10 Movies That Pissed Audiences Off In The Final Scene
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
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" Gone girl " and " the mist " endings were infuriating yes, but also perfect in all the right ways. Hating a character or a context doesn't mean you hate the movie.
Gone girl was great! Maybe some people expected a happy ending which would have pissed me off.
Love Rosamund Pike. Such a dedicated actress
My husband and brother gave me some serious side eye because I outwardly enjoyed the ending. As twisted as Amy was I couldn't help but root for her.
I didn't expect a happy ending from Gone Girl, I just thought the last half hour was unnecessary. It could've ended in that scene where she returns to her husband in that dramatic entrance, covered in blood, among the reporters; it would've conveyed the same message. Everything after that just felt dragged out.
I feel like this needs to be said. An ending that pisses Audiences off and "Endings that Audiences hated" are two different things. While yes some of the movies on this list clearly pissed off audiences for being bad and disliked others did so because they were meant to piss off the audience. You're supposed to be angry for or at the characters.
Exactly!
But all of these "10 movies that ________ " lists are subjective. You know that there are people out there who hate things that are absolutely brilliant to someone else.
Crazy old world.
The video didn't say Audience hated it, it simply says it pissed some off - a few times it said it was an excellent ending. Seems like most people made the distinction themselves.
The ending of _Eraser Head_ left me wondering what the heck I just watched.
@@dreamEternal Some of it was framed as if it pissed off audiences by being bad. This would imply audiences hated it.
The ending to the series, Star Trek Enterprise pissed me off! It was stupid and way out in left field. What a Fraking ridiculous move.
Then again, Firefly didn't really get an ending!
The funny thing is that the endings to some of these are brilliant. They angered some people because they subverted stereotypical expectations and did things totally unexpected.
People should learn that they don't always get a happy ending. Especialy when a happy ending makes no sence.
subversion does not equals brilliance, Inception sure, but in the Star Wars sequels for example is a complete disaster and it derails the entire trilogy
@@rodangrahf well I didn't say they were all brilliant. Just some of them.
@Valkyrie's Shield and that wasn't even the worst of it.
@@rodangrahf Agreed, look at M Night Mistake he makes a lot of subversions that just end up shit. Mist was 100% brilliant with that ending a B movie with an S tier end that brings it to a B+. American Virgin was just meh? and the end was just sad and not satisfying it was okay story wise and the kid probably grew up with some fucking standards after that, but yeah.
Stephen King said that he liked the ending of the Mist better than what he wrote. It really was the Perfect dark ending.
It was so predictable though.
@@jeremymissens7608 how? How was him killing them predictable?
@@jeremymissens7608 yes, and after many years, I read a theory about the final scene. Remember the crazy religious madam? She said that only with a sacrifice everything would return to normal (more less words🤷🏻♂️).
So, after the protagonist shot his son, everything went to normal. That sole idea blew up my mind and made the final scene more shocking to me. 🤔😳😱
I just remember laughing with my friend saying, wouldn't it be funny if after he mercy kills everyone in the car he gets rescued. I called it only moments before it happened so maybe predictable wasn't the best choice of words.
King's Mist ends diferently? That ending is so King, that I was sure it's from the book.
I wonder how many times The Mist has made a WhatCulture list
I'd estimate about as many likes as your comment gets from this point on
Besides that only 1 person of 100000 pissed the ending off
Everyone else liked the ending
Hell it's one of the best if not even the best ending in movie history
Even Stephen king said he loves the ending more than his books ending
And he mostly dislikes endings who are different from his books
It’s rivaled only by the dark knight !
You want to know how many times? the answer is "Every"
WhatCulture should do a list of the movies/series/ games they constantly add to lists repeatedly
The Mist's ending was to be beautifully tragic, there are endings where no one wins, desolate and heartbreaking. After seeing what the aliens were capable of doing and how unbelievably painful it would be to die at their hands. He was performing a mercy kill to spare everyone else. Laurie's character even brings up that they were a bullet short, but David assures them that he'll find a way. The adults chose to be shot, and he killed his son so he wouldn't be killed by one of the aliens. Stephen King even said he preferred this ending over his own ending. It's so odd to me that people can't handle desolate endings, not everything ends happily. That's why The Descent had to have the ending changed. 🤷♀️
Sometimes the sad and depressing endings are the happy endings imo. Meaning I wouldn't want it any other way and despite being sad myself, I find some sort of happiness in the satisfaction of the ending being really great.
The shock made the movie for me.
I loved The Mist and the ending, totally shocking and that makes for good cinema.
Quiet Alias you are 💯. The original Descent ending is the only ending and it makes the movie. Same with The Mist. Thomas Jane (the actor) nails it, and the ending solidifies the point of the movie.
IMO a happy ending negates the rest of any horror film. You should always walk away feeling disturbed somehow or without closure, otherwise it's a drama
I loved Gone Girl’s ending! It was perfect! It was making a commentary about the flaws in social pressures that causes one to stay engaged in toxic monogamous relationships instead of just moving on.
Also saw Inception in theaters-I had ZERO frustrations with how he ended it. It added to its depth and mastery.
Hell yes. 100% agree. Couldn't have gone better👍🏽
Honestly it felt like he couldn't commit. It didn't feel deep and masterful it felt like he couldn't decide how to end the movie and so set up a situation where we pick the ending we like and then he gets called brilliant when we're the ones writing the ending.
To me it's like saying the store clerk is an AMAZING BAKER because I turned the ingredients they sold me into delicious cookies.
@@MrJackfaire, I don’t see it that way. They went full circle. It was quite intentional.
@@PutingPinoy that guy shitposts everywhere on this video, dont mind him.
Fun fact: In an interview with Michael Caine, it was asked if he actually knew the ending of Inception, if it was a dream or reality.
He responded that he was told, that every scene that his character is in, is reality. Which makes sense, since he isn't in there all that much, only when they are truly out.
Therefore we could tell that the ending, is indeed reality, and not a dream.
I don't think that's right. He was watching the kids in the United States but teaching over seas? And he's wearing the same clothes in every scene. Also the kids are wearing the same clothes and were doing the exact same thing over and over to include the end. I think he just finally decided that the dream was better than the reality.
@@michaelsangster2354 for me it was more of a Leo's character saying Fkt it! When he saw his children he just didn't care anymore if it was real or not he just wanted to be with them.
But...in dreams Cob never sees the faces of his children. They run off without ever looking at him. At the end he DOES see their faces and he is happy, so what difference does it make if he is dreaming or not? Reality is perceptual anyways, so if Cob chooses this ending as reality, it is reality for him.
@@yugmi you remember he could have seen his kids faces any time he wanted to but he decided not to look at them. He was always turning away. Someone told me once that he never made it back from the last inception. He never made it out of limbo.
What the director told him and what the director actually meant to be the case in the movie's world are two different things.
The mist... I just sat staring at the wall in complete horror for an hour afterwards in silence. It’s one of the few incredible films that I simply can not rewatch!
Right? I love it, but I can't rewatch it. It's too bleak.
Kinda like The Lovely Bones. Tons of people adored that film, they just don't want to experience it again.
I feel the same.Only watched it once
Yeah. To be fair, I feel like it wouldn’t have the same impact on a second viewing. I mean, when you see it the first time, you have hope it will all work out. Seeing it again means you go in knowing the fates of all the characters and that just doesn’t feel as powerful.
Well said, I even gave away my DVD as had no interest to go through those emotions again.
It’s not David Fincer’s ending, it’s Gillian Flynn’s she wrote the book it’s based on and the screenplay.
Thanks, I was about to point it out, though I have not read it !
Same with No Country For Old Men I believe.
@@BenjiH23I understand why some people might hate the ending to NCFOM but I absolutely love it
@@jbsreviews1202 ut it was awfull
@@fredy2041 Opinions dude
Don't blame David for what he did in The Mist...He didn't know "Carol" always wins!
and now his life just become punishment
@@MaxPain1996 so that is how he became The Punisher... wow!
You spelled whines wrong
Well the Mist's ending was absolutely depressing. It's one of those endings where you can't imagine being in David's shoes. If he didn't die from the aliens, the guilt alone would've killed him.
I'd probably kill myself if I were him.
The women in the market said he needed to be sacrificed. He was sacrificed and it ended the mist
@@mr.boomsicle3870 Dude, that doesnt make any sence
@@fredy2041 kinda does. They werent aliens. They were things from other dimensions.
@@luisvaldez3389 what? What you even talking about? You know this is the Mist, right? No dude, doesnt make any sence
You guys are just tring to justificate this poor movie
The final 2 hours and 20 minutes of Rise of Skywalker pissed me off.
It was before that moment, it was that mess before hand that pissed me off, I just cannot bring myself to watch that trashfire!
LOL!
yeah, the last 7 hours of the Skywalker Saga pissed me off.
@@tayloriginals999 Summed up perfectly
One and done for me on that one, saw it premiere night and was grunting from beginning to end.
While leaving the theater I overhead one of the guests say “well that’s was pretty much garbage.”
NO NO NO NO NOPE, Inception's ending is and will always be PERFECT! Didn't piss me off one bit.
Hell, I straight up said to my friends about halfway through the movie, "This is going to have a twist ending."
This movie is now on my “want to watch” list.
How long do you need to watch a spinning top not fall to determine it isn't going to fall?
Not to mention, I read a theory that his totem is actually his wedding ring, not the top. Apparently, he wears his wedding ring the dream world.
PERIOD.
Trust me when I say Rise of Skywalker pissed most people off way before the final scene.
The opening crawl's first three words had me angry because they are so bloody corny!
the sequel trilogy had me pissed off before the first scene of Rise of Skywalker!
I remember just the announcements of what they were doing with the film during production were already making me angry.
I didn't even see the movie and I know the one thing that happened in it, which is that nothing much happened except Rey stole Luke's identity.
I know I'm gna get load of hate, watched originals when I was a kid, watched prequels in cinema as young teen, watched new trilogy as an adult. I enjoyed the new movies. They aren't perfect by any means, and I'm not going to go out of my way to watch them again, but felt got moneys worth in cinema. If asked, would probably watch 789 before 456, probably partially on acting and effects Tbf
I Am Legend used the wrong ending.
Absolutely!
Yesss
Not just the wrong ending... the entire premise was flipped.
Yah
This. Loved the alternate ending.
You can hate how the movie ends but still love the ending. The Mist is good ending even though what happened was heart rending and the sacrifices unnecessary but the characters do not know this when they die and the wonderful performance by Thomas Jane at the end (his performance throughout the was good) made a rather mediocre Lovecraftian horror movie into an emotional march to tragedy. The final scene with the mother and kids is like hitting you with an emotional sledge hammer when you are at your weakest. The final scene makes it a true horror movie.
Here's a double whammy...Marcia Grey Harden's character suggested a blood sacrifice of the children back in the supermarket. Like Abraham and his son Issac.....what happens just after Thomas Jane sacrifices his son ?
The last American virgin broke my heart. It’s SO REAL because THAT ending happens more then you think
Yep
I watched this while pining for my own crush. The ending, with its tears shed and Journey's "Open Arms", was really devastating. I wanted and perhaps needed a happy ending. As you said, though, life does not always have those happy endings.
@Kev Walthall A great film is a great film, regardless of who makes it.
YES! Absolutely Real to Life.
It might not be the ending that we WANT, but like you said, it IS the ending that's more Real-to-Life.
Even today, too many battered women sadly forgive - and just as sadly forget - until the next time.
Same with Teen Pregnancy, with young girls passing over the good guys & forgiving the bad guys & irresponsible ones who don't deserve the forgiveness.
Women actually be like that.
I can't believe anyone after Generation X knew about The Last American Virgin! The highlight (or lowlight) of Gary driving away was the fact that they had the late great James Ingram singing "I did my best, but I guess my best wasn't good enough...". Damn Gary....😪
Man, does nobody actually pay attention to Inception? A key thing people miss is that the top was never his totem to begin with. He states IN THE MOVIE its his wedding ring. Since that hand isnt specifically shown in the last scene, I think its left up to imagination. As someone in the comments pointed out, it could also be that it doesnt really matter in the end because he is finally with his children.
I really didn't have a problem with it. It's a good mystery to leave, considering the entire rest of the film is about not being sure you're dreaming.
Yes! Also, Elon Musk has also said that it's just as likely that we are in a simulation than not.
- I say we are, one way or another. After all, everything we go through see & experience is created by the brain:
- Everything we see, hear, smell, taste, touch & feel (and our responses to these stimuli/sensations), are all essentially created within our brain. So essentially we Are in a simulation of sorts.
- It's very easy to forget this fact while we're busy living our lives, but it's true.
- I like the fact that the ending is ambiguous & hints at the fact that he is still in a artificial dream/simulation.
- It's funny that people talk about "the end" of the film & the spinning top, but if you watch the credits to the end, the sound/end credit music warps as if it's being drawn out and heard under water:
- Yet another hint Right at the End that says "yup, this too is a dream"!
Damn right! I loved that enigmatic, it was supposed to remain a tortuous film for us all. WhatCulture can just sit home with their beer and stay away from social media, those ignorant and incompetent idiots
He did stay in his mind. I thought he kids were died. The whole movie he seems to want to stay.
Michael Caine indirectly revealed the ending was set in the real world, and not the dream world when he told an interviewer that his character never appears in the dream world.
The death switch ending to My Sister’s Keeper. The book ending was horrifying enough but to have the shitty anti climatic ending we got in the film was an insult.
I was furious, depressing ending rather than bittersweet yet hopeful.
They always screw up Jodie Picoult’s books.
I still say Clyde Shelton, as written for most of the movie, would have had an alarm system set up to tell if someone found his lair while he was out & would have had multiple backup plans in place. That ending wasn't earned.
The bad guy definitely got away in that movie. Nick was the most culpable character in allowing the original killer to get away.
No Country For Old Men: the ending turns the whole movie into a slow burn horror film and it’s fucking incredible. There truly is no country... for old men.
It's such a good movie
Well fucking said sir.
@@topsdaily_productions It's also an incredible book. Between No Country and The Road Cormac McCarthy excels at making tragedy and despair engrossing and I was super glad to see how faithful to the source material the Cohens made their film.
@@jeremygilbert7989 wait, The Road and No Country are the same author?!
@@markaitkenguitar Yep
I loved The Grey's ending...but I did love his ''Where's my wolf battle?''
Nope. My grandmother and mom went haywire looking for explanations and second parts to it. They also made hypothetical endings 😫
The Grey is a perfect sister piece to No Country For Old Men (I might be reaching...). Morality and cadence without spectacle. Life, life looked at, and death.
The Mist was one of the best movie endings. I was emotionally haunted for days.
Yeah that one was hard.
Heart-rending to be sure but what a ballsy decision with the story.
Not it was not
@@bwmanhath3770 Terrible ending
What's frustrating about Last American Virgin is how too often it happens in real life.
What? A man expects sex because he’s nice to a woman? I suppose you’re right, that happens all the time.
The fact that she went back to the guy after she had an abortion shows how desperate she was. I've had a few friends in this position and NOT ONCE did they WANT to go back to that guy. Only the ones that ended up having a kid were the ones willing to accept the "dad" in their lives
@@chrisknight2631 I think the user meant for women staying for the guys that trashed them and gets laid anyway rather than with the guy being nice to them.
@@chrisknight2631 it does happen all the time indeed
That is the NORMAL ending in that situation, so better to find it out sooner than through experience later.
All I wanted was to see Liam Neeson fight some wolves. That's all I wanted.
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Do you mean the movie about Liam Neeson fighting wolves and we never see him fight wolves
That would be "a very particular set of skills."
You didn't mention Stephen King preferred the movie ending to The mist, his ending only had them driving along with no real answer to their future.
I actually preferred the book ending, it was still dark because there was no end in sight to the mist, but it at least had hope. I don’t like the stories that just end in tragedy with nothing to redeem it at all. And honestly most Stephen king stories do end on at least a hopeful note like that. Actually the only one I can think of that didn’t off the top of my head is “The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill” which was part of his Creepshow anthology.
@@stuartdemerse7759 Nothing to redeem it?? Dude, the military is torching the mist and rounding up survivors. Some people we have reason to like from the supermarket survived. And, presumably, the military is defeating the monsters. This literally ends with a brighter note than the book, which leaves us wondering if the mist even has an end or if anyone survives.
Yeah, it has a helluva impactful gut-punch, but it ends with more than hope: It ends with results.
The massive difference with Star war and Gone Girl, is the intention. The masterful David Fincher had all the intended the audience to feel that way. You should be scared watching a horror, laugh watching a comedy... I'm quite sure that the star wars moguls didn't want the audience to be pissed. Gone girl on the other was satisfily frustating.
Can't wait for the upcoming Fincher's movie with Gary Oldman.
Fincher didn't write that ending. That's exactly how the book ended and the author also wrote the screenplay.
The thing is that Shelton's plan did succeed. The brilliance of the ending of Law Abiding Citizen is that Jamie' Foxx's character was a devotee to the idea "Justice Will Prevail through the law and courts" While Butler's character watched that philosophy do nothing to protect him, his family etc. That moment he's blown up is Foxx's character finally coming around to Shelton's way of thinking and stopping him the only way left by taking the law into his own hands and doing exactly what Shelton himself had done.
In the end he's corrupted and his Heroic smugness is tarnished.
(Un)Surprisingly WhatCulture is wrong about half of the entries, I personally think that the ending for Night of the Living Dead is perfect and Inception's imbiguous ending fits the movie perfectly. I haven't seen the other half.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo they're not wrong as much as people think. Good endings piss audiences off as. well when they're designed to like the mist
Actually both the endings of Inception and Gone Girl were great.
The ending for gone girl did piss me off though, but it was pretty good
@@hamishwilson9787 you expected a Hollywood ending?
I HATE how movies in the US show insane amounts of violence, rape, blood splattering all over the walls as she's stabbing the other guy over and over... but has anyone else noticed that you never see so much as her nipple? It's a shame that we're all desensitized to violence, but we think that the human body is disgusting and should be hidden.
@@Lost20048 did I say I wanted it to be a Hollywood ending? No, I was pissed off like the main character was at the end of the movie
@@SBluesBrotherhood *bonk* go to horny jail
All I wanted for The Grey......was to hear a wolf cry out at the end (after the screen goes black) just to know that he gave them a good fight....knowing the main character was still most likely going to die.
Watch the end credits scene
Oh ffs still with inception ending..the whole point is that it doesnt matter to him
Agreed, he is with his kids, matters not to him if it is real :)
@@jeremiahlowe3268 so deep
The whole movie was taking place in a dream. 🤷🏾♂️
Exactly. The end is... he doesn't care. He's got what he wanted.
One day in future, he realized his children not getting older, but it is too late now there is no way back to come in reality
The movies ending that always bothered me was “Lovely Bones”. Yeah her killer died at the end but a accident that killed him. No one would ever know he was dead, no one got the satisfaction of killing him, no one will ever know what actually happened to the girl, her remains would never be found and her family would never get closure. It left a terrible feeling.
Sean Penn's The Pledge felt the same.
Who could possibly be pissed off at the ending of The Mist? It’s so much better than the standard “everyone lives happy happy joy joy” garbage HWood usually subjects us too
I don't think all of these are meant to be a bad pissed off where you think it's shit. I think that one was one of those where you're supposed to be pissed off in a good way.
It's the difference between the ending of How I Met Your Mother that pissed us fans off because it shat on 5 years of character development for Barney and Robin and the series finale of Dawson's Creek that was pissed us off by toying with our emotions and waffling one way or the other before giving us the satisfying ending.
The second was exhilarating.
@@MrJackfaire It was terrible dude, No, people were not expecting a happy ending, nobody wanted that, but also we did not wanted this
How about an ambiguous ending instead like the novella? leaves the audience pondering where half will say "they got away, they had a happy ending" and half saying "naw, they died for sure because survival is nigh impossible". Instead we got, "nope, they done f*cked up and f*ck you for watching this movie." It was way more unlikely that the military would suddenly show up. Like, really? Really?
The boy was a sacrifice. He was sacrificed and the mist disappeared
@@mr.boomsicle3870 Dude, the ending was awfull
The Mist's ending was horrifying and only made the movie better. Steven King loved it too.
The Grey was an amazing character study. Shame on the marketing for ruining people's expectations.
No, it was terrible and pointless dude
Which, The Mist, or The Grey? Either way, it probably just wasn't for you. I thoroughly enjoyed both endings.
Yeah. I remember watching Inception in the theater and when he spun the top and the screen went to black, this man a few rows behind me, yelled really loudly. "You've got to be sh*tting me."..
Hilarious 😂
I like to imagine that after gone girl ends Nick has the foresight to have a paternity test done on the kid and if it doesn't come up as his kid he then fakes his death leaving behind a suicide note telling everything and sending it to the press
Ooohhhh! I Like It! Or even if it comes back as being his child, he can run with the kid to - I dunno, Belize, maybe - as well as your idea of suicide note dumping on her to the press!
- I just realised; that would then see her charged by the Police & imprisoned, too!
That just defeats the entire purpose of the movie
Oh my god, don't quit your day job and stop watching Maury Povich, it's poison
That Crimes of Grindlewald one is a stretch. He's obviously lying about the boy's lineage. He wants Albus dead, and the lie is sufficient motivation for the only person Grindlewald knows who is powerful enough to kill him.
You’d think he was a villain or something 😉
I’m sure someone has already noted this, but anyone complaining about “No Country for Old Men” needs to read the book. I read it because of the seeming jump cut to the motel shootout, feeling like I’d missed something...NOPE! One of the most faithful book adaptations I’ve ever seen. If you have a complaint, take it up with the author.
Okay. The author of the original book dropped the ball.
I don't think it changes much who is to blame for a bad choice; the point is we negatively reacted to a bad choice.
But, to address your point directly, what works on paper doesn't necessarily work on screen. A film adaptation should adapt -- not just use the book as a script.
I feel like a lot of this were just people missing the point.
Like Inceptions ending: the fact that you don't know if it's a dream or not is the entire point of the movie. It's the main plot device: they explicitly mention it several times during the movie.
No one got pissed at the ending of Inception.
I don't know. Being a big thicko, I like to have my movie endings spelt out. My ticket money was unambiguous and I'd like the film to be.
@Asher Avellan I enjoyed the film, and the point Nolan was making was ultimately, it didn't matter, it was real to Cobb. Personally, he can stick that right up his bum, whilst making the Inception foghorn trailer sound.
@Asher Avellan BWAAAAAARP! (ouch)
@@jasonp8460 that's an interesting point. We're still discussing it now, so that's how good the film was.
Was fine by me.
The mist ending didn't piss anyone off, just shocked them.
It made me mad :(
Just watching the brief clip here mad me angry all over again. Everything about that finally scene is stupid even if it is ‘darker’. If he wanted to still die, he should’ve just grabbed a gun from a soldier and started shooting the survivors until they killed him that way.
@@Dark_Mishra he didn't want to die at all. he is only regretful of what he did.
Anyone can just grab guns from soldiers. Soldiers are trained to provide guns to randos.
@@Dark_Mishra why would he kill himself that way? Wouldn't it be way easier and less messy that, after grabbing the soldier's gun, he just shot himself with it? I don't get why he would need to shoot anyone else lol
Easy Rider. Maybe not number 1 but definitely deserves a spot on this list.
Yes.
I saw the Season Ending episode of Venture Bros. Before I saw Easy Rider.
I remember going to the theatre with friends when Easy Rider came out....we all left the theatre pissed right off.....five angry guys on Harleys....
"Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is easily the most divisive Star Wars film since the prequels."
Last Jedi: Am I a joke to you?
RoS was soo bad I didn’t even recall that scene/ending... seeing it again now, that isn’t that bad of an ending all things considered in the last 2 movies.
Luke A 😂😂😂
How can a movie be divisive when critics and a healthy majority of the fan base agree that it’s bad? The only question is whether Episode 9 earned a D or an F.
The ending of "The Mist" is a master piece.
The ending of Inception was perfect... It left us, the audience, stuck somewhere between dream and awake.
I'm actually disappointed that this list didn't include "The Wicker Man," when I think about movies that had an ending that pissed me off, it's the first one that comes to mind.
Please tell us why, one of the greatest horror endings of all time?
I feel like I need to clear up the ending of Inception as I think its brilliant not infuriating.
The films premise as explained here is that the characters have totems that they can each use to determine that they are no longer in a dream and that they are back in the real world again. They each have to have one and cannot rely on each others totem.
As the viewer we are equally at odds with not really knowing for sure whether what we are watching at any given time is a dream or reality. We do not have a totem. Therefore the spinning top totem is actually irrelevant to us. We have to decide for ourselves if what we are seeing in the final scene is reality or a dream. Because the totem is irrelevant to us and Cob never sees the outcome of the spinning top it is a red herring that no-one should be salty about.
The thing that gives away the ending is not the spinning top but the fact we see his children's faces which he states earlier in the film he cannot see during a dream.
The spinning top is designed to mislead the audience and may even be seen as a maguffin in the end.
"Texas Chainsaw Massacre: New Beginnings" should be on the list the way that movie ended still pisses me off! 🤦♂️
I liked the ending of Inception, as I do think the top slowed down enough to show it was reality. Either way, he was reunited with his kids. Everything was tied up, and I was happy with it.
The ending of Gone Girl the movie was the same as the book. I thought it was refreshing that the novelist stayed true to her book when writing the screenplay.
I forgot about "The Last American Virgin" I grew up with teen high school comedys, but this was a first Teen Drama for me. Im glad someone else felt the same GUT PUNCH of an ending.
Came here to day this.
I totally feel what you're saying. I thought he was gonna get lucky like Private School or Porky's but no..... They treated us to an After school special on steroids!
@Kev Walthall Uhh... Tell me something that I don't know. And your point is????
@Kev Walthall Do go away, a good film is a good film.
I always thought that the ending to Last American Virgin was brutally honest about depicting how heartless and utterly moronic young women can be, and how even your guy friends can be a major douchebag. I saw it when I was 13, and I'm glad I did. My uncle watched it with me. When I got pissed at the end he told me that's the way that shit happens sometimes. It actually prepared me for heartbreaks later on. Every guy needs to see this movie. They should show it in Junior high during sex Ed.
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YES! I agree 100% with you on this. I remember watching this on latenight Cinemax at 14yrs as well. Funny as hell for us at the time. Could be called "The REAL rewards of being a White Knight"! Hahaha! Sadly, it's very spot-on.
@@yvonnet6399 of course a woman would feel that way. Or a clueless man.
I saw it when it came out and it was so refreshing to see a movie that depicted what REAL high school relationships were like. I love that movie. Epic soundtrack too ♥️
The end of Law Abiding Citizen always bothered me. Whether you like it or not isn’t why it bothered me, rather, Jamie Foxx murders his client and that’s...cool? He willingly puts the bomb in Butler’s cell, and the next scene he’s enjoying a play with his family, like “yep, I’m good with murdering people”.
I see it as Shelton winning. He proved his point. He could only be stopped if Foxx stops being a law abiding citizen
"Jamie Foxx murders his client"
He was the prosecuting attorney. Shelton wasn't his client.
Foxx didn't murder anyone. He left it up to shelton to make the call or not. Shelton killed himself by being blind with rage and calling the number. That's why I don't think it bothered him
Smug Foxx I kept wishing for his death not the intention of the director I’m sure major backfire you needed to have sympathy for Foxx and I just didn’t buy it. Really pissed me off. No Country was great even though it ended darker than wished for Javier Bardem was amazing
Dude I love listening to your videos specifically because of how much care you put in the last few minutes of each video
Jamie Foxx was NOT his former attorney he was the prosecuting attorney
Well, Shelton was Rice’s client in the trial against Darby and Ames. True, for most of the movie, Shelton was the defendant, but as Rice was his attorney during the initial trial, the video was correct.
@@Anurepa
"Rice was his attorney during the initial trial, the video was correct."
The OP is correct. Rice was never Shelton's attorney. He was the prosecuting attorney. His client would be the State if you want to even go that far.
He was definitely the bad guy and he got away with it.
Wow, Last American Virgin on a list... one of my fav adolescent movies. I learned about STDs from this movie. 🤣
It still pisses me off even after 30-how-many-ever years later.
This is actually a remake of an israeli film (I only know the german title "Eis am Stiel"), some of the same people worked on it. Never knew there was an American version, very interesting
Crabs lol
@@seanvolk4202 haha! They jumped in that pool with the quickness 😂
To my mind the ending of "No Country For Old Men" fits the whole movie perfectly.
Thank you Jules for always leaving us with those sweet words of encouragement and care. They are truly warming in these times. Please continue to do what you do, hope that you, family, friends and colleges are keeping safe during this pandemic... I love this channel!
No matter how bad my day is Jules always comes with a beautiful message of hope and positive energy 🖤🖤🖤
The mist had the most messed up ending I ever seen till this day.
Great video! Love your message at the end. Thanks for being an amazing human being, Jules!
The ending twist of the mist, still is one of the greatest. I don't understand why is on this list...
I wouldn’t call Rise of Skywalker divisive-pretty much everybody does didn’t like it. Last Jedi was the divisive one. I know just as many people who liked it as hated it.
I liked both.
I liked both as well
The Last Jedi simply made a coherent trilogy nearly impossible. Jar Jar Abrams made it completely impossible.
Last American Virgin is the best of the 80s teen sex comedies BECAUSE of that ending and the perfect use of James Ingram's Just Once,
The soundtrack is excellent!
Finally, someone mentioned Last American Virgin a truly overlooked and forgotten gem of the 80’s.
@Kev Walthall found the Michael Bay lover guys
The Village has to be on here. I don’t think many people rewatched that after that ending.
I effing Loved The Village! There are some First Nation Tribes (The Hopi, for one - I think), who use monster costumes to terrify their little children into compliance with the rest of the tribe.
- The parents are complicit in this: The "Monsters" in the night to drag away "naughty" children (imagine a tug of war with your Kid as the rope!).
- After that, the Monsters say they will return next day to Take And KILL The KID! The parents & kid make food together to appease the "Monsters" & the Kid generally is too effing terrified to step out of line!
- And THAT was the premise of The Village ... Except instead of an established practice by an existing tribe, it was modern city-dwellers who not only couldn bear to deal with their grief, they inflicted this practice on their own children, and, by denying the very existence of violence itself, don't see it coming.
- That only makes Bryce Dallas Howard's character's decision to continue the practice all the worse. A sad and frustrating ending, yes, but in a meant-to-be way.
- The Village's ending wowed me, rather than pissing me off. I just think people thought it was a cop-out, rather than showing what some people will do with enough money and complete and utter denial.
I like the part where the elders tell the other elder that Hurt’s character had sent the girl out to get help. He said It doesn’t matter. I lost x and y out in the world and I lost w and z in here. That was the real lesson to me.
The one that angered me the most was the ending to "Dangerous Minds", that the principal turned the young man away because he didn't knock is just so wrong, and that it led to him getting killed still burns me up.
I have spoken to great lengths with my brother over how bad the ending of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and this just may confirmed how disappointing the ending was.
And I heavily disagree that the ending of Inception was “that bad”. It was sufficient enough to keep audiences wondering whether Cobb was in the real world... or not.
"Inception" was brilliant and satisfying. First, he actually gets to hold his kids; he never could in The Dream World. Second, as it goes to black, you can hear the top losing momentum, quite obviously about to topple.
I loved the end commentary, always enjoyed this channel and all of you guys.
omg i forgot about the last american virgin! damn that pissed me off.
I think the movie final scene that pissed me off the most was Eden's Lake.
Excellent movie content, in addition to, life changing ending commentary. Expressive and thank you.
Thank you Jules, as always, for your outro. And great video. Your videos always give me a lift.
You showed a glimpse of Ray vs Evil-Ray, when that didn't happen AT ALL in the theater. At least it wasn't in mine and I saw that piece of crap when it came out.
No country for old men is simply loyal to the book. The mist book on the other hand ends in hope and no suicide pact.
I did read somewhere that King himself actually loved the movie ending and wished he came up with that himself.
It's funny, both movies were released on 2007. I should watch The Mist sometimes.
the mist ending was brilliant
Even King said he wishes he'd come up with the movie ending himself. So I don't think they changed the meaning too much. It wasn't exactly meant to be HOPEFUL in the book, I think you just find it hopeful in comparison to the suicide pact.
@@LordofFullmetal not really. The book ends with the group driving toward boston where they heard there is organised resistance to the monsters. Thats a hopeful outcome. Anyway, the discussion base is not about the mist movie ending being better than the book or not but this video argument about annoying endings. I explained that unlike the mist, no country for old men stayed true to the original so it is silly to blame the movie makers about the ending.
Your mental health messages always ring as so sincere and caring. I hope that you are in a good place yourself and that you are surrounded by loving friends and family. They are clearly very lucky to share your world.
In regards to Law Abiding Citizen:
1) The ending was perfect and I haven't found one person who thought otherwise.
2) Nick (Jamie Foxx) was not Clyde's attorney. He was the prosecutor trying to:
a) get a confession from Clyde
b) get a promotion
3) Clyde wasn't seeking revenge on the entire judicial system. He was specifically targeting the people who he felt wronged him and his now deceased family.
You might want to rewatch the movie again because I think you missed the point of the entire story, the bigger picture of what it represented, and some very specific point plots.
I thought Gone Girl ended perfectly. The Mist though? Ouch!!!!
Another thing about “The Mist’s” ending that is rarely mentioned is that the crazy religious woman wants to kill the main character’s son as a sacrifice. So at the end, after he kills his son and is about to kill himself and then sees the soldiers coming through the now fading mist, it makes you question whether he made a mistake in killing his son or if his son’s sacrifice is what brought about the end of the mist.
They already did a video on that theory.
Another of this fanboys brainwashes dudes, pathetic on tring to defend the movie
@Jm Dromanah No, she wasnt
I was in theaters for Inception when it first released and I vividly remember a collective "thank God!" from the entire audience when the top wobbled before cutting to credits. Everybody was happy from what I remember.
Great video. I read No Country for Old Men. It has no quotation marks. But after you get past that it was awesome... until the end where we leave the villain and watch the sheriff retire for over twenty pages. So at least the movie was faithful.
_"Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker is easily the most divisive Star Wars movie since the prequels"_
Um, you mean it's easily the most divisive Star Wars movie since The Last Jedi, of course.
The Last Jedi was definitely divisive. The Rise of Skywalker, however, was hated by everyone.
@@madhuaiyar27 i hated TLJ, Rise of Skywalker was just a thrown together movie to appease as many fans as possible. Depending on how they were going to continue the storyline, either TFA or TLJ was going to be rendered near pointless.
@@charliecranston5 Isn't it annoying though, that instead of boldly choosing a story and sticking to it, the writers wanted to please everyone? I just feel like I've invested a lot of time into a story that tried to punish me in the end for liking it in the first place.
@@madhuaiyar27 It is annoying, i agree. The problem is that they gave creative control to whoever was directing it at the time. Inconsistency between TFA and TLJ gave them a choice. Either continue on the story they have and make TFA irrelevant, or try to retcon TLJ and appease as many fans as possible. The Sequel trilogy is arguably the worst just due to lack of direction.
@@charliecranston5 How on earth does a franchise that big casually greenlight a project without a well planned ending? If only someone would give me that much money to make an average movie.
Who agrees No country for old man had perfect ending?
Nope
Nope
Yup, I love ambiguous endings. U don't always need things in a perfectly wrapped up bow by the end of the movie.
No country is easily of my all time favorites. 10/10 filmmaking
@@michaels2995 I am sure you liked 'Enemy'
I see what you did hear and it’s pretty genius. You made a list about endings that piss you off and picked a movie no one ever heard of for number one to piss everyone off at the end of the list. Bravo
The bigger issue with "The Grey" is the continued demonization of wolves.
I really didnt see them demonized though. Just a pack hunting wounded/exhausted prey as they normally would. These wolves didnt randomly enter downtown newyork or something
@@masterreaper115 The wolves were made to look like the bad guys, and that's not accurate or fair.
@@PlatinumRoseLady I feel like you are being way too sensitive here. The wolves are more or less acting like real wolves would and have in similar events. Wounded humans stranded in the wild in the wolves territory tend to get hunted. Thats literally how it works. The main character is a human so yeah anything that tries to kill him is the "bad" guy. Showing things being accurate isnt demonizing something my friend. If it showed the wolves happily trotting around and bringing the wounded food would that be better?
It pissed me off because the character knew he was fucked, no way out alive but he still decided to do as much damage as possible before dying. He was the trespasser, he should have laid down in the snow and died.
@@prinsesbibitje except yaknow that basic instinct in all living things? that thing that says oh hey you should keep living... you are the type of person that gets mad when an animal wonders into another's territory and doesnt leave then send an apology letter.
“The Village” ending pissed me off
Yes! I came here to post this.
That shit goes on in some tribes! They do that whole thing with the Monster Costumes to terrify their Kids into complying with the Tribe.
- The movie was commenting on how far some people will go (esp. if they have enou money) to avoid grief and accept loss.
- They are so desperate to make a world without violence, they don't see it coming.
- The sad part is in the end Bryce Dallas Howard's character is talked into keeping the secret & maintaining the village the way it is.
- Frustrating, sad & devastating, but didn't piss me off.
Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker could never recover from Last Jedi. It might as well have Emperor Palpatine. Chuck a couple of Daleks in there, too, why not.
(Spits out drink) DALEKS?! Well, if we're going to cross over with Doctor Who, then there's bucket loads more you can insert.
I still haven't managed to sit through all of Rise of Skywalker, despite having Disney+... Maybe there are Daleks in there, somewhere.
@@robertmcghintheorca49 LOL ok we have to go back before episode 9...or 8...hmmm
@@robertmcghintheorca49 Lightsaber wielding maniac kid vs regenerating Gallifreian with a sonic screwdriver
@@StringerDCUO I'd say Dr Who deserves better than that, but I saw some of the last series, so maybe not.
As someone who read the short story "The Mist" at least a dozen times in my youth, I was actually completely satisfied with the ending of the movie. It was so far beyond what you would typically see in Hollywood. Loved it!
I dont remember if he says it in the movie but in Gillian Flynns novel Gone Girl, the husband says something along the lines of "I feel bad for you" .... "why?" .... "because every day you have to wake up and be YOU" at the end
PERFECT
look at his ring in inception. The ending is not left open at all, just rather hidden
Please explain?
@@marlzz92 His ring is his totem not the spinner, so it doesn’t matter if you see it drop or keep spinning
@@marlzz92 throughout the whole movie, cobb is wearing his wedding ring in dreams, but when hes awake he never does. From this you can always know if something is a dream or reality
actually . i will let you all in on the tru totem . his totem was not any item but was a human. michael cains character. . . . yes the ring and the top are all nice totems in theory but can all be debunked or left upto personal thought. . . but the only time we ever see michael cain show up in the film is in the scenes that leo is awake for . . and at the end michael was there with the kids . . . he was the tru totem . . .
@@TYcarterTracks You think that because Michael was told that any scene he is in is reality but guess what? Directors lie to actors to keep things hidden.
I can't even listen to the song Just Once by James Ingram because of how brutal the ending of The Last American Virgin was. It literally is the origin story of "Nice Guys Finish Last". It was one of the first movies I saw as a kid that actually made me angry after seeing it. Luckily I had an older sister who let me know it was just a movie and not all girls were like that,.. just most of them...just kidding...only some and by some I mean most lol!
exactly
That message at the end...
That was really fricking heartwarming
I like the supportive messages you give at the end. I bet those have helped people when they least expected it. Good luck to you.
Who among us hasn't thought our younger siblings were just retconned
I have retconned my youngest sibling out my life so....
Bravo for making “The Last American Virgin” No. 1! I remember seeing that one in high school (I was around the same age then) and I remember being infuriated by that ending, and it’s stuck with me all these decades. (Probably pretty realistic crappy high school behavior though, I admit)
That movie was soooo good and is underrated imo.
The first half is pretty meh but the second half is great.
It turns from a generic gross out teen comedy into something more compelling and relatable.
@@mre7152 I’ll be honest, I mostly remember is the ending
@@bradforddillman7671 Last American Virgin serves as a warning to Men to not be simps.
@@mre7152 I think you’re right!
If I remember inception correctly it is chown that he was still dreaming, his team realising in a panic that he's still dreaming. So it was more a "will he realise that he's still in a dream?" situation, and chowing how the spinner constantly wobble without falling over while he's outside with his kids.
Different cuts tell different stories.
Law Abiding Citizen was fantastic for the first half as a story of a man out for revenge because he was wronged by criminals and then let down by the justice system. Butler was the dark protagonist and Foxx was an agent of the system, not quite an antagonist but still convinced that Butler had to be stopped. Then the script flips and becomes an alternate movie with Butler as the outright Jigsaw level villain and Foxx as the hero.