Great endings on subar/shitty movies

[Fignuts]

Yeah, so finally got around to watching smokin aces. Was an ok action flick, made better by Jeremy Piven's usual awesomeness, and yet brought down by convoluted plot twist near the end. But the very end of the movie is great enough to make up for it, imo.

Everything about the scene is great. The score, Ryan Renols delivering the best acting job he's ever done, without even speaking a word.

So yeah, discuss.

[Fox]

Last 30 minutes of "Attack of the Clones" is the only good part of that entire, 2 hour and 20 minute piece of shitty outer space soap opera.

[PorkSoda]

I thought the ending to Crank was really good. The part where Chev is falling and hes talking on the phone and then what made it for me was when he raises his arms and just closes hie eyes cause there was nothing he could do about it. And the music fit perfectly. Thought it was awesome.

The Protector's ending was really great as well. The part with the guy narrating and it fades out with Jaa on his knees with the elephant. Once again the music made that as well.....

[Destor]

Pick any M. Night Shamamaamalalon movie.

[Fignuts]

I thought the ending to Crank was really good. The part where Chev is falling and hes talking on the phone and then what made it for me was when he raises his arms and just closes hie eyes cause there was nothing he could do about it. And the music fit perfectly. Thought it was awesome.

The Protector's ending was really great as well. The part with the guy narrating and it fades out with Jaa on his knees with the elephant. Once again the music made that as well.....

Yeah, but the Protector was fucking awesome all the way through, so that doesn't count. Crank was fairly subpar, in comparison to Statham's other work, so I'll give you that.

[Hanso Amore]

A Guy falling for 5 minutes from a 300 foot drop and making a fucking phone call while doing it was good to you?

I fucking laughed for 3 days at how horrible a fucking movie that was. What a Joke.

[Blitz]

Despite being a very standard, boring J-Horror remake, I believe Shutter had a genuinely creepy and haunting ending.

[Impeccable]

I dunno...I hated the first Saw movie apart from the twist ending.

[Nowhere Man]

I wasn't too huge on The Devil's Rejects, but the last scene was freaking awesome. FREEBIRD!

[PorkSoda]

A Guy falling for 5 minutes from a 300 foot drop and making a fucking phone call while doing it was good to you?

I fucking laughed for 3 days at how horrible a fucking movie that was. What a Joke.

The reason I mentioned above is why I liked it. And I also thought it was kind of a shitty movie, had potential to be so much better.

[Jeritron]

kind of?

[What Would Kevin Do?]

Yeah, so finally got around to watching smokin aces. Was an ok action flick, made better by Jeremy Piven's usual awesomeness, and yet brought down by convoluted plot twist near the end. But the very end of the movie is great enough to make up for it, imo.

Everything about the scene is great. The score, Ryan Renols delivering the best acting job he's ever done, without even speaking a word.

So yeah, discuss.

You son of a bitch. I saw the topic and that was the first movie I thought of. That ending is greatness.

[Nark Order]

Despite being a very standard, boring J-Horror remake, I believe Shutter had a genuinely creepy and haunting ending.

I agree. Was going to post the same ting.

[Requiem]

Saw II

[Sting Fan]

Which Saw is it where the kid was in the safe the whole time?

Great ending to an otherwise quite meh horror for me.

[Requiem]

Saw II^

[.44 Magdalene]

Every J-Horror movie ever is kinda alright until the GOD DAMN WHAT? WHAT? WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN. WHAT THE SHIT IS EVEN GOING THE FUCK ON I DON'T EVEN FUCKING WHAT. WHAT? FUCK. ending.

Really, that's the reason I watch J-Horror in the first place. Well, that, and I guess a couple of them are kinda unsettling. Hair comin' out of people's eyes an' shit.

[thedamndest]

I am really trying to think of a good subpar/shitty movie with a great ending. I was going to say Gothika, but I just wikipedia'ed it and realized it was just a regular shitty movie.

[Jeritron]

Yea, I've been trying to think of one myself and still have nothing.

[Jeritron]

I know theres at least a few movies I've watched before that were bad, and then I was like "what the fuck" and kind of shocked or impressed with the ending. Just can't think of any.

I can't decide if the Planet of the Apes remake (which was god awful) ending qualifies as shockingly stupid or shockingly interesting.

[thedamndest]

I don't usually like "plot twists" because you can see them coming or they are just bad/not enough to make a bad movie good. And I can take a bad movie. I like a bad movie. But I don't want it to try and be something it's not with a twist ending.

[Jeritron]

I do agree with that as well. I often times resent twist endings. Have you seen Midnight Meat Train? I thought it was a decent flick, and was enjoying it as a straight forward horror/mystery. It started to sag near the end a little bit, but I still liked it.
It had a shocking ending, but after digesting it I began to find it to be extremely pointless, and although it was a weird twist, it sort of undermined the whole movie. Basically uneccesary.

[Jeritron]

So I guess thats the opposite.

[thedamndest]

I know theres at least a few movies I've watched before that were bad, and then I was like "what the fuck" and kind of shocked or impressed with the ending. Just can't think of any.

I can't decide if the Planet of the Apes remake (which was god awful) ending qualifies as shockingly stupid or shockingly interesting.

To me it's more, "there it is." We knew it was coming, and it leaves much to the imagination (lazy writers?). For the ensemble they had for that you would have thought the movie could have been at least somewhat better than it was. Oh well, don't fuck with the classics.

[thedamndest]

Yeah, there is really nothing good to say about that movie. Even the apes still had lisps.

[Jeritron]

One of the worst remakes ever

[thedamndest]

You should start a Bad Remakes thread, if there isn't already one.

[Jeritron]

I think I started a great remakes list. That was much shorter.

[thedamndest]

That Casablanca remake starring Alex Winters was pretty good.

[Jeritron]

Rear Window remake from the 80s with Christopher Reeves and Darryl Hannah. I'm not even going to point out the irony

[thedamndest]

I Am Legend is not so legendary. That should count twice because it is a remake of a remake.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Audition.

I don't know if the first hour and 30 mins supposed to be a romantic comedy or what, all I know is that it is shit. But the last 20 mins are fucked up and weird... so obviously great.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Oh, and Battlefield Earth. When it ends, it is just great.

[Jeritron]

Soylent Green is actually a legitimate answer to this question

[Boondock Saint]

Crank was awesome. Can't wait for the second one.

[thedamndest]

Soylent Green is actually a legitimate answer to this question

I don't even know you anymore, man.

[McLegend]

I Am Legend is not so legendary. That should count twice because it is a remake of a remake.

Omega man, and?

[Disturbed316]

I wasn't too huge on The Devil's Rejects, but the last scene was freaking awesome. FREEBIRD!

Yes

[thedamndest]

Omega man, and?

The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price

[What Would Kevin Do?]

I'm still not quite sure how I am Legend is a remake of the Last Man on Earth and Omega man, when both of those movies are based off the short story I am Legend....

[Fignuts]

Yeah, never heard of those other movies, just the short story. If the source material is literature, than subsequent movies aren't remakes of the previous ones.

[McLegend]

I see...

[McLegend]

But when you are making a movie from a material that has all ready been made a movie then it classifies as a remake.

[Nowhere Man]

In that case, then Night of the Living Dead and its remake should be on the list, too, since Romero got the idea from I Am Legend. So that would make the Wil Smith one a remake of a remake of a remake of a remake.

[McLegend]

Good point.

[Fignuts]

Yeah, by that logic, there have been like 50 dracula/frankenstein/hamlet, etc, remakes.

All those movies are based on the original literature. Not on the adaptations that came before.

[What Would Kevin Do?]

So wait..... Does that mean Dracula 2000 is a remake of Dracula: Dead and Loving It, which is a remake of Blackula?

[thedamndest]

I'm still not quite sure how I am Legend is a remake of the Last Man on Earth and Omega man, when both of those movies are based off the short story I am Legend....

In I Am Legend there are literally shots/scenes that are taken straight out of Omega Man. Just replace Heston with Smith and you're there. In that respect it comes across, at the very least as having borrowed if not cited The Omega Man. Not so much The Last Man on Earth.

[Jeritron]

I saw Blackula pretty cheap on dvd, but I was at an fye and the only cashier on duty was a black girl. I was also the only person in the store.
It was just far too awkward to go through with.