Unexpected Endings.

[hottsaucekid]

I was watching Click and the ending wasn't what i expected and I thought i'd ask you guys have you ever seen a movie that the ending wasn't what u expected? (please say which movie and add spoilers if you're going to say how it ended.)


EDIT:game endings work too but i guess you all already figured that out. XP

 

[Tharwen]

I thought the ending to Click was awful and clichéd. If you're going to make a sad ending, it makes the audience feel cheated if you then turn around and say, "Hey! Actually, we're just pulling your leg! It's not a sad ending after all!" because it means they were just crying for nothing.

I think the ending of Crank was fairly unexpected...

 

[delet]

Spoiler: Pan's Labyrinth

The horribly bittersweet ending of the girl (Her name alludes me at the moment) being shot and killed, then the main antagonist (Whose name also alludes me at the moment) comes out side and meets the Guerrillas fighters. He then breaks his watch and asks them to give him the watch to his son so he knows his time of death, but then they tell him flat out "No" and shoot him between the eyes.

I didn't expect it at all, and it makes me cry every time...

Oh, also:

Spoiler: Real Time

Completely didn't expect... the guy who was going to kill the other guy (Vague, I know!) to turn the gun on himself and give the protagonist money to pay off his debt. I bawled at the end of that movie.

Heavy spoilers all around...

 

[snowman6251]

The Sixth Sense because it was like "OMGWTFBBQ" when it first came out.

Shame that M. Night hasn't made a decent movie since that one.

 

[Snarky Username]

I was the only one who saw the ending to Click coming. There's no way such a feel-good movie would just end like that.

 

[Mr. Gency]

The Sixth Sense because it was like "OMGWTFBBQ" when it first came out.

Shame that M. Night hasn't made a decent movie since that one.

That and War of the Worlds.

 

[Mr. Gency]

I was the only one who saw the ending to Click coming. There's no way such a feel-good movie would just end like that.

I think I stopped caring by the end so I didn't even bother trying to guess what would happen.

 

[MKScorpion]

The endings to Se7en and Fight Club (well actually the big reveal) surprised the hell out of me.

 

[snowman6251]

The Sixth Sense because it was like "OMGWTFBBQ" when it first came out.

Shame that M. Night hasn't made a decent movie since that one.

That and War of the Worlds.

Was the surprise that everyone thought it was real and went hysterical?

 

[Nickthequick]

The ending to any movie involving time travel, multiple dimensions or any variation involving warping reality.

 

[hottsaucekid]

The endings to Se7en and Fight Club (well actually the big reveal) surprised the hell out of me.

Fight Club was pretty crazy. Great Movie.

 

[Thedayrecker]

Fight Club.

Spoiler

Even after figuring out he was Tyler Durden, there still was the attempted suicide at the end

God I love that movie

 

[Riddle78]

On a video game endings note...
Warcraft II:Beyond the Dark Portal. Human campaign. When I learn to use spoiler sections,I'll reveal the details in a Spoiler'd section,preceeded by the word Edit'd.
Edit'd:

Spoiler: WCII:BtDP Human Campaign Ending

Khadgar and his men are victorious in their attempt to destroy the Dark Portals to prevent another Orcish invasion of Azeroth/Lorderon,but he destroys the Portals from Draenor,stranding himself and his men in a world that is now literaly tearing itself to pieces,due to the combined energies of five Dark Portals being opened so close to eachother. They then wak into "The Twisting Nether",so either they died on contacting such a powerful and raw source of magic,or they got sent to another world/dimension.

 

[Mr. Gency]

The Sixth Sense because it was like "OMGWTFBBQ" when it first came out.

Shame that M. Night hasn't made a decent movie since that one.

That and War of the Worlds.

Was the surprise that everyone thought it was real and went hysterical?

I'm talking about how all the aliens die from bacteria. (highlight to find out what the ending is)

 

[snowman6251]

The Sixth Sense because it was like "OMGWTFBBQ" when it first came out.

Shame that M. Night hasn't made a decent movie since that one.

That and War of the Worlds.

Was the surprise that everyone thought it was real and went hysterical?

I'm talking about how all the aliens die from bacteria. (highlight to find out what the ending is)

Yeah yeah I know but I like my plot twist better. Its significantly more surprising.

 

[Daniel Cygnus]

Night of the Living Dead has probably one of the most surprising endings ever. Just try to say you saw that coming, I dare you.

 

[Kermi]

I thought the ending to Click was awful and clichéd. If you're going to make a sad ending, it makes the audience feel cheated if you then turn around and say, "Hey! Actually, we're just pulling your leg! It's not a sad ending after all!" because it means they were just crying for nothing.

I think the ending of Crank was fairly unexpected...

Most American films turn out this way. Test audiences don't like tragedies, and a poor audience reaction means poor ticket sales. Anytime a filmmaker tries to make a movie with a downer ending it almost always gets cut in favour of something more appealing, no matter how pointless and stupid it is.

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

The ending to any movie involving time travel, multiple dimensions or any variation involving warping reality.

You're saying you never expect how those movies end...?


I'd have to say Oldboy takes the cake for me.

 

[VladimirSirin]

I thought the ending to Click was awful and clichéd. If you're going to make a sad ending, it makes the audience feel cheated if you then turn around and say, "Hey! Actually, we're just pulling your leg! It's not a sad ending after all!" because it means they were just crying for nothing.

I think the ending of Crank was fairly unexpected...

Most American films turn out this way. Test audiences don't like tragedies, and a poor audience reaction means poor ticket sales. Anytime a filmmaker tries to make a movie with a downer ending it almost always gets cut in favour of something more appealing, no matter how pointless and stupid it is.

Which is why films based on novels always miss the point by a wide margin.

"I Am Legend" was a real mind freak at the end of the novel. The movie....er....not so much.



.....I've read quite a few books with unexpected endings. Usually in as much as they HAVE NO ENDING. Stupid post-modernism.

Margaret Atwood's "Oryx and Crake", for example, could have been one of the best sci-fi novels ever written. But it went from a serious critique of capitalism to a bad comic book in the last 20 pages or so.

 

[Nickthequick]

The ending to any movie involving time travel, multiple dimensions or any variation involving warping reality.

You're saying you never expect how those movies end...?


I'd have to say Oldboy takes the cake for me.

Never seen it but to be specific the ending to Bender's Big Score.