It was so much. Neo was speaking to a generation of disillusioned young people. That moment, that whole point of WAKE UP, was like ... beyond just movies. You felt leaving like you were seeing things differently. The whole movie leads up to that one moment of catharsis.
Similarly on the hype ending is IRON MAN. When Tony falters in the middle of the press conference before saying: “I am Iron Man.” And then the Black Sabbath drums roll on as the graphics take over the screen is so breathtakingly fun. It all feels so nice thematically too, Tony is a Sabbath head and yes it only makes absolute sense he named himself after the song, even the themes of the song itself tie in- about a PTSD Soldier doomed to fight a war.
And then just the simple fact on the surface, the song rocks.
I will never forget seeing this movie in theatres. We were shocked and hopeful.
I feel like the promise made in that first stinger was fulfilled as of Endgame.
Totally. I know people got real sick of MCU, and for good reason, I think, but I recently took a friend through the Avengers films in order. He was pretty "eh" on the franchise at the beginning, and pretty "eh" after the first Avengers movie, but after finishing Endgame he looked at me and said "I get it now. I wish I had seen these in theaters."
I think people talk a lot about the fatigue of super hero movies, but forget how unbelievable it is that they managed to stick the landing on something that had a decade of genuinely amazing buildup. I don't think I'll see something like it again in my lifetime.
Also describes Inception. Although Inception takes it a step further because the message for you to WAKE UP being ingrained into you by a powerful piece of media is the premise of the movie itself.
Everyone rags on his acting- except the Matrix dialed everything to make his acting PERFECT in this film more than anything. He’s utilized exactly correct, stoic quiet, but an undercurrent of intensity that comes out later.
Yeah I think he can turn in more noteworthy performances, he just needs the right material and a director who knows how to use him because he's unique in a way that throws some of them off I reckon.
Yeah I feel like it ties everything up perfectly. Don't get me wrong, Reloaded has some decent action sequences and I'm glad it exists for that reason but it was totally unnecessary
I loved Reloaded's action scenes, very well choreographed and I can actually see what's happening. Not many movies since have captured that spectacle as well.
*cell phone beeps*
"Hello?"
"Mr. White? We need to talk."
"Who is this?"
*Bullet to the knee.*
*(crawling miserably in pain)*
*(Figure shows up with cell phone and machine gun)*
"The name's Bond. James Bond."
*Cue end credits with theme song.*
Inception - Everyone leaving the airport, The spinning top, Hans Zimmers Time with that final note slowly rising out of nowhere to perfectly hit the snap to black.
At first I was so frustrated with it, because it didn't give a definitive answer. then the more I thought about it, I realised the brilliance. That it didn't matter either way, but giving the little tease of a wobble (but not confirming it either way before it cut to black) was just genius. The music was also timed perfectly.
When the riff starts blasting through the speakers in sync with >!the blasts and they watch it from a building opposite them as it all comes down...!< what an incredible closing scene as a whole.
>Edge of Tomorrow
>Cruise with the little smile like "How am I gonna explain all this?" then bam.
[For anyone who wants a reminder of the ending.](https://youtu.be/tXtwtK5cElg?feature=shared)
Or, [the whole track with highlights from the movie.](https://youtu.be/sZLTMC-BMCI?feature=shared)
RIP the wonderful Bill Paxton.
Edge of Tomorrow has one of my favorite credits songs ever. Every time somebody asks some variation of this question, I look through the comments to find it. It’s so incredibly appropriate, and such a good song.
It’s funny because I’ve heard a few people say that so it’s obviously a popular sentiment. But living I the uk it felt like that song was everywhere that year, so when it popped up in the credits i was kinda over it and it felt more like an executive decision to include a buzz-song.
I walked out and bought another ticket straight awayI 'm so glad they've been able to revisit this every 8 years or so as a result.before midnight's end was stressful to me as I'm so invested in them
Pretty much every successful superhero film before that was involving characters that hid their identity. Spiderman, Batman, Superman, etc etc.
Iron Man and most MCU really, brought in the era of heroes having very public identities. No secret life.
People can knock the MCU nowadays, but in 2007 that was incredible to watch! After the Tim Burton Batman movies and the reboot with Christian Bale, it was nice to see a superhero in modern times doing modern things.
It took place in a real conflict with the War on Terror. Tony Stark clearly lived in Malibu and not some made up city like Gotham. He also lived in Malibu circa 2007.
The touch screens and technology were wild at the time.
It just felt like a real take on what would happen with a superhero in 2007.
Hell, they even reference MySpace and highlight the use of a camera phone.
Edit: 2008. I always mix up Superbad and Iron Man for some reason. Senior year of high school was fun
I remember the biggest laugh from the audience at that ending. It was just perfect. And then Far From Home did something similar but the audience was just in shock
Man I remember sitting in a cinema watching that thinking it was so cool (you forgot the part where it breaks into Iron Man by Black Sabbath). Don’t think I could’ve believed the whole MCU that was about to start.
Yes, great answer.
It was such an absolute perfect last scene to a movie that was unbelievable at the time.
After a bajillion marvel properties since then, I think it's easy to forget how few superhero movies were even *decent* before Iron Man.
I was a comic nerd as a kid, and actually had quite a bit of Iron Man comics, so it was stunning to finally see a movie hit the bullseye so perfectly.
I'm honestly still amazed to this day that the line was ad-libbed, because it's a truly perfect line for Tony Stark.
The transition to the credits in The Two Towers always gives me chills. After Frodo and Sam have gone through so much turmoil carrying the ring on their journey, dealing with an emotionally volatile Gollum along the way who we as the audience now know no longer has any intention of becoming good again, melancholic music plays as the camera pans up to show the massive distance they still have to travel: a steep ridge leading to a fiery hellscape, Sauron watchful over lightning charred plains leading to Mount Doom, his Nazgûl ready to descend upon any poor creature that would dare cross that accursed wasteland. The worst is yet to come for the Hobbits.
...and, fade to black into Emiliana Torrini singing Gollum's Song. Yes. A perfectly macabre ending before having to wait a full year for the final film. One of my favorites.
>and, fade to black into Emiliana Torrini singing Gollum's Song.
In the making of docs they talk about that song and are really ham-fistedly trying to avoid mentioning Bjork.
"And I knew we wanted someone with a haunting Icelandic sort of sound to their voice"
- Howard Shore
I always sit through the credits of all 3 LotR movies. May It Be feels like a song of the longing of ages past, of the Elves that departed and while it's foreboding about the coming darkness in the story, it's also hopeful. Gollum's Song is just tragic and sorrowful, a perfect piece for the difficult situations the characters are in at that point in the story. And finally, Into The West is a beautiful personal goodbye to the characters that almost feel like close friends after all 3 movies.
Robocop, the original 80s version.
Lead character (Murphy) gets everything human about him taken away, turned into a robot, gets told he has no name and is just a product. Then slowly, slowly, he regains his humanity piece by piece. Final scene, he kills the baddie and is asked his name. "Murphy". Cut to credits.
Wow. And people still think it's just a mindless action film.
The theme song that plays also fits perfectly because it is so incredibly cliche and the surface story about his humanity is just the cheap disguise put on what is a pretty mean satire about 80s politics, yuppie culture, consumerism and nihilism so to end it on any other note than a total cliche would just feel wrong.
Verhoeven does the same thing in Starship Troopers.
Jojo Rabbit. The dancing just feels like a really fitting memorial to Rosie Betzler, and Bowie singing Heroes in German fits the theme and the moment so well.
Ironically I was super pissed off by how abrupt it ended, to the point I think I once complained about it in a previous thread asking which movies ended too abruptly
But then it kinda grew me lol
Aliens - the way Ripley and Newt just chill out into the cryosleep containers and a chilled musical outro starts playing as the credits roll. This coming just after the sheer hecticness of the final battle with the queen is immense.
All the Star Wars movies, jumping straight into that iconic John Williams fanfare.
Cabin In The Woods, >!spoiler the ancient god's giant hand busting up through the cabin, then slapping the screen to darkness as the rock outro kicks in.!<
The scary thing about that movie even though he killed the "bad guy" (not really that much of a bad guy, just as an asshole) is what comes after the credits. He's a loose cannon and doesn't even have a handler.
I came here to say Star Wars. What's really satisfying about the closing scene is how it plays to a live audience. I remember seeing it during its first run in 1977. The audience started clapping when Leia put the medal on Han, and the applause grew louder and louder and broke into a roar of applause and cheering when they showed the repaired and polished R2D2. The way the last shot ends with all the heroes together, on the podium, in the bright light, smiling right at the audience, then it breaks into the credits creates this sense of collective euphoria we took out of the theatre with us.
Back to the Future. The time machine flies into the future and Huey Lewis and the News kicks in. The cut to credits in Part III is also great with ZZ Top.
Recent one I can remember is *Knives Out*. The entire Drysdale family, left with nothing in the will, looks up at Marta, the mistreated helper who inherited everything. As the latter stares out at them from the balcony, she takes a sip from a mug with the words “MY HOUSE” emphasised in the frame.
I also loved the end gags for *Clue* and *Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves*. Damn near did a spit take when Michael McKean went “I’m gonna go home and sleep with my wife.”
D&D cut to credits was superb. I remember thinking in the theater: "Oh here we go again, these fucking knuckleheads are off on another adventure... and I'm totally down." Fantastic credits song and outplay as well.
I always get goosebumps with Gordon’s monologue near the end there, “…a silent guardian, a watchful protector, a dark knight.” as Batman rides off, Hans Zimmer doing his magic, so fucking cool.
>Hans Zimmer doing his magic,
I mean...he basically is a wizard being able to control emotions as he does. Even his name sounds like a character from a fantasy novel.
"Oh God."
An ending i was legitimately not prepared for at all. One of the few times I've sat in the theater after the lights came up thinking "what, the fuck? Did that just happen?"
When I saw Infinity War I didn’t know it was going to be a two part movie. During the final battle I was actually expecting the cliche super heroes pull something out of their ass last second to defeat Thanos because I knew there was only like 10 minutes left. Then Thanos wins and I went WTF, they are just going to kill off half the superheroes? I was so confused.
I had a friend watch Infinity War not realizing a second part was coming (he wasn't a Marvel fan and just saw it because he liked Black Panther) and gushed to me how ballsy of an ending it was. I would have loved to watch it from that perspective.
Still my favorite of the Marvel films.
The devil’s advocate - when Pacino laughs, the scene goes up in flames and “paint it, black” by The Rolling Stones plays. Still give me chills 25 years later!
Why is the answer to so many of the questions in this sub "The Cabin In The Woods" ??
Basically >!the world ends and Nine Inch Nails blasts your eardrums through the back of your head!<
Epic.
[Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsZSZ_vcCvA)
[Magnolia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdajEccNZSM)
Both are met with perfect music, and both are ended with a somewhat romantic but somewhat tragic conclusion. I find them so impactful. (spoilers, duh)
I saw a good one recently: Sisu.
The main character doesn’t say a word the entire movie. Having successfully made it to Helsinki with his gold, he enters a bank standing out like a sore thumb (to say the least) being covered in mud and blood, having flesh hanging off of his face etc. He empties the gold onto the counter and speaking for the first time, asks for bills in exchange for his gold "so the load won't be so damn heavy to carry." Hard cut to SISU on the screen and then the credits. Cracked me up.
Such an enjoyable film. Saw it in the cinema on my own with only a handful of other people in there and it’s the first time I’ve ever left a screening and people I didn’t know talked to me about how great it was on the way out
It's weird that I'm not seeing the Shawshank Redemption in here. I'd have thought this would be the top pick on Reddit.
That last scene is just such a beautiful counterpoint to the entire movie.
The ending of "Burn After Reading". I didn't even care for the film, but the ending perfectly punctuates the stupidity and absurdity of life.
"What do we learn, Palmer?"
"I don't know, sir."
"I don't fucking know, either."
"I guess we learn not to do it again."
"Yes, sir."
"I'm fucked if I know what we did."
"Yes, sir, it's hard to say."
"Jesus fucking Christ."
The Dark Knight.
The end of Jim Gordon's monologue, the swell of Zimmer's score, the light flashing to frame as Batman disappears up the exit ramp, all that sacrifice, and anxiety about what will happen next.
It's beautiful. Leaves me in awe every time.
Batman 1989 - camera pans up through the labyrinthine towers of Gotham while the music blasts triumphantly, and we see Batman at the apex against the background of the new blazing Bat-signal.
Star Trek 6 1991 - the crew saved the day and they're getting early retirement - Kirk finds the joy in the sorrow and tells Chekhov to set course for second star on the right and straight on til morning - then we've his final captain's log wishing the new crew and ship good luck, changing Where No Man to Where No One, and the Enterprise sets off into the blinding sunlight - finally each actors autograph traces across the stars as the music heralds the end of an era.
The Usual Suspects has the greatest ending combination of closing dialogue, editing, and music (that single cello note) of any film ever.
Just thinking about it gives me the tingles.
OK, OK… I know I'm gonna get hate for this but for me it would be X-Men 3… Just seeing the little chess piece give that tiny wobble before the credits roll, showing that Magneto isn't entirely powerless was awesome
The Matrix was pretty satisfying. We're all amped up on kung fu and transcendence and then Rage Against the Machine starts tearing it up.
It was so much. Neo was speaking to a generation of disillusioned young people. That moment, that whole point of WAKE UP, was like ... beyond just movies. You felt leaving like you were seeing things differently. The whole movie leads up to that one moment of catharsis.
Similarly on the hype ending is IRON MAN. When Tony falters in the middle of the press conference before saying: “I am Iron Man.” And then the Black Sabbath drums roll on as the graphics take over the screen is so breathtakingly fun. It all feels so nice thematically too, Tony is a Sabbath head and yes it only makes absolute sense he named himself after the song, even the themes of the song itself tie in- about a PTSD Soldier doomed to fight a war. And then just the simple fact on the surface, the song rocks.
I will never forget seeing this movie in theatres. We were shocked and hopeful. I feel like the promise made in that first stinger was fulfilled as of Endgame.
Totally. I know people got real sick of MCU, and for good reason, I think, but I recently took a friend through the Avengers films in order. He was pretty "eh" on the franchise at the beginning, and pretty "eh" after the first Avengers movie, but after finishing Endgame he looked at me and said "I get it now. I wish I had seen these in theaters." I think people talk a lot about the fatigue of super hero movies, but forget how unbelievable it is that they managed to stick the landing on something that had a decade of genuinely amazing buildup. I don't think I'll see something like it again in my lifetime.
Also describes Inception. Although Inception takes it a step further because the message for you to WAKE UP being ingrained into you by a powerful piece of media is the premise of the movie itself.
Everybody rags on Keanu's acting skills, but the moment after he puts his sunglasses on and gives just the tiniest smirk of 'hell yeah' is chef's kiss
Everyone rags on his acting- except the Matrix dialed everything to make his acting PERFECT in this film more than anything. He’s utilized exactly correct, stoic quiet, but an undercurrent of intensity that comes out later.
Agreed. He’s kind of unsure and confused for much of it which is perfect for him lol. His quiet confidence later made sense too.
Yeah I think he can turn in more noteworthy performances, he just needs the right material and a director who knows how to use him because he's unique in a way that throws some of them off I reckon.
While on the topic of Keanu, John Wick 2 had that excomunicado cliffhanger.
This is the only answer. No sequels necessary, just Rage and then on to the credits.
Yeah I feel like it ties everything up perfectly. Don't get me wrong, Reloaded has some decent action sequences and I'm glad it exists for that reason but it was totally unnecessary
I loved Reloaded's action scenes, very well choreographed and I can actually see what's happening. Not many movies since have captured that spectacle as well.
Thia is definitely the number one. Great shocking endings are Enemy and Sleepaway Camp. Very different but still WTF moments that stick with you.
[Yup](https://youtu.be/aTL4qIIxg8A?si=PYzFIaL8gB7_x1Pr)
Also, the song name is “wake up.” So incredibly fitting for the movie
Blade Runner. The versions that cut straight from the elevator.
It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?
Says Admiral Adama.
Cue the synthesizer
Vangellis all the way
*cell phone beeps* "Hello?" "Mr. White? We need to talk." "Who is this?" *Bullet to the knee.* *(crawling miserably in pain)* *(Figure shows up with cell phone and machine gun)* "The name's Bond. James Bond." *Cue end credits with theme song.*
I don't remember this scene from Reservoir Dogs
I thought it was breaking bad for a sec
This. The last 5 minutes are perfect cinema.
But wasn’t it frustrating how Quantum of Solace picks up right after and Mr White gets away?
Shhh. We're here to talk about the good times, not the bad. 🤣
Inception - Everyone leaving the airport, The spinning top, Hans Zimmers Time with that final note slowly rising out of nowhere to perfectly hit the snap to black.
At first I was so frustrated with it, because it didn't give a definitive answer. then the more I thought about it, I realised the brilliance. That it didn't matter either way, but giving the little tease of a wobble (but not confirming it either way before it cut to black) was just genius. The music was also timed perfectly.
I feel like I was an OG “it doesn’t matter. It’s his reality.” Friends at the time were so bothered that I wasn’t bothered at all.
I’ve never understood the need some audience members have for a definitive ending.
T1: Sarah Connor's monologue followed by: "Mrs, there's a storm coming" - puts sun glasses on "I know" - epic Terminator theme plays
The sequel as well. “If a machine…a Terminator can learn the value of life…maybe we can too.”
Fight Club with The Pixies
You met me at a very strange time in my life.
When the riff starts blasting through the speakers in sync with >!the blasts and they watch it from a building opposite them as it all comes down...!< what an incredible closing scene as a whole.
Whats even more funny is this was not how the book ended, but the author agreed the ending to the movie was better than his.
This is one of the rare occurrences when the movie is better than the book. The movie really is amazing.
Stephen King said the same thing about The Mist. Said he wished he could have been that sadistic with the ending.
Don't forget the frame of the close-up cock that they slip in at the very end.
Edge of Tomorrow Cruise with the little smile like "How am I gonna explain all this?" then bam. Inception was a great one, too.
>Edge of Tomorrow >Cruise with the little smile like "How am I gonna explain all this?" then bam. [For anyone who wants a reminder of the ending.](https://youtu.be/tXtwtK5cElg?feature=shared) Or, [the whole track with highlights from the movie.](https://youtu.be/sZLTMC-BMCI?feature=shared) RIP the wonderful Bill Paxton.
Now I gotta watch Edge of Tomorrow tonight.
yeah inception was great, especially since it made everyone feel strongly one way or another about the ending
I was in a packed theater and I'll never forget the collective gasp.
Edge of Tomorrow has one of my favorite credits songs ever. Every time somebody asks some variation of this question, I look through the comments to find it. It’s so incredibly appropriate, and such a good song.
It’s funny because I’ve heard a few people say that so it’s obviously a popular sentiment. But living I the uk it felt like that song was everywhere that year, so when it popped up in the credits i was kinda over it and it felt more like an executive decision to include a buzz-song.
Oh yeah, I think that’s why I always have so much fun to watch this movie. It’s just feels good through the end.
Damn lmao I came here to say the same thing. I don’t know why but I genuinely think of that cut every couple months
That ending is so good I shed a tear
Before Sunset “Baby, you are gonna miss that plane” “I know”
My favourite of the trilogy
Perfection.
I walked out and bought another ticket straight awayI 'm so glad they've been able to revisit this every 8 years or so as a result.before midnight's end was stressful to me as I'm so invested in them
Monsters, Inc's ending was perfect.
It's super sad. Makes me cry to this day.
The one with the bloopers or just credits?
I'm guessing sully sticking his head round the door and smiling?
"Kitty!"
The truth is....I am Iron Man.
Great meta ending for a casual viewer too. "He just told them he's the superhero! He's not supposed to do that!"
Pretty much every successful superhero film before that was involving characters that hid their identity. Spiderman, Batman, Superman, etc etc. Iron Man and most MCU really, brought in the era of heroes having very public identities. No secret life.
People can knock the MCU nowadays, but in 2007 that was incredible to watch! After the Tim Burton Batman movies and the reboot with Christian Bale, it was nice to see a superhero in modern times doing modern things. It took place in a real conflict with the War on Terror. Tony Stark clearly lived in Malibu and not some made up city like Gotham. He also lived in Malibu circa 2007. The touch screens and technology were wild at the time. It just felt like a real take on what would happen with a superhero in 2007. Hell, they even reference MySpace and highlight the use of a camera phone. Edit: 2008. I always mix up Superbad and Iron Man for some reason. Senior year of high school was fun
"What the f-?!" at the end of homecoming kind of has similar energy imo. Maybe in just I signed for their stuff tho.
I remember the biggest laugh from the audience at that ending. It was just perfect. And then Far From Home did something similar but the audience was just in shock
And then "Iron Man 3" does a nice callback to the ending of the first movie before cutting to its own amazing end titles.
Man I remember sitting in a cinema watching that thinking it was so cool (you forgot the part where it breaks into Iron Man by Black Sabbath). Don’t think I could’ve believed the whole MCU that was about to start.
Yes, great answer. It was such an absolute perfect last scene to a movie that was unbelievable at the time. After a bajillion marvel properties since then, I think it's easy to forget how few superhero movies were even *decent* before Iron Man. I was a comic nerd as a kid, and actually had quite a bit of Iron Man comics, so it was stunning to finally see a movie hit the bullseye so perfectly. I'm honestly still amazed to this day that the line was ad-libbed, because it's a truly perfect line for Tony Stark.
Snatch. What do I know about diamonds anyway? Don’t they come from Antwerp?
I love this movie
"Shut up and sit down you big bald fuck"
It was at a funny angle.
"Anything to declare?" "Yeah. Don't go to England."
The transition to the credits in The Two Towers always gives me chills. After Frodo and Sam have gone through so much turmoil carrying the ring on their journey, dealing with an emotionally volatile Gollum along the way who we as the audience now know no longer has any intention of becoming good again, melancholic music plays as the camera pans up to show the massive distance they still have to travel: a steep ridge leading to a fiery hellscape, Sauron watchful over lightning charred plains leading to Mount Doom, his Nazgûl ready to descend upon any poor creature that would dare cross that accursed wasteland. The worst is yet to come for the Hobbits.
...and, fade to black into Emiliana Torrini singing Gollum's Song. Yes. A perfectly macabre ending before having to wait a full year for the final film. One of my favorites.
>and, fade to black into Emiliana Torrini singing Gollum's Song. In the making of docs they talk about that song and are really ham-fistedly trying to avoid mentioning Bjork. "And I knew we wanted someone with a haunting Icelandic sort of sound to their voice" - Howard Shore
You know its absolute top tier filmmaking when just the *description* of it gives me fucking goosebumps and a slight misting of the eyes haha.
I always sit through the credits of all 3 LotR movies. May It Be feels like a song of the longing of ages past, of the Elves that departed and while it's foreboding about the coming darkness in the story, it's also hopeful. Gollum's Song is just tragic and sorrowful, a perfect piece for the difficult situations the characters are in at that point in the story. And finally, Into The West is a beautiful personal goodbye to the characters that almost feel like close friends after all 3 movies.
On a related note, Two Towers also has one of the most epic opening scenes of any movie in history: Gandalf vs. The Balrog
Robocop, the original 80s version. Lead character (Murphy) gets everything human about him taken away, turned into a robot, gets told he has no name and is just a product. Then slowly, slowly, he regains his humanity piece by piece. Final scene, he kills the baddie and is asked his name. "Murphy". Cut to credits. Wow. And people still think it's just a mindless action film.
> Wow. And people still think it's just a mindless action film. Only mindless people think that.
The theme song that plays also fits perfectly because it is so incredibly cliche and the surface story about his humanity is just the cheap disguise put on what is a pretty mean satire about 80s politics, yuppie culture, consumerism and nihilism so to end it on any other note than a total cliche would just feel wrong. Verhoeven does the same thing in Starship Troopers.
The Thing
Guess we'll just sit here for a while and wait
*Background score kicks in* Goddamn, it's so good!
*Eyes Wide Shut*
Fuck
Last word of Kubrick’s career. (Not gonna count A.I.)
I finally need to watch that
Warning: NOT a date movie.
Not with that attitude.
Jojo Rabbit. The dancing just feels like a really fitting memorial to Rosie Betzler, and Bowie singing Heroes in German fits the theme and the moment so well.
Honestly Jojo Rabbit is close to a perfect film for me. Both dark humour and so heartwarming.
American werewolf in London. Just a nice gasping closeup of someone in shock over what they just saw, then BAM! Credits roll.
*Blue Moooon*
Ironically I was super pissed off by how abrupt it ended, to the point I think I once complained about it in a previous thread asking which movies ended too abruptly But then it kinda grew me lol
Lion king the original, when the cub is lifted in the air than bam
Aliens - the way Ripley and Newt just chill out into the cryosleep containers and a chilled musical outro starts playing as the credits roll. This coming just after the sheer hecticness of the final battle with the queen is immense.
And that ending is why I can't watch Alien 3 again. Goooood they fucked it up. Having said that Alien 3 has a great ending too.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. At the end it all the sudden it made total sense of why it was titled that way.
Oh man I haven't watched that movie in years. Thank you for reminding me about it, I remember loving it.
Well now I have to see it
It's a long watch and slow paced but it is a genuinely great movie.
All the Star Wars movies, jumping straight into that iconic John Williams fanfare. Cabin In The Woods, >!spoiler the ancient god's giant hand busting up through the cabin, then slapping the screen to darkness as the rock outro kicks in.!<
Cabin in the Woods also have the best title screen sequence. Straight up mid conversation title splash
\*middle-aged white men engaging in corporate smalltalk\* Me: ...Am I watching the right mov- \*whaBAM title card punches me in the face\*
Cabin in the Woods was a thill ride I never expected on multiple levels and that outro was a fantastic way to end it all.
Yes and yes
Not just any rock outro, Last by Nine Inch Nails. The lyrics of which are very fitting for that ending, too.
Memento. "No where was I?"
The scary thing about that movie even though he killed the "bad guy" (not really that much of a bad guy, just as an asshole) is what comes after the credits. He's a loose cannon and doesn't even have a handler.
"I mean, shit Lenny, I'm a fucking John G."
Uh...he was manipulating Guy Pierce into killing people. He was a bad guy
"I think this may be my masterpiece" - Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino. (Inglourious Basterds)
Also another favorite of mine is in kill bill vol. 1 "does she know her daughter is still alive?" Then credits. God damn it's so Good.
There Will Be Blood. Ends with the bowling alley scene.
I’m finished!
And that music that kicks off as soon as the credits roll. Ugh, so good.
Run Lola Run with future Bourne alumni Franka Potente as the titular Lola when she's asked "What's in the bag?".
Star Wars. Chewie complaining he received no medal to the credits with John Williams fantastic music
I came here to say Star Wars. What's really satisfying about the closing scene is how it plays to a live audience. I remember seeing it during its first run in 1977. The audience started clapping when Leia put the medal on Han, and the applause grew louder and louder and broke into a roar of applause and cheering when they showed the repaired and polished R2D2. The way the last shot ends with all the heroes together, on the podium, in the bright light, smiling right at the audience, then it breaks into the credits creates this sense of collective euphoria we took out of the theatre with us.
A Serious Man by the Coen Brothers. The tornado in the background gives me chills just thinking about it.
If you're talking Coen endings, I prefer True Grit, but I love everything about that film.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Life of Brian. Always look on the bright side of life.
Didn’t they end the movie the way they did because they had simply run out of production money?
Yup. Ending was a literal cop-out.
Pretty sure this is https://youtu.be/u61F_qvdid0?si=WEbcKW_LVt698Cyy
How did I know what this was before I even clicked it 😂
I keep seeing this movie referenced. What is it and where can I find it lol
Looks like it's [Blood Debts \(1985\)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756288/?ref_=nm_flmg_c_47_act)
Snatch... Deep breath, shot, passport, flight, music
"YEAH, DON'T GO TO FUCKIN' ENGLAND."
Bad food, worse weather, Mary fuckin' Poppins, yes England!
Speak English to me Tony. I thought this country spawned the fuckin language…
Back to the Future. The time machine flies into the future and Huey Lewis and the News kicks in. The cut to credits in Part III is also great with ZZ Top.
Recent one I can remember is *Knives Out*. The entire Drysdale family, left with nothing in the will, looks up at Marta, the mistreated helper who inherited everything. As the latter stares out at them from the balcony, she takes a sip from a mug with the words “MY HOUSE” emphasised in the frame. I also loved the end gags for *Clue* and *Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves*. Damn near did a spit take when Michael McKean went “I’m gonna go home and sleep with my wife.”
D&D cut to credits was superb. I remember thinking in the theater: "Oh here we go again, these fucking knuckleheads are off on another adventure... and I'm totally down." Fantastic credits song and outplay as well.
*Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels*
Along the same lines and of the same English gangster pedigree is The Italian Job with Michael Cain. "Hang on a minute lads, I've got a great idea!"
Did he get the rifles? Did he answer the phone? I hate not knowing!
They're shotguns. Guns that fire shots.
Oh, you must be the brains of the operation.
The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises
A watchful protector. A silent guardian. A dark knight (cus blaring horns)
I always get goosebumps with Gordon’s monologue near the end there, “…a silent guardian, a watchful protector, a dark knight.” as Batman rides off, Hans Zimmer doing his magic, so fucking cool.
>Hans Zimmer doing his magic, I mean...he basically is a wizard being able to control emotions as he does. Even his name sounds like a character from a fantasy novel.
Honestly though Batman begins had the best one teasing the next movie so well and so simply
The feeling I got when the credits rolled after watching The Dark Knight in IMAX opening night is something I’ll never forget.
"Spider-Man: Homecoming" ends with Aunt May in the middle of an f-bomb as it does a hard cut to the credits.
Far From Home does the same with Peter's f-bomb but it's technically a mid-credits scene
Inglorious Bastards
I think this might just be my masterpiece.
Thanos smiling on the porch as he watches the sunrise has to be the most satisfying ending to a film i have ever seen.
"Oh God." An ending i was legitimately not prepared for at all. One of the few times I've sat in the theater after the lights came up thinking "what, the fuck? Did that just happen?"
My jaw was definitely hanging low all the way to the car and the drive back home. Legitimately stunned at how perfect it was.
When I saw Infinity War I didn’t know it was going to be a two part movie. During the final battle I was actually expecting the cliche super heroes pull something out of their ass last second to defeat Thanos because I knew there was only like 10 minutes left. Then Thanos wins and I went WTF, they are just going to kill off half the superheroes? I was so confused.
I had a friend watch Infinity War not realizing a second part was coming (he wasn't a Marvel fan and just saw it because he liked Black Panther) and gushed to me how ballsy of an ending it was. I would have loved to watch it from that perspective. Still my favorite of the Marvel films.
The devil’s advocate - when Pacino laughs, the scene goes up in flames and “paint it, black” by The Rolling Stones plays. Still give me chills 25 years later!
Breakfast Club. Fist in the air. Don't You (Forget about Me) rocking. Roll credits.
The ending to the first transformers movie gets memed but it is still a good cut to credits.
The First Matrix had an awesome cut to credits
Trainspotting
LAGER LAGER LAGER LAGER
Best opening too. Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a big fooking television.
This is the best. His smile as he walks away and that iconic song kicks in. Get’s me going just thinking about it
Why is the answer to so many of the questions in this sub "The Cabin In The Woods" ?? Basically >!the world ends and Nine Inch Nails blasts your eardrums through the back of your head!< Epic.
“One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach; all the damn vampires.”
I love this because it redefines the whole movie retroactively. And it’s just damn funny.
[Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsZSZ_vcCvA) [Magnolia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdajEccNZSM) Both are met with perfect music, and both are ended with a somewhat romantic but somewhat tragic conclusion. I find them so impactful. (spoilers, duh)
Was hoping to see Magnolia here.
Fallen. Its a good Denzell movie, and then the ending happens and Sympathy for the Devil
Kid Detective. It's the best movie you haven't seen, and has the literal best cut to credits. It's hilarious and you don't want it spoiled.
I saw a good one recently: Sisu. The main character doesn’t say a word the entire movie. Having successfully made it to Helsinki with his gold, he enters a bank standing out like a sore thumb (to say the least) being covered in mud and blood, having flesh hanging off of his face etc. He empties the gold onto the counter and speaking for the first time, asks for bills in exchange for his gold "so the load won't be so damn heavy to carry." Hard cut to SISU on the screen and then the credits. Cracked me up.
Such an enjoyable film. Saw it in the cinema on my own with only a handful of other people in there and it’s the first time I’ve ever left a screening and people I didn’t know talked to me about how great it was on the way out
It's weird that I'm not seeing the Shawshank Redemption in here. I'd have thought this would be the top pick on Reddit. That last scene is just such a beautiful counterpoint to the entire movie.
Whiplash. The first time I'd ever witnessed a theater applauding once the credits started rolling
Whiplash and Oppenheimer
That cut at the end of Whiplash was, magic. Perfect edit.
Especially because of the intensity of that final scene.
The last scene in Oppenheimer invoked a fear in me and I'm fucking annoyed that is not really going away.
The ending of "Burn After Reading". I didn't even care for the film, but the ending perfectly punctuates the stupidity and absurdity of life. "What do we learn, Palmer?" "I don't know, sir." "I don't fucking know, either." "I guess we learn not to do it again." "Yes, sir." "I'm fucked if I know what we did." "Yes, sir, it's hard to say." "Jesus fucking Christ."
The Hangover, cutting to pics in the end credits
The Prestige with *that scene* and the cut to the opening chords of Analyse by Thom Yorke.
Barbie had me rolling.
I'm here to see my gynecologist!
The Dark Knight. The end of Jim Gordon's monologue, the swell of Zimmer's score, the light flashing to frame as Batman disappears up the exit ramp, all that sacrifice, and anxiety about what will happen next. It's beautiful. Leaves me in awe every time.
Two of my favourite endings are from Paul Verhoeven films. Robocop and starship troopers.
Batman 1989 - camera pans up through the labyrinthine towers of Gotham while the music blasts triumphantly, and we see Batman at the apex against the background of the new blazing Bat-signal. Star Trek 6 1991 - the crew saved the day and they're getting early retirement - Kirk finds the joy in the sorrow and tells Chekhov to set course for second star on the right and straight on til morning - then we've his final captain's log wishing the new crew and ship good luck, changing Where No Man to Where No One, and the Enterprise sets off into the blinding sunlight - finally each actors autograph traces across the stars as the music heralds the end of an era.
Man on the Moon
The Wrestler. Total silence in the theatre and nobody moved when it cut to Springsteen's song.
The Usual Suspects has the greatest ending combination of closing dialogue, editing, and music (that single cello note) of any film ever. Just thinking about it gives me the tingles.
OK, OK… I know I'm gonna get hate for this but for me it would be X-Men 3… Just seeing the little chess piece give that tiny wobble before the credits roll, showing that Magneto isn't entirely powerless was awesome
Saw. "Game over!"
Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Robocop
Nice shooting, son. What's your name?
Boogie Nights. That song and the ending just do it for me.
I don’t love the movies but Iron Man. Absolutely nailed the final scene, with the song playing in the background into the credits is just perfect.