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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:00 pm Post subject: Best "Movie Films" Ending Ever.
The Shawshank Redemption: Hope
Alright LG'ers , I called it and I'm confident that this movie transcends life and approaches the human spirit. Link yours. _________________
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:09 pm Post subject:
Pajamahadeen wrote:
chef wrote:
Eurotrip!
Butcher? Where's your link?
Nevermind, he would have said "The Big Lebrowski" or whatever. _________________
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Glory
Saving Private Ryan
First Blood
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hmmm...didn't like 3:10 to Yuma's ending...too drastic a change. _________________ "Now, if life is coffee, then the jobs, money & position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold & contain life, but the quality of life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:09 am Post subject:
The best endings weren't in movies - at least not consistently.
The best endings were always in "The Twilight Zone" - the whole premise of the show was in it's endings and rarely failed to deliver. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
10. Some Like It Hot (1959) - Jack Lemmon finally drops his drag and reveals his true gender to his horny suitor (the perfect Joe E. Brown), who couldn't care less. "Nobody's perfect!" he says, the final cherry on top of a whipped-cream and chocolate-covered sundae of a comedy. -DW
9. Don't Look Now (1973) - Donald Sutherland chases the little child in the raincoat he's seen for the whole film and then Roeg's nightmare springs one last terror on you. That face under the red raincoat is no child, and it will stay in your nightmares for months... or else you'll put it as your computer's desktop picture like my roommate. -CC
8. Big Night (1996) - The old term "silence is golden" has never seemed so appropriate. After a grand night of arguments, fantastic food, and a no-show crooner, the two idealistic opposites (art vs. commerce) sit down to a simple omelet with their waiter, knowing their lives will go separate ways (and bankruptcy is a near certainty) but not needing to talk about it. Soulful, delicate, and bypassing tearjerk-o-rama, directors Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott create a sincere goodbye to their lovely, little film. -CC
7. Night of the Living Dead (1968) - Without a hint of being self-conscious, Romero's horror masterpiece raised the middle finger to all modern narrative constructions. The family dies, the young white couple dies and the black protagonist, surviving the gruesome night, is shot by the cops. It's complete film rebellion, and you can't help but savor it. -CC
6. Boogie Nights (1997) - One of the most unexpected endings in cinema history. Mark Wahlberg's faded porn star stand in the mirror and yanks his penis out, saying with complete conviction, "You're a (bleep) star." The soul of the inept, underage star still resides in the aged, coke-snorting loser. Its pathetic grandeur (both the ending and the unit on display) is unmatched. -CC
5. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - The constantly underrated Arthur Penn brings his great, gritty tale of the criminal lovebirds to an end with a scene of unyielding violence and shock. Think of it as the alternate ending for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which ends exactly the same way but stops the film about 20 seconds earlier. -CC
4. Casablanca (1942) - "The beginning of a beautiful friendship" and one of the best movie endings – so good it was recycled as the ending of at least one great film, Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam. Like the rest of Casablanca, the last scene is now the stuff of cliché, but that's because there are so many dang quotable lines. -DB
3. Chinatown (1974) - "Forget it, Jake, its Chinatown." Chinatown has nothing to do with Chinatown, but it also has everything to do with Chinatown. Explaining its intricacies could fill a book, but it's the very end that punches you in the gut: The bad guy gets away and Nicholson's Jake Gittes, after solving the case, is told to forget the whole affair. Ow. -CN
2. Fight Club (1999) - No matter what you think of David Fincher's translation of Chuck Palahniuk's pre-iPod, post-post-punk nightmare, you have to admire an ending that foresaw things that are still being talked about today. The film predicts the emo-boy nation that we swim in these days, but the ending, with the Pixies' raucous "Where is My Mind?" wailing in the background, sees self-terrorism and numb romance as the new, essential way of life. -CC
1. Dr. Strangelove (1964) - You may remember otherwise, but the climactic scene where Slim Pickens rides the bomb down is not actually the ending of Strangelove (though even if it were, it would still be #1 on our list). Rather, there is a strange scene afterwards in which the leaders of the free world wait for the end of the world while having a demented argument about how to survive the impending nuclear winter ("We must not have a mine shaft gap!"). Then, signaling apocalypse, Peter Sellers' titular mad scientist, wheelchair-bound for the entire movie, stands up and begins to walk, before the War Room (and the rest of the world) explodes to the tune of "We'll Meet Again." It's all weird but absurdly logical, like everything about Kubrick's masterpiece. -DB
Personally, I don't know why this isn't higher than 36th...
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36. Jacob's Ladder (1990) - It was all a dream, freak-out style. This time at least it's with good reason: We find out that Jacob (Tim Robbins) was on his deathbed, having been shot during the Vietnam War, and everything that has preceded has been a sort of cruel flash-back-forward because Jacob hasn't been willing to let go. Suddenly it all makes sense. -CN
Then here's [url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/3EQRGTJFS3EIQ?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0[/url] top ten...
(Sorry but you'll hae to copy and paste the url it just won't allow me to post it any other way.)
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The Top 10 Greatest Movie Endings (In Order)
#1 Chinatown
Far and away the greatest ending of any movie, of any genre. Truly among the greatest screenplays ever written. The disintegration of the entire deck of cards in fleeting moments, and a seeming return-to-stability of hidden chaos and despair. Mind-boggling in its profundity.
#2 Titanic
The rest of the movie was a 2/10, but the ending was one of the most astonishing artistic statements of any medium.
No, the ending was NOT when the old lady threw the jewels into the water (rather than donating them to a museum!!!).
It was the dream-sequence. The acceptance of the relationship, the spotlight, the standing applause. The personal resolution after over 50 years of secret agony. Incredible.
#3 Psycho (Collector's Edition)
The movies were never quite the same after that ending.
#4 Night of the Living Dead (Millennium Edition)
You may come to a better understanding of ennui, just by watching this one movie in the right mood. The horror throughout the film is magnified many-fold by the revulsive closing scene.
#5 The Thing - Collector's Edition
If you think you understood the ending to this one, you probably didn't. After all, what was the real story behind the chess-game? Remember : one survivor took the J&B bottle from the other and took a swig from it at the very end. So they did not mistrust each other. Ponder the meaning of that last scene in that context.
#6 Planet of the Apes
The Twilight Zonesque shocker-ending perfected and presented on the silver screen. So why put it on the cover of the DVD??
#7 Some Like It Hot
How many comedies actually have a really good, memorable ending? This one does, not only for a comedy, but for any genre. Still controversial by today's standards, if you think about it.
#8 <product no longer available>
It's still a little premature to make this statement, but considering the action, surprises, and drama of the five existing Star Wars episodes, the resolution at the closing of this final installment is one of the most inspiring and uplifting.
#9 Gone with the Wind
Transcendant resilience personified in a relentless and compelling main character.
#10 Vanishing Point
A true example of following an archetypal main character to his/her logical conclusion, however bizarre and illogical that may actually be. One of the most brilliant conclusions in movie history.
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Muppets Take Manhattan _________________ Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying...'I will try again tomorrow.'
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