i'm lamestream but No Country For Old Men
― fuiud, mac (rip van wanko), Saturday, 9 December 2017 23:55 (six years ago) link
it's a little try-hard, faux deep, not believable, but still gets me every time
― fuiud, mac (rip van wanko), Saturday, 9 December 2017 23:59 (six years ago) link
Kubrick's The Killers is a good one.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 10 December 2017 00:15 (six years ago) link
Cache
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 December 2017 00:32 (six years ago) link
The James Woods movie Cop (based on a James Elroy novel) is mostly forgettable but has an incredible ending.
― omar little, Sunday, 10 December 2017 00:46 (six years ago) link
Agree on NCFOM!
Just watched Profession: Reporter and that definitely qualifies.
― glumdalclitch, Sunday, 10 December 2017 00:51 (six years ago) link
Land Before Time
― infinity (∞), Sunday, 10 December 2017 00:59 (six years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4f/7e/3c/4f7e3c89ce70e6533c6bc112ac2c8ce6.jpg
― devvvine, Sunday, 10 December 2017 01:04 (six years ago) link
cheese eating rat
― fuiud, mac (rip van wanko), Sunday, 10 December 2017 01:05 (six years ago) link
For Americans, that's The Passenger.
and Josh, it's The Killing.
obv 2001
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 December 2017 02:37 (six years ago) link
and Strangelove, Paths of Glory, and Barry Lyndon
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 December 2017 02:38 (six years ago) link
here to do my duty and say the third man but also
notoriousa serious manperfume: the story of a murdererdouble indemnity (don't much like this movie; LOVE "closer than that, walter")the godfather's good, always love a wipe.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 10 December 2017 02:49 (six years ago) link
and if morbs is listing every kubrick movie then fuck it, jack in the photograph IS deep
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 10 December 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link
I have a soft spot for endings that literalize the movie's title, a la There Will Be Blood and Drag Me To Hell.
― Oiled Launch (Old Lunch), Sunday, 10 December 2017 03:08 (six years ago) link
It is! I blame the phone. The Killers is the Burt Lancaster noir with two different versions, right?
The Conversation and Godfather II are both pretty great. The Searchers ... lots of great endings!
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 10 December 2017 03:40 (six years ago) link
The Bicycle Thief
― jmm, Sunday, 10 December 2017 03:55 (six years ago) link
The Vanishing is definitely the one I think about the most
― sciatica, Sunday, 10 December 2017 04:02 (six years ago) link
I love the ending of I Am Love, (not the mid-credits slow-motion shot of the two-of-them in the grotto), but when Tilda is seen stalking across the grounds through the window in the background, and bursts in the door, and then runs upstairs and the housekeeper is throwing clothes on the bed, and then bawling, and then Tilda's wearing something vaguely frumpy, and then she locks eyes with her secret lesbian daughter, and they clutch their hearts, and the camera runs out to where Tilda was standing a second before and turns and looks out the front door but she's gone
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 10 December 2017 04:06 (six years ago) link
vertigo is one of old lunch's if you assume his acrophobia was cured in the middle of the movie but has just come back
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 10 December 2017 04:07 (six years ago) link
xp Oh yeah and Harmonielehre blasting through the whole thing it's just great
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 10 December 2017 04:11 (six years ago) link
Agree about I Am Love!
Kubrick is kind of his own category here, but my choice in that category is Eyes Wide Shut, although the last shot of Barry Lyndon is great.
As for recent movies, the last few scenes of The Lost City of Z are gorgeous.
― ryan, Sunday, 10 December 2017 04:16 (six years ago) link
I love the ending gag of Sherlock Jr, Buster looking to the screen for cues on what to do in a final scene
Colonel Blimp, the military band getting louder and louder
― jmm, Sunday, 10 December 2017 04:21 (six years ago) link
The Third Man ftw.
― Monogo doesn't socialise (ledge), Sunday, 10 December 2017 11:38 (six years ago) link
https://dirkmalcolm.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/aguirre-the-wrath-of-god-1972.jpg
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 December 2017 11:41 (six years ago) link
I feel like I should say The Florida Project just for trolling, but instead I'll say the one that The Florida Project keeps reminding me of, which is Corneliu Porumboiu's The Treasure. Anyone seen that?
― Frederik B, Sunday, 10 December 2017 12:23 (six years ago) link
― straightedge is just volcel for vegans (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 10 December 2017 13:28 (six years ago) link
http://cdn-static.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeek/files/images/306529.jpg
― straightedge is just volcel for vegans (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 10 December 2017 13:29 (six years ago) link
The mist
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Sunday, 10 December 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fZIZ_60MfHA/TjjAjVFC89I/AAAAAAAABZ0/97lOGeWQFsk/s1600/Some%2BLike%2BIt%2BHot%2B9%2BEnding.jpg
― straightedge is just volcel for vegans (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 10 December 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
It seems unfair to say Stalker as that movie has the best everything else, just about, but Stalker
― imago, Sunday, 10 December 2017 13:49 (six years ago) link
And if we're shamelessly boosting our faves, best Bunuel closing scene is IMPOSSIBLE. Maybe slightly favour Fernando Rey going for the fridge
― imago, Sunday, 10 December 2017 13:52 (six years ago) link
Okay, bizarro, you've convinced me to finally give in to my sister's entreaties and watch Iron Giant over the holidays. Had no idea Donald Sutherland was even in it.
― Oiled Launch (Old Lunch), Sunday, 10 December 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link
And and the end of C&JGB. All the best films have the best endings. It's not fair. Will have to think of crap films with great endings now. Pierrot Le Fou is a good film with s great ending maybe
― imago, Sunday, 10 December 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link
The jerry Lewis film that ends with the set being dismantled
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Sunday, 10 December 2017 14:01 (six years ago) link
Dangerously close to Monty Python & the Holy Grail there wins
― imago, Sunday, 10 December 2017 14:01 (six years ago) link
And holy mountain! Lewis did it 1st tho
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Sunday, 10 December 2017 14:04 (six years ago) link
I did not know that!
― imago, Sunday, 10 December 2017 14:05 (six years ago) link
Fassbinder, "Fox and His Friends". Really life affirming that one <--- irony.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 December 2017 14:07 (six years ago) link
The mist yep dunno if the movie even earned it but
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 December 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
StroszekAll That Jazz
― methanietanner, Sunday, 10 December 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
Kiss Me Deadly (original ending)http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/images/directors/02/kissme2.jpg
― rb (soda), Sunday, 10 December 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
― straightedge is just volcel for vegans (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 10 December 2017 15:51 (six years ago) link
if memory serves, Lewis film is The Patsy
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 December 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
the Olsen & Johnson vehicle Crazy House, in which one of them does to the romantic leads what the Marx Bros would've liked to do.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 December 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
Another recent one: Personal Shopper!
― ryan, Sunday, 10 December 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
OrdetSunriseBlack MoonAll that Heaven Allows
― clouds, Sunday, 10 December 2017 17:37 (six years ago) link
videodrome
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 10 December 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
two animal related ones:
Umberto DAu Hasard Balthazar
― ryan, Sunday, 10 December 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
yeah I thought of poor old Balthazar
― imago, Sunday, 10 December 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
I think a lot of my favorite movies have something closer to a final movement (not quite an act) or series of scenes--rather than a discrete "final scene." 2001 is probably the paradigm for this.
― ryan, Sunday, 10 December 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
Minions - because I couldn't wait for that shit to be over!
― pplains, Sunday, 10 December 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
(Seriously. a second vote for All That Jazz.)
― pplains, Sunday, 10 December 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
3 Women
― Oiled Launch (Old Lunch), Sunday, 10 December 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
3 men and a baby
― infinity (∞), Sunday, 10 December 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
when Ted Danson masturbates in front of the baby, classic
― fuiud, mac (rip van wanko), Sunday, 10 December 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
I believe that was actually a cardboard cutout of Danson masturbating
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Sunday, 10 December 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
another Antonioni: L'eclisse
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 December 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
Nostalghia
― cajunsunday, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 12:47 (six years ago) link
I dont remember that scene fellas
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
aguirre otm
― marcos, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
Make Way for TomorrowKiss Me DeadlyThe 400 BlowsL'eclisseThe GodfatherMonty Python and the Holy GrailThe FuryInvasion of the Body SnatchersThe Last BolshevikEscape from L.A.DogvilleBefore SunsetBurn After ReadingA Serious ManDrag Me to Hell
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
Burn After Reading was a thought I had :)
― Cardi Acs (imago), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 17:08 (six years ago) link
A.I. Artificial Intelligence goes on the list too.
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/bVcPqyI.jpg
― Wes Brodicus, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 18:10 (six years ago) link
death in venice is a good one
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
This always struck me as better representing the morbid ideal of psycho rather than the super hokey scooby doo villain unmasking/explanation scenes before it.http://pics.imcdb.org/0is179/psychomarion2ndendkd8.3808.jpg
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
Lukas Moodysson has a knack for endingsFucking Åmal / Show Me Love ends with two girls, out of the closet in love for the first time, drinking chocolate milk together and gigglingTillsammans /Together is a family reunification that looks like this — http://www.michael-nyqvist.com/together7x.jpg
― rb (soda), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
I genuinely thought of Show Me Love!!
― Cardi Acs (imago), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
― flappy bird, Monday, 12 February 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
my all time favorite final scene / shot is Synecdoche, New York. it’s not even close. Was speechless & in a daze for an hour afterward. Shares something v important with the ending of Personal Shopper, a choice I’m surprised more filmmakers don’t use.
― flappy bird, Monday, 12 February 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
devil's backbone has a gd final scene/shot imo
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link
Clue
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
still think that was legitimately one of the coolest cinematic gimmicks ever pulled, shame something like that wouldn't work today
― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
The Purple Rose of Cairo is a proper gutpunch of an ending
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Monday, 26 February 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
Songs from the Second Floor has a great ending.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 February 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/-s-e799o37w
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 February 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link
First thought is The Third Man, but on second thought the goodbye to all that optimistic Americanism is a bit tired for my personal taste.
Wilder's endings are pretty, pretty good.
― Moo Vaughn, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
withnailaguirrecook thief wife lover (i am remembering the dinner procession as the last scene, if i'm wrong then strike this one)the devils
tp the return has trumped them all though. but it's not a movie.
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Monday, 26 February 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
xp i just watched Some Like It Hot for the first time last week & didn't know about the famous final line & started cackling to myself
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link