Titanic voted best ending *blech*

[crappertay]

Eleven-times Oscar winner Titanic has topped a poll of greatest film endings.
The finale of the tragic love story beat The Italian Job, famed for its cliffhanger ending, which came in third.

In second place was gritty prison drama The Shawshank Redemption which saw inmates played by Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins reunited.

Voters also fondly remembered the endings to Casablanca (fourth) and The Usual Suspects (fifth).

Unlike many film polls, the top 10 included many modern films.

The most recent of these was the 1999 movie The Sixth Sense, which has become one of those films where it is forbidden to reveal the ending to friends for fear of ruining the twist for them.

TOP 10 FILM ENDINGS
1. Titanic (1997)
2. Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3. The Italian Job (1969)
4. Casablanca (1942)
5. The Usual Suspects (1995)
6. An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
7. The Sixth Sense (1999)
8. ET - The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
9. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
10. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral also featured at number 10, with voters enjoying the "will he/won't" he tension of whether Hugh Grant will marry.

Steven Spielberg's ET, voted the eight best ending, has made many an audience weep as the extra-terrestrial prepares to leave his young friend Elliot to return to his home.

But voters in the Diet Coke dismissed the American remake of The Italian Job, which dropped the 1969 original ending altogether.

BBC Radio 1 movie expert James King said: "In my view the perfect ending is something that leaves you wondering about what happens next to the characters.

"The best endings don't have to always tie everything up neatly and make sense. In fact those that don't, give the audience more to talk about after they've left the cinema."

[garfield hates mondays]

no requiem for a dream?? too bad:(

[Tick]

That list sucks, public opinion is overrated.

[garfield hates mondays]

Amen
and tick, i LOVE that sig!!!

[Evil Dead Junkie]

I only really agree with three:

Butch and Sundance had a great one the free frame and fade to BW while the gunfire echos in the backround.

Usual Suspects had that awesome twist.

Shawshank Redemption had just pure uplift.

So much for the good

Titantic was Cheese
Italian Job was a Cop out
I have no idea what the **** an Officer and a Gentleman and Four Weddings and a Funeral are on their.

And while ET, Sixth Sense, and Casablanca are GOOD endings I can hardly believe they are the best.

[Matt]

titanic best ending?? ship sunk and thousands died right?

[Bordick]

Originally posted by Matt UGA
titanic best ending?? ship sunk and thousands died right?

yeah, but Leo died.

[The Chapman]

I think they mean where all the Titanic folk are in some Titanic heaven.

I agree that most of the endings chosen are descent, but not top ten material. Casablanca, Shawshank, yeah. They were good though.

Other endings:

Patton had a great ending. Glad they did not end on his death, but with a voice-over about how all glory fades.

Contact's slow fade with "For Carl" was just right.

On a lighter note, Depp's look and attitude at the end of Pirates was the perfect way to start the credits. (Though obvious sequel setup.)

And the more I think about it, the more I have a hard time judging a film based off of the ending alone.

[Matt]

yeah chap, I was just trying to be humorous..

Ya know, I really don't dislike Titanic. It is overrated but it isn't bad

[Bordick]

it's a $1 Billion Dollar chick flick. Chick dig it, Guys could care less :D

[ReservoirSean]

how...oh HOW can a movie based on a true event have the best ending? It's not like it was creative or unexpected...

[Luthien Tinuviel]

My vote goes to The Sixth Sense. Probably the best plot twist I have ever seen. Loved The Shawshank Redemption as well.

[B1ade Runner]

Favorite endings:

Silence of the Lambs
Batman Returns
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
X2
The Thing (1982)
The Sixth Sense
The Usual Suspects
The Exorcist
Psycho
Halloween
The Shining

The ending is one of the most important aspects of a film to me, because it's the last thing we see, so it should have the most impact. I've praised ok films with great endings, and panned great films with lousy endings.

[ReservoirSean]

I loved the end of About Schmidt because it's all summed up in the final frame.

[Bota]

in no particular order..

Butch and Sundance
The Shining
Shawshank Redemption
Silence of the Lambs
Monty Python - The Holy Grail
BladeRunner
The Empire Strikes Back
T2
The Matrix

The ending to The Matrix is probably my favorite. From the defeat of the agents, Neo's breath and zen with The Matrix, to Neo flying off with Rage in the Machine blasting. It really was the icing on the cake. It made me leave the theater going... Hell Yah!!

[Bordick]

no love for Citizen Kane?

[Cogito]

I loved the end of About Schmidt because it's all summed up in the final frame.
- ReservoirSean

Ahhhhhh, good observation! I really, really liked that flick -- although in retrospect, I did feel that it was a tad predictable, or something, that this mail-order adoption kid was set up from the start of the film, to be the salvation... But it wasn't really exactly bad. And as an ending, to twist it around in that moment, was very good. Good observation. I agree.


no love for Citizen Kane?
- Bordick

Now I can't remember what the final shot was -- was it the same as the opening shot, but in reverse sequence? Going back, away from the mansion? You have the guys walking through all the things Kane had collected, and the "junk" was being thrown away and burned -- including the old sledge -- and two guys are walking around, talking about what the old man had ment by "Rosebud," and then they kinda just fade off back, right?

That certainly was fantastic.

[Josh]

Ok first off that is the stupidest list ever. Any list that doesn't include Star Wars: A New Hope as one of the best endings of all time is totally bogus.
Sorry, just is. Luke blows up the freakin Death Star!!! How can that not be on the list???

Having said that... the end of Titanic is the COOLEST most disturbing, most massive, most INSANE most fully realized ship sinking in the history of movies in which thousands of people die on screen.

I think that is certainly worthy of consideration.

[Taln Hess]

Actually, isn't the "END" of Titantic after Leo dies where we see what the old lady has done with her life before she throws herself into the sea?

Leo dying, the ship sinking... that's all part of the climax, not the "END".

[Evil Dead Junkie]

Originally posted by FilmHobbit
Ok first off that is the stupidest list ever. Any list that doesn't include Star Wars: A New Hope as one of the best endings of all time is totally bogus.
Sorry, just is. Luke blows up the freakin Death Star!!! How can that not be on the list???



I think they are talking endings endings. Ergo Star Wars doesn't end with the Death Star blowing up. It ends with Luke getting a Medal.

[Josh]

If that's why A New Hope didn't end up on there... that's crazy. The Luke gets a medal scene is literally like 2 minutes long. That could explain it.

If that's the case, that makes things weird.

The old lady dropping something off a ship isn't that great an ending. I mean it is nice for that movie, but the ENDING is the final destruction of the Titanic with thousands of people screaming and dying in the water. The 5 or 10 minutes after that is just wrap up that's easily forgotten whereas the terror of those final moments and the shock of the characters as they are rescued is what stays with you and haunts you.

[Evil Dead Junkie]

All I'm saying is that the rest of the films have their slam bang endings in the final 5 or 10 minutes. And While "The heaven for these people is the place where they died horribly" isn't my favorite ending..... Well there are alot of saps out there.

[fafhrd]

Was this poll done by internet or call in vote casting? If so, that explains how Titanic got up there. It's an okay ending, but by no means is it better than:

The Usual Suspects
The Abyss (director's cut)
Citizen Kane
All Quiet on the Western Front
Akira
Star Wars: A New Hope
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Brazil (director's cut)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Seven Samurai
Patton
Glory
2001: A Space Oddessy
Metropolis (2001)
Schindler's List

Fafhrd

[Evil Dead Junkie]

Originally posted by fafhrd

Akira



Look I love it but Akira is one of the worst ****ing endings I've seen, we end this awesome epic with a cheap copout which doubles as 2001 ripoff and contains the most laugh out loud anti climatic line ever written.

Yes, Yes indeed your name IS Tetsuo, glad you finally figured that out after having it shouted repeatedly at you at high volume for the past half hour.

[Bordick]

Originally posted by fafhrd
Was this poll done by internet or call in vote casting?

Probably done at random shopping malls. Who are at the malls all the time? CHICKS. Chicks dig Titanic. You poll a bunch of chicks about movies. Chick flicks will come up.

[fafhrd]

Considering that I work at a mall, I can say that it's not chicks who go to malls, but rather annoying mallrat punks, freaks, goths, and the occasional ghetto/guido moron. Mostly guys who have nothing else better to do than drop a stinkbomb in my store and make me wish I was on break so I could make them eat out of a straw for the rest of their lives.

Fafhrd

[Josh]

Stinkbomb? :lol

[Bordick]

I've done my time in Mall retail in my youth. I know the hassles. Sucks, I agree.

[Brynn]

Probably done at random shopping malls. Who are at the malls all the time? CHICKS. Chicks dig Titanic. You poll a bunch of chicks about movies. Chick flicks will come up.

This chick doesn't dig Titanic. My father LOVES it, however. "Rio Bravo", "The Alamo", and "Titanic." Very odd.

[Bordick]

I was talking chicks in general not ALL chicks. :D

[Josh]

I like it and I am not a chick. Well, some might say I am, but I insist on being able to use the men's restroom!!!

[fafhrd]

Not to change the subject, but in the first episode of Babylon 5 (first season) you see Ivanova and Sinclair walking out of a unisex bathroom. By 2259 we've progressed to a time when girls have no problem seeing mens' urinals and guys have no problems seeing tampon dispensers. But that was done simply becaise JMS wanted to get one up on all the other science fiction shows and actually SHOW a bathroom in the series.

And as for my store in the mall, yeah, the mallrat kids (and you know who they are when you see them) occasionally do stupid things like dropping stinkbombs or just being generally obnoxious. But the job isn't bad- I work in a video game and dvd store, which means I get a ton of freebies.

As for Titanic, I didn't think it was bad, but it could have been a hell of alot better. Leo was totally miscast, and Cameron can't write romantic scripts for his life. Okay, I mean cliched romantic scripts, The Abyss notwithstanding.

Fafhrd

[Bordick]

faf, you're out on L.I. right? which mall?

[fafhrd]

Smithhaven, actually. Where you at, Bordick?

Fafhrd

[Bordick]

I'm in Queens now, formerly of south shore suffolk.

[Filan Fyretracker]

you two in NY know trilogy tuesday as in the 42nd Street E-Walk Loews. back on topic id say the dark highway in T2 was cool as it left alot open even if T3 screwed my vision of what skynet should have been.

[Bordick]

Originally posted by Filan Fyretracker
you two in NY know trilogy tuesday as in the 42nd Street E-Walk Loews.

:confused

[Filan Fyretracker]

http://www.fandango.com/movie_page.asp?distance=15&mv=79326&refresh_date=12/16/2003&from=

[Bordick]

I've known it's there, but that sentence confused me a bit.