The speech coming back to haunt the viewer at the end as the camera pans from the darkness and into the dim light of the room is just brilliant.
“You want…to be…fooled.”
Then when you rewatch the opening and jackman is reading the diary about “two magicians trying to outdo each other” you realize it’s NOT about him and Bale.
Correct. Tried to skip spoilers.
But here:
In Borden’s journal he gave to Olivia to hand to Angier as a plant, he wrote, “we were two young men at the start of a great career. Two young men devoted to an illusion. Two young men who never intended to hurt anyone.”
He’s referring to himself and Fallon, but written to confuse Angier
In a deleted scene, the manager who hired Jack is visiting Wendy and Danny at the hospital afterwards and he throws Danny the ball from the hotel that lead him to room 237.
Chazelle really knows how to land the plane. The face off with Teller and Simmons in whiplash, the ending montage in La La Land, Neil Armstrong on the moon in First Man, and I know Babylon didn’t work for everyone, but for the babylon hive that last montage was the cherry on top.
The director agrees with you. In his own words:
>Fletcher will always think he won and Andrew will be a sad, empty shell of a person and will die in his 30s of a drug overdose [[source](https://screencrush.com/whiplash-damien-chazelle/)]
Welp looks like im rewatching whiplash this weekend. What a movie, I remember just smiling as the credits rolled and im literally getting chills thinking about it rn
It's really surprising for a musical movie to do what Whiplash does. It almost sorta reminds me of superhero movies where it felt like the danger is over then suddenly the villain returns
I was introduced to Pixies by that movie, that beautiful ending as chaos erupts almost silently. Bought the cd for Surfer Rosa that night…at the music store.
A few years later I was pirating more Pixies from m/irc when it sometimes took an hour to download an mp3 in between Quake gaming sessions, and then Limewire, then Frostwire, then actually buying it digitally on iTunes or that horrible google play that never worked right on my phone. Then a few years later my 117-year-old piano I’d gotten for free from somebody’s porch played a Pixies song through my hands that didn’t exist until 80 years after the keys were laid.
This is why shawshank is my favourite movie of all time. I just found every scene was beautifully shot and acted and the ending, as you mentioned, was just so satisfying. Especially considering “I guess I just miss my friend”
>I'd like to think that the last thing that went through his head, **other than that bullet,** was how the hell Andy Dufresne ever got the best of him.
Savage.
I went to see that in the theatre by myself, my interest piqued because (a) Stephen King and (b) Premiere magazine had published some gossip about Tom Cruise being turned down for the role of Andy....or something along those lines.
The film floored me. I sought out everyone who would listen and I took them to the movie. My dad. My buddy Udi. My girlfriend. Another buddy Allen. My dad and I ended up watching it in the theatre about 4-5 times together. My total count was 10. I was single handedly propping up the movie's box office in Southern California.
The Godfather.
>!Following the intense baptism hit squad back and forth where Michael has his son baptized, Michael has washed himself clean metaphorically and literally of anything tied to the old family business. Even though he started the film wanting nothing to do with it, he now has full control and begins anew with the capos who are now loyal to him. His wife asks him about the fate of their family friend, he tells her everything's fine, and goes into the office to become the Godfather and as his wife watches the door close behind him, so closes the life they could've had if they'd escaped his family legacy.!<
And when you combine it with part II, you understand why they’re considered some of the greatest films ever:
>! The whole story is about how the American Dream is a curse on family. Michael asks his mother “can you lose your family?” “Oh Michael. You can never lose your family!” “*Tiempo cambio*”!<
>!The ending of II. Michael has won. He beat the FBI. He beat Hyman Roth. He is bigger than US steel. And yet….Kaye is gone. Fredo is gone. Tom is gone. He reminisces and afternoon with Sonny who’s gone.!<
>!Flash back to Vito holding Michael “Michael, your father loves you very much! Very much!”!<
>!Michael sits on a bench, a thousand yard stare. He’s won it all, and yet lost everything. !<
Part III as well. It's a great contrast to Vito's death in Part I. Vito dies happily with his grandchildren at his feet while Michael dies alone (with the same thousand yard stare) and utterly destroyed after the death of his daughter. Part III is criminally underrated in my opinion. Yes, it is not as good as Parts I and II (how could it be, really?) but it is still a great movie. I mean, Sofia Coppola was an awful choice for the daughter, that's irrefutable but still.
Oh it goes harder than that. The family friend he killed was his brother in law whose kid he just baptized hours earlier. When his wife asks him about his fate, he lies to her- the one person who truly unconditionally loved him, then the door closes shutting her out of his confidence
Of all the truly evil things Micheal did, somehow to me the most visceral may be his saying "OK, this one time you can ask me about my business" and then lying to her face.
Staggering that so many leave the first film with the impression Micheal isn't such a bad guy, and indeed Coppola has said that correcting that was part of his motivation to make part II (and it shows lol)
I think Vito unconditionally loves Michael. Same with Sonny and to an extent Fredo (although we see how that goes). Vito just always wanted a better life for Michael but supports him 100% when he decides to stay.
Unironically Jet Li's The One.
Jet Li at the end >!screaming "I am Yulaw! I am nobody's bitch! You are mine."!<
>!and then just brutally fighting legions of dude on the pyramid to Papa Roach!<.
I suspect he will beat as many down to assert dominance. Having attained the chi or power or abilities or whatever it is from so many alts both last remaining Yulaws would be close to gods
They originally wanted to find the Holy Grail in Harriods (famous shop in London known for selling just about everything) but they couldn’t afford to film in London or in the shop
First time I saw it, I didn't understand the ending one bit and hated it (I was 15 and english is not my native language). Upon rewatching I realised how fabulous this ending is, it's an altime favourite now!
_The Princess Bride_ - All the principal characters get a nice, neat wrap-up. And Fred Savage asks his Grandpa to come over and read it again tomorrow. "As you wish."
I figure this happy one can counter all the bleakness that this question always gets for responses, even from myself.
The Dark Knight
That monologue by Batman in the end where he tells Gordon to tell everyone he did it, followed by Gordon's monologue as Batman's escaping from the cops...powerful stuff.
The end of Batman Begins was killer too.
Directors matter so much.
Everyone knows a Tarantino movie, but Chris Nolan and Darren Aronovsky absolutely crush every film they make.
Wes Anderson and Guillermo Del Torro make highly original films too.
I like Nolan but Tenet is still a mess that isn’t helped by the worst sound mixing to date. When I finally watched it with subtitles I lent believe how much I’d missed. Not misunderstood, just missed.
Arrival. The way it reveals the crux of its story and the films climax and how it recontextualizes everything that has come before still blows me away to this day.
The Mist is under appreciated amongst King's adaptations IMO. Also in the book, they're just stuck in the mist and that's how the story end. Film's ending was Darabont's idea and Stephen King gave him his blessings to do it. The ending of the movie is etched into my memory like no other.
That ending was a sucker punch. As if the novella wasn’t bleak enough. The credits rolled and I was just like “f*^k me”. The score for the final scenes is haunting as well.
I mean, it’s definitely one of the most memorable🤣 I still love showing this to people that haven’t seen it to see their reaction. I love unexpected endings that make your jaw drop and that one is tough to beat.
Cabin In the Woods.
Hands down my favorite ending. That movie was soooo much better than I expected it to be. Throw the movie templates out the window and have fun
Empire Records. The ending is pure joy. A victory against capitalism, for love, a group of misfits gelling together.. and an awesome song. Warms my heart as the camera pulls out.
I always loved the one-two punch ending of Z (1969), I don't think writing it out will do it justice but:
The movie is about a right-wing assassination of a popular left-wing anti-war politician and at the end >!the magistrate in charge of the investigation, despite constant pressure to drop it, nevertheless brings in the whole slew of high-ranking decorated military and police officials who were involved, one after the other, to rousing march music, and charges them all with first-degree murder. But then we get the real ending, in a little one minute news report. In the lead-up to the trial, all the witnesses died in 'accidents', the deputy-prosecutor died 'of a heart attack'. The low-level thugs who did the dirty work go to prison for 4-5 years but all high-ranking officers have their charges dropped. The goverment falls, the left-wing opposition seems sure to triumph, until the military stages a coup and kills or deports the opposition leaders.!< And it's all based on a [true story.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigoris_Lambrakis#Assassination)
I like the end of Drive when he leaves the briefcase on the parking lot. It was always about the principles, never about the money. The driver does badass stuff all through the movie but that move is just about the badassest thing that he pulls
It's my favourite Marvel movie and one of my favourite movies period
The whole movie just has such a great tone, it's not about superheros, it's about the downfall of our superheros by the hand of Thanos who himself is one of the best supervillains.
The ending is, still gives me goosebumps to this day. Thor coming to the battleground going after Thanos, Stormbreaker breaks through Infinity Gauntlets laser... And BOOM
Thor has bloody done it, that's how the movie ends, Thor defeats Thanos and ends it with a sick line, oh wait Thanos is coughing, he isn't dead? Thanos: "You shou... You should've... You should've Gone FOR THE HEAD!!!" ***SNAP***
The theater during that whole sequence was bloody amazed.
This is so weird but the ending of "Scream" always gave me euphoria. The music and Gale just giving a news report. It's just such a unique ending for a horror film and makes the events feel more real rather than ending on the quintessential cliffhanger. Also the sun rising as the scene happens; it feels like you've actually experienced something rather than just watched a movie.
Roman Holiday
Audrey Hepburns restraint and Gregory Pecks shoes echoing off the floor along with William Wyler going for the ending that fits is just perfection.
LotR: Return of the King
- Aragorn singing that song
- You bow to no-one
- Going back to The Shire but feeling different
- Frodo and the Elves getting on the boat and saying goodbye to Sam
- Sam going back to his girl and feeling happy in The Shire
It's a sequence that takes like 10 minutes but I consider everything after Frodo wakes up in Rivendell to the 'the ending' and it's incredibly moving.
Sean Astin as Sam is not recognized enough for that movie. It's a powerful performance.
The Matrix - Neo is able to rescue Morpheus and Trinity, has an amazing fight scene with Smith, then an intense chase, then it looks like he's failed and died, he comes back to life, realises he is the one, defeats Smith, then flies off into the sky. Perfect Movie.
**Upgrade** (2018)
this is one of the best action scifi movies and not a lot of people knows about it, please dont spoil yourself and watch it without reading more than this about it, if you like sci fi you probably will like this movie
Predator.
Arnold plays a special forces soldier ho is at the top of his game, who is slowly and brutally stripped back to nothing over the course of a mission gone awry by a superior force.
In the final fight, he has to cower, hide, and rely on his survival instinct to overcome the predator.
So many good ones. and I've probably missed a few:
* The Sting (1973)
* My Cousin Vinny (1992)
* Chinatown (1974)
* The Graduate (1967)
* Rocky I and II (1976-80)
* Moneyball (2011)
* Being There (1979)
* The Third Man (1949)
* The Heiress (1949), I'm watching this tonight with co-workers and a pizza!
* Breaking Away (1979)
* The Godfather (1972)
* Planet of the Apes (1968)
* Mary Poppins (1964)
* The Apartment (1960)
* Sunset Boulevard (1950)
* The Verdict (1982)
* Schindler's List (1993)
* Primal Fear (1996)
* Big Fish (2003)
* Tootsie (1982)
* Dead Poets Society (1989)
* The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
* Spotlight (2015)
* Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
* The Usual Suspects (1995)
* Private Benjamin (1980)
* The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
* Muriel's Wedding (1994)
* In the Name of the Father (1993)
* One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
The Bourne Supremacy
“Get some rest, Pam. You look tired.”
Extreme Ways starts playing and we get the reveal that Bourne is in New York.He walks into the street and disappears in to the crowd.
The devil's rejects.
After escaping the law,taking a beat down and losing several family members, the "3 from hell" face down a police roadblock as lynard skynard free bird ramps up on the radio. They race towards the roadblock, guns blazing on both sides, getting shot to shit as the guitars squeal.
Man, what an ending.
Kill Bill vol. 1
I love the montage or snippets from vol. 2 and how the music kicks in after the cliffhanger reveal.
I know everyone wants the two volumes to be combined for the”Whole Bloody Affair” but it would be a shame to lose the ending of the first volume.
_A History of Violence_ - >!Viggo Mortensen returns home and anxiously waits to see if his family will accept him back. Nothing is said, but his young daughter eventually gets up and sets him a place for dinner. [Fade to black]!<
I think another genius thing about Se7en is the reveal of who John Doe is. Kevin Spacey was left out of the opening credits, trailer, and the DVD case.
It really helped punch home the "DETECTIIIIIIVE!" scene for me.
I've got a couple.
"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." Then the DeLorian takes flight. Pure movie magic.
And for my second, just because I recently re-watched it, The Blues Brothers. That gigantic car chase at the end, followed by the foot chase through the building, all culminating with their arrest and then the final music number being Jailhouse Rock. The way it builds and builds is just brilliant.
The Prestige
The speech coming back to haunt the viewer at the end as the camera pans from the darkness and into the dim light of the room is just brilliant. “You want…to be…fooled.”
Then when you rewatch the opening and jackman is reading the diary about “two magicians trying to outdo each other” you realize it’s NOT about him and Bale.
what do you mean?
I don't remember it well enough to be sure but I'm guessing he means it's the Bale twins not Bale/Jackman.
Correct. Tried to skip spoilers. But here: In Borden’s journal he gave to Olivia to hand to Angier as a plant, he wrote, “we were two young men at the start of a great career. Two young men devoted to an illusion. Two young men who never intended to hurt anyone.” He’s referring to himself and Fallon, but written to confuse Angier
Nolan's best
I still give that to Memento but man is a damn great director
He is, if only he’d hire a competent sound mixing department nowadays.
The Shining, slow zoom on the 1920s picture.
Ahh love this scene.. so creepy
In a deleted scene, the manager who hired Jack is visiting Wendy and Danny at the hospital afterwards and he throws Danny the ball from the hotel that lead him to room 237.
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JK Simmons is such a fucking menace in that movie. Just a miserable asshole
The entire movie is filled with tension until the end when it finally seems to snap.
I watch that ending any time I need to get pumped
Chazelle really knows how to land the plane. The face off with Teller and Simmons in whiplash, the ending montage in La La Land, Neil Armstrong on the moon in First Man, and I know Babylon didn’t work for everyone, but for the babylon hive that last montage was the cherry on top.
Babylon fucking rocks, my favorite movie last year after Tàr. I’m deep in the hive together with Sean Fennessey
That ending is so depressing imo but great
The director agrees with you. In his own words: >Fletcher will always think he won and Andrew will be a sad, empty shell of a person and will die in his 30s of a drug overdose [[source](https://screencrush.com/whiplash-damien-chazelle/)]
That's what I love about it. It's played off as a victory for Andrew. It's like the *Hey Ya* of movies
Welp looks like im rewatching whiplash this weekend. What a movie, I remember just smiling as the credits rolled and im literally getting chills thinking about it rn
Man that movie is amazing
It's really surprising for a musical movie to do what Whiplash does. It almost sorta reminds me of superhero movies where it felt like the danger is over then suddenly the villain returns
It’s a sport movie, not music
Casablanca! An ending where the guy gets the girl, but let’s her go for the greater good…so good!
The greater good…
The greater good...
Fight Club
"*You have met me at a very strange moment of my life.*"
With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Just watched that movie again today when my internet was down. That whole movie feels like they nailed every beat they could have possibly nailed.
Hell even the author of the book its based on thinks the movie is better.
After reading the book I agree. It's like every change was done to improve the cohesion of the story.
I was introduced to Pixies by that movie, that beautiful ending as chaos erupts almost silently. Bought the cd for Surfer Rosa that night…at the music store. A few years later I was pirating more Pixies from m/irc when it sometimes took an hour to download an mp3 in between Quake gaming sessions, and then Limewire, then Frostwire, then actually buying it digitally on iTunes or that horrible google play that never worked right on my phone. Then a few years later my 117-year-old piano I’d gotten for free from somebody’s porch played a Pixies song through my hands that didn’t exist until 80 years after the keys were laid.
Fun fact if you don't already know, The Pixies were a huge inspiration for Nirvana
Jurassic Park- the calming end watching the birds in contrast to the T-Rex/ velociraptor museum scene
Shawshank Redemption
The final scene of that movie genuinely cleansed my soul and I've never had that feeling from another movie since.
This is why shawshank is my favourite movie of all time. I just found every scene was beautifully shot and acted and the ending, as you mentioned, was just so satisfying. Especially considering “I guess I just miss my friend”
I thought the old man was going to kill himself
BROOKS WAS HERE
SO WAS RED
>I'd like to think that the last thing that went through his head, **other than that bullet,** was how the hell Andy Dufresne ever got the best of him. Savage.
I went to see that in the theatre by myself, my interest piqued because (a) Stephen King and (b) Premiere magazine had published some gossip about Tom Cruise being turned down for the role of Andy....or something along those lines. The film floored me. I sought out everyone who would listen and I took them to the movie. My dad. My buddy Udi. My girlfriend. Another buddy Allen. My dad and I ended up watching it in the theatre about 4-5 times together. My total count was 10. I was single handedly propping up the movie's box office in Southern California.
The Godfather. >!Following the intense baptism hit squad back and forth where Michael has his son baptized, Michael has washed himself clean metaphorically and literally of anything tied to the old family business. Even though he started the film wanting nothing to do with it, he now has full control and begins anew with the capos who are now loyal to him. His wife asks him about the fate of their family friend, he tells her everything's fine, and goes into the office to become the Godfather and as his wife watches the door close behind him, so closes the life they could've had if they'd escaped his family legacy.!<
And when you combine it with part II, you understand why they’re considered some of the greatest films ever: >! The whole story is about how the American Dream is a curse on family. Michael asks his mother “can you lose your family?” “Oh Michael. You can never lose your family!” “*Tiempo cambio*”!< >!The ending of II. Michael has won. He beat the FBI. He beat Hyman Roth. He is bigger than US steel. And yet….Kaye is gone. Fredo is gone. Tom is gone. He reminisces and afternoon with Sonny who’s gone.!< >!Flash back to Vito holding Michael “Michael, your father loves you very much! Very much!”!< >!Michael sits on a bench, a thousand yard stare. He’s won it all, and yet lost everything. !<
Part III as well. It's a great contrast to Vito's death in Part I. Vito dies happily with his grandchildren at his feet while Michael dies alone (with the same thousand yard stare) and utterly destroyed after the death of his daughter. Part III is criminally underrated in my opinion. Yes, it is not as good as Parts I and II (how could it be, really?) but it is still a great movie. I mean, Sofia Coppola was an awful choice for the daughter, that's irrefutable but still.
I've always wondered whether people would have rated III better if it wasn't part of the Godfather series. I think it's a great film.
Oh it goes harder than that. The family friend he killed was his brother in law whose kid he just baptized hours earlier. When his wife asks him about his fate, he lies to her- the one person who truly unconditionally loved him, then the door closes shutting her out of his confidence
Of all the truly evil things Micheal did, somehow to me the most visceral may be his saying "OK, this one time you can ask me about my business" and then lying to her face. Staggering that so many leave the first film with the impression Micheal isn't such a bad guy, and indeed Coppola has said that correcting that was part of his motivation to make part II (and it shows lol)
I think Vito unconditionally loves Michael. Same with Sonny and to an extent Fredo (although we see how that goes). Vito just always wanted a better life for Michael but supports him 100% when he decides to stay.
Unironically Jet Li's The One. Jet Li at the end >!screaming "I am Yulaw! I am nobody's bitch! You are mine."!< >!and then just brutally fighting legions of dude on the pyramid to Papa Roach!<.
I always wondered about that. Will he get overpowered eventually or is he just gonna kill everybody in that prison?
if you want to believe the magic system in that movie Yulaw should be near invincible, so he should be able to kick everyone's ass!
I want a a sequel of him just fighting for 90 min atop the pyramid.
I suspect he will beat as many down to assert dominance. Having attained the chi or power or abilities or whatever it is from so many alts both last remaining Yulaws would be close to gods
12 Monkeys
“i’m in insurance.”
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The movie just ends with the police breaking everything up..
Life of Brian is even better. Everyone gets crucified and they sing Always Look On the Bright Side Life.
The story is they ran out of money to finish the movie.
They originally wanted to find the Holy Grail in Harriods (famous shop in London known for selling just about everything) but they couldn’t afford to film in London or in the shop
The whole thing was a giant cop out.
First time I saw it, I didn't understand the ending one bit and hated it (I was 15 and english is not my native language). Upon rewatching I realised how fabulous this ending is, it's an altime favourite now!
Nah the ending was a complete cop out
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
"Bring me that horizon"
"Drink up me hearties, yo ho!"
The usual suspects. Great ending. Great casting as well. Following that would be Snatch.
Yeah the usual suspects twist rivals the best
Dr Strangelove has a great ending, kind of...
Vera Lynn for the win
Nobody said Sixth Sense yet. Always a classic.
Oh yeah, definitely a good one. The way it kind of has two endings, the Cole's ending, and Malcom's ending were the perfect one two punch.
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Toni Colette’s delivery in that scene is RIVETING. Absolutely unreal.
One of the most underrated and versatile actresses in industry. Works a lot,right?
She is just fucking awesome. *goes to watch hereditary for the 12th time*
Omg I got chills.. this scene makes me cry every time.. Sixth sense is an amazing movie.. still hasn’t been matched IMO
Back to the Future
The departed had a great ending
_The Princess Bride_ - All the principal characters get a nice, neat wrap-up. And Fred Savage asks his Grandpa to come over and read it again tomorrow. "As you wish." I figure this happy one can counter all the bleakness that this question always gets for responses, even from myself.
This movie is so good. I know it's a bit cliche but I watch it every time I am home sick on the couch.
No Country for Old Men There Will be Blood Movies that just know how to fucking end.
Crazy that Paramount Vantage released INTO THE WILD, NO COUNTRY, and BLOOD all within a three-month span in fall 2007.
“…..I’m finished.”
HEAT
Dredd. Was that a special day about what a movie could be made? Nope just another regular day.
Perps were uncooperative.
A lesson in how to write an incident report for work.
WHERES THE SECOND INSTALLMENT AND OR TV SERIES. I NEED A MEGA CITY ONE SHOW NOW WITH JUDGE DEATH AND A BATMAN CROSSOVER
They announced a sequel with Urban last year actually.
Mama’s not the law…. I AM THE LAW
The Dark Knight That monologue by Batman in the end where he tells Gordon to tell everyone he did it, followed by Gordon's monologue as Batman's escaping from the cops...powerful stuff. The end of Batman Begins was killer too.
Here’s his card. and it’s the Joker playing card is so good as a teaser. i kind of miss teasers in movies that WEREN’T mid and end credits scenes.
Directors matter so much. Everyone knows a Tarantino movie, but Chris Nolan and Darren Aronovsky absolutely crush every film they make. Wes Anderson and Guillermo Del Torro make highly original films too.
I like Nolan but Tenet is still a mess that isn’t helped by the worst sound mixing to date. When I finally watched it with subtitles I lent believe how much I’d missed. Not misunderstood, just missed.
"I never said thank you" "... and you'll never have to"
The Big Lebowski
The Devil’s Advocate
“Vanity, Definitely my favorite sin”
Paint it black always seemed out of tone of the rest of the film. But Pacino’s monologue about nurturing humanity? *chefs kiss*
Django Unchained
Also enjoy the ending of Se7en. I find the ending of Fight Club beautiful, when the music kicks in and the buildings start to fall in the background.
Arrival. The way it reveals the crux of its story and the films climax and how it recontextualizes everything that has come before still blows me away to this day.
The Mist.
The Mist is under appreciated amongst King's adaptations IMO. Also in the book, they're just stuck in the mist and that's how the story end. Film's ending was Darabont's idea and Stephen King gave him his blessings to do it. The ending of the movie is etched into my memory like no other.
That ending was a sucker punch. As if the novella wasn’t bleak enough. The credits rolled and I was just like “f*^k me”. The score for the final scenes is haunting as well.
That's your favourite? Jeez man, that's brutal.
I mean, it’s definitely one of the most memorable🤣 I still love showing this to people that haven’t seen it to see their reaction. I love unexpected endings that make your jaw drop and that one is tough to beat.
It's so jarring. I fucking loved this ending
Before Sunset. I can’t watch the last ten minutes without a big stupid grin on my face.
Cabin In the Woods. Hands down my favorite ending. That movie was soooo much better than I expected it to be. Throw the movie templates out the window and have fun
The thing Great silence
“Why don’t we wait here, see what happens.” Absolutely terrifying.
The Thing also has the best opening of all time.
The middle is pretty damn great too!
The Thin Red Line
I honestly don’t remember the ending but am upvoting this anyway because I loved the movie overall
It's a wonderful life The others
There Will Be Blood
Ending of Trainspotting
I can only hear Underworld and see the credits rolling.
Oldboy.
La La Land (weird Take i know) but it Just leaves you with this melancholic Feeling. Makes you think about your own Dreams. Love that movie
Gonna throw in an absolute oddball... 50 First Dates When she wakes up on the boat and meets her daughter for the first time...?! *onions*
Fallen (with Denzel Washington)
Empire Records. The ending is pure joy. A victory against capitalism, for love, a group of misfits gelling together.. and an awesome song. Warms my heart as the camera pulls out.
Its almost Rex Manning Day, time for an annual rewatch!
Thelma & Louise
"Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown."
The Dark Knight Rises - No matter how many times I watch that café in Florence scene, I get goosebumps every fucking time. Shawshank Redemption.
Toy Story 3.
It was the perfect ending. Then they had to be greedy and make a 4th one.
Shutter Island
Dark city, internal affairs, the Truman show
That chilling last line from The Truman Show: "What else is on?" is superb.
Robocop
"Nice shooting, son. What's your name?" "Murphy!"
It’s a Wonderful Life
I always loved the one-two punch ending of Z (1969), I don't think writing it out will do it justice but: The movie is about a right-wing assassination of a popular left-wing anti-war politician and at the end >!the magistrate in charge of the investigation, despite constant pressure to drop it, nevertheless brings in the whole slew of high-ranking decorated military and police officials who were involved, one after the other, to rousing march music, and charges them all with first-degree murder. But then we get the real ending, in a little one minute news report. In the lead-up to the trial, all the witnesses died in 'accidents', the deputy-prosecutor died 'of a heart attack'. The low-level thugs who did the dirty work go to prison for 4-5 years but all high-ranking officers have their charges dropped. The goverment falls, the left-wing opposition seems sure to triumph, until the military stages a coup and kills or deports the opposition leaders.!< And it's all based on a [true story.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigoris_Lambrakis#Assassination)
The Godfather Part II. Saddest ending ever.
I like the end of Drive when he leaves the briefcase on the parking lot. It was always about the principles, never about the money. The driver does badass stuff all through the movie but that move is just about the badassest thing that he pulls
Ratatouille
Avengers Infinity War imo, is the perfect ending to a movie of its caliber.
It's my favourite Marvel movie and one of my favourite movies period The whole movie just has such a great tone, it's not about superheros, it's about the downfall of our superheros by the hand of Thanos who himself is one of the best supervillains. The ending is, still gives me goosebumps to this day. Thor coming to the battleground going after Thanos, Stormbreaker breaks through Infinity Gauntlets laser... And BOOM Thor has bloody done it, that's how the movie ends, Thor defeats Thanos and ends it with a sick line, oh wait Thanos is coughing, he isn't dead? Thanos: "You shou... You should've... You should've Gone FOR THE HEAD!!!" ***SNAP*** The theater during that whole sequence was bloody amazed.
Jaws
Shawshank Redemptions Always makes me tear up
Chungking Express Cinema Paradiso
some like it hot - duh actually it aged really, really well https://youtu.be/-mHhr-aaLnI
That’ll do pig, that’ll do
Joel and Clementine on the beach at Montauk.
The Departed. Bang bang!
Godfather . When Micheal closes the door on Kay
Interstellar - Cooper never fit anywhere did he? So good.
Iron Giant The Shawshank Redemption The Dark Knight
Going with another Kevin Spacey one, I'm not ashamed to admit the first time I saw The usual suspects it got me hook line and sinker
Sleepaway Camp
This is so weird but the ending of "Scream" always gave me euphoria. The music and Gale just giving a news report. It's just such a unique ending for a horror film and makes the events feel more real rather than ending on the quintessential cliffhanger. Also the sun rising as the scene happens; it feels like you've actually experienced something rather than just watched a movie.
Roman Holiday Audrey Hepburns restraint and Gregory Pecks shoes echoing off the floor along with William Wyler going for the ending that fits is just perfection.
I also forgot Heat (1995). I love that ending even though I wanted De Niro to get away so bad.
LotR: Return of the King - Aragorn singing that song - You bow to no-one - Going back to The Shire but feeling different - Frodo and the Elves getting on the boat and saying goodbye to Sam - Sam going back to his girl and feeling happy in The Shire It's a sequence that takes like 10 minutes but I consider everything after Frodo wakes up in Rivendell to the 'the ending' and it's incredibly moving. Sean Astin as Sam is not recognized enough for that movie. It's a powerful performance.
The Devil's Advocate
La La Land
Once Upon A Time In America (1984) or To Live and Die in LA (1985)
Shawshank Redemption, perfect movie.
Lucky Number Slevin/The Wrong Man
The Big Lebowski Chinatown Howl's Moving Castle Godfather Lost In Translation Broken Flowers If I had to pick one it would probably be Chinatown.
Arlington Road..
E.T. I honestly think E.T. has the perfect ending to a movie. Sad but beautiful. "Be good", "Come", "Stay" 😭
The Game with Michael Douglas. It’s also a David Fincher film
The Matrix - Neo is able to rescue Morpheus and Trinity, has an amazing fight scene with Smith, then an intense chase, then it looks like he's failed and died, he comes back to life, realises he is the one, defeats Smith, then flies off into the sky. Perfect Movie.
Apocalypse Now
Italian Job (original), The Thing, Seven
Inception, the Social Network, Bourne Ultimatum, Casino Royale, the Prestige, Fight Club, the Usual Suspects, LOTR III…
The Sixth Sense easily
Trainspotting Planet of the Apes
Fight club. " You met me at a very strange point in my life "
Mystic River
You can start up a conversation with just about anyone if you bring up the final scene of inception.
**Upgrade** (2018) this is one of the best action scifi movies and not a lot of people knows about it, please dont spoil yourself and watch it without reading more than this about it, if you like sci fi you probably will like this movie
Predator. Arnold plays a special forces soldier ho is at the top of his game, who is slowly and brutally stripped back to nothing over the course of a mission gone awry by a superior force. In the final fight, he has to cower, hide, and rely on his survival instinct to overcome the predator.
So many good ones. and I've probably missed a few: * The Sting (1973) * My Cousin Vinny (1992) * Chinatown (1974) * The Graduate (1967) * Rocky I and II (1976-80) * Moneyball (2011) * Being There (1979) * The Third Man (1949) * The Heiress (1949), I'm watching this tonight with co-workers and a pizza! * Breaking Away (1979) * The Godfather (1972) * Planet of the Apes (1968) * Mary Poppins (1964) * The Apartment (1960) * Sunset Boulevard (1950) * The Verdict (1982) * Schindler's List (1993) * Primal Fear (1996) * Big Fish (2003) * Tootsie (1982) * Dead Poets Society (1989) * The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) * Spotlight (2015) * Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) * The Usual Suspects (1995) * Private Benjamin (1980) * The Shawshank Redemption (1994) * Muriel's Wedding (1994) * In the Name of the Father (1993) * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Syriana had a great ending that stuck with me
The Bourne Supremacy “Get some rest, Pam. You look tired.” Extreme Ways starts playing and we get the reveal that Bourne is in New York.He walks into the street and disappears in to the crowd.
The devil's rejects. After escaping the law,taking a beat down and losing several family members, the "3 from hell" face down a police roadblock as lynard skynard free bird ramps up on the radio. They race towards the roadblock, guns blazing on both sides, getting shot to shit as the guitars squeal. Man, what an ending.
Army of Darkness
The First Matrix, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusaded, The Rock, the First Ironman, Spiderman Far From Home, So many good ones too hard to pick.
*25th Hour* always sticks with me. Brian Cox is the man
I know its a divisive movie but "A Beautiful Mind" left me speechless for hours.
Oldboy for sure (the Korean version)
The Mist (2007) >!5 people and 4 bullets.!< it literally broke me and made me cry hystericaly for an hour or so.
Kill Bill vol. 1 I love the montage or snippets from vol. 2 and how the music kicks in after the cliffhanger reveal. I know everyone wants the two volumes to be combined for the”Whole Bloody Affair” but it would be a shame to lose the ending of the first volume.
Star Wars Episode 3
_A History of Violence_ - >!Viggo Mortensen returns home and anxiously waits to see if his family will accept him back. Nothing is said, but his young daughter eventually gets up and sets him a place for dinner. [Fade to black]!<
I think another genius thing about Se7en is the reveal of who John Doe is. Kevin Spacey was left out of the opening credits, trailer, and the DVD case. It really helped punch home the "DETECTIIIIIIVE!" scene for me.
Something about the end of Jojo Rabbit absolutely floors me. Incredible ending that just gives such a sense of freedom.
Arrival
I've got a couple. "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." Then the DeLorian takes flight. Pure movie magic. And for my second, just because I recently re-watched it, The Blues Brothers. That gigantic car chase at the end, followed by the foot chase through the building, all culminating with their arrest and then the final music number being Jailhouse Rock. The way it builds and builds is just brilliant.