to sit down and watch "Salo" so I don't know what its ending is.

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27. yes on the first question

and i was trying to remember if they cut the kids eye or sliced out his tongue in salo.

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29. I guess I don't really need to know... ...but thanks

[hellbound-liberal]

34. Has to be Shawshank Redemption though I liked the ending to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest too when

Chief, unwilling to leave McMurphy behind, suffocates his vegetable-like friend with a pillow. "I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me." He lifts a heavy marble hydrotherapy fountain and, hurling it through a barred window, escapes from the asylum. I also like the ending to An Officer and a Gentleman though I don't always like to admit it.

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36. What's not apparent in the movie but a major theme in the book is

the Chief's progress from paranoid schizophrenic at the beginning to sane and free-minded individual at the end of the book. The Chief is the narrator and his language gradually changes from insane to sane.

[bluethruandthru]

37. I loved the end of Officer and a Gentleman too!

Also Sixth Sense.

[racaulk]

38. The Color Purple

The ending makes me cry every single time, when Celie and Nettie are reunited. Damn fine movie!

:thumbsup:

[KitchenWitch]

44. Oh yeah!

That is a 3 box of tissue movie.

[NewJeffCT]

40. grr, so many votes for Shawshank

it's one of those movies that everybody tells me that I would love it, but every time it's on TV, it started 5-10-15 minutes ago... and, I'm one of those people that hates to miss the beginning of a good movie.

[Pale Blue Dot]

41. Shawshank rant. SPOILER ALERT.

I think that Shawshank has a very BAD ending, one that ruined what was one of the greatest suprises in movie history.

That's right, think about it: The scene it which we discover (LAST CHANCE, SPOILER AVOIDERS) that Tim Robbins escaped is NOT the end of the movie! This scene is followed by 20-30 slow-paced, boring, predictable minutes following Morgan Freeman's character. Will he commit suicide? (Duh... no) What's been left for him in the field? (duh... money... and let's make sure we film 10 friggin's minutes of this predictable discovery, OK?) Who's waiting for him when he follows the money? (Duh... Tim Robbins). All of this could have been wrapped up in 2 minutes, but it drags on and on and on.

In short, the ending of Shawshank is exactly what KEEPS it from being the all-time classic it should have been.

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42. Interesting... by the way, have you seen "A Man Escaped" (the "'Shawshank' of the 1950s?"

[pokerfan]

43. Titanic?

Not when the ship sank but when she dies and goes back as a ghost to join Jack and the other 1500 who perished.

[billyskank]

45. 'Ang on lads, I've got a great idea...

Michael Caine, "The Italian Job." :thumbsup: