Worst. Ending. Ever.

[standokan]

No country for old men

Was a decent action/thriller movie until the very end when it wraps up the plot in about 3 minutes then puts in some philosophical bullshit in order to justify it.

I think you missed the point. I suppose I should put this in spoiler tags.

Spoiler

The ending was supposed to be blunt and unhappy. The supposed "good protagonist" died for greed and stubbornness, and it ended in the possible death of his wife and family.

Tommy Lee Jone's character expresses that whoever the bad guy was had destroyed his view of a good and clean world. So he retired. Because he was afraid of death.

It was a very human and realistic ending.

I agree wholeheartedly, the ending fit the movie's "gritty realism" and to me it really didn't feel that abrupt.

Though I must say I thought

Spoiler

Tommy Lee Jones was going to die at the end, as "one day away from retirement cop characters" often do.

An interting theory about No Country For Old Men is that

Spoiler

Tommy Lee Jones is Chigurh (the bad guy), trying to clean up the mess his town has become before he retires whilst erasing all the traces he left behind (I like this theory as a mindblow but nothing more than that).

 

[woodaba]

As much as I hate to say it, KOTOR II.

The Restored Content mod restored and made it frankly, amazing, but the original game's ending was pure gobshite.

Spoiler

Run down a hallway filled with pathetically easy mooks, talk a zombie to death, punch an old woman in the face, your ship comes back to life, and you fly away. Boom. The End.

 

[Iwata]

Evangelion- either you're doing a mecha show with some light metaphysical tones, or "2001: A Space Odissey". You DON'T jump-clutch from one to the other!

 

[Vigormortis]

Hmm...I may have to think on this. Mainly because I can list a LOT of bad endings. I'll try to keep it brief.

Spoiler: Games

Halo 2 - This is one of the most egregious "build up into a sequel" moments I've ever seen in a game. It literally just stops mid-scene to roll credits. Just...what the hell Bungie? I know the campaign was shit, but to end it even worse? Yeck.

Borderlands - Self explanatory. The whole game; dialog, missions, locales; is built on lore and build-up to the mythical "Vault". Once you reach the end? You find out killing the guardian closes the vault, thus meaning you'll have to wait a few hundred years for it to open again. I mean, really? Fuck you Gearbox. If the sequel is yet another "carrot-on-a-stick" story built around Diablo 2-FPS edition, I swear I'll...guh. Just, never mind.

Half-Life 2: Episode 2 - Don't misunderstand. I LOVED this ending. It was powerful and emotional. However, to leave us on that big of a cliff-hanger, to then make us wait years to see a conclusion, is just frustrating

Spoiler: Television

Battlestar Galactica (new) - I'm not even sure where to begin with this ending. The entire series was fantastically written. Just phenomenal sci-fi space opera. Hell, it still has some of my favorite season-ending cliff-hangers. (season 3 especially) But, that last episode.... Good lord, what the hell happened? It just felt so awkward. Did NOT fit the rest of the show at all.

Stargate Universe - I know the show was cancelled after season 2 (something that still irks me as it was far superior to the other two shows), but...well...talk about a non-ending. It felt as if, if you were reading the plot to someone, that they just said, "So they all went to sleep and rode off into the blackness of space."

Spoiler: Films

No Country For Old Men - I wasn't that fond of this film. In fact, I'm generally not that big on most of the Coen Brothers films. (I know, how dare I. 'course, I feel Tarantino is FAR more overrated, which earns me just as much ire.) Still, even the most die-hard of Coen fans has to admit this film had a hell of a weak ending. It felt like they realized at the last minute they forgot to cover all of the key, plot points and philosophical discussions present in the book, so they hurriedly crowbarred it all in there in the last five to ten minutes.

War of the Worlds (2005) - I actually loved Spielbergs adaptation of Wells novel. It was dark, exciting, and contemplative (despite it's flaws). Yet, the ending was just awful. Not that I have a problem with a happy ending. It's just that this one felt both ham-handed and illogical. (and I don't mean how the aliens were defeated. that I'm okay with as it was in Wells novel.)

As for books, well, I've read quite a few. (I read a lot) But whenever I've read a book I didn't like, for a bad story or bad ending, I tend to forget it quickly. Purposefully. If I thought about it more, I could probably list some. Just as if I wanted to think on it more I could list far better examples then the ones I've listed above in the spoilers. But, I've already wasted enough time today. So back to work.

 

[rayen020]

firstly in response to the title; thats what she said! ziiiiiiiing1

bad endings?hmmm...

movie;transformers 2
just didn't sit well with me for reason. I don't particularly like the movies in general, but that ending just didn't work for me at all...

Videogame; crash bandicoot 3. Not so much the story ending as the ending gameplay. 1 and 2 were like f-ing endurance challenges. the ending of 3 you were so bogged down with specials and abilities you were an unstoppable marsupial murder machine.

Book;The ending of Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. Just that book. It didn't ruin the series for me but it did ruin that book for me. Of all the Books in the HP series it's the only one i've read once.

These are all only for me. I don't particularly hate any of these properties. They just had endings that didn't sit well with me for some undefinable reason.

 

[A Shadows Age]

Red Dead Redemption

no, seriously fuck that game

fuck that game for ripping out my heart and stomping on while sadistically yelling at me and telling my all my hopes and dreams are doomed to fail while punhing me in the face and making me cry

fuck that game

You do realize that there are two endings, don't you ? look for the question mark in blackwater after you finish off dutch...

are you talking about....

[spoiler/] playing as Jack marston after the finale? in regards to that I'll repost what I said before

ahh but thats the even MORE depressing part of it

SPOILERS

Jack marston became just like his father...a lost soul riding aorund gunslinging..its exactally what Jhon and Abagail DIDN'T want

essentially his fathers past..that asshole FBI guy defined who Jack became, John faild in every way possible, and Im pretty sure Jack isnt happy or living up to what could have been [/spoiler]

No, I'm not. I said two endings. What your referring to is the continuation of the story after John... Like I said, blackwater, question mark, after dutch if I remember correctly, been a while.

 

[Relaver]

The end of RAGE. They better make a second one.

 

[Bluelaughter]

Ghoul School (NES) comes to mind. Not really the worst, but just made me the angriest.

Spoiler

You fight an entire school full of ghouls to save this girl and she just rejects you in the end.

Thought FFX had a great ending. Don't even think the ending of KOTOR II really counts as an ending. Fable II ending sucked too, but wasn't the worst ever.

 

[Iwata]

No one mentioned the ending to Lost yet?

Really any series could end that way, but it's almost as bad as it was all a dream ending. Besides that most things that really mattered like all about the island was answered in a rushed or disappointing way. In the end it showed that the ending wasn't really planned in advance at all.

Nothing in that series was planned in advance. All my friends RAVED about "Lost". I watched the pilot, and thought it was brilliant. But by the time I finished season 1, it was clear that the writers had no frickin' idea what to do with the show. And it got worse as the series progressed. Most overrated series EVER!

 

[mrdude2010]

Fable 2, I mean seriously...

On a side not: Mah boi, use the spoiler tags!

Have to second Fable 2. Fight a decently easy floating thingy and then face off against... oh wait that WAS the final fight? -__-

Agreed. Those fucking floating towers with the blades that chase you around that haunted place posed more of a threat.

 

[Dfskelleton]

Blood II. That game was not only full of horrible design choices, but the ending was just plain awful.

Spoiler

Okay, so you defeat Gideon, who was the (really goofy) antagonist up until that point, and Caleb then proceeds to duel with "The Ancient One". I remember no mention of "The Ancient One" up until after I defeated Gideon. After killing The Ancient One (which is essentially a giant meatball with tentacles), then another character shows up and says "You must seal the rifts Caleb! The power is within you!". He then flies into the air, then the game cuts to the end credits featuring the 4 Chosen doing a walk cycle.

Oh, and I couldn't go without putting this gem of stupidity:
The Doom Novels.
Okay, so the first and second books were fine. They added a bit more of a plot to Doom's frenetic psychofest, and it was fairly interesting. Then, on the count of book 3, the series hit looneytown. Please note that I am not making ANY of this up (as hard as it may be to believe). If you think I am, please, go ahead. Read them. Be my guest.
I'm only putting it in spoiler tags because it's a wall of text. Not because I don't want to spoil anything for you.

Spoiler

So after a brief period of peace after the events of Doom II, our heroes learn that the demons are not actually demons, but genetically engineered war machines created by a species of aliens known as "The Freds" (who are described as long armed metal torsos with one chicken foot and a head resembling a stalk of asparagus). The protagonists must then travel far into outer space with the help of two space gorillas named Sears and Roebuck. Sears and Roebuck tell our heroes that the Freds are but one faction in an intergalactic war... about books. Yes, you heard me. Books. The Freds attacked Earth because humans are the one beings in the universe that can actually die (for good). The rest of them just become ghosts until they can find a new body. Our heroes then board a Fred ship and begin battling through their ranks. It is around here that my memory becomes a bit less complete, so I only remember so many parts. Most of the rest was incoherent nonsense. The protagonists take a teleport to the home planet of the Freds, where they find the place in ruins. It turns out that the Freds were attacked by another group of genetic experiments called (and yes, I'm being serious) "The Newbies Soobies". The Newbies Soobies wiped out the Fred planet in a matter of days, and our heroes join another group of space travelers to wage war on the Newbies Soobies. It turns out that the Newbies Soobies had devolved into microscopic parasites that were posessing the members of the crew. They then attach the two heroes to devices that force them into their own memories. It is here that the main protagonist (Doomguy) realizes that he can alter the physics of the dimension itself, by forcing himself to remember differently. He makes all the demons (I mean genetic experiments that only LOOK like demons) worship him as a God, so they can... I don't even remember why he was making a demon army. Suddenly, for NO reason at all, the protagonists are out of the memory machine and back on earth. On earth, in the millions of years that our heroes have been gone, the planet has been redesigned with diamond (because I guess in the new world diamond was cheaper to produce than dirt) and abandoned. After a bit of exploration, with NO reason given, the heroes are back in the memory machine. They find a Newbie soul (which I guess is a giant sponge) and carry it around before deciding that they will stay in the memory machine forever and recreate earth the way it was before. The end.

 

[Vault101]

Red Dead Redemption

no, seriously fuck that game

fuck that game for ripping out my heart and stomping on while sadistically yelling at me and telling my all my hopes and dreams are doomed to fail while punhing me in the face and making me cry

fuck that game

You do realize that there are two endings, don't you ? look for the question mark in blackwater after you finish off dutch...

are you talking about....

[spoiler/] playing as Jack marston after the finale? in regards to that I'll repost what I said before

ahh but thats the even MORE depressing part of it

SPOILERS

Jack marston became just like his father...a lost soul riding aorund gunslinging..its exactally what Jhon and Abagail DIDN'T want

essentially his fathers past..that asshole FBI guy defined who Jack became, John faild in every way possible, and Im pretty sure Jack isnt happy or living up to what could have been [/spoiler]

No, I'm not. I said two endings. What your referring to is the continuation of the story after John... Like I said, blackwater, question mark, after dutch if I remember correctly, been a while.

............really?

THIS requires further investigation...TO THE DELORAN PLAYSTATION!

..ohh wait..Im at work..dammit

 

[Amaury_games]

To me, few things get so bad as the ending to the movie adaptation of "The Dreamcatcher", from Stephen King (the whole movie is all over the place and everything after the beginning is crap, but the ending is seriously infuriating). As I don't know how to hide text, I won't spoil this, even if I think no one in their sane mind will ever want to see this waste of time of a movie.

 

[TheSteeleStrap]

Since this is an off topic discussion, I'm giving a book as an example. Stephen King's Cell. The story is greaat and it's a really good book, but the end is a cock slap. (Trying to avoid a spoiler) I guess they wanted us to gather our own conclusion as to whether it worked out like the protagonist wanted it to. Did it work? I like to think it did.

 

[Reaper69lol]

Id's Rage. Why did I even bother with that game?

 

[Viridian]

Repeated use of Ctrl f says that this thread has gone a full five page without any mention of Stephen King's The Mist, the film, not the book. I haven't read the book, so I can't judge it, but the movie? MY GODS THAT ENDING.

If you've seen the movie, then you know how stupid the ending is. If you haven't, consider yourself better for it.

 

[Innegativeion]

Ever since Fable II the series seems to fall flat on its face when it comes to final confrontations and subsequent resolutions.

So I go with that.

 

[TheLoneTerran]

Halo 2. That was so disappointing. I still remember that feel when Master Chief warps in around Earth, and because of the motto, "Finish the Fight!" I was getting pumped for a massive showdown. Then it ended. I played it again just to make sure it didn't glitch. F that. Didn't even purchase or play Halo 3 because of how disappointed I was with the series.

 

[greatcheezer2021]

harry potter series. i was hoping that brat died and STAYED DEAD. imagine how loud i cursed the LORD when i skipped to the end of the 7th book and didnt bother with that hocus pocus elder wand crap stuff, i let the moovy explain it all.

another worst ending i can think of is games with multiple endings, and literally the worst one you get is because your character somewhere along the line fucked up real good.

 

[LordSchucker]

Gears of War 2
Bioshock (great game but it should of ended at Andrew Ryan's part)
Star Wars Episode 3 "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"