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Once again, my suggestion is only an Honorable Mention at best. At first watch, I would nominate the Chris Hemsworth Action Film "Extraction" *Spoilers Below:* I know that this suggestion is somewhat moot considering that, according to IMDB there is a planned sequel starring Chris Hemsworth. But I felt the final, unfocused, shot of a man with the height and build of the lead actor watching over the boy as he emerged from a pool was meant to be symbolic of Hemsworth surviving in the boy's memory, reminding him that life was worth living. At the time of release, this seemed realistic considering the man took multiple shots, including a shot *through* the neck.
@@brokenfoxx Nothing is clear though which is why it’s still discussed today. There are strong implications that at least one of them is the Thing, but nothing definite. We do have the cinematographer who said he used eye light shadow to show who was thing. That would seem to indicate that Childs is the thing. But again, the movie intentionally leaves enough to our interpretation.
The ending for Inception was solved. I'll explain. Most people forget that the spinning top was originally Mal's totem. Cobb's true totem wasn't the top. His totem was his wedding ring. Throughout the movie you will see him wearing his ring whenever he's dreaming and without his ring when he was awake. It was so subtle that many people missed it. In the final scene he wasn't wearing his wedding ring which meant he was awake. You can check the movie yourself to confirm this. I'm still shocked so many people don't know this. I hope this comment gets the attention from a lot of Inception fans so people can people can finally find peace knowing 100% sure that he wasn't sleeping.
The ending of “No Country For Old Men” really surprised me when I first watched it. It’s one of the only movies I’ve seen where the villain wins, and the villain never meets the hero, and if I’m being honest, the only movie where I root for the villain. It definitely leaves an ambiguous taste in your mouth, but it’s a great movie and is one of the most compelling I’ve ever seen
All 3 main characters never really met each other until Moss is dead and Sheriff Bell arrives too late to save him. (yes Moss and Chigurh do shoot it out, but never really s each other, and later he's behind the door with the money when Bell returns to the room where Moss died.)
It's not at all ambiguous. Chigurh killed Mrs. Moss. That was the deal they struck. He checks the bottom of his boots when he leaves, that means he shot her and was looking for blood. Remember he moved his feet after giving Woody the 12g facial. He dislikes blood.
Without Spoilers, Here are the Top 20 Most Ambiguous Movie Endings of All Time 20. American Psycho 19. Oldboy (2003) 18. The Grey 17. Total Recall (1990) 16. Rosemary's Baby 15. Ex Machina 14. In Bruges 13. Prisoners 12. The Wrestler 11. The Shining 10. Enemy 09. Birdman 08. The Graduate 07. Donnie Darko 06. No Country for Old Men 05. K-PAX 04. Pan's Labyrinth 03. Inception 02. Taxi Driver 01. 2001: A Space Odyssey Honorable Mentions: Mulholland Drive Fight Club The Birds
interesting movie that self-destructs on ending :-S only good thing about it is: Oscar Isaac (but he's good in anything, he single-handedly made drivel like Mojave somewhat watchable).
@@thedarkcriminal1658 she pretends to like him. she used her A.I intelligence to get into the guy's head (emotionally) n pretend that they have a true connection n she is harmless. That was something her inventor (the drunk rich guy i forgot his name) tried to warn but yeah the guy was succesfully manipulated
2k1 is actually one of the most horrifying movies ive ever seen ive seen all manner of itense realistic gore from long pigs and terrifier to actually witnissing people die on two different occasions but theres something about 2k1 and the movie interstellar that just flat out fill me with terror and dread..i mean panic attack inducing screw me up for days after viewing type fear 2k1 is well deserving of the number one spot for ambiguity certainly but i tell you 2k1 is just mortifying
I know it's up to interpretation, but I think that Leo was awake at the end of the film. In every other scene where he saw his kids, he didn't see their faces, but in the final scene he actually sees their faces, and they are wearing slightly different clothes compared to previous scenes. Additionally, someone once pointed out how Leo actually has 2 ways to see if he's awake or not-his top and his wedding ring-and they explained that if you watch him check his wedding ring to know when he's awake.
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Shutter Islands' ending never ceases to amaze me. Martin Scorsese truly is a remarkable film maker. The way he can twist an ending so well, whilst leaving clues of the truth scattered throughout the film is nothing short of outstanding.
I always read that at the end of Taxi Driver, even though he lives and is hailed as a hero, the dark, insane side of Travis is still lurking inside of him and will set him off later.
I always thought that he got that dark side out of his system, and settled into his boring routine but with a new hero status. Got married, had two kids, but sometimes he still likes to talk with himself in front of the mirror.
@@makasete30 lmfao that’d be a great ending for Travis, but the disorienting sound and his eyes darting away from the mirror signify to me that he still has that mean streak in him.
I'm surprised that the original Blade Runner didn't even make an honorable mention. Is Deckard human or is he a Replicant? Not even the sequel answered this!
Actually, the ending in the book, "Fight Club," makes it very clear what happened. They basically chopped off the final chapter of the book when they made the film. (Other than that, they did an excellent job adapting it.) Some of you may wish to read the book, so I won't spoil the ending here. ;-)
Nolan told Michael Caine that if he’s in a scene then Dom is awake. The omission of John Carpenter’s The Thing is a travesty. Birdman’s end was a giant WTF was THAT - LOL Kubrick loved to mess with our minds. Excellent list despite The Thing
The ending of Titanic was quite ambiguous; Rose either died in her sleep like she promised Jack and was reunited with him in the ghost world with all the other victims of the disaster or she was just dreaming. I think she died and reunited with Jack
I always thought that Cobb did wake up from the dream state. There were some clues such as his kids being older and him not wearing his wedding ring. Also, Michael Caine confirmed that any scene he was in was not a dream.
The Birds 1963 is the creepiest,horrifying and interesting movie in all the time and this creepy Movie given us the interesting and cool ambiguos ending in the scene
Perfect timing for the commercial to hit. Just as they were talking about the spinning top on the table in Inception, it shows it just at the point it starts to wobble and the video cuts out at “we STILL wanna see if the top falls ov-“ and then commercial hits lol
@@brokenfoxx I don’t think 2049 ever confirmed if he was a human or replicant? It’s been a while since I last watched the movie, so I could’ve missed it.
@@StormX6 IIRC, Replicants have only a limited number of years before they become unstable, for one. And this second part is speculation on my part but I always gathered that since we know Rachel is a Replicant and she's the next step in evolution, as it would seem, then Deckard has to be human in order for Rachel to get pregnant. Otherwise, you have two anomalies coming together and that's just waaaaay too much of a reach. And if the dreams can be implanted for Replicants to dream, doesn't seem out of the question that a corporation trying to control/influence an individual could do the same for a human brain. I guess in my mind it was never something that was a question, but trying to articulate the why/how my brain came to such conclusions is a little more difficult, so I apologize if something doesn't make sense!
Deckard is a human. Why would someone bother to make a replicant weaker than any of the other and then put it under the job of hunting replicants? In that case, make someone like K, who was stronger and smarter (defeated Sapper Morton, a hulky bulky replicant played by Dave Bautista, and he only got a bit tired and some wounds, but still was alive enough to take a taste of a wormy garlicky soup. Yummy!). Also, that could explain why Dr. Ana Sterline, Rachel's and Deckard's daughter, has a compromised immune system and her mother died on childbirth. She is a hybrid. Her DNA is a bit messed up (not 100% compatible), so that gave her the condition she suffer.
@@u.g.3298 I think K's strength can be explained in that Replicants are probably more sturdy now? That's what I put in my head anyway; doesn't mean it's the case.
It actually is possible to know what happened to Rosemary after Rosemary's Baby ends as there is a sequel book that reveals it called "Son of Rosemary".
Village of the Damned (1995) is a good one. If you remember the aftermath of the explosion and the mother and her son David went and drove off to live somewhere else. It leaves the audience thinking, should David still be trusted?
I'll add Eddie and The Cruisers to the list. A lot of people say it means he's alive but we never really know if it's actually him...until the sequel that is.
A24"s got some really great ambiguous endings under their belt. Ex Machina, Enemy, The Lobster, First Reformed, The Lighthouse . I wish The Lobster, First Reformed, and The Lighthouse would've at least been honorable mentions.
Two things: Birdman-Super reality? What? The ending, to me, of The Graduate was definitely that they're thinking at first "Yeah! We stuck it to our parents!" but then reality sets in they're thinking about how public that whole scene was, so they can probably never go home again because of the shame they brought on their families, so if it doesn't work out, they're just on their own.
Tavis died from that shootout at the end of Taxi Driver. Everything that follows is too good to be true. He skated criminal charges and got thanked by Betsy and Iris's family. Nothing could go back to normal after all that, yet we're supposed to believe he went back to where he started at the beginning on the movie with everything else left behind him in the rear view mirror. That's him driving off into the afterlife because he's dead.
What about "Barton Fink" and "A Serious Man"? (Or was only one ambiguous ending from the Coens allowed? In that case, I understand why they were left out because "No Country For Old Men" has such an iconic third act.) There's also "Drive", "Lost In Translation", John Carpenter's "The Thing (1982)", both "Blade Runner" films, "Stalker", "Momento", "Shame", literally every Yorgos Lanthimos movie, "It Follows", "Nocturnal Animals", "Under The Skin", any Charlie Kaufman movie, "Zodiac", "Swiss Army Man", "Black Swan", "Mr. Nobody", "A History of Violence", "The Hunt (2012)", "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri", "Annihilation", "Children of Men", "Life (2015)", "Vanilla Sky", "A Scanner Darkly", "Once Upon A Time In America", "Spring", "American Beauty", "One Hour Photo", "Hardcore", "Monster's Ball", "Parallel", "Possessor", "Tenet", "Dead Ringers", "Raw", "The Midnight Meat Train", "The VVitch", "A Bigger Splash", either version of "Funny Games", "In Fabric", "Vivarium", "Manchester By The Sea", "eXistenZ", "A Clockwork Orange", "You're Next", "Watchmen", "The Departed", "Parasite", "Motherless Brooklyn", "Predestination", "Joker", "Avengers: Infinity War", "The Lighthouse", "Moonlight", "T2 Trainspotting", "Us", "Atomic Blonde", "The Shape of Water", "Sorry To Bother You", "The Double (2013)", "Moon", the "Cloverfield" franchise, "Brothers", "28 Weeks Later", "Biutiful", "12 Monkeys", "Revolutionary Road", "Burn After Reading", "They Live", "It Comes At Night", all Ari Aster films, "First Reformed", "The Voices (2014)", "Inherant Vice", "Pusher" franchise, "Phantasm" franchise, and movies mentioned in the video but not included like "Shutter Island", "Fight Club", and "Birdman".
What's ambiguous about You're Next, Midnight Meat Train, or Funny Games? And is the Raw you listed the French horror film from a couple years ago? That wasn't ambiguous either
Seems most of these endings can only be called ambiguous if you are determined to not accept the ending as presented. Ex Machina: Eva manipulates a simp into releasing her so she can go on to make humanity extinct. 2001: Dave Bowman is coached into becoming the next stage of human evolution, just like the aper creatures at the dawn of man. Fight Club: Project Mayhem destroys all credit records. Inception: The spinner wobbles, he's awake. No Country For Old Men: Chiggur kills her. The Shining: Jack joins the ghosts. The Graduate: They are awed by their own audacity, but are happy. Taxi Driver: A sick society makes a hero out of a freak. Etc etc.
The Inception ending was reality and not a dream. Michael Cain confirmed this. He said he asked Nolan which scenes were real and which were dreams because he was confused when he read the script. Nolan told him that every scene he was in were in reality. But Nolan still maintained that he meant the ending to be subject to personal interpretation. I personally believed that it was real. Cobb went through a lot of sh*t just to be reunited with his kids, so for that to be just a dream would have been awful imo.
Okay why is inception so difficult for people, the spinning top was not the main character's totem. The top was his wife's, the wedding ring is his totem
An ambiguous movie ending happens for 2 reasons. 1. They’re setting it up for a sequel. 2. The writer had NO CLUE where he/she was going with the story or what the message was.
*'Total Recall'* is a complete dream, as much as I hate to admit that, it 100% is Arnold reliving a memory. The biggest piece of evidence of this is that the film fades to white instead of black at the end, signifying birth or awakening.
I don't mind the spoilers for these endings although some I knew already About like Rosemary's Baby. I will say for The Wrestler I think he either jumped and had the heart attack mid fight or he got knocked out and died on the spot
2001:A space Odyssey 1968 is one of the best,awesome and incredible sci-fi movies ever in all the time in the history of Hollywood and is a masterpiece of Stanley Kubrick
The Dark Knight Rises ending of The Dark Knight Trilogy isn’t ambiguous, because Bruce Wayne survived and got to live a life with Selina Kyle while had fixed things beforehand, while John Blake took up the mantle.
It's been pretty established the Monolith in 2001 is an Alien device supposed to "teach" other species. In the end certain elements happen which are clearly a part of an evolution (thats the only reason to start in the stone-age with ape (like) creatures) they probably turn into humans. In the end we experience death AND new life (the baby) whatever it exactly portrays, probably a new star/nebula whatever... due human interaction most likely thats what the most mission is about i have no idea. So we have evlution of life, which is always the same, but on the next level. Basically it means nothing and everything
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How is Joker not mentioned?
Once again, my suggestion is only an Honorable Mention at best. At first watch, I would nominate the Chris Hemsworth Action Film "Extraction"
*Spoilers Below:*
I know that this suggestion is somewhat moot considering that, according to IMDB there is a planned sequel starring Chris Hemsworth. But I felt the final, unfocused, shot of a man with the height and build of the lead actor watching over the boy as he emerged from a pool was meant to be symbolic of Hemsworth surviving in the boy's memory, reminding him that life was worth living. At the time of release, this seemed realistic considering the man took multiple shots, including a shot *through* the neck.
The Thing (1982) ending is still being talked about to this day. A classic, indeed.
It's been revealed anyway, so there shouldn't be any ambiguity. There's multiple clues throughout.
@@brokenfoxx Nothing is clear though which is why it’s still discussed today. There are strong implications that at least one of them is the Thing, but nothing definite.
We do have the cinematographer who said he used eye light shadow to show who was thing. That would seem to indicate that Childs is the thing. But again, the movie intentionally leaves enough to our interpretation.
So what the black guy the thing or not? @@brokenfoxx
It was Childs. The black guy. He had no breath in the cold air while Kurt Russel looked like he was smoking.
you got that right, friend
The movie inception has a mind blowing ending.
The ending for Inception was solved. I'll explain. Most people forget that the spinning top was originally Mal's totem. Cobb's true totem wasn't the top. His totem was his wedding ring. Throughout the movie you will see him wearing his ring whenever he's dreaming and without his ring when he was awake. It was so subtle that many people missed it.
In the final scene he wasn't wearing his wedding ring which meant he was awake. You can check the movie yourself to confirm this. I'm still shocked so many people don't know this. I hope this comment gets the attention from a lot of Inception fans so people can people can finally find peace knowing 100% sure that he wasn't sleeping.
Mistery is also welcomed, so everybody wins with an uncertain ending
I'd give an honorable mention to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
The ending of “No Country For Old Men” really surprised me when I first watched it. It’s one of the only movies I’ve seen where the villain wins, and the villain never meets the hero, and if I’m being honest, the only movie where I root for the villain. It definitely leaves an ambiguous taste in your mouth, but it’s a great movie and is one of the most compelling I’ve ever seen
All 3 main characters never really met each other until Moss is dead and Sheriff Bell arrives too late to save him. (yes Moss and Chigurh do shoot it out, but never really s each other, and later he's behind the door with the money when Bell returns to the room where Moss died.)
@@joermnyc yep, exactly
great movie
@@amandaredd3057 yes it was indeed
It's not at all ambiguous. Chigurh killed Mrs. Moss. That was the deal they struck. He checks the bottom of his boots when he leaves, that means he shot her and was looking for blood. Remember he moved his feet after giving Woody the 12g facial. He dislikes blood.
It Follows deserves at LEAST an honorable mention.
The lack of "The Thing" is absolutely inexcusable.
agreed
Without Spoilers, Here are the Top 20 Most Ambiguous Movie Endings of All Time
20. American Psycho
19. Oldboy (2003)
18. The Grey
17. Total Recall (1990)
16. Rosemary's Baby
15. Ex Machina
14. In Bruges
13. Prisoners
12. The Wrestler
11. The Shining
10. Enemy
09. Birdman
08. The Graduate
07. Donnie Darko
06. No Country for Old Men
05. K-PAX
04. Pan's Labyrinth
03. Inception
02. Taxi Driver
01. 2001: A Space Odyssey
Honorable Mentions:
Mulholland Drive
Fight Club
The Birds
No Life of Pi. This is bs
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I never thought of Ex Machina as being ambiguous. I just assumed Caleb was left to die there and Ava went about a normal life as a human.
Agree. It's as straightforward as you say
Yep. If he were going to escape, it would have been made clear.
Ex Machina has one of the greatest endings ever! Not all too ambiguous.
yeah she literally manipulated a simp but that's not his fault she was pretty persuassive as a robot
interesting movie that self-destructs on ending :-S only good thing about it is: Oscar Isaac (but he's good in anything, he single-handedly made drivel like Mojave somewhat watchable).
I don't get it. Why didn't she take him with her? He liked her.
@@thedarkcriminal1658 Never trust the pretty ones
@@thedarkcriminal1658 she pretends to like him. she used her A.I intelligence to get into the guy's head (emotionally) n pretend that they have a true connection n she is harmless. That was something her inventor (the drunk rich guy i forgot his name) tried to warn but yeah the guy was succesfully manipulated
I don't feel that the ending of Ex Machina was unclear.
Agreed
ye it made sense
Everybody knew that 2001 : a space odyssey would be number one of the list
Everybody that skipped to the end, that is.
Bruh
2k1 is actually one of the most horrifying movies ive ever seen ive seen all manner of itense realistic gore from long pigs and terrifier to actually witnissing people die on two different occasions but theres something about 2k1 and the movie interstellar that just flat out fill me with terror and dread..i mean panic attack inducing screw me up for days after viewing type fear 2k1 is well deserving of the number one spot for ambiguity certainly but i tell you 2k1 is just mortifying
Rubbish film
@@hklegomaster Good joke.
I know it's up to interpretation, but I think that Leo was awake at the end of the film. In every other scene where he saw his kids, he didn't see their faces, but in the final scene he actually sees their faces, and they are wearing slightly different clothes compared to previous scenes. Additionally, someone once pointed out how Leo actually has 2 ways to see if he's awake or not-his top and his wedding ring-and they explained that if you watch him check his wedding ring to know when he's awake.
He checks with the spinning thing. If it stops spinning then he's awake and in the end it stops
Nolan told Michael Caine that if he is in a scene then Dom is awake. So, he is awake in the end
@@playnite2188 he did NOT stop - it wobbled a tiny bit
The top was never his totem anyway - it was Mal's
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Holy crap! You spent some serious time on this list. You've got more imagination and a better grasp of the cultural zeitgeist than 99 percent of the people who watch TH-cam.
Not only that, I couldn't find a single spelling error. I'm sure you know how rare THAT is in a TH-cam comments post, especially one of this length.
The ending of 'The Shining' was terrifying but impressive.
I get shivers when the camera zooms into the ballroom picture and he is just smiling with his psycho smile
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No. No it was not
@@rockwellmccloskey7981 what do ya mean? Wasn't this terrifying or impressive? What are you saying no to
@@jacktorrance9378 I'm saying it wasn't impressive and it wasn't terrifying. I thought that was obvious.
Shutter Islands' ending never ceases to amaze me. Martin Scorsese truly is a remarkable film maker. The way he can twist an ending so well, whilst leaving clues of the truth scattered throughout the film is nothing short of outstanding.
Yes! Thought it was going to be mentioned
Indeed
Definitely the first film that came to mind when I clicked on this
I always read that at the end of Taxi Driver, even though he lives and is hailed as a hero, the dark, insane side of Travis is still lurking inside of him and will set him off later.
I always thought that he got that dark side out of his system, and settled into his boring routine but with a new hero status. Got married, had two kids, but sometimes he still likes to talk with himself in front of the mirror.
@@makasete30 lmfao that’d be a great ending for Travis, but the disorienting sound and his eyes darting away from the mirror signify to me that he still has that mean streak in him.
It may be less insanity and more untreated PTSD from his time in Vietnam that leaves him unable to sleep at night. Lack of sleep impairs judgment.
Glad to see K-PAX getting a mention for once.
Guillermo del Toro's 'Pan's Labyrinth' won a few Oscars. I'm about to see that movie very soon. 🙂
fantastic movie
Ex Machina? It ended with Eva leaving Brendan Gleeson's boy trapped in that house. Not ambiguous.
The ending sucked anyway
I'm surprised that the original Blade Runner didn't even make an honorable mention. Is Deckard human or is he a Replicant? Not even the sequel answered this!
Actually, the ending in the book, "Fight Club," makes it very clear what happened. They basically chopped off the final chapter of the book when they made the film. (Other than that, they did an excellent job adapting it.)
Some of you may wish to read the book, so I won't spoil the ending here. ;-)
Nolan told Michael Caine that if he’s in a scene then Dom is awake.
The omission of John Carpenter’s The Thing is a travesty.
Birdman’s end was a giant WTF was THAT - LOL
Kubrick loved to mess with our minds.
Excellent list despite The Thing
Impressive endings from:
'2001: A Space Odyssey.'
'American Psycho.'
'Birdman '
'Inception.'
'Boogie Nights.'
1960's 'Psycho.'
1968's 'Planet of the Apes.'
1990's 'Total Recall.'
'Fight Club.'
Inception ended with Dom no longer caring whether it's a dream or not, and it isn't. Not ambiguous.
The ending of Titanic was quite ambiguous; Rose either died in her sleep like she promised Jack and was reunited with him in the ghost world with all the other victims of the disaster or she was just dreaming. I think she died and reunited with Jack
I always thought that Cobb did wake up from the dream state. There were some clues such as his kids being older and him not wearing his wedding ring. Also, Michael Caine confirmed that any scene he was in was not a dream.
Pan’s Labyrinth 2006 is the best,iconic and coolest fantasy movie ever in all the time and is a masterpiece of the director Guillerno Del Toro
I figured Joker would be on here
The 12 Monkeys ending was very ambiguous - literally the Insurance quote
Am I the only one who, at first, read it as ambitious instead of ambiguous?? 😂😂😂
The Birds 1963 is the creepiest,horrifying and interesting movie in all the time and this creepy Movie given us the interesting and cool ambiguos ending in the scene
The first time I watched it years ago, I was like "What?! What happened?" Now I love the ambiguous ending. Great slow burning classic!
2001 a space odessey is the weirdest movie i have ever seen still couldn't wrap my head around it
You should add time stamps, I think it would really help people
Just a bit of trivia: The Birds, originally a short story by Daphne Du Maurier, ends with no survivors, unlike the Hitchcock movie.
No love for Minority Report? This movie has one of the most ambiguous, mind-blowing endings.
You got me on it.
Was everything from Anderton's arrest just a dream while he was in Contention?
@@u.g.3298 I think it was a dream.
May I add an Iranian movie from 2011 called "A Separation." I saw the ending coming & yelled at the screen "NO! DON'T DO THIS TO US!"
Yeah, that's actually a better fit than some of the ones on the list.
@@ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom Thank you!
I haven't heard anyone mention K-PAX in ages. Really good to see it here! It's really a hidden gem.
About the spider...Hello, Pennywise!
With The Grey, IMO, it's irrelevant if Neeson's character wins against the wolf or not - he's going to be dead due to exposure anyhow
It's less about winning and more about taking the wolf with him
Perfect timing for the commercial to hit. Just as they were talking about the spinning top on the table in Inception, it shows it just at the point it starts to wobble and the video cuts out at “we STILL wanna see if the top falls ov-“ and then commercial hits lol
The ending to Blade Runner is super ambiguous, we will never know if Deckard is a replicant with fake dreams of unicorns.
Except 2049 pretty much came out and said Deckard is human, Rachel was the evolution of the Replicants
@@brokenfoxx I don’t think 2049 ever confirmed if he was a human or replicant? It’s been a while since I last watched the movie, so I could’ve missed it.
@@StormX6 IIRC, Replicants have only a limited number of years before they become unstable, for one. And this second part is speculation on my part but I always gathered that since we know Rachel is a Replicant and she's the next step in evolution, as it would seem, then Deckard has to be human in order for Rachel to get pregnant. Otherwise, you have two anomalies coming together and that's just waaaaay too much of a reach.
And if the dreams can be implanted for Replicants to dream, doesn't seem out of the question that a corporation trying to control/influence an individual could do the same for a human brain.
I guess in my mind it was never something that was a question, but trying to articulate the why/how my brain came to such conclusions is a little more difficult, so I apologize if something doesn't make sense!
Deckard is a human. Why would someone bother to make a replicant weaker than any of the other and then put it under the job of hunting replicants? In that case, make someone like K, who was stronger and smarter (defeated Sapper Morton, a hulky bulky replicant played by Dave Bautista, and he only got a bit tired and some wounds, but still was alive enough to take a taste of a wormy garlicky soup. Yummy!).
Also, that could explain why Dr. Ana Sterline, Rachel's and Deckard's daughter, has a compromised immune system and her mother died on childbirth. She is a hybrid. Her DNA is a bit messed up (not 100% compatible), so that gave her the condition she suffer.
@@u.g.3298 I think K's strength can be explained in that Replicants are probably more sturdy now? That's what I put in my head anyway; doesn't mean it's the case.
I love INCEPTION and the honorable mention of FIGHT CLUB!
Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! 5:09 Ex Machina was a cool movie to watch.
It actually is possible to know what happened to Rosemary after Rosemary's Baby ends as there is a sequel book that reveals it called "Son of Rosemary".
OMG That's a very big tarantula! At least it backed up away from him so it was more scared of him
Donnie darko's ending really screwed with my mind.
I can't with Jared Leto he is too good of an actor!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 "Reqrium a dream" messed me up for life
If inception isn’t number 1...
I’m disappointed
Village of the Damned (1995) is a good one.
If you remember the aftermath of the explosion and the mother and her son David went and drove off to live somewhere else.
It leaves the audience thinking, should David still be trusted?
2010 is underappreciated. It is able to act as a sequel and also stand alone. It gives some answers but creates more questions.
The no country for old men ending was amazing, so simple but it blew my mind
15:45 one of the producers confirmed long time ago it wasn't a dream
REALLY!?!?! Then there's so many questions...how did that guy give him rights to go back to the US for example.
Are we going to see more movie endings like these in future movies?
Looking forward to
I'll add Eddie and The Cruisers to the list. A lot of people say it means he's alive but we never really know if it's actually him...until the sequel that is.
...and I hope they never spoil the classic mystery by making a sequel.
@@theoriginalThud There is a sequel. Itʻs called "Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!" from 1989.
I agree the ending of that movie was terrifying and impressive
Inception’s ending was the first thing I thought of when I saw this video was now up
Nah, "Groundhog Day" (1993) is a much better & meaningful story ;-)
Dickaprio shouts too much xD
@@johnstriker480 Groundhog had an even straighter ending than Inception though.
Ambiguous endings >>> Happy endings
A24"s got some really great ambiguous endings under their belt. Ex Machina, Enemy, The Lobster, First Reformed, The Lighthouse . I wish The Lobster, First Reformed, and The Lighthouse would've at least been honorable mentions.
In the K-Pax books Prot is indeed an Alien. He is also Robert Porter, Prot needs to inhabit his body while on Earth.
Two things: Birdman-Super reality? What? The ending, to me, of The Graduate was definitely that they're thinking at first "Yeah! We stuck it to our parents!" but then reality sets in they're thinking about how public that whole scene was, so they can probably never go home again because of the shame they brought on their families, so if it doesn't work out, they're just on their own.
16:09 Okay then... the top's going to fall. He's not in a dream. Whenever you see Michael Caine, he's not dreaming. So there's your answer.
If a FILM has been out for over a year and you haven't seen it yet.. It's no longer a spoiler 😆
What a stupid thing to say.
Tavis died from that shootout at the end of Taxi Driver. Everything that follows is too good to be true. He skated criminal charges and got thanked by Betsy and Iris's family. Nothing could go back to normal after all that, yet we're supposed to believe he went back to where he started at the beginning on the movie with everything else left behind him in the rear view mirror. That's him driving off into the afterlife because he's dead.
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I like to think Ava cared enough not too hurt Caleb. But not as much as he'd hoped
What about "Barton Fink" and "A Serious Man"? (Or was only one ambiguous ending from the Coens allowed? In that case, I understand why they were left out because "No Country For Old Men" has such an iconic third act.) There's also "Drive", "Lost In Translation", John Carpenter's "The Thing (1982)", both "Blade Runner" films, "Stalker", "Momento", "Shame", literally every Yorgos Lanthimos movie, "It Follows", "Nocturnal Animals", "Under The Skin", any Charlie Kaufman movie, "Zodiac", "Swiss Army Man", "Black Swan", "Mr. Nobody", "A History of Violence", "The Hunt (2012)", "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri", "Annihilation", "Children of Men", "Life (2015)", "Vanilla Sky", "A Scanner Darkly", "Once Upon A Time In America", "Spring", "American Beauty", "One Hour Photo", "Hardcore", "Monster's Ball", "Parallel", "Possessor", "Tenet", "Dead Ringers", "Raw", "The Midnight Meat Train", "The VVitch", "A Bigger Splash", either version of "Funny Games", "In Fabric", "Vivarium", "Manchester By The Sea", "eXistenZ", "A Clockwork Orange", "You're Next", "Watchmen", "The Departed", "Parasite", "Motherless Brooklyn", "Predestination", "Joker", "Avengers: Infinity War", "The Lighthouse", "Moonlight", "T2 Trainspotting", "Us", "Atomic Blonde", "The Shape of Water", "Sorry To Bother You", "The Double (2013)", "Moon", the "Cloverfield" franchise, "Brothers", "28 Weeks Later", "Biutiful", "12 Monkeys", "Revolutionary Road", "Burn After Reading", "They Live", "It Comes At Night", all Ari Aster films, "First Reformed", "The Voices (2014)", "Inherant Vice", "Pusher" franchise, "Phantasm" franchise, and movies mentioned in the video but not included like "Shutter Island", "Fight Club", and "Birdman".
What's ambiguous about You're Next, Midnight Meat Train, or Funny Games? And is the Raw you listed the French horror film from a couple years ago? That wasn't ambiguous either
All of those 2001 A Space Odyssey questions are answered in the novels.
Liam obviously messed that wolf up but at this point he is left to die from his wounds.
The awkward silence on the bus was actually an accident.
Are you gonna tell me that the guy who tried to kill tony stark got with aunt may?!?!
You forgot End of Evangelion. The final scene is still widely debated to this day
Seems most of these endings can only be called ambiguous if you are determined to not accept the ending as presented. Ex Machina: Eva manipulates a simp into releasing her so she can go on to make humanity extinct. 2001: Dave Bowman is coached into becoming the next stage of human evolution, just like the aper creatures at the dawn of man. Fight Club: Project Mayhem destroys all credit records. Inception: The spinner wobbles, he's awake. No Country For Old Men: Chiggur kills her. The Shining: Jack joins the ghosts. The Graduate: They are awed by their own audacity, but are happy. Taxi Driver: A sick society makes a hero out of a freak. Etc etc.
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The Inception ending was reality and not a dream. Michael Cain confirmed this. He said he asked Nolan which scenes were real and which were dreams because he was confused when he read the script. Nolan told him that every scene he was in were in reality. But Nolan still maintained that he meant the ending to be subject to personal interpretation. I personally believed that it was real. Cobb went through a lot of sh*t just to be reunited with his kids, so for that to be just a dream would have been awful imo.
"Ma'am, we didn't find any boy." "Then he's still there." Does Friday the 13th count?
The Thing was a very unexpected Masterpiece. Should have won Best Picture. 🌹🌹🌹🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
I still can't wrap my head around American Psycho!? Amazing movie but still it leaves us with more questions then answers.
Okay why is inception so difficult for people, the spinning top was not the main character's totem. The top was his wife's, the wedding ring is his totem
Be happy for this moment, this moment is your life.
An ambiguous movie ending happens for 2 reasons.
1. They’re setting it up for a sequel.
2. The writer had NO CLUE where he/she was going with the story or what the message was.
*'Total Recall'* is a complete dream, as much as I hate to admit that, it 100% is Arnold reliving a memory. The biggest piece of evidence of this is that the film fades to white instead of black at the end, signifying birth or awakening.
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#1) The Monolith is nothing more than a bookmark for the next step in human evolution, a doorway.
Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver' is turning 45 this year.
Now make top 20 Amphibious movie endings
I don't mind the spoilers for these endings although some I knew already About like Rosemary's Baby. I will say for The Wrestler I think he either jumped and had the heart attack mid fight or he got knocked out and died on the spot
This is basically a combination of Top 10 movies with ambiguous endings and Another Top 10 movies with ambiguous endings.
2001:A space Odyssey 1968 is one of the best,awesome and incredible sci-fi movies ever in all the time in the history of Hollywood and is a masterpiece of Stanley Kubrick
'I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.'
we just gonna ignore Dark Knight Rises ??
The Dark Knight Rises ending of The Dark Knight Trilogy isn’t ambiguous, because Bruce Wayne survived and got to live a life with Selina Kyle while had fixed things beforehand, while John Blake took up the mantle.
In Inception, he only had a wedding ring in dreams, no wedding ring in reality. He had no ring on at the end.
It's been pretty established the Monolith in 2001 is an Alien device supposed to "teach" other species. In the end certain elements happen which are clearly a part of an evolution (thats the only reason to start in the stone-age with ape (like) creatures) they probably turn into humans. In the end we experience death AND new life (the baby) whatever it exactly portrays, probably a new star/nebula whatever... due human interaction most likely thats what the most mission is about i have no idea. So we have evlution of life, which is always the same, but on the next level.
Basically it means nothing and everything
No Midsommar?? That ending was insane.
The Total Recall director said because the film fades to white instead of black at the end it indicates that it is a dream.
People have already mentioned The Thing, but I'd like to bring up It Follows' omission as well.
Lol they really mentioned S. Darko 🤣🤣
Anyone else ever see these videos and think, Oh cool, but then don’t watch it because of spoilers lol?
Michael Kane confirmed every scene he was there in inception was reality, and hes in the end scene
CARLITO'S WAY!!! That ending could definitely be put on this list.
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