Abrupt movie endings that tend to piss viewers off...

nineteenseventyseven · February 03, 2005, 07:13:59 PM

I just watched the end of Easy Rider on AMC this evening...
I don't remember the final scene upsetting me as much as it did then.
It really pissed me off. Just to be constructive and conversational in an internet movie forum kind of way, what other abrupt, unsettling endings come to mind?

nineteenseventyseven · February 03, 2005, 07:19:01 PM

I fuckin' hate nineteenseventyseven. pretentious bastard. prick.
Fuck Vincent Gallo, too. He's just the same.

ono · February 03, 2005, 07:28:36 PM

The edit button is your friend. Unless you have schizophrenia and forget which one of you is posting.

And well, a certain John Sayles movie SPOILERS. Don't watch Limbo if you don't like abrupt endings.

cine · February 03, 2005, 07:41:38 PM

Quote from: In his sig, nineteenseventysevenI waste time.

no kidding.

Two Lane Blacktop · February 03, 2005, 07:45:26 PM

A lot of people don't like the ending of one of my favorite (obviously) movies, Two Lane Blacktop. I've never understood this, since the film has only the barest hint of a plot to begin with, so how else could it end but just to.... stop?

Mind you, the WAY it stops is brilliant, IMO.

2LB

cowboykurtis · February 03, 2005, 07:54:40 PM

many would argue magnolia, there were actually quite a few walk outs once the frogs came when i saw it in the theater.

have any of you seen it? if not, you should take a look and judge for yourselves.

have fun.

have a good time.

enjoy yourselves.

good day.

ono · February 03, 2005, 07:58:14 PM

SPOILERS.

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matt35mm · February 03, 2005, 08:48:33 PM

Thanks for that, Ono.

I wouldn't say that Magnolia's ending was abrupt, though, which is more of what this thread is about. It pissed a lot of people off but it wasn't an abrupt ending so much. Actually, it took it's sweet time.

I saw Ray last night and felt it ended abruptly. It had all this stuff happen and then the movie ended like an essay. We got 2 and a half hours of stuff going on and it basically said with words "... and he continued to make music for 40 more years and was beloved. The End."

nineteenseventyseven · February 03, 2005, 09:00:59 PM

Bingo!

MacGuffin · February 03, 2005, 09:05:01 PM

Although not such an abrupt ending, I think a lot of people were pissed off about not finding out what was in the box (besides a MacGuffin) in Ronin.

NEON MERCURY · February 03, 2005, 09:19:05 PM

locked stocked ended abrpt-which might have been a good thing
elefunct emded abrupt
7 ended slightly abrupt
"it" ended abrupt
the lost boys did too
resevoir doggies ended brupt
and twin peaks ended abrupt.. IMO

pete · February 03, 2005, 09:56:29 PM

lord of the rings 3 had the most abrupt ending ever.

tpfkabi · February 03, 2005, 10:04:57 PM

doesn't Mean Streets end kinda like that?
actually a good deal of Marty movies.

Finn · February 03, 2005, 10:36:53 PM

Yeah his movies do (Mean Streets, Who's that Knocking on my Door) but I kinda like that about Scorsese. Some people might not understand what he's doing but I appreciate his storytelling.

Ravi · February 04, 2005, 03:02:52 PM

Quote from: petelord of the rings 3 had the most abrupt ending ever.

It needed at least 6 more endings. At least.

I thought the ending of PDL was abrupt when I first saw it, but now I like it.