Endings that stick with you.
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The Amber Spyglass has a very moving ending I think. It's purposely much slower than the rest of the book as the entire point behind it is reflection and thinking about what to do next, and I think the final lines;
"and then we'll build..."
"build what?"
"the Republic of Heaven."
really serve to show the themes of the story in a gentle way.
Of course, if they actually choose to continue the films and get to that point, they will undoubtedly fuck it up royally. They'll probably turn it into a Bollywood dance scene or something (that is IN NO WAY a criticism of Bollywood film culture, it would just be horrendously out of place here).
"and then we'll build..."
"build what?"
"the Republic of Heaven."
really serve to show the themes of the story in a gentle way.
Of course, if they actually choose to continue the films and get to that point, they will undoubtedly fuck it up royally. They'll probably turn it into a Bollywood dance scene or something (that is IN NO WAY a criticism of Bollywood film culture, it would just be horrendously out of place here).
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You'd think that any number of the plot twists in that last season near the end could have been an amazing ending for a lot of shows or movies. But the final ending is insane when it complete goes full circle.
You'd think that any number of the plot twists in that last season near the end could have been an amazing ending for a lot of shows or movies. But the final ending is insane when it complete goes full circle.
Apart from the obvious choices of Fight Club, Shawshank etc...
Nineteen Eighty Four - Never has the ending of a book depressed and scared me so much.
Withnail & I - Possibly my favourite fictional character ever gets a Crowning Moment Of Awesome, yet is still depressing as hell.
Transmetropolitan - Throwing this in there because I finished it the other day absolutely loved the ending.
Nineteen Eighty Four - Never has the ending of a book depressed and scared me so much.
Withnail & I - Possibly my favourite fictional character ever gets a Crowning Moment Of Awesome, yet is still depressing as hell.
Withnail is left behind by Marwood who finally has a shot at a career. After giving a rousing rendition of one of Hamlet's soliloquies in the pissing rain to the only audience he will aver have (the wolves in London zoo) he buggers off back to the flat alone. (The original ending was that when he got home, he drinks a bottle of wine from the barrel of Monty's shotgun and blows his brains out... cheerful).
Transmetropolitan - Throwing this in there because I finished it the other day absolutely loved the ending.
After finishing what he set out to do and brought down the President, Spider goes back to the mountain where Channon and Yalena take turns looking after him while he degenerates from brain damage. Except he isn't, he is one of the 1% that survive his condition, he just hasn't bothered to tell anyone. Since Yalena has basically slowly become the next Spider Jerusalem over the last few story arcs, he can pass the torch on to her.
I.. just... words fail me.Mr. Gency said:
Ok, no they don't...
What, you didn't like it because Tom Cruise doesn't blast everything to shit with a bazooka to the tune of "Rock You Like A Hurricane" before single handed repopulating the earth?
Christ almighty, when H.G. Wells wrote the book it was intended as an allegory for British Colonialism, it was way ahead of it's time insofar as it showed what it was like to be on the receiving end of Imperial expansion by a technologically superior force, kind of like the British did over a quarter of the globe.
British and European colonists spread new diseases to the places they settled in, wiping out huge numbers of the indigenous people, Well's reverses this for shock value, Earth would have been powerless to stop the Martian invasion and once their technology can cope with Earth's bacteria there is nothing to stop them coming back for a second go.
both endings of Kane and Lynch: Dead men. just because it was such an awesome game with the best levels i have ever played and yet both endings were pure shit.
My Lunch- Scrubs. One of, if not the best episode there has been. I won't ruin the ending but the music fits so good and John C McGinley's acting is superb. Makes me upset every time I watch it. If you don't remember it it's the one where Jill Tracy appears in the supermarket with JD and Cox.
Also the ending to Metal Gear Solid 4. Most epic fistfight, ever (that I've seen ><)
Also the ending to Metal Gear Solid 4. Most epic fistfight, ever (that I've seen ><)
As I read through this thread I kept waiting for someone to say that. I like Brad Pitt, but to be honest, I though his acting throughout most of that movie was pretty average. But for that final scene... wow.[Kira Must Die said:
Also, if we're including books, Cat's Cradle had a pretty powerful ending:
A doomsday device causes the entire world to freeze over and kills almost everyone, or at least sapping them of the will to live, and a Calypso poet contemplates the manner of suicide surest to piss God off.
Kurt Vonnegut's a fucking genius.