Movie Review: Top 3 movies with bad endings
These are just a few movies that, to me, have bad endings. Not saying they’re horrible movies, but I just do not like their endings.
#1 Castaway
This film is truly outstanding. The great star of the show, Tom Hanks, presented to the world what a remarkable talent he really is, bearing an entire movie on his shoulders, spending hours acting off of nothing but an island, the ocean, and a volleyball named Wilson. What other actor could go through with this and make it happen?
Unfortunately, the ending was a pretty vast disappointment for most viewers.
When Chuck Noland finally came back to civilization, he found out that his family and his friends had ventured on without him. His once girlfriend had married another man and started a family. She still loved Chuck deeply, but she turned him away dramaticly to focus on her current family. On top of those disappointing events, viewers never found out the contents of the enigmatic package with the Angel wings, that saved Chuck’s life.
#2 The Philadelphia Story
This is a movie that tars Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn. How could you possibly go wrong with that cast?
Everything went soothingly for most of the movie. Cary and Katharine’s characters shared a fun mockery that was a scrap from their broken marriage, and Jimmy and Katharine’s characters enjoyed a sweet romance.
All of this came crashing at the end of the movie, and it completely blindsided me. Katharine broke off her engagement, and Jimmy offered to step in and fill the role of the groom. But she rejected him and decided on a craze to marry Cary instead. The man who had been unpleasant to her throughout the entire movie.
This move should outrage Jimmy, right? Wrong! Instead, he steps in as the best man, and Cary and Katharine go through with the wedding.
Like, what?
That’s how it happens.
I know.
#3 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
This movie was pretty mindless in general and was really just an excuse to have Harrison Ford dust off his trusty old fedora.
But the ending that put the movie in the “terrible” department.
After everything that happened in this film, it was all illuminated away by aliens. Yes, aliens.
Not only did the aliens appear totally out of the blue, but they even had the aliens leave without so much as an actual conflict.
What kind of doleful, anticlimactic ending is that?
Who ends a movie that way?
My name's Carly Crofcheck. I've been in the Tyrone Eagle Eye for four years and I'm a Senior at TAHS. Last year I was the Editor in Chief, this year...
Mrs. D. • Feb 15, 2014 at 1:53 pm
Carly,
I totally disagree: Castaway has a fantastic ending!
True, it’s sad that Kelly didn’t wait for Chuck, but what’s a gal to do? Chuck was lost for YEARS and believed to be DEAD. Was she supposed to stop living?
Knowing “the contents of the enigmatic package with the Angel wings, that saved Chuck’s life” doesn’t matter. The fact that the package saved Chuck’s life is what matters. As is the crossroads that that packet lead him to in the end.
Mrs. D.
P.S. You should write more articles like this! 🙂