Endings That Bug the Hell Out of You

whitewhiskey

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#1
Okay, just as the title implies, this is a thread to rag on any movie, be it a major motion picture, made for TV or direct to DVD, whose ending annoys you, bugs you, or makes you want to jump up and yell at the miniscule chance the director and writers will hear you and feel ashamed.

First one that comes to mind for me is Mega Python vs. Gatoroid. Yes, it's a Sci-Fi (SyFy) creature feature, which automatically means you shouldn't expect quality.

A quick summary, an animal activist (Who is also some sort of doctor, but I'm guessing that honorary considering her idiotic actions) steals a bunch of exotic snakes from a guy who was keeping them as pets and lets them loose in the Everglades. With no apparent predator, the pythons grow to the point where they can kill and eat gators, which pisses off the Park Ranger, especially when the snakes kill her fiance. Animal Activist bitch complains how wrong it is when Park Ranger authorizes the hunting of snakes, despite the fact that, you know, the snakes are ruining the ecosystem (Some animal activist, and why I think her degree is honorary or obtained on her knees).

AA bitches and moans any time a snake is hurt or killed, whines that things will work themselves out, even though she should know an invasive species will utterly destroy the place, and acts all high and mighty "I told you so" when the hunters get killed.

So the Park Ranger starts feeding the gators steroid-filled chickens to give them a fighting chance. It makes the gators bigger, their eggs bigger, and the snakes bigger as some of them are still able to eat the gators, and the snakes eggs get bigger.

After several months, a scientist tries to warn Park Ranger that the gators and the size of fuckin' semis and need to be reigned in with some quick visits from the reaper, but Park Ranger is suddenly as psycho-loving of the gators as AA is of the damn snakes and fires him.

This leads to a fundraiser being attacked by gators and snakes the size of Buick Skylarks and all of the guests dying, gators and snakes large enough to pluck blimps out of the sky attacking Miami, and cheap death and poor graphic destruction all around, until the Scientist (Apparently the only one around with a working brain) works out a way to lure all the ugly fuckers (The reptiles, not the Activist and Ranger) into a quarry to be blown up.

So, Park Ranger dies when bitten in half by a gator before shit starts blowing up and Activist Bitch gets bitten in half afterwords by a severed snake head (One of Park Ranger's idiot peons explained to hunters earlier in the movie that a severed snake head can live for up to an hour before dying, no idea if it's true).

Now, each of the bitches dead by the maw of their respective reptile, that might have been an alright way to end a bad movie, but no, and this is what always pisses me off when I see this on the day's lineup on SyFy.

The movie flashed forward to a year later when a rebuilt estuary to support the Everglades Wetlands is being officiated by Scientist, and he deticates it, with a plaque and all, to the two psycho bitches directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds if not THOUSAND OR TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE!

Yeah, that bugs the hell out of me. You guys got any movies like that?
 

DhampyrX2

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#2
Pretty much every "found footage" horror movie ever made. Because I am sick and damned tired of the ghost/demon/whatever the hell the bugaboo in the movie is killing everyone and nobody being able to fight back. Is it really THAT hard to have some catharsis and have the people win once in a while? I was so hoping the second Blair Witch movie would go in that direction. Instead it was "oh the villain that NOBODY EVER FRICKEN SEES will alter reality to frame half of the people searching for her for the deaths of the other half and nobody will ever be the wiser." I mean come on. Could you have maybe had a few ethical magick practitioners pop up to fight the evil witch and have good triumph for a change? Or someone get in a lucky shot? Or anything other than what happened?
 

whitewhiskey

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#3
Actually, one of my least favorite endings is a kind of Found Footage one too, Project X.

It just pisses me off to no end that Costa, who is directly responsible for the entirety of the problems of that night, spams invites to a ridiculous degree, brings drugs into the mix (And through that, a flame-thrower wielding Drugdealer who keeps yelling his name), convinces his friends to make all the WRONG choices, gets an innocent guy beaten up and threatened because he wanted the party ended for the sake of his kids and job, and all because he doesn't think he's living as high on the hog as he said he did in Queens. Well if you had it so good in where-ever the fuck you were from, then why no go back there you massive douche-nozzle!?

But then, to top it off, it's Costa who gets the least punishment. It might be better if he seemed to learn something from the ordeal, but his bit at the end shows he learned ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING!

Go to hell, Costa, just go to hell.
 

Mick

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#4
The ending for the movie version of Hannible. Clarice should have went with him instead of staying in the U.S.

Her bosses were all pricks and her career was over anyway.
 

Python453

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#5
Mick said:
The ending for the movie version of Hannible. Clarice should have went with him instead of staying in the U.S.

Her bosses were all pricks and her career was over anyway.
She did that in the books. I for one am glad they changed the ending in the movie to her staying in the US.
 

Nasuren

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#6
The ending I hated the most? The Knowing.

Sure, I can understand it's ending logically and all that, but it remands the one that even my mother hates. Odd if I mention it that she loves some movies that critics would hang themselves rather than watch.
 

whitewhiskey

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#7
Okay...Just saw the ending of Cabin in the Woods...

Really? So because a few of you buddies were killed, the world should end? I know the whole "For the greater good" thing can be shaky ground, but this is literally five people, if not four, a year in exchange for the whole fucking world, not just the human race, because you'd have to be stupid to think these Lovecraftian 'Ancient Ones' would treat other races or any sentient or non-sentient race that pops up any differently than us...

This is why stoners shouldn't make possibly world ending decisions...
 
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