What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?- Page 3

[blueroses]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 10:35am

It's a Wonderful Life, because its one of my favorite movies and it just plain makes me feel good.

Happy Accidents (with Vince D'Onofrio and Marisa Tomei)...great ending to a terrific little movie.

Garbo Talks.

Imitation of Life. Talk amongst yourselves...I'm verklempt.

The end of Cinema Paradiso was so moving and beautiful.

The rooftop scene at the end of Radio Days. Nostalgic, sweet and just perfect. The sweetest Woody Allen movie ever--it was really his love affair with the '30s and his childhood and was sentimental without being cloying.

Frequency (Jim Caveziel and Dennis Quaid). I caught this movie on tv one day and loved it. The end affected me more than any film I've ever seen--probably because I had lost my dad a few months earlier. It was complete wish fulfillment, and one of the most satisfying movie endings ever (for me).

The Sixth Sense...I am one of the shmucks who didn't figure it out during the course of the movie, so I was blown away!

[AndyHardy]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 11:09am

Blueroses -- First, great screen name -- magical!

Second, thanks for reminding me of "Garbo Talks". Lovely ending! (and I always thought Hermione Gingold should have gotten an Oscar for her Elizabeth Renick!!) Another lovely ending is the end of "84 Charing Cross Road".

[blueroses]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 11:33am

Thanks Andy. And you're welcome...I love Garbo Talks. I agree with you, re: Hermione Gilgold. Terrific.

More cool endings:

Working Girl. Can't help it...I love it. And the fab Carly Simon tune just makes it even better.

All About Eve.

A Pocketful of Miracles.

Presumed Innocent...when Harrison Ford found the hammer. Chills!

The will reading during Mommie Dearest ("Mommie always has the last word." "Does she?"...fade to eerie Diana Scarwid)

[RobbO]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 11:33am

I love the one where Mary_Ethel bites it in the end.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 11:52am

Mr. Roxy- Harlan Ellison was one of that writers committee responsible(convicted/) for "The Oscar". (He turns off his phone whenit plays cos he can't stand the comments he gets called with)
Such wonderfully over the top lines ( ya lie down with dogs you get up stinking of garbage) & of course of the few(if not the only)
film Edith Head appeared in as herself!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 11:56am

To Mary Ethel

How about Elke Sommer & the lisp that ate Cleveland? The dialogue is absolutely hysterical. I read the book the movie was based on by Richard Sale ( long out of print) & it was good. Ther movie omitted the 4 other nominee characters in the book & chose their story. Broderick Crawford playing a corrupt sheriff was really a stretch (not) . How about having Jill St John doing the most unerotic strip in history ? What about Borgnine's character name Barney ( he will never turn a key) Yale ? I want this out in DVD so I can savor every deliciously bad moment

The peasce de resistance is Tony Bennett's monologue at the end

Updated On: 12/18/04 at 11:56 AM

[sabrelady]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 12:25pm

"She was what you call a wife!" OY!

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 12:29pm

I agree, Mr. Roxy--MOST DEFINITELY.

Personally, I think Paradmount is probably BLOCKING its release to DVD!

Updated On: 12/18/04 at 12:29 PM

[MaTakeALookAtMe]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 6:42pm

M_E totally agree with your very first suggestion..

But I also so enjoy Baby Jane dancing on the beach, finally entertaing a crowd again...

[CJR]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 6:55pm

Antwone Fischer
Love Actually
Man on Fire (god I cried at the end of that movie)
Boys on the Side
Brown Sugar

[magruder]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 7:08pm

No one voted for All That Jazz?

[CJR]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 7:10pm

I wouldn't say that's a favorite ending of mine.... I mean, the numbers are great towards the end, but the end itself is just, there. He dies.

[magruder]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 7:12pm

Pretty audacious, no?

[CJR]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 7:14pm

Okay, it's profound. It's a fabulous movie -- one of my favorites... but the ending isn't like "oh my GOD! I NEVER saw THAT coming."

[magruder]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 7:16pm

No, but the fact that that final image is what Fosse leaves you with is pretty striking.

[cturtle]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 7:47pm

blue roses!

"but blue is wrong for roses."
"it's right for you."

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 5:03pm

The ending of 2001 is just about perfect.

[Craig]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 5:08pm

End of Some Like It Hot

Well.. Nobody's (or no one's) perfect

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 5:33pm

"Soylent Green is people!!!"

"After all... Tomorrow is another day!"

"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

"Oh, Auntie Em, there's NO place like home!"

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 5:36pm

Psycho

[beacon1]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 5:38pm

"Angels in America":Bethesda Fountain monologue

ET: "I'll be...right...here" (I'm a puddle by the time it comes. A complete puddle.)

The Twilight Zone Movie ("You wanna see something REALLY scary?!)

What Dreams May Come--I thought that film was quite moving.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 5:43pm

I realize it was a play first, but The Shape of Things

"That one time...in my bed one night when you leaned over...and whispered in my ear, remember? And I whispered back to you. I said that I.."
"I remember."
"I meant that. I did."
"Yeah?"
"Yes."
"Oh."


so heartbreaking.

[dirty rotten guy]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 5:45pm

Ok, I have a few:

- The Skeleton Key. That ending gives me goosebumps, I thought it was pretty brilliant.

- Edward Scissorhands. Im a huge Burton fan and that one always tears me up.

- Red Dragon. I thought that was pretty smart and wrapped up the trilogy perfectly.

- A Mighty Wind. So cute....

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 5:45pm

The end of Planet of the Apes, with the Statue of Liberty's giant torch reaching up from the sand.

[Craig]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 5:47pm

Damn you!! Damn you all to hell!! (or something like that Best12)

Jacob's Ladder

Say Anything (love that airplane "ding" and cut to black