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The Sixth Sense
The Usual Suspects
Unbreakable
just to name a few of mine..
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(greatest suprise ending in movie history)
Casablanca
(a classic ending for a classic movie)
Empire Strikes Back
(it left you in suspense and begging for more)
All Quiet on the Western Front (the original, not the remake)
(very powerful ending)
High Noon
(another powerful ending)
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IN no particular order:
The Empire Strikes Back, naturally
Planet Of The Apes (1968 of course)
The Treasure Of Sierre Madre
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
The Terminator
T2
Jaws
Predator
The Thing
Deep Blue Sea
The Truman Show
Point Break
The Breakfast Club (Don't You Forget About Me)
12 Monkeys
2001 A Space Odyssey
Ghost Story (from the Straub novel)
What Lies Beneath (yeah it rips off Ghost Story but it's still a good ending)
Arlington Road
Boondock Saints
The Blues Brothers
An American Werewolf In London
Poltergeist
The Chronicles Of Riddick
Die Hard
The Game
The Matrix
Wild Things
Primal Fear
Reservoir Dogs
Citizen Kane
Bicentennial Man (oh I get all weepy)
First Blood
Every Rocky Film
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Shining (Kubrick)
to name but a few.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." - Goebbels.
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - Orwell.
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* Psycho (the best ending ever)
* Fight Club
* The Empire Strikes Back
* Sixth Sense
* Hair (saddest one)
* 2001
* Dr. Strangelove
* The Truman Show
* Manos, the hands of fate
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Escape from New York
Slient Running
Peter "i'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing"
Egon "lmagine the 97 Star Wars Special Editions"
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Also, the Chronicles of Riddick has a very good ending.
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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." - Goebbels.
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - Orwell.
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Also, the Chronicles of Riddick has a very good ending.
So does Pitch Black. I enjoyed the endings of both films.
Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.
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2. Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines "Maybe the future has been written I don't know all I know is what the Terminator taught me never quit fighting and I never will. The battle has just begun"
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Did anyone really see that happening?
(BTW: Wanted to add my take on the best first lines: Batman from Batman Forever and Lonestar from Spaceballs)
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ET's ending is sooo cute. And sad.
There's also the ambiguous, open endings, such as The Shining, 2001 (as I mentioned before), The Elephant Man, Resevoir Dogs, Memento...
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The Empire Strikes Back: Irvin Kershner put it best when he said, "It gives you some sense of closure but leaves you wanting to see more."
Planet of the Apes (1968): Obviously
The Sixth Sense: Obviously
Unbreakable: Great use of the mythic Superhero/Supervillain relationship.
Terminator 2: Quite possibily the most emotional ending ever. "I know now why you cry, but that' something I can never do." Thumbs Up!
Back to the Future: "Where we're going, we don't need roads..."
Back to the Future II: "But I'm back! I'm back FROM the future!", "Great Scott!"
Back to the Future III: The flying train! Perfect way to end the series!
Raiders of the Lost Ark: "Top men..."
The Last Crusade: Riding off into the sunset...
Batman Returns: Batsignal, Catwoman, Musical Crescendo!
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Here are my selections, but not limited to:
Giant monster movies (hence, my call sign "Kaiju Eiga" = giant mysterious beast):
1. Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah
2. Gamera: Revenge Of Irys
3. King Kong (1933)
4. Rodan
5. Mighty Joe Young (both versions)
6. Gappa, the Triphibian Monster
SciFi, Fantasy movies:
1. Planet of the Apes POTA (1968)
2. Beneath the POTA
3. Escape from the POTA
4. Conquest of the POTA
5. LOTR:FOTR
6. LOTR:TTT
7. SW:TESB
8. Batman'
9. Batman Returns
10. Spider-Man
11. Spider-Man 2
12. X2: X-Men United
13. ST: The Wrath Of Khan
14. ST: The Voyage Home
15. The Matrix
16. Raiders of the Lost Ark
17. Escape From NY
Drama:
1. The Usual Suspects
2. The Godfather
3. The Godfather Pt. II
4. Ben Hur
5. Gone With The Wind
6. Shane
7. The Magnificient Seven
Kevin
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Ill just add a few
-Waking Life
-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
-Lost in Translation
-Amadeus
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Alien
Alien 3
Who's Harry Crumb?
Seven
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Star Trek: the motion picture
Star trek II: the wrath of Kahn
THX 1138
The Color Purple
The Shawshank Redemption
Jurassic Park
The Game
The Amnityville Horror II: The Possession
Deep Impact
Final Destination
Fight Club
Planet of the Apes
to name a few...
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"I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope."
'nuff said.
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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"You are in luck, theres a town about two miles that way I am sure you will find two guys over there"
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
what about alien 2
The ending of Aliens totally ripped off the ending of the first Alien, with the whole "blown out of the goddamn airlock" thing, to be even later copied in Alien Resurrection. I am sort of fond of Alien3 for being different from the other "Alien" films, and that is why I put "Alien" and "Alien 3" purposely skipping alien 2.
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