OK, so I’m not gonna lie: I went out and had a few pints this afternoon and kind of forgot about this until 10:19 pm. I then tried to get into Slack because I’ve got a couple of suggestions in there I was saving for just such an occasion, but Slack didn’t want to work and I quickly lost interest.
I do remember that RTD, (I think), suggested ‘movie endings’ for a topic, so that’s what we’re going with today. It was either this or ‘stamps from around the world’ so everybody say thank you to Rikki.
What we’re looking for here is the essential end of the movie. The best example I can think of would be ‘Star Wars’: the story is essentially over with the destruction of the Death Star. The celebration where everyone gets a medal is a nice little feel good touch but it’s really not necessary to wrap things up.
So with that in mind, if it’s a movie, and it has an ending, you can draft it. Pointless bickering about what constitutes an ending is not necessary, but is encouraged. That time isn’t gonna waste itself.
If you’re the kind of person who gets mad at spoilers for movies that have been out for years, well, maybe sit this one out.
Since Slack has betrayed me and I can’t alert RTD to his having the first pick, I’ll just go ahead and make it and trust that I’m not taking his.
“Unforgiven” as noted above in the featured image.
When William Bunny rides out of town in the rain, having killed a healthy percentage of the town’s male population and declares “You better bury Ned right, better not cut up nor otherwise harm no whores. Or I’ll come back and kill every one of you sons-of-bitches.” it puts a fine stamp on an outstanding movie.
Also you should always treat whores with respect. That’s just basic human decency.
The rest of you are on the clock.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1bhdlga/highlight_gradey_dick_and_anthony_black_jersey/
Shutter Island was great, and the ending is heartbreaking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_0TQHoV_2I&pp=ygUVc2h1dHRlciBpc2xhbmQgZW5kaW5n
I give you the ending(s) to Clue:
#1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA4pqNylhc8
#2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dy_33gAlJs
#3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpU_JngJ1EI
Pick #3 the first live action teenage mutant ninja turtles movie (1990)
Cowabunga!
Also extra points for splinter’s “I made w funny!”
The best video I can find is one with three endings, and while I like the call back in part 2, three is…. ehhh
https://youtu.be/aIx9Da_7Hag?si=RqAnJRiJ2i7I75Ao
I’m blubbering like a baby, wife is asking, “What is wrong with you?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXjz-M_6eN8
Yep, still hits.
Kelly’s Heros, play Burning Bridges and drive off to the Swiss boarder.
Before I pick a movie ending, I must pick a nit.
YOU THINK EASTWOOD’S CHARACTER IS NAMED BUNNY?
IT’S WILLIAM FUCKING MUNNY YOU EAST COAST ELITE.
Munny, Bunny, Wimpy, Wompy, Whanbly.
Fucking auto-correct.
I am well aware it’s William Munny*. He prospered in dry goods out West after leaving Missouri.
*Was just corrected to ‘Sunny’
Actually funnier as Bunny. Cute lil fella.
Pick #2:
Independence Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=gGdlpvFLmWm_bFT8&v=92ddg-i82jg&feature=youtu.be
All the plot lines resolve nicely, feel good moment,
4. The Thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA4Ozqt7338
This is Spinal Tap! Joe “Mama” Besser is the 2nd best callback in movies, after Frau Blucher 🐴 nnnnnyeeeheheh
With her 2nd pick, Deanna Favre has selected…Fight Club.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNpkgeLA6ng
Peter Vaughn’s bare ass on a rooftop.
https://youtu.be/_cHa063Mwos?
Thelma and Louise.
“As God is my witness, I thought those chicks could fly.”
-Brick
I always loved the ending to super bad, 2007, the movie just resonated with me on so many levels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=CXISqXPhrQ3hqZa-&v=fblO1vmAxVE&feature=youtu.be
3. I need a feelgood ending (No, Mr. Irsay, not that kind of feelgood) so I’ll go with The Princess Bride.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9aoco20nPs
Am I a man of low tastes? Sure. But people forget how unconventional this was. Plus it goes straight into Sabbath. I give you: Iron Man
https://youtu.be/FRIUhO4MdGU?
The natural successor to FBDO, Deadpool:
https://youtu.be/ZDcOQGM_Z30?si=k0lPX7oL67JyK3y8
I mean if we’re doing post-credits sequences, there’s really no other choice for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-6tC8VwPHM
The Seth Rogen bit is perfect
Tin Cup.
https://youtu.be/M8e8vSiLrVU?si=U_vTbcPUIN17PnI0
With her first pick, Deanna Favre has selected…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eAm3Px1vqE
Thought this was going to be 8mm
Ah, Inception.
2. The Truman Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_zYn-HHcyA
Yes, they do a bit of digging later and there’s a throwback “hanging” to be dealt with, but this is the true climax of the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjjhh7PmTew
And it is glorious
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie. Still makes me laugh and cry.
https://youtu.be/MlnDf3e3PQ0?feature=shared
Spongebob was genius on so many levels.
Plankton confused by the smoke makes me lose it big time.
I enjoyed the revisionist history ending of “Inglourious Basterds.”
And I kinda hated the ending of “once upon a time in hollywood” because I saw the revisionist history coming from a mile away
OUATIH is three hours of Tarantino sniffing his own farts.
Basic Instinct
https://youtu.be/gg-HJNuVnkU?si=KK7I_4RIBXHxL0v9
Sorry. Couldn’t resist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ha7kEepHfg&pp=ygUaYmxhaXIgd2l0Y2ggcHJvamVjdCBlbmRpbmc%3D
😂🤣😂
steal of the draft
Pretty sure the book didn’t have as nearly as awesome an ending as the movie. Last of the Mohicans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BxDpOu3cD0
This is one of the Mauritius ‘Post Office’ stamps. It’s one of the most rare and expensive stamps in the world and I’ve actually seen an original at the Blue Penny Museum in Port Louis. They only turn the light on to display it intermittently so as to preserve the color of the blue ink.
#1 with a bullet: Heat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=426LibmHSWw
Counterpoint: The ending of Heat was so stupid as to ruin the rest of the movie.
Other than Chris getting away, I’m not sure what you could possibly mean.
Neil’s character is a cold-hearted bastard who will walk away from anything at the drop of a hat, but he chucks that for Eady, who he’s known for what, a week? a month? He meticulously plans heists and walks away from a lucrative jewel heist because he hears a sound, but he single-handedly storms a hotel to kill a guy he knows the police are watching/protecting? Not to mention that Pacino says he’s going to a hotel when he catches his wife cheating on him, doesn’t say what hotel, but Natalie Portman somehow finds out where it is, gets in the bathtub and slashes her wrists?
And then Neil exposes himself in bright light so Pacino can kill him because, what, he feels sad? Fuck that. He a) would have shot Pacino in the back or b) not even been there because he’s have taken his share of the loot to Tahiti and never looked back.
God I hate that ending so much.
Breaking with his mantra – both with Eady and in going after Waingrow – is *why* he gets gotten in the end. And he doesn’t know it’s a trap; if Nate had suspected as much, he would have said so when he gave him the location.
As far as Portman goes, that subplot was pretty extraneous, but in the hospital Justine tells him “she chose your place”. Nobody said anything about a hotel.
And I guess you haven’t seen the final shootout enough times to get the mechanics of it; McCauley is only exposed because of the timing of the landing lights; he doesn’t expose himself on purpose.
I think the first paragraph is Horatio’s primary point: he only gets “got” because he does something (indeed, two somethings- diverting for Edy and then for Waingro) wildly out of character. The film doesn’t give a sufficiently compelling reason for him to break the monkish self-possession we see as his defining trait for 85% of the movie.
In real life, smart people do dumb things out of character all the time. But fiction is supposed to make more sense
IMO, he had gotten away with Eady. It was going after Waingro that got him caught.
What Rev said, and also Bug is correct that he had gotten away with Eady but decided to go after Waingro. Which is totally against his character to that point. Both things are, for that matter.
As to the landing lights, the Neil we saw through most of the movie would not have run himself into a position where the lights were an issue. He’d have bushwhacked Vincent well before that. But, again, the larger point is that the Neil we saw up to that point wouldn’t even have been in that position, but rather leaving everything behind while on a plane to Tahiti.
To me the ending smacks of “we need to wrap this up; make Neil stupid.”
Oh, and Rikki is dead-on balls accurate about Chris getting away. “Hey, there’s a sweaty guy down here who’s obviously in significant pain, but he has a somewhat different haircut than our guy, and even though he has the same face his driver’s license has a different name on it, so what the hell, wave him through!”
Jesus Christ.
I always got a humongous kick out of the outtakes at the end of comedies. I think it started with The Cannonball Run.
https://youtu.be/mUOaxwA5Wic?si=Wgyf1Oevv87rMyGI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki7XX2pI2QY
I’m pretty sure that was intentional
I’m pretty sure there will 15 more instances of this, too.
Fuck it, let’s go with Se7en. WHAT’S IN THE BOX?!
Seven for when someone ctrl Fs and gets cranky
Blazing Saddles.
They literally ride off in the sunset.
I always got annoyed by the movie theater thing but sure.
You can go ahead and consider that an irrelevant scene. I never liked it either.
Pure genius. Perfect ending for a movie about movies. Compare to American Fiction, a great movie until the last 20 minutes of “How do we end this?” and telegraphing the “We don’t know!” with Monk saying something about lessons. It was a letdown, the rest was great.
Blazing Saddles might not work today, but not solely because of the massive use of the n-word. Westerns aren’t much of a genre anymore, so making fun of Westerns doesn’t really mean much. Still an awesome movie, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP5pdJRK2i8&pp=ygUUZm9yY2UgYXdha2VucyBlbmRpbmc%3D
Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Best Star Wars ending. Then the Sequel Trilogy went off the cliff.
I mean, you’re objectively wrong- Original Ewok Celebration in Return of the Jedi. But this is probably third, if we take the expansive view of “ending” for A New Hope
You liked the Ewoks scene? The most reviled scene in all Star Wars lore?
I think we’ve found the DFO Furry.
I can’t speak for everyone, but I think a lot of people liked the idea of the primitive species playing a crucial role of the empire’s defeat, just thought its execution and the inclusion of the toy friendly teddy bear people could have been done better.
Not gonna look it up, but I thought Ewok is Wookie spelled sideways, and the movies could have been going back to save Chewbacca’s home world until toy $$$ gave us Ewoks.
Work’s making me grouchy. Star Wars was The Battle of Britain + Flash Gordon. The Empire Strikes Back is pretty good. Every Star Wars movie after Empire that isn’t Rogue One is pretty bad.
The last three picks just destroyed my draft board. Nice job!
The Shawshank Redemption.
I know that there’s another scene where Red and Andy meet on a Mexican beach, but the book ends with Red on the bus saying “I hope I can find my way across the border. I hope to see my friend. I hope.” The movie has him saying the same thing in this scene, and I like it ending the same way as the book better than the film actually handing you a happy ending.
Also this is probably the best movie adapted from a Stephen King book ever.
I have to agree, but Stand By Me gives it a pretty good run for its money – especially final line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7r-R61W1DQ
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
https://youtu.be/QRJ38y4Jn6k?si=T9WZsKG62JQILMyR
The genius of “Rocky” is the scene prior to the fight. When Rocky can’t sleep the night before the fight and wanders down to the arena, he runs into the promoter and tells him the colors on his trunks are wrong on the poster hanging above the ring. Mr Jergins looks, puffs on his cigar, and says, “It really doesn’t matter, does it? Try and get some sleep. Good night, Rocky”, and walks away. Then he goes home, wakes Adrian up, and tells her the whole thing about wanting to be the only guy to ever go 15 rounds with Creed etc. I always thought it was so clever, to have a secret that only Rocky, Adrian, and the audience shared from that swirling, screaming mass in Philly and everyone who thought he was trying to actually win. They jammed in that “Ain’t gonna be no rematch!” “Don’t want one!” and I wish they hadn’t. It seems so ham-fisted. I have no comment on the other Rocky films other than I was one of the young teens in those theaters jumping up and yelling at the villains and cheering on Rocky and having just a hell of a good time. Dumb fun for big dopes. Anyway here’s the finale of “Rocky”, Best Picture 1976:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc7H9s4PdSI
Greatest movie ending ever: Pulp Fiction (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtHKzXng4bU
The audience in the theatre went nuts at this ending. I’d never experienced that before or since.
Maybe the beginning of Stop Making Sense
Can’t believe this is still on the board, my sources say it’s a top 5 pick in most of your war rooms
https://youtu.be/ki7XX2pI2QY?si=io2z8Fy0k1tHNp6Z
That was absolutely going to be my second pick.
And third.
Going with a personal favorite for Round 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I3BHB3VPsE&pp=ygUfd2F5bmUncyB3b3JsZCBtZWdhIGhhcHB5IGVuZGluZw%3D%3D
Wayne’s World
For a Few Dollars More – final shootout (not counting the math failure scene).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JPnR7C8mZQ
Greatest movie ending ever: The Maltese Falcon (1941)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdBxiiRprSQ
Yes!
I read that Mary Astor accidently dropped the statue on Humphrey Bogarts foot, and he had to film a bunch of the movie with a broken big toe. Owwie!
I couldn’t believe there could be a calming, peaceful ending to the terrifying chaos of this film. Jacob’s Ladder.
Greatest movie ending ever: Citizen Kane (1941)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP0O1BKu3zk
Greatest movie ending ever: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5pd1U6yXe0
THIS GUY BRICK I CALL HIM THE MINNESOTA VIKINGS BECAUSE HE DOESN’T APPEAR TO UNDERSTAND HOW A DRAFT WORKS
I traded up for picks, you didn’t hear about it
Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
https://youtu.be/s4VlruVG81w?si=lkEUyrKG0Pjyi380
It’s not my favorite, but it is perhaps the most quintessential end scene for my generation of moviegoers.
The Usual Suspects.
https://youtu.be/XYXXhn9fMYs?
This is a good answer.
Official pick but…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjqlWbl69G8&pp=ygUVYmx1ZXMgYnJvdGhlcnMgZW5kaW5n
…appeal to the Commissioner to include this as part of the finale due to being a classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2quc-iQ96R0&t=119s&pp=ygUVYmx1ZXMgYnJvdGhlcnMgZW5kaW5n
The Blues Brothers
Make it so.
Greatest movie ending ever: Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kq5arXCESA
It’s a good ending and a good motivation for voting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsma7OGcp6A&t=5s&pp=ygUKMzAwIGVuZGluZw%3D%3D
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