I was watching ‘Heat’ last night.  Great movie, until you start to think about what’s going on and that not much of it makes sense.  Take Waingro, for instance.  After he kills that hooker the forensics specialist tells Pacino’s character that she’ll bet when they get the semen sample the DNA will match several other similar killings.  A little later we see Waingro in a bar talking about how he just got out of jail, Pelican Bay specifically.  You do not go to Pelican Bay for unpaid traffic tickets; they almost certainly would have Waingro’s DNA on file.  But never mind that; it’s a great heist film and it doesn’t have to make a ton of sense.

The ending, however, is terrible.  De Niro’s character suddenly chucks all his carefully laid escape plans to the side and goes charging into a hotel to kill the aforementioned Waingro, when he has to know it’s a set up?  Instead of running away from Pacino he lays in wait for him while standing up in a field periodically subjected to very bright lights!?  Chris gets away because the cops don’t recognize him because he got a haircut!?  The stepdaughter tries to kill herself at Pacino’s place, which is a hotel he only just mentioned he was going to a few minutes before!?  What the fuck?  What happened to my cool heist movie!?

Anyway, this got me thinking about other forms of entertainment that ended badly, and that leads to this weeks mock draft topic:  Things That Ended Badly.  Rules are simple:  Any form of fiction is eligible, so long as it ends.

Yes, Mr. Hutz, that means The Never-Ending Story is not eligible.

Other than that if you don’t like the ending you can draft.  A point of clarification it has to be the actual ending.  You can’t draft, for instance, the last season of Game of Thrones, but you could, and someone almost certainly will, draft the actual ending.

With the first pick I am taking Heat.  I believe my reasons above are clear.  The rest of you are on the clock.