Reddit user @world_citizen7 recently asked: “What movie had such a bad ending that it ruined an otherwise good movie?“
Here are some of the best answers, and FYI, some posts have been edited for clarity!
Oh, and you should probably know that there are some spoilers ahead!
1.“Hancock. The first 2/3 was a not bad look at the idea of a being with superpowers who had no interest in being a superhero or villain. Then the movie took a 136 degree turn into some really weird tacked-on plot twists.”
2.“Signs. I mean, those aliens came billions of miles, conquered the whole planet in a blink of an eye, and didn’t realize they couldn’t handle water, one of the most common things on the planet? Same with War of the Worlds and a virus, both were nonsensical.”
3.“I remember at the end of Kingsman: The Secret Service, they make a big deal about this dude fucking a girl in the ass as his reward for saving her. It’s so awkward and they put so much focus on it. Totally unnecessary and yet I guess the writers, producers, and director fought for it to be in the final cut for some goddamn reason. Did they have a raunchy joke quota that they needed to fulfill?”
4.“Grease. Why does the car fly?”
5.“Unpopular opinion regarding a classic Hollywood film: My Fair Lady. I absolutely detested Henry Higgins, and when Eliza came back after he admits (only to himself) how important she is to him, he puts on his condescending act and demands she finds his slippers as she smiles at him. Yuck.”
6.“Now You See Me, it was great fun until the reveal, which makes even less sense the more you think about it.”
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7.“As a kid, I loved all the Oz books, where Oz was real. I never forgave the movie The Wizard of Oz for having it all turn out to be a dream. What was the point of it all then?”
8.“X-Men Origins: Wolverine. First two acts were good, the third act and the screwed up version of ‘Deadpool’ ruined the overall film.”
9.“Personally, for me it was Longlegs. I was so looking forward to it, and thought it was really good until the very ending.”
10.“Glass, dud ending to a decent trilogy. You can defeat Bruce Willis with a… puddle? There’s a secret organization that gets rid of people with powers? What?”
11.“The Lilo & Stitch remake going against the message of Ohana.”
12.“Joker: Folie à Deux. I was enjoying it (yes, even the musical parts) and wondering why everyone was hating on it. Then it got to the final act, and I understood.”
13.“Ocean’s 8. All these awesome, capable women, and you get a dude to come in at the end and do the actual stealing? And to top it off, you only get away with it because James Corden decides to look the other way? No thank you.”
14.“Yesterday. Not well known because the ending sucked so much it didn’t end up being popular, but it was that movie about the guy who wakes up one day and is the only one who remembers the Beatles. Such a creative premise, and it built a really interesting narrative, that then has the most boring, poorly-written, unsatisfying ending. Ruins the whole thing.”
15.“Interstellar totally flummoxed me on the romantic relationship at the end. They hated each other for the whole movie, and now they’re together because they are the highest-paid actor and actress on call, and the producers said the flick needs a romance or something?”
16.“Life of Pi. ‘Did it actually happen? Idk but it made for a cool story’ wtf no, don’t make me watch a whole movie then end it as if everything was made up.”
17.“Sinister’s ending and final act was so bad that it removed every ounce of rewatchability for me. It took away the unsettling tone of the tapes and it was just cringey seeing the kids in bad makeup dance around the house. Such a shame. It was a really good horror movie up until the reveal.”
18.“Source Code. Overturned the whole conceit of the movie for the sake of a happy ending.”
19.“Gravity. I was buying the whole movie, all the way, even as she splash landed in the lake. But after all she went through, to just get up and walk away ruined the whole thing. IMO it would have been a better movie if she would have died at the bottom of the lake cuz she couldn’t get out of her suit in time. At least that ending I could have respected.”
20.“I loved Conclave up until the end, it just seemed so unnecessary to add that to the story I guess. Like it served no real purpose to the story or anything. Just came out of nowhere.”
And finally:
21.“I’ve never been more pissed off at the ending of a movie than I was when I watched Promising Young Woman. That movie was super interesting and then it decided to end in the shittiest, most anticlimactic way possible, and before the credits even rolled all I could think was: ‘Well, this is the worst thing I’ve seen in years and I’ll never watch this shitty ass movie again.’ It was and I haven’t. Fuck that movie.”
Do you agree with these choices? Let me know the movies that you think were ruined by their ending in the comments below!