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Movie Endings That Made You Legitimately Angry
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Is the negative reaction to this the "Superman doesn't kill" thing?
what? the ending is perfect.. the entire time tom cruises character is shown to be highly trained and kills everyone with a double tap ( two to the chest, one to the head ) and in the end? the doors close on the monorail and block the shot on jamie foxx and he, being untrained, shoots wildly and kills tom cruise. its such a great forshadowing for the ending that is absolutely amazing. It also comes full circle about the story of the homeless guy dying on the train they first talk about before the first killing. one of my favorite movies ever.
I've been mad at that line for a long time.
It's even worst when you look at it as "hey, we put a woman scientist, but we made sure that no one could take her seriously and she was too emotional to science."
Whatever! It's nicely wrapped up but if it was a Korean movie or if the director had some courage it would have ended differently and as it should have.
I can't remember the end but was it not annoying because they knew each other, the coincidence they met earlier that day. The last target for Cruise.
Phantom Thread's ending was one of those endings that made me go "what the fuck?" to "oh that makes perfect sense" in a very short timeframe.
There are two that come to mind. The first is Seven Pounds, majority of the film is just maudlin but passable, while the ending is infuriatingly manipulative and attempts to pass off the actions of the protagonist as noble. I think it's literally the most awful and morally wrong ending I have ever witnessed.
The other one is:
because it's just so damn infuriatingly dumb and nonsensical
Edit: Oh right, I Am Legend ending infuriated me when I learned how much sense the original ending made
The other one is:
because it's just so damn infuriatingly dumb and nonsensical
Edit: Oh right, I Am Legend ending infuriated me when I learned how much sense the original ending made
The ending of that movie actually made that movie worthwhile imo.
At the end, the way it ends actually has a two-fold suggestion: either he's actually crazy or the whole thing is actually shady af. Re-watching the movie under the new revelation that he actually is crazy blows my mind every time. It makes the movie infinitely rewatchable for me
Worst ending though:
The Dark Knight Returns
Everything about that movie was absolute horseshit. What a horrible way to end a series.
It just drove me nuts because the movie presented itself as a Sciencey Science Movie about Science up till that point; then they smack you upside the head with the Power of Love dimension.
Fallen. For about 95% of it I found it to be an entertaining, well-told story, and FWIW it gives away its own ending, at least in terms of the outcome.
It's how the ending plays out that ruins everything.
The movie flopped and I daresay it's because of the ending. Audiences were expecting something clever and got that instead.
It's how the ending plays out that ruins everything.
Throughout the entire movie, the demon only possesses humans. If it couldn't find one, it became vulnerable. That was its weakness. But then at the very end, trapped in a dying man with no other humans nearby, it. . . jumps into a cat. That's the first time it jumps into a non-human, and it's right at the very end.
"Now," you might say, "Supernatural stories write their own rules, and just because the demon hadn't possessed non-human animals before doesn't mean it couldn't have at any point prior." Sure, that defends its internal consistency. It didn't break any of its own rules; it just deliberately hid one of them. The problem is that deception undermines the entire film. In terms of what the audience knows the reveal suddenly and VASTLY expands the scope of the demon's powers, to the point of being so powerful & unstoppable that any resistance was clearly futile in hindsight. It also leads to profound questions that the movie has neither the time nor inclination to answer. If cats, then how about dogs? Mice? Birds? What's the limit? Could the demon possess, for instance, a mosquito? If possession was that much more immensely flexible than "just humans", how much danger was the demon actually in?
And for those who are all "you just don't like subverted expectations", there was no expectation to subvert. The demon/narrator says right at the beginning that this was a story about how it almost died. The ending wasn't a twist. It was all about how it resolves, which was an extremely lame deus ex machina because the writer wrote the script into a corner and in response cranked the antagonist's superpowers up to 11 to get out of it, making all the suspense and tension the audience had invested a complete waste of time.
"Now," you might say, "Supernatural stories write their own rules, and just because the demon hadn't possessed non-human animals before doesn't mean it couldn't have at any point prior." Sure, that defends its internal consistency. It didn't break any of its own rules; it just deliberately hid one of them. The problem is that deception undermines the entire film. In terms of what the audience knows the reveal suddenly and VASTLY expands the scope of the demon's powers, to the point of being so powerful & unstoppable that any resistance was clearly futile in hindsight. It also leads to profound questions that the movie has neither the time nor inclination to answer. If cats, then how about dogs? Mice? Birds? What's the limit? Could the demon possess, for instance, a mosquito? If possession was that much more immensely flexible than "just humans", how much danger was the demon actually in?
And for those who are all "you just don't like subverted expectations", there was no expectation to subvert. The demon/narrator says right at the beginning that this was a story about how it almost died. The ending wasn't a twist. It was all about how it resolves, which was an extremely lame deus ex machina because the writer wrote the script into a corner and in response cranked the antagonist's superpowers up to 11 to get out of it, making all the suspense and tension the audience had invested a complete waste of time.
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Gone Girl - No fucking way would he EVER go back with her, let alone have a child with her, just no way, nope, nada, no.
Law Abiding Citizen - I wanted the guy to win, but having the good guys put the bomb IN his jail cell to kill him was a step too far in absurdity and felt wrong.
Law Abiding Citizen - I wanted the guy to win, but having the good guys put the bomb IN his jail cell to kill him was a step too far in absurdity and felt wrong.
Tyler Perry has always struck me as a low-key mysoginist.
Like all his films purport to focus on "strong women" but I always feel like it's him basically telling women how to act. The fact that he as Madea literally does that in some films adds to that.
I seriously can't remember a single time before or after that movie where I was that fucking angry after finishing a movie.
It should have just been the nod and the Batman theme.
damn, i can't remember the name of it, but it was an alien invasion film where at the end, i guess they ran out of budget and had to use drawn storyboard images to show how it ends.
it was mega terrible
it was mega terrible
In a good way:
Contact - brilliant ending that makes you really feel for the characters and put you in their shoes.
Fahrenheit 11/9 - really disturbing knowing what happened and is still happening
In a bad way:
No Country for Old Men - that movie did not sell me at all on that nothing ending. I'm sure it meant something, but it couldn't do it.
Batman v Superman - the movie as a whole was infuriating, but how WB got the nerve to do the laziest and worst possible version of a death of Superman story and then decide it was ok to film was just astonishing.
Contact - brilliant ending that makes you really feel for the characters and put you in their shoes.
Fahrenheit 11/9 - really disturbing knowing what happened and is still happening
In a bad way:
No Country for Old Men - that movie did not sell me at all on that nothing ending. I'm sure it meant something, but it couldn't do it.
Batman v Superman - the movie as a whole was infuriating, but how WB got the nerve to do the laziest and worst possible version of a death of Superman story and then decide it was ok to film was just astonishing.
yeah lol that whole thing is just written to sound deep and cool rather than make any goddamn sense at all
Why do people hate the ending of GLASS so much?
I liked the movie.
Is it mostly because it wasn't what was expected?
I liked the movie.
Is it mostly because it wasn't what was expected?
Ya'll are going to hate me, but Unbreakable. It felt like it ended right where the third act should have started.
(I'm aware there are two more movies. I haven't seen them. I'm just talking about my reaction when I watched the first one for the first time.)
(I'm aware there are two more movies. I haven't seen them. I'm just talking about my reaction when I watched the first one for the first time.)
I went in blind and the ending left me shocked and bothered.Posted this last time we had a similar thread. But the twist ending to Remember Me with Robert Pattinson is something else...
Posted this last time we had a similar thread. But the twist ending to Remember Me with Robert Pattinson is something else...
Couldn't help but to laugh out loud when this reveal happened. So completely unnecessary yet hilarious in a absurd, morbid way.
At the end of The Polar Express that guy gets his gift back, but they never show what's actually in the giftbox. Are you fucking kidding?
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Yeah...I was on the side of the redneck mob the entire movie.
"Oh no, vigilante justice against this family of heavily armed cannibals. Vigilantes are the true monsters here."
Could you imagine if in the 6th Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy was the hero against the parents whose kids he murdered and it was played straight and his daughter was on his side?
I've never seen this movie but damn you have my choice beat if that was the twist. That's fuckedPosted this last time we had a similar thread. But the twist ending to Remember Me with Robert Pattinson is something else...
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If the movie is good but the ending is terrible, I just end up being disappointed. If the movie wasn't great to begin with, it's hard to feel angry about ending of any kind.
That being said, I remember really hating the ending of Splice. A.I. Artificial Intelligence is an enjoyable movie with an ending I really don't like but I wouldn't use the word angry.
That being said, I remember really hating the ending of Splice. A.I. Artificial Intelligence is an enjoyable movie with an ending I really don't like but I wouldn't use the word angry.
Do your thing cuz! He ripped apart your boyfriend! Why are you ignoring that fact?
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I was bothered by the idea that the director said the protagonist deserved what she got and that Mrs. Ganush was a victim. Mrs. Ganush was a rude, petty piece of shit who would rather place her burden on complete strangers than go to her family for help out of nothing but her own pride, and then abuse her power to subject people to the ultimate punishment if they didn't bend to her whims.
And your best friend, and that friend of a friend, and almost you, and several other people. Apparently they were totally justified in preemptively trying to kill you when they found out what you were if you're gonna turn that fuckin' easily. How many faces gotta get taken off before you go "hey, maybe I shouldn't associate with this part of my family..."
It's been 4 years and I'm still appalled.
I'm angry right now thinking about it. I swore off Tyler long before that movie, but after it, I act as if he doesn't exist.
That scene with Brad after the guys he's mentoring start high-fiving each other and are super excited in what they did, and he just shuts that shit down hard, really brought it home just how fucked up it all was. The fact the I think only one person ever was convicted for the 2008 crash in the United States is mind boggling.
I'd also add All the Money in the World. But that was a film that I was pretty much pissed almost all the way through it.
Now for recent films that made me angry in how they ended because they were garbage, well I'd say Alien: Covenant and Jurassic World II come to mind.
Holy shit I was thinking of exactly this one, granted the movie was not very good but goddamn that was a terrible and completely out of nowhere way to end that film.Posted this last time we had a similar thread. But the twist ending to Remember Me with Robert Pattinson is something else...
Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac has what is basically real dumb super-dark punchline as its ending, which really pissed me off when I saw it. Like, it kinda sells out its characters at the end of a super intense 4 hour movie, essentially for a bit.
Granted thinking back on it, as a joke its pretty funny and crystallizes some of the themes of the movie interestingly, but its still a bit cloyingly, attention-seekingly provocative in the way that Von Trier can be at his most annoying.
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Granted thinking back on it, as a joke its pretty funny and crystallizes some of the themes of the movie interestingly, but its still a bit cloyingly, attention-seekingly provocative in the way that Von Trier can be at his most annoying.
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I bailed out of Tyler Perry movies when they juxtaposed Madea giving a speech about someone who was raped with a hot grits joke. Haven't seen a tonal whiplash that hard since Bambi's mom got shot
Fuck this movie
The ending is hardly the only part that made me angry, to be fair.
Speilberg's Waw of the Worlds suffers from his inability to stick the landing on a lot of his films. Shame too since everything else was so well executed.
The ending to the Mist is the only reason anyone remembers that mediocre movie at all. It absolutely shouldn't be so frequently mentioned in this topic.
No country for old men. Terrible ending. I thought my dvd skipped or something and just blew past 20 minutes towards the last act. Movie was great up until the offscreen death. Dumb decision imo