Almost-good movies that blew it at the end (obviously some spoilers).

The Abyss

It starts off as one of James Cameron's best movies, but it jumps the shark pretty badly towards the end. I guess they just ran out of money. The alien ship looks like a bad theme park ride.

bigfoot2045

Green Lantern.Oh wait, that sucked nuts in the first place.

I can't think of any right now.

The Dark Knight, there was absolutely zero reason that Batman had to take the blame for Twoface's crimes, you could literally blame any criminal you wanted to, you could even make someone up, anything would be better than blaming the main hero and making his job a million times harder

the9thinning

The police knew Batman was in the building with Dent. It would have made no sense to blame anyone else.

Law Abiding Citizen - for once I was hoping for a decent non-hollywood ending, but nooooooooooooo, they didnt want that to happen

Marley and Me.Stupid ending...

Pandorum could have been a good Event Horizon type film if they hadn't added the monsters at the end. Could have been a really good space/psychological film. Same with Sunshine.Big_Bad_Sad

Wat

Marley and Me.Stupid ending...

Michael0134567

Marley and Me was based on a true story, so the ending is what it is I guess.

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Marley and Me.Stupid ending...

bigfoot2045

Marley and Me was based on a true story, so the ending is what it is I guess.

[QUOTE="Big_Bad_Sad"]Pandorum could have been a good Event Horizon type film if they hadn't added the monsters at the end. Could have been a really good space/psychological film. Same with Sunshine.themajormayor

Wat

Event Horizon was awesome. It was a great retelling of the Hellraiser story in space. In fact, I thought it was quite a bit better than Hellraiser. It was also clearly a huge inspiration of the Dead Space games. The movie was panned in its day, but it has gone on to become a cult film.

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[QUOTE="Big_Bad_Sad"]Pandorum could have been a good Event Horizon type film if they hadn't added the monsters at the end. Could have been a really good space/psychological film. Same with Sunshine.bigfoot2045

Wat

Event Horizon was awesome. It was a great retelling of the Hellraiser story in space. In fact, I thought it was quite a bit better than Hellraiser. It was also clearly a huge inspiration of the Dead Space games. The movie was panned in its day, but it has gone on to become a cult film.

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Wat

themajormayor

Event Horizon was awesome. It was a great retelling of the Hellraiser story in space. In fact, I thought it was quite a bit better than Hellraiser. It was also clearly a huge inspiration of the Dead Space games. The movie was panned in its day, but it has gone on to become a cult film.

How so? The special effects were amazing for the time, and hold up well even today. It was actually scary. And Sam Neill gave a great performance. Event Horizon is seriously underrated. It's one of the best horror films ever made IMO.

[QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"]Wait, at what point in that movie was anything making sense.Aljosa23

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Event Horizon was awesome. It was a great retelling of the Hellraiser story in space. In fact, I thought it was quite a bit better than Hellraiser. It was also clearly a huge inspiration of the Dead Space games. The movie was panned in its day, but it has gone on to become a cult film.

bigfoot2045

How so? The special effects were amazing for the time, and hold up well even today. It was actually scary. And Sam Neill gave a great performance. Event Horizon is seriously underrated. It's one of the best horror films ever made IMO.

Sure the special effects are nice. But being one of the bests horror films ever doesn't say much considering there pretty much are no good ones.

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[QUOTE="themajormayor"] It's a crap film. Just like Hellraiser for that matter. Only redeeming factor is Lawrence Fishburn. themajormayor

How so? The special effects were amazing for the time, and hold up well even today. It was actually scary. And Sam Neill gave a great performance. Event Horizon is seriously underrated. It's one of the best horror films ever made IMO.

Sure the special effects are nice. But being one of the bests horror films ever doesn't say much considering there pretty much are no good ones.

The Shining? Rosemary's Baby? Alien? Lots of good horror movies. I just take it you've never seen them.

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[QUOTE="bigfoot2045"]

How so? The special effects were amazing for the time, and hold up well even today. It was actually scary. And Sam Neill gave a great performance. Event Horizon is seriously underrated. It's one of the best horror films ever made IMO.

bigfoot2045

Sure the special effects are nice. But being one of the bests horror films ever doesn't say much considering there pretty much are no good ones.

The Shining? Rosemary's Baby? Alien? Lots of good horror movies. I just take it you've never seen them.

The Shining was meh. Alien was ok but not because of the horror elements really. It was the solid script and actors

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[QUOTE="themajormayor"]

Sure the special effects are nice. But being one of the bests horror films ever doesn't say much considering there pretty much are no good ones.

themajormayor

The Shining? Rosemary's Baby? Alien? Lots of good horror movies. I just take it you've never seen them.

The Shining was meh. Alien was ok but not because of the horror elements really. It was the solid script and actors

If you don't like The Shining, then you clearly don't like the horror genre at all. That concludes this discussion.

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The Shining? Rosemary's Baby? Alien? Lots of good horror movies. I just take it you've never seen them.

bigfoot2045

The Shining was meh. Alien was ok but not because of the horror elements really. It was the solid script and actors

If you don't like The Shining, then you clearly don't like the horror genre at all. That concludes this discussion.

Return of the King.

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[QUOTE="bigfoot2045"]

The Shining? Rosemary's Baby? Alien? Lots of good horror movies. I just take it you've never seen them.

bigfoot2045

The Shining was meh. Alien was ok but not because of the horror elements really. It was the solid script and actors

If you don't like The Shining, then you clearly don't like the horror genre at all. That concludes this discussion.

Most people hated The Shining when it first came out.

I didn't even hear about I Am Legend's alternative ending until recently tbh. I just went out of the movie theater and never gave the film a second thought, but man if the other ending had happened I think the movie would have left me with at least some sort of impression.

Return of the King.

-Sun_Tzu-

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[QUOTE="themajormayor"]

Sure the special effects are nice. But being one of the bests horror films ever doesn't say much considering there pretty much are no good ones.

themajormayor

The Shining? Rosemary's Baby? Alien? Lots of good horror movies. I just take it you've never seen them.

Alien was ok but not because of the horror elements really

This is why your opinions suck.

[QUOTE="-Sun_Tzu-"]

Return of the King.

Aljosa23

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkwmcoK5bQ1qgj47l.jpg[/img]-Sun_Tzu-

If you want to fault it for something, mention the deus ex machina ghost army.

Return of the King's ending was perfect, hombre.

If you want to fault it for something, mention the deus ex machina ghost army.

Aljosa23

Schindler's list. The entire film was brilliant until the ultra cheesy ending.

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[QUOTE="themajormayor"]

The Shining was meh. Alien was ok but not because of the horror elements really. It was the solid script and actors

DharmaMember77

If you don't like The Shining, then you clearly don't like the horror genre at all. That concludes this discussion.

Most people hated The Shining when it first came out.

The ending to Prometheus was kinda silly imo.

Event Horizon was awesome. It was a great retelling of the Hellraiser story in space. In fact, I thought it was quite a bit better than Hellraiser. It was also clearly a huge inspiration of the Dead Space games. The movie was panned in its day, but it has gone on to become a cult film.bigfoot2045

I watched it for the first time recently and thought it was hilariously awful. Not even in the sense that the effects are dated. The characters are all clichés and the movie relies almost entirely on jump scares (even when nothing particularly scary should be happening) and the belief that speaking Latin is somehow scary. The writing is terrible too.

Pandorum could have been a good Event Horizon type film if they hadn't added the monsters at the end. Could have been a really good space/psychological film. Same with Sunshine.Big_Bad_Sad

No country for old men

animorphsfan

I was also disappointed with Inception's ending. It started out with a very unique and original concept, but at the end deteriorated into a generic action flick with guns and huge explosions. It was like the writers ran out of ideas. They were in dreams, they could've done anything. But no, we get a cheesy blast-o-thon on a snowy mountaintop. Awesome.

Uncharted 3. Where was Jason Statham and his broken legs? And that boss fight was just horrible

American History X is the one I remember now.

It wasnt bad per se, it was...

[spoiler] ...just a bit sad seeing the kid get killed after the main character came around. [/spoiler]

[QUOTE="bigfoot2045"]Event Horizon was awesome. It was a great retelling of the Hellraiser story in space. In fact, I thought it was quite a bit better than Hellraiser. It was also clearly a huge inspiration of the Dead Space games. The movie was panned in its day, but it has gone on to become a cult film.Pffrbt

I watched it for the first time recently and thought it was hilariously awful. Not even in the sense that the effects are dated. The characters are all clichés and the movie relies almost entirely on jump scares (even when nothing particularly scary should be happening) and the belief that speaking Latin is somehow scary. The writing is terrible too.

Yeah Event Horizon is a pretty terrible movie. Bought the DVD for cheap a while back on a whim as I had heard it was some great cult film. Movie was an absolute piece of **** that I went and sold not too long after...

Anyways, in terms of good movies with bad endings I would say It is a great example of this. You have hours of great scares with an interesting villain it finishes wth...

[spoiler] a lame ******* transformation into some stupid giant spider where they kill it in the lamest way possible,,, [/spoiler]

Insidious would get a mention here too if I didn't love the VERY end of the movie. After falling off a bit I thought the way the movie finished was pretty awesome!

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You talking about when the father starts the astral projection to go find the kid? Or starting sooner than that? I still really like that movie, but that father definitely held it down a bit. Just wasn't a strong performance. I loved the story, and they way most of the tension was built up throughout the beginning and middle, though. But I just really like Leah Whannell. I can't wait for him to make more movies.

firestar571

Thats really where it lost me, but I also asnt a fan of the paranormal team. Felt out of place to me. I agree that build up of tension was fantastic, I just with they had delivered a better ending after having such a solid start.

[QUOTE="Big_Bad_Sad"]Pandorum could have been a good Event Horizon type film if they hadn't added the monsters at the end. Could have been a really good space/psychological film. Same with Sunshine.themajormayor

Wat

American History X is the one I remember now.

It wasnt bad per se, it was...

[spoiler] ...just a bit sad seeing the kid get killed after the main character came around. [/spoiler]

Teenaged

Law Abiding Citizen. Movie was pretty good until it got to the end.-Renegade

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[QUOTE="bigfoot2045"]Event Horizon was awesome. It was a great retelling of the Hellraiser story in space. In fact, I thought it was quite a bit better than Hellraiser. It was also clearly a huge inspiration of the Dead Space games. The movie was panned in its day, but it has gone on to become a cult film.LostProphetFLCL

I watched it for the first time recently and thought it was hilariously awful. Not even in the sense that the effects are dated. The characters are all clichés and the movie relies almost entirely on jump scares (even when nothing particularly scary should be happening) and the belief that speaking Latin is somehow scary. The writing is terrible too.

Insidious would get a mention here too if I didn't love the VERY end of the movie. After falling off a bit I thought the way the movie finished was pretty awesome!

agreed, i also agree with the people who said it went downhill when the old lady and her people got involved. it was kinda hard to take it seriously after that

American History X is the one I remember now.

It wasnt bad per se, it was...

[spoiler] ...just a bit sad seeing the kid get killed after the main character came around. [/spoiler]

Teenaged