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#76

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/18/06 at 5:48pm

Another one I really love. Sean (Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting) reads Will's farewell note, which ends with "Tell him I had to go see about a girl." Sean smiles, sighs and says, "Son of a bitch stole my line." Perfect.
#77

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/18/06 at 5:55pm

Craig, that sounds right. I can hear ol' Chuck Heston now, ranting to the sky.

Here's a corny one, but it always makes me smile: The end to White Christmas where they slide the big barn doors open and it's snowing outside just in time for the big musical finale. (I know, I'm a big sucker for a happy ending!)
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#78

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/18/06 at 6:05pm

It's done just as beautifully on stage, best12!

Hmm....how about:

Dodsworth - "Loves got to stop somewhere short of suicide!"

Now Voyager - the pan up to the stars as they puff away, tears in their eyes as she says..."Don't let's ask for the moon...we have the stars!"

42nd Street - everyone exiting the theater exclaiming how wonderful the show was, and how they jsut know the director will try to take all the credit...then the pan over to the exhausted director all alone on the exit stairs.

King Kong - the regretful hunter/director exclaiming how "twas beauty killed the beast"

Hunchback of Notre Dame (NOT THE CARTOON) - the hunchback, sitting beside his gargoyles, bemoaning..."Why can I not be made of stone, as thee?"

may, many more...but alas..I have meetings.
"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."
#79

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/18/06 at 6:16pm

justme2---I forgot how COOL the ending to 42nd Street is! It's such a quiet, effective moment for such a big splashy movie. Love it!

I also love the ending to "All Quiet on the Western Front" (from 1930, I think?). The soldier hiding in the trenches reaches out momentarily for a bird (or is it a butterfly?), and you see his hand out stretched by itself. Then you hear a gun shot, and his arm goes lifeless in the dirt. THE END. Very symbolic and SO effective.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#80

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/18/06 at 6:20pm

Yes, another example of the stunning imagery of that era. Same kind of ending with "Greed" with the guy finally letting his canary free in the desert. Love it! No words needed.
"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."
#81

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/18/06 at 6:35pm

NASHVILLE ("It don't worry me....it don't worry me...you may say that I ain't free...but it don't worry me")
HOPE AND GLORY ("Thank you, Adolph!")
DR. STRANGELOVE ("Weeell meet again, don't know where, don't know when....")
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali
#84

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/18/06 at 8:02pm

I never thought of the ending to the Graduate as anything special. It's a great movie, with tons of memorable scenes, but the ending in the bus is kind of a let down, IMO.
"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."
#85

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/18/06 at 8:13pm

justme2 - I guess I consider the "ending" as beginning with the church scene, continuing to the bus. I know what you mean by the feeling of a "letdown" by the FINAL scene (the bus), but it was kinda cool. It made me wonder exactly what they were thinking. After all it took for them to get here, NOW WHAT?
#86

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/18/06 at 8:19pm

Chita... I LOVE the Vanishing (european). I hated the American version.
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#88

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/19/06 at 7:52pm

yes DD it's a favorite of mine. I didn't describe the ending so I wouldn't spoil it for those who haven't seen it.

and I HATED the American version.
#89

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/19/06 at 10:22pm

so many

Oceans eleven (Just standing at the fountain to that great music and they all leave one by one, the movie should have stopped there)

Rebel without a cause

Swing Kids (Swing Heil Swing Heil!!) MAkes me cry so hard!!

Breakfast at Tiffanys (Cat!)
Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone and ta'en thy wages: Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. ~Cymbeline
#90

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/19/06 at 10:42pm

Emie, I'm with you on all of them.

Kind of a weird choice, but I love the ending to Cruel Intentions. Yes, the movie is hysterically bad, but the combination of "Bittersweet Symphony" playing and Reese Witherspoon's character driving to God knows where is just really cool to me.
#91

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/19/06 at 10:45pm

omg! Cruel intentions, such a great ending to a crappy movie!! haha forgot about that one
Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone and ta'en thy wages: Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. ~Cymbeline
#93

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/19/06 at 11:39pm

The ending of CARRIE, came immediately to mind. Certainly the greatest ending to a film I ever saw in a movie theater. The reaction was incredible. I also really like the train station scene at the end of THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS. It's touching.
#94

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/20/06 at 1:20am

I'm not sure if anyone had mentioned these and quite frankly i'm too lazy to look...but i love the endings to Notting Hill and the Travolta movie, Michael.
"Applause begets applause in the theatre, as laughter begets laughter and tears beget tears." CLAYTON HAMILTON, "Theory of the Theatre" "I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is." TOM STOPPARD
#95

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/20/06 at 1:44am

Casablanca and Schindler's List. And my favorite ending of all times (and quite possibly the best last line of any movie), Some Like It Hot. Between the dialogue and the expression of Joe E. Brown's face... priceless.
#96

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/20/06 at 1:51am

One of my all time favorite movie endings is in Forrest Gump, when he meets his son. I cry everytime.
So afraid of getting older

I'm only good at being young
#98

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/20/06 at 2:08am

PLACES IN THE HEART ... in the church when they pass the communion and say "peace of god" ... and the people who have been killed in the course of the movie are alive again and sitting in the pews with everyone else.
RIP glebby <3
#99

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/20/06 at 2:24am

I agree with the mentions of Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, Breakfast at Tiffany's. Has The Wizard of Oz been mentioned?

Whatever you might think of the movie, I thought that the end of Fight Club was brilliantly done, particularly with the exit music. I also love the end of Say Anything, where John Cusack's and Ione Skye's characters are in the airplane waiting for the "fasten seat belt" sign to go out.
#100

re: what's your favorite ending to a movie?

Posted: 7/20/06 at 5:24am

It's been mentioned before but the ending of "The Color Purple" turns me into a sobbing mess everytime!
Those two yelling "CELIE!" and "NETTIE!" and running to each other... *sigh*
In the real world the only people who burst into song are the hopelessly deranged...

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