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Post by drystyx on Feb 9, 2018 18:07:11 GMT
COMMANDOS 1968 PLAY DIRTY BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S THE BORGIA STICK THE TIN STAR INVASION U.S.A. (Of course the film was really all about the switch ending) |
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Post by movielover on Feb 9, 2018 18:21:35 GMT
The Sixth Sense
The Usual Suspects
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Post by outrider127 on Feb 9, 2018 19:21:12 GMT
The Quiet Earth(1985)
Kiss Me Deadly(1955)
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Post by wmcclain on Feb 9, 2018 21:25:14 GMT
I felt that about Meryl Streep's "Plenty". It ends with a flashback to when her life had meaning.
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Post by marth on Feb 9, 2018 21:55:56 GMT
Secret Window
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Post by darkknightofgotham on Feb 9, 2018 21:58:34 GMT
The Saw series. Some of the films have been pretty mediocre, but they always have cool endings.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Feb 9, 2018 22:05:29 GMT
Split - thought it got pretty stupid until the very ending, which made me see it through new eyes.
Scream 4 - the killer reveal was actually pretty clever in its relation to movie remakes.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2018 22:07:31 GMT
I was also going to say The Usual Suspects.
For me, Split was the other way around - the movie was interesting and the end was awful.
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Post by Nalkarj on Feb 9, 2018 22:15:29 GMT
I would say The Usual Suspects, but on the whole I just didn’t like the movie, ending and all. I can’t really think of any other ones; with Secret Window, for example, I liked nearly all of it except for the ending, which was too goofy for a mostly non-goofy movie. I think The Sixth Sense is a quality movie throughout; the same applies (I know this is unpopular) for Shyamalan’s Signs and The Village.
I’m having a lot of trouble thinking of movies for which I liked the ending best…
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Post by mecano04 on Feb 9, 2018 22:34:45 GMT
I'm gonna say it before saying the name, the ending doesn't save the movie, it's still trash overall but it is a great ending if you like movies where the bad guy wins it all: Screamers: The Hunting www.imdb.com/title/tt1214983/?ref_=nv_sr_2. I really don't and can't recommend watching it but it does have that kind of ending. |
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Post by vegalyra on Feb 9, 2018 22:38:02 GMT
Howard the Duck.
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Post by mikef6 on Feb 9, 2018 23:05:33 GMT
I’ve seen plenty of movies that were saved simply BECAUSE they ended.
I agree that “The Usual Suspects” was only enjoyable for a one-time only watch and that the ending wasn’t all that clever or surprising. Leslie Nielsen spoofs it brilliantly in “Wrongly Accused.”
I am very far from being the biggest fan of Alexander Payne. Any announcement of a new project of his is met by me with indifference. Having said that, the blackout endings of “Sideways” and, especially, “About Schmidt” are brilliant.
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Post by singh on Feb 9, 2018 23:47:49 GMT
The uninvited.
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Post by Rufus-T on Feb 10, 2018 0:37:46 GMT
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Feb 10, 2018 18:21:09 GMT
The Mist (2007)
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Post by mslo79 on Feb 11, 2018 2:17:36 GMT
mediocre movies cannot be saved by a good ending.
I judge movies based on my all around interest in the movie. so a movie has to be at least 'good enough' in the first place for me to give it a Thumbs Up overall regardless of ending. but in general... a good movie tends to be good overall where as a so-so movie, tends to be a so-so movie as I don't really see major swings in my interest in movies in general. so if a movie is mediocre it tends to generally stay in that general area or if a movie is truly good it tends to stay in that general area throughout the movie.
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Post by someguy on Feb 12, 2018 13:36:56 GMT
Primal Fear.
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Post by Nalkarj on Feb 13, 2018 19:06:32 GMT
Think I’ve got one—sorta, kinda. One of My Wives is Missing (TV movie, ’76) is good but not great, but the quadruple-twist ending is really clever. Excellent Columbo-esque performance from Jack Klugman, too.
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Post by Marv on Feb 13, 2018 19:30:47 GMT
Morgan...it was an ok movie but the ending had a very nice turn that probably makes me look back on it more fondly. Hard to say it was superb but it’s the closest one I can think of that fits at the moment.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Feb 13, 2018 22:13:36 GMT
Yeah I have to think about it...
There's a 1960s French film OSS 117 Mission for a Killer. Run of the mill for the most part, but it has an ending set at a waterfall which surpasses many a James Bond film for a backdrop.
THE DESERT COMMANDOS -- undercover soldiers on mission, run of the mill-but then it has a surprise ending--the same plot as the Eagle Has Landed.
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