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This is mine, one of my favourite films of all time:

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In reply to Denni: Usual suspects?

In reply to Denni:

Easyrider?

In reply to Denni:

I really liked the ending to The Ghost Writer


But don't discuss it.. spoiler alert!

In reply to Denni: The best ending was the ending to the "US remake" of "The Wickerman".

In reply to Denni:

You mean this kind of Thing ......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA4Ozqt7338&list=PLL992IZ67H6E_LK_7YAXN8...

In reply to Denni: There have been some good ones. One which has been on tonight ends with "He was a soldier of Rome. Who will help me carry him?", which is a damn fine conclusion.

T.

In reply to Denni: Trainspotting, Gladiator or The Shinning.

In reply to Denni:

The 1973 "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3" freeze-frame on Matthau's face.
Spike Lee's "The 25th Hour"
Se7en
The Third Man
Watchmen
The Hill
The Professionals
Carlito's Way
The Godfather, Part II
reservoir Dogs
The Blue Lagoon (yes really)
Right At My Door
The Spanish Prisoner
The Verdict
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Requiem for a Dream
The Ides of March
The Prestige
eXistenZ
Savior
A Clockwork Orange
Solaris (Tarkovsky - not seen Soderbergh's version yet)
Point Break
Salvador
Blow-Up
Blow Out
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (yes, really! Just the end)

In reply to Blue Straggler:

Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
The Crazies (at least the Breck Eisner remake which is the only version I've seen)
Ice Cold in Alex
Aguirre, Wrath of God (and for that matter, Fitzcarraldo)

In reply to Denni:
sideways

just left that lovely frisson of not knowing

In reply to Denni: Repo Man=delightfully nuts.

In reply to Removed Userena sharples:

Oh yes that reminds me
Kiss Me Deadly (Repo Man's ending references this directly, you see)

In reply to Denni:

Odd Man Out
Build My Gallows High (aka Out of the Past)
and how could I forget...
Angel Heart !

In reply to Denni:

Casablanca.

In reply to Denni:

Butch and Sundance.

In reply to JGF:

Don't be silly, it is the only point in the film that that get close to historical fact. The Italian Job fits the description for me though, I understand the sensibilities of the time meant they would not get away with it.

In reply to Denni:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

In reply to Denni:

Shawshank redemption

In reply to Removed User:
The Shawshank Redemption? Really?
Are you should you didnt mean to post this in the other thread??
That's the sloppiest mawkiest (?) ending ever. It should have finished 10 minutes earlier and skipped that awful reunion on the beach scene...then it would have been a cracker!

In reply to kieran b:

I fear that this thread will attract a lot of this sort of thing (Thelma & Louise and so on...). In many ways I regret a few from my long list! Se7en is a bit "obvious" isn't it. Mmm

In reply to kieran b:

But it was the right ending for that film. And yes, I'm sticking with it as one of my favourites.

Along with:

The Deer Hunter
The Bridges of Madison County
Unforgiven
Leon
Lonesome dove

In reply to Denni:

Best ending to a film?

Extreme Bukkake 08

In reply to Blue Straggler:

That's bollox Blue and you know it. Good endings don't have to be hard or sad or cold, they just have to be appropriate.

In reply to MJ:

I found the ending just kept coming, long after it was due, a little like AI:artificial intelligence.

I put my coat on twice at the cinema, and it still wasn't over. AI, Not Bukkake 08

But my favourite Ending, UP. Great film

In reply to Removed User:

What in God's holy Name are you babbling about? 10 of mine are unambiguously NOT cold, hard or sad. Some others are ambiguous and could be read as hard or not.

In reply to Blue Straggler:

I"m "babbling" about your response, not your list of films.

In reply to Denni:

District 9

In reply to Blue Straggler:

+1 for the ending to 'The Third Man'. Which is also I think one of the best films there is.

In reply to Denni:

Electra Glide in Blue.

In reply to Denni:

Troll Hunter
In Bruges

In reply to Denni:

The Big Country

In reply to Denni: original italian job

In reply to Denni:

Arlington Road was a bit of a suprise...

Jaws - cos I saw it in a cinema when I was about seven years old. Gave me nightmares for years.

Alien - Sigourney Weaver in her white skimpies fighting the alien creature.

Schindlers List - it was a good touch bringing the actors and the real people together leaving pebbles on Oscar Schindler's grave.

In reply to Denni:

The final and prophetic words of an all time and space dimension classic...

youtube.com/watch?v=_seKyGYlTHY&

In reply to Removed User:

"What in God's holy Name are you babbling about?" is a movie reference! Thought you would spot it.

I like the ending of To Die For. It's not that good a film and the end is inevitable and a bit obvious, but it's nicely done.

In reply to Denni:

Just remembered -

"The Player"

In reply to MJ:

Don't you think that after 01 - 07 the ending was a bit predictable? It's like they want to keep milking it forever.

In reply to Denni: Confessions of a dangerous mind. Simple but effective.

In reply to Blue Straggler: Good list of film endings , I particularly like Blow up,
Can I add Zabriski point to your list.

The road I thought was good, I was prepared for a soppy ending where they all live happy ever after but liked the way it hammered home the trust each other theme.

And the French animated film renaissance had a good ending,


And for a tv series the end to dexter, the series with john lithgow in, has a brilliant ending.

In reply to gd303uk: : Once upon a time in America, most Sergio leone films have brilliant endings.

Old boy
My own private Idaho
Midnight cowboy

In reply to Denni:
Ah well, if we're including tv series

Then the finale to 6 feet under has got to be the best ever. I was come rely lost for words and in floods of tears for some time afterwards

In reply to tom_in_edinburgh:

...The endings tend to be a bit "in your face" and sloppy for mainstream.
Sub-titles are distracting as well....

In reply to Denni:

"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, its dark and we're wearing sunglasses.........Hit it!

In reply to kieran b:

Then Blackadder 4 would win hands down for me. Chilling.

In reply to Denni:

Apocalypse now

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In reply to Denni: Italian Job......the original one

In reply to Denni: I thought the ending to The Game was very good.

In reply to muttley_109:

Has a number of different endings I think.

In reply to Denni:

La Strada
The Seventh Seal
Shane
Some Like it Hot
The Swimmer
Thelma & Louise
The Third Man

I realise that apart from the comedy classic, they are all sad. No wonder I can't enjoy most modern films with their insufferable happy endings!

Even a film like High Noon has an ending which I don't think they could make anymore. He just throws the sheriff's badge down in the dirt.

Or, Sweet Charity, if remade today would have the hero running through Central Park and across the bridge because audiences today can't accept anything else.

Although, that said, Sean Penn bucked the trend with "Into the Wild". And, Ang Lee with "Crouching Tiger" and "Brokeback Mountain".

In reply to Denni:

Return of the Jedi, with Yoda, Obi Wan and Anakin reunited.

Andy F

In reply to Denni:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

In reply to shaggypops:

Without a doubt!!! Italian Job all the way!!

In reply to Denni: Amadeus. The last few moments are so bleak...

In reply to count:

I agree that the Italian Job ending is superb

Also loved the end of Gran Torino

In reply to Denni:
Dr Strangelove.

In reply to Denni:

Fight Club, if only for the music.

In reply to Blue Straggler:

Loving your missing punctuation marks.


The sixth sense;totally surprised.
Come and see;some righteous revenge to release the anger.
Dr. Strangelove;bizarre and sad.
Ghost; tears everytime.

In reply to Denni:

Inception

In reply to Denni:
The Big Blue

In reply to Denni:

Cinema Paradiso has a particularly memorable ending. Memento does too, although it's also the beginning. Being There with Peter Sellers has a good ending also.

In reply to Pero:

Most old films had happy endings too. You have simply cherry-picked some that didn't. Just as much of a proportion of modern films have bleak or ambiguous endings. It's got nothing to do with how old a film is. With respect, you are viewing the past through rose tinted spectacles, I think. You even list some examples of modern films with bleak endings yourself!

Now, go and check out Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

I gather The Mist has a belter of an ending too, but I have not seen that one.

In reply to Blue Straggler:

Or they have a happy ending made for the US market, like Big Blue ;0)
Originall ending is much better ofcourse.

In reply to Mikkel: Not a movie, but the end of The Sopranos was good and started an argument with the wife about what had just happened

In reply to Blue Straggler:

The Mist DOES have a belter of an ending. As does The Proposition from a few years ago.

If you want a modern film with a great ending, try Take Shelter. One of those endings that leaves you with goosebumps..

In reply to Denni:


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - the Chief smothers McMurphy with a pillow then throws the wash unit through the window and strides off to freedom. Accompanied by that odd, Theramin like, wavering soundtrack.

The Wild Bunch; (or perhaps Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid).

In reply to Denni: simple, michael manns heat, can anything beat seeing di niro and pacino shoot it out to that awesome soundtrack from Moby? perfection.

In reply to Tommy Gunn:

'cept the outcome should have been the other way round.

In reply to Tommy Gunn:

It's barely a shoot-out though, is it? Yes there is a shot (or two), but only after about 9 minutes of slow jogging around an airfield

In reply to Blue Straggler:



They probably were all shoot-outed out after that one earlier in the film after the robbery. Good shoot out that.

In reply to Sebastian Fontleroy:

Andy McNab choreographed it, and on UKC he seems to be persona non grata, like Bear Grylls, so it follows that you are no longer allowed to like that shootout :-P

In reply to Blue Straggler:

I plough my own trough. I know what i like and that shoot out is cool.

In reply to Denni:

"Es geschah am hellichten Tage" with Heinz Rühmann and Gerd Fröbe. Still haunts me many years later.

English version here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051588/

Also, "Don´t look now".

CB

In reply to Denni:

Freaks!

In reply to Denni:

Far North. Very difficult to say much about it, because the ending makes the whole rather bizarre preceding 88 minutes all come together, and no discussion of the film can really be about anything other than the ending. In fact, this might make a new thread.

In reply to Denni:

North by Northwest.

In reply to Removed UserStuart Mitchell:

It's a superb example of lean storytelling. 30 seconds, no dialogue, and we have the protagonist overcoming the bad guy, clearing his name, and boffing the leading lady in a daringly suggestive bit of visual innuendo. Splendid!

In reply to Denni: I like the ending to donnie darko

In reply to Denni: 'Old Boy'

In reply to Denni:
Brazil. I can't believe they copped out with a happy ending... Oh, hang on a minute...

In reply to Denni:

36 ( Quai des Orfèvres (original title) )

A Prophet

The Town

Tracker ( The Ray Winstone film )

And this scene from Scent of a Woman . Warning a bit sweary & not safe for work ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=Xq8CtJSQFL4&NR=1

In reply to LaMentalist:

Baise Moi.

Would have proposed Irreversible but I'm not sure where the end is....

In reply to sbc_10:

Two geezers sat round a campfire?

In reply to Denni:

a tale of two sisters
acacia
casablanca
in bruges
my neighbour totoro

In reply to cb294:

And of course, how could one forget "All quiet on the Western front".

In reply to cb294: Old Yeller.

In reply to Denni:

One of the most low key and yet uplifting endings of all;

"The Lives of Others".

In reply to Denni: The last 20 minutes of Where Eagles dare?

In reply to Denni:

A Prophet (unfortunately on first watching I was allowed into the cinema for the end of an earlier showing and started with ending. Cheers)

The Sting (and full of amazing scenes - Paul Newman playing poker on the train being at the top)

Scarface (ridiculous Pacino)

In reply to Denni:

American Werewolf in London always makes me cry at the end

In reply to Owen W-G:

sure i saw a thread on best film opening sequences. Seem to be having a blind spot finding it, or i imagined it.

Anyway, best film openings for me-

once upon a time in the west - for tension

django (proper old one) - just like the idea of this hardbitten fella dragging a coffin behind him everywhere. Sort of existential therapy

In reply to moraldecay:

The Wild Bunch
Contact
The Living Daylights