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Posted: 3/9/2006 11:06:35 AM EDT

[#1]

"For a Few Dollars More" Where Clint Eastwood ensures a fair showdown between Colonel Mortimer and the man who raped and killed his sister.

Posted: 3/9/2006 11:08:00 AM EDT

[#2]

I love movies that leave questions at the end.

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - when I first saw it, I was like "That's awesome!" and my friend went, "WHAT!?!?!? WHAT DOES HE DO?!?!?!" The two possible reactions in one room.

Lost In Translation - what does he say to her?

Boondock Saints - the reporter interviewing people and listening to people who support them and ones against them, makes you decide for yourself.

Then there are just plain awesome endings.

Fight Club - buildings collapsing, The Pixies rocking..."You met me at a very strange time in my life."...COCK hahaha

Almost Famous - after the bus drives off, it fades to black and the music keeps playing against the black screen to show that it's all about the music

Die Hard - "If this is their idea of Christmas, I gotta be here for New Years!"

I'm sure I'll think of more later on...

Posted: 3/9/2006 11:12:21 AM EDT

[#3]

The Audition........what a sick bitch!

Posted: 3/9/2006 11:20:42 AM EDT

[#4]

The Sting.
Ghost Dog: Way Of The Samurai- AWESOME ENDING!
Arlington Road

Absolute worst ending:

War Of The Worlds.

Fuck Stephen Spielberg.

Posted: 3/9/2006 11:21:47 AM EDT

[#5]

The Matrix Telephone call
Spider-Man Web swinging

Not quite the end, but the last fight in The Matrix: Revolutions was cool as all hell

Posted: 3/9/2006 11:30:07 AM EDT

[#6]

RobRoy(the swordfight at the end)

We were soldiers( "Sir! All our men living & dead are off the field!")

Uncommon Valor("Y'a never quit, when it's for real!")

Last of the Mohicans (for the reasons stated)

Quigley Down under ("I never said I couldn't use 'em, Just said I had no use for 'em")

there's probably more I can't think of

H1

Posted: 3/9/2006 11:30:59 AM EDT

[#7]

Alien

remember how she saved that cute little kitty from the big bad monster.....

Posted: 3/9/2006 11:32:22 AM EDT

[#8]

"Quigley Down Under"

"I said I never had much use for one... never said I didn't know how to use it."

Posted: 3/9/2006 11:35:53 AM EDT

[#9]

Reservoir Dogs had a good ending.

Posted: 3/9/2006 11:38:40 AM EDT

[#10]

One that hasn't been mentioned was The Ring.

I thought it was pretty cool how they made it seem like she just wanted to be set free and whatnot. Then it switched back to having her kill the guy.

Posted: 3/9/2006 11:41:04 AM EDT

[#11]

Band of brothers, Lord of the Rings, Pvt. Ryan, We were Soldiers, So many good movies made by so many real fucktards... Strange how that works.

Mark.

Posted: 3/9/2006 11:48:33 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:

Absolute worst ending:

War Of The Worlds. Fuck Stephen Spielberg.

Try H.G. Welles, he wrote the book published in 1898. Spielberg kept pretty close to it. Fuck illiteracy.

Posted: 3/9/2006 11:51:21 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
"The Last of The Mohicans"

That was one PISSED OFF father. The scene gives me chills every time.

You don't fuck with Chigotchcook(sp), I don't think Magwa stood a chance in hell.

You should all be ashamed for not mentioning Tombstone

Posted: 3/9/2006 11:53:04 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
The Matrix Telephone call
Spider-Man Web swinging

Not quite the end, but the last fight in The Matrix: Revolutions was cool as all hell

Oh yeah, the end of the Matrix with Neo realizing his powers is pretty awesome... Reality warping around him...

Forgot about that one!

Posted: 3/9/2006 11:54:30 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Quoted:

Absolute worst ending:

War Of The Worlds. Fuck Stephen Spielberg.

Try H.G. Welles, he wrote the book published in 1898. Spielberg kept pretty close to it. Fuck illiteracy.

Quite familiar with the book, but this thead is about MOVIES.

BTW, I don't remember the book ending with the protagonist being reunited with his son, because Spielberg just have to have a happy ending. I was pretty happy with the movie up until that last scene with the kid. That ruined the whole movie for me.

Posted: 3/9/2006 11:55:19 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Quoted:

Absolute worst ending:

War Of The Worlds. Fuck Stephen Spielberg.

Try H.G. Welles, he wrote the book published in 1898. Spielberg kept pretty close to it. Fuck illiteracy.

He may mean the whole stupid "hey look, junior survived, come give pops a hug you crazy alien armageddon defying kook" thing.

Posted: 3/9/2006 11:56:59 AM EDT

[#17]

Jackie Brown, driving away from Max Cherry's office as "Across 110th Street" plays.

Bridge on the River Kwai, "Madness, madness!"

Band of Brothers, when Major Winters talks about what happened to the surviving men after the war.

Blues Brothers, everyone in the cast singing "Jailhouse Rock"

And I think the end of Unforgiven is excellent, including the epilogue.

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:00:18 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Butch Cassidey & the Sundance Kid

Butch: Wait a minute. You didn't see LaForge out there, did you?

Sundance: No

Butch: Whew, for a minute there I thought were were in trouble.

Or words to that effect....

And then when they run out and the Bolivian commander yells "Fire".

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:01:42 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Another one is from The Usual Suspects when Detective Kujan sits back to sip his coffee and suddenly realizes he's been had. The transformation of Verbal into Kaiser Soze is just an awesome moment in film.

Another classic ending!

Soze means Verbal in Turkish, so any Turkish speakers were clued in early.

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:03:54 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:

Absolute worst ending:

War Of The Worlds. Fuck Stephen Spielberg.

Try H.G. Welles, he wrote the book published in 1898. Spielberg kept pretty close to it. Fuck illiteracy.

Quite familiar with the book, but this thead is about MOVIES.

BTW, I don't remember the book ending with the protagonist being reunited with his son, because Spielberg just have to have a happy ending. I was pretty happy with the movie up until that last scene with the kid. That ruined the whole movie for me.

He gets reunited with his wife at the end of the book if I recall correctly.

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:04:31 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Vanishing Point. Saw it in the theater as a kid,

Luckily it was just a broken down Camaro in that scene. Still a classic ending.

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:05:45 PM EDT

[#22]

Murphy's War

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:07:44 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
(Director's cut) ending of the Butterfly Effect

That was a horrible ending, I hated it.

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:14:53 PM EDT

[#24]

I always liked "By Dawn's Early Light"'s ending.

The pilot and James Earl Jones saluting each other.

Powers Booth and Rebecca de Mournay flying to Bora Bora....

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:16:24 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
"The Last of The Mohicans"

That was one PISSED OFF father. The scene gives me chills every time.

Oh yes. I get a deep-down glee to watch a father take swift revenge for the death of his son. The look on the other guys face as he is owned is priceless. Great moment.

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:22:04 PM EDT

[#26]

Forgot a great one:

Electra Glide In Blue

Didn't see that coming at all.

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:24:27 PM EDT

[#27]

ok I hope someone can finnaly tell me the name of this movie but its defintaly my favorite movie ending of all time
its a western were in the begining this guys about to be hanged and he ends up escaping runing away trying to get home and right as he's about to end it pans out and "SNAP" gallows drop and hes swinging then the credits roll.

Best damn twist ending I had ever seen cuz your like wow he made it then WHAM! guess not

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:27:02 PM EDT

[#28]

+1 Quigly Down Under

I can't believe no one has mentioned:

The Game - with Michael Douglas and Sean Penn

an amazing film...

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:27:25 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Thief
James Caan

www.imdb.com/title/tt0083190/

I love that movie. I went out and bought a 1911 after I saw it.

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:29:42 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:

Ghost Dog: Way Of The Samurai- AWESOME ENDING!

that movie was the fucking ghey

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:30:18 PM EDT

[#31]

see avatar.

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:34:49 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
ok I hope someone can finnaly tell me the name of this movie but its defintaly my favorite movie ending of all time
its a western were in the begining this guys about to be hanged and he ends up escaping runing away trying to get home and right as he's about to end it pans out and "SNAP" gallows drop and hes swinging then the credits roll.

Best damn twist ending I had ever seen cuz your like wow he made it then WHAM! guess not

That had to be based off of a famous short story about a confederate spy getting hanged by the Union during the Civil War, but I can't remember who was the author, I think it might have been Stephen Crane...

ETA: Found it
The story was "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge" written by Ambrose Bierce.
It's not a western, but the escape from the hanging, only he didn't twist is there, they must have based the movie you are thinking about on this story.

An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:38:33 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/Government_Warehouse.jpg

That was pretty classic.

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:40:34 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:
Quoted:
ok I hope someone can finnaly tell me the name of this movie but its defintaly my favorite movie ending of all time
its a western were in the begining this guys about to be hanged and he ends up escaping runing away trying to get home and right as he's about to end it pans out and "SNAP" gallows drop and hes swinging then the credits roll.

Best damn twist ending I had ever seen cuz your like wow he made it then WHAM! guess not

That had to be based off of a famous short story about a confederate spy getting hanged by the Union during the Civil War, but I can't remember who was the author, I think it might have been Stephen Crane...

I believe Ambrose Bierce was the author. We got to see the movie in junior high, very well done.
"Occurance At Owl Creek Bridge" was the name of the short story.

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:44:31 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
One that hasn't been mentioned was The Ring.

I thought it was pretty cool how they made it seem like she just wanted to be set free and whatnot. Then it switched back to having her kill the guy.

The ending saved that movie from being just another stupid cliche.

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:45:00 PM EDT

[#36]

The end of Heat where DeNero pops around the corner and puts five shots into Paccino. Then gets away with his money.

Oh, but that is the way it should have happened becuase there was no way Paccino would have seen his shadow.

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:45:02 PM EDT

[#37]

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ok I hope someone can finnaly tell me the name of this movie but its defintaly my favorite movie ending of all time
its a western were in the begining this guys about to be hanged and he ends up escaping runing away trying to get home and right as he's about to end it pans out and "SNAP" gallows drop and hes swinging then the credits roll.

Best damn twist ending I had ever seen cuz your like wow he made it then WHAM! guess not

That had to be based off of a famous short story about a confederate spy getting hanged by the Union during the Civil War, but I can't remember who was the author, I think it might have been Stephen Crane...

I believe Ambrose Bierce was the author. We got to see the movie in junior high, very well done.
"Occurance At Owl Creek Bridge" was the name of the short story.

Doh, I was a second too late!

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:45:21 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
Band of brothers, Lord of the Rings, Pvt. Ryan, We were Soldiers, So many good movies made by so many real fucktards... Strange how that works.

Mark.

Speilberg and Hanks?!?

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:45:34 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
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ok I hope someone can finnaly tell me the name of this movie but its defintaly my favorite movie ending of all time
its a western were in the begining this guys about to be hanged and he ends up escaping runing away trying to get home and right as he's about to end it pans out and "SNAP" gallows drop and hes swinging then the credits roll.

Best damn twist ending I had ever seen cuz your like wow he made it then WHAM! guess not

That had to be based off of a famous short story about a confederate spy getting hanged by the Union during the Civil War, but I can't remember who was the author, I think it might have been Stephen Crane...

I believe Ambrose Bierce was the author. We got to see the movie in junior high, very well done.
"Occurance At Owl Creek Bridge" was the name of the short story.

wow I remember watching that in high school! That was pretty funny, hehe.

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:45:40 PM EDT

[#40]

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Ghost Dog: Way Of The Samurai- AWESOME ENDING!

that movie was the fucking ghey

pfft! you're teh ghey. I liked that movie. I actually have the book he was reading throughout the movie.

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:48:56 PM EDT

[#41]

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Ghost Dog: Way Of The Samurai- AWESOME ENDING!

that movie was the fucking ghey

pfft! you're teh ghey. I liked that movie. I actually have the book he was reading throughout the movie.

I know the guy who probably did the translation of your copy.

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:49:00 PM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
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Band of brothers, Lord of the Rings, Pvt. Ryan, We were Soldiers, So many good movies made by so many real fucktards... Strange how that works.

Mark.

Speilberg and Hanks?!?

Yeah, I know Spielberg's a closet shooter, and Hanks is a history nut from what I gather, I'd consider him possibly a shooter.

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:52:12 PM EDT

[#43]

+1 on The Usual Suspects. One of my favorite movies and the best ending ever.
Besides that, Jacob's Ladder had a real mindfuck of an ending.
Also among my favorite endings is the end of Star Trek II, the Wrath of Khan.

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:55:01 PM EDT

[#44]

Wow...I guess I am the first:

Return of the Jedi

Darth vader looking back and forth between Luke and the Emperor and the throwing the emperor off the ledge...The movie theater freaked...still gives me goose bumps

Posted: 3/9/2006 12:57:26 PM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
Wow...I guess I am the first:

Return of the Jedi

Darth vader looking back and forth between Luke and the Emperor and the throwing the emperor off the ledge...The movie theater freaked...still gives me goose bumps

Yes you're the first. To mention a climax and not an ending.

The ending of Jedi was fireworks and dancing Ewoks. Hardly cinematic history. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Star Wars geek, but you're waaay off topic.