The knights were arrested out of the sudden in the last and final battle... by modern day police! I found this ending brilliantly hilarious. Very Monty Python style. Just crazy and brilliant at the same time.
Point of fact, it don't come out of nowhere, it's just that most people don't remember a Historian being randomly cut down by a passing knight on horseback early in the film.
If you have seen the Hong Kong original you would have know Leo's character was gona die.... just the director staying true to the original story /script
"Forrest Gump is a fairly happy film on paper"? What...!? Dad is nowhere to be seen, mom dies, best friend dies, is sent to a war, a girl he constantly wants to be with sprints away first chance she gets to do drugs and naked singing, finds out he has a son and missed out first few years of his life and that is not including her eventual death at all. It is not a happy movie.
I always wondered if Jenny died from Aids, does that mean there is a chance Gump has aids too? Thinking that if she had aids from the time when she is up on the balcony and into drug and sex, then had sex with Gump, got him infected, had a boy got cleaned up, and dies. Wouldn't that make her at least 6 years ahead of Gump in the Aids countdown? uber sad ending..
Jenny Gump's death was in keeping with her story though. The film's narrative for Jenny was how her abusive upbringing led to a domino effect of sorts in her tragic life.
She's a direct foil to Forrest--she has a shitty life that only gets shittier while luck and success come to Forrest Gump without him ever actually trying or knowing full well what he was getting himself into. It's two different stories of life landing things in your lap.
@@DUxMORTEM And it doesn't come out of nowhere. The historian is killed by a knight on horseback, and they cut back to the police investigation several times as the film goes on.
Or they ran out of money to shoot a proper ending? In the script book, where they had some alternate versions of the film, they had two other endings, both of which were better. My favorite of the two was the storm the castle, big battle, only Arthur and Bedivere survive. As the ride up to Camelot, Arthur says to Bedivere to show them the grail. Beidvere looks at Arthur and says "I thought you had it." Much better ending.
a big chunk of the issue goes to the marketing for that movie. They sold it as american narnia. If they sold it as a growing up story with some imaginition elements it'd probably have been less terrible.
I'd been out sick when they read this so I was sent to the library to read it during class. I read a little and then just kinda flipped through the rest and looked at the end and after a few minutes thinking "what the hell kind of ending is that?" I concluded I was just as glad I'd been out sick and there was no point reading the chunk in the middle.
I thought it was a good film. All of the characters were likable, and the conflict within didn't feel forced. As for it coming out of nowhere, I noticed on a second watch that it said the dates leading up to 9/11 on the chalkboard each time a scene took place in his sisters classroom.
@@KBROCK3R Extraordinarily, I knew it was a 9/11 related movie in the scene where Robert was talking to Pierce in his office. The windows were distinct. The structure was unique/obvious to me.
I remember her mother killed at station 1991 then it said 10 years later... I didn’t clue in. Usually I’m sharp with details involving numbers but not that time.
My brother went to see Titanic when it came out... sat behind two teenage girls... after the movie ended the girls stood up and said, "If I'd known the boat was gonna sink I'd never have paid to see this..." TRUE STORY!
James Kelly - Thanks for giving me the credit, but I'm dead serious about this ... NOT FAKE NEWS... my brother still tells the story to this day whenever we go see a movie :)
I disagree with Marley and Me. When you accept a pet into your family you accept that one day they will die after giving you a lifetime of love and companship. The story arc is about the dog and that's the only way the arc can end. He's a puppy, gets adopted, becomes part of a new family, and passes on. The movie is about that, the good times and the bad.
I agree, but they should have made a little more cheer up ending scene, like someone bought them a new puppy who looks exactly the same as Marley, and the couple look at each other with the face of "oh-oh". That would be more satisfying to watch, for example :)
Yeah im sure all of the little kids begging their parents to see a cute movie about a dog with owen wilson and jennifer aniston went in anticipating an unwanted life lesson
My favorite of all time is in the "Night of the Living Dead". The dude lives through the zombie infested night only to be mistaken for a zombie by the rescuing forces and shot dead. Perfect antithesis to the traditional Hollywood ending.
I disagree with the Holy Grail! Actually, you see the police investigating in 2 or 3 previous scenes, after one of the Knights slit the throat of the Famous Historian. So, it's not that it came out of nowhere, you just never expected that subplot to be so important as to disrupt the main plot!
The Holy Grail actually only ended that way because they ran out of money. The original ending had them find the Grail in England's equivalent of a Walmart.
DarkRubberDucky watch the directors cut version.. it's all about the book that he gets from the science teacher. The directors cut has overlays on the screen from the book, and it basically explains what's going on.
Actually, the part where the old hag throws that giant diamond into the ocean pissed me off. Knowing the search crew were spending all that time and money looking for it.
D20asmr the mist had shit characters with shit writing and shit direction with a shit ending. everybody takes every opportunity to make every stupidest possible decision they can. you may indeed be able to varnish and polish a dried out petrified turd but that doesnt mean its not still a pile of shit.
Justin Friedman agreed. It's also about mob mentality. People burn cities to the ground when a sports team loses or wins. What would people do when society crumbles around them because of giant monsters? Probably act stupid
@@DJSethieSeth22 i concur. I was expecting a Lovecraftian type horror with degenerated beings killing and eating the protagonist and her companions and it turned into a girl fight.
Darius Thomson I disagree to an extent. I'd say that both versions are equally awesome and that the 1990 version improved on the original in terms of practical/special effects and that it went with the ending that Romero had originally wanted to use in the 1968 version of Night of the Living Dead
Yep, I remember it being made clear it was a huge tear jerker and never watched it because during the time it came out my family dog who was a part of the family longer than I was and who was older than me and 21 years old had just passed and I avoided it like the plague. Still haven't and probably never will watch it.
no fuckin' way it came out of nowhere, the people saw people brutally killed by monsters they now think have taken over the earth, and they are in a vehicle that just ran out of gas...the ending is brilliant and utterly organic and not forced. the only randomness is the army showing up right after the 'suicides'. But with no supplies and no gas, what were they supposed to do , sit there and wait to be saved and starve? go out with a couple of bullets and wander around in the mist?
+PorkFrog So it did come out of nowhere. You said the army arriving was random which is what makes the ending so utterly devastating and out of nowhere.
I remember being traumatized by the ending of Time Bandits as a kid. The boy survives his crazy adventures only to see his parents get killed at the end.
to be fair, his parents were pretty traumatic. but let me end your trauma. time bandits has a happy ending. sean connery fireman saves young chap along with his photos. one of which is of the kid with little chaps and the map. kid can now get back to ancient greek sean connery and resume his life as king. which is where he wanted to be.
Well... maybe. It's a little ambiguous but one could extrapolate that if the photo of the bandits holding the map is amongst the saved photos then... it's plausible that he could figure out some way of interpreting it and thus find and use time portals to travel again. Then again, it could be that the Supreme Being, on retaking possession of the map, closes up the time portals. Either way, I think Time Bandits should definitely been on this list.
There was more then enough room for him, Mythbusters proved it. Also he didn't die he just sank down and swam over to another single woman to score another goal. :D
@@meganwright9763 annihilation was amazing yes but life sucked. You knew exactly what had happened the moment one pod got hit and she was fighting with the controls.
The ending to The Departed. Come on, Billy didn't deserve to die! I get the good guy loses sometimes but every other good guy, by this time, was already dead. But then, Scorsese does something insane. He kills off everyone except the biggest asshole cop of all time, Dignam (but at least he's the angel of death for scumbag Colin Sullivan). I've never witnessed an ending leaving you so devastated. A masterpiece in movie making.
To be fair it didn't take me that long to realise it was garbage. Was kind of obvious when I woke up to the end credits, in a puddle of my own drool after having fallen asleep about 40 mins in.
Actually, Remember Me was supposed to be that way. It was based on the several journals and mementos found in the wreckage. Not any particular person story but the facts that in their writings their lives were normal and cut short out of nowhere. The 9/11 part was supposed to feel random and out of nowhere because that's how it happened in real life for the victims; there was no hidden clues or hinting at 9/11 for them, just their lives tragically cut short.
Yep! They sold it in the previews and commercials as a comedy. Then completely screwed everyone over by killing her best bud and making it completely and tragically awful.
It was tragic, but the movie did lay down some foundation for it. She had an unhealthy detachment from the reality of death, and was psychologically stunted because of it. He was a runt, allergic to everything, and really prone to die.
If you're watching the holy grail for the plot, then I really don't know what to say to you. Monty python's the holy grail is just a collection of mostly unrelated sketches. (remember the three headed man? Didn't move plot forward at all.) It was just a lot of ridiculous fun, and the ending fits into that perfectly.
The only reason the holy grail had that ending was that they ran out of money. So they shot the murder & cop scenes and the ending so they would have an ending.
Starlin Reese No, that was the original ending in the script they decided to go with at the beginning of filming. Also, it doesn't really make sense to hire a literal army of extras if you're running out of money. The costumes/props alone would have cost a small fortune. The ending was intended to be comically anti-climactic.
evidently Eric Idle [Brave Sir Robin] came up with that ending (as they had written themselves into a corner). According to him, his daughter has never forgiven him for it.
+Tam Kumi: No way...why would people spend all that time in the ocean when they could just fly to New York? Plus, they could have sued radar to find such a large iceberg. Not to mention that the ship was unsinkable...or did you miss that part in the movie???
What to said to your comment? Well..... 1. The sinking of the RMS Titanic was an real historical event that happened in 1912. More than half of the people on board died. 2. The title of "Unsinkable" was given to promote the vessel except that nobody (meaning the ship designers, builders and owner) wants to accept the responsibility of having saying it after the irony that the ship sunk on it "maiden" (1st) voyage. 3. This was in 1912, commercial air travel ain't what it is today. Most long distance flight then uses Airships also known as "Blimps", which is pretty much a big giant balloon with steering. 4. And radar was just invented a few years back but it unlikely to be very accurate or available for commercial use. ....and that it.
Bunny Nasty, yes. Stupid? Doubt that. The decision is very understandable to a man in despair. If you heard about "merciful death", you may not find it so stupid
Brazil - The protagonist escapes the torturer chamber, saves the girl, brings down the evil regime in a shootout and... then it cuts to him still restrained in the torture chair, with his torturers saying "his mind's gone." The end.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Bond marries the girl and retires to a happily ever after. Except no he doesn't because random drive-by shooting leaves teary Bond soliloquizing and fade to black. WTF
oh, of course. that makes it a logical and satisfying denouement to the story, fully foreshadowed and just a neat little bow on the whole festivities. thanks for clearing that up /sarcasm
The monty python one really doesn't fit in with the rest. it did "come out of nowhere" but it didn't really change the movie that much, the plot was already a paper thin vehicle for the jokes, which that scene fell pretty well in line with as far as the type of joke and the tone of the jokes. It certainly wasn't "devastating" like the emotional gut punches on most of the rest of the list.
Indeed. I'd say it was more of a brick joke. You do see them accidentally kill the historian (who exists outside of the sketch), and that's what they're arrested for. Brick jokes tend to work best when you completely forget when the brick was thrown, then it comes full circle and smacks you in the face.
Yeah, I've always found the Dawn of the Dead ending stupid ESPECIALLY as they are on a boat! Why not, you know, just float around and double check that the island isn't full of dead people?? Nope, let's just dock right away, it's probably fine
Dude Meister or anchor out a bit then swim to shore, that way there's always a getaway plan, the zombies can't swim, so just make sure it's deep enough that they can reach up.
Atonement's WTF ending was one of the greatest emotional gut-punches I've ever had while watching a movie. Seeing the happy ending that could have been beforehand -- and believing it to be true before the final reveal -- just makes it all the more devastating. And yet brilliant.
Just once I would like the crazy protagonist who believes some innocent person is really a terrorist / serial killer/ Nazi war criminal etc to be WRONG. There's never any real mystery in the film if he's always right.
Ricochete Raw 90s the best decade ever Point is it wasn't bad imo. It's not like the girl realizing she fked ip and dying 3 seconds later in Drag me to hell.
I agree. What was the point of building up the characters and the relationship she had with Clint Eastwood's character just for her to end like that. She could have been eaten by an alligator or killed in a tornado for that matter.
most of clints movies are fantastic. mystic river is amazing and so is Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil just to name a few. space cowboys was bad though.
Nkiruka J You should actually just watch Bridge to Terabithia. Don't spoil the ending for yourself. It's actually worth watching. But, avoid looking for the film on TH-cam. It IS there, but other clips will appear in the results, and their titles spoil the ending. Make sure you're in a light mood when you watch it. It will be best if you watch it while in an emotionally suscpetible state and you actually want to see it to know what it's about.
In the Forrest Gump book, Jenny dies of Hepatitis C, which was an unknown disease in 1981. Not AIDS. I don't get why so many people hate on her. She was a victim of child abuse and sexual abuse; the effects of those kinds of traumas can last for a long time without proper care, hence why she was so messed up for the majority of the movie. Also, as an explanation as to why she ran away from Forrest (before he starts his 3-year run across America), it's really common for people who aren't used to real love and care to lash out, or run, or reject affection. Because when Wrong becomes your "normal", then good things become "wrong". Anyway yeah, it was Hep C, and mother-to-child transmission occurs in less than 10% of pregnancies, so it's likely that Forrest Jr. is fine. Sexual transmission of Hepatitis C is also uncommon.
How do you know it was Hep C. Around that time HIV/AIDS was an epidemic and during that time it was an "unknown" virus. The same thing Jenny was told by the doctors. I also think there should be standalone movie based on Jenny.
yeah some of the things Jenny went through sucked but she also made a lot of terrible choices in life and Forrest tried for years to help her out and she treated him like shit for a majority of it up until the end where she knows she's dying and needs Forrest she basically dumps a baby on him
False. She dies of AIDS in the movie (Hep C wasn't even thought of at that date, known only as "not hepatitis hepatitis", even unsure if it was a viral issue, in the movie history, and AIDS was classified at that point as a virus) and "the book" that says Hep C doesn't come out until AFTER the movie, when the writer decided to derail Gump further. Hep C wasn't even known when the book was written, hep C was added in a sequel book written AFTER the movie - Gump and Co. (1981 AIDS epidemic panic trying to figure out if it's come to the US, 1982 Jenny dies, Book first edition 1986, naming of Hep C 1987, movie filmed 1993, sequel 1995.) Just as the movie doesn't show Forrest as a major stud in bed or an astronaut, they took liberties with Jenny and made it AIDS, to make it more relevant to the audience of the early 90's (also piggybacking on Hanks' recent Philadelphia success).
Lammy4ever7 - the author of the book wrote that AFTER the movie... because he hated the movie. He literally wrote a sequel to change Forrest's life - so if you start to parse what the writer says after the movie came out, then you are going to be parsing that literally nothing in the movie is true, because next to nothing that the author wrote in the first book (pre-movie) or second book (post-movie) is anything like what actually happens to him. Literally, Forrest is essentially a poor fool, with a bunch of greedy men taking advantage of a sexual dynamo, with a penchant for movie stars, and pig power plants.
Lavern Merriweather, she didn't die of AIDS. In the movie, the disease she died from is never stated. However, in the book's sequel, it is revealed that she from Hepatitis C.
What was crazy about the director's cut ending is that the whole movie focused on the mental illness of the family, not that ability he had. It turned out he just created all those fantasies because he felt bad for killing kailey. The fact that his doctor knew the whole story proved that
i read the book in school and then when it came out as a movie my mom wanted to watch the cute looking kids film she found ...then i saw the title and was like should i warn her or watch the train wreck happen? i watched god she didnt talk to me for a month cause i told her i read the book before
Got to be honest the ending in remember me was the only thing that gave that movie distinction in my opinion, up until then it had been quite bland cliché romance, so I liked the ending because the film was no longer about "look they got together", it was no about, "look how normal lives where suddenly destroyed without warning by 9/11" which was much more powerful and made the film very real. The rest of the film was still boring. Tried watching it a second time few years later, couldn't get into it.
My problem with this is that nothing about the film was realistic until the end. They made a standard, sappy love story with very little relation to real life and then co-opted a major tragedy for an emotional punch at the end. I could maybe be ok with a film that tried to capitalize on the normal-lives-are-destroyed bit if it didn't phone in the normalcy.
What fucked me up about that movie when I was little was the ghost girl puking under the sheets. Made me scared of being under my sheets for a long while
I think the first half is great, the second half just devolves into a convoluted mess of quasi religious symbolism and mad ramblings. It totally stops becoming a character drama and then turns into a esoteric mess of plot.
I know 2 movies. First one was the departed when Leonardo DiCaprio's character gets killed while coming down the elevator with the arrested Matt Damon. That sucked And the second would have to be the movie buried with Ryan Reynolds when he's buried in the ground and just when you think he's saved he isn't. That sucked as well.
Oh my god, buried was one of the most excruciating films I've ever watched. Brilliant, but made me feel like I was buried alongside him. I watched it late-ish at night and could not relax enough to sleep for hours.
Forrest Gump was not an upbeat movie. It was about a mentally challenged man who couldn't process the horrific aspects of the world around him and a sexually abused woman who took drugs in an attempt to not process them growing up in a volatile time period of American history, having a dubiously consensual sexual encounter, and producing a child that at best MIGHT grow up to be well adjusted. Of course Jenny died; her life sucked from day one and no one ever gave her the tools to recover from the trauma, so she just spiraled downward, and then she apparently got her act together for her son just in time for her past bad decisions to catch up with her. That's the tragedy of her character; that back in the 60's no one knew what crisis prevention was, so there were thousands of people like this who slipped through the cracks in society. If you thought she was going to get a happy ending just because a feather floated around while inspirational music played, all I can say is you weren't paying very close attention to the movie.
You can go a little old school with 1973's The Wicker Man, in which Edward Woodward's Sgt. Howie, well, let's just say he finds out his initial suspicions about what was going on were way off base.
I mean the ending isn't exactly 'Out of nowhere' They're detectives dealing with a methodical psychopath that's always one step ahead, who then intentionally gives himself up to the police. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
i found it unexpected and funny because I thought the police where following them around for the viewers enjoyment but when the ending happened and it cut out without any credits i got really suprised
Marley and Me's ending came out of nowhere? The dog was old, his decline dragged on for a while, and we already knew from the real life Marley's story, from common sense (dogs don't live forever, y'know) and from half the "dog movies" through cinema history that it was gonna end that way. Pretty weak start for an overall good list...
No Country for Old Men always got me. You expect either this showdown between the two stars, or for Llewelyn to somehow get away, only to find him taken out by drug dealers off screen. Definitely utterly devastating. He deserved a better send off.
+Mavis Wang "Yep he shure did, but got what he had coming for him. shouldn't take things that don't belong to you. especially a suitcase full of money.
And not only that but his wife dies pretty horribly anyway. At least Chigur suffered some pain in that final accident. And the final part where the sheriff recounts his dreams....what a great movie!
Honorable Mention to Buried with Ryan Reynolds. 2 hours watching a main character play cat and mouse with a terrorist who's buried him alive and right at the end, when it seems like help has arrived just in time, it turns out the help had the wrong information and Ryan Reynolds suffocates after the coffin breaks open and fills up with sand. It'd be like is Tom Hanks drowned at sea at the end of Cast Away.
arbitterm I have a friend who saw Buried and she told me it was a waste of her time and advised that I not watch it i later found out why and I still haven't watched the flim to this day
Am I the only one who never understand why people didn't like the 9/11 twist? If you changed it to boarding the titanic nobody would care, so why is 9/11 so untouchable? Unexpected tragedy happened in real life so why not in the film? Was it just badly executed? Or is it disliked because it's 9/11?
charles townsend I think it was a case of "too soon" and some hate for Pattinson. The lad could have done anything and it would have been branded as horrible. Personally I thought it was really well done. We got to care for a character and see their life and the effect on those who love him.
Why? *slaps self* here's why. Because an iceberg didn't take down the Twin Towers, because Titanic was 105 years ago. Because 9/11 was only 15 years ago (16 in September)
Never expected to see someone say that movie around here. That end had me like "Pause... thats all kinds of fucked up" but nevertheless, a great movie with some good theme and story.
You think it's bad in the movies, within less than a month of first seeing that movie as a family, I was attacked by bees as a young child... My mom thought I was going to die! Thankfully I am not deathly allergic, and just had about 30 stings and a lot of pain to show for it.
It's in bad taste because you're basically using someone else's tragedy to make money for yourself. All the while expecting people to be tear jerked by this tragedy.
jack carter Just saw the 9/11 trailer. It's umm... Not the best trailer I've seen lol. I don't find that it's IN bad taste, but just bad taste. I don't know what the movie aims to be exactly, emotional porn, suspenseful, etc... But, as far as tragedies go I find 9/11 to be... (overrated?) For lack of a better word. P.s. thank you for being interested in my humble opinions. What's your take on it?
@ greyphantom100 If you can stomach the source material and have never seen Schindler's List I'd highly recommend doing so. Beautiful and heartfelt film, with amazing performances from the entire cast. Spielberg's finest work, imo.
The knights were arrested out of the sudden in the last and final battle... by modern day police! I found this ending brilliantly hilarious. Very Monty Python style. Just crazy and brilliant at the same time.
Agreed. Came out of nowhere? Yes. Did it ruin the movie? No.
totally agree one of the best film endings ever
Point of fact, it don't come out of nowhere, it's just that most people don't remember a Historian being randomly cut down by a passing knight on horseback early in the film.
I heard they did it because they ran out of budget for an actual battle scene, so they did that instead!
Except there were hints throughout the movie that it wasn't real
The Departed when Leo got shot in the fuckin head out of nowhere was prob the one that came out of nowhere the most for me
You expected him to survive even after almost everyone got killed?
Yeah I agree that did come out of now where, great movie though
If you have seen the Hong Kong original you would have know Leo's character was gona die.... just the director staying true to the original story /script
yeah infernal affairs was great.
Well not even the dirty cop survived lol
"Forrest Gump is a fairly happy film on paper"? What...!? Dad is nowhere to be seen, mom dies, best friend dies, is sent to a war, a girl he constantly wants to be with sprints away first chance she gets to do drugs and naked singing, finds out he has a son and missed out first few years of his life and that is not including her eventual death at all. It is not a happy movie.
Mulldrifter Z yeah it's constant ups and downs. I wouldn't say it's totally sad, but it isn't happy either
If you're not really paying attention, it seems nice and lighthearted, so I think that's kinda what they meant.
The novel is completely different, yet not exactly a happy ending either.
I always wondered if Jenny died from Aids, does that mean there is a chance Gump has aids too? Thinking that if she had aids from the time when she is up on the balcony and into drug and sex, then had sex with Gump, got him infected, had a boy got cleaned up, and dies. Wouldn't that make her at least 6 years ahead of Gump in the Aids countdown? uber sad ending..
Mulldrifter Z I was thinking the same thing.
The end of the first transformers movie...where we learned there would be sequels
HA!
I am still sad after it
Nice one
i hope you mean the live action ones cause the First movie was back in 86 my dude
Jean-Luc King Michael bay(live actions)
No often does one get to say: "Then suddenly, 9/11."
God dang, I laughed too hard at this.
Enderchangling oh wow I saw this on 9/11
I read it as suddenly 911 so my reaction was "not again".
You're minding your own business, trying to make a life for yourself, finally having some prospect in life, then BOOM, 9/11 outta nowhere
At least it wasn't an RKO
Jenny Gump's death was in keeping with her story though. The film's narrative for Jenny was how her abusive upbringing led to a domino effect of sorts in her tragic life.
Exactly, I couldn't have said it better myself.
Her only positive thing in her life was Forest, and she leaves him with the ultimate gift - a living symbol of redemption for both of them.
Yes exactly
She's a direct foil to Forrest--she has a shitty life that only gets shittier while luck and success come to Forrest Gump without him ever actually trying or knowing full well what he was getting himself into. It's two different stories of life landing things in your lap.
She contracted AIDS after JR was conceived due to drug use
The mist still has me fucked up
Ella S yo me too B
More to mess with you . . . . the bitch in the grocery store was RIGHT . . . . . the boy had to be sacrificed to end the seige.
yeah man
That shit put me threw it man fa real and historically it's probably the most devastating moment in movie history
Ella S I'm not over it either.
The ending of Monty "Python and the Holy Grail is meant to be a visual pun. It is a literal cop out.
Glad to see somebody else got the joke.
@@DUxMORTEM And it doesn't come out of nowhere. The historian is killed by a knight on horseback, and they cut back to the police investigation several times as the film goes on.
Or they ran out of money to shoot a proper ending? In the script book, where they had some alternate versions of the film, they had two other endings, both of which were better. My favorite of the two was the storm the castle, big battle, only Arthur and Bedivere survive. As the ride up to Camelot, Arthur says to Bedivere to show them the grail. Beidvere looks at Arthur and says "I thought you had it." Much better ending.
I did not find the ending depressing or devastating at all.
@@Shauma_llama they might have made those as part of the joke though.
Three words, Bridge to Terabithia
a big chunk of the issue goes to the marketing for that movie. They sold it as american narnia. If they sold it as a growing up story with some imaginition elements it'd probably have been less terrible.
Broke me
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That part was just flat out mean. It was almost as mean as The Mist. Haha.
DON'T REMIND ME FUCK
Bridge to Terabithia. Nuff said.
Travis Blackburn this fucked me up so bad as a child, I never cried harder in my life
It broke me too... male, 40+
I'd been out sick when they read this so I was sent to the library to read it during class. I read a little and then just kinda flipped through the rest and looked at the end and after a few minutes thinking "what the hell kind of ending is that?" I concluded I was just as glad I'd been out sick and there was no point reading the chunk in the middle.
I agree it was really sad when the girl dies, but at the actual ending happens, it turns into a happy story.
Bridge to Terabithia had me walking out of the theater, literally saying, "What the fuck happened to happy endings?!"
Bubba's death was way sadder than Jenny's. Bubba actually had goals and dreams.
rob clay No, becuase his legacy lived on becuase forest did the shrimp company and helped his family.
At least Forest carried on his dream*_*
Jenny was the only one who deserved to die
rob clay yeah I loved buba
+Shady J +99legion Yeah, it's not like her father molested her as a child to set her on a self-destructive path or anything.
I kind of think the "shock" of Remember Me is kind of the point of the film. People were just going about their day on 9/11, no one was expecting it.
I thought it was a good film. All of the characters were likable, and the conflict within didn't feel forced. As for it coming out of nowhere, I noticed on a second watch that it said the dates leading up to 9/11 on the chalkboard each time a scene took place in his sisters classroom.
@@KBROCK3R Extraordinarily, I knew it was a 9/11 related movie in the scene where Robert was talking to Pierce in his office. The windows were distinct. The structure was unique/obvious to me.
I remember her mother killed at station 1991 then it said 10 years later... I didn’t clue in. Usually I’m sharp with details involving numbers but not that time.
Ya i thought the movie was boring till i started to get it at the end .. then was like oh dang .
@@TheCurleyWanderersYes. Build like an aluminum can. Punch 4 holes in a can and they collapse...right? 🤔 *_Right?_*
Titanic. No one saw that iceberg coming. (Sarcasm)
My brother went to see Titanic when it came out... sat behind two teenage girls... after the movie ended the girls stood up and said, "If I'd known the boat was gonna sink I'd never have paid to see this..." TRUE STORY!
KrazyUnkleJerry I will credit this story to some dude on TH-cam, but I'm definitely gonna have to tell some people that story.
James Kelly - Thanks for giving me the credit, but I'm dead serious about this ... NOT FAKE NEWS... my brother still tells the story to this day whenever we go see a movie :)
KrazyUnkleJerry oh man that's just too good. Truth is stranger than fiction I suppose
Barrythe Speedster Exhibit-A *ding*
I disagree with Marley and Me. When you accept a pet into your family you accept that one day they will die after giving you a lifetime of love and companship. The story arc is about the dog and that's the only way the arc can end. He's a puppy, gets adopted, becomes part of a new family, and passes on. The movie is about that, the good times and the bad.
People seem to forget that Marley and Me was an autobiographical book written by John Grogan, Marley's owner.
Totally agree, I think it shows a strong point, if you are not ready to accept the sadness when that day coming, don't get a pet
It was also based on a book so there wasn't much wiggle room in how to end it.
I agree, but they should have made a little more cheer up ending scene, like someone bought them a new puppy who looks exactly the same as Marley, and the couple look at each other with the face of "oh-oh". That would be more satisfying to watch, for example :)
Yeah im sure all of the little kids begging their parents to see a cute movie about a dog with owen wilson and jennifer aniston went in anticipating an unwanted life lesson
My favorite of all time is in the "Night of the Living Dead". The dude lives through the zombie infested night only to be mistaken for a zombie by the rescuing forces and shot dead. Perfect antithesis to the traditional Hollywood ending.
mike Moerland, I agree 110%, man. Good call.
I think the movie a metaphor for the racism
Great movie
Rcker31BDrinkN it wasn’t intended as one. The part was written with a white man in mind but they liked the bloke that they cast.
I disagree with the Holy Grail! Actually, you see the police investigating in 2 or 3 previous scenes, after one of the Knights slit the throat of the Famous Historian. So, it's not that it came out of nowhere, you just never expected that subplot to be so important as to disrupt the main plot!
The Holy Grail actually only ended that way because they ran out of money. The original ending had them find the Grail in England's equivalent of a Walmart.
PurpleIsALetter Nice to know xD
Thank you
Asda?
Wow. Haha I'd love to have seen that. However Holy Grail ending is so friggin good as it is. For real one of the best endings.
Donnie Darko?
That one... I mean, the whole movie was a big ol' "Huh?". The ending just made it a "What the HUH?!"
DarkRubberDucky watch the directors cut version.. it's all about the book that he gets from the science teacher. The directors cut has overlays on the screen from the book, and it basically explains what's going on.
Darrylizer1 the entire movie is a skull fuck
Good fucking movie.
Titanic had an ending that came out of nowhere. Just when you think they're gonna arrive in New York, the dumb crew crashes the boat into a glacier.
Actually, the part where the old hag throws that giant diamond into the ocean pissed me off. Knowing the search crew were spending all that time and money looking for it.
I mean... No?
Danielle blake Learn sarcasm, you idiot.
Aww, crap, I haven't seen it yet! *Thanks for the spoiler alert!*
I was shocked. Lol
the mist's ending was perfect. the movie already felt like it was a lost hp lovecraft story, and his were known for the MC being lucky if he ONLY died
D20asmr the mist had shit characters with shit writing and shit direction with a shit ending.
everybody takes every opportunity to make every stupidest possible decision they can.
you may indeed be able to varnish and polish a dried out petrified turd but that doesnt mean its not still a pile of shit.
It's pretty clear that the story was made just for the ending cause is the only thing interesting.
How's the book's ending?
Justin Friedman agreed. It's also about mob mentality. People burn cities to the ground when a sports team loses or wins. What would people do when society crumbles around them because of giant monsters? Probably act stupid
Stephen King actually said in an interview that after seeing the movie he liked the ending more than in his book :)
Glenn survived a zombie swarm, 20 times
But he couldn't survive a bat.
-Remix bat>walkers
Who would win in a fight? 20 zombie swarms or Henry Rollins with a baseball bat
f glenn
The boy in the striped pajamas
ty12mi34 that was never going to end well it was expected
Comedy gold 👌 all those Nazis with English accents and just shockingly bad acting
luke gibson It still rekted my shit
Mr Buchanan No mate you need to watch the German audio version with subs. Completely different film
I watched that recently. Oh my god, most depressing ending! Those poor little boys!
"Who ever survives a zombie swarming?"
*Cough *Cough Tallahassee *Cough *Cough
Geraldo Neto cof?
Sorry, something got on my throat
*Cough* Glenn *cough*
Maverick Skolnik *RICK*
Cough cough frank west from dead rising 1 cough
I clicked so fast when I saw the thumbnail. I love The Descent 💖
Becca Cuisia the ending tho
Such an underrated horror film. The second one is just as good as well in my opinion, which is quite rare for horror movie sequels
The ending to The Descent in the US theatrical version ended in the car and didn't pan back to the cave.
The version of The Descent i saw had the escape scene and her realizing it was a dream, but then she fights her way out anyway.
Yea, because isn't she's the one who takes The Sheriff back there looking for her friends remains, in The Descent-II...???
10 Utterly Devastating Clickbait Titles That Totally Came Out Of Nowhere In My Recommendations List.
That thumbnail is "The Descent" right ?
Dark Brother
Nope, Mad Tea Party by Brandon Rogers.
Ending of million dollar baby. Biggest bummer in film ever.
So true. I still can't watch it again
wwwrecling
has clint ever been in a bad movie?
No out and out howlers that I can recall. But then I've never seen Any Which Way But Loose...
Yeah, but it doesn't meet this videos criteria of "coming out of nowhere." You kind of expected that all along.
The Descent's ending was so beautifully cruel.
...depending on what country you watched. didn't they cut the 'bad' ending in some places?
the American ending was WEAK
@@DJSethieSeth22 i concur. I was expecting a Lovecraftian type horror with degenerated beings killing and eating the protagonist and her companions and it turned into a girl fight.
I mean it's realistic tho. I think endings like these are refreshing because they depict how sometimes life doesn't pan out like its supposed to
Or maybe that was supposed to happen like the laws of causality
Life always pans out like it’s supposed to, just not always how you want it to.
Yeah I found the Monty pithon ending really refreshing
It has become a bit of novelty these days when good prevails over evil in horror films
Yeah but it's not real, it's a movie. An escape from reality.
Night of the Living Dead- Ben gets shot by the cops who mistake him for a zombie...
Darius Thomson or did they...
Darius Thomson that's only true for the original
The original is the best and most well-known. The 1990 remake was OK, but cannot compare to the original, and wasn't as poignant.
Darius Thomson lol they didn't mistake him for a zombie bro.
Darius Thomson I disagree to an extent. I'd say that both versions are equally awesome and that the 1990 version improved on the original in terms of practical/special effects and that it went with the ending that Romero had originally wanted to use in the 1968 version of Night of the Living Dead
Marley’s eventual death was signposted throughout a great deal of the film. It certainly wasn’t ‘out of nowhere.’
David Gardiner he’s exaggerating
And he said that marley died to age which is false because marley ate a sock and his stomach twisted which is fatal and dogs rarely live through it
Yep, I remember it being made clear it was a huge tear jerker and never watched it because during the time it came out my family dog who was a part of the family longer than I was and who was older than me and 21 years old had just passed and I avoided it like the plague. Still haven't and probably never will watch it.
David Gardiner if the thinks narley and me is bad then he should watch where the red fern grows or old yellow
Stalin will rise you mean Old Yeller?
How is the end of Holy Grail "devastating"? Even when I saw it as a teenager it was hilarious!
Must disagree about The Mist. Even Stephen King has said he wishes he'd thought of that ending.
Prospero761 now this is one of those rare endings that manages to impress the writer of the original material. And yeah it was rather gut punching.
So you disagree with it being an utterly devastating ending that came out of nowhere...?
Nik Murphy it was a devastating ending but it wasn't completely out of nowhere, I personally loved the twist.
no fuckin' way it came out of nowhere, the people saw people brutally killed by monsters they now think have taken over the earth, and they are in a vehicle that just ran out of gas...the ending is brilliant and utterly organic and not forced. the only randomness is the army showing up right after the 'suicides'. But with no supplies and no gas, what were they supposed to do , sit there and wait to be saved and starve? go out with a couple of bullets and wander around in the mist?
+PorkFrog So it did come out of nowhere. You said the army arriving was random which is what makes the ending so utterly devastating and out of nowhere.
I remember being traumatized by the ending of Time Bandits as a kid. The boy survives his crazy adventures only to see his parents get killed at the end.
Time Bandits was a favorite film of mine, but the ending was annoying.
to be fair, his parents were pretty traumatic. but let me end your trauma. time bandits has a happy ending. sean connery fireman saves young chap along with his photos. one of which is of the kid with little chaps and the map. kid can now get back to ancient greek sean connery and resume his life as king. which is where he wanted to be.
Well... maybe. It's a little ambiguous but one could extrapolate that if the photo of the bandits holding the map is amongst the saved photos then... it's plausible that he could figure out some way of interpreting it and thus find and use time portals to travel again.
Then again, it could be that the Supreme Being, on retaking possession of the map, closes up the time portals.
Either way, I think Time Bandits should definitely been on this list.
"Looks like you left the Sunday joint cooking all night."
"Sunday joint? It's Thursday!"
I agree! No one seems to remember this movie. I was explaining it to someone recently when discussing harsh kids movies.
titanic. old hag throwing away a perfectly legit diamond. not to mention leo drowning on purpose was pointless.
Leo didn't drown, he froze there as wasn't room/safe for him to get on or something like that.
Diamonds are worthless, and she was tossing it away to show she had finally let go and moved on.
It's really, really basic.
Jean Denim the whole movie was pointless. I'll never get how this movie was highest grossing film for so long.
Jean Denim Leo drowning on purpose? If he had gotten on to the board it would have sank. It wouldn't have been able to hold both of them.
There was more then enough room for him, Mythbusters proved it. Also he didn't die he just sank down and swam over to another single woman to score another goal. :D
I actually liked the ending of Remember Me. It illustrated perfectly how short life is and that you shouldn't waste it on petty things. Cheers
twist ending punches in the gut has to include "Pay it forward".
Larry Miller true asf
why did you have to remind me
Larry Miller balled my eyes out.
I had to watch that in school...
This comment just ruined my night 😭😭
The Departed and Shutter Island both had totally fucked endings.
also the Cure for Wellness
Shutter Island signposted it throughtout the film. It was a great ending.
mshara1 how did it signpost it?
YESSSSSSSS to both
I absolutely love the ending to the departed
Holy Grail's ending is literally a cop-out.
Glenn Hollands Ba-dum tsst.
it really is the perfect punchline to a runing gag.
Should we have seen it coming? Definitely. Did I? Definitely not. Boy do I feel dumb.
They actually ran out of funding.
Yep. They ran out of money and just went with the quick silly ending.
Life. When the women gets sent into deep space while the guy ,who tried to take the alien with him, got sent to Earth.
oh... thought you referring to the eddie murphy movie
But that movie sucked...
One of my favorite ending scenes, the music is so intense and when you finally realize just what happened your stomach drops.
@@DUxMORTEM that movie was amazing. So was annihilation.
@@meganwright9763 annihilation was amazing yes but life sucked. You knew exactly what had happened the moment one pod got hit and she was fighting with the controls.
The ending to The Departed. Come on, Billy didn't deserve to die! I get the good guy loses sometimes but every other good guy, by this time, was already dead. But then, Scorsese does something insane. He kills off everyone except the biggest asshole cop of all time, Dignam (but at least he's the angel of death for scumbag Colin Sullivan). I've never witnessed an ending leaving you so devastated. A masterpiece in movie making.
ErwinSchrodinger64 what's messed up is the director gave hints that some of the characters were gonna die in some scenes. Whenever there was a X
GREAT movie. Dignam was the best character anyway. Definitely had the best lines.
The utterly devastating ending of Suicide Squad when I realised it was garbage and stopped watching.
was expecting an epic fight at the end, but instead got a flashy witch teleporting all over the place and hard to follow.. tisk tisk
To be fair it didn't take me that long to realise it was garbage. Was kind of obvious when I woke up to the end credits, in a puddle of my own drool after having fallen asleep about 40 mins in.
I stopped watching after seeing Jared Leto as honestly the worst Joker I've ever seen.
The animated "Batman: Assault On Arkham" is a much better version of Suicide Squad.
lordfinchness so, the ending 20 mins in
Actually, Remember Me was supposed to be that way. It was based on the several journals and mementos found in the wreckage. Not any particular person story but the facts that in their writings their lives were normal and cut short out of nowhere. The 9/11 part was supposed to feel random and out of nowhere because that's how it happened in real life for the victims; there was no hidden clues or hinting at 9/11 for them, just their lives tragically cut short.
Regardless it was a cheap move on the filmmakers part.
Wow... that actually makes me want to watch it. I like that idea
J.J. How so? Just because it wasn’t advertised as a 9/11 film? The whole point of a twist is to not know it.
What about "Identity" with John Cusack? "Last night I was walking up the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there".
Elena Christian, YES! That's another good "UHHH, What!?" Love being surprised.
I almost threw my remote at my TV because of that ending.
One of my favourite movies ! Love twists like that
If you read the book the movie is based on, then it is expected :)
He wasnt there again today
My girl...
just the movie i was thinking!!! The flippin' bees!!
Yep! They sold it in the previews and commercials as a comedy. Then completely screwed everyone over by killing her best bud and making it completely and tragically awful.
It was tragic, but the movie did lay down some foundation for it. She had an unhealthy detachment from the reality of death, and was psychologically stunted because of it. He was a runt, allergic to everything, and really prone to die.
Think Marley and me is depressing? Watch old yeller
George Zhang oh please , watch Hachi, A Dog Story
Konark Madan yeah that's sad somehow idk if more than Marley and me since its been awhile since I've seen it
Pffft, watch the Jurrasic Bark episode of Futurama where Seymour waits for Fry.
George Zhang hachi
George Zhang Turner & Hooch
If you're watching the holy grail for the plot, then I really don't know what to say to you. Monty python's the holy grail is just a collection of mostly unrelated sketches. (remember the three headed man? Didn't move plot forward at all.) It was just a lot of ridiculous fun, and the ending fits into that perfectly.
Also, Jenny dying of AIDS is pretty tame in a movie featuring child molestation, Bubba dying in Gump's arms and Lt. dan losing his legs.
The only reason the holy grail had that ending was that they ran out of money. So they shot the murder & cop scenes and the ending so they would have an ending.
Starlin Reese No, that was the original ending in the script they decided to go with at the beginning of filming. Also, it doesn't really make sense to hire a literal army of extras if you're running out of money. The costumes/props alone would have cost a small fortune. The ending was intended to be comically anti-climactic.
evidently Eric Idle [Brave Sir Robin] came up with that ending (as they had written themselves into a corner). According to him, his daughter has never forgiven him for it.
That ending was perfect for that beautiful, absurd movie!
I Am Legend. Really he couldn't fit in the fire place exit? And he dies.
Cyan Onion we’re talking about movies not books
Cyan Onion really? Im glad they went the other way
Have you gotten to see the alternate ending and alternate movie? The DVD set has a completely different version available.
Yes and I wish they went with that one instead.
Sean Bovia They are talking about a MOVIE.
th-cam.com/video/OJBf94enIaU/w-d-xo.html
Did you know it's a remake? Yes, I'm still talking about the MOVIE
Titanic..I mean, they sank an unsinkable ship just to keep from wrapping up that Jack character's story.
Orion Red I really shocked when they killed off the main character in Lincoln.
Michael Rooker spoiler
***** he didnt know, please explain in great detail.
+Tam Kumi: No way...why would people spend all that time in the ocean when they could just fly to New York? Plus, they could have sued radar to find such a large iceberg. Not to mention that the ship was unsinkable...or did you miss that part in the movie???
What to said to your comment?
Well.....
1. The sinking of the RMS Titanic was an real historical event that happened in 1912. More than half of the people on board died.
2. The title of "Unsinkable" was given to promote the vessel except that nobody (meaning the ship designers, builders and owner) wants to accept the responsibility of having saying it after the irony that the ship sunk on it "maiden" (1st) voyage.
3. This was in 1912, commercial air travel ain't what it is today. Most long distance flight then uses Airships also known as "Blimps", which is pretty much a big giant balloon with steering.
4. And radar was just invented a few years back but it unlikely to be very accurate or available for commercial use.
....and that it.
No one expected the Spanish inquisition.
Why, you ask. (slaps head)
Here's why!
simeon jones
Or the mexican one.
I love the Spanish inquisition
simeon jones saaaaaaame
The mist is one of the most fucked up endings ever!
license2breal i couldn't even own the movie if someone gave it too me..i will never watch it again
Innocent man dies The green mile.
Bruce Willis dies.armageddon.
Tommy Lee Jones dies after going rocket surfing in space cowboys.
Simon is a good guy dont bully him.
Julio Oquendo Simon is a Pom but he isn't annoying like fat Ross
Julio Oquendo Simon is an inspiration to is all.
Julio Oquendo don't tell people what to do.
Don't tell people what not to do.
James Atkins I just did.
The Mist has by far the saddest ending I've ever seen.
That was a fucked up ending.
It isn't sad, it's just kind of stupid.
17thknight fuck you
very true. stupid. i would never ever wanna take the lives of my children in my own hands. we gotta fight together til death. its a nasty move.
Bunny Nasty, yes. Stupid? Doubt that. The decision is very understandable to a man in despair. If you heard about "merciful death", you may not find it so stupid
The Original Hitcher with Rutger Hauer and C. Thomas Howell. Very underrated movie, the remake was horrible.
Yes great movie! Rutger Hauer!
Agreed
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Totally agree on both points. Rutger Hauer was Brilliant. I'm not an easy mark, and he creeped me out when he was in the car with Howell.
Brazil - The protagonist escapes the torturer chamber, saves the girl, brings down the evil regime in a shootout and... then it cuts to him still restrained in the torture chair, with his torturers saying "his mind's gone." The end.
Was such a good movie.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Bond marries the girl and retires to a happily ever after. Except no he doesn't because random drive-by shooting leaves teary Bond soliloquizing and fade to black. WTF
It wasn't random! it was Ernst Stavro Blofeld getting revenge and trying to gun them both down
oh, of course. that makes it a logical and satisfying denouement to the story, fully foreshadowed and just a neat little bow on the whole festivities. thanks for clearing that up /sarcasm
problem is, Blofeld and his cronies were supposed to be dead. bond left him hanging in a tree.
The monty python one really doesn't fit in with the rest. it did "come out of nowhere" but it didn't really change the movie that much, the plot was already a paper thin vehicle for the jokes, which that scene fell pretty well in line with as far as the type of joke and the tone of the jokes. It certainly wasn't "devastating" like the emotional gut punches on most of the rest of the list.
Indeed. I'd say it was more of a brick joke. You do see them accidentally kill the historian (who exists outside of the sketch), and that's what they're arrested for. Brick jokes tend to work best when you completely forget when the brick was thrown, then it comes full circle and smacks you in the face.
Agreed. I wouldn't exactly call it "devastating". Giving what Monty Python is about it fits.
to be fair, with Monty Python, the film ended that way strictly because they didn't have the budget for a big fight XD
I loved that reasoning lol the whole movie wasn't to be taken seriously anyway, idk why he had to add that to the list.
Lol I loved that scene
Not only that, but the ending is a literal copout
TechnoPriest and because it's funny.
"Who ever survives a zombie swarming?"
1) Rick Grimes and his tank
2) Tallahassee and his gift shop booth
3) Glenn and his dumpster
Infernal Bacon they all had something to keep the zombies away, The survivors from dawn of the dead didn’t
Yeah, I've always found the Dawn of the Dead ending stupid ESPECIALLY as they are on a boat! Why not, you know, just float around and double check that the island isn't full of dead people?? Nope, let's just dock right away, it's probably fine
Dude Meister yup haha
Maybe Low on fuel? Can't want to float around in the ocean
Yeah, but they could've checked the island by sailing around it first, rather than just docking almost right away
Dude Meister or anchor out a bit then swim to shore, that way there's always a getaway plan, the zombies can't swim, so just make sure it's deep enough that they can reach up.
Yup! Plenty on non lethal ways to go about it...
Atonement's WTF ending was one of the greatest emotional gut-punches I've ever had while watching a movie. Seeing the happy ending that could have been beforehand -- and believing it to be true before the final reveal -- just makes it all the more devastating. And yet brilliant.
laconic151 how dare you
The ending in arlington road. The bad guys win
oh hell yeah, that one for sure! Very underrated and pre-9/11, was a fascinating watch
Just once I would like the crazy protagonist who believes some innocent person is really a terrorist / serial killer/ Nazi war criminal etc to be WRONG. There's never any real mystery in the film if he's always right.
The end of the mist was the most devastating to me
Ricochete Raw 90s the best decade ever Point is it wasn't bad imo. It's not like the girl realizing she fked ip and dying 3 seconds later in Drag me to hell.
It got Stephen King as well. He was pissed he didn't come up with it.
seen it like 10000000 times and still gets to me
The ending of Monty Python and the holy grail was hilarious
can we talk about Million Dollar Baby for a second
bella pritchard agreed
I agree. What was the point of building up the characters and the relationship she had with Clint Eastwood's character just for her to end like that. She could have been eaten by an alligator or killed in a tornado for that matter.
what a shit movie...
With the exception of Unforgiven and Sully, most of Eastwood movies are mediocre to bad.
most of clints movies are fantastic. mystic river is amazing and so is Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil just to name a few. space cowboys was bad though.
Totally left out The Departed, mate! You know, how everyone kills each other in the end except for Marky Mark.
Gene Hakman awesome movie
I can't believe they listed Monty python and not the departed!
The bridge to Terabithia DESTROYED me as a child
It destroyed me as an adult. Haha.
I have 4 words for you: Grave of the Fireflies.
What’s the ending?
Nkiruka J You should actually just watch Bridge to Terabithia. Don't spoil the ending for yourself. It's actually worth watching. But, avoid looking for the film on TH-cam. It IS there, but other clips will appear in the results, and their titles spoil the ending. Make sure you're in a light mood when you watch it. It will be best if you watch it while in an emotionally suscpetible state and you actually want to see it to know what it's about.
@@nispelsm But that is depressing since the beginning.
In the Forrest Gump book, Jenny dies of Hepatitis C, which was an unknown disease in 1981. Not AIDS.
I don't get why so many people hate on her. She was a victim of child abuse and sexual abuse; the effects of those kinds of traumas can last for a long time without proper care, hence why she was so messed up for the majority of the movie. Also, as an explanation as to why she ran away from Forrest (before he starts his 3-year run across America), it's really common for people who aren't used to real love and care to lash out, or run, or reject affection. Because when Wrong becomes your "normal", then good things become "wrong". Anyway yeah, it was Hep C, and mother-to-child transmission occurs in less than 10% of pregnancies, so it's likely that Forrest Jr. is fine. Sexual transmission of Hepatitis C is also uncommon.
How do you know it was Hep C. Around that time HIV/AIDS was an epidemic and during that time it was an "unknown" virus. The same thing Jenny was told by the doctors. I also think there should be standalone movie based on Jenny.
The author of the book said it was Hep C.
yeah some of the things Jenny went through sucked but she also made a lot of terrible choices in life and Forrest tried for years to help her out and she treated him like shit for a majority of it up until the end where she knows she's dying and needs Forrest she basically dumps a baby on him
False. She dies of AIDS in the movie (Hep C wasn't even thought of at that date, known only as "not hepatitis hepatitis", even unsure if it was a viral issue, in the movie history, and AIDS was classified at that point as a virus) and "the book" that says Hep C doesn't come out until AFTER the movie, when the writer decided to derail Gump further. Hep C wasn't even known when the book was written, hep C was added in a sequel book written AFTER the movie - Gump and Co. (1981 AIDS epidemic panic trying to figure out if it's come to the US, 1982 Jenny dies, Book first edition 1986, naming of Hep C 1987, movie filmed 1993, sequel 1995.) Just as the movie doesn't show Forrest as a major stud in bed or an astronaut, they took liberties with Jenny and made it AIDS, to make it more relevant to the audience of the early 90's (also piggybacking on Hanks' recent Philadelphia success).
Lammy4ever7 - the author of the book wrote that AFTER the movie... because he hated the movie. He literally wrote a sequel to change Forrest's life - so if you start to parse what the writer says after the movie came out, then you are going to be parsing that literally nothing in the movie is true, because next to nothing that the author wrote in the first book (pre-movie) or second book (post-movie) is anything like what actually happens to him. Literally, Forrest is essentially a poor fool, with a bunch of greedy men taking advantage of a sexual dynamo, with a penchant for movie stars, and pig power plants.
Remember the ending of cabin in the woods, that was random 🙈
That one annoyed me. Guy has the chance to save the world, and just says, Eff the World.
Jonathan Brooks IKR I was like "wtf your bleeding!! why not just place it on the stone instead of smoking!?!" that really annoyed me!!
Moss death in no country for old men you don't even see him die
2 words.... The Departed.
I was furious with that ending
Jenny is a tragic character....her death isn't really a twist....
But we didn't know she had AIDS
Lavern Merriweather, with the storyline Jenny had been given, the twist would have been if she had never contracted a disease at all.
Caitlin Kloss jajajaajaja true
Well... you just hope Forest and Jenny end together so he's happy, but she dies.
Lavern Merriweather, she didn't die of AIDS. In the movie, the disease she died from is never stated. However, in the book's sequel, it is revealed that she from Hepatitis C.
The Director's cut ending of The Butterfly Effect!
Liam's Lenz the one where he strangles himself while still inside his mom is pretty fucked up
tubecrazy77 dude such a great movie it's pretty underrated.
The Director's cut ending makes the movie. The other endings are shit that take a great mindfuck and make it like any other movie.
tubecrazy77 agreed. thats one that should have been on the list
What was crazy about the director's cut ending is that the whole movie focused on the mental illness of the family, not that ability he had. It turned out he just created all those fantasies because he felt bad for killing kailey. The fact that his doctor knew the whole story proved that
Bridge to Therabithia
valgusAllergik I actually cried when I watched that
valgusAllergik Sad thing is it's sort of based off of a real story
Heh. That movie made me so mad. I blame the marketers.
i read the book in school and then when it came out as a movie my mom wanted to watch the cute looking kids film she found ...then i saw the title and was like should i warn her or watch the train wreck happen? i watched god she didnt talk to me for a month cause i told her i read the book before
The Descent is in my Top 3 favorite horror films
What about drag me to hells ending that came out of nowhere
there is a fan theroy (i cant for anything) thats makes it a better movie
Spartan Gaming That movie was trash
You mean where she literally gets dragged to hell...?
Since that's the title of the movie, where's the surprise ?
What do you mean it came out of nowhere?
A: it the title of the movie
B: as soon as she drop the envelop with the button, I knew she fk up.
Got to be honest the ending in remember me was the only thing that gave that movie distinction in my opinion, up until then it had been quite bland cliché romance, so I liked the ending because the film was no longer about "look they got together", it was no about, "look how normal lives where suddenly destroyed without warning by 9/11" which was much more powerful and made the film very real.
The rest of the film was still boring. Tried watching it a second time few years later, couldn't get into it.
My problem with this is that nothing about the film was realistic until the end. They made a standard, sappy love story with very little relation to real life and then co-opted a major tragedy for an emotional punch at the end. I could maybe be ok with a film that tried to capitalize on the normal-lives-are-destroyed bit if it didn't phone in the normalcy.
Lyn Potter agreed
Derek Wall
Go fuck yourself.
Gangrene Vagina fuck off
Derek Wall
Fair enough, I suppose.
Oh come on, the Monty Python and The Holy Grail ending was amazing -did you actually expect a large battle of some kind, seriously?
What about discovering Bruce Willis was actually dead at the end of Sixth Sense?
Very experienced or clever movie watchers had that figured out early. No I wasn't one of them,but some I've watched it with.
John O'Neill “I jizzed in my pants.”
John O'Neill yep, that took me a good three watches to figure out. I was eight... I'm still fucked up
What fucked me up about that movie when I was little was the ghost girl puking under the sheets. Made me scared of being under my sheets for a long while
That scene wasn't part of the original release.
I feel like Knowing is just super underrated. There are hints about what's happening throughout. They're just not obvious.
Allen Babylon agreed definitely underrated
I think the first half is great, the second half just devolves into a convoluted mess of quasi religious symbolism and mad ramblings. It totally stops becoming a character drama and then turns into a esoteric mess of plot.
I found the movie pretty good for a great deal of it, but then in the last quarter it gets super stupid and silly in my opinion
I know 2 movies. First one was the departed when Leonardo DiCaprio's character gets killed while coming down the elevator with the arrested Matt Damon. That sucked
And the second would have to be the movie buried with Ryan Reynolds when he's buried in the ground and just when you think he's saved he isn't. That sucked as well.
lebgend2009 i SO agree you kinda want beras character to end up with leo i didnt expect them all to die
Heyitsme exactly it felt like I watched an entire movie without the hero of the film surviving.
so you only like movies that have a happy ending for the protagonist? boring. it's been done to death, go watch disney movies.
Jay SNikT
Wow, you must be a joy at parties. I can see you slapping cups out of random people's hands because they seem to be enjoying the drink.
Oh my god, buried was one of the most excruciating films I've ever watched. Brilliant, but made me feel like I was buried alongside him. I watched it late-ish at night and could not relax enough to sleep for hours.
Forrest Gump was not an upbeat movie. It was about a mentally challenged man who couldn't process the horrific aspects of the world around him and a sexually abused woman who took drugs in an attempt to not process them growing up in a volatile time period of American history, having a dubiously consensual sexual encounter, and producing a child that at best MIGHT grow up to be well adjusted. Of course Jenny died; her life sucked from day one and no one ever gave her the tools to recover from the trauma, so she just spiraled downward, and then she apparently got her act together for her son just in time for her past bad decisions to catch up with her. That's the tragedy of her character; that back in the 60's no one knew what crisis prevention was, so there were thousands of people like this who slipped through the cracks in society. If you thought she was going to get a happy ending just because a feather floated around while inspirational music played, all I can say is you weren't paying very close attention to the movie.
You can go a little old school with 1973's The Wicker Man, in which Edward Woodward's Sgt. Howie, well, let's just say he finds out his initial suspicions about what was going on were way off base.
The ending of Se7en. How could you guys miss that. That's one of the most shocking endings ever.
I mean the ending isn't exactly 'Out of nowhere' They're detectives dealing with a methodical psychopath that's always one step ahead, who then intentionally gives himself up to the police. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think he means the box part and revealing the last 2 sins.
Damian Rivers shocking but not that unexpected...
That did not come out of nowhere. It was completely in line the deadly sins. It was shocking I will give you that, but it at least fit with the film.
But the ending fit the movie
When the girl dies in the bridge tp terrabitha
Monty Python's Holy Grail has a perfect ending
i found it unexpected and funny because I thought the police where following them around for the viewers enjoyment but when the ending happened and it cut out without any credits i got really suprised
Totally agree. WhatCulture just didn't get the joke. It was the perfect cop out. (sorry for saying it.)
Joe Donronimo yes, that was a great punchline. The only time a cop out worked.
Joe Donronimo I know, it was funny.
It was amazing
Marley and Me's ending came out of nowhere? The dog was old, his decline dragged on for a while, and we already knew from the real life Marley's story, from common sense (dogs don't live forever, y'know) and from half the "dog movies" through cinema history that it was gonna end that way.
Pretty weak start for an overall good list...
Yeah, I went into the movie kind of expecting it.
No Country for Old Men always got me. You expect either this showdown between the two stars, or for Llewelyn to somehow get away, only to find him taken out by drug dealers off screen. Definitely utterly devastating. He deserved a better send off.
That's how it happens in the book too.
+Mavis Wang "Yep he shure did, but got what he had coming for him. shouldn't take things that don't belong to you. especially a suitcase full of money.
I don't think he ever actually does but I haven't read the book in awhile. It certainly looks that way from the crime scene though.
And not only that but his wife dies pretty horribly anyway. At least Chigur suffered some pain in that final accident. And the final part where the sheriff recounts his dreams....what a great movie!
You are wroooooooong. Best Cohn bros movie. Awesome ending. Loved it when he checked his shoes
Honorable Mention to Buried with Ryan Reynolds. 2 hours watching a main character play cat and mouse with a terrorist who's buried him alive and right at the end, when it seems like help has arrived just in time, it turns out the help had the wrong information and Ryan Reynolds suffocates after the coffin breaks open and fills up with sand.
It'd be like is Tom Hanks drowned at sea at the end of Cast Away.
arbitterm I have a friend who saw Buried and she told me it was a waste of her time and advised that I not watch it i later found out why and I still haven't watched the flim to this day
So they stretched out the ending from The Vanishing?
That movie made me feel awful because of the ending. Will never watch it again.
Might I suggest Spock's death in Star Trek 2 - The Wrath of Khan?
Am I the only one who never understand why people didn't like the 9/11 twist? If you changed it to boarding the titanic nobody would care, so why is 9/11 so untouchable? Unexpected tragedy happened in real life so why not in the film? Was it just badly executed? Or is it disliked because it's 9/11?
charles townsend I think it was a case of "too soon" and some hate for Pattinson. The lad could have done anything and it would have been branded as horrible. Personally I thought it was really well done. We got to care for a character and see their life and the effect on those who love him.
Very, very good point Charles.
Because it was a cheap trick to wrangle emotion out of the audience, so unnecessary.
Why? *slaps self* here's why. Because an iceberg didn't take down the Twin Towers, because Titanic was 105 years ago. Because 9/11 was only 15 years ago (16 in September)
Becki P How was it cheap though?
All M. Night Shamalamalamadingdong's movies
what a twist!!!1
Monty Python and paddywagon thing was funny and very very random like the killer bunny
The movie AI. The ending was wtf.
H Koizumi how so?
Never expected to see someone say that movie around here. That end had me like "Pause... thats all kinds of fucked up" but nevertheless, a great movie with some good theme and story.
H Koizumi Haven't seen it in ages but you're right.
it's two movies stuck together
MrDEA666 No, I'm David.
When Thomas j (macaulay culkin)died in my girl.. I was a 13 and it really did me In broken for weeks over it . I'll never watch that movie again..
TheLawOfOne I was younger than that and that shit messed with me.
Go watch Macaulay Culkin in the Good Son you wont feel so sad about the bee death.
You think it's bad in the movies, within less than a month of first seeing that movie as a family, I was attacked by bees as a young child... My mom thought I was going to die! Thankfully I am not deathly allergic, and just had about 30 stings and a lot of pain to show for it.
or when the girl (AnnaSophia Robb) died in Bridge to Terabithia! WTF I thought it was a kids movie!!!
A movie death messed you up for weeks? Stop treating movies like reality, you idiot.
Fucking, Jenny...
Das Boot
great movie
I don't dig shoe movies :(
I was literally thinking about das boot the entire time.
Primal Fear!! That Edward Norton acting tho
that was insane!
Yes! That's my dude
what the fuck is offensive about the 9/11 ending hm?
I always wonder about this in these kind of lists. Just because it was tragic event doesn't mean using it in your plot is in bad taste.
It's in bad taste because you're basically using someone else's tragedy to make money for yourself. All the while expecting people to be tear jerked by this tragedy.
jack carter Just saw the 9/11 trailer. It's umm... Not the best trailer I've seen lol. I don't find that it's IN bad taste, but just bad taste. I don't know what the movie aims to be exactly, emotional porn, suspenseful, etc... But, as far as tragedies go I find 9/11 to be... (overrated?) For lack of a better word.
P.s. thank you for being interested in my humble opinions.
What's your take on it?
@ greyphantom100 If you can stomach the source material and have never seen Schindler's List I'd highly recommend doing so. Beautiful and heartfelt film, with amazing performances from the entire cast. Spielberg's finest work, imo.
Nystari thanks! I keep hearing good things about it :)
The ending to Monty Python And The Holy Grail was brilliant. British humour at its very finest!