re: Great movie that had a terrible ending

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I think the bookshelf scenes in interstellar was pretty weak. I love the rest of the film.

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this will always be my answer. i love the last 10 minutes after he's found and brought on to the Arc, but hate the tesseract scene.

otherwise it's my favorite film behind It's a Wonderful Life.

other answers,

Mist, Abyss, Departed (i said it, GFY,) Knowing, I am Legend, Savages, Law Abiding Citizen, Source Code, and Destroyer.


for a twist, a terrible movie with an unbelievably more terrible ending, Serenity (not the Firefly one.)

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Law Abiding Citizen

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such a fun movie till the end...I agree. There's no world where Jamie Fox's lawyer character would ever get the jump on Gerald Butlers guy. Hollywood gotta Hollywood and let the "good guy" win...I guess they underestimated how many people would sympathize with the guy whose family was failed by the justice system after a heinous crime was committed vs a career, ego driven lawyer...

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Close in There Will Be Blood.

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What? That ending was great!
"I'm finished"...

Sort of always annoyed me that Wilson and Co. went to all that perseverance and hope to return to his loved one and friends only to find out, they were kinda shallow assholes...(not even a welcome back party?) - and people almost behaved pissed that he was alive...and, he's still a Cast Away, lost in an intersection.

AI and Return of the King both had long drawn out ending sequences that could have at least been shorter.

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Last American Virgin.

Dude gets screwed over by a girl and rides off crying as the credits roll.

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Last American Cuck is more like it and it was a fantastic ending. It ended exactly the way it needed to. The frickin' kid pays for that dumb girl's abortion and she ends up with the same dude who impregnated her. The same dude who just happens to be his best friend.

That movie needed to end with that kid driving away crying like a baby.

I disagree.

It set up a possible 2nd movie.

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Saving Private Ryan...I even stayed for an after credit scene but pretty sure the last time we see Upham he is smirking after he killed the guy he let kill Mellish(at least that's how I remember it)

We never see Upham die, get sent to another battles front lines, never see him battle PTSD after going home ultimately taking his own life...Spielberg just let's us assume that that POS lives while almost every other person in his platoon all better men die

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I agree but for different reasons.

To have Captain Miller tell Ryan to "earn this", was an act of resentful pettiness that greatly diminished the character and it made Miller look like a complete dick.

Ryan did not ask to be saved. He did not want to be saved and he fought honorably. For Spielberg to have Captain Miller lay that bullshite guilt trip on him, made Miller look like an embittered a-hole instead of the collected, intelligent and mature leader he actually was.

Miller died organizing, fighting and winning a successful and important battle but instead of sending him out with his head held high. Spielberg sends him out as petulant frickhead who believes he's owed something.

Ryan didn't have to "earn" a goddamn thing and that ending sullied the entire movie for me.

Good topic OP. I've always hated how that movie wrapped up.

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Return of the King had long drawn out ending sequences that could have at least been shorter

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Good grief, it already is short.

Those “drawn out ending sequences” are the remains of what would have been an entire 40+ minute act if they had refrained from mass cuts of source material.