Movies with the Best Ending Sequences

vx trauma · Post by **vx trauma** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:08 pm

Blade Runner TDC got it right. But sometimes get high and watch the original one for nostalgia.

Naked_Lunch · Post by **Naked_Lunch** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:24 pm

I interpret the ending of the Director's Cut as a pitiful plea for escape from humanity, a metaphor for our aspirations to be something more and how we delude ourselves that there is something else to ascend to beyond what is presented to us.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 11:19 pm

I think it's Ridley Scott once again posing the question, "what makes us human?" Deckard finds the paper unicorn that Gaff left in the hallway. One has to wonder, does Gaff know about Deckard's unicorn dream? Does that mean Deckard is a replicant with implanted memories, or is it just a coincidence?

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 12:10 am

The Blade Runner Director's Cut is AWFUL. None of the extra stuff was even made for the movie. It's a mix of scenes from Legend and Shining left on the cutting room floor. They did a good job converting it to the digital format, though.

For the last 10 years or so Ridley Scott has been trying to make a true director's cut, which includes restored scenes (like the one where Deckard meets Holden in the hospital hooked up on life support), a better DVD transfer, the theatrical version with Harrison Ford's narration, a new better narration, and a ton of other shit I can't remember. For some reason the Blade Runner rights are divided among several people and companies, and having them all get together to allow a new director's cut is next to impossible.

Oh yeah, and Scott revealed a few years ago in an interview about Blade Runner that Deckard was in fact a replicant.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 7:40 am

Yes, I'm aware of all this. You may have misgivings about the added scenes, but I'm more than willing to take them over the painfully (and purposefully) bad voiceover of the original, and that horrendous, tacked on happy ending. I've actually read conflicting reports about the unicorn sequence being leftover from Legend. I've seen claims that it was actually filmed for Blade Runner but cut for some reason lost to the sands of time. That awful final sequence, though, as you say, is from The Shining.

The true director's cut hasn't yet been released because, as I understand it, the company who had the rights to it went under and there's a legal battle over who now owns it.

A lot of people like to argue that the way Ridley Scott declared Deckard was a replicant (allegedly shifty eyed and smirking) was a challenge to continue the debate. These people, in my inexpert opinion, are fags.
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Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 8:01 am

Well, there is that book.

Too lazy now for links.

In fact, usually too lazy.

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Koki · Post by **Koki** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:04 pm

Second vote on Das Boot.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 8:26 pm

Did they actually succeed?

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 8:36 pm

Mad Max RW wrote:Oh yeah, and Scott revealed a few years ago in an interview about Blade Runner that Deckard was in fact a replicant.

I guess he was some sort of an outdated model then, since he got his ass kicked through-out the movie? (yeah, I finally watched BR)

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:44 pm

Kashluk wrote:
Mad Max RW wrote:Oh yeah, and Scott revealed a few years ago in an interview about Blade Runner that Deckard was in fact a replicant.
I guess he was some sort of an outdated model then, since he got his ass kicked through-out the movie? (yeah, I finally watched BR)

Well, he thought he was human. Also, it's to be expected that Leon and Roy could beat his ass - they were soldiers.

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:03 am

28 Days Later. I love the mansion scene where he releases the infected soldier and it all just starts escalating.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:56 am

"Legend of the Drunken Master" has one of the best end fight scenes to memory. You also can't go wrong with "For a Better Tommorow II" the final sequence is like 10 minutes of choreographed death.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:36 pm

OMG HARRY PARTTER FIFTEEN.

Maybe Star Wars Episode III. As long as you consider it ended with Hayden Christian Whateverthefuck is burning alive in lava. I can dig it.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 3:17 pm

Wolfman Walt wrote:"Legend of the Drunken Master" has one of the best end fight scenes to memory. You also can't go wrong with "For a Better Tommorow II" the final sequence is like 10 minutes of choreographed death.

Ah, Woo's chinese movies were all excellent. He went to shit when he moved to America

What was so awesome in Drunken Master? I can't remember what happenes at the end. Is it in this one that Jackie fights the faggy white man?

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 5:13 pm

Ocean's eleven, although rest of the movie was bad.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:37 pm

nobodies said Heat yet? Half of the movie is an ending sequence. And good to, if you haven't seen it you perhaps should alrite?

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:44 pm

On a depressing '70s note, there is an old film ('70s) whose name I
don't remember in which a woman is sealed in a pit just barely
large enough to stand up in. The cops are looking for her.
But they don't find her. The end of the film shows the dirt on top
of the pit cover. Some screams echo. Credits roll.

Also, T3 ending is Nukes Glorious Nukes. The worst of the 3 films,
but yes oh yes oh yes - the best possible ending for any film ever.
I just wish it went on for another 5-10 minutes with the camera
panning all around the planet, zooming in for closeups of missile
launches and detonations and slow motion city obliteration.
I would just cut out that section and loop it as porn or a screensaver
or both.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:42 pm

S4ur0n27 wrote:What was so awesome in Drunken Master? I can't remember what happenes at the end. Is it in this one that Jackie fights the faggy white man?

He basically got in a 5 or 10 minute fight with his real life body guard who is a former kick boxing champ in a steel mill.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:37 pm

I forgot to mention: Deathwish.

Naked_Lunch · Post by **Naked_Lunch** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:46 pm

Platoon

Duck and Cover

Movies with the Best Ending Sequences

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