Worst ending ever? Probaably a tie between Jaws 4, (the shark’s head coming out of the water & roaring like a lion was bad enough but the way they kill it is even worse), and the 2001 Planet of the Apes where Marky Mark is back on Earth in front of the statue of Ape-raham Lincoln.
Chestnuts roasted by Larry @ 08/19/2010 3:12 PM
This was a very hard topic but I got a few.
“Eyes Wide Shut”: I know the movie as a whole is dark and twisted but I’m not really crazy about the fact that the last word spoken in that movie was “fuck.” It’s also bland to know that the last word spoken in the last movie that Stanley Kubrick ever directed.
“13 Going on 30″: This was more confusing than just plain bad. Okay, so the Jennifer Garner character goes back to her 13-year old self, sees the boy who’s been her best friend that she lost when she became 30, they run up the stairs and open the door to the basement and presto, they’re back to their 30-year old selves. It almost makes you wonder if they lived those 17 years and turned out to be the same people they were the first time they were 30 or if it fast-forwarded their lives 17 years.
I’m also not crazy about the ending to “The Terminal.” I mean, he spends all that time in the airport waiting for his documents to become legal so he can leave the country and ends up leaving anyway even after the document that did make him legal to enter the US wasn’t signed and therefore, what he was doing was illegal anyway. Then what happens? He goes to a jazzclub to get a signature, gets into a cab and heads right back to the airport. If that was all he wanted to go, he could have just done that on the first day he was in country. Of course, then there wouldn’t have been a movie.
Chestnuts roasted by BJ @ 08/19/2010 3:16 PM
@King JLA: When I realized that the second DVD wasn’t extras but the other half of the movie I stopped watching. I mean, who does that?
Chestnuts roasted by Scott @ 08/19/2010 3:21 PM
Ugh.Avatar.The movie was OK,but the ending was way to open.Wouldn’t the military probably just come back in greater numbers?They won the battle,but probably not the war.
Chestnuts roasted by Cat @ 08/19/2010 3:46 PM
Well, since a lot of people have come on here and complained about a lot of movies I actully liked (Halloween 2, Blair Witch Project,Eyes Wide Shut) it’s my turn to be blasphemous.
Not only is Fight Club my LEAST favorite movie of all time, it also has the most perdictable, overwrought ending I have ever seen. I mean, how could you NOT know that was coming?
Chestnuts roasted by Lottie_of_Millhaven @ 08/19/2010 3:50 PM
Man I can’t help but keep thinking about Amy’s situation right now.
Everyone here mentioned some great ones.. The original NOES pisses me off a bit because it’s a stupid ending and one that New Line forced upon Wes Craven.
The one that REALLY made me mad: Halloween Resurrection. Kung Fu Busta Rhymes whipping Michael Myers’ ass is the worst ending to a movie… ever.
Chestnuts roasted by MessiahRp @ 08/19/2010 3:58 PM
Watched a movie, Chloe. It was supposedly about a woman who thinks Dark Man is cheating on her, so hse hires a hooker to seduce him. Bad enough, i know. But the ending(spoiler alert….) was poor. The stripper falls for Special Agent Starling #2, they have girl sex, then then the hooker is dumped. She gets weird, stalks everyone, has sex with the son, and then somehow gets pushed out the window and dies. Final scene is the lady from Boogie Nights with the hooker’s hair pin in her hair. I didn’t get it.
Chestnuts roasted by FItz @ 08/19/2010 4:00 PM
yelinna: You should see Down With Love. It’s a romantic comedy, but amazingly enough it’s actually funny and not just cheesy. It’s also clever- one of the few in the genre that can boast that.
Chestnuts roasted by Cheetara @ 08/19/2010 4:03 PM
Teddy Ray: I honestly think Donnie Darko is one of the most incredible movies ever made! I didn’t understand the ending at first either, but it’s one of those movies you NEED to watch a few times at LEAST just to understand it. Give it another shot, it’s honestly a great film when you understand it. It MAKES you think, that’s for sure. lol. Also, look up something called the philosophy of time travel. It will help you understand the ending, as well as the movie as a whole MUCH better. If you STILL don’t understand even after all that, then type in Donnie Darko ending explained and that will answer all your questions for sure.
Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 08/19/2010 4:16 PM
Speaking of rappers in horror movies, could we consider all of Leprechaun in the Hood to be the worst ending ever?
Chestnuts roasted by Scott @ 08/19/2010 4:29 PM
@ Scott: I consider ‘Leprechaun in the Hood’ as the complete bastardization of the series, which was good up until they went into space. Anytime an alien-woman shows her tits as a “warning of death” is where a movie series can get no better
Chestnuts roasted by Kyle_GTO @ 08/19/2010 5:03 PM
Jaclyn
I’ve not read it, but Bridge to Teribithia is a well known children’s book that deals with loss, etc. Having the girl NOT die would fundamentally change the story. It wouldn’t have the same impact an meaning.
Is it sad, and even shocking? Yes. But it’s necessary.
Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 08/19/2010 5:19 PM
I’m sorry, the ending to Donnie Darko is still stupid after reading all of the info available. I feel like when they got to the end, the writers decided that the movie had to end in the most emo way possible. Don’t get me wrong, as I liked the movie, but goddamn is it annoying that the thing has become Citizen Kane for a legion of Hot Topic aficionados.
Chestnuts roasted by Adam @ 08/19/2010 5:22 PM
I forgot about The last american virgin.
You guys are right, terrible, terrible ending.
The Mist is still worse though.
How about “The last American Mist”?
LOL
Chestnuts roasted by Razzy the Cat @ 08/19/2010 5:26 PM
Adam: I’m not part of that crowd. I like it because I honestly think it’s that good. Not because I want to go along with a certain crowd. Can’t speak for anyone else though.
Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 08/19/2010 5:28 PM
JurASSic Park 3.. – so, it’s going along, things get nuts, then somebody realizes, “Oh, wait.. we’ve got cell phones!” – They call for help then minutes later the National Guard or something shows up and picks them up off the island.. – what a cheap ending
Yet again, some solid entries, X-Ers.
Let me ditto: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. “No need to see what happened. We’ll just cut away for awhile.” WHAT?!
I think the BLAIR WITCH ending was approriate. A bit “artsy” but then again, I’ve only seen it once.
Totally agree with the JURASSIC PARK, DEAD POETS SOCIETY and TIME BANDITS comments.
But the WORST movie ending is DESPERADO. How did he escape the inescapable? I don’t know and neither does anyone else because WE ARE NOT SHOWN.
The old SIMPSONS line from Charlie, “Well sir [Mr. Burns], we won’t bore you with the details of our miraculous escape.” Cheap.
Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 08/19/2010 6:13 PM
Ohhhh I thought of another one. Paranormal Activity. Loved the entire movie, and then the cheesy last scene (like, literally, the last two seconds of the movie) of the body being thrown toward the camera had to ruin it!
Chestnuts roasted by Stephanie @ 08/19/2010 6:42 PM
Well. There’s Three Wishes. The movie had such an incredibly bad ending but because it was also built within a framing device it had another bad ending afterward.
Also, I still feel Dungeons and Dragons was one of if not the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Of course I’ve seen much worse but I can forgive them considering their budgets, target audiences, etc. D&D though, no excuse. And the ending sure as heck didn’t help.
Chestnuts roasted by Lucky Mesmer @ 08/19/2010 7:04 PM
The Manimal. I realize now you were referring to Jurassic Park 3. That’s an acceptable addition to a bad ending list.
If you had meant the first Jurassic Park I would hunt you down and eat you. Because I don’t want to be fed, I want to hunt.
Chestnuts roasted by Lucky Mesmer @ 08/19/2010 7:08 PM
Yeah I didn’t like the marines showing up randomly at the end, I mean they had already done it. All we needed was some type of rescue copter or boat not all those marines.
no country for old men. but don’t get me wrong the movie as a whole is excellent… except the ending. i thought it ended without anything being resolved or coming full circle. but i will agree that as far as WTF endings go donnie darko takes the cake!
Chestnuts roasted by ogre @ 08/19/2010 7:14 PM
I didn’t really think the ending to Donnie Darko was all that confusing. What I do find confusing is how a movie can be so good on a complete fluke. After watching the director’s cut I’m of the honest opinion that Richard Kelly tripped over a basketball and tumbled for a lengthy amount of a time in an exact way that would cause him to accidentally film a movie before he fell on his face. I think Jake Gyllenhaal might have had a fever on set that gave him delusions of being a real actor. He’s been healthy since.
Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 08/19/2010 7:46 PM
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