Great Movie Endings

[doctorgirlfriend]

Unicorns or no, I love the ending of the director's cut of Blade Runner. The elevator doors shut, and then you get Vangelis awesomeness.

And The Apartment, but that could just be my undying love for Jack Lemmon.

[esoterica]

Buffalo 66 has one of my favorite endings ever.

[clementine74]

Dead Poet's Society.
Ah, I long for the days when Ethan Hawke washed his hair more than once a month...

[glitterbug]

This is a bit of a random one, but there's a film - I think it's Real Genius - and there's all these kids looking at a house being destroyed by gargantuan quantities of popcorn, and Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Tears For Fears is playing. Always makes me feel happy just thinking about it.

Also Leon makes me cry my eyes out every time - again, it's the music. I love that film.

[Binky]

Pirates of the Carribbean: The Black Pearl has a great ending. "Bring me that horizon."

The Departed, also, after a heart stopping climax, ends fittlingly.

[huntergrayson]

O/T - after re-seeing Goldeneye, I was shocked that Eric Serra did the music. It's so....bad and cheesy electronica. But his work on Leon is one of the most perfect movie scores ever created. I'm still hanging on to the old DVD because it has an isolated music track.

Let's see, Departed, Marie Antoinette, Half Nelson - three perfect endings in one year so far.

[Margo]

I also like the ending to Ghost World - Enid just gets on a bus and gets the hell out of her town. And it has the added possibility of not being interpreted literally - you can view it as a metaphor for her death, since an old person sitting on the bench also gets on that bus. There was speculation online about this meaning, but I still think it's quite literal - she just leaves. It's a great ending in my mind, even without a metaphorical interpretation.

[slashgirl]

The ending of Batman Begins, in which the then-Lt. Gordon gives Batman a perp's calling card, which happens to be a Joker, is classic.

[Deleted]

In the 6th sense, more than the 'twist' aspect of the ending, what got me was the line - and the way Bruce said it: "And the other thing was i had to tell you something - You Were Never Second." Shivers. BW is not an actor i like, and i didn't feel any particular chemistry between him and Olivia whatshername in the rest of the movie, but that was a great line. What a powerful alternative way to phrase 'i luv u'.

[shriekingeel]

The great montage set to "Happy Heart" by Andy Williams in Shallow Grave. That might be my favorite ending ever.

I also love the way Whit Stillman's movies end--I love Whit Stillman movies in general--and the "Love Train" ending to The Last Days of Disco was especially wonderful.