Worst. Ending. Ever.
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I fail to see where only a happy ending can be a good ending. It doesn't need to be sunshine and daisies to be satisfactory. It was a gritty ending grounded in reality. It was never trying to make you feel good. Try telling a fan of Oldboy that the ending sucked, see what kind of look you'll get.twohundredpercent said:
Not to mention it was pretty much the same ending as a the book.
yeah....but that doesnt mean I can't curse it for making me depressed!Elamdri said:
[i/] your hands upon..
a dead mans gun..and your..
....looking down the sights
your heart is worn, the seams a torn..and they've..
...given you a reason to fight [/i]
ahhh no! *sob* make it stop!....
I'd agree with that. I understand irony, but they way Scorsese handled the ending really just felt like laziness. It seemed like he really didn't care how much it made sense.erttheking said:
Dragon Age 2, I will *not* be buying the third game in the series, or any other BioWare game after ME3.
Honorable mention: System Shock 2, the endgame quality nosedove and the game threw out all plausibility for some BS about warp drives replacing reality with virtual reality simulations or somesuch nonesense. At least Looking Glass had losing their original endgame data in a fire and having to hammer out a new ending in a matter of weeks to meet deadlines as an excuse.
Honorable mention: System Shock 2, the endgame quality nosedove and the game threw out all plausibility for some BS about warp drives replacing reality with virtual reality simulations or somesuch nonesense. At least Looking Glass had losing their original endgame data in a fire and having to hammer out a new ending in a matter of weeks to meet deadlines as an excuse.
If you liked the book its legitimate to dislike the Lord of the rings movie ending i mean specifically how the ring was destroyed. I fully understand why they changed it and agree the modern audience just wouldn't of accepted the book ending but it does leave a very sour taste as it is sort of diametrically opposed to the moral in the book .
for me i think possibly source code , fight club has to have an honourable mention but thats more of the worst act 3 than ending. completely alien to the book and totally offensive to the subject.
and all those ending that are clearly nothing but sequel bait far too many to mention but i just played through the darkness 2 so its fresh in my mind
In the book the good guys loose on all fronts and Gollum gets away with the ring and its his dance of victory causes him to slip and fall and its sort of an accident the ring gets destroyed.
for me i think possibly source code , fight club has to have an honourable mention but thats more of the worst act 3 than ending. completely alien to the book and totally offensive to the subject.
and all those ending that are clearly nothing but sequel bait far too many to mention but i just played through the darkness 2 so its fresh in my mind
I have to really think about this one...
Game: Toss up between Halo 2 and Gears of War 3. One was a cliff hanger, the other ended really abruptly and felt like it tied all the loose ends together in a rushed manner.
Movie: Revenge of the Sith.
TV Show: The Sorpanos, Seriously, fade to black in the middle of a sen-
Special mentions: Bioshock for its lack of grey area ending.
Note: These are only from what I can remember off the top of my head, this may very well change if I think of anything else.
Game: Toss up between Halo 2 and Gears of War 3. One was a cliff hanger, the other ended really abruptly and felt like it tied all the loose ends together in a rushed manner.
Movie: Revenge of the Sith.
TV Show: The Sorpanos, Seriously, fade to black in the middle of a sen-
Special mentions: Bioshock for its lack of grey area ending.
Note: These are only from what I can remember off the top of my head, this may very well change if I think of anything else.
I'm a big fan of the anime Darker than Black and I really liked the ending of the original series but the second part (Gemini of the Meteor) had a pretty terrible ending.
Basically it came down to them trying to cram a huge amount of material into only a couple episodes. The ending was essentially "the boy cloned the world for his sister". I'm not talking about just the population of the world, he created an exact copy of the earth with everyone on it out of nowhere in the last episode.
I didn't say happy. I said satisfactory. You can have a sad ending that still satisfies the audience. You can have a happy ending that leaves the audience feeling unsatisfied.JoesshittyOs said:
I never saw Oldboy. I'm talking about this movie, not once did I mention Oldboy.
Now, following the book, that's fine, whatever. Maybe the book presented it better. I don't know. But I'm not talking about that either, so that also doesn't matter.
You do realize that there are two endings, don't you ? look for the question mark in blackwater after you finish off dutch...Vault101 said:
In the book, the "philosophical bullshit" is much more closely woven into the narrative than it was in the movie. In the film it's mostly thrown in as an afterthought, but in the book it's really the focus of the whole thing (rather than the focus being on the action).Matthew94 said:
Game: Borderlands. Man, that was a huge let-down.
Movie: Revamped Return of the Jedi. He died a good guy, why put Hayden Christianson in there?
Book: Can't remember a book with a bad ending. Maybe I should be as careful in my game and movie selection as I am with my reading material
Movie: Revamped Return of the Jedi. He died a good guy, why put Hayden Christianson in there?
Book: Can't remember a book with a bad ending. Maybe I should be as careful in my game and movie selection as I am with my reading material
I actually really liked FFX's ending. Showed SE really had some balls to have such a depressing ending. Of course they pussyed out with X-2 and brought Tidus back.Gizmo1990 said:
Than I'm confused as to why it seems unappealing to you. I guess if you were bummed out about it's presentation, that's understandable, but the way it did present the ending was why it was so haunting to me. The cinematography, the closing dialogue, the way they left the wife's death a cliffhanger. It was all so straightforward with no restrictions. It was vicious. It was evil. It was unsettling. Hell, it even explained the title in the closing monologue.twohundredpercent said:
By the way you're leading it on, I can only see a "satisfying" ending to you as being the good guys win. It would have been acceptable, but without the main character dying, there wouldn't have been that message and overall theme of the darkness of man to close it out. In a way, the story would have meant nothing without it. Just another action movie.
And I'm aware you never mentioned Oldboy. I was merely using that as an example, as they are sort of related here.
Did anyone say Final Fantasy VII, yet? Cause if not, you've got to be joking as it's arguably even worse than the depressingly unsatisfying ending of Final Fantasy X because it -
And all because the two guys who made the game either can't finish a story to save their lives or they ALWAYS had intended to go back and financially milk the cow ala Star Wars and LucasArts. What happened to the days when we had epic endings like Final Fantasy VI, that were like half an hour long? THAT was a satisfying ending. Mind you, there's a lot of things about FFVII (and the guys who made it) that tend to piss me off for a number of reasons, but that's unrelated to the topic at hand.
Next up..
While not the worst ending ever, I'd also say that the ending of Spirited Away was entirely unexpected for a Miyazaki film and extremely brief. It was like they'd run out of ideas or time to make a better ending.
And finally...
Ocarina of Time, oh my gods, what the HELL is this? How can anyone actually justify the way this game ended, especially seeing how much better they handled Majora's Mask's ending, the ending of every Zelda game afterwards, even the ending of Link's Awakening, the Oracle games, and Link to the Past had a more satisfying ending.
I don't have any idea why they thought that'd be acceptable. Even Mario 64 and Starfox 64 had more competent endings. Certainly nothing character breaking or that raised a ton of questions.
EDIT: Cause someone brought it up... I prefer happy endings cause I have enough to be depressed about just reading the news, paying the bills, etc. I don't need downer endings, Gainax endings, and "we'll have to wait for a sequel that never comes" endings. The later two are just signs of bad writing, but the downer ending.. depending on the ending itself and why it's somewhat sad, it can be a good or a bad downer ending.
The end of Hellboy 2 was rather sad, but it still managed to be a good ending. Pity it also hinted at a sequel we would never get, but it was still a bit of a downer On the other hand you have the Fatal Fury movie, which followed an almost identical plot, also ended in a much more depressing way. That was a bad downer ending.
Then again, I think any movie where they play you along and then "oops, killed the cutie" at the end is a crap movie and not worth my time. I guess it's cause the added depression just tends to piss me off. I don't mind somewhat ambiguous endings that make you think, but when there's nothing to fill in the gaps with it is a lot less appealing. Like what I said about FF7 and OoT.
doesn't even HAVE a fucking ending. "Oh no, here comes Meteor, will Holy save us? Oh no, Holy is attacking Humanity, what will happen? *400 Years Later* Hey look, Nanaki/Red XIII is running along with his kids, awww... wait what? WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?!"
And all because the two guys who made the game either can't finish a story to save their lives or they ALWAYS had intended to go back and financially milk the cow ala Star Wars and LucasArts. What happened to the days when we had epic endings like Final Fantasy VI, that were like half an hour long? THAT was a satisfying ending. Mind you, there's a lot of things about FFVII (and the guys who made it) that tend to piss me off for a number of reasons, but that's unrelated to the topic at hand.
Next up..
While not the worst ending ever, I'd also say that the ending of Spirited Away was entirely unexpected for a Miyazaki film and extremely brief. It was like they'd run out of ideas or time to make a better ending.
And the idea that the girl and the boy had known each other previously and the one encounter is why he was so bent on helping her and... and what? Where were they going with this? It didn't even really pan out besides helping him remember who he was, at which point he seemed to vanish from the rest of the movie.
And finally...
Ocarina of Time, oh my gods, what the HELL is this? How can anyone actually justify the way this game ended, especially seeing how much better they handled Majora's Mask's ending, the ending of every Zelda game afterwards, even the ending of Link's Awakening, the Oracle games, and Link to the Past had a more satisfying ending.
Okay so we beat Ganondorf, Zelda sends Link back, that's fine.. they agree to do something to stop Ganondorf cause... they suddenly have proof that he's plotting something? Despite the fact her father didn't listen to her previously? That they're children and Ganondorf seemed fully capable of taking everyone there out BEFORE he had the Triforce, so what good is it going to do to alert the king since there's really nothing he'd be able to do.
Oh yeah, and dancing. Gods.. why the dancing?! I'm sorry, but even if the ending hadn't been a mishmash of unexplained crap, WHY did they have EVERYONE dancing on the field? Zora King, Forest Sprites, everyone you'd ever met that was remotely important.. all dancing.. stupidly.
Oh yeah, and dancing. Gods.. why the dancing?! I'm sorry, but even if the ending hadn't been a mishmash of unexplained crap, WHY did they have EVERYONE dancing on the field? Zora King, Forest Sprites, everyone you'd ever met that was remotely important.. all dancing.. stupidly.
I don't have any idea why they thought that'd be acceptable. Even Mario 64 and Starfox 64 had more competent endings. Certainly nothing character breaking or that raised a ton of questions.
EDIT: Cause someone brought it up... I prefer happy endings cause I have enough to be depressed about just reading the news, paying the bills, etc. I don't need downer endings, Gainax endings, and "we'll have to wait for a sequel that never comes" endings. The later two are just signs of bad writing, but the downer ending.. depending on the ending itself and why it's somewhat sad, it can be a good or a bad downer ending.
The end of Hellboy 2 was rather sad, but it still managed to be a good ending. Pity it also hinted at a sequel we would never get, but it was still a bit of a downer On the other hand you have the Fatal Fury movie, which followed an almost identical plot, also ended in a much more depressing way. That was a bad downer ending.
Then again, I think any movie where they play you along and then "oops, killed the cutie" at the end is a crap movie and not worth my time. I guess it's cause the added depression just tends to piss me off. I don't mind somewhat ambiguous endings that make you think, but when there's nothing to fill in the gaps with it is a lot less appealing. Like what I said about FF7 and OoT.