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Samovar posted:The ending of The Thick of It. There's a chance that one of the characters actually does a good thing... but then, he gets too scared to do it, and everyone ends up being broken shells of human beings, pretty much as has been indicated throughout the whole series. Whether they were like that at the beginning, though, or whether politics did it to them, I think is best summarised by Malcolm's last speech to Ollie. Damned if I can find it on youtube, tho. The inquiry episode was better than the finale though Malcolm's speech is excellent. I was watching Desperate Housewives with a pal recently and someone gives the "this job ruins you" speech but it fell flat for me because Capaldi is an animal in his one.
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Drunken Baker posted:Sorry for the derail. I've never seen a single episode of 'One Foot' but I'll have to go back and check it out now. Cheers. You didn't mention the part where the techie's camera keeps turning off and on in little snapshot clips as they scream in agony and their flesh visibly melts off which I think is interspersed between the credits? That hosed me up.
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Jun 14, 2016 16:10
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I was trying to forget...  
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Jun 14, 2016 16:35
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The one my "reflexologist" provides after I get my paycheck.
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Drunken Baker posted:Everyone who I've bullied into watching the film (It IS a hard sell without giving it away) has said they've never seen a film that has stuck with them more than this. So please, watch The Borderlands. Roro posted:You didn't mention the part where the techie's camera keeps turning off and on in little snapshot clips as they scream in agony and their flesh visibly melts off which I think is interspersed between the credits?
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english muffin posted:this...isn't the ending to The Mist short story/novella at all. Can you quote? quote:That is what happened. Or nearly all-there is one final thing I'll get to in a moment. But you mustn't expect some -neat conclusion. There is no And they escaped from the mist into the good sunshine of a new day; or When we awoke the National Guard had finally arrived; or even that great old standby: It was all a dream. It is, I suppose, what my father always frowningly called fan Alfred Hitchcock ending," by which he meant a conclusion in ambiguity that allowed the reader or viewer I to make up his own mind about how things ended. My father had nothing but contempt for such stories, saying they were "cheap shots." quote:I am going to leave these pages on the counter and perhaps someday someone will find them and read them. Darkhold has a new favorite as of 19:43 on Jun 14, 2016 |
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Three pages in, and nobody has posted the ending to Wizards? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cZqRzHnI8s Say what you will about the rest of the movie, but the climactic ending makes it all worthwhile
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Jun 14, 2016 20:07
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sticklefifer posted:Book-wise, I gotta go with "He loved Big Brother."
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Strudel Man posted:I really cannot understand why anyone would willingly subject themselves to anything like this. I was coerced into watching it by my sister, who thought the film sounded interesting. It was, in a gruesome way.
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Mother 3. It's nothing particularly special or unique in terms of what actually happens, but the writing and execution are just superb. (For what it's worth I'm mostly talking about the final 'battle' rather than the cutscenes after, if only because it's so much more memorable, though both bits of credits music are also ace.)
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Jun 23, 2016 08:16
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How has nobody mentioned Metal Gear Solid 3 yet?
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the ending to my life wherein i am shot down by the secret forces while trying to deliver a bad dragon dildo to the holy hole of godking trump
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Jun 23, 2016 11:27
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It was already mentioned but The Shield is by far my favorite ending out of TV shows/movies. It's very close to perfect, although I did feel a little bad for Mackey (just a little) - surely they could have put him to better use than that. Book endings: The ending of the Dark Tower series of books. I hated it the first time, but each time I reread the series I like the ending more and more. The only thing I didn't like is the bit where he warns you not to continue, it's insulting to the reader to say "most of you idiots won't get this or like this so it's not my fault if you read it and get mad"...either own it and trust that the readers will get it or don't write it at all.
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Oh yeah, while I'm gushing over parts of videos games that aren't technically the last cutscene but still the plot-heavy final bit of gameplay (and also great music), the last couple of court segments in the last case of Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations tie up the series so far wonderfully.
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Didn't he include that after tonnes of people got really pissed off at him though?
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EmmyOk posted:Didn't he include that after tonnes of people got really pissed off at him though? No, it was in the first editions. He was right though, the journey was the most important part of the story so the last but wasn't really that important. I still liked it though.
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Sorry do you mean the "don't read on" speech was in the first editions or the TRUE ending? I liked his true ending a lot.
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Both.
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Strudel Man posted:I really cannot understand why anyone would willingly subject themselves to anything like this. I can't either, but I chuckled at the ending in the original post then went on to wonder after reading the description of the credits did the Vatican send another specialist to sift through demon poo all Jurassic Park style to find the footage? I mean it *is* a miracle the footage survived to be found! Must be more impactful to watch than read, but it comes off like the backstory to an SCP entry. The subject of endings always brings me to an old MST3K episode where they pan "The Girl in Lover's Lane," a depressing but otherwise forgettable drifter film with "the most hollow uplifting ending" they'd viewed to date and potentially since. The MST3K staff were so bothered by how bad the film was the final host segment features the Bots coming up with their own endings. You don't have to accept an ending when it's poorly written and executed.
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I cried at the ending of Requiem for a Dream, and I always tear up a little when I think about it. Similar delusional heartbreaking ending: One Hour Photo
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Alabaster White posted:How has nobody mentioned Metal Gear Solid 3 yet? I still need to play it 
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Traffic Steven Bauer's character risks life and limb to go on the record as an ATF informant, just to give some kids a baseball field. liquorlanche has a new favorite as of 20:35 on Jun 23, 2016 |
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Drunken Baker posted:Everyone who I've bullied into watching the film (It IS a hard sell without giving it away) has said they've never seen a film that has stuck with them more than this. So please, watch The Borderlands. Eh, I thought it was kinda underwhelming. From descriptions such as yours I was expecting some big metaphysical mindfuck in the last act, but it turned out to be a pretty formulaic found footage movie. The big bad monster at the end was somewhat original I guess, but it just as well might have been ghosts, witches, aliens or really anything. Maybe I'm jaded, but there was nothing memorable about it for me.
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grate deceiver posted:Eh, I thought it was kinda underwhelming. From descriptions such as yours I was expecting some big metaphysical mindfuck in the last act, but it turned out to be a pretty formulaic found footage movie. The big bad monster at the end was somewhat original I guess, but it just as well might have been ghosts, witches, aliens or really anything. I felt the imagery of the ending was very memorable, but I'm a huge pussy so that might be why.
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Even though it is directed by a well known Hollywood paedophile, I love the ending of Jeepers Creepers. One of the best 'sad' endings of a movie I have seen. The woman is sitting at the police station the night after all the shenanigans took place. Her brother is dead, (the monster having taken his eyes), the fake mystic wise woman is dead, everyone who could corroborate her story of a monster stealing peoples body parts is dead, and she is waiting for her parents to show up and take her home. For me what makes it super awesome is that her parents are going to ask what happened, and she has to tell them, and everyone else, a story that nobody will believe. Also what is ace about that movie is throughout the film they don't know what the monster is, nor how to kill it, and they can only guess at what it wants. So this girl who survived, has no avenues or revenge, all she can do is know that a monster killed everyone she loved, and will again when it resurfaces in 20(?) years time
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I liked how Phineas and Ferb ended in the Flashforward episodes to events 10 and 25 years in the future. A lot of those kinds of shows eventually have the prodigy age into something pathetic, like in Dexter's Lab where he spends most of his 20s as an office drone working for Mandark and it's just like, what the hell heppened? But with P+F they never stop. The series recognises that the poo poo they do isn't just impressive for 10 year olds, but it is impressive period. Also they keep it up outside of the summer, they don't get boring just because they're in school, they do so well in school colleges around the world are fighting over them, then by their mid 30s Phineas is accepting an award in sweden while Ferb has gone to do his own thing. And it makes sense for these characters as their impressiveness is shown throughout the series as being one of their major flaws - they are addicted to it. They get antsy when they can't build some ludicrous solution, like when Baljeeet climbs Mount Danville and refuses their aid all the way, powering through all on his own power, and when they end up in a situation with literally no workable tools and materials in the Around the World movie Phineas almost has a psychotic break due to being unable to settle down and accept that there is nothing that he can do, so of course they will likely never stop. Also, Perry and Doofenshmirtz chilling out in their retirements was pretty cute, especially when OWCA thinks he's doing something do to an alert going off but the latest inator is completely benign. Loved Doof realising what had happened and being all "Oh, did I... did I set off the inator alarm? Oh my it's been years, they must have been freaking out!"
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The Grapes of Wrath. There's Tom's famous speech, but after that, his sister's baby dies and the mentally disturbed uncle who's supposed to bury it decides to put it in a box and send it drifting down the flooded river so someone will find it and realize how bad things have gotten. Then she breastfeeds a starving hobo in a barn. That's the actual last scene i think. It's really good.
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Alabaster White posted:How has nobody mentioned Metal Gear Solid 3 yet? I can never decide which ending I prefer more, 3 or 4. "This is good...isn't it?"
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The original Foundation novel has an absolutely brilliant ending. I love the fact that the Foundation wins by doing absolutely nothing because of the extremely heavy economic interdependence from all the other worlds in the sector and the fact that they literally can't afford to declare war on them despite their saber rattling. It blows my mind how young he was when he wrote the trilogy. I can't find the exact age right now but I wanna say he was only 18 or 19 when he penned the first book.
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This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3-Gt7mgyM
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Or this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl8vj9KZLvc
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Monsters Inc. ends exactly as it should. And exactly where it should.
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Oh, I forgot Orange is the New Black season 2's ending, which should have been the end of the show. "Always so rude, that one."
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