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

[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!

 

[Daystar Clarion]

The Dark Tower series

Spoiler

After several books searching for the Dark Tower, the main character is then sent back to the beginning of his journey with no memory of it. I enjoy a Greek tragedy like the next guy but come on!

 

[1mpulse323]

Its about how Bell failed though. Its the point of the movie. Watch it again.

My nomination is the ending of the book "A Clockwork Orange". If Burgess hadn't ever written to 21st chapter of that book, I'd be so much happier. Its soooo disappointing. It would be a much darker book if it wasn't included.

 

[Indecizion]

Arkham asylum, i was expecting something strange and unexpected form the joker, and all i got was a standard boss fight which was both boring and out of character.

 

[TaboriHK]

Splice. Holy shit that that movie come off the rails in the last fifteen minutes. Everything before that was more or less gravy, but it was clear the director had no idea what to do with this interesting thing he made.

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

The end of the new Splatterhouse just after you've defeated a dark and evil god and saved Jennifer it turns out that shes completely possessed by Dr. West's dead wife thanks game

It's interesting though... Remember the mask was aiding in the resurrection of the Curropted. that single spirit got out, but you don't know if it's West's wife, you just know it was a curropt spirit...

And don't forget in the original, you kill Jennifer

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

Splice. Holy shit that that movie come off the rails in the last fifteen minutes. Everything before that was more or less gravy, but it was clear the director had no idea what to do with this interesting thing he made.

Insiiiiiide,.... Yyyyooooooouuuuuuu

Aaaaaaad rape scene...

That freaked me the hell out.

 

[newwiseman]

Skyline

cut everything after they start getting pulled up and it's a solid high-budget 'B' movie, with it the movie is irrevocably BAD.

 

[TaboriHK]

Oh and lest I forget, Battlestar Galactica. That last season magically transformed one of my favorite shows of all time into one of my most reviled. It was so bad that the parts that you knew were coming since season one that were supposed to make you sad (especially with Roslin) became "whatever" moments for me. Worst ending of a series since St. Elsewhere. In fact, it would have been better if it WAS the ending of St. Elsewhere.

 

[TaboriHK]

Insiiiiiide,.... Yyyyooooooouuuuuuu

Aaaaaaad rape scene...

That freaked me the hell out.

I hated that so much. They completely perverted the character to be conveniently easy to kill so the story could wrap.

 

[The Boy in the Hat]

Personally, I felt having two long chapters at the end of Lord of The Rings after everything worth reading happens spoiled it a bit for me.
I know, they wrote differently back then. And I know, such a long and amazing book can't just end with everyone cheering as the orcs, free from Sauron's control, flee.
Still... I would have been more interested in just a final scene where everyone gets on the boat for wherever the hell they go to, with a few details, and just leave it at that.

 

[Explorator Vimes]

I hated the very end of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's one of my favorite series of books I've ever read, but the last, I think, 3 pages make me want to just chuck the book across a room. I always thought it was such an idiotic and lame ending to such an awesome series. When I reread it I actually stopped right before it to not repeat the experience.

 

[Jumping_Over_Fences]

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!

Actually, the true main character of the story was Tommy Lee Jones, and not Josh Brolin. Hence the title of the film.

OT: I think the ending in the book Choke by Chuck Palahniuk was absolutely dumb. Really, aliens!? It took me out of such an awesome story so much. I am just so glad they changed it in the movie. They really made the ending much better.

 

[Outright Villainy]

I really like No country for Old Men's ending actually.

Anyways, probably Bioshock 1.

Spoiler

Fontaine really sucked as a replacement antagonist to be honest. He was hammy, 1-dimensional, and the last fight was a joke.

 

[Fledge]

The most recent attempt at an Indian Jones movie.

 

[Korenith]

Splice. Holy shit that that movie come off the rails in the last fifteen minutes. Everything before that was more or less gravy, but it was clear the director had no idea what to do with this interesting thing he made.

My feelings exactly. Was so good up until then, and they left a lot of it up to the imagination in terms of character past etc which worked really well and then... ugh. So weak.

And in a similar vein District 9. Awesome film up until the last section where it just descends into an action movie which totally undermines the clever exploration of race relations. I was gutted.

 

[TaboriHK]

The most recent attempt at an Indian Jones movie.

That entire mess was a disappointment.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Ichi the Killer. Granted you could see it coming but still.


The man crying was the one in black, Ichi. What the scene doesn't show was Kakihara shooting him in the leg. The entire movie builds up Ichi, showing all of these fantastic acts of hyper-violence he's been perpetrating. Kakihara is the opposite (the masochist to the sadist that is Ichi) Anyway, he shoots Ichi in the leg which reduces Ichi to a bloody heap, crying. Kakihara punctures his ear drums with his needles, fantasizes about the fight that should have been and, hurls himself off of the building. Meanwhile a child beats the hell out of Ichi (Ichi having killed the kid's dad earlier in the movie)

Overall, I really liked Ichi the Killer but the ending was a let-down. Also, for clarity, When I say, 'you could see it coming' I forgot to mention that Ichi always cries during his massacres. A mysterious contractor gives Ichi instructions and money, claiming the people Ichi is about to kill were the kids who bullied Ichi as a child.