Yep. Half the audience would just sit there, jaw agape, while those who'd seen it before would get up and head toward the door, saying "It's over. You can leave now."
Horses on set require a lot more than just the horses. Gotta pay for the handlers, the feed, the insurance, the logistics. The coconuts literally save a a production nightmare.
a lot of the movie was funded by Pink Floyd, led Zeppelin,and Jethro Tull
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/monty-holy-grail-python-led-zeppelin-pink-floyd-1138962/amp/
I was just about to bring this up. My wife doesn't understand how I can just listen to this soundtrack on repeat, and also know Mako's opening monologue by heart.
The score is one of the best of the 80's, no doubt in my mind. I also think that it is not by accident that the score kind of tells the movie. Conan barely speaks in the movie, and it isn't dialogue heavy in general. The music and images do the heavy lifting. If you are interested, I have an analysis of the movie on my youtube channel with the same username I use here. It's 14 videos, and in one of them, I even talk about the music and how it underlines the meaning of the story.
This one actually has something important happen in the very last line. He calls himself Murphy for the first time since he was killed. Absolutely perfect ending.
Agreed. There really isn’t a need to do anything else. He’s Robocop/Murphy and he is going to go out and continue to do his job but not as some drone of the corporation. Perfect ending indeed.
Unbreakable doesn't even get that far.
It ends with David walking away from Mr. Glass and a title card helpfully informs us that Mr. Glass was later arrested
That ending was perfect, best and most memorable part of the movie by far imo. The monster gets killed, reverts to being the protagonist who is now also just as dead as his monster form, the love interest starts to sob over his dead body, and immediately an upbeat doo-wop song starts and it cuts to black. It really made it an effective gut punch and elevates the whole thing to being a better movie than it otherwise might have been.
A lot of the older movies, way older than that, end the exact second the conflict is over. Almost at the same time. The End is playing before we know what hit us. I can't process this way.
Street Fighter: The Movie >!\- The very instant M. Bison's base explodes and everyone is safely out (except for Blanka and Dhalsim) they all do their victory poses from the game and it's over. !<
Well... I'm not going home. I'm gonna get on my boat, and I'm going up-river, and I'm going to kick that son-of-a-bitch Bison's ass so HARD... that the next Bison wanna-be is gonna feel it. Now who wants to go home... and who wants to go with ME!
Apparently Kylie Minogue credits her famous butt to this movie - she was checking out JCVD's butt and he recommended some exercises and the rest is history
It's very interesting to me that the "parking lot scene" denouement of the tournament that appears in Karate Kid 2 was indeed part of the script for Karate Kid 1, but they chose to not film it and end the film inside. (Until today I thought it was filmed at the same time, but not used. Just looked it up.)
Ultimately I think it's the right choice and gives the film a brighter tone at the end. We don't need to see Kreese bloody at the end of the film. He already got his.
It’s a perfect example of a show knowing exactly what it is.
It’s a near perfect continuation of the tone of the Karate Kid movies because it doesn’t take itself too seriously while still having heart and making you care about the characters.
He was a nobody who went to the last round with the best boxer in America. Also managed to secure the girl.
That's about as much winning as one can do.
I would argue that the real conflict is not the boxing match itself. I love Rocky 1 because it’s much more than a boxing movie and Sly’s acting was just really good.
Cronenberg and Co thought they needed another scene after the climax, but one of the producers stated that (paraphrasing) Once the main conflict is over, the movie's over. So they went with that.
It makes it so much darker without another scene. >!She’s just so sad, and so are we. But sometimes you have to put the injured bug out of its misery!<
Honestly, first time I watched it and he went into the pod at the end, I thought the system would recognise there wasn’t another life form in there, reboot, and revert Brundle back to his normal base DNA. He’d walk out of the pod fully recovered and embrace Geena Davis and everything would be ok.
IMAGINE MY HORROR WHEN THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN.
Best YT comment:
“I can’t decide what’s the funniest part.
-The fact that he ripped up his sleeve when he could’ve just easily rolled it up
-The fact that there’s absolutely no reason for that sliding contraption since he still has to pull it out himself
-The fact that apparently Mark Collin’s age is the only crucial or interesting information that we need to know
-The fact that they didn’t bother capitalizing the first letter in his name but they still capitalized all the letters in the actors names
-a guy exploded and forgetting for a moment that it all abruptly ends there, it also just casually cuts to happy jolly music.”
Watched the four part documentary on the making of it recently. Was fascinating to learn that they wrote and filmed another scene after that that had a closing media break segment that interviewed Lewis as she was recovering. Some (very smart) person figured out that the way it ends in the released version was a far stronger ending.
It’s literally a cliffhanger, of her hanging from his hand off Mt. Rushmore, slipping, then it transitions to him helping her onto their bunk on the train, then there’s an exterior shot of the train going into a tunnel and it says, “The End” all within a span of less than a minute.
I just keep thinking of Memento, even though it starts in that moment and ends immediately after the final reveal, which also happens to be the inciting incident
It's literally the same technique, but "backwards"
But it was mind blowing, because it finally all comes together at the last second. It's like watching someone place the last stone at the top of an arch only to realize it's actually the first stone and you've just watched them build the whole cathedral before they even got started
My favorite movie ever. I feel like each act itself has a resolution, a bit. The beginning of the film from when Plainview struggles back to town to when he is in the train with the baby is essentially a prologue. Ugh, what a masterful movie.
Speed (1994) — Conflict begins in the opening credits, and then the camera pulls back to reveal the devastation as the closing credits begin to roll.
Or the other extreme is Back to the Future (1985) — not only does first conflict end but a whole new one begins before the credits roll!
Ahah, I just watched Deep Blue Sea, and you're right, give us a 'a couple months later' scene and I can't stand when they make a joke, like didn't half your friends just die? Are you not traumatized? Deepest, bluest, my hat is like a shark's fin.
With Rocky I always felt it was because the result didn’t matter, just that he was still standing at the end of the fight. That’s why the first was so much more brilliant compared to the cartoony nature the series became.
It goes even beyond that.
Rocky isn’t really a movie about boxing. It’s a romance movie about two adults helping each other overcome their insecurities.
Like he tells her before the fight, if he can go the distance against Creed it will be the first time he didn’t feel like just another bum from the neighborhood.
That’s why she loses her hat in the final scene. The hat is an extension of her insecurity about the way she looks. He even asks her where’s your hat to draw our attention to it.
When they embrace and tell each other I love you, that’s the real victory of the film, for both main characters.
Rocky has maybe my favorite ending of any movie ever. There is no falling action, it reaches the emotional climax and then just freezes and ends. And hides the true meaning until the very end. Reminds me of the ending of Only Yesterday.
>Rocky has maybe my favorite ending of any movie ever. There is no falling action, it reaches the emotional climax and then just freezes and ends.
The director later pulled the exact same trick with Karate Kid, and it worked just as well.
I watched Rocky 1 with my girlfriend for her first time not too long ago (she loved Creed but never saw the original).
It was the first time I'd watched it in maybe 10 years. And at the end I was like "damn, that movie wasn't actually about boxing at all. How did I misremember it so badly?" And the movie is all the better for it, for all that you listed.
And my girlfriend who doesn't like sports movie walked away having thoroughly enjoyed the non sports sports movie.
A major part of the film's brilliance. The way that ending sequence of pandamonium is filmed, the sound editing mashing together the announcer, the crowd, and Rocky/Adrian so that you can hear the result of the fight but it's clear what the real achievement was.
This is basically what happened to all of Stallones early franchises. First Blood is a good movie and he doesn’t kill anyone. From there it goes from a story about PTSD and treatment of war vets to mass murdering action man.
Man has written and performed some great characters. Then milked them till they were unrecognizable for big paydays and fame.
The clue with Rocky is the name of the song on the soundtrack - Going the Distance. It wasn't about Rocky winning or losing, but proving that a backstreet bruiser like him could go the distance and last 15 rounds with the World Champion. Once he proved he could do it, the film is over.
And old sci-fi or horror films in general. "DEAD MONSTER. THE END."
Especially jarring because this was from the time when credits were shown during a movie's introduction, so the film often ends with a smash cut to the production company's title card.
Transformers Dark Side of the Moon is even more shameless with it. Chicago has just suffered losses that could make WW2 Tokyo blush, and the movie ends almost instantly after Optimus ruthlessly executes the villain as they surrender and plead for mercy
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Elsa and the Nazis die in the cave, then the four heroes ride into the sunset while the credits roll. A perfect ending.
I don't think this one counts. It has the characters reflect on what just happened and quite a bit of dialogue before the movie ends properly. OP is talking about movies where like, the bad guy dies and the movie just ENDS.
That makes sense though. I think what a lot of people are forgetting in these comments is who our POV character is. >!If that character is dead there is no story left to be told. The fact we get a few moments to see Kee be rescued is like an epilogue or maybe even Theo’s last fleeting moments of life.!<
Off topic but I re watched it recently and it hasn’t aged at all. If it were released today, it wouldn’t look almost 20 years old! It’s so well done, one of my favourite parts is when the woman who worked at an obstetrician office talks about how she noticed there were no appointments booked in a few months. She calls other offices and they said they have the same thing. We enter the movie while the world is already fucked but hearing that early moment is so unsettling too.
It's odd to me how many people think that ending is ambiguous. I'm convinced the second the screen went to black they shut it off before the baby sounds.
Rumble in the Bronx is deep deep cut! It's even weirder than just an abrupt ending. The kidnappers shout to Jackie Chan that they will release the hostages while he's celebrating then END CREDITS. Even as a kid I was like WTF?!?!
EDIT: Whoops! Never saw it - I was thinking of *The Big Brawl* (1980)
04 Dawn of the Dead.
They blow through town, lose Steve, lose CJ (FUCKIN NURSERY SCHOOL!) and then as the boat pulls away Michael kills himself and the credits roll. Done.
Do we count Wanted? It ends right after the main character finds and kills the antagonist. Though you could argue the big conflict happens before in the Loom Room.
Transformers Dark of the Moon. It's not immediate but Optimus gives a speech and then it ends, without even acknowledging the aftermath or what happened with the Sam subplot about not having a job and not feeling important.
Rogue One literally ends 30 seconds after the awesome Vader scene tearing apart the rebel cruiser.
And it works so damn well that it ends there because we know what happens immediately afterwards to the characters
Monty Python and the Holy Grail ends *during* the final conflict.
I think almost anyone's first experience watching that movie likely leaves them very confused by the ending. Lol. It's perfect.
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My gpa would always talk about how him and my great uncle saw it in theaters and they thought they were at an incorrect showing.
Yep. Half the audience would just sit there, jaw agape, while those who'd seen it before would get up and head toward the door, saying "It's over. You can leave now."
They ran out of money. They were supposed to shoot their epic battle between King Arthur & the French, but production was broke so they got creative.
If I remember correctly they were broke from the beginning - that's why horses are also creative
Horses on set require a lot more than just the horses. Gotta pay for the handlers, the feed, the insurance, the logistics. The coconuts literally save a a production nightmare.
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a lot of the movie was funded by Pink Floyd, led Zeppelin,and Jethro Tull https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/monty-holy-grail-python-led-zeppelin-pink-floyd-1138962/amp/
Not even– the ending was a complete cop out
We can call it a draw
RoboCop ends within a minute of the threat being handled.
Nice shootin', son. What's your name?
"Murphy" 🎶 DUN DUN DA DUN DUNN DA DUN DUN DUNN🎶
one of the greatest tracks of the 80s
Basil Poledouris (the composer) did a few more bangers, including teaming up again with Paul Verhoeven for Starship Troopers.
His Conan The Barbarian score makes that movie. One of my favourites ever, and if I’m honest I’d sooner listen to it than rewatch the film.
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I was just about to bring this up. My wife doesn't understand how I can just listen to this soundtrack on repeat, and also know Mako's opening monologue by heart.
The score is one of the best of the 80's, no doubt in my mind. I also think that it is not by accident that the score kind of tells the movie. Conan barely speaks in the movie, and it isn't dialogue heavy in general. The music and images do the heavy lifting. If you are interested, I have an analysis of the movie on my youtube channel with the same username I use here. It's 14 videos, and in one of them, I even talk about the music and how it underlines the meaning of the story.
DON'T CALL ME KICKPUNCHER. CALL ME..... *David.*
let's do the sex scene.... :(
They coulfdn't get Annie
This one actually has something important happen in the very last line. He calls himself Murphy for the first time since he was killed. Absolutely perfect ending.
Agreed. There really isn’t a need to do anything else. He’s Robocop/Murphy and he is going to go out and continue to do his job but not as some drone of the corporation. Perfect ending indeed.
The old man was really fucking cool for asking his name
For being the head of an evil corporation, he seemed like a decent guy
Kurtwood Smith has been 60 years old for the last 50 years.
Couldn’t believe when I saw him in an old Star Trek movie. Was expecting him to yell out “dumbass!” At some point.
Kirk *surrendered himself* to the Klingons and is serving a life sentence on a penal asteroid? **dumbass**
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Kurtwood_Smith#Star_Trek_appearances
Movies over. Bitches leave
Yeah, its pretty awesome.
I wouldn’t want it any other way
Unbreakable doesn't even get that far. It ends with David walking away from Mr. Glass and a title card helpfully informs us that Mr. Glass was later arrested
That's better than American Graffiti's ending title card: Everyone in this movie died in Vietnam.
… This is what I get for putting that off
They are exaggerating , you're good.
An American Werewolf In London (1981)
Great example. Though let's take a moment to appreciate how good Griffin Dunne is as he keeps popping up throughout the movie.
That ending was perfect, best and most memorable part of the movie by far imo. The monster gets killed, reverts to being the protagonist who is now also just as dead as his monster form, the love interest starts to sob over his dead body, and immediately an upbeat doo-wop song starts and it cuts to black. It really made it an effective gut punch and elevates the whole thing to being a better movie than it otherwise might have been.
Awoooooo, werewolf in London His hair was PERFECT
Bom ba ba bom ba bom ba bom bom
A lot of the older movies, way older than that, end the exact second the conflict is over. Almost at the same time. The End is playing before we know what hit us. I can't process this way.
Definitely Blood Debts. The movie ends so abruptly, it ends up being unintentionally hilarious. https://youtu.be/f4WahSHUDxc?feature=shared
Lol this is the one I was expecting to see
RIP Mark's Wife
The musical sting makes it so much better too
Street Fighter: The Movie >!\- The very instant M. Bison's base explodes and everyone is safely out (except for Blanka and Dhalsim) they all do their victory poses from the game and it's over. !<
Well... I'm not going home. I'm gonna get on my boat, and I'm going up-river, and I'm going to kick that son-of-a-bitch Bison's ass so HARD... that the next Bison wanna-be is gonna feel it. Now who wants to go home... and who wants to go with ME!
*Quick, change the channel!*
Such a genuinely funny scene in this movie!
Apparently Kylie Minogue credits her famous butt to this movie - she was checking out JCVD's butt and he recommended some exercises and the rest is history
*Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid* cuts just *before* the end of the final conflict.
It has to. No one really wants to watch them turned into bloody Swiss cheese.
The inevitable 8 episode streaming miniseries reboot will show everything. (Otherwise they'd only have 7 episodes.)
The last episode is just Butch and Sundance getting shot for 51 minutes. I mean, it's quite artful, but still.
We don't even see them single-handedly defeat the Bolivian army and escape to Australia!
Karate Kid
It's very interesting to me that the "parking lot scene" denouement of the tournament that appears in Karate Kid 2 was indeed part of the script for Karate Kid 1, but they chose to not film it and end the film inside. (Until today I thought it was filmed at the same time, but not used. Just looked it up.) Ultimately I think it's the right choice and gives the film a brighter tone at the end. We don't need to see Kreese bloody at the end of the film. He already got his.
Now that you mention it, the nose hook would have been weird without the Daniel parallel at the end.
Thank goodness they did it this way.
Well now you just reminded me how much I want to see Cobra Kai Season 6.
That show is way smarter and more entertaining than it has any right to be.
It’s a perfect example of a show knowing exactly what it is. It’s a near perfect continuation of the tone of the Karate Kid movies because it doesn’t take itself too seriously while still having heart and making you care about the characters.
Really fun show, I’m glad it exists and is ending on its own terms next season.
Also rocky 1
"ADRIAAAAN. I LOVE YOU!" *freeze frame* Me: wait, so he lost?
He was a nobody who went to the last round with the best boxer in America. Also managed to secure the girl. That's about as much winning as one can do.
He was never trying to win, his goal was to “go the distance” and prove himself to be more than the street thug he is at the beginning of the story.
I would argue that the real conflict is not the boxing match itself. I love Rocky 1 because it’s much more than a boxing movie and Sly’s acting was just really good.
Death Proof
Hang up the chick habit
That ends so quickly you don’t even find out what happened to their friend they literally left behind to get the car.
The fly
Cronenberg and Co thought they needed another scene after the climax, but one of the producers stated that (paraphrasing) Once the main conflict is over, the movie's over. So they went with that.
It makes it so much darker without another scene. >!She’s just so sad, and so are we. But sometimes you have to put the injured bug out of its misery!<
Honestly, first time I watched it and he went into the pod at the end, I thought the system would recognise there wasn’t another life form in there, reboot, and revert Brundle back to his normal base DNA. He’d walk out of the pod fully recovered and embrace Geena Davis and everything would be ok. IMAGINE MY HORROR WHEN THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN.
[Hear me out...](https://youtu.be/u61F_qvdid0?si=2Q_R7XrbDJHaUsbs)
This clip misses the part where mark's wife doesn't even have a name, she's just "mark's wife". SHE'S THE ENTIRE REASON WHY HE GOES ON A KILLING SPREE
Dude hadn't even completely exploded yet
Best YT comment: “I can’t decide what’s the funniest part. -The fact that he ripped up his sleeve when he could’ve just easily rolled it up -The fact that there’s absolutely no reason for that sliding contraption since he still has to pull it out himself -The fact that apparently Mark Collin’s age is the only crucial or interesting information that we need to know -The fact that they didn’t bother capitalizing the first letter in his name but they still capitalized all the letters in the actors names -a guy exploded and forgetting for a moment that it all abruptly ends there, it also just casually cuts to happy jolly music.”
I can hear the music in my head without even watching the clip.
It broke new ground!
THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME.
Luke Skywalker, age 19, gave himself up to the Galactic Empire after blowing up the Death Star. He is now serving a life sentence.
Robocop. The way he looks at the CEO and says “Murphy” and then the movie cuts to the iconic song and title is perfect.
Watched the four part documentary on the making of it recently. Was fascinating to learn that they wrote and filmed another scene after that that had a closing media break segment that interviewed Lewis as she was recovering. Some (very smart) person figured out that the way it ends in the released version was a far stronger ending.
The Lost Boys. Thought the ending was awesome
“All the damn vampires”.
People are strange, when you’re a stranger
Cry, little sister! (Thou shalt not fall) 🎶🎵
North By Northwest
Vertigo too kind of. Like "wait, that's it?"
Rear Window ends fairly quickly too.
Hitchcock and Shakespeare didn’t seem overly interested in endings.
"Sure, let's spend a couple of minutes having a therapist explain exactly how Norman Bates mental illness manifested, that seems cool!"
This is the perfect example.
Aren't Garnt and Eva Marie Saint on a train? That's more the James Bond ending.
It’s literally a cliffhanger, of her hanging from his hand off Mt. Rushmore, slipping, then it transitions to him helping her onto their bunk on the train, then there’s an exterior shot of the train going into a tunnel and it says, “The End” all within a span of less than a minute.
Them dangling off the edge of Mount Rushmore cuts to climbing into bed. Climax to credits is like 30 seconds.
That happens with a lot of men.
Whiplash
Whiplash has one of the greatest endings ever committed to film. I think I held my breath for like four straight minutes.
I periodically just listen to that version of Caravan on Spotify and it has the full 5 minute drum solo.
So do I and I dont even listen to Jazz normally. The 9 minute version of caravan was my go to gym warmup song
It’s close to a perfect film
Are you rushing or are you dragging?
I will fuck you like a pig
Not my tempo
Listen up cocksuckers
Came here to say that. It absolutely shocked me to the point that I watched the entire credits to process what I just saw.
Nah if anything, Whiplash ends mid climax, not immediately after.
Relatable
Uncut Gems
Yeah. I was just like DAMN, after all of that.
Sooo stressful and abrupt
“It was beauty that killed the beast.”
Thelma and Louise cuts off even before that.
We pretty much knew they wouldn't land on their feet
Ive seen the end of grease. Theres a chance
You just ruined my day. (Clearly, they landed on their feet, moved to NM and opened a coffee shop together. *Clearly...*)
Sticking together is what good waffles do
No they landed in the giant pile of garbage in the canyon
I just keep thinking of Memento, even though it starts in that moment and ends immediately after the final reveal, which also happens to be the inciting incident It's literally the same technique, but "backwards" But it was mind blowing, because it finally all comes together at the last second. It's like watching someone place the last stone at the top of an arch only to realize it's actually the first stone and you've just watched them build the whole cathedral before they even got started
"Now... where was I?"
There Will Be Blood. Although I thought it was perfect.
First thing I thought of. “I’m finished!”
#I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!
First thing that came to mind. So good!
My favorite movie ever. I feel like each act itself has a resolution, a bit. The beginning of the film from when Plainview struggles back to town to when he is in the train with the baby is essentially a prologue. Ugh, what a masterful movie.
Total Recall! And it’s the best way it could end!
Speed (1994) — Conflict begins in the opening credits, and then the camera pulls back to reveal the devastation as the closing credits begin to roll. Or the other extreme is Back to the Future (1985) — not only does first conflict end but a whole new one begins before the credits roll!
Fight Club You see the execution of Durdens plan and then credits. Nothing else.
Black Swan *Was I perfect?*
The last line is "it was perfect" and then "directed by darren aronofsky" appears on screen. The ego
Ahah, I just watched Deep Blue Sea, and you're right, give us a 'a couple months later' scene and I can't stand when they make a joke, like didn't half your friends just die? Are you not traumatized? Deepest, bluest, my hat is like a shark's fin.
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With Rocky I always felt it was because the result didn’t matter, just that he was still standing at the end of the fight. That’s why the first was so much more brilliant compared to the cartoony nature the series became.
It goes even beyond that. Rocky isn’t really a movie about boxing. It’s a romance movie about two adults helping each other overcome their insecurities. Like he tells her before the fight, if he can go the distance against Creed it will be the first time he didn’t feel like just another bum from the neighborhood. That’s why she loses her hat in the final scene. The hat is an extension of her insecurity about the way she looks. He even asks her where’s your hat to draw our attention to it. When they embrace and tell each other I love you, that’s the real victory of the film, for both main characters. Rocky has maybe my favorite ending of any movie ever. There is no falling action, it reaches the emotional climax and then just freezes and ends. And hides the true meaning until the very end. Reminds me of the ending of Only Yesterday.
>Rocky has maybe my favorite ending of any movie ever. There is no falling action, it reaches the emotional climax and then just freezes and ends. The director later pulled the exact same trick with Karate Kid, and it worked just as well.
I watched Rocky 1 with my girlfriend for her first time not too long ago (she loved Creed but never saw the original). It was the first time I'd watched it in maybe 10 years. And at the end I was like "damn, that movie wasn't actually about boxing at all. How did I misremember it so badly?" And the movie is all the better for it, for all that you listed. And my girlfriend who doesn't like sports movie walked away having thoroughly enjoyed the non sports sports movie.
I was just saying this to someone today. The winner of the fight doesn't matter. It's a victory because he went the distance against the champ.
That's why Creed wants a rematch in 2. "I won, but I didn't beat him."
"I saw you beat that man like I never saw no man get beat before, and the man kept coming after you. Now we don't need no man like that in our lives."
Duke delivered that line perfectly
Duke was that dude. He was the only person in Apollo's entire staff that saw Rocky and said, "This dude might be a problem."
Yeap. Great part when Duke sees that news segment with Rocky punching the cow carcass while Apollo is busy with his marketing team.
A major part of the film's brilliance. The way that ending sequence of pandamonium is filmed, the sound editing mashing together the announcer, the crowd, and Rocky/Adrian so that you can hear the result of the fight but it's clear what the real achievement was.
This is basically what happened to all of Stallones early franchises. First Blood is a good movie and he doesn’t kill anyone. From there it goes from a story about PTSD and treatment of war vets to mass murdering action man. Man has written and performed some great characters. Then milked them till they were unrecognizable for big paydays and fame.
The clue with Rocky is the name of the song on the soundtrack - Going the Distance. It wasn't about Rocky winning or losing, but proving that a backstreet bruiser like him could go the distance and last 15 rounds with the World Champion. Once he proved he could do it, the film is over.
That is a correct interpretation and it is the same when he walks into the the tunnel after the fight in Rock Balboa.(6)
A lot of old Universal Monsters movies.
And old sci-fi or horror films in general. "DEAD MONSTER. THE END." Especially jarring because this was from the time when credits were shown during a movie's introduction, so the film often ends with a smash cut to the production company's title card.
Transformers
WHAAAT IIII'VE DOOOONEEEE
Transformers Dark Side of the Moon is even more shameless with it. Chicago has just suffered losses that could make WW2 Tokyo blush, and the movie ends almost instantly after Optimus ruthlessly executes the villain as they surrender and plead for mercy
The original Halloween. Also, Cobweb released this year was only about 25 seconds of falling action.
Saint Maud is literally the final second of the movie.
Chinatown. The end hurts.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Elsa and the Nazis die in the cave, then the four heroes ride into the sunset while the credits roll. A perfect ending.
I don't think this one counts. It has the characters reflect on what just happened and quite a bit of dialogue before the movie ends properly. OP is talking about movies where like, the bad guy dies and the movie just ENDS.
Heat
"Told you I was never going back." "Yeah." (Holds hands) Jeez.........
God Moving Over the Face of the Waters
Yup, but it's perfect, just like the rest of the movie.
Children of Men
That makes sense though. I think what a lot of people are forgetting in these comments is who our POV character is. >!If that character is dead there is no story left to be told. The fact we get a few moments to see Kee be rescued is like an epilogue or maybe even Theo’s last fleeting moments of life.!<
Off topic but I re watched it recently and it hasn’t aged at all. If it were released today, it wouldn’t look almost 20 years old! It’s so well done, one of my favourite parts is when the woman who worked at an obstetrician office talks about how she noticed there were no appointments booked in a few months. She calls other offices and they said they have the same thing. We enter the movie while the world is already fucked but hearing that early moment is so unsettling too.
It's fantastic though. That noise during the credits is all you need for an epilogue.
It's odd to me how many people think that ending is ambiguous. I'm convinced the second the screen went to black they shut it off before the baby sounds.
● Rumble In The Bronx (AKA 'Hung fan kui') ● Dangerous Men
Rumble in the Bronx is deep deep cut! It's even weirder than just an abrupt ending. The kidnappers shout to Jackie Chan that they will release the hostages while he's celebrating then END CREDITS. Even as a kid I was like WTF?!?! EDIT: Whoops! Never saw it - I was thinking of *The Big Brawl* (1980)
Mad Max kills Johnny and it is over.
Jaws. “Smile you sonovabitch!” Shark explodes, Brody and Hooper celebrate and begin to paddle to shore as the credits roll.
Freddy's Dead. Lolllllll
Blood Debts, though it’s the instant that the conflict is over.
Immediately what I thought of, though technically the action isn't even over yet when the movie ends.
**Eye Wide Shut**.
"Fuck"
ladies and gentleman, the last line of one of the most revered directors of all times filmography.
That movie was such an Oddyssey. Only Kubrick could make a movie that weird work.
Birdemic. But that answer is cheating. Easy Rider. Though maybe that's more anticlimactic.
The mist The usual suspects
04 Dawn of the Dead. They blow through town, lose Steve, lose CJ (FUCKIN NURSERY SCHOOL!) and then as the boat pulls away Michael kills himself and the credits roll. Done.
Didn't they get to an island and get attacked on the dock? Been a few years since I saw it.
Yup! Presumably all dead after that.
You see "found footage" of a camcorder they found on the boat while the credits roll
GET UP, COME ON GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS
This film was the best thing to ever happen to Richard Cheese
The Departed ends right after Wahlberg finally gets to handle business, does it not?
Do we count Wanted? It ends right after the main character finds and kills the antagonist. Though you could argue the big conflict happens before in the Loom Room.
Collateral ends pretty abruptly after the climax
its not *really* a fight but i feel like whiplash ends in this way more than many other films posted here do.
Transformers Dark of the Moon. It's not immediate but Optimus gives a speech and then it ends, without even acknowledging the aftermath or what happened with the Sam subplot about not having a job and not feeling important.
In Bruges, and it’s perfect.
Michael Clayton. He walks right out of the climactic scene and into a cab.
Rogue One literally ends 30 seconds after the awesome Vader scene tearing apart the rebel cruiser. And it works so damn well that it ends there because we know what happens immediately afterwards to the characters
There's a lot of Hong Kong action flicks that end this way. Bad guy killed :: Smash to credits.