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Obviously, spoiler alert.
-Fight Club - Ed Norton kills Brad Pitt by shooting himself, he holds hands with Helena Bonham Carter, the buildings fall, "Where Is My Mind?" plays, the film shakes, and the penis flashes. Such a perfect ending it gives me shivers.
-Apocalypse Now - Sheen kills Brando with a machete, and the people sort of worship him, then all the swirling imagery and music...
-Reservoir Dogs - The best Mexican Standoff ever. Everyone ends up getting shot and killed except Mr. Pink. I love it.
-Adaptation - "Imagine me and you, I do..."
-The Butterfly Effect - Especially the director's cut ending. So bleak and depressing.
-The Godfather - Nothing needs to be said.
-Pi - One word: drill.
-Scarface - Talk about not going down without a fight.
-Lost In Translation - "Just like honey..."
-Kill Bill Vol. 2 - 'A.K.A. ...Mommy'
-Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb - "I CAN WALK!" and then "We'll meet again..."
-Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - A nice little bridgehanger.
Shawshank Redemption - The bait and switch. Andy Duphresne goes from suicidal to genius as he exposes Warden Norton and Captain Hadley and makes off to Mexico with the warden's money.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - I love this ending. Randall P. MacMurphy, who had brought life to a den of zombies was given a labotamy by the institute and turned into a zombie himself. The Chief, recognizing the tragedy in this, strangles his good friend to death and symbolically inherits his free spirit as illustrated by the water fountain escape that Macmurphy had tried earlier in the movie.
Caddyshack - "Hey everybody! We're all gonna get laid!"
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MitchCumstein wrote:
Shawshank Redemption - The bait and switch. Andy Duphresne goes from suicidal to genius as he exposes Warden Norton and Captain Hadley and makes off to Mexico with the warden's money.
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Monty Python's Life of Brian - "Always look on the bright side of life..."
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly - Tuco's cursing is cut off by the signature howl as Blondie rides away and the credits roll.
Fargo - the wood chipper.
The Usual Suspects - explaining is redundant.
Night of the Living Dead - very bleak! Certainly not what I expected the first time I saw it. "All right, Vince. Hit him in the head, right between the eyes."
-The Butterfly Effect - Especially the director's cut ending. So bleak and depressing.
when the movie ended my friends and i sat in silence for about a minute. it was pretty damn heavy. interesting how you arent fed something happy and joyous.
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Some of the ones I liked have been mentioned (The Usual Suspects, Reservoir Dogs and Adaptation are king amongst those), but of those unlisted:
Seven - The head in the box and the resulting decision by Pitt was pretty heavy.
The Sixth Sense - I didn't see this one coming.
Requiem For A Dream - Nothing but an apocolypse.
A Simple Plan - No good ending here, either.
Donnie Darko - Holy bejeezus, that ending plus that song...there were tears before bedtime.
I quite liked the ending to The Shawshank Redemption but I read the book many years before I saw the movie so I already had some idea of how things were going to pan out.
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I've said it before, but the ending of Gone With the Wind would have been one of the all-time best if it had ended right at the shot where Rhett was walking away, after replying to Scarlet with, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." That was like an event, that one line. Any film could have ended with, "After all, tomorrow is another day!" But had they ended that movie with that famous line, it would have ended originally and infamously. That's why I always stop it there when I watch the video.
As already mentioned, The Usual Suspects had an amazing ending.
Zeb said Se7en, which had a killer, killer ending, from the gut-wrenching moment when Morgan Freeman opens the box to the end, when Freeman says, "Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part." It was just perfect, after all of that torment of watching Brad Pitt grieve over his wife.
Also, Psycho's ending was unforgettable, and I know that was mentioned already too. That's a good one, I might not have remembered that, The Big So-So. Anthony Perkins' sinister smile and the whole idea of his split personality coming through his thoughts was amazing.
Clubber, thank you. "Yo Adrian! Adrian!" I could cry too...
And Casablanca, after Rick lets Ilsa go and says to Renault, "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
There are plenty more, I'm just drawing a blank for now.
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O Brother Where ARt Thou: All is right (happy ending o thier Oddessy). How else would you expect it to end?
Star Trek II : The Wrath of Kahn : So many classic lines I pick 2
as spock is dying to Kirk "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one..You have been and always shall be my friend."
Kirk reflecting after funeral "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
Also, Psycho's ending was unforgettable, and I know that was mentioned already too. That's a good one, I might not have remembered that, The Big So-So. Anthony Perkins' sinister smile and the whole idea of his split personality coming through his thoughts was amazing.
Yeah. The shot of him in the cell, when Hitchcock superimposes the skull of his mother overtop of his... ugh. Chilling.
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