Best Movie/Show Ending
Muddy
USA
Curious to see what your guys answers are. You wanna spoil it, fuck it spoil the fuck away.
A few of mine
Blade Runner (1982) It's just very cool to be continued type ending
Aguirre Wrath of God (1972) Some Werner Herzog film that was so weird, so different and ended bizarrely.
Rocky IV (1985) Just the best. Anytime for 'Merica I'm in.
And for shows. I haven't finished a ton of series (takes too fucking long) but The Sopranos ending I thought was great.
A few of mine
Blade Runner (1982) It's just very cool to be continued type ending
Aguirre Wrath of God (1972) Some Werner Herzog film that was so weird, so different and ended bizarrely.
Rocky IV (1985) Just the best. Anytime for 'Merica I'm in.
And for shows. I haven't finished a ton of series (takes too fucking long) but The Sopranos ending I thought was great.
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I loved the way it ended.
Blade Runner 2049 also has to be a true sci-fi geek’s (me) favorite. Great effects, performances and continues the original story in a creative and interesting way.
It’s vision of the future is cool too. It’s based on the future world created in the original, which has changed in reality (the world obviously won’t looked like that in 2049) but makes sense in the fictional vision of the future created in the 1982 original. Tricky.
Station 11, was excellent and had a very satisfying ending.
I also add Firefly/Serenity to the list because of its odd journey. Sci-fi series that was supposed to be a western in space. Series was originally broadcast on Fox and they fucked it up royally. They broadcast the episodes out of order when it didn’t initially take hold with audiences. They set up a pretty elaborate big picture storyline among the episodes and then it got canceled after one season with a lot of questions left open. It eventually caught on with fans through the dvd release and word spread online, plus the attention it got at Comic-Con and the like finally convinced them to make a movie that went to theaters. The movie very neatly tied up all the storylines and was pretty good on its own. Not easy to do. For example, Deadwood tried it and the movies were meh.
Also, The Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction and a very freaky movie told backwards in 5 minute increments, Memento.
The Shield, everyone gets poetic justice like a Greek tragedy.
Newhart series ending "Honey, you won't believe the dream I just had"
The Usual Suspects for movies.
such a disturbing movie needed such an ending
Otherwise, a terminally ill and fading fast White just happens to find the keys in the visor, drives to New Mexico in a stolen car without getting caught, Sets up his family financially by the people who cheated him, sets up the perfect remote control machine gun in the trunk of a car at just the right angles, rescues Jesse, and dies taking a bullet shielding Jesse.
Way too pat of an ending for this series. Nope, he died of cancer and hypothermia in the car in N.H. I am going to ignore Vince Gilligan and the El Camino movie. (Still enjoying Better call Saul though.)
The first is the ending of High Road to China when he and Bess Armstrong are about to share a kiss and he says, "I should have sold you (to an Afghani chieftain) when I had the chance!"
Second is the not quite ending of Quigley Down Under right after he has blown away the villain and two henchmen with a pistol. "I said I didn't have much use for one, not that I didn't know how to use one."
Fuckers!!!
(and GOT, watched the whole last season on a flight home from Bangkok... Expect for the last 30 minutes when I finally fell asleep, in pain from watching a @!%# screen for that long, heard the ending sucked, no one's actually explained it to me yet, but I just don't care anymore..)
Best I can remember recently is Don't Look Up.
Also Ferris Buehler and Shawshank Redemption.
Rogue One
Darth Vader goes on a rampage and the ending becomes the beginning of A New Hope
Most notably M.A.S.H. is still the greatest series finale I have ever seen. While I was too young to remember it when it first aired I have seen it numerous times over the years and each time is just as good as the first time. As the war ended the show gave each of the main characters a fitting conclusion to their stories and Hawkeye's time with the shrink talking about the the woman needing to keep her "chicken" quiet to prevent being found and killed by the enemy did a great job of showing how the horror of war can effect even the most upbeat people.
Cheers had perhaps the best, and simplest, final line of a series as Sam responded to a knock on the door with a simple "We're closed."
West Wing handled the transition from one Presidential administration to the next wonderfully.
ER managed to bring back most of it's major characters that had left through the years as part of a really good storyline centered around their longest tenured character. They even managed a good final scene that with an incoming mass casuality and Dr Carter calling out to Mark's daughter to ask "Dr. Greene, you comin'?"
And Mad Men. Ending with the fictional creation of the most iconic commercial of the era was brilliant and believable.
Se7en had a good ending too.
The Shield had a great ending! The only part I disliked was knowing the series was over.
If you haven’t enjoyed it yet - Pretty Peaches 2 has a great final scene! I think Hustler gave it several full erections!
Dr Strangelove (Happy endings are for stripclubs)
Evil Dead (Did you really think he would end up in medieval Spain where they speak English?)
No Country For Old Men (dark noir)
Blood Simple (just see it)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ozPvLxkKYM…
Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) “God’s lonely man” decides it's time to do something about Matthew “Sport” (Harvey Keitel) “the pimp” who pimps out 12-year-old “runaway hooker” Iris “Easy” Steensma (Jodie Foster).
Travis jumps into his cab, speeds over to the pimp's hangout, and shoots him at point blank range before walking over to the shady building/“hotel” where Iris takes all her clients.
When the creepy hotel “clerk” tries to stop him, Travis shoots off the man's fingers, then a not-yet-dead Sport walks in and puts a bullet in Travis' neck, the Vietnam veteran vigilante turn around and empties an entire gun into the pimp's body.
And when Sport's big-time Mafia boss blasts Travis in the shoulder, the taxi driver whips out a hidden gun and sends a lot of lead into the crime boss's face, who falls back pulling down the beaded curtain into Iris’s room.
The “clerk” tries to fight inside Iris’s room Travis pulls a knife taped to his boot and stabs him in the fingerless hand, and executes him with a shot to the head, despite terrorized 12-year-old Iris’s screaming and crying at Travis “don’t shoot him”.
Travis puts a pistol under his chin. But when the hammer comes down, there's nothing but a click. Travis is all out of bullets. Travis collapses on the couch.
The cops show up and find Travis, drenched in blood and smiling from ear to ear. The taxi driver puts his fingers to his head and mimes suicide, and that's when the camera pans out of the room, the overhead camera showing us all the carnage that Travis has wrought.
Well, after the shootout, the film jumps forward in time, and we see Travis' apartment. His wall is covered in newspaper clippings with headlines that read "Taxi Driver Battles Gangsters" and "Taxi Driver Hero to Recover." And as the camera pans across the room, we hear voiceover narration from Iris' dad reading a letter to Travis and thanking the man for rescuing his daughter. He even lets Travis know that Iris is back in school and "working hard."
Then, in the final few minutes of the film, Travis and Betsy (Cybill Shepherd) a Presidential hopeful campaign manager, who had rejected him before, reunite.
she actually seeks out a ride from him in his cab.
She climbs into the back of his cab and asks how he's doing. Travis doesn't have much to say, but after dropping her off, he doesn't let her pay for the ride. Instead, he just smiles and rides off into the darkness of New York City.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3GyInWVCxG…
I’m biased because it was loosely based on my life. Very loosely. My life is way dirtier. And I’m usually in an alcoholic fog. But I’m definitely the king of beasts. ROAR!!!
I also like the ending of Casablanca. They were going to shoot two endings, one where Ingrid Bergman stays with Bogart and one where she flies off with her husband and then pick the best one. After they filmed the first ending, they decided they liked it so much they wouldn't even film the other ending.