Greatest Ending to a film

[Stat Brother]

Angels With Dirty Faces
(where Cagney goes to the chair begging for mercy in front of the kids who idolized him, after telling the priest he wouldn't play chicken for anyone. Astounding.)

going yella, who'd thought it

 

[OzMike]

ball tampering, the revenge of warne , or blade runner

Pick which one is the film, it's a multiple choice question I see.

 

[Essan128]

"Carrie"

Everyone thinks its all over and are about to put their coats/kettles on and as she tends to the grave - out pops a hand from the ground - made everyone in the cinema scream (some of the lads too maybe).

10 out of 10 for impact !

Many years have past since I saw this at the cinema, but I remember to this day the reaction of the audiance. Exactly as you discribed!

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The 1956 original – not the reamake. One of the most chilling endings ever.

 

[perseus]

Easyrider

The Long Good Friday.

Easyrider

 

[The Large One]

E.T. - it was f***ing GREAT when that ended...

 

[DerbyGull]

Hahaha is that some kind of sick joke? That is the WORST ending to a film that I've ever seen. It actually made me angry that I'd wasted the past hour of my life watching the film.

I though it was good

 

[foul old ron]

Bad Lieutenant.

 

[Questions]

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
(where the chief suffocates the lobotomized Randle Murphy, then walks out the window with his body)

That good was it that you cant even remember it properly NMH.
He runs through the window with the water closet/fountain which MCMURPHY tried and failed to lift. That was the whole point of the ending.......

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

E.T. - it was f***ing GREAT when that ended...

 

[Questions]

TITANIC

Still can't believe they let it sink

Oh thats it !

f***ing ruin it for everyone who hasn`t seen it.

 

[FamilyGuy]

Easyrider

Good call!

 

[defrocked priest]

ball tampering, the revenge of warne , or blade runner

Didn't Blade Runner have like three alternate endings ?

 

[Barrow Boy]

Psycho 2
Actions speak louder then words, and this is the best 'shovel to the head' ending to a film ever, complete with a Tom & Jerry style 'Boing' sound effect, classic!

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[stupendor]

No one mentioned Saw? great twist, totally took me by surprise. And Fight club

 

[Muzzman]

Get Carter

"Goodbye, Eric!"

 

[Fungus]

Somebody said it but the mist has the most horrible ghastly ending i can ever remember seeing,the film itself was so so but the ending ,total mind fk

Yeah, I'd vote against The Mist, because of the ending. Not that it shouldn't have happened, but because they wouldn't have given up so quickly.

 

[Wilko]

As someone else has mentioned I like endings that do not always complete the story but leave you thinking. I really liked the ending of Lost in translation because you do not know what they say to each other at the end, nor do you really know whether their relationship is platonic or not.

For the same reason I like the inconclusive and ambiguous ending of Donnie Darko.

 

[Spun Cuppa]

'Field of Dreams'

Oedipal head fu*ker

 

[fire&skill]

The Lives Of Others

Bloody Hell. Was just coming on to write that. Good job I read through before posting.

That - and Jenny Agutter shouting 'Daddy! My Daddy!' at the end of The Railway Children. Both still make me blub.