Favorite movie endings

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Mine:
Blade Runner (Director's Cut/Final Cut)- "It's too bad she won't live, but then again, who does?"
Silence of the Lambs- Lecter trailing Dr. Chilton, and Clarice's query: "Dr. Lecter?" Epic.
Total Recall- A seemingly happy ending that just makes you wonder if it was real or not.
RoboCop- "Nice shooting, son. What's your name?" "Murphy."

Shaun of the Dead - As Rob Gonsalves (terrific film critic, Google his work) pointed out, it resolved the Shaun/Ed relationship so beautifully (and hilariously). I couldn't agree more.
Waiting for Guffman - I would spoil the jokes, but I don't wanna. Just rent it.
Bonnie and Clyde and Network - My two favorite death scenes in all of cinema.

As long as we're on a good subject here, how about our least favorite endings? I have a particularly awful one: the ending to Lethal Weapon 4 hurt me to the point of minor depression. Shame they had to end a once-great action franchise with that kind of family values moralizing.

Sleepy Hollow - When Ichabod, Katrina and Young Masbeth get out of the carriage and start walking around New York City. The cinematography is gorgeous and the whole scene makes me feel warm and tingly inside.
The Nightmare Before Christmas - When Jack and Sally kiss on the snow-covered spiral hill. Gives me the same feelings inside as the Sleepy Hollow scene.

What can I say? I'm a sucker for happy endings!

The Sixth Sense - Maybe I was the only one, but I can honestly say the first time I watched that movie, I didn't see it coming. And it made rewatching the movie for a second time a must.

The Conversation, the moive ends with Gene Hackman, a wiretapper sitting in his apartment, paranoid that someone has wiretapped him. He sits in a chair playing the sax, his apartment destroyed by his frantic search for the bug. Classic, not only since it was a great movie but what better irony than the one Coppala presents?

Fight Club - maybe I just love that Pixies song
The Game - what a mind f*ck
Oceans 11 - the remake because I never saw the original
The Others - I'm embarassed to say that I didn't see that one coming
The Blair Witch Project - if you're not going to have a happy ending, why not have a really bad one?

Secretary.

If you haven't seen it, take a look: http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0274812/

However, there's a lot more to it than that.

The ending of -Flight of the Phoenix- (the earlier version with Jimmy Steward) was very satisfying.

ruveyn

Castle in the sky, not a very original ending (Like a Indiana Jones ending) but stunningly beautiful.

@ScrewyWabbit: I didn't see it coming either.

Watership Down. "Come back and fight! Dogs aren't dangerous!"

Blade Runner and Silence of the Lambs = win. Nice selection.

Mine are:

Alien - "This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off"
Batman Begins - "I never said thank you...." "And you'll never have to." *Whoosh!*
Gladiator - "I will see you again, but not yet, not yet....."
Memento - "Now, where was i?"
Blade 2 - "Oh, you didn't think i forgot about you, did you?" *Sword through glass into vampire's head!*
Terminator 2 - "The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too

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I will try to remember a couple.

The Matrix - Neo gives that cool message to the machines, and then he [SPOILER] and the really good music starts, I find it nigh perfect.
District 9 - Great movie all around but the ending was also a brilliant bitter sweet ending and leaves wanting more.
Constantine - From the climax to the end is very enjoyable, there is also a slight alternate ending with a character thought gone that I also have a fondness for

Spider-Man-"Who am I, I'm Spider-Man"
Spider-Man 2-"Go Get em Tiger"
Iron Man-"The truth is.......I am Iron Man"
Superman-"Don't thank me Warden, we're all part of the same team, goodnight"
Toy Story 3-"So long partner"
X-Men 2-"Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward"
All the Indiana Jones movies-Duh duh duh daah duh duh duuh, duh duh duh duuh duh duh duh duh duh
All the Star Wars movies-Buh buhbuh buh buh buh buh bah bah bah bah bah baah buh.
Various Star Trek movies-"Space the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. It's ongoing mission, to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new lifeforms and new civilisations. To boldly go where no one has gone...before"

Well, now I have to find one that hasn't been mentioned...

Lilo and Stitch... I hate the song that plays but the montage is great. They didn't settle down and get normal and live happily ever after. They got weirder and lived happily ever after. It's downright inspiring.

The Truman Show - "In case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening and good night."

A Knight's Tale - Sir William!

Hidalgo - He frees the horsies!

The Last Starfighter - Has one of my favorite movie quotes of all time. "I... I been to another planet, Ma."

Mystery Men - rage really takes over! Oh, but the very ending is good too... trying to decide what to call themselves. I am glad that the implied sequel (or at least, they left an opening there) never turned up... Roy had pretty much gone as high as he could go. When was he ever going to get mad enough again to activate his reluctant super power?

Miracle on 34th Street (original) - "And maybe I'm not such a great lawyer after all..."

The Shop Around the Corner - "Psychologically, I'm very confused... but personally, I don't feel bad at all."

But one of the best movie endings ever... The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. But you can't appreciate the ending unless you see the whole movie. Since it's very hard to find on disc, start here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVA5xmRZ ... re=related

The only thing that really ticks off this mild-mannered guy enough to force a reaction is when someone hurts the girl... Maybe I'm old-fashioned but I just love that. Bunch of jerks anyway... but I will say no more.

"Chungking Express" - Nice, upbeat and hopeful ending

"Paris, Texas" - not so upbeat, but very satisfying for the story.

"Crimes and Misdemeanors" - Very philosophical about our choices to do right or wrong and how we live with those choices.

"Playtime" - The recognition that the flowers and the lamp posts have the same shape sums up the idea that there is something interesting to see everywhere.

"Solaris" (Tarkovsky version) I can't say I really have decided what this film is about, but I like it nevertheless. I find many of Tarkovsky's endings to be moving even if they are completely opaque.

"Dr. Strangelove" Probably the funniest ending to a film I've ever seen this side of "Clockwork Orange"

"Millers Crossing" You can see all the regret Tom Reagan feels when he can't keep following Leo's foolish decisions.

"Raising Arizona" - "Maybe it was Utah."

I agree with The Others (didn't see it either, loved it) and Indiana Jones too.

The Notebook (sad, but in a good way)
French Kiss
A Good Year
The Goonies
Ghost
Erin Brockovich
Medicine Man
Sleepless in Seatle (even though it's been aired into the ground it's on so much)
The Bourne movies always end well

I could go on, but I seem to be stuck in lovey-dovey movies.. I need caffeine.