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The best ending scene in a film?

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Askani said:
The end of City Lights makes me cry every time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_vqnySNhQ0

He meets a blind woman on the street trying to sell flowers. He does all kinds of things to try to make money to pay for an operation for her to be able to see again. In the process, she thinks it's a very rich man and he knows it. Eventually he gets money but is framed for robbery. He gets the money to the woman but then gets caught by the police and goes to jail. She has the operation and only realizes at the end who helped her. Did I just really just spoiler a 100 year old movie? :lol

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Fuck. It just did it to me again. The look on his face when he tries to walk away because he thinks she won't like him. The realization. The way you don't know how she feels until right at the end and she pulls his hand up to her just slightly closer and tighter and then takes a deep breath and smiles.
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Gaf does not disappoint. This will probably be the only film, that is known for having one of cinema's greatest endings. Must be on the wiki page....
*goes to check*

And so it is. Although they go for the 'moving' angle.
Ps you have to watch the movie to know. That boxing scene... Dear me!
 
Pulp Fiction for me. You're sitting in the diner with Vince and Jules and then you realize the robbery we caught a piece of in very beginning is about to go down. The conversation Vince and Jules has is pretty amazing and hilarious. Jules looking so calm when the robbers are going around collecting wallets. Then the whole gun stand off, the boss' dirty laundry. And then at the end Vince and Jules walk out, that awesome song plays. They look around, tuck in their guns and leave. So great.
 
Pulka said:
Which scene in Fight Club isn't the best scene ever?
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Most of them. Er, all of them.

And I hate that "you only dislike that because it's popular!" argument. If I think something is bad, it's because I think that something is bad. (Not talking about TDK in particular, mind)
 
GhaleonEB said:
Titanic's ending is pretty much perfect, bringing multiple themes together visually; couldn't find a shot with the pan over the photos, but that adds to it a great deal. The final pan up to the dome - the 4th in the film, all important - is hugely powerful to me.
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What`s with that pan? It was pretty moving and a beautiful way of ending the movie but perfect?
Best shot is the one with the ship from high above, lonely in the vast, nighttime, freezing ocean.
Saw it in a theater bitd with a beautiful girl, that thing turned sour soon after but that`s another story.

My vote goes to Gladiator
 
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i just watched it recently so it's kinda fresh in my mind
 
DMczaf said:
Anyone that thinks The Dark Knight's ending was bad is goddamned insane.
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Doesn't rank in my top list. Gordon's speech was inspirational, but 'The Dark Knight' theme is just overpowering.

It's 80% zimmer.
 
Fight club was indeed great.

Lost In Translation gets my vote, if only because it matched the rest of the film perfectly
 
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Just the fact that fans still cry and debate about it over a decade after its release to me is just another reason why this ending is so great. It's so Fucked up, so ambiguous and not what you would call an "Ideal" conclusion many fans were expecting yet they still had the balls to fuck with us and do it the way they did. An Ending I'm sure stuck into peoples minds forever for better or worse.
 
Glad that Cinema Paradiso has been mentioned twice.

Terms of Endearment has one of the most satisfying endings as does As Good as It Gets. James L. Brooks knows how to nail 'em (with a few exceptions).

Also, a little gem called Moonlight Mile has one of the best endings I've seen in a decade.
 
Plasmid said:
The prestige.

Gaww so good.
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Oh SHIT

How could I forget this?!?! I was completely underwhelmed after the
fictional twist
but that ending completely redeemed it for me. Jackman's acting is SOOO GOOD in that part I ended up watching the movie 4 times that week. Classic
 
No mention of the 1999 Thomas Crown Affair yet? The museum ending scene was amazing and one of the most well directed scenes I have ever seen.
 
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of my all-time favourites. Left me feeling happy, shocked and sad at the same time.
 
BigNastyCurve said:
You mean worst ending ever? So disingenuous of Frank Darabont.
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The Mist ending was incredibly hardcore, I loved it. Stephen King felt the same also.
DMczaf said:
Anyone that thinks The Dark Knight's ending was bad is goddamned insane.
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The dialogue thrown out by the kid was really annoying and the dialogue in that scene was definitely forced, but the last shot of the motorcycle going up is really nice and makes up for it imo.

Anyway most great movies have great endings, but i'll pick one that hasn't been mentioned yet (I think). You have City Lights which someone mentioned and is amazing but another Chaplin classic has a great ending as well imo which is the circus, one of my favorite (and maybe the funniest for me) Chaplin movies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF38g4z_l_4

Someone hit it right on the head in one of the youtube comments:
Perfect metaphor for Chaplin's unease at the demise of silent films. He elects to stay alone in the remnant of the big top that he once dominated, as the circus moves on without him. The discarded star symbol adds to the effect. But he bucks up, and wanders off to whatever lies next.
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