re: When otherwise good movies jump the shark...

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it did get stupid
I've often wondered what a good ending would have meant for that movie

It's 3/4 of a masterpiece

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yeah, Fury's ending changed it from being a believable drama to being an action hero movie.

Another botched ending- Wonder Woman. As 'cool' as the Diana-Ares fight was, the movie would have been more powerful had they not put that in. Simply let her kill the German general, realize mankind wasn't going to go start picking flowers, and complete dismantling the base. You could have Ares/Sir Patrick make a comment that reveals his identity later, but never clue Diana in. That would have been a deeper film, and kept a great villain around for a later film. And explained a bit why she had laid low for a century after WW1.