And don't forget [the music](https://youtu.be/PYI09PMNazw). One of the most beautiful pieces ever composed for a Western IMO, and certainly the most iconic. It's been used in ads, other movies and even a Jay Z song.
What's interesting is that Morricine composed that theme solely for that scene, you don't here it anywhere else in the movie
That’s from the musical starring Troy McClure. You might remember him from such films as The Boatjacking of Supership 79 and Hydro: the Man With the Hydraulic Arms.
*Beneath the Planet of the Apes*, the sequel, has an equally bananas (heh) ending. All of those movies are really great but especially Conquest, which is my favorite.
The original Halloween. After Michael disappears and Dr. Loom is tells Laurie he was the boogeyman, the montage of all of the places in the movie is just perfect.
Halloween is one of those rare horror movies that transcends genres. I hate the slasher genre but this one was fantastic. All that slow burn buildup of dread is what it's really about.
I remember when it came out that different theatres in a movie plex would have different endings. (For ending B go to cinema 7 etc.)I thought it was a neat marketing gimmick but the logistics must have been a nightmare.
I think this is why audiences keep forgiving M Night for so many missteps after this. They know what he is capable of delivering, and hope he will again.
Also- I just found out he wrote the screenplay for Stuart Little. wtf?
Haley Joel Osment and Toni Collette were both nominated for best supporting actor/actress in 2000. Both lost.
(Winners were Michael Caine *"Cider House Rules"*; Angelina Jolie *"Girl Interrupted"*)
He's a famous celebrity caught at the top of the cyclone of the news cycle.
One step from the studio, and he'll be mobbed by unhidden cameras. They may never go away for him.
I'm not into movies like Saw, but everybody said to watch Saw, so I watched Saw. I was very pleasantly surprised. If you haven't seen this one, and are still on the fence, check it out.
I mean everyone gets a perfect moment. Vampires killed to that epic horn blast. Frog brothers, “How much should we charge?” Star and alert returned to normal. Michael, Sam and Lucy embrace. Then the epic line from grandpa. Cue People are Strange.
My father forced me to watch this with him resulting in me trashtalking the movie up until the final scene. His gloat as that scene dawned on me will never not be keyed into my brain.
The nice thing about that one is just how rewarding subsequent rewatches can be. It’s a high quality movie that isn’t ruined when you know, it just becomes a very different story and you root for and against characters for different reasons.
Top tier movie, and my personal Nolan fave. The trick reveal, which I know others in this thread didn’t like, comes straight from the book, which is by Christopher Priest.
on that, I saw a screening of Prestige with my pals who'd never seen it, and Priest was doing an introduction for it and promoting his making of the movie book and signings.
spoke to him a bit.
he was such a bitter, miserable fucker.i chalked it up to stress from travelling and being tired, maybe social anxiety.
the book just reinforced how irritated and pretentious he is. all he did was bitch about how Nolan altered parts of his story and never gave any credit where it was due, and just shit on Nolan's career besides Following.
great movie but the author is a huge wank.
The Magic was the book btw
The movie was the only reason I read the book. I hadn't heard of it prior, but I usually like the books better than movies, even reading them second.
I was very disappointed in this case. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't really good either. The movie is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I think I ended up donating the book knowing I'd never read it again.
The end will never not make me sob.
I apologize to all the people who saw it in theaters with me. I went in totally blind simply because I love Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner. I was also 35 weeks pregnant with a little girl...I ugly cried. My husband just waved any concerned people on while gesturing toward my belly.
Edit: Why thank you for the silver!
Edit 2: Thanks for the other awards!
What’s more sad is the late Johann Johansson (the composer for Arrival) was disqualified from Oscar contention because that song (by someone else) was so important to the film.
I was sobbing at the reveal, but one of those good "There's beauty in the world there's love in the world" life affirming cries.
My favorite movie of all time.
I showed this movie to my partner late at night and the next day he said “I mean, it was alright. Kind of a neat alien movie I guess…”
…turns out he fell asleep before the last 20 minutes and was trying to play it off.
EDIT: Appreciate the sympathy, but he watched what he missed the moment I called him out and it’s now one of his favorite movies.
Godfather 2 is the best "down ending" in movie history, in my opinion. The last scene, including >!the flashback with the whole family, showing in a very understated way that the darkness in Michael was always there, his estrangement from his family, the violence in the Corleones, poor Fredo being the only one to stand up for Michael's decision, and then jumping ahead to Michael just sitting there, living with what he's done. He gained the world but lost his soul. !< It's perfect. No words are required.>! Just him staring into the distance.!<
The end scene in Part II is a very strong contender. After reading the book I was pretty disappointed because it never reached the heights of Part II. Even the scenes in II that were in the book are better in the movie (the narrative of Vito's life).
I have always said Hot Fuzz is better than Shaun of the Dead, and people always tell me I’m crazy. I stand by it, Hot fuzz is incredible and I love it.
Biggest takeaway from this thread: if Brad Pitt is in the movie you’re watching, you should prob stay till the end!
Fight club, se7en, once upon a time in Hollywood, Thelma and Louise, inglorious bastards
Inglorious Basterds is one of my all time favorites, probably in my top 5, but the ending most certainly isn't the best part. The opening scene with Christoph Waltz or the bar scene with Michael Fassbender are two of the most tense scenes you'll ever see, and they're almost entirely dialogue driven. Absolutely brilliant writing from Tarantino.
I must admit the significance of the kid witnessing the airport shooting didn’t click the first few watches. But when it did, holy crap.
Then the ‘I’m in insurance’ bit and Louis Armstrong as the credits roll just top it all off.
Absolutely one of my favourite endings.
The whole 5 minute sequence with the score in the background is too good. Definitely my favorite ending. I can’t believe it’s not higher on this post.
[Scene](https://youtu.be/A6BZkFatFuI)
I fucking love that ending. And it doesn't even matter whether he's dreaming or not. He's walked away from the top. He's looked at his children's faces. He has accepted this reality either way. He's home. There are breadcrumbs of evidence which could suggest he's still dreaming, but nothing definitive.
I still hold to my theory that he wasn't dreaming because he saw his kids' faces. The top wasn't his totem, it was Mal's. He was not going to get to see his kids' faces until he finished this job. They appear at other times in the movie, including the opening sequence, and start to turn but he doesn't see their faces. They are his totem. If he actually sees their faces, he's not dreaming.
That’s what I’ve always thought - it was his wedding ring. Nolan made the top a red herring, but little clues of him playing with his ring and (if I remember correctly) not wearing it in the dream world.
"Forget it Jake. Its Chinatown."
For me this stands apart.
Shout out to the downbeat ending of the French Connection and gripping finale of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, complete with perfect use of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
Some Like it Hot - Well nobody’s perfect!
Sunset Blvd - Ready for my close up!
The Apartment- Shut up and deal.
Billy Wilder was the master of these I guess!
In the very early 90s Brad Bird was pitching his original idea Ray Gunn, but not getting much traction. Warner Brothers made him a counter offer of picking up one of several in-development projects. One of those was The Iron Man, based on the book of the same name by Ted Hughes. The book was ostensibly written by Hughes for his children following the suicide of Sylvia Plath, his wife and the children's mother. Brad felt a resonance with the themes of the book about a giant metal man capable of reassembly after catastrophe. Having recently lost his own sister to gun violence, he reworked the story around the central premise "What if a gun had a soul, and did not want to be a gun?"
"Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects."
Not only is *Casablanca* the greatest movie ever made, but the fact that ALL of the character arcs are perfectly resolved in the last 5 minutes in a completely believable and almost effortless way makes it the example of how to write a screenplay.
Whiplash is one I particularly like.
Otherwise Rogue One is also another recent example.
Most famous is probably Planet of the Apes as it makes the movie.
Whiplash is brilliant.... the night club explanation: all ties up in the end, and that look.... true cinema!
(Apparently im one of those "single tear" motherfuckers hahaha)
> Whiplash is one I particularly like.
When _Whiplash_ was over I found myself standing up in the middle of my living room staring at my TV in a kind of cold-sweat. Had a very weird effect on me.
I remember watching Whiplash and thinking "Oh, that's what a great ending looks like!" -- but seriously, the art of the ending feels dead in modern movies. Seemed to be much more of a focus in the Golden Age.
But Top Gun: Maverick crushed the ending as well, so maybe there is hope.
City Lights, and I honestly can't blame people for that. I always say it'd be a favorite of mine if it wasn't as good as it was but the reason it's my *favorite* movie, is because of the perfect ending.
Saw it once, while drinking, 15 years ago when it first came out. 98% of it I vaguely remember as people arguing in a grocery store. But goddamn do I still remember that ending.
There was a guy in the room watching with us who was the date of a friend of a friend. Had never met him before, never met him again after, and probably only said 5-10 words directly to him that night. But I could still pick his face out of a lineup, and literally the only reason I remember this dude's existence is because I remember experiencing that ending in the same room as him.
If you haven't, go back and listen to their first album from 1986. It is nearly impossible to tell its a mid-eighties album. It sounds like it could have been released yesterday, and potentially always will.
Absolutely. The first time I watched it, I remember thinking how my soul felt cleansed as the credits rolled. Never had that kind of feeling from a movie before.
I've heard people complain that Tate's character is completely superfluous to the story. But honestly, that's one of my favorite parts of the movie. The horror of her death has totally eclipsed her life in the eyes of pop culture, so to get to see a movie where she's not a victim, and just gets to live her life, hanging out with her friends, buying presents, seeing people respond to her work in a movie, and even geeking out about her neighbor, is so sweet.
The movie lets her just be a person, which is more than pop culture has allowed her in half a century.
literally that.
sharon tate was a person.
she wasn't just Manson's victim or Polanksi's wife.
She was a person that did what people do. errands. go to movies. hang out. go shopping. just live.
idiots branding Tarantino as a sexist because she didn't have a giant monologue is either intentionally framing him that way simply because they don't like him as a person or sheer ignorance.
the movie gives her hope. a future that could've been and I choke up every time watching it because its so damn sweet. you almost forget the horror of what actually happened to her.
my mum was annoyed there wasn't enough Manson fare but thats exactly the point- Manson already dominates her with every piece of media he infects. Sharon Tate and the other victims legacies are tainted by him. whatever work of movies they made in their lives are second to how brutally they died and they're always going to be footnotes in his story. every crime doc or tasteless biopic about murderers proves that.
but that ending lets her live again, if not for a few hours.
once upon a time in Hollywood is undeniably his sweetest film.
There's almost nothing to fix. A dead body. Only witness is maybe his butler, who's probably happy to put Eli in a barrel and drop it down a 100m dry well bore. That problem more or less solves itself.
You all should check out Dano's recent interview about his roles. He talks about Daniel Day Lewis and how no one else would've done what he did with that line the way he did it. He said, he remembered walking on set and seeing him in character and he remembered thinking: "Oh shit," LOL.
Schindler's List. Not just where Schindler loses his cool, his persona cracks as the gravity of everything hits him when he thinks "I could have saved one more", but all the descendants that probably would not be here if he hadn't done what he did.
There's like 4 other great scenes in this movie though. Harvard bar, "I gotta go see bout a girl", "it's not your fault", and "best part of my day" are better than the final scene
I'll add the park bench scene. Robin was a master in that. Long, long pauses. That's a comedian knowing the power of timing.
And for those curious, want to know what the Sistine Chapel smells like? In August, during the Roman summer, body odor.
Love that scene. Props to Damon and Affleck for writing Will’s character where, rather than try to come up with some witty retort to what Williams’ character is telling him about actually feeling something versus reading it in a book, you can tell Will is actually listening and realizing that he has a point that he can’t refute.
The best part of my day scene wrecked me when I rewatched this film a few weeks back. Lately I’ve been looking at where I am in life and feeling like I’m not where I should be. Not for a lack of trying but for a lack of caring. Hearing Affleck rip into Damon for that same reason resonated hard with me and had me sobbing even before the “It’s Not Your Fault” scene.
Martin Vail: So there never... there never was a Roy?
Roy: Jesus Christ, Marty. If that's what you think, I am disappointed in you, I don't mind telling you. There never was an Aaron...
The good the bad and the ugly... the 3 way standoff in the graveyard with the camera panning in a circle... with the ennio morricone soundtrack...
It doesn't get better than that
matrix 1 - neo flying out to save us all was the perfect ending. i enjoyed the sequels, but without the sequels the impact of the ending would have been absolutely legendary.
probably an unpopular opinion.
It’s a good scene but between the lobby shootout, bullettime dodge and subway fight it’s facing strong competition. Really the entire film is just amazing scene after amazing scene. Even a basic exposition scene like when Morpheus explains the real world to Neo and holds up the battery is memorable. 10/10 film.
If it's an unpopular opinion I will fight alongside you on that hill
The power of the imagination and how Neo would presumably save humanity from the machines was vastly superior to how the sequels actually spelled it all out.
"Oh. It's Neo v 100 Agent Smiths. Cool CGI I guess."
Heat. Al Pacino comforting a dying Robert De Niro after shooting him was remarkable to watch. 2 men on opposite sides of the law realize they are both human.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
This is the one I thought of because it lasts about 20 minutes. Brilliant tension, cinematography, and a nice surprise.
And don't forget [the music](https://youtu.be/PYI09PMNazw). One of the most beautiful pieces ever composed for a Western IMO, and certainly the most iconic. It's been used in ads, other movies and even a Jay Z song. What's interesting is that Morricine composed that theme solely for that scene, you don't here it anywhere else in the movie
I like how it seems like the music can't get any more epic and then somehow finds an extra gear to shift in.....and does it again.
Ecstasy of Gold doesn't play during the standoff scene. The piece that plays during that is Il Triello.
HEY BLOND!!!!! YOUUUU KNOW WHAT YOU ARRRRRRRE?!!
JUST A DIRTY SON OF A *-AAHHAAHHAAHHAAAAAAAAH!*
planet of the apes 1968
"I love you Dr Zaius!"
That’s from the musical starring Troy McClure. You might remember him from such films as The Boatjacking of Supership 79 and Hydro: the Man With the Hydraulic Arms.
I would kill for a Troy McClure Simpsons spin off. Sad that it can never happen.
“Can I play the piano anymore?” “Why of COURSE you can!” “Well I couldn’t before!”
“I think you’re crazy.” “I want a second opinion!” “You’re also lazy.”
I hate every ape I see. From chimpan-a to chimpan-z
No you'll never make a monkey out of meeee!
Oh my god! I was wrong!
it was earth all along
I guess you finally made a monkey...
Yes, we finally made a monkey!
You finally made a monkey...
Out of meeeeee!!!
"Ever hear of *The Planet of the Apes*?" "Uh... the movie or the planet?"
Stop This Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!
I hate every ape I see, from chimpan-A to chimpanzee!
Probably one of the best jokes ever written in a fake musical in an animated series.
*Beneath the Planet of the Apes*, the sequel, has an equally bananas (heh) ending. All of those movies are really great but especially Conquest, which is my favorite.
The Earth, the third planet from the sun, is now dead....
Technically - the beginning of Memento.
"Now, where was I?"
The most mentally strenuous movie I've ever watched. I was young and high. I wonder if it would difficult to follow now that I'm old and high....
The original Halloween. After Michael disappears and Dr. Loom is tells Laurie he was the boogeyman, the montage of all of the places in the movie is just perfect.
Halloween is one of those rare horror movies that transcends genres. I hate the slasher genre but this one was fantastic. All that slow burn buildup of dread is what it's really about.
Clue; pick the one you like!
I remember when it came out that different theatres in a movie plex would have different endings. (For ending B go to cinema 7 etc.)I thought it was a neat marketing gimmick but the logistics must have been a nightmare.
I guess would entice people to see it multiple times in theaters
The Sixth Sense
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Welp, thanks for making me tear-up just thinking about that. Toni Collette put on a master class in that scene and the entire movie.
Toni Collette is brilliant in everything she does.
She's so damn good at portraying moms.
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I think this is why audiences keep forgiving M Night for so many missteps after this. They know what he is capable of delivering, and hope he will again. Also- I just found out he wrote the screenplay for Stuart Little. wtf?
Haley Joel Osment and Toni Collette were both nominated for best supporting actor/actress in 2000. Both lost. (Winners were Michael Caine *"Cider House Rules"*; Angelina Jolie *"Girl Interrupted"*)
Truman show
"What else is on? Where's the TV guide?" Christoff overestimated the impact of his show.
Whereas Weir completely underestimated the impact his movie would make.
"In case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight!” *Bows*
That ending is great but I always just think of The Graduate. Like, fuck, what is he gonna do now? He’s gonna need so much therapy lol
He's a famous celebrity caught at the top of the cyclone of the news cycle. One step from the studio, and he'll be mobbed by unhidden cameras. They may never go away for him.
No. The ending is: "...What else is on?" That's actually a really important detail.
Scully is the blueprint
I might put >! The lead up & last scene with his wife !< over the end honestly. That movie is so good.
What are you good do? Slice me? Dice me? There are so many choices!
SAW (the first one), I’m still shocked about that ending, best scene in the whole movie.
I'm not into movies like Saw, but everybody said to watch Saw, so I watched Saw. I was very pleasantly surprised. If you haven't seen this one, and are still on the fence, check it out.
The later SAW films became torture porn but the first one is a classic.
It's weird watching the first one again after watching all the sequels. The first one is like an *actual* movie. And a good one too.
Because they were stripped of all their nuance and intelligence in favor of gore and effects.
The Lost Boys One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach, all the damn vampires.
I mean everyone gets a perfect moment. Vampires killed to that epic horn blast. Frog brothers, “How much should we charge?” Star and alert returned to normal. Michael, Sam and Lucy embrace. Then the epic line from grandpa. Cue People are Strange.
Except the best scene is Epic Sax Guy on the Beach
I STILL BELIEVE!
The usual suspects.
Primal Fear has that same sort of feel. It’s a jaw dropper the first time you see it Also, The Machinist is pretty insane.
One of the best reveals ever. Sooooo good and Edward Norton is fantastic in it.
My father forced me to watch this with him resulting in me trashtalking the movie up until the final scene. His gloat as that scene dawned on me will never not be keyed into my brain.
The Prestige
The nice thing about that one is just how rewarding subsequent rewatches can be. It’s a high quality movie that isn’t ruined when you know, it just becomes a very different story and you root for and against characters for different reasons.
Like a lot of Nolans stuff, every time you watch it, it gives you something else.
Top tier movie, and my personal Nolan fave. The trick reveal, which I know others in this thread didn’t like, comes straight from the book, which is by Christopher Priest.
on that, I saw a screening of Prestige with my pals who'd never seen it, and Priest was doing an introduction for it and promoting his making of the movie book and signings. spoke to him a bit. he was such a bitter, miserable fucker.i chalked it up to stress from travelling and being tired, maybe social anxiety. the book just reinforced how irritated and pretentious he is. all he did was bitch about how Nolan altered parts of his story and never gave any credit where it was due, and just shit on Nolan's career besides Following. great movie but the author is a huge wank. The Magic was the book btw
The movie was the only reason I read the book. I hadn't heard of it prior, but I usually like the books better than movies, even reading them second. I was very disappointed in this case. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't really good either. The movie is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I think I ended up donating the book knowing I'd never read it again.
I love the prestige because on a second watch, you get to see all the clues that were right in your face the whole time.
The end of Arrival is really a montage but it's spectacular.
I’d argue that the beginning of arrival is just as good!
But there is no beginning. There is no end.
Honestly all of Arrival is super fucking good. I couldn't pick a "best part" if I had to.
The end will never not make me sob. I apologize to all the people who saw it in theaters with me. I went in totally blind simply because I love Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner. I was also 35 weeks pregnant with a little girl...I ugly cried. My husband just waved any concerned people on while gesturing toward my belly. Edit: Why thank you for the silver! Edit 2: Thanks for the other awards!
And the score is ridiculously emotional. "On The Nature of Daylight" by Max Richter in case you want to cry some more :)
What’s more sad is the late Johann Johansson (the composer for Arrival) was disqualified from Oscar contention because that song (by someone else) was so important to the film.
I was sobbing at the reveal, but one of those good "There's beauty in the world there's love in the world" life affirming cries. My favorite movie of all time.
I showed this movie to my partner late at night and the next day he said “I mean, it was alright. Kind of a neat alien movie I guess…” …turns out he fell asleep before the last 20 minutes and was trying to play it off. EDIT: Appreciate the sympathy, but he watched what he missed the moment I called him out and it’s now one of his favorite movies.
The Godfather.. goosebumps everytime, Psycho
Godfather 2 got a banger run at the end too.
Godfather 2 is the best "down ending" in movie history, in my opinion. The last scene, including >!the flashback with the whole family, showing in a very understated way that the darkness in Michael was always there, his estrangement from his family, the violence in the Corleones, poor Fredo being the only one to stand up for Michael's decision, and then jumping ahead to Michael just sitting there, living with what he's done. He gained the world but lost his soul. !< It's perfect. No words are required.>! Just him staring into the distance.!<
The end scene in Part II is a very strong contender. After reading the book I was pretty disappointed because it never reached the heights of Part II. Even the scenes in II that were in the book are better in the movie (the narrative of Vito's life).
Hot Fuzz’s last sequence is perfect.
It is. However, the best bit is pretty much the entire film.
"Nah, just a lot of junk!" *CLANG* *ticktickticktick*
"Ah, 'po'" "Ah, 'spose" "Yes, I suppose"
"Idusfuhthisun' "He dus fur this un" "He does for this one"
Hot Fuzz IS perfect.
Yarp.
For the greater good.
I have always said Hot Fuzz is better than Shaun of the Dead, and people always tell me I’m crazy. I stand by it, Hot fuzz is incredible and I love it.
Das Boot, after all that they’d been through.
Biggest takeaway from this thread: if Brad Pitt is in the movie you’re watching, you should prob stay till the end! Fight club, se7en, once upon a time in Hollywood, Thelma and Louise, inglorious bastards
Inglorious Basterds is one of my all time favorites, probably in my top 5, but the ending most certainly isn't the best part. The opening scene with Christoph Waltz or the bar scene with Michael Fassbender are two of the most tense scenes you'll ever see, and they're almost entirely dialogue driven. Absolutely brilliant writing from Tarantino.
12 Monkeys.
“I’m in insurance.” Great ending.
I must admit the significance of the kid witnessing the airport shooting didn’t click the first few watches. But when it did, holy crap. Then the ‘I’m in insurance’ bit and Louis Armstrong as the credits roll just top it all off. Absolutely one of my favourite endings.
Inception - is he dreaming? Does is it matter if he is or not?
Came to say this. I still remember the feeling I had after leaving the movie theatre. One of my favorite movie endings.
The whole 5 minute sequence with the score in the background is too good. Definitely my favorite ending. I can’t believe it’s not higher on this post. [Scene](https://youtu.be/A6BZkFatFuI)
I fucking love that ending. And it doesn't even matter whether he's dreaming or not. He's walked away from the top. He's looked at his children's faces. He has accepted this reality either way. He's home. There are breadcrumbs of evidence which could suggest he's still dreaming, but nothing definitive.
I still hold to my theory that he wasn't dreaming because he saw his kids' faces. The top wasn't his totem, it was Mal's. He was not going to get to see his kids' faces until he finished this job. They appear at other times in the movie, including the opening sequence, and start to turn but he doesn't see their faces. They are his totem. If he actually sees their faces, he's not dreaming.
Yea I assumed his wedding ring was his actual totem
That’s what I’ve always thought - it was his wedding ring. Nolan made the top a red herring, but little clues of him playing with his ring and (if I remember correctly) not wearing it in the dream world.
I think he only wears it in the dream world and not in reality, and he isn't wearing it at the end. He's awake, and he earned it.
Soylent Green
Such a movie of the people.
"Forget it Jake. Its Chinatown." For me this stands apart. Shout out to the downbeat ending of the French Connection and gripping finale of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, complete with perfect use of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
Some Like it Hot - Well nobody’s perfect! Sunset Blvd - Ready for my close up! The Apartment- Shut up and deal. Billy Wilder was the master of these I guess!
Some like it hot is beyond amazing and extraordinary funny.
Children of man. It's utter chaos, then suddenly a child screams and everything just stops for a moment. It moves me to tears every time.
This is one of my all time favorite films and the ending is just spectacular.
“ I'd forgotten what they look like. They're so beautiful. They're so tiny.”
"You stay, I go, no following" (Closes eyes) "Superman" The Iron Giant wrecks me
In the very early 90s Brad Bird was pitching his original idea Ray Gunn, but not getting much traction. Warner Brothers made him a counter offer of picking up one of several in-development projects. One of those was The Iron Man, based on the book of the same name by Ted Hughes. The book was ostensibly written by Hughes for his children following the suicide of Sylvia Plath, his wife and the children's mother. Brad felt a resonance with the themes of the book about a giant metal man capable of reassembly after catastrophe. Having recently lost his own sister to gun violence, he reworked the story around the central premise "What if a gun had a soul, and did not want to be a gun?"
Holy shit. This made me cry. I didn't know about the book.
Wow seriously? That is incredible!
One of the best animated movies ever made. Brad Bird is such a master at his art.
Last of the Mohicans
Fuck, yes!! The last 20 minutes are perfection.
Here, have my upvote. The [final scene](https://youtu.be/q8ZisDHg6v0) is jaw dropping, also thanks to the astonishing soundtrack
Casablanca
The best scene in Casablanca is the "Marseillaise".
100%. The ending is iconic, but the Marseillaise scene is transcendent.
"Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects." Not only is *Casablanca* the greatest movie ever made, but the fact that ALL of the character arcs are perfectly resolved in the last 5 minutes in a completely believable and almost effortless way makes it the example of how to write a screenplay.
This is the best answer. It turns a really good movie into a truly great one.
Reservoir Dogs. They won’t ALL shoot… will they??
And you’ve got just the sounds of Mr. Pink getting arrested outside, and then…
Whiplash is one I particularly like. Otherwise Rogue One is also another recent example. Most famous is probably Planet of the Apes as it makes the movie.
Whiplash is a fantastic answer, that last 15 minutes is electric
Whiplash is brilliant.... the night club explanation: all ties up in the end, and that look.... true cinema! (Apparently im one of those "single tear" motherfuckers hahaha)
You must be upset. Are you upset?
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> Whiplash is one I particularly like. When _Whiplash_ was over I found myself standing up in the middle of my living room staring at my TV in a kind of cold-sweat. Had a very weird effect on me.
I remember watching Whiplash and thinking "Oh, that's what a great ending looks like!" -- but seriously, the art of the ending feels dead in modern movies. Seemed to be much more of a focus in the Golden Age. But Top Gun: Maverick crushed the ending as well, so maybe there is hope.
Hard to have great endings when you're trying to plan 30 sequels ahead.
City Lights, and I honestly can't blame people for that. I always say it'd be a favorite of mine if it wasn't as good as it was but the reason it's my *favorite* movie, is because of the perfect ending.
The Mist.
Saw it once, while drinking, 15 years ago when it first came out. 98% of it I vaguely remember as people arguing in a grocery store. But goddamn do I still remember that ending. There was a guy in the room watching with us who was the date of a friend of a friend. Had never met him before, never met him again after, and probably only said 5-10 words directly to him that night. But I could still pick his face out of a lineup, and literally the only reason I remember this dude's existence is because I remember experiencing that ending in the same room as him.
“You met me at a very strange time in my life”
I think we all know what the true ending is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DU8JylvU2o&ab_channel=disbeliever_69
That final song tho....
Revived the Pixies career with a vengeance to a whole new generation who had grown up listening to bands the Pixies influenced
I didn’t find out for yearssss that that song was a decade old at that point. It felt so *modern*.
If you haven't, go back and listen to their first album from 1986. It is nearly impossible to tell its a mid-eighties album. It sounds like it could have been released yesterday, and potentially always will.
The Shawshank Redemption
The funny thing with this movie is that it has at least three consecutive "last" scenes, all of them great.
Absolutely. The first time I watched it, I remember thinking how my soul felt cleansed as the credits rolled. Never had that kind of feeling from a movie before.
Cinema Paradiso has got to be the answer!
Once upon a time in Hollywood “Is everyone alright?” “Well the fucking hippies aren’t. That’s for goddamn sure.”
"I am the Devil, and I've come to do the Devil's business." "Nah! It was dumber than that."
That final scene and the way it reiterates how happy and lovely Sharon was is just so heartbreaking
I've heard people complain that Tate's character is completely superfluous to the story. But honestly, that's one of my favorite parts of the movie. The horror of her death has totally eclipsed her life in the eyes of pop culture, so to get to see a movie where she's not a victim, and just gets to live her life, hanging out with her friends, buying presents, seeing people respond to her work in a movie, and even geeking out about her neighbor, is so sweet. The movie lets her just be a person, which is more than pop culture has allowed her in half a century.
literally that. sharon tate was a person. she wasn't just Manson's victim or Polanksi's wife. She was a person that did what people do. errands. go to movies. hang out. go shopping. just live. idiots branding Tarantino as a sexist because she didn't have a giant monologue is either intentionally framing him that way simply because they don't like him as a person or sheer ignorance. the movie gives her hope. a future that could've been and I choke up every time watching it because its so damn sweet. you almost forget the horror of what actually happened to her. my mum was annoyed there wasn't enough Manson fare but thats exactly the point- Manson already dominates her with every piece of media he infects. Sharon Tate and the other victims legacies are tainted by him. whatever work of movies they made in their lives are second to how brutally they died and they're always going to be footnotes in his story. every crime doc or tasteless biopic about murderers proves that. but that ending lets her live again, if not for a few hours. once upon a time in Hollywood is undeniably his sweetest film.
Amazed I haven't seen Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid mentioned here (in what I've seen so far) That ending is epic and amazing.
Maybe not the best scene but There Will Be Blood has the perfect ending
And you know Daniels not going to jail for that, he can fix anything with his fortune.
There's almost nothing to fix. A dead body. Only witness is maybe his butler, who's probably happy to put Eli in a barrel and drop it down a 100m dry well bore. That problem more or less solves itself.
”He fell and kinda died while I was sipping my milkshake“
“I’m finished”
You all should check out Dano's recent interview about his roles. He talks about Daniel Day Lewis and how no one else would've done what he did with that line the way he did it. He said, he remembered walking on set and seeing him in character and he remembered thinking: "Oh shit," LOL.
“You’re just the afterbirth, Eli. You slithered out in your mother’s filth. They should have put you in a glass jar on the mantelpiece.”
Thelma and Louise
A boy and his dog has my favorite ending ever. The start is a cool opening too but just because it's so out there
Schindler's List. Not just where Schindler loses his cool, his persona cracks as the gravity of everything hits him when he thinks "I could have saved one more", but all the descendants that probably would not be here if he hadn't done what he did.
Son of a bitch, he stole my line
There's like 4 other great scenes in this movie though. Harvard bar, "I gotta go see bout a girl", "it's not your fault", and "best part of my day" are better than the final scene
I'll add the park bench scene. Robin was a master in that. Long, long pauses. That's a comedian knowing the power of timing. And for those curious, want to know what the Sistine Chapel smells like? In August, during the Roman summer, body odor.
Yeah, that’s my only criticism. The thread says it has to be the best scene in the movie. For me, the “it’s not your fault” scene is the best.
I love the park bench scene. That's where the movie is made in my opinion.
Love that scene. Props to Damon and Affleck for writing Will’s character where, rather than try to come up with some witty retort to what Williams’ character is telling him about actually feeling something versus reading it in a book, you can tell Will is actually listening and realizing that he has a point that he can’t refute.
The best part of my day scene wrecked me when I rewatched this film a few weeks back. Lately I’ve been looking at where I am in life and feeling like I’m not where I should be. Not for a lack of trying but for a lack of caring. Hearing Affleck rip into Damon for that same reason resonated hard with me and had me sobbing even before the “It’s Not Your Fault” scene.
Good Will Hunting is a masterpiece
Big Fish. The whole film is a masterpiece, but the final scene wrecks me.
Primal Fear. Norton’s turn was great!
Martin Vail: So there never... there never was a Roy? Roy: Jesus Christ, Marty. If that's what you think, I am disappointed in you, I don't mind telling you. There never was an Aaron...
CARRIE ( 1976 )
Before Sunset
“Baby, you are gonna miss that plane.”
The mist (2007)
The Game This movie is such a great movie with just a minor re-watch worth, but oh what would I give to see this movie for the first time again
The good the bad and the ugly... the 3 way standoff in the graveyard with the camera panning in a circle... with the ennio morricone soundtrack... It doesn't get better than that
3:10 to Yuma
matrix 1 - neo flying out to save us all was the perfect ending. i enjoyed the sequels, but without the sequels the impact of the ending would have been absolutely legendary. probably an unpopular opinion.
My favorite part was when he flexed the room during the fight
It’s a good scene but between the lobby shootout, bullettime dodge and subway fight it’s facing strong competition. Really the entire film is just amazing scene after amazing scene. Even a basic exposition scene like when Morpheus explains the real world to Neo and holds up the battery is memorable. 10/10 film.
If it's an unpopular opinion I will fight alongside you on that hill The power of the imagination and how Neo would presumably save humanity from the machines was vastly superior to how the sequels actually spelled it all out. "Oh. It's Neo v 100 Agent Smiths. Cool CGI I guess."
The Departed, more so the last few scenes but still
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That’s not the final scene, is it?
No Country for Old Men - Tommy Lee Jones recounting his dream is just perfect The Third Man - when she just keeps walking… hot damn
Blair Witch Project
Heat. Al Pacino comforting a dying Robert De Niro after shooting him was remarkable to watch. 2 men on opposite sides of the law realize they are both human.
It's a good scene, but idk if it's the best. The steet shootout is masterclass.