Great Movie Endings

[hobbes]

sarcasticcheese said:

jensational said:

OK, if I recall correctly based on memory:

The little girl's door is put through a wood grinder which means the Monster's can't go see her again. The little girl is in her room and she opens the door and the big blue monster isn't there so she closes the door, looks sad, hears a noise in the door, opens it and the blue monster is there and she yells "KITTY!" and they hug and play.

Turns out the little green monster glued every little piece of the door back together so that they could see the little girl again.

That's close. <<The door is put through the grinder because she's not scared of monsters anymore. Sully keeps one piece of the door keeps it taped to his clipboard. They've discovered that laughter gives more energy than screams and Sully has become the foreman now. Time has passed, Sully misses Boo and Wazowski gets Sully and takes him to the door that he has put together piece by piece. Sully takes the one piece he has and puts it in the door, making it complete and activating it. He opens the door and peeks his head in and the last thing we hear is Boo saying "KITTY!" and Sully's face lighting up with a big smile.>>

Damn, it gets me every time.

Me too. Even reading about it gives me goose bumps. Such a great movie, and still my favorite Pixar project. Hell, even the For the Birds short beforehand is great.

And ITA on the ending of Match Point. It's so great. I was also very incredulous at how things seemed to be unfolding, but anything different would've cheapened the entire movie. It was the ending that made it great.

Same with The Skeleton Key. The ending of that movie made the rest of the movie worth it. When you realize that they switched bodies, it gives you delicious shivers down the spine.

Oh, and also, Peter Sarsgaard is hot.

[Margo]

I love the ending to I Capture the Castle. I like that it's not exactly the typical happy ending - the main character's sister gets the guy she fell in love with (it's mutual), but the main character does not. And then she sits on a rock overlooking a gorgeous moor, and writes on a piece of paper "I loved. I love. I will love." I like how this is realistic, yet hopeful and not pessimistic at the same time.

[duskwolf]

Monsters, Inc. gets me every time.

The Iron Giant got me in the end, too, although I think the last scene of the movie was kind of needless. Even thinking about the ending tears my shit up.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Monty Python and the Holy Grail...unless of course that counts as a non-ending!

Or how about The Quiet Man when Mary-Kate burns her dowry and of course, the brawl that takes place all over town!

Also, movies that have a "punchline" ending always amuse me. I guess it's pretty unpopular to say that the one-word punchline of Eyes Wide Shut validates the whole rest of the movie for me. And then there's Human Nature...doesn't really validate the rest of the movie for me, and it's easily the worst of Kaufman's movies, but there's a buh-ZING! feeling at the end of it that makes me smirk.

[hobocamp]

I vote for Dogville, because Lars Van Trier has screwed me over with an unsatisfying ending so many times, that I was expecting the same here. I stood up and cheered in my own living room when she took out her revenge on the townspeople who had enslaved her.

[iceblink]

The audience applauded and cheered the ending of Dogville when I saw it in the theatre. It ruled.

[glitterbug]

Even the description of Monsters Inc. just made me tear up. It's just the look on Sully's face. Damn.

[Deleted]

I was already in a boredom induced coma by the end of Dogville that I could no longer care what happened. That movie felt like it was 6 hours long.

Maybe I'm low brow though. Everyone else I know raved about it but honestly the only thing I liked about that ending was that it finally happened. I was never so happy to see credits in my whole life. Well, other than all those horridly boring Hobbit movies.

[Sunnyhorse]

Holy shit, I just looked up the spoilers for Dogville and nearly fell out of my chair. How on earth could a director make such intense stuff boring?

[Mutagen]

I thought the ending of Dogville itself, the movie, was awesomely chilling. I still don't know if I agree with Lars von Trier philosophically, but I think the moral conclusion of the movie was awesomely, powerfully made. If nothing else, I respect the hell out of that. But I thought von Trier ruined his own ending with that completely obnoxious end credit sequence. I don't mind anti-American stuff per se (in the sense that I believe on principle that no critique should be inherently off limits), but the tone of it was just so damn snide. It pissed me off because as I said, von Trier had just built up this three-hour morality play that I really respected, only to spit in my eye afterwards.

Anyway, speaking of von Trier, the ending of Breaking the Waves was like this for me too -- what he was implying with the final shot in that movie just socked me in the gut.

[petals]

I vote for Sunset Boulevard. It's an awesome movie throughout, but at the end the crazy reaches epic proportions.