Films with stuck-on endings

[Emher]

I'd have to go with the "love scene" near the end of The Matrix. While I don't have an issue with the entire ending, the part where Trinity tells Neo she is in love with him felt entirely out of place and hammered into the script to have some sort of romance angle to the story.

Yeah gotta agree with that. The scene itself isn't actually long but it just feels to go on forever, so the point aht when i saw it in the theater I was tempted to do something very out of character and scream "JUST DIE ALREADY!" at the screen.

 

[doubleohfive]

"L.A. Confidential." A fine, gritty film until the tacked on ending that has Det. White going away with a Good Woman. The film should've ended after the shoot-out and Det. Exley staggering toward the approaching cop cars with his I.D. raised high. Just IMHO.

No way. That movie ended perfectly.

 

[The Lady Eve]

^We'll have to agree to disagree. I thought it was phony.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I thought the Doolittle Raid at the end of Pearl Harbor was completely out of place.

But, the whole movie sucked monkey-balls, so whatever.

Yeah, there was absolutely nothing IN place about Pearl Harbor.

IMO, Titanic would have been better without the present day framing scenes with Bill Paxton searching for the Heart of the Ocean.

I kinda felt that the endings to Children of Men & I Am Legend were too happy. I would have preferred something unrelentingly bleaker, like Cloverfield.

But that's a theme that runs through the whole story - so I don't see how it relates to a tackled on ending?

Not really. Trinity doesn't mention being in love with Neo until the very end, and there is little indication that she feels anything for him up to that point.

But the Oracle mentions it.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

How about the ending to "War of the World's" were Tom Crusie's teenage sun somehow survives the battle on the hill and not only that but makes it to his mom's house which seems to be in pretty good condition.

Ooh, yeah. I forgot about that one. Seemed way too convenient.

"I Am Legend." Apparently, depicting Neville as a mass murderer of intellegent creatures is a major no-no for the audience, so we get the martyr ending instead. The original ending was great. The theatrical ending kinda drags down the whole movie.

I actually prefer the theatrical ending over the alternate ending. The alternate ending is a great movie but only for a much different film, one with a more ambiguous depiction of the Infected from the beginning. But since, in the movie we got, the Infected are always monstrous, the theatrical ending fits better. Plus...

Spoiler: I Am Legend ending

...I prefer an ending where Robert Neville does not survive.

 

[CaptainCanada]

IMO, Titanic would have been better without the present day framing scenes with Bill Paxton searching for the Heart of the Ocean.

I don't know, I'd miss some of Old Rose's narration (particularly the bit about how many people went into the water vs. how many were rescued; the "absolution that would never come" line, in particular, has stuck with me).