"ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?" Most Retarded Endings. Spoilers (duh)

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ZippyDSMlee

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CpT_x_Killsteal said:
Well if you wanna get real fuckin' retarded-

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Aldnoah Zero
Already brought up. Which is a good thing. Because it was retarded. I honestly thought it was gonna be a 24 episode season, then it just ends with the blue-balling of a lifetime.

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Oh and Seylum's body went missing after that so Slaine's probably working on sci-fi necromancy in the already announced Season 2 because he was the only one left alive on the scene.

Good to know it's actually going to go somewhere. Who knows, could end up being great with the protagonist switch up. It's worked well before.

Either that or Gen Urobutcher just wanted to kill off some main characters.
Last I checked Aldnoah Zero is getting a 2nd season. Overall I liked it but the ending was dumb.
 

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Okay I will put in one how about Bionic Commando(doh!) 360/ps3

Films I dunno since I have a low tolerance for them anyway its funny I pay more attention to game/anime stories than film
 

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Bioshock Infinite. I explained it many times and every time I got my ass handed to me by people who know about multiverse theory. I still say if there's an infinite number of universes then Comstock wins in some of them, screw the constants crap.

The big one I immediately thought of when seeing the title though is the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Mostly because I hate the recursive ending where the books hype the ending from the very beginning, just to not have a definitive ending because nothing could live up to it. I know the journey was the important part, and I did have fun along the way, but that left me irritable for about a week.
 

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EHKOS said:
Bioshock Infinite. I explained it many times and every time I got my ass handed to me by people who know about multiverse theory. I still say if there's an infinite number of universes then Comstock wins in some of them, screw the constants crap.
And Elizabeth has access to all universes. She does her thing on just those. Comstock does not exist. It's really simple, really, not even that high of a concept. In mathematical terms, you'd have the set of all universes, with her taking the subset of universes where Comstock exists and killing him in those.

An infinite subset of infinity is nothing really ground breaking - the set of all numbers is infinite, the subset of all negative numbers is also infinite, as are the subset of even numbers, real numbers, rational numbers, prime numbers and so on. Are you also going to claim that in the infinite representation of even numbers, there is bound to be an odd one? Because it makes about as much sense, really.
 

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Halo 4. Now admittedly I don't really think that game should exist at all so I might be a little biased here but seriously? Really? You beat a boss in a QTE (the entire boss is a QTE), then set off a nuke which explodes with you not 50cm away (that's less than 2 foot I believe) but you survive because cortana has unexplained superpowers which protect you against nukes. Not that Halo's story was ever that great but they ussually ended with some kind of escape from a big explosion, or something not quite as horrible as halo 4. I much prefer the cliffhanger at the end of Halo 2. The only thing I might say in it's defense is that halo 4's story was bad overall so the ending at least doesn't make it much worse.

And ME3 but that has been talked about enough by enough people.
 

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Well, since no one said it yet, and I was expecting it to be mentioned here, Lost.

Do I really need to explain it?

It started all scientific, people created tons of theory, and then they got a half mystical half soup opera ending with the whole cast meeting in a church after death. Even the Joker finds it weird! It might have been emotional, but it had more holes than 50 cent on a bad day...
 

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I will have to say Paranoia Agent.

The whole premise of the show follows a group of people as they react to a string of violent attacks in their city. Each episode follows a different person or group as they react to the mysterious attacks in their city. They only things that connect the people is that they are assaulted by the "Little Slugger" as the media have been describing the attacker.

The attacks did have a surreal side but a lot was implied to be inside the characters mind, adding an awesome psychosis twist to the story. The show was ultimately grounded in reality. That is until the last episode when the Little Slugger was actually a monster born from the mind of an anxious girl. Said monster then floods the city killing hundreds if not thousands of people.

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Shawshenk Redemption (stay with me)

specifically the last 10-15 seconds. the entire movie was based on hope, how its a good thing, and how it can keep us going even in the darkest of times., and its about to end on a perfect 10/10 note about how Red is going to mexico and how he hopes he will find andy. he doesn't know if he will, but he a man can HOPE. and we have a beautiful shot of a buss traveling on the road south to end on. But then we have to have it ruined by a quick shot of red finding andy sanding a boat, completely negating the need for audience to have anything to hope for. i read somewhere that that scene was added in at the behest of the studio who wanted the happy ending to be even more explicit. Shawshenk redemption woulda been a damn near perfect movie without those last 15 seconds.
Interestingly the original short story does actually end with him on the bus and not finding out if he ever makes it. I'd recommend checking it out if you liked the movie. It's in the book Four Seasons by Stephen King.

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The worst movie ending I can think of is from the "thriller" Nine Dead. Nine people kidnapped in the beginning of the movie and are slowly killed over the course of the movie by some masked guy and tasked only with figuring out what they have in common and why they're there. After exhausting pretty much all their options and many of them dead the guy reveals that it's because his son had AIDS and apparently they all could have magically made it go away if they had helped. No shit they couldn't have guessed that. I doubt any of them even remembered his son given how many people they all see every day. It's kind of unrealistic to expect a miracle and blame it on the every day workers that dealt with you.
 

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Chocolate (the thai action movie about an autistic girl that kicks the shit out of a bunch of mobsters) always left a little bit of a bad taste in my mouth. The girl deserved a happy ending, but I'm not sure sending her off into the sunset with her estranged father and completely leaving out the best friend that was the only person that actually understood her as a person was a good way to give it to her. Would have been a five star movie otherwise.

In general, I like my happy endings, and it annoyed me a lot during the early to late part of the 2000's decade when most movies and shows decided to have a downer ending for the feels. Characters dying for no other reason than to provoke a response really pisses me off. So when I say I hated the endings to Kill-la-Kill and Gurren Laggan, I hope you understand why; there's too many other movies and tv shows for me to mention that pulled this crap. Why can't we just give these heroes a happy ending instead of breaking them down even more? Even the Halo games pulled this crap with Cortana.

For bioshock infinite, I actually really loved almost everything they did in both the main game and the dlcs. My only real issue was when they brought it back around to the original bioshock, and it definitely left me sitting there swearing at the game. I always have a hard time when a movie or game (especially a sequel) makes something greater of itself and either doesn't realize it or puts itself back into the little box it thought it was supposed to fit into. Talk about a sour note to end on.

In an inverse of the thread title (Are you kidding me? that shitty movie had a great ending), I'd like to mention Skyline. A movie about a group of spoiled rich people caught up in an alien invasion. Terrible dialogue, terrible characters, and pretty good special effects (typical hallmarks of a modern blockbuster dud). When the overweight condo security guy is the most badass person in the movie you know things have gone horribly wrong. Anyway, in the end everyone is captured or killed, and the 'hero' of the story gets his brain ripped out and put into an alien body (they use our brains as computers). What follows as mostly a montage over the end credits is him becoming an unstoppable force of rage as he rescues his girlfriend (whom he just found out was pregnant). I absolutely hated the movie up until that point, and it's kind of funny to say my favorite part was when the credits rolled in a non-snarky way. To this day I have a softspot just for that ending; almost makes the rest of the film tolerable.
I disagree with the first part, as i generally prefer non-happy endings(unless the end is pretty badass), but i agree that Skyline's end was awesome, i thought it was pretty metal when i saw it in theaters, your comment reminded me that it existed, but sadly it seems the best part of the movie hasn't been uploaded to youtube

And i thought the ending to Nymphomaniac was shit, i was enjoying the movie until that point
The movie's about a Nymphomaniac(duh) who's telling her story to an old guy who found her beat up on the street and took her to his apartment, turns out the old guy is an asexual virgin, and after she tells her story they become friends, and she wants to stop being a Nymphomaniac, then the old guy leaves and turns the light off and stuff so she can rest
Then like 20 seconds later he comes back pantsless and tries to rape her, she kills him, walks out of his apartment, and the movie ends
That movie. and a bunch of others could have been a lot better if they had cut out the last few minutes
 

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I'm kind of suprised that this movie hasn't come up yet.

Lifeform (AKA: Invader)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116646/

Actually a pretty good litte movie, until the ending, which is a real "wait, wat?" moment.
The alien reaches the outer door of the facility and then nukes get dropped. Everybody dies, The End.

Below is a really good review of the movie, and even includes feedback from the movies Production Co-ordinator. Including confirming that the reason they ended it so badly was because they literally ran out of money and had to use stock footage to shoot the emergency ending.

http://www.k-bailey.com/unknownmovies/reviews/rev120.html
 

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Borderlands. The Vault is talked up, and up, and up. The whole journey is towards it. Hey, you're here! Now fight a tentacle beast and get.........nothing! That's right, you spent the last twenty hours working towards.....NOTHING! They redeemed that somewhat in the sequel, where it's revealed Jack was manipulating events the whole time.

Mass Effect series. I know, discussed to death. Still applies. The whole "organics and synthetics can't coexist, no peace in the universe ever" spiel seemed artificial, arbitrary, and tacked on, especially after I just spent ninety hours over the course of three games showing the various races they COULD in fact cooperate and were in fact BETTER OFF doing so. Nope, sorry, we're throwing that all away in favor of setting organic life back a thousand years because an overgrown Speak-'n-Spell says it has to happen. Thanks for playing, we hope you enjoyed how it was all for nothing! Shepard saying "screw you" and walking away would have been better than that.

Battlestar Galactica. God, the last season and a half of this show drove me batshit. But the ending? "Let's throw everything useful we have into the sun and become cavemen!" That's not escape, nor survival. It's sheer idiocy. And the whole "they are our ancestors -- MIND BLOWN!!" thing the writers were trying for Did. Not. Work. At. All.

Lost. I spent all of season six yelling at my TV: "Stop explaining! For fuck's sake, STOP EXPLAINING!" I liked the first couple seasons, when everything was intrigue. Then in the last season they decided to answer everything, and every answer was so weak, so unimaginative, so disappointing....I liked the whole Jacob vs smoke monster thing, it had a timeless, mythical quality, until it was revealed they were just two schmoes who got shipwrecked there 100 years ago! I liked the wine cork analogy for the island, until it was revealed the island's evil was contained by an actual fucking cork! When the fans invent things leaps and bounds better than what the writers come up with, something is wrong. I'm also perpetually offended by the inclusion of "the Christians are right" heaven/hell bullshit in any story. People who want that crap can go read Left Behind.
 

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Dragon Age 2. For a game based around choice, the conclusion to Act 3 was the Which like a lotsame regardless of choice. If you side with the Mages, Orsino resorts to blood magic, then Meredith goes crazy because of red lyrium. Then the mages rise up all around Thedas.
If you side with the Templars, Orsino resorts to blood magic, then Meredith goes crazy because of red Lyrium. Then the mages rise up all around Thedas.
It seemed pretty stupid, especially considering that Orsino was the First Enchanter, and the front runner for the whole "Not all mages are evil and use blood magic", and how Meredith was slowly going mad, and then just went crazy with no real space in between. Also, the ending for both Mages and Templars states that "the Templars could be defied."; Well no. If you side with the Templars, you go around and kill all of the mages in the Tower, they dont defy anyone, because they are dead.
You forgot, if you side with the crazy commander and her alter boys, you somehow magically become the new freaking viscount. Which like a lot of things is also never explained.
 

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First of all: I agree that the ending is bad. but this failure to understand the logic behind the star child is stupid.
Synthetics have zero need for organic life. So if we make AI, and then, inevitably, war with them, what will they do? They will wipe out all the people. But, since they don't want to do this again, they will continue to wipe out any new organic people who might show back up.
Reapers, on the other hand, show up and kill all advanced life, including the synthetics. They then leave. So when they did their thing on the protheans, they didn't destroy humans, asari, krogans, etc who were all in their infancy. The reapers job is to let life grow without malicious AI(I understand the irony) coming in and destroying all life.

This is still stupid with the ability to make peace with the geth, and the general theme of the game being that AI and organics can live in peace. (see EDI and Joker) but it's not completely illogical.
his logic is stupid, dude. think about it. if i murder you to keep you from being murdered, how is that logical? and as you said, the Reapers have the ability to kill any synthetics. the Star Child is no different from how people see God. he is this all-powerful thing that can do anything and save EVERYONE, yet chooses to kill everyone instead, while thinking he is doing the right thing.

honestly, it would be more logical if he just allowed things to play out. if synthetics rise to power and destroy everyone, then that is part of the natural order. a kind god would try to save everyone, a logical god would let things play out naturally, and an evil god would kill everyone.

so, the logical thing would be to just let whatever happens, happen. if it is natural for organics to create synthetics and then be destroyed by them, then it would be logical to just allow it to happen and leave the synthetics alone to grow, themselves. the Star Child denies them that chance by interfering.
 

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Evonisia said:
Man of Steel - Gosh you're awfully cheerful after what's just happened Cal.

In all seriousness, though, Sucker Punch (seeing as I watched it last night). And by ending I don't mean the last ten minutes or whatever, I refer to the final scene with the bus. Sweat Pea gets away thanks to the Bus Driver who is nice enough to get the police off her back so she can be free. Yes, very heartwarming and the Bus Driver is played by the same person as the coach (the only male character to not be aggressive towards the girls).

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But! The Bus Driver has no reason to do this. He doesn't know who she is, he doesn't know why she doesn't have a ticket or what's going on. He's just a swell fella' I guess. It's symbolism and metaphor trumping basic logic.
Personal theory -- given the degree to which the movie is about escapism, that didn't actually happen. That's entirely in Baby Doll's head.

Why do I think that? Everyone who appears in one "level" of reality and is of any consequence is introduced (or at least mentioned, acknowledged to exist) in the "outermost" level in which they exist. For example, the High Roller is the Doctor who performs the lobotomy because the two are analogous at their respective levels -- something that is made much more clear in a scene deleted from the theatrical/TV versions of the movie where the High Roller and Baby Doll have a conversation. He offers her freedom from want, fear, guilt, pain and everything else but in a wholly wrong way at both levels.

The Wise Man only exists at the innermost fantasy level, that's where he's introduced and the only place he's shown at all until the ending. Which suggests that that final scene is Baby Doll's fantasy interpretation of what happened, rather than reality.

If you'd like a piece of mindfuck, watch it again and pay attention to the word "paradise."
 

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Schadrach said:
Evonisia said:
Man of Steel - Gosh you're awfully cheerful after what's just happened Cal.

In all seriousness, though, Sucker Punch (seeing as I watched it last night). And by ending I don't mean the last ten minutes or whatever, I refer to the final scene with the bus. Sweat Pea gets away thanks to the Bus Driver who is nice enough to get the police off her back so she can be free. Yes, very heartwarming and the Bus Driver is played by the same person as the coach (the only male character to not be aggressive towards the girls).

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But! The Bus Driver has no reason to do this. He doesn't know who she is, he doesn't know why she doesn't have a ticket or what's going on. He's just a swell fella' I guess. It's symbolism and metaphor trumping basic logic.
Personal theory -- given the degree to which the movie is about escapism, that didn't actually happen. That's entirely in Baby Doll's head.

Why do I think that? Everyone who appears in one "level" of reality and is of any consequence is introduced (or at least mentioned, acknowledged to exist) in the "outermost" level in which they exist. For example, the High Roller is the Doctor who performs the lobotomy because the two are analogous at their respective levels -- something that is made much more clear in a scene deleted from the theatrical/TV versions of the movie where the High Roller and Baby Doll have a conversation. He offers her freedom from want, fear, guilt, pain and everything else but in a wholly wrong way at both levels.

The Wise Man only exists at the innermost fantasy level, that's where he's introduced and the only place he's shown at all until the ending. Which suggests that that final scene is Baby Doll's fantasy interpretation of what happened, rather than reality.
Well that's an interesting theory, though Sucker Punch is a bit sloppy (and I didn't watch those extra scenes, it seems).

If you'd like a piece of mindfuck, watch it again and pay attention to the word "paradise."
I think waiting until at least a week may be best when trying to indulge in that film again. T'was good fun though, I could easily imagine it as some kind of video game (which might be why some found it boring).
 

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The Golden Compass (The Northern Lights) movie.

Now I loved the His Dark Materials trilogy when I was a teenager and I understand that movies vary and alter from their source material but man that ending was such bullshit. They cut the most important, moving, and interesting part of the film completely out. And rather than leaving you wanting the sequel they just let things fizzle out at the end.
 

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Silvanus said:
There are some ridiculous ones mentioned so far, but none as bad as Hannibal's.

Clarice Starling has been hunting serial killers for two books, now. She is disgusted by what they do; she's driven by her moral sense of responsibility to overcome the barriers she faces and bring these monsters to justice.

Then, at the end of Hannibal, she gets together with Hannibal fucking Lecter. She's sick of Decker's attitude, sure, but it is still absurdly out-of-character for her to be fine with Hannibal gruesomely murdering him, and then to get together with him. She should revile him. She was always intrigued by his mind, sure, but not in a bloody romantic way.
You do realise (in the book at least) she was drugged or hypnotised (or both i forget) into being his accomplice/lover? Im not saying it wasn't dumb because it was, but she didnt willingly accompany him.
 

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Signa said:
Dexter just makes me sad. The ending was so horrible that it retroactively soured the whole show for me. They wanted so bad to make a twist ending that blew our minds, but instead it was just dumb. Turning the last episode into an alien invasion movie probably would have turned out better.
Heh, I wish they'd not revealed that he'd faked his death, and just had him die. It would have been more appropriate.
 

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Quellist said:
You do realise (in the book at least) she was drugged or hypnotised (or both i forget) into being his accomplice/lover? Im not saying it wasn't dumb because it was, but she didnt willingly accompany him.
At first, she was drugged. Later on, in the final chapter, when Clarice and Hannibal are attending the opera a few years later, it mentions that drugs now play no role in their relationship.