Best Movie Endings
Best Movie Endings
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#1Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/11/07 at 7:18pm
The Wild Bunch
Psycho
North By Northwest
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#2re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/11/07 at 7:27pm
I was actually just about to start a thread on this...
Roman Holiday
And I loved the ending to "American Dreamz." It creeped me out.
One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#3re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/11/07 at 7:31pmThe original "The Vanishing."
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#4re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/11/07 at 7:35pm
Not necessarily the best, but it is my favorite:
Mary Poppins
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#5re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/11/07 at 7:57pm
Casablanca
Witness for the Prosecution
Some Like It Hot
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#6re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/11/07 at 8:04pm
Casablanca
Halloween
The Blair Witch Project
Magnolia
#7re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/11/07 at 8:17pm
Casablanca
Brief Encourter
Miracle of Morgan's Creek
City Lights
What great ones do the less will prattle of
#8re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/11/07 at 8:21pmThe original Planet of the Apes
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C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#9re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/11/07 at 8:54pm
The Poseidon Adventure. Have faith and there will indeed be a morning after!
I recently saw Dark Victory and that ending was, aside from being quite emotional, very incredible.
#10re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/11/07 at 9:01pm
Definitely # 1 is the original Planet of the Apes.
Also:
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
War of the Worlds (original)
On The Beach
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane
....but the world goes 'round
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#11re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/11/07 at 9:12pm
Clue, with all 3 endings.
Sister Act
Scooby-Doo
To Kill a Mockingbird
Nightmare Before Christmas
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Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#12re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/11/07 at 11:58pm
The ending of Fellini's 8 1/2 is one of the loveliest things I've ever seen.
The final moments of GODFATHER II always get me.
The last shot of THE BIRDS.
not to mention the usual standbys: CASABLANCA, CITIZEN KANE, etc.
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#13re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/12/07 at 12:41am
I really should think of a better movie...
Notting Hill
I am probably going to get flamed for this, but in the sea of useless romantic comedies that I used to watch all the time (I just realize that I don't much anymore, which is weird...) I loved the end of Notting Hill. Normally in a romantic comedy, the couple reunites, kisses and then it's over. Their future is left to your imagination. I loved the scene showing her with her head in his lap on the park bench while he rubbed her big pregnant belly. Not sure why that movie popped into my head when reading this.
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#14re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/12/07 at 12:46am
American Beauty
Forrest Gump - I'm such a sap, but this ending makes me cry harder than ANYTHING ever has. When he says, "Jenny, he's so smart!" ... I'm tearing up right now. Gahhh.
The staircase in Sunset Boulevard
"Why, I make more money than... than... than Calvin Coolidge! PUT TOGETHER!"
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Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#16re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/12/07 at 1:32amI'm going to second American Dreamz. I thought the whole movie was great, but the ending was the best part (in that creepy, "oh man, that's exactly how society would respond" sort of way...)
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#17re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/12/07 at 3:48am
I don't care what you all say! TITANIC.
What a WONDERFUL ending. It always chokes me up.
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gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#18re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/12/07 at 4:04amWell this is fresh on my mind since I just (finally finally) watched The Godfather for the very first time. The ending of that is pretty crazy/great. Al Pacino is so good. Wow.
RadiGal2
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/07
#19re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/12/07 at 5:23am
The Player
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#20re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/12/07 at 5:43amAdd another vote for "Some Like it Hot" and Citizen Kane"
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#21re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/12/07 at 7:21am
I cry at the end of Titanic too Munk.
Some more:
Carrie (that last shot scared the **** out of me)
Sixth Sense
The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
....but the world goes 'round
Updated On: 6/12/07 at 07:21 AM
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#22re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/12/07 at 8:53am
I am also guilty of crying at Titanic. Mosty for Jack, not that b***h.
I don't care much for the ending of Some Like it Hot.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
mejusthavingfun
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
#24re: Best Movie Endings
Posted: 6/12/07 at 10:02am
I never thought I would agree on anything with munk, but, yes, the very end of Titanic moves me every time. Other great movie endings :
The Sixth Sense
The Way we Were
Some Like it Hot
Torch Song Trilogy
Updated On: 6/12/07 at 10:02 AM
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