The knights were arrested out of the sudden in the last and final battle... by modern day police! I found this ending brilliantly hilarious. Very Monty Python style. Just crazy and brilliant at the same time.
Point of fact, it don't come out of nowhere, it's just that most people don't remember a Historian being randomly cut down by a passing knight on horseback early in the film.
@@DUxMORTEM And it doesn't come out of nowhere. The historian is killed by a knight on horseback, and they cut back to the police investigation several times as the film goes on.
Or they ran out of money to shoot a proper ending? In the script book, where they had some alternate versions of the film, they had two other endings, both of which were better. My favorite of the two was the storm the castle, big battle, only Arthur and Bedivere survive. As the ride up to Camelot, Arthur says to Bedivere to show them the grail. Beidvere looks at Arthur and says "I thought you had it." Much better ending.
Jenny Gump's death was in keeping with her story though. The film's narrative for Jenny was how her abusive upbringing led to a domino effect of sorts in her tragic life.
She's a direct foil to Forrest--she has a shitty life that only gets shittier while luck and success come to Forrest Gump without him ever actually trying or knowing full well what he was getting himself into. It's two different stories of life landing things in your lap.
If you have seen the Hong Kong original you would have know Leo's character was gona die.... just the director staying true to the original story /script
a big chunk of the issue goes to the marketing for that movie. They sold it as american narnia. If they sold it as a growing up story with some imaginition elements it'd probably have been less terrible.
I thought it was a good film. All of the characters were likable, and the conflict within didn't feel forced. As for it coming out of nowhere, I noticed on a second watch that it said the dates leading up to 9/11 on the chalkboard each time a scene took place in his sisters classroom.
@@KBROCK3R Extraordinarily, I knew it was a 9/11 related movie in the scene where Robert was talking to Pierce in his office. The windows were distinct. The structure was unique/obvious to me.
I remember her mother killed at station 1991 then it said 10 years later... I didn’t clue in. Usually I’m sharp with details involving numbers but not that time.
"Forrest Gump is a fairly happy film on paper"? What...!? Dad is nowhere to be seen, mom dies, best friend dies, is sent to a war, a girl he constantly wants to be with sprints away first chance she gets to do drugs and naked singing, finds out he has a son and missed out first few years of his life and that is not including her eventual death at all. It is not a happy movie.
I always wondered if Jenny died from Aids, does that mean there is a chance Gump has aids too? Thinking that if she had aids from the time when she is up on the balcony and into drug and sex, then had sex with Gump, got him infected, had a boy got cleaned up, and dies. Wouldn't that make her at least 6 years ahead of Gump in the Aids countdown? uber sad ending..
My favorite of all time is in the "Night of the Living Dead". The dude lives through the zombie infested night only to be mistaken for a zombie by the rescuing forces and shot dead. Perfect antithesis to the traditional Hollywood ending.
@@DJSethieSeth22 i concur. I was expecting a Lovecraftian type horror with degenerated beings killing and eating the protagonist and her companions and it turned into a girl fight.
Bunny Nasty, yes. Stupid? Doubt that. The decision is very understandable to a man in despair. If you heard about "merciful death", you may not find it so stupid
I disagree with the Holy Grail! Actually, you see the police investigating in 2 or 3 previous scenes, after one of the Knights slit the throat of the Famous Historian. So, it's not that it came out of nowhere, you just never expected that subplot to be so important as to disrupt the main plot!
I remember being traumatized by the ending of Time Bandits as a kid. The boy survives his crazy adventures only to see his parents get killed at the end.
to be fair, his parents were pretty traumatic. but let me end your trauma. time bandits has a happy ending. sean connery fireman saves young chap along with his photos. one of which is of the kid with little chaps and the map. kid can now get back to ancient greek sean connery and resume his life as king. which is where he wanted to be.
Well... maybe. It's a little ambiguous but one could extrapolate that if the photo of the bandits holding the map is amongst the saved photos then... it's plausible that he could figure out some way of interpreting it and thus find and use time portals to travel again. Then again, it could be that the Supreme Being, on retaking possession of the map, closes up the time portals. Either way, I think Time Bandits should definitely been on this list.
Brazil - The protagonist escapes the torturer chamber, saves the girl, brings down the evil regime in a shootout and... then it cuts to him still restrained in the torture chair, with his torturers saying "his mind's gone." The end.
Yep, I remember it being made clear it was a huge tear jerker and never watched it because during the time it came out my family dog who was a part of the family longer than I was and who was older than me and 21 years old had just passed and I avoided it like the plague. Still haven't and probably never will watch it.
D20asmr the mist had shit characters with shit writing and shit direction with a shit ending. everybody takes every opportunity to make every stupidest possible decision they can. you may indeed be able to varnish and polish a dried out petrified turd but that doesnt mean its not still a pile of shit.
Justin Friedman agreed. It's also about mob mentality. People burn cities to the ground when a sports team loses or wins. What would people do when society crumbles around them because of giant monsters? Probably act stupid
Ricochete Raw 90s the best decade ever Point is it wasn't bad imo. It's not like the girl realizing she fked ip and dying 3 seconds later in Drag me to hell.
I disagree with Marley and Me. When you accept a pet into your family you accept that one day they will die after giving you a lifetime of love and companship. The story arc is about the dog and that's the only way the arc can end. He's a puppy, gets adopted, becomes part of a new family, and passes on. The movie is about that, the good times and the bad.
I agree, but they should have made a little more cheer up ending scene, like someone bought them a new puppy who looks exactly the same as Marley, and the couple look at each other with the face of "oh-oh". That would be more satisfying to watch, for example :)
Yeah im sure all of the little kids begging their parents to see a cute movie about a dog with owen wilson and jennifer aniston went in anticipating an unwanted life lesson
My brother went to see Titanic when it came out... sat behind two teenage girls... after the movie ended the girls stood up and said, "If I'd known the boat was gonna sink I'd never have paid to see this..." TRUE STORY!
James Kelly - Thanks for giving me the credit, but I'm dead serious about this ... NOT FAKE NEWS... my brother still tells the story to this day whenever we go see a movie :)
Nkiruka J You should actually just watch Bridge to Terabithia. Don't spoil the ending for yourself. It's actually worth watching. But, avoid looking for the film on RU-vid. It IS there, but other clips will appear in the results, and their titles spoil the ending. Make sure you're in a light mood when you watch it. It will be best if you watch it while in an emotionally suscpetible state and you actually want to see it to know what it's about.
@@meganwright9763 annihilation was amazing yes but life sucked. You knew exactly what had happened the moment one pod got hit and she was fighting with the controls.
I'd been out sick when they read this so I was sent to the library to read it during class. I read a little and then just kinda flipped through the rest and looked at the end and after a few minutes thinking "what the hell kind of ending is that?" I concluded I was just as glad I'd been out sick and there was no point reading the chunk in the middle.
The Holy Grail actually only ended that way because they ran out of money. The original ending had them find the Grail in England's equivalent of a Walmart.
Actually, the part where the old hag throws that giant diamond into the ocean pissed me off. Knowing the search crew were spending all that time and money looking for it.
Atonement's WTF ending was one of the greatest emotional gut-punches I've ever had while watching a movie. Seeing the happy ending that could have been beforehand -- and believing it to be true before the final reveal -- just makes it all the more devastating. And yet brilliant.
Sean Bovia They are talking about a MOVIE. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OJBf94enIaU.html Did you know it's a remake? Yes, I'm still talking about the MOVIE
DarkRubberDucky watch the directors cut version.. it's all about the book that he gets from the science teacher. The directors cut has overlays on the screen from the book, and it basically explains what's going on.
You can go a little old school with 1973's The Wicker Man, in which Edward Woodward's Sgt. Howie, well, let's just say he finds out his initial suspicions about what was going on were way off base.
Darius Thomson I disagree to an extent. I'd say that both versions are equally awesome and that the 1990 version improved on the original in terms of practical/special effects and that it went with the ending that Romero had originally wanted to use in the 1968 version of Night of the Living Dead
The ending to The Departed. Come on, Billy didn't deserve to die! I get the good guy loses sometimes but every other good guy, by this time, was already dead. But then, Scorsese does something insane. He kills off everyone except the biggest asshole cop of all time, Dignam (but at least he's the angel of death for scumbag Colin Sullivan). I've never witnessed an ending leaving you so devastated. A masterpiece in movie making.
Technically the "Remember me" ending is actually brilliant considering it is supposed to feel unexpected because you never expect a tragedy like this one.. so the fact that it's both shocking and completely coming out of nowhere is quite the feeling that you're supposed to feel because it actually catches that continuous storyline that brutally stops right after the explosions. BRILLIANT
Also the ending of Final Destination 5 threw everyone for a loop! First of all, the fact that they even made a fifth movie after the fourth was called "The final destination" had everyone believing it would be the last. Who would have ever thought a prequel would be produced? The way it was executed was absolutely brilliant, but even so I didn't expect it at all.
Never expected to see someone say that movie around here. That end had me like "Pause... thats all kinds of fucked up" but nevertheless, a great movie with some good theme and story.
no fuckin' way it came out of nowhere, the people saw people brutally killed by monsters they now think have taken over the earth, and they are in a vehicle that just ran out of gas...the ending is brilliant and utterly organic and not forced. the only randomness is the army showing up right after the 'suicides'. But with no supplies and no gas, what were they supposed to do , sit there and wait to be saved and starve? go out with a couple of bullets and wander around in the mist?
+PorkFrog So it did come out of nowhere. You said the army arriving was random which is what makes the ending so utterly devastating and out of nowhere.
"American Beauty" was a shock. Spacey's vile character has that moment of clarity and the camerawork is so slow and subtle and reflective and suddenlyomigawBLAM
Actually, Remember Me was supposed to be that way. It was based on the several journals and mementos found in the wreckage. Not any particular person story but the facts that in their writings their lives were normal and cut short out of nowhere. The 9/11 part was supposed to feel random and out of nowhere because that's how it happened in real life for the victims; there was no hidden clues or hinting at 9/11 for them, just their lives tragically cut short.
Yep! They sold it in the previews and commercials as a comedy. Then completely screwed everyone over by killing her best bud and making it completely and tragically awful.
It was tragic, but the movie did lay down some foundation for it. She had an unhealthy detachment from the reality of death, and was psychologically stunted because of it. He was a runt, allergic to everything, and really prone to die.
What fucked me up about that movie when I was little was the ghost girl puking under the sheets. Made me scared of being under my sheets for a long while
Marley and Me's ending came out of nowhere? The dog was old, his decline dragged on for a while, and we already knew from the real life Marley's story, from common sense (dogs don't live forever, y'know) and from half the "dog movies" through cinema history that it was gonna end that way. Pretty weak start for an overall good list...
If you're watching the holy grail for the plot, then I really don't know what to say to you. Monty python's the holy grail is just a collection of mostly unrelated sketches. (remember the three headed man? Didn't move plot forward at all.) It was just a lot of ridiculous fun, and the ending fits into that perfectly.
The only reason the holy grail had that ending was that they ran out of money. So they shot the murder & cop scenes and the ending so they would have an ending.
Starlin Reese No, that was the original ending in the script they decided to go with at the beginning of filming. Also, it doesn't really make sense to hire a literal army of extras if you're running out of money. The costumes/props alone would have cost a small fortune. The ending was intended to be comically anti-climactic.
evidently Eric Idle [Brave Sir Robin] came up with that ending (as they had written themselves into a corner). According to him, his daughter has never forgiven him for it.
No Country for Old Men always got me. You expect either this showdown between the two stars, or for Llewelyn to somehow get away, only to find him taken out by drug dealers off screen. Definitely utterly devastating. He deserved a better send off.
+Mavis Wang "Yep he shure did, but got what he had coming for him. shouldn't take things that don't belong to you. especially a suitcase full of money.
And not only that but his wife dies pretty horribly anyway. At least Chigur suffered some pain in that final accident. And the final part where the sheriff recounts his dreams....what a great movie!
+Tam Kumi: No way...why would people spend all that time in the ocean when they could just fly to New York? Plus, they could have sued radar to find such a large iceberg. Not to mention that the ship was unsinkable...or did you miss that part in the movie???
What to said to your comment? Well..... 1. The sinking of the RMS Titanic was an real historical event that happened in 1912. More than half of the people on board died. 2. The title of "Unsinkable" was given to promote the vessel except that nobody (meaning the ship designers, builders and owner) wants to accept the responsibility of having saying it after the irony that the ship sunk on it "maiden" (1st) voyage. 3. This was in 1912, commercial air travel ain't what it is today. Most long distance flight then uses Airships also known as "Blimps", which is pretty much a big giant balloon with steering. 4. And radar was just invented a few years back but it unlikely to be very accurate or available for commercial use. ....and that it.
The monty python one really doesn't fit in with the rest. it did "come out of nowhere" but it didn't really change the movie that much, the plot was already a paper thin vehicle for the jokes, which that scene fell pretty well in line with as far as the type of joke and the tone of the jokes. It certainly wasn't "devastating" like the emotional gut punches on most of the rest of the list.
Indeed. I'd say it was more of a brick joke. You do see them accidentally kill the historian (who exists outside of the sketch), and that's what they're arrested for. Brick jokes tend to work best when you completely forget when the brick was thrown, then it comes full circle and smacks you in the face.
I mean the ending isn't exactly 'Out of nowhere' They're detectives dealing with a methodical psychopath that's always one step ahead, who then intentionally gives himself up to the police. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I still remember being like 12 and watching Remember Me, with my Mom and it was during those twilight days. We were alone in the cinema and I was the one to figure out it was 9/11 first before the plane hit the building. Dude, we cried so much when it was happening.
In the Forrest Gump book, Jenny dies of Hepatitis C, which was an unknown disease in 1981. Not AIDS. I don't get why so many people hate on her. She was a victim of child abuse and sexual abuse; the effects of those kinds of traumas can last for a long time without proper care, hence why she was so messed up for the majority of the movie. Also, as an explanation as to why she ran away from Forrest (before he starts his 3-year run across America), it's really common for people who aren't used to real love and care to lash out, or run, or reject affection. Because when Wrong becomes your "normal", then good things become "wrong". Anyway yeah, it was Hep C, and mother-to-child transmission occurs in less than 10% of pregnancies, so it's likely that Forrest Jr. is fine. Sexual transmission of Hepatitis C is also uncommon.
How do you know it was Hep C. Around that time HIV/AIDS was an epidemic and during that time it was an "unknown" virus. The same thing Jenny was told by the doctors. I also think there should be standalone movie based on Jenny.
yeah some of the things Jenny went through sucked but she also made a lot of terrible choices in life and Forrest tried for years to help her out and she treated him like shit for a majority of it up until the end where she knows she's dying and needs Forrest she basically dumps a baby on him
False. She dies of AIDS in the movie (Hep C wasn't even thought of at that date, known only as "not hepatitis hepatitis", even unsure if it was a viral issue, in the movie history, and AIDS was classified at that point as a virus) and "the book" that says Hep C doesn't come out until AFTER the movie, when the writer decided to derail Gump further. Hep C wasn't even known when the book was written, hep C was added in a sequel book written AFTER the movie - Gump and Co. (1981 AIDS epidemic panic trying to figure out if it's come to the US, 1982 Jenny dies, Book first edition 1986, naming of Hep C 1987, movie filmed 1993, sequel 1995.) Just as the movie doesn't show Forrest as a major stud in bed or an astronaut, they took liberties with Jenny and made it AIDS, to make it more relevant to the audience of the early 90's (also piggybacking on Hanks' recent Philadelphia success).
Lammy4ever7 - the author of the book wrote that AFTER the movie... because he hated the movie. He literally wrote a sequel to change Forrest's life - so if you start to parse what the writer says after the movie came out, then you are going to be parsing that literally nothing in the movie is true, because next to nothing that the author wrote in the first book (pre-movie) or second book (post-movie) is anything like what actually happens to him. Literally, Forrest is essentially a poor fool, with a bunch of greedy men taking advantage of a sexual dynamo, with a penchant for movie stars, and pig power plants.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Bond marries the girl and retires to a happily ever after. Except no he doesn't because random drive-by shooting leaves teary Bond soliloquizing and fade to black. WTF
oh, of course. that makes it a logical and satisfying denouement to the story, fully foreshadowed and just a neat little bow on the whole festivities. thanks for clearing that up /sarcasm
Remember when movies and TV series' actually had happy endings? I know, I know. That was a long time ago. Seriously, who watches a TV series for years or a movie and WANTS an ending where half or all of the main characters die? If I wanted a bleak resolution, I'd just stick with real life.
God, you must be old.. Look, tv and cinema evolve, just like anything else in the world. If something doesn't evolve, it's dead. Light vs dark, good vs evil, good always triumphs in the end, has had its time. It's not gonna go away at all, but it's not the new thing anymore. Shocking or controversial endings, moral ambiquity and twist. If you fail to see how powerful, gripping and entertaining that is, go watch Game of Thrones. Besides, it's not an entirely new concept. MASH is pretty old and one of the longest running and most loved tv shows ever. And that ending wasn't exactly happy.
pillestyrer why would you want to be mad or depressed or sad at the end though? I get that it's powerful, but why would you want it to END on that note? Remember the 'Mist'? The ending where the guys kills everyone in the car, including his little boy? And I'm 21.
Because a happy ending where everything works out all the time just isn't believeable. We want to believe what's on the screen, atleast untill the movie is finished. If it's believeable or relateable we get invested, maybe see ourselves in the characters. And that's what keep people coming back to the same show, or same genre of movie. The era of "wow, look what you can do on screen" is over. We're so spoiled by visuals now that simply looking real or great isn't gonna get us to believe what's on the screen.
Forrest Gump was not an upbeat movie. It was about a mentally challenged man who couldn't process the horrific aspects of the world around him and a sexually abused woman who took drugs in an attempt to not process them growing up in a volatile time period of American history, having a dubiously consensual sexual encounter, and producing a child that at best MIGHT grow up to be well adjusted. Of course Jenny died; her life sucked from day one and no one ever gave her the tools to recover from the trauma, so she just spiraled downward, and then she apparently got her act together for her son just in time for her past bad decisions to catch up with her. That's the tragedy of her character; that back in the 60's no one knew what crisis prevention was, so there were thousands of people like this who slipped through the cracks in society. If you thought she was going to get a happy ending just because a feather floated around while inspirational music played, all I can say is you weren't paying very close attention to the movie.
I think the first half is great, the second half just devolves into a convoluted mess of quasi religious symbolism and mad ramblings. It totally stops becoming a character drama and then turns into a esoteric mess of plot.
I was caught off guard by the ending of "The Departed." When Leo has Matt Damon in custody, and when the elevator door opens, Leo's brains are splattered all over the elevator from a gunman off camera. But I guess the payoff for that is when Matt Damon comes home to a vengeful Mark Wahlberg in a pair of booties and a jumpsuit with a tarp already laid out in his apartment.
Lavern Merriweather, she didn't die of AIDS. In the movie, the disease she died from is never stated. However, in the book's sequel, it is revealed that she from Hepatitis C.
There was more then enough room for him, Mythbusters proved it. Also he didn't die he just sank down and swam over to another single woman to score another goal. :D
the funny thing is that for The Descent, in US theaters, the "big reveal" of it being a hallucination was edited out and instead ended on her screaming then going directly to credits
