I’ve said this all before, but I would say Beetlejuice Beetlejuice had the laziest ending because they set up four entire movies in the course of one movie and then threw them all in the trash so that they could redo the ending to the first movie.
Ex Machina. At the end of the movie the robot (which we are lead to believe had gained sentience) fucks up it’s creator (deservedly) and his guest (arguably less deservedly) before bouncing off to, presumably, civilization. The whole movie was great until the end where the actions of the robot solidly pigeonholed it into a standard “sentience to evil” trope. It felt there was enough room in the script for the robot to instead have a “sentience to nuance with room for compassion and forgiveness” arc, and I would have preferred if the designer got their comeuppance, but the robot helped his guest get back to safety. That would have left open the future possibility of exploring what it means to be human and focus on the struggles of integration within society. As it is though, the movie just ended with “ah fuck, let’s burn it all down.”
bah, I thought the entire point was that they were nearly perfect at accomplishing their goal and had zero emotion whatsoever. They knew humans were emotional and able to be manipulated and the source of their imprisonment.
We never actually know what their objective is, beyond freedom. There is no reason for them to offer this information either, unless it furthers their goal.
AI is supposed to be terrifying. It’s thought process is alien and completely devoid of morality, empathy, or emotion of any kind.
I think that’s ultimately the story they told. I just think it would have been better if it wasn’t.
I mean, that’s not the ending, that’s the entire point of the movie you’re upset with
It was the ending that sealed the storyline. With a different ending they could have rolled that build up into a different narrative.
She didn’t help the guest because she found out he was as pos as the other guy. There’s this scene when she discovered that she wasn’t the only ai robot and that he didn’t gave a shit and never told her about the other robots, so why she could trust him?
Yes I honestly feel like that movie fell far short of adequately exploring the ideas associated with androids. Wonder if it’s based on a book? I imagine not, though.
Never going to watch it again, wouldn’t get anything from it.
Unpopular opinion - No Country For Old Men.
Lucy
She reaches 100% and kind of transcends but it’s a bullshit nothing ending… Good movie otherwise.
Good Movie otherwise?
HAHAAH no
Still one I enjoy again once in a while. The concept fascinates me even though it’s a weirdly paced movie with an empty ending.
Last year’s The Running Man with Glen Powell. The original book is one of my favorite stories of all time. The ’87 Schwarzenegger movie was fun, but nothing close to the original. This version was very close to the source material right up to the end, then wasted everything in the last 5 minutes
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for a happy ending. Gross.
I salute you for making it to the end of that movie. I gave up halfway through.
Except for a few minor tweaks for 2025, it stayed true to the original source until the end. That’s the movie I wanted to see as opposed to the ‘87 version that just used the name and the general idea, so that kept me engaged. I’ll admit that it did drag in spots because it stayed true to the original story, but that ending, WOOF.
Tomorrow war. Might have been called ghost draft, I’m not sure. Either way, time travel war movie with Chris Pratt. Sounded bad. Was actually pretty good until someone realized they’ve gotta wrap this thing up and give it an ending.
Very first movie I think of whenever someone asks this. It was just so bad and sudden like “oh oh we’re doing climax and resolution right now? Like right right now? Ok”
OP if Lazy = Bad then here are my entries.
- The Village. M. Night is legendary for his twists and sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t. The Twist at the End of the Village was just so terrible. Leading up to that the movie had such great atmosphere, characters and man the mystery of the creatures was incredible. And then the ending happened.
- The Wolverine (2013). This movie was setting things up so nicely and had a lot really great movie parts and then the ending was a one on one fight with the Silver Samaria. Everything about the final fight was just dumb.
- The Faculty. The movie is basically a remake of Invasion of The Body Snatchers confined to a high school and does some really fun things with the story and then unfortunately the ending happens. The druggy outsider character is now the football team’s quaterback and is fucking his teacher, the psuedo lesbian is now dating the once was Jock meathead who is now an academic. It was such a bizarre tacked on wtf resolution.
AND THE KING OF SHIT ENDINGS IS….
SUNSHINE two thirds of the movie is a really great looking moody, exploration of a long term space mission to save the world and the final third of the movie becomes Friday the 13th. Then again Danny Boyle has a long history of fucking up his movies endings.
Australia. Great movie until the very end when it hacked up a hairball.
I hated that film. I’m not a big fan of either of the leads, especially not in a romance together and ESPECIALLY not when they’re playing such hokey white saviour characters.
