Top 20 Worst Movie Endings of All Time
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- These films took us for a ride… and failed to stick the landing. For this list, we’ll be looking at the most disappointing, anticlimactic, nonsensical, sentimental, god-awful endings in cinema history. Our countdown includes "I Am Legend", "Lucy", "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen", "The Matrix Revolutions”, "The Happening", and more! What movie do YOU think had the worst ending? Let us know in the comments!
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What do you think is the worst movie ending ever?
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@Evan Jordan agree
I am legend
toy story 4 😳
nothing
"And then I woke up" and "Hero had amnesia" are almost always bad ideas for ending a movie.
Exceptions: "Wizard of Oz", "Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass" and the "Newhart" television series use the "And then I woke up" ending. What other shows broke these rules and succeeded?
Another exception is No Country For Old Men, which literally ends on the words, "And then I woke up."
Example when hero had amnesia but it is still one of the best movies -Memento
"It was just a dream/illusion from the character's mind", "The partner/loving interest of the main character is really a cyborg working for the bad guys", "The allegedly dead monster/bad guy inexplicably shows up at the last second to catch the last survivor", "Deus ex machina, the main character(s) is(are) saved at the very last moment in the most absurd fashion"
Mulholland Drive
I don’t mind the ending to Remember Me. The only real way to capture the shock of what 9/11 was in a movie was for it to come completely out of nowhere without warning, just like the real tragedy
Death of the main character is literally foreshadowed through the entirety of the movie. The movie, for me, was an ode to the absurdity of it all and the stupidity of egocentrism.
Lonely Stranger I need to see this movie again then
I dont understand the hate on that movie. I think its Robert Pattinson, people love to hate him I really think he's the nickelback of acting.
Prophet_ 2059 of course... people only hate the movie because of Pattinson. It goes the same with the girl that played Bella in twilight
Honestly, I think it's a great ending. Sad, of course. But I think one of the lessons is to live each day to the fullest, forgive where you can, etc.
Worst critique ever: "The ending was bad because the source material was better."
Not really in the case of I Am Legend, the whole path of the story lays the groundwork for that reveal. The reveal is in the title which they kept, yet did not deliver. He's not a legend like a hero--He's a legend like a monster of myth. They're not terrorizing him; He's terrorizing them. I actually liked the movie. If it had a different name, there'd be no problem with it. It's just insulting that they took all of the details from the story except the most important part--The whole point of the story.
He's speaking more in general that saying "in the original" without specifying why change is bad
Yeah i remember that same criticism came for Watchmen.
No, they should stay faithful to the source material.
Well they don't necessarily have to stay completely faithful to the source material, but I am Legend went completely ANTITHETICAL to it. And they did that to favor some cliche ending to boot.
I never realized how many things Morgan Freeman is actually in.
Love that bloke
I have honestly never been much of a fan of him. Samuel L. Jackson, on the other hand...
@@elofkjellson3906 they’re both great imo
@@elofkjellson3906 Why pick Samuel L. Jackson as the alternative?
just name a movie morgan frerman probably in it lol him or samuel l jackson
The Battle at the end of that Twilight mess, was the one enjoyable thing in it
The main problem with it, and I believe the reason why they couldn't commit, is that not only is it not in the book, it's impossible for the entire thing to have happened... alice couldn't see the future if the wolves or the daughter were involved (which they were)
@@sweetmissirish No need to defend it, I´m a man I got forced to watch the Twilight movies, never read the books, to me a forced watcher, the fight at the end was the only good thing in all the movies! But I get it, if you really like the books and all that, wich I can understand.. Harry Potter... and that fight wasn´t in the books nore made sense, it is off putting to fans then, I can relate.
People like a battle. Especially if you can toss in an Ork or Ogre or two.
It's not the battle itself. It's the fact that it didnt happen. That was lame.
yeah honestly that happening at the movie (saw it in theaters with a friend) threw us both off so hard xDmy friend was a big fan of Carlise and u can imagine how well that went xD
Secret Window on this list is unfair. The movie was actually very true to the source material. So, you're basically saying Stephen King's book ending wasn't good enough?
so was war of the worlds in my opinion, but hey, we all have our tastes.
@@CertainOverlord world of the worlds?
Stephen King has a lot of books with disappointing endings. But that'll happen when you've written as many books as he has.
@@heisenberg9240 im sleepy thanks for pointing that out walt
Stephen king is known for bad endings he even makes fun of himself for it
I don’t have any problem with the ending of 'Remember Me'. I love the whole movie including the ending. It shows father-son bonding through struggle to be in a same page with each other, brother-sister bonding in every single situations, friendship and romantic relationship. And at the end, it seems a real tragedy. In our real life, we don't get any warning before a tradegy. It gives the idea that thousands of people died in that tragedy and I think that's what the film is highlighting. This is just one person's story. And life is beautiful till death, we just have to appreciate it and make it work with family and friends. And the movie, there is a lot references that explained that the movie is set in 2001, like they were watching 'American Pie 2' in the theatre, then when they meet the cowgirls from Miami, the roommate goes on and on about NY being the greatest city, and after the harassment in the alley, the drunk women yell that they hate New York, also the professor also talks about terrorists attacks. And when the date on the board poped up, there was a sence to understand what was coming. So if you watch carefully, there were lots of 'hints' like this throughout the movie.
Thanks 😳😢
"The ending of Revenge of the Fallen is bad because Optimus dies and revives" That plot is pretty much in all the damn franchise, buddies
Last Knight should've made the cut not this.
@@tarunsunil6592 Agreed
Superman “throws out the laws of physics.” Yeah, because a movie about an alien who can fly and see through objects can’t also allow him to time-travel. It’s fantasy, Mojo.
My thoughts with entries for Into Darkness, Breaking Dawn and Matrix Revolutions
But fantasy has to have some logic inside the universe it is proposed, it is like Superman somehow used magic to reverse everything, or creates a machine so he can revive lois lane, that makes sense to you only because is fantasy?
Alejandro Gutiérrez I get it. Sort of a deus ex machina moment, since it is not something previously shown or discussed. But it is not as “unbelievable,” if I can use that word, if he dod something not on his shown power set. Here he flies really fast. It’s fantastical in this world, but I’ll buy that (for a dollar).
It's true that it's fantasy, and their reasoning for it is wrong, BUT it's still a bad ending because that is not a power that Superman has in the source material.
When I watched that movie as a kid I never thought of any laws of physics
I really feel like ya'll didn't pay enough attention to some of these movies on this list...
Now You See Me had one of the best plot twists I’ve ever seen, I don’t think anyone expected Mark Ruffalo’s character to be part of it after he seemed to be so against the horsemen. Also finding out that Jack Wilder was alive and that the whole death was a setup at the end was amazing, finding out how they achieved everything and set it up really amazed me. Loved the movie!
Agree!
thats because theres no buildup to it whatsoever, there are no hints that lead to that conclusion, theres no way to puzzle it together on your own, and if you dont, when the twist comes have you thinking "ohhhh" like it clicks. Its just a "gotcha" they snuck in there because they could. THATS why it pissed people off.
@@tosca9127 i think most people liked the twist. I did.
@@abdullahosmani13 Most people did NOT like the ending and the movie didnt do well at all, neither critically, nor commercially
That wasn't a twist. In fact, all they did was test-screen 9/10 of the movie and query the audience as to who they thought was behind it all and finished the movie with the character that was least picked. He wasn't picked because the story makes no sense if he's the guy orchestrating everything and the filmmakers were willing to sacrifice their story just to be unpredictable.
A good WhoDunIt lets you play along, junior-sleuth style. You'd call out to your friends "I think Kobayashi did it all, and uses Soze as an anonymous legend to keep the heat off himself." Some of you will be right and get to feel smug about it. Now You See Me's method of delivering garbage in order to be unpredictable not only makes no sense, which is dissatisfying, but also robs the audience of that small pleasure.
But I wasn't trying to figure out who the guy in the hoodie was anyway, because it wasn't presented as a WhoDunIt, and I'm pretty sure no-one in the movie was trying to figure it out, either; they were just trying to pass the tests to get into the magic society.
And the rest of the movie was riddled with nonsensical plotholes, but this thread is about surprise endings.
An actual surprise ending would be if Woody Harrelson was the guy behind it. He was using real magic throughout the movie (that is NOT how post-hypnotic suggestion works), he appears to be a bit older than the rest, he'd be keeping a close eye on the three real initiates, he gets to deny everything if questioned ("Hey, I'm just as in the dark as the rest of you!"), and all he had to do was hire a currier to deliver the invites -- making sure to send one to himself, just in case the others might've noticed.
I actually loved the ending of Breaking Dawn. As a former Twihard that fight scene traumatized me. It didn't just kill every character I loved but was threatening to deviate from the book and change the ending. So the vision revelation blow me away. Not only did the ending stay true to the book but it gave us a epic fight scene that had me sitting on the edge of my seat on the verge of tears.
I also loved the ending of Remember Me. It's ironic that I watched it because I was a Twihard but the only thing I didn't like about the movie was Rob. I thought it was really well written and did a great job at telling their story. I really appreciate the set up, focusing more on the character just living his life than 9/11. The people who died in the Twin towers were also just people living their lives.
The ending wasn't surprising to me though. The foreshadowing of the first scene being set in NY 1991 and then jumping to 2001 gave it away. The way I saw it, why would a film be set at that time if it wasn't going to be about September 11, 2001?
I still like the Twilight books (the writing wasn't great but the story was fun), the movies I didn't enjoy... I agree that I was relieved that the end was a vision except that Alice can't see the future if the wolves or the kid are involved - she even says it in the books and movies
I agree on both parts.
I did read the four original books of the Twilight series but into the 4th book I HATED it like a lot of fans. Between the extremely graphic and violent birth scene (preteens do Not need this), Jacob imprinting on the infant (The movie almost made this work eventually), and the super lackluster ending in the book...it's just all around a mess.
The surprise of the battle scene was desperately needed even if it was just...the work of Alice. There was a definite cry of "Wtf???!!!!" in the theater when I saw it but for me I just felt relief.
I was team Wolf pack and actually teared up when Seth and Leah died in wolf form rather violently. That more about my empathy to canines though.
Ugh, how can you read/watch that tripe?
@@reh3884 Try reading the new one from edwards perspective. OH MY FUCKING GOD it is so BORING
Am I the only one who doesn't have a problem with most of the endings in this list?
Nope. I disagreed with most of this list too. Not that I think all these endings were incredible or anything but most weren't all that bad either.
@@coolusernameftw7055 I didn't mind the Amazing Spiderman 2 ending. Lucy was a mixed bag. Still not sure about a LOT of Into Darkness - it was entertaining, still, but so full of awkward fan service in the last act, and deus ex machina blood...
I was thinking the same thing, Jack. =P
Of the ones on this list that I've seen, I liked most of them (maybe not great endings but no where near as bad as this made them seem)... also, they're making a new Matrix movie (even though the last one was horrible)
@@sweetmissirish Was it better or worse, than Reloaded, though?
Remember Me was an amazing movie, ending and all. Not every story needs to end with a happy, feel good ending and 911 put an end to many actual stories, why does that one need to be any different
Thank you. I thought it was a great movie ending and all
Yeah. When I saw the movie I was shocked and thought it went well with the movie. Didn't think it was a bad ending at all.
I haven't seen it and I like my movies to have a happy ending but it doesn't mean all have to... it bothers me that they're like "these movies have stupidly happy endings when they shouldn't" but when one doesn't have it they complain about that
Oh im going to watch today; it sounds intriguing
@@vonniestewart4416 I honestly don’t think there’s a point in watching it anymore now that the shock of the twist isn’t there.
Germs killing the Aliens in war of worlds is actually a good ending, the movie wasn't great but the concept of something so small being over looked it leads to your down fall due to ignorance or hubris is good.
The best thing about the end of Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" is that the grandparents were played by Gene Barry and Ann Robinson from the 1950s George Pal version.
The scary reality is that a truly alien species would bring diseases we'd have no immunity to, and vice-versa. It may seem anti-climactic but it's realistic.
There is no way that they came here through space and time, planted those big ass robots, but didn't know this planet was inhospitable to them. Plus, why the hell were they sucking humans blood and making blood plants? Human bodies are mostly water so thst should have killed them as soon as they left out of the ship to explore.
I think the movie could have been great by letting the stupid kid just die.
One should also consider that when Wells wrote the novel the germ theory of diesease was more of cutting edge science. At the time it was a very clever plot twist.
I think the ending of Remember Me was well done: Shocking, tragic and therefore so realistic.
I liked the ending of Remember Me. It was realistic in the setting, the characters entire life in the film we fall for and get invested in and hope for the future and then it just stops abruptly. Just as was with all victims of 9/11. That was the point of the film. Showing you the life of a young man, his family, his romance, his role in life to which then is taken suddenly just like in real life. I like it because it was real
BINGO!!! That's what I took out of the movie. Clearly these people on this channel missed that.
agreed. this should be titled 10 unexpected endings, not 10 bad endings.
So according to this logic, he might as well have had a piano fall on his head because that was unexpected too and that's just the way life is.
@@mcmandy086 sure, that's logical thinking. But that isn't logically *creative* thinking. Yes, pianos do fall on people, its happened, it's been recorded. But its creatively boring and almost comical. The tone of the entire movie climaxed to that point where our hope was yanked away from us in a swift, unfair, unjust tragedy. But at least we were left with no remorse. Just sadness of the "what if". And it helped us to reflect on our own lives. Its creative choices like that which evoke deeper introspection. That's the difference.
@@mcmandy086 No, that would have been just silly. However, since 9/11 was a real tragedy that affected so many people, it was trying to remind people that the thousands of people that died that day were real people who had hopes and dreams and unresolved angst. Sometimes we tend to gloss over a tragedy like that in our minds as a "national tragedy," but this film implores you to think about each individual person that lost their lives that day and the deep pain it created for everyone who lost people.
"Now you see me" had a good ending.why is it in this list
They put this movie when it was a great movie. They should put The mist, that movie was awful
Because the standards of this people are high, although sometimes they seem to be a roller coster.
I love the whole film!
Agreed. I enjoyed the movie and its ending.
Thank you!!!! Now You See Me ending was great. I was shock when I saw the movie on this list.
I have to defend Breaking Dawn. According to my sister who read the books, instead of a fight there was 2 or 3 chapters of talking. So the movie could have also been criticized for 20 minutes of exposition, or do what they did.
WTF?! Saw 3D had a great ending! I was shocked af when Gordon was revealed as Jigsaw’s partner and putting Hoffman in the bathroom was icing on the cake.
2010+-: You really gonna think that some coughing they can destroy an army..
2020:
Still a Hoax
2020: Hold my beer ...
Best comment. XD
@@dimityrlefterov4877 300k dead
Yes
Aww Superman isn’t fair! It’s an old movie, back when they were more fantasy and worried less about the realistic aspect. The ending is great!!
I agree, we weren't needing "meta" movies and real life physics yet in movies. It was he's fucking superman, why couldn't he do that lol
I always think it’s hilarious that people take something from a very fictional movie and get upset about it. It’s literally about an alien from another planet who turns into a super hero because he gets super powers from earths sun, but yeah we’re totally upset over the unbelievable ending. 😆
@@zuzukris4952 , well times are different. People generally look for relatable and somewhat immersive stories. Certain rules of realism usually work well in movies, especially in making threats and dangers feel more threatening, thus adding suspense for the characters. To me, Superman gets boring really quick because there's no limits to what he can do. An ending like that isn't good drama, while being childishly satisfying.
It’s watchmojo what can you expect.
The ending in Superman is the reason why a lot of us expected Henry Cavill to do the same in the recent Superman movies. If you go to the comment section, a lot of people asked why he couldn’t just fly around the world to reverse time and save everyone.
The Breaking Dawn ending was actually a good idea because in the book, they don’t do the fight or even the fake out with the premonition so for the movie they showed the fight while also staying faithful to the book.
I’ve never saw a Saw movie but the First guy being the assistant later on seems like a pretty cool idea in my opinion.
I’m surprised The Forgotten wasn’t higher on the list. It’s as if the writers were like “Crap, how do we end this? I know! ALIENS!!!”
I don’t think they were aliens. Just another race of terrestrial beings that we were only aware if they chose to interact with us.
Oh my gosh, yeah, that ending was terrible!
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That’s more of an opinion if anything
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In terms of War of the Worlds: The reason for that ending in the book is that its an allegory for Hubris. The Martians were mighty and powerful yet were destroyed by the tiniest and most insignificant creatures on earth. That was the Martians fatal flaw
And that’s a pretty great message.
H G Wells was writing about how advanced civilisations inevitably destroy less advanced ones. He took an existing style (known as the 'England Invaded' style, look up 'The Battle of Dorking') and made it about what we did to the Chatham Islanders, or the Madagascans, or the Tasmanians, or the New Zealanders, or almost all native Americans.
The Martians moved too quickly for normal political decision-making (the British Politicians ordered the Royal Navy up the Thames river to defend the centre of London where they were, and the Navy rightly refused and mutinied), and had a ranged weapon that humanity could only match at great cost (a gun battery and it's men and horses to defeat one Fighting Machine, a fast cruiser to defeat three FMs stupid enough to get into shallow water, the Royal Navy Channel Fleet is then wiped out by black smoke spread from a flying machine).
He also showed the complete religious and moral failure of the church in the character of The Clergyman, and the book's end of the tiny disease that the Martians have no defence against is nothing to do with 'the tiniest things that God put upon the Earth' and everything to do with that it's usually disease that wipes out those less-advanced peoples I was mentioning.
Even that is described as being because the Martians are actually degenerating and are unable to adapt to new pathogens
I vehemently disagree with Breaking Dawn, part 2 being on this list. Twihard fans were very curious about how the films would handle the conclusion...the BOOK's ending was very anti-climactic so we were all pretty sure that the film-makers would do something different. The fact that they did and still remained true to the full story line was impressive.
Why is CATS even here? It doesnt have a narrative
It was a bad movie all the way around. One look at the trailer and I was going NOPE! I knew it was going to be bad. I'll take the broadway play. thank you. At least they didn't try to make their actors look like an anthropomorphic mess. They disgraced ALOT of good actors and actresses doing that. It would have been better if they had done a GC work along the lines of Cats Don't Dance or Zootopia.
That's another bad adaptation I'll rant about, right under The Last Airbender liveaction. Don't get me stared on that one.
And it doesn't matter if the ending has a narrative or not to be counted as bad. Just about the only time a narrative is used is to tie up loose ends the ending leaves about the plot if it doesn't solve them visually. A few here didn't have a narration with the ending. The Indiana Jones one doesn't. In fact, none of the Indy movies has any narration in them. Last Crusade shows you what happens to the Goblet. Raiders shows you what happened to The Ark, which its crate made a comeback in Crystal Skull's opening as a cameo. They make sure you see it as it's visible long enough.
Actually, I thought that "Cats" wasn't all that bad. It looked at things fro the perspective of a cat, while almost everyone seems to think that the human viewpoint is shared by every creature on the planet, and is the only way to look at a situation. Major props to the creators of the story for admitting that there are different views by everyone and everything sentient..
Fun fact: originally superman could turn back time, but they started to reduced his powers cos he was already so powerful which makes it hard for other people to write for a character such a son him
Superman had a bunch of powers nobody knows about in the silver age like making minisupermen
The problem with making Superman able to go back in time is that whenever something goes amiss he could go back in time over and over till the problem is fixed.
Some of the movies that were mentioned has a great ending, such as secret window. When I watched it I was shocked, and amazed. There's nothing bad about the ending.
Some of these, okay, yeah deserve to be on this list. ...but a lot of these aren't even CLOSE to being worst! There are a TON of other movies out there with worse endings than some of these. Bad list.
The entire “the happening” movie was awful, not just the ending.
We got some great memes from it at least!
I've seen better films from sixth graders.
What??nooo!
I liked it. The movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid
To be fair, it DID start pretty frightening with everyone killing themselves. But once we got to the main characters it just deflated from there.
Law Abiding Citizen how to ruin a good film with the worst ending ever.
Yes I agree!
FUCKING AGREE!!!!
The ending was making the point that the victim can become the villain and the consequences of becoming what you hate and take the law into your own hands. The ONLY killing that was justified was when he killed the man who killed his wife and daughter.
@@JG-cj6pc That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
I so totally agree. One of my favorite movies with one of the worst endings. Clyde should have won.
The final battle from Breaking Dawn happening as a vision LITERALLY happened in the book! And the fact that the writer and director played it out instead of it being skimmed over was excellent bc fans got to see how it would play out. It shouldn’t be on here.
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It's the "Oh it was all a dream". That is always a shitty ending, period.
Being the same as the book doesn't make it a good ending. Same issue with War of the Worlds.
A lot of people talking about the ending of Superman and how it is a bad ending, miss the point of that scene and following events. It's not about him reversing time to save Lois, it's more about the conflict he has within himself about who he really is and does he, in fact, interfere in human history. If you watch the scene you can see him in the clouds remembering both the words of his Kryptonian father and the words of his earthly father. He always felt guilty that he could not save his earthly father from his heart attack, this concept is important because we learn that there are things that Superman cannot do, or things he cannot save people from, hence he is not all powerful and has certain vulnerabilities. In this moment in the clouds you learn just how much he loves Lois, he does not want to lose her like he lost his earthly father. He is also torn because he knows that he has to let certain events play out and cannot interfere, these feelings stem from the words of his Kryptonian father, he cannot interfere in certain situations, and he has to be careful when to interfere and when not to, he is not God, but someone there to help humanity, when he can, he cannot save everyone, in fact the main reason he was sent to earth was to inspire others to do good, not always to save them but to help them save themselves. Superman in this instant goes against his better judgment to save Lois because of how much he loves her, but we also learn from this scene that this isn't something he should or would ever do again, he knows that this is a one time occurrence. This is actually one of my favorite scenes in all of the Superman movies/stories, because in a small amount of time we learn so much about the Man of Steel, the conflict he has within himself, the pure and true love he has for Lois, and that he is more human than we realize. Is it possible to reverse the rotation of the earth to turn back time, of course not, there are so many things I could point out in this movie that are absolutely absurd, but there's a bigger picture here within the original Superman movie than all the things that are "physically impossible", there are lessons to be learned both about Superman and about ourselves. WatchMojo says that the ending to Superman is one of the worst, I can respect that opinion, but to me it's actually a wonderful ending to one of the greatest movies of all time, and definitely the best Superman movie ever made, IMO. Just my 2 cents on the matter.
I always hate endings where the main character suddenly dies
Like he is ending the movie by opening a door and gets shot
Yeah... it's an old trope. WAY over used in TV cliffhangers.
I like it, life is quite like that. Unexpected things happen suddenly to everyone.
I am Legend's ending was perfect the way it was. The audience just rooted for Will Smith and was upset that he died. His charakter lost his family, his dog and basicly anything in his life. He had the cure finished and was ready to go out with a bang.
Bu that wasn't the point of the story. The story was to show how he was the true monster all along and how he's become a legend to the vampiric species. Humanity was doomed, but life will continue to evolve. Just as it always has been.
It wasn't about Will Smith dying, it was because the film portrayed him as a hero, when in reality he was unknowingly attempting to end the evolution of humanity. People would get upset no matter the actor. The film would've been alright, if it weren't based on the novel.
No, it ruined the entire story. They went for hollywood explosions instead of the source material. Ruined EVERYTHING.
There’s an alternate ending where he survived
No no no. What are you talking about? That ending was so cliche and not just different to the source material, but completely antithetical to it.
my thought is exactly the same, I don't get the offended butt-hurted below lol
Matrix: Revolutions - The Architect indicated the others who wanted to be freed would be.
Knowing - It wasn't just those two kids, there were other spacecraft which could be seen after they were dropped off... and I liked it.
Star Trek: Into Darkness - I liked the ending with Spock getting angry and going after Khan to save his friend (Kirk).
Agreed on Revolutions and Knowing. Both well deserved endings. The seeds were planted, don't blame the movie if you didn't notice them.
Fallen with Denzel Washington. The movie and cast were SO good...😭
What A law abiding Citizen, it had a crappy ending. It would have been better if the villain won in the end
jamie fox got them to change it so he won. sucks
Yeah I agree. That ending was lame as hell.
Gerard Butler’s character did sort of win because his goal in the movie was to show that the legal system doesn’t work, which he accomplished when he made the cops break the law to catch him. I think it would be fair to say he wanted to die anyways based on the final scene with the bracelet.
Tbh the Villian imo was the hero.
D Clax I think one child murdered in the movie would be enough as I don’t like more children being murdered
I love star trek into darkness. I had no problem with the ending
Same!
Agreed, and I loved the original Star Trek, as well. People just have an issue with it because "It's new" or "Different", but it actually plays out how it should if something interfered with past events.
It's a good ending. Very well acted and serving a different purpose than wrath of Khan's ending.
I just wish they'd thought to draw blood from... well, any of the other Augments, all of whom had the same enhanced bodily fluids. Satisfying as it was to see Spock beat the Hell out of Khan, they honestly should have taken a phaser to his ass and done the aforementioned.
If I recall correctly, the alternate ending of "I Am Legend" was originally supposed to be THE ending. But the audience reception in test screenings was so bad that they went back to the drawing board, and the rest is history.
I just knew The Happening would be on here, even if the ending wasnt worse than the rest of it.
It was the best part, because it was over. 🤣
I liked the ending of Remember me, it shows how you can be just in the wrong place at the wrong time and a second later you're dead, I feel like it really showed how those people that had normal life were there for all the different reasons, Tyler for example, just to meet with his dad when suddenly he was killed.
The Cats movie scared the hell out of me...😂😭
Not me
Only the mice and cockroaches bothered me
You're not the only one
I really loved Remember Me. The ending happened out of nowhere (despite several hints throughout the movie for the audience) just like the real event...
The Devil Inside was probably the movie that started the “January horror movie curse”. Funny thing is MTV’s Jersey Shore actually promoted it.
The Happening didn’t only have a bad ending, the entire movie was so hilariously bad.
Hard to believe it got greenlit.
Scott Slotterbeck
I’m still in disbelief that ‘Lady in the Water’ found a studio to fund it.
Hilariously? It was so bad it made me cry cause I spent that money to watch it in the cinema hahahaha
WAR OF THE WORLDS WAS SO ENJOYABLE IN CINEMAS, UNTIL THAT AWFUL ENDING 😂
I felt the same about Knowing. Until they threw in the aliens thing, it was pretty good. My mom and I went and saw that in theaters and at the end we both turned to each and were like, “what the hell just happened?”
But that's how the novel ended. It was a pretty good read, actually.
True, very badass movie, but I remember reading the comic book before watching in theaters so I was hoping it would have a different ending but nope..
Its a logical ending though. Its also the ending in the book. War of the Worlds movie respects the original material
@Cernunnos The Horned One.
I loved that book except for the ending, I do think it was an awful ending for such a literary masterpiece.
Legend has it that Danny and Sandy have still not come back down to earth! 😁
The final SAW movie was meant to be a 2-part finale, but because SAW VI did so poorly at the box office they truncated it down into a single movie. They basically smashed two scripts of traps into one movie and took the bones of a story and spread it out. The original idea, from what I remember the writers talking about, was that SAW VII was going to focus on Bobby Dagen's test, the one we already see. A Jigsaw "survivor" that never actually was in a trap. Exploiting it for financial gain. The end of that one was supposed to reveal Dr. Gordon's return. Then SAW VIII was going to be Dr. Gordon hunting down Hoffman.
It was something like that. But again, because SAW VI was financially received poorly, they had to do away with those plans. And the Love Triangle trap at the beginning was going to be revealed as happening in the past, where we would eventually see Dr. Gordon and John Kramer (Jigsaw) watching from a distance. The two guys that survive that opening trap, Brad and Ryan, would then be recruited by Gordon. Hence the 2 other pig-masked individuals near the end of saw 3d. Those were intended to be Brad and Ryan.
saw 3d is an abomination, truly. It took everything we loved and screwed it up completely. Not to mention the disgusting feeling of misogyny that is threaded throughout. It's just horrible. SAW is my favorite franchise of all-time, and I love it to death. But saw 3d I hate so much. Anyways. Just a little context for saw 3d.
It's a shame Saw VI did so poorly as the premise and motivation is one of the better directed ones and one that would hit home to a lot of Americans with our cherry-picking healthcare system. It's definitely my 2nd fav of the franchise. That carousel trap still haunts me.
I like Crystal Skull but I agree. That ending is so flat and random. It's the only part of the movie I don't like.
For me it's also the shitty greenscreen during the car chase in the jungle, but yeah it was a good buildup to a dumb ending
I disagree... I think it's entirely within the tone of the series. In fact, Indy seeing the UFO rise in front of him is almost a book end to Indy seeing the nuclear blast in the beginning. It's almost framed the same way. Almost like it's the end of an era for Indy, his time has passed (a theme that permeates the whole movie) and a new age has come... With spaceships and world obliterating weapons. It's almost poetic.
I could even say... It rhymes.
I can’t stand Crystal Skull.
Crystal Skull was good! And for me, the ending was meh. It ended with Han Solo watching someone stealing the Falcon from him.
The ending was fine for me. And I did like the movie too. But the unbelievable laughable moments (for example, surviving the atom bomb in the fridge...YEAH RIGHT!!! XD) were what separated this from the rest of the series I felt.
I think Rey calling herself “Rey Skywalker” wasn’t that good of an ending in “Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker”.
Someone suggested she should have called herself Rey Palpatine. Despite having the name of the most hated man in the galaxy she could have taken that name and made it something good.
I agree, the "Rey Skywalker" ending dismisses the idea the movie was setting up to that point.
It has mixed reception of the ending from critics and fans and not fully hated, so calling this the worst ending is impossible to be in this list.
@@agentprime2179 dang finally found someone with the same idea.
That shit was weak.
You forgot Arlington Road, Layer Cake, The Mist and Eden Lake. And in defense of Saw 7, it was supposed to be at least eight films but the bad sales from the sixth led the crew to combine ideas into one final send off. Also Cary Elwes himself said in an interview he didn’t want to return to the franchise until its final outing. As for Knowing, I believe the ending scene showed multiple pods leaving Earth and not just the one with the two kids in it.
Star-track into darkness ending was not bad.
Nice spelling lol
The whole movie was terrible...
I was here when Watchmojo made Top 10
I think they need the sweet sweet watch time
Are you the one who fingered Freddy?🤣🤪
I was here when WatchMojo made Top 5's.
1:17 talking about the laws of physics in a Superman movie?
thank you.
It was silly but comics-worthy so I was alright with it... then. Some years later, Superboy-Prime punched reality. I blame the movie.
Exactly!!! I mean in the comics he pulled planets 🤣🤣🤣🤣
What an odd description of Star Trek: Into Darkness. Most people think that movie is meh at best, and it's not because of the ending. I personally like it quite a bit and am generally in the minority on that.
The final chapters of Breaking Dawn were actually some of the best of the entire series. However, they were all talking... SUPER BORING. So, much like Deathly Hallows, they needed to add some thrilling action, that deviated from the books. Both endings drove book fans insane. Yet both were honestly pretty freaking epic.
Why the hell did you put Oblivion's ending in Honoroble Mentions? I actually like that movie and its conclusion.
True.. It was very well made
I agree. I like this movie a lot and have it on DVD.
It's one of my favourite movies, and the ending made perfect sense to me.
I believe the ending of “Knowing” and “Secret Windows” should not be here, they actually makes a lot of sense to their plot.
The end of Knowing was great.
I mean it was meh to me but that's why The Knowing was a HM.
The Secret Window ending was fitting, and worked well with the plot.
Knowing was a good movie 🤷
Knowing has indeed a brilliant ending. I think their problem is that it's totally anticlimactic : Nick goes home to die with his loved ones.
I hated the end to X-Men Origins Wolverine, considering I hated how his memory was erased.
I don't understand how the true-to-the-book ending of "War of the Worlds" is a stupid ending. I guess it just doesn't satisfy on a Blockbuster-level. Not every humans vs. aliens/monsters/whatever film has to end in overblown CGI battle sequences. The original WotW ending is realistic and nuanced. The book is terrific, as is the 1953 film and Orson Welles' 1938 radio drama. That said, I didn't like Spielberg's adaptation. He's a great director, but I just don't think he was suited to that material. Nor was Tom Cruise. I mean, damn. Tom Cruise? Really?
The cgi and sound design was pretty astounding, at the least.
Why does everyone get the Superman ending wrong. He went so fast he went back in time. To visualize that backwards movement of time they showed the earth going backwards. Turning the earth back did not make time go back it was the other way around. Turning back time made the earth look like it was turning the other way.
YES YES YES YES!
what?
Even then it makes zero sense. Lois should've just stayed dead.
Edit : Going back in time doesn't turn time back. Time just does not turn back. It's still stupid.
@@ayushthumbarathy3961 Can you prove that you can't go back in time? Especially if you're Superman?
I think not.
@@TimTE01 yeah especially since superman goes back in time in comics, they kept to source material better than newer superman movies like man of steel lol
How did I know a transformers movie would be here 🤦♂️😂
The gaming Taco Wasn’t it obvious
Ryan Brown umm yes. That’s why he commented this
The whole franchise is for the trashcan
That's why bumblebee was made and they want, build the new franchise up on how bumblebee was more story than action
I've seen maybe *_The Tortured_*_ (2010)_ where the parents oblivious to the fact they kidnapped and tortured the wrong convict instead of their son's killer
Also the ending of *_Prom Night_* remake had deranged obsessive ex-teacher and serial killer Richard Fenton shot to death yet it's too end has he'd murdered protagonist family, most of her friends and her boyfriend Bobby
I actually really enjoyed the ending of 23 and Remember Me. An ending that I absolutely hated was My Sister's Keeper. The book was million times better!
Yes yes yes!!! I’ve been shouting from the mountain tops that “my sister’s keeper” movie and “my sister’s keeper” the book, shouldn’t even have the same name! I was actually angry how they ended the movie. Amen sister!!!
The ending of “Forces of Nature” (1999).
Sandra and Ben totally loved each other.
ahhhhh yes I totally forgot that even existed (thankfully lol) but wow yea such a waste and terrible happily-ever-meh unmeaningful shitbag ending hahahah
I actually liked the ending of "Force of Nature". He did love his fiancee' and she spent time with her kid. Much better than the stereotypical "they lived happily ever after".
When you realise it's superman going so fast HE'S going back in time NOT spinning the earth backwards it all makes sense and it's not a bad movie ending
Yeah. Now I absolutely love the ending even more.
Makes more sense
How people haven't figured that out by now always amazes me. It's just a visual representation of time going backwards!!
Through the theory of relatively, you would actually travel into the future, not the past.
@@kyles5513 you can't add science to superman ... Through reality a man cannot fly and or breathe in space never mind travel any direction in time ... But in actual reality you are correct you can only move forward through time 👍
I actually thought that the Twilight battle was a move of genius by the director. Literature and Motion Pictures are two different art forms: in literature, the author creates scenes in the readers' imagination, and in the movies, the action takes precedence over narrative. Here the director simply fleshed out the moment where Alice in the book was able to prevent the battle from taking place, all while taking the audience on an emotional roller-coaster ride.
Agree it was genius I actually loved the ending
WAR OF THE WORLDS is pretty much as written in the novel: Local disease kills off outsiders. In the novel, narrator and his wife find that the other hasn't been killed (though they might have expected each other to have run away from the giant killing things); Tom Cruise did have specific good reasons not to hold out much hope for Justin Chadwick
The Amazing Spider-Man 2’s ending was good in my opinion. I hated the movie as a whole lol. I hated the stupid way Gwen died but the manhole cover and all that was fine
I agree
She basically died the same way she did in the comics but it was when Peter was fighting Norman not Harry as the Green Goblin. Any Spider-Man movie that has Peter and Gwen as the movie's primary couple won't last.
I beg to differ, dude! Peter and Gwen’s romance was done better in the series than the comics and even better than Tobey Maguire and Kristen Dunst’s chemistry in the Sam Raimi films. And don’t even think about defending that chemistry and Kristen Dunst’s performance as Mary Jane. You can’t deny it! That chemistry and performance hasn’t really aged well, and it’s now cringy when you rewatch the films nowadays. So Tobey Maguire’s and Kristen Dunst’s chemistry isn’t going to last forever either.
@@hunterolaughlin doesn't matter if there's chemistry between the actors or not, doesn't matter if its part of two movies or not, if source material kills off a character, main or side, than sooner or later their death will happen. Gwen Stacy's death, just like Uncle Ben's death is set in stone in the source material and your tears won't even chip it even if you cry like a river.
Jeremy Blackmouth Sorry. I misinterpreted your comment. I thought when you wrote “won’t last forever” that you meant by timelessness. I didn’t know you were referring to their relationship in the source material.
Writing 101: Never end a narrative with the explanation that it was amnesia, aliens or a dream.
Why isn't law abiding citizen not on this list?
Honestly i hate the whole " evil protagonist must lose in the end"
Same thing happened with dexter
the ending of spider man 2 wasn’t stupid. it was just sad.
The ending of Lucy was easy to understand if you paid attention to the fricking movie.
Yeah, i find out that she become "GOD"
So, basically it's tell GOD was actually just human who can use 100% his or her brain, that make him mighty...xD
She isn't a fucking USB Drive, Watchmojo! To quote SpongeBob: "How many times are we gonna have to teach you this lesson, old man?!"
They understand it they just think it's dumb
Pictorally it doesn't look like they spent a lot of time working on the plot's ending.
Yeah, couldn't understand why that one got dissed. But oh, well...I can still like it.
I strongly disagree with many of your choices and clearly shows you didn't understand the movies (e.g. Lucy) that you were watching.
I stopped taking these lists seriously a while ago😂 they’re always wrong
I agree, I loved some of these movie endings like Lucy and Now You See Me
I like the lucy movie but I still think the ending was dumb... Saying she was everywhere? Like common, I was expecting her body to morf into another super human or she was still normal with 100 capacity of the brain instead of just disappearing and saying "Im everywhere".
"Cats" embarrassed Taylor Swift. So it was not entirely in vain. But shame of ALW for letting them steal the chandelier from "Phantom" to mess up the ending of 'Memories" and the Heavyside Layer.
I don’t understand why Remember me is here 😔
They should’ve kept the alternate ending of I am Legend.
I hated the alternate ending it didn't fit the film. Start a war, kill most of them, lose your wife and daughter to them, hate them and just give up at the end.
@@Creation464 he didn't give up, he realised that all they wanted was the female he was experimenting on so he gave her back then got all his work and samples and went to the human colony to finish the cure... the ending they went with only left the one sample of the cure and no one knowing if they have someone who can finish it
@@sweetmissirish It just doesn't make sense to me in the way his character was written or how they wrote in the infected. We see from the beginning that they are blood thirsty beasts. His character has a personal vendetta after his wife, daughter and dog were all killed by them. It's just unlike his character to just give the female back at the end. Plus it undermines the "God and Signs" aspect that they focus on throughout the whole film with the butterfly. I'm not religious but its a good touch to the more emotional ending. It also brings closure for his character but the alternate ending kind of erases that for me.
Plus if they are capable of adapting as we see in the alternate ending then evolution will slowly take place and the cure becomes optional.
That's just my take on the whole thing.
Creation464 The alternate ending would’ve made the movie better. It’s kind of a twist ending if you think about it cause to the stalkers, Will was the boogey man.
I agree, I looked the alternate ending better. Also, why does he call them "vampires" in this video? That threw me off...
Top 10 Movie Franchises That Lost Their Touch
Rambo
Terminator
Jurrasic Park
Pirates of the Caribbean
Die Hard
@@themadtitan7603 Star Wars
@@themadtitan7603 I thought the last 2 rambos were good
@@metamarx8409 Fair enough.
The sad part is that the best Star Wars movie releases in the 2010’s in my opinion was Rogue One
I personally hate the ending Law Abiding Citizen.
*Spoilers*
I don't appreciate how Clyde goes the entire movie always staying ahead of Nick Rice, but in the final moments, he somehow doesn't pick up on Nick acting suspicious, even though he found his tunnel system. Why would Clyde think in that very moment that Nick is still oblivious after having everything go according to plan in the entire movie.
The fact that no one else knows what 'worst' means in this context
#0: Emoji Movie ending.
Nobody died at the end
My brain cells did
@@sarthakcoulekar That makes 2 of us
@@noodleboy314 *the last 2 of us*
I’m sure people did mentally
I thought Remember Me’s ending actually saved a bad movie.
Star Trek: Into Darkness’ climax and “Khan” scream was fine. It just ended too fast.
The Mist: am i joke to you?!!
I disagree with most of these, Lucy, Now You See Me and a couple others had good endings.
I agree.
I really like ‘Oblivion’ ending and all. ‘Star Trek into Darkness’ is so good as its premise is that of a parallel universe, so of course things will be different. Benedict Cumberbatch’s portrayal of Khan is chilling, far more threatening and savage than the earlier version.
Lucy doesn’t make sense, like I logically know that whole “we only use 10% of our brain” thing is fake. But I remember watching that ending in theaters and feeling like my mind had just been blown. Whoever wrote this list really can’t set aside the “real world” and enjoy a fun story for 2 hours lol
Ik it’s not a movie but Game of Thrones the season finally should be on the list as well.
I binge the series and just finished it. I thought it was pretty decent. Why do a lot of real fans not like the ending?
D Lakland we don’t really like the ending due to how rushed the season felt. Not to mention the dumb choices that the ‘smartest’ characters made.
@@Mechamjr88 because you binged and you're not a long time fan. The season was absolutely rushed and dany becoming crazy was the worst thing they could have done. Not to mention, the night king plot ended up in garbage.
@@satmoore3381 on top of my head I can think of various anime that have far better plot and development of characters compared to game of thrones. Ending is paramount to a show or movie, game of thrones is not one of the greatest shows ever. Not even remotely close. After the final season, 7/10 at best.
Throw in Silicon Valley in there as well. At least we knew going into GoT finale it was going to be bad.
Superman didn’t reverse the rotation of the Earth: He exceeded the speed of light, essentially going back in time to save Lois. It’s the theory of relativity. It was years before I learned that, but when you’re 7, theoretical physics is generally a bit beyond your comprehension.
The fact that whoever put this together thinks they "shoehorned in" 9/11 to remember me says they didn't actually pay attention to the movie. They drop hints throughout the whole movie. The dates in the beginning (Brooklyn NY 1991- ten years later), the talk about the world trade center attacks..
I really love ending of 23 and Remember me it was unexpecting.
If Avengers Infinity War was the last movie in the MCU, would it be considered a worst ending?
Maybe not , I mean thanos had a good point though
Waheed Abdullah YES, yes it would
If Infinity War was actually the last film, then their would be no competition between Marvel and D.C.
it was a good ending, but if they did it like that they should have killed off the people they did in endgame so that we could have a new age of the mcu like we do now
It'll be considered the "worst" because of how sad it is but not a bad ending from a writing perspective.
The "I am Legend" ending could be showing how both sides think they are in the right.
The story changes based on who wins.
If the humans win, the main character will be a martyr, but if the vampires win he will be a boogeyman.
Either way, he becomes a legend.
I was halfway through watching the Happening on TV before I realized that I had already seen it. It's that unmemorable.
Lucy and Oblivion had great endings and were both great films.
Never has a comment been so perfectly split down the middle in terms of accuracy.
@@FlatOnHisFace Which One Do You Agree With?
Oblivion was well conceived and executed.
Re Planet of the Apes, it has plenty of logic. The writer himself had wanted to explain in the sequel that never came. He said the space anomaly they all travel through reverses the order people pass through. Which is why the chimp showed up after Leo even though Leo went through after the chimp. This also explains why the station they were in was a wreck on the planet even though it must have travelled through the anomaly after Leo and the Chimp. Therefore after the chimp and Leo head back home at the end of the movie, at some point several years afterwards Thade finds out how to travel into space and goes through the anomaly. Again time is reversed and so instead of landing on Earth after they do, he lands on Earth many years into the past, and changes its history.
And then - what, they rip off Lincoln's head, and replace it? How long had they been there?
Oooooh, I was about to give an angry face emoji when you mentioned the end of, Planet of the Apes, until you clarified - so, instead, here is a happy face emoji 😁❤️