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I know there are some, but i'm having a hell of a time thinking of anything other than "You know, this is pretty fantastic." "....say that again."

No wolves were fist fought in The Grey. =(

All that popped into my head right now is the ending to the first Star Wars prequel, mainly just the awkward editing that was present in the whole movie.

the ending to Purple Rose of Cairo. I liked the rest of the movie but I hated the ending enough for it to ruin the whole movie for me to the extent that I've never been able to watch it a second time.

There were a few that I remember where it was like... but nothing changed. One might have been Spanglish, the other was possibly Premonition?

I know I didn't like the ending to Pay It Forward. Probably one of the few films that's ever made me cry?

Silent Hill. Yeah, I know the movie was no masterpiece in the first place but I enjoyed it except for the ending.

Also an old movie called Up in Arms but that is one of the worst movies I ever sat through and not only because of the ending.

Source Code, where the main character just takes over another person's life at the end, and no one seems to care about the poor guy who'ss body he is inhabiting.

Also, like someone upthread, Pay It Forward, for much the same reason.

What's weird is that the movie they based City of Angels on (Wings of Desire) had a totally different ending. I never saw City of Angels but I was really surprised when I heard what the end was.

ayrt

I just looked up Wings of Desire and now I'm really wondering what the hell City of Angels was trying to do. I guess they were trying for the whole being mortal is worth it even with the inevitable pain and grief that comes from, well, mortality. It was so aggravating though.

Cabin in the Woods bugged me. Loved the movie, otherwise.
I didn't love Pixels, but I didn't hate it, either...except for the ending which I ranted about here, yesterday (or maybe the day before...insomnia has fucked my time telling ability (already tenuous) over but good).

Cabin in the Woods bugged me. Loved the movie, otherwise.

Did the entire concept of the ending bug you, or was it just that it showed too much? For me, I liked the concept well enough, but I really wish it had just ended on the ominous rumbling, but before you knew for sure what (if anything) was really going to happen. I would have loved the ambiguity.

Neither, really. The execution of the part involving the characters. Like...the sympathetic characters have just knowingly doomed humanity to a horrifying elder-god related death. They could at least act like they actually understand that.

The gimmick ending to a film from the 1980s called Birdy. Terrible terrible ending - serious movie, then has a joke ending.

Not the worst, but I didn't like the ending of Wolf Children.

The ending of 'The Prestige' because it was horrifying. D:

The ending of the Prestige because it's *cheating*!

I mean, first, Writing 101 tells you the "evil twin!" twist is right up there with "it was all a dream" as cheap and dead-horsed; and personally I felt utterly betrayed at a film about stage trickery/presdigitation bringing in ACTUAL magic (or "sufficiently weird technology") as the twist answer. I kinda get that thematically it works, and it does arrive via David Bowie so that's almost a meta justification, but - I raged. Like, "The Illusionist" is a lighter flick but at least it respects its own format and premise in misdirecting the audience wonderfully but without the genre-breaking ass-pull.

Damn. You're pretty angry about it huh.

I thought it was a great twist precisely because of how horrifying it was. The guy murdered himself every night.

Besides, it was faux science not magic. It fit with the steam punk vibe of the film.

The ending of Before I Fall pissed me off so much. The worst thing about it was that up until the end, I was actaully really enjoying the movie. It was like, "Wow, I can't believe how much I like this! I assumed it would be crap, but it's so lushly atmospheric and it's really vivid and has great details and-- okay what the FUCK kind of ending was THAT!??"

Worst ending to a film I really liked otherwise, How To Train Your Dragon 2.

HTTYD is a very well plotted, if simplistic, movie. Dad wants kid to be A Real Man (viking), kid is a nerd. Kid uses nerd powers to fake being A Real Man and it works for a bit and everyone's happy, but then the lie;s found out. Kid proves that being a nerd can save the day even better than being A Real Man and dad and everyone else learns that love and friendship plus fighting is better than just fighting. Dad accepts and loves nerd son.

HTTYD2 starts with a similar conflict. Now young adult kid is Steve Irwin dating Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton. Dad and Kate want him to be Prince William. Guy wants to continue being Steve Irwin. This is good conflict! What solution will they find? Oh shit mysterious stranger! Oh shit mysterious bad guy! Oh shit trapper guy who needs to be convinced Dragons Are People Too. Oh shit mysterious cave full of new dragons and mysterious stranger is long lost MOM?!
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And then everything goes tits up. Dad realizes mom's alive, dad's killed for cheap angst, weird comedy scene to try and make up for angsty death scene? Guy saves the day, guy's automatically made chief no more being Steve Irwin. Now that mysterious stranger was revealed as mom she just kind of sashayed into the background to let the real characters take over. Trapper realized dragons are people too and gets handed dead dad's dragon like they haven't spent two movies and two series talking about how special the bond is between dragon and rider and it's like... idk selling dad's old vhs at a yard sale.

The last bit of the movie's just an unsatisfying mess. Everything was wrapped up in the laziest way possible and they threw in character death to try and add depth, but since it just came across as a quick fix to resolve the will-he-won't-he conflict it fell flat.

That sounds like a hot damn mess. :(

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What was the worst ending to a film you've watched?

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City of Angels really pissed me off.

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