Hollywood Endings

A friend of mine recently preached on the ending of the Gospel of Mark and how disappointing it can be not to get a "Hollywood" ending. Celluloid of old may have always ended happily, but it doesn't always now and some of my favorite movies have "sad" endings or some kind of bizarre twist.

For instance, The Devil's Own has a very sad ending that Brad Pitt's character foreshadows early on. Primal Fear has a fairly good twist that is by no means a "happy ending."

However, not every ending is good or sad. Some are bad. Some just suck. Here's my top 5 list of movies with the worst endings ever...

5) Supernova (because of the final lines of dialogue from the computer)
4) Next (an otherwise fantastic movie)
3) Deep Impact (bad the whole way through)
2) Jurassic Park: The Lost World (Steven Spielberg couldn't resist screwing with the book)
1) Indian Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven and George Lucas, geez, if ever two men needed to hear the words: "quit while you're ahead...")

On a separate note: Ice Harvest (a bizarre movie) has a phenomenal ending. It ends with John Cusack at the wheel and suddenly his best friend wakes up and sits up hung over in the backseat on Christmas morning to ask:

"Where are we?"
"Heaven."
"They got pancakes?"
"They got everything."

And they drive off into the sunrise...


Your top 5 worst movie endings? i am sure some are worse. Doesn't count if the whole movie sucked (i.e. What Lies Beneath, Little Mermaid 2, or Idiocracy)