Most disappointing ending for a book, movie or video game [Possible Spoilers]

[swolf]

Odd Thomas (A book by Dean Koontz) and the game Shadow Of The Colossus. Don't read the spoiler if you might check those out because they are both pretty good and enjoyable.

Spoiler

in the end of Odd Thomas the love interest dies and at the end of Shadow the main character dies. Those were both great in my opinion and worth a playthrough /read

 

[bak00777]

"It" the movie. This movie was so good, it was creepy, yet made you want to keeping watching. But then the ending, which they could have set up to be scarier, was sooooo bad. The kiler demon Clown that has been killing children for centuries, turns out to be a big spider. In order to kill it they shoot a silver earring with a slingshot, knock the spider over, and kick it in the stomach. Then they go back to their lives. I have heard that the book's ending is a hell of a lot better, but i have yet to get my hands on it...*crosses fingers* here's hoping that is true.

 

[Dr. Awesome Face]

Book: It's a play, but I don't really care. Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice has an ending which I have always hated. It just always felt like a copout to me.

Video game: For a while it was Assassin's Creed II, but seeing how it was sort of retconned by the existance of Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, I don't really have that big of a deal with it anymore. Then I played Bionic Commando, where he is whining about his missing wife for a long time and then

Spoiler

She's a part of his fucking arm. I was just speechless

And of course Half Life 2: Episode 2, which will always be the most disapointing ending until we hear ANYTHING about episode 3, or Half-Life 3.

 

[staika]

the worst ending ive ever saw has to go to knowing, it started out fine, the world was gonna end and everyone was screwed and their were creepy stalker people and the girl had the special ability to tell all the numbers to all the disasters in the world.
the ending is basically the evil stalker people are actually aliens who want to do something like noahs ark and take alot of pairs of kids and in the end everyone dies and the aliens drop off the kids on an uninhabited planet and they then run towards a tree and then it ends.

 

[Keppler]

My nomination:
No Country for Old Men, a movie that followed the main characters' conflict and action only to have the climax happen off screen!

I loved the ending for that movie! The movie isn't centered around the good guy, it's centered around the bad guy. What happens to the antagonist is more important that what happened to the protagonist.

And more to the point of the actual ending, I loved Tommy Lee Jone's monologue to end the film, when he's talking about the dream he had. It's one of the rare moments when a movie finds a great, powerful spot to end. It doesn't add the 10 extra minutes of film that wayyyy too many directors feel they have to put in there.

 

[Kraiger]

Has been and always will be Star Fox Adventures. (*spoilers*) The "fight" with Gen. Scales was the biggest "F**K YOU" I've ever received in any game.

 

[Turkey Braveheart]

My nomination:
No Country for Old Men, a movie that followed the main characters' conflict and action only to have the climax happen off screen!

I loved the ending for that movie! The movie isn't centered around the good guy, it's centered around the bad guy. What happens to the antagonist is more important that what happened to the protagonist.

And more to the point of the actual ending, I loved Tommy Lee Jone's monologue to end the film, when he's talking about the dream he had. It's one of the rare moments when a movie finds a great, powerful spot to end. It doesn't add the 10 extra minutes of film that wayyyy too many directors feel they have to put in there.

It didn't cover the antagonist's ending much either, he just limped away.

As for Tommy Lee Jones, how is his scene the real ending? He's not that important.

And that extra ten minutes is called the climax, and if it's not there then why bother following Bardem and Brolin through most of the film? Why the gun battles and chases? Why everyone talking about how insane and out of control Bardem is?

 

[Keppler]

My nomination:
No Country for Old Men, a movie that followed the main characters' conflict and action only to have the climax happen off screen!

I loved the ending for that movie! The movie isn't centered around the good guy, it's centered around the bad guy. What happens to the antagonist is more important that what happened to the protagonist.

And more to the point of the actual ending, I loved Tommy Lee Jone's monologue to end the film, when he's talking about the dream he had. It's one of the rare moments when a movie finds a great, powerful spot to end. It doesn't add the 10 extra minutes of film that wayyyy too many directors feel they have to put in there.

It didn't cover the antagonist's ending much either, he just limped away.

As for Tommy Lee Jones, how is his scene the real ending? He's not that important.

And that extra ten minutes is called the climax, and if it's not there then why bother following Bardem and Brolin through most of the film? Why the gun battles and chases? Why everyone talking about how insane and out of control Bardem is?

That scene is the "real ending" because it is, literally, the ending. Credits roll after his monologue.

And if you're watching this movie and focusing on the gun battles and chases, then no you aren't going to like how it ends, but that's not my problem. I love the movie and how it ended.

 

[Gabanuka]

Mortal Engines

Spoiler

"hey lets spend 4 books getting to like these characters. Then kill them in bullshit ways!"

Yeah, that did make me rage a fair bit.

Spoiler

the deaths had no sense of purpose but I rather liked the whole "He was built to last" epilogue.

Its the fact that one of them goes for no aparent reason which pisses me off.

 

[Gemore]

"he distracts you from the message of the film..."

honestly, that just sounds like bad film-making.

Having watched it, I hated the ending. I appreciate some originality as much as the next guy, but there is something in this world known as a bad idea. This was one of them

lol this coming from a guy who liked The Void. Yeah I lurk, so what?
It's rare to find a central theme in Cohen films. They're like turning a camera on to the day-to-day happenings of a few people. I think No Country For Old Men was just showcasing how the drug trade is making the border with Mexico increasingly violent, and the dream Bell relates to his wife in the end was a prediction of his natural death (in which he finally finds peace, because afterall, it's no country for old men anymore.) See, runon sentence just like somebody mentioned.

As i said i appreciate originality, when its a good idea.

Obscuring the main "message" well, i suppose liking that is a subjective thing. But having a climax off screen, or rather, non existent well. It seems to me like a genuinely bad idea. It gets props for being so out there that you cant help but discuss it, but that doesnt make it a good idea.

As for liking the void, well I haven't yet finished it and in fact struggling to go back. its just so far out there..its difficult to describe how i can absolutely love the hell out of it and not want to play it, but somehow the void manages this.

Honestly, I just think I'm crazy though...

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Time to be controversial: The Dark Knight

Okay, this is a personal one for me. I'm not denying that the proper ending is a very good, emotional bit of filmmaking. But for me, from my standpoint on this film, it just didn't need to happen. By all means, have the whole thing of tearing down Harvey Dent to the level of the Joker, but for god sake, having 15 minutes AFTER the Joker is aprehended to showcase Harvey threatening to kill Batman, himself and a small boy just because Jim Gordon didn't know there were traitors in his office who helped in the death of the woman Harvey had known for a month or two and who had only bothered to accept his marriage proposal when faced with certain death.

The entire scene is just Harvey taking "whiny little *****" to the utmost extreme, and I just didn't need to see it.

 

[Cabamacadaf]

The Chronicles of Narnia.

Spoiler

Haven't read them myself but i asked a friend about them who had finished the series who was really pissed off at it. Apparently, they were dead all along, sixth sense style. Not to mention the fact that three of the books have nothing to do with the rest of the series.

Spoiler

They weren't dead all along, they died in the beginning of the last book when they were trying to get to Narnia. And only The Horse and His Boy has nothing to do with the rest of the series.

 

[Hybridwolf]

Mafia 2. You create a great story, then bloody wreck it to allow room for a sequel/DLC. What a cop out. At least the first one ended in an intresting way, this one just literally kills the story. Same story for Fallout 3, but that got addressed at least.

Filmwise, skyline. Just awful. The film wasn't very good and unlike monsters, it wasn't filmed in a clever way, it was just a generic alien film. The ending was a literal slap to the face.

 

[Protocol95]

As i've said before, the final boss of Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts is pathetic. By that time in the game you've gathered enough weapons, fuel, ammo and armour for your vehicles to wage war on any super power in the world and win.

 

[Shock and Awe]

The Knowing, that movie was so interesting, then it went with the most predictable and cliched ending possible.

Spoiler

ALIENSSSSSSS

 

[captainwolfos]

'His scar had not pained him for years. All was well'

THE END.

Man, that was the most disappointing ending to any book I have ever read that didn't go down the 'and it was all a dream' route. Considering the sheer epicness of the series of books (but not the films, the films are retarded), I was expecting something far better than that. Obviously not encrusted with diamonds and good enough to be a miracle or an omen, but something better than... that at least.

 

[Exmigrant]

White Knight Chronicles. Worst buy I've had in a while... and I bought gundam crossfire. Look i know they're coming out with a second one, but still you don't drop a bombshell like "she's working for the enemy" kill a boss watch the cave collapse on you and all is well. It doesn't happen, I feel like they were going for a mario style game of "sorry, but your princess is in another castle" /rant

 

[Duck Sandwich]

Shenmue 1 and 2.

Spoiler

A martial artist's dad is killed by a much more deadly martial artist, and he sets off on a journey of revenge to avenge his dad. The first game ends with Ryo (the protagonist) beating some dude who works for Lan Di (the antagonist), and then goes to Hong Kong to look for Lan Di.

Shenmue 2 - Ryo looks for Lan Di in Hong Kong, while beating the shit out of gangs of dudes that work for him. Turns out Lan Di is in Kowloon. Ryo goes there, fights his way to the top of a building owned by a powerful gang. He sees Lan Di holding on to the ladder of a helicopter midflight (because that's way cooler than actually sitting inside the helicopter), that's bound for Guilin.

So Ryo goes to Guilin, saves some girl from drowning, and then the focus of the game is thrown off completely from "I must avenge my father!" to "Hey, check out this cool scenery and navigate these slippery rocks over dangerous rapids!" The two of them have a scenic walk and talk that lasts for about 3-4 hours, find some magic sword in a cave, and then the game ends.

 

[Zannkimaru]

The anime movie X, i mean ugh.

Spoiler

the movie pretty much kills off most of the main characters at the end, hate those kind of endings