movie endings - best, worst, daftest

Worst Ending -

The Golden Compass (just watched it and was left slack-jawed by how it ended - and not in a good way:))

I am Legend - just stupid
 
I'm not disputing there were still people living there when the Spanish arrived, but the culture and society shown in the movie was LONG gone Dude, and Gibson knows it. ;)
 
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Best Ending
Pirates of the Caribbean At World End!
Fab, fab fab! The way it ties into the beginning so...neatly! With all those hints, quotes and jokes from the previous two along with a tonne of new gold! Fab! Just enough cliffhanger to keep us happy!

Worst Ending
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban.
Alright, it's a brilliant book, one of my favourites to be honest. But the film did not live up to my expectations. And that freeze frame at the end with him on his firebolt...urgh, what is that all about. The director (who was new and never came back to the set...hmmm) really let me down on tis one.

Daftest Ending
Lilo and Stitch
Cute, VERY CUTE, but a little bit daft. Okay, how come the sister suddenly is okay with him? And why does the social worked just go, 'Yeah, sure...it's ok!' and how on earth does society accept him, i shall never know!
 
Sorry for long post, I'm crap at condensing

POTA: It has its flaws (acting), but I don't have a problem with the plot. It's a science fiction film about wormholes and time discrepancies, which explains everything imo. A time discrepancy explains why the ape civilisation was there before Wahlberg's character arrives, but was caused by his mission. At the end of the film, we have General Thade scowling in a suspicious, plot hatching manner. If you accept the premise that a wormhole can take you into the future, and another into the past, why not accept that there are multiple ones that take you into different points in time? Wahlberg's character is one of those quintessentially doomed ones, his mission led to the original POTA and then led to changing the history of his own planet.

Apocalypto: Any film attempting to depict the past is probably historically inaccurate in some way or another. Many so-called biopics take many liberties too to make characters more likeable etc. I don't think anyone would argue someone from the tribe depicted in Apocalypto saw the event at the end (but someone from another tribe must have), and it's the significance of it that I find powerful. It's an event of gobsmacking awe, where you watch wondering what has made the film stop dead in its tracks, and then you see an event that changes the course of history and the world forever. And you see the good guy run off and the bad guys stay, and you know their fate will be what they deserve with certainty.
 
Thanks for the reply Fromez - I'm still left scratching my head tho :(
I mean, HOW could earth have been ruled by the apes (with the statue of Thade) when Thade was trapped by Wahlberg in a impenetrable cell with bullet-proof glass and the only means of entry/exit was by a palm-recognition device that only Wahlbergs hand could open? Plus if Thade had indeed managed by some miracle to free himself, how did he fly into the wormhole and make it back to earth in the past? Nobody on his planet had any idea of space flight (hell, they were still using horses, there wasn't even steam engines!) and the only ship left was the one Wahlberg crashed and wrecked in the jungle..... makes my head bloody hurt thinking about all this :mad: :D
 
I have two favourite movie endings; both are so memorable to me for very different reasons.

My first choice would be Carrie. I remember vividly the very first time I saw this movie, I was baby sitting for the couple across our road and I had a few of my buddies come by to keep me company. We were all major into Stephen King books at the time and were working our way through the back catalogue of his movies. The shock of that little unexpected scene at the very end of Carrie sent us into a scream-fest overdrive, that of which can only be achieved by a bunch of hormonally overcharged teenage girls. Our ludicrous screaming woke all 4 wanes and they started roaring, screaming and crying because we had scared the lining out of the poor wee souls. We caused a wile drama in my street, the man next door, my dad and our next door neighbour all came running over to see what was going on, they thought that the IRA had hijacked the house!!!

My second choice would be the ending of my favourite childhood movie; E.T. Such a dote of a movie and that ending just has me in bits every time I watch it.
 
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