Ok folks, this weeks question is this: what's the worst ending to an otherwise great movie? My choice was 25th Hour - although you could also apply it to half a dozen other Spike Lee films! Ben went for the teddy-bears-and-fairies ending to Spielberg's AI - what about you?

88? I must have missed the new episode, I'll download it when I get home.

I havent seen 25th hour but a friend of mine has the same criticism. Here are some of mine:

Transporter: not a great movie but we always joke that they ran out of money before they where done filming.

The Village Really?

Perfect Blue Just re-watched it... in the american dub you get some small talk, the main character says a really cheese line (in a perky way) and BAM! JPOP music!

Hulk I love Ang Lee and I loved his hulk, but the final threat... awful.

I could also mention a ton of movies from China, they have a tendency to just end really abruptly like "giant fight scene, heroes win, high five, roll credits" or in romances "he does somethign sweet, she smiles, the end".




[/b]

HALLOWEEN The very end, i mean Michael Myers is pure evil but he is still just a man, its not like he's Jason Voorhees or Wolverine with the ability to regen.

REC the end when they survivors move up into the top flat of the building, just didn't fit right with me seemed kind of tacked on.

I AM LEGEND too much of an upbeat ending.

HANCOCK seemed to run out of steam towards the end of the film.

Stephen King's IT the whole spider bit at the end was disappointing.

shocked to hear people say Switchblade Romance and Sunshine, especially Sunshine as it was possibly my favourite film of 2007 and thought the 3rd act was brilliant

I'd like to know what the problem was that someone had with the end of Henry Fool... I love that movie.

I've got to second the nomination for Sunshine. Absolutely superb film up until it turned into Jason X. And the last shot in the frozen Australia was incredibly cheesy as well.

I'd also suggest the final 10 minutes of Hot Fuzz where the police station blows up. So unnecessary and added nothing to the film.

And if anyone suggests Cache/Hidden, I will kill them!

It's not a great film but Identity was an okay giallo style flick until they pulled the most awful twist out of the bag. Not going to give the game away but it left me feeling completely cheated.

Still t's not as bad as the (already mentioned) twist in The Villiage, which incidentally I guessed watching the trailer, not because I'm any sort of genius but just because I thought "what's the shittest thing it could be" and it was. The dawning horror that I was right made viewing the film an absolute nightmare.

I liked the ending of Identity. Yeah, its stupid and doesn't make any sense, but I would of completely forgotten that film even existed if it had been just another whodunnit slasher. At least it was something I hadn't seen before

Oops, my mistake - i mean 89 of course!

I'll probably take some heat on this but I've always thought the Shawshank Redemption should have ended on a fadeout of the bus pulling away as Morgan Freeman said, "I hope." The final scene on the beach is absolutely unnecessary.

I do hate it when movies have that extra little bit, the "just in case you didint cry" or "just in case you where worried about the characters". Like from 2000 - 2005 you would see a lot of movies that took 20-30 minutes just to end.

But A.I. is the worse... gawd... so the kid outlives us all, I dont have to hold his hand the entire journey.

I believe this is the ending Darabont originally had until test screenings caused the studio to push for a more traditional happy ending. Though I like the ending now, I can see your point.

Also having re-watched Sunshine recently I have to disagree with it being on this list, on first viewing the slasher killer ending confused me but I now think it is integral to the film, one of the themes of which is that the sun is powerful not just physically but psychologically too. It gets in the characters' heads. The sun is the real 'villain' in that that film along with the weak will of most of the crew. Only Cillian Murphey's character has the strength to hold out. Just my interpretation.

I unfortunately missed the taping of 89, but I have to agree with the Sunshine crowd. I love most of it, and I have it Bluray (and it looks fantastic), but if I had wanted to watch Event Horizon, I would have watched Event Horizon. The ending as writ just felt . . . . out of place, cheap, beneath the intentions of what had already been.

I also didn't like the ending to Hannibal - either the movie ending or the book end. Neither were convincing. I think the book was worse. It sort of seemed to crash to and end very quickly, with no convincing way to get where it went. The film seemed to know that the book ending wouldn't work, but couldn't come up with anything original.

AI springs immediately to mind as a movie that made want to kick the screen in with utter rage at an ending that almost completely spoiled an otherwise excellent and occasionally breathtaking movie.

Speilberg has a habit of ending movies with poorly advised, sappy, or pat endings: see Schindler's List and Minority Report. AI was the one that really exploded my boat though.

Apparently the first and third acts are Kubrick's, while the middle act was the least complete and required the most input from Spielberg. That said, Kubrick simply didn't do warm and fuzzy, so his take would not have been quite so sentimental.

I have to agree AI is really bad , I could have lived with the blue fairy if it end there.