Worst ending to a film

[donna]

I hate films that end abrubtly, with a black screen then credits whats your worst ending, I hated The Hill.

[john audley]

Far too many have bad endings but the film that instantly comes to mind is Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Most unseemly for a family film.

[donna]

tell me more John not seen it in years cant remember.

[m35541]

When I was little I hated the ending to The Italian Job although I can appreciate it better now that I'm grown up.

[john audley]

Originally Posted by donna tell me more John not seen it in years cant remember.

OK. A great film with great cast and script idea throughout with great salient and low points of pathos. The story is about six girls being kidnapped by isolated woodsman/farmers (rough diamonds!). The plan was hatched by Howard Keel the eldest brother to the disgust of his newly found wife Jane Powell who drives him away into the mountains for the winter to reflect.
During the winter Jane Power keeps the twelve apart from each other but is now pregnant so the girls care for her whilst the brothers sleep in the barn. All is well to this point but the last minutes of the film sees the townsfolk coming through the snow blocked pass to rescue the kidnapped girls who do not want to return by this time and are being chased around the farmstead. Just at this moment Jane Powell's child starts crying and the townsfolk think it must belong to one of there daughters. None of the six girls say that any of them are still pure so a shotgun marriage is instantly arranged in the barn!

A far better finish would have been a six wedding ceremony in the colourful town centre and all the townsfolk singing the main happy song!

(John Audley - Director)

[donna]

get in there John can I be in the remake, Ill look out my dancing shoes, thanks for that . Id forgotten the ending

[christoph404]

Originally Posted by m35541 When I was little I hated the ending to The Italian Job although I can appreciate it better now that I'm grown up.

Apparently the director, and star Michael Caine both hated the ending as well, it was a last minute addition to the film and not in the original script. I would agree that it is naff ending in an otherwise enjoyable film.

[donna]

East of Eden.

[donna]

Stella Dallas

[Edward G]

Funny this.
Am I the only one who likes the quite literally "cliff-hanging" ending in this movie?

Originally Posted by christoph404 Apparently the director, and star Michael Caine both hated the ending as well, it was a last minute addition to the film and not in the original script. I would agree that it is naff ending in an otherwise enjoyable film.

[dremble wedge]

Originally Posted by Edward G Funny this. Am I the only one who likes the quite literally "cliff-hanging" ending in this movie?

I liked it - there aren't that many ways to end a caper film of this sort (either they get away with it or they don't) and I thought this suited the tone - although evryone I know always blames the driver, he's really not concentrating on those windy mountain roads...

[donna]

remember how years ago the crooks never won and got their come uppance like Oceans 11 with the Rat Pack, the money all cremated with the body.and them walking sullen down the street.

[Third Man]

This is easy for me as I usually remember bad endings that belong to what I thought were quite excellent films up until they ended, so the ending seems all the more worse. The worst one for me has to be The Killing Fields'it was hurried and really weak compared to the rest of the film and the use of John Lennon's Imagine was so out of place that I just shrivelled into a ball.

Another one more recently was when I went to see The Orphanage a Spanish film which said it was sponsored by the UK Film Council with lottery money, the film on the whole was excellent, a real mature approach to the horror genre with it's roots placed firmly in Henry James book Turn of the Screw but the ending was just tagged on. I know why they did it but it was so out of place with the the mood of the film and it made no difference to the outcome of the film other than just to make the audience a bit more ostensibly happier when they were leaving the cinema, otherwise it would of been a very haunting picture.

Simon

[dremble wedge]

The ending of No Country for Old Men was met by me (and others) with general indifference.

[PS68060]

I hate sci-fi that ends with "and the computer blew-up". Sadly Logan's Run has this ending. It might well have been in the original story but even by 1975 this ending was long in the tooth.