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@@ma53jg "The Mist" did have a cruel ending, but that didn't ruin the movie. Far from it, in fact it was the best part of "The Mist"! A slow burn approach to building a sense of despair can work really well if done in an interesting way, but unfortunately most of the movie is rather boring. But the ending was great, and is the best part of an otherwise disappointing movie!
Ruined? A lot of these endings are the entire point of the movies. Last Night in Soho's ending in particular is fantastic, but yeah I just really don't get what this video was going for. Sad movies exist and if you're left feeling empty or sad that doesn't mean it's ruined.
Last night in soho is the reason why i clicked on this vid, cuz i saw it when hovering over the video and i liked that ending. Funny enough i recommended that movie to a friend litterly yesterday. But i also didn't per se dislike the endings of 'truth or dare' and 'would you rather' either.
Correct... it was as justified a homicide as could ever be possible, clearly in defense of others after exhausting all options and giving Zod tons of chances. A lot of this video is way off the mark.
No. Murder is murder. Society punishes some forms and not others, but it doesn't magically transform when you do it to stop someone else from doing it. There's philosophical debate to be had about reasons and justifications, but murder is murder.
@@Jmonkeh Murder is the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another. Keywords being "unlawful" and "premeditated". You might be thinking of homicide. Homicide can be lawful and/or not premeditated. Even permitted as in the case of self defense or during wartime.
The boy in the striped pyjamas needed the disturbing ending for its impact, and, in my view, did not detract from the horrific act of the genocide committed by the Nazi regime in the second world war.
They obviously haven’t read the book because that is how the book ends. The only difference is that in the book the parents didn’t know what happened to their son, while in the movie they figured it out right away.
Think it is based on a book so we had already an idea how it will end. Edit Checked and it ends worse, they enter the gas chamber and just his clothes are found. They keep searching for him and his father finds after an year the hole in the fence
The ending to 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' explains the reason why Bond does not let any Woman 'in' (so to speak). This was repeated in Casino Royale (Daniel Craig) but George Lazenby did it first and set the tone for the rest of the Bond films (as in the Books). Not 'Ruined', just misunderstood.
... A sad or downer ending doesn't ruin a movie. A contrived plot twist or an undeserved deus ex machina ruins the movie. The weird idea that all movies have to have some kind of upbeat/optimistic ending truly ruins movies.
That's not what they're arguing. Many of their picks are poor or ill thought out, but many are correct. It's case by case, but they aren't saying ALL movies with less than happy endings don't work. They are right abut The Butterfly Effect directors cut for example. It's just goofy.
@@AgentOccam are absolutely nuts. That is literally the best part of the butterfly effect. It is the whole point of the entire movie and to try and say that that wonderful ending that perfectly done ending was something that made it goofy or bad is just asinine and most critics agree with me. It is absolutely what they are arguing here and it absolutely laughable almost every single movie on this list is made better by its ending not worse. Whoever wrote this video needs to be fired immediately!
This list was made by a channel that needs to keep making lists after all the interesting and good ones have been made already. And of course increasing engagement by making people argue or angry is the cherry on top.
What made the ending to The Butterfly Effect so great is that when Evan and his mother visit the fortune teller, she tells them that Evan should have never been born. His mother later explains that she had three failed pregnancies before he was born. In the very end of the movie, we hear a voiceover of the mother saying that she's had four failed pregnancies, showing us that her life goes on despite Evan dying in the womb and the cycle continues.
@@AgentOccamhe literally snaps Zods neck. That's killing someone, which can also be called murder. But I agree the list sucks though has a few good points.
@@evanprince3875 When you kill someone in defense of yourself or others, it's not considered murder. People use the words kill and murder interchangeably, but while all murders are killings, not all killings are murders. Besides, Clark killed Non in Superman II back in the 80s.
"The Box" should have used the endings from either the original short story or the "Twilight Zone" adaptation. "If you push the button, someone you don't know will die." Short story: Husband dies. "Do you really think you knew your husband?" Twilight Zone: The man reclaims the box and tells the wife he'll make the same offer to "someone you don't know", implying that each person kills the previous person who pushed the button.
Most of these entries are supposed to be disturbing endings! The Son and The Boy In The Striped Pajamas are dark movies and they’re supposed to have gut-punching endings, they’re not meant to be feel-good endings! Jeez, WatchMojo, you’re blowing it!
The boy in the striped pajamas had a “great” ending in that it really got you thinking, it shocked the heck out of me, and it has stuck with me ever since I saw it.
The problem I've seen discussed with the ending of TBITSP is that we're meant to believe it's a tragic ending not because all of these Jewish people were murdered but because they also accidentally killed an "innocent" German boy.
The entire point of Boy in the Striped Pajamas ending is to show the horror of the Holocaust. The ending could not have been LESS of a gut punch if it wanted to convey this properly.
30.) Man of Steel 0:22 29.) Knowing 1:10 28.) Sunshine 2:04 27.) Would You Rather 2:58 26.) Mother! 3:39 25.) Spring Breakers 4:25 24.) On Her Majesty's Secret Service 5:16 23.) Beau is Afraid 6:12 22.) Last Night in Soho 7:16 21.) The Butterfly Effect 8:11 20.) Glass 9:04 19.) 47 Meters Down 10:11 18.) Serenity 11:11 17.) Truth or Dare 12:16 16.) The Son 13:26 15.) The Entity 14:26 14.) The Number 23 15:29 13.) The Box 16:38 12.) The Woman in Black 17:33 11.) The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 18:38 10.) Secret Window 19:31 9.) Sucker Punch 20:09 8.) Knock Knock 20:51 7.) Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension 21:28 6.) The Descent: Part 2 22:19 5.) Remember Me 23:02 4.) Splice 23:41 3.) High Tension 24:27 2.) The Life of David Gale 25:10 1.) Pay It Forward 26:04
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas. I don’t know if that ending “ruins” the movie….I mean it’s a movie about the Holocaust. I doubt there’s many ways to end this movie in a good way. Even if both boys had survived it would’ve still had the tragedy of the reality of the Holocaust and all the many people that hadn’t survived. Even if only Bruno had survived and Shmuel had died you still could’ve called it tragic but it’s still somewhat expected. Because this moment is supposed to show the darkness and horrors of the Holocaust. It’s horrible that both boys died when one of them didn’t even “have” to be there but I’ve never seen it as “sympathizing with Nazi’s”. I’ve always seen it as now that the Nazi has lost his son maybe he’ll realize how truly terrible the things he has committed are. The fact that he and so many other people have killed countless innocent children, as well as their mothers and fathers and now he knows what it’s like to have your child ripped away from you and killed in a brutal way….He might understand in the smallest degree possible just how truly horrible and awful the things he’s been doing are. It might help him see that the Jews are humans too and he’s killing their children. I don’t know. I never thought that that ending was terrible. It showed the darkness and horrors of the Holocaust which…you can’t make that seem any less dark than it was. You can’t ignore how truly horrible that event was.
The problem I've seen discussed with the ending of TBITSP is that we're meant to believe it's a tragic ending not because all of these Jewish people were murdered but because they also accidentally killed an "innocent" German boy.
@ But that’s what I was saying. Realizing that they killed their own son might make at least this small family realize how terrible and dark what they’re doing is. The sadness and pain they feel they have caused that sadness and pain to so many other people. Maybe they’ll start thinking differently, start treating the Jews as people because they realize just how terrible they’ve been treating them now with the fact that their son was accidentally killed the same way that they’ve been killing the Jews
@@rubygracemoseley8144 I agree. The ending showed that some people need to learn these lessons the hard way. They have to lose something near and dear to them before they understand their place in the misery.
Beau is Afraid’s ending explains the opening shot. It makes the whole film come full circle. Also though it costs him his life, if you listen very closely before the credits roll, you hear his mum break down in tears knowing she can never experiment with her son again. Also mother!’s ending was on point about humanity & what would you rather? Them leaving the house & Him finally listening to mother????? Have a look at the state of the world
The ending of Woman in Black I thought was pretty good. It was the ghost's way of showing gratitude for Radcliffe's character going out of his way to right the wrongs done to her.
@@DerpDevilDD Tbh, he was miserable without his wife even though he loved his son. In the end, she didn't keep his son, he allowed them both to move on together. It's more bittersweet. It's sad but the three of them are together in the end at least.
For "Knock Knock," an alternate ending had been created: Reeves' character, after his life went to Hell, tracked down his dog with a GPS tracker. He followed it to the house where another man was being tortured in the same way, with one of the girls holding the dog. He puts on leather gloves, then walks up to the door and knocks. The girls, startled by the unexpected visitor, look to the front door and nervously ask, "...Who's there?"
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas has a sad ending because it dealt with how many people suffered during the war and how life is short for the innocent and hoping history will never repeat the tragedy again
The problem I've seen discussed with the ending of TBITSP is that we're meant to believe it's a tragic ending not because all of these Jewish people were murdered but because they also accidentally killed an "innocent" German boy.
Henry Cavill’s Superman’s scream, having realized he’s the last Kryptonian alive with Zod’s death he himself carried out, was a redeeming quality to the movie’s end.
@@ellnats like...what exactly? It's like saying cops should try to shoot a gun out of someone's hands when he's pointing it at someone. Easy to say, almost impossible to actually do.
Last Night in Soho is awesome, ruined is a strong word. No it’s not just because my profile is my artwork of Anya Taylor Joy in that movie. This does not deserve to be the thumbnail 😂
look im an anya simp just like the next guy, but man that ending was insanely predictable... seriously the director made hott fuzz the movie that mocks the obvious suspect trope in mistery film and this movie went with the most obvious reveal since shot one, i think a scooby doo episode would have a better pay off than that
The premise of the movie was great, but the twist at the end was lame and unoriginal. I would have liked it better if Sandy had in fact been murdered and Ellie had solved her murder, bringing her soul peace and her murderer to justice.
I love it so much I have the dvd. The part where the ship tells them there’s not enough oxygen to support them all and they discover that they picked up a new passenger was creepy as hell.
I'm sick of people harping on about the end of Man of Steel What was he supposed to do, let Zod kill the family? In which case everyone would be bitching about instead.
Well, he could have flown Zod away, covered his eyes, superspeed jumping in front of Zod's heat-vision blasts, told the family to run away in the clearly open space, etc.
You act like it really happened. Snyder was supposed to write a story that actually portrays the character. Not write the character to fit into the dark and brooding world because that's the only kind of movie you can make.
Nope. They survive, and are led away by police (who somehow get to where the FoS is, but that's a different issue). In the theatrical version, this happens off-screen, and we never know. But in the extended version (not the Donner Cut, that's a third version where they never die because they were never released from the PZ because time travel) we see it happen in the background after the climax. Sure, you can claim that the theatrical version is the "real" version, and since we didn't see them hauled off it didn't happen. But if you insist that anything we don't see didn't happen, then they didn't die in the theatrical version either, because we have no idea how deep the "chasm" is. Maybe it's basically just a holding cell, we don't know. So, our three options are 1) We don't know, 2) Hauled off to prison, 3) Time travel. Since 3 is such the odd duck out, we can dismiss that as canon. So what's left? We don't know, and hauled off. Only one of those is definitive.
Between the novelization, the televised version, and the original script, the three kryptonians were never killed. I mean how deep do you think the Fortress of Solitude is? I always knew they were thrown into a snow drift and jailed later.
@@GruffyddFO4 If you're gonna go by canon, Superman has killed. Specifically General Zod, even. And he killed Mister Mxyzptlk back in the Silver Age era, and Doomsday in the infamous "Death of Superman" comic. Then there's the creatures he's killed, like the Kryptonian dragon. So while Christopher Reeves' Superman may not have killed anyone (except his corrupted self in Superman 3 and Nuclear Man in Superman 4), the idea that Superman never kills is simply not true. He just doesn't do it as a general rule.
@@Curu82 I've addressed this in other comments, but I guess you didn't see them. Superman *when written properly* does not kill *people*. Yes, he's killed creatures on rare occasions (I'd count Doomsday among these, as it was written during that terrible 4-issue gimmick story). But almost every time he's killed a person it's been either an "Elseworlds" story, or they were about to reset the universe the next issue. For example, when he kills Mxyzptlk, he then out of remorse depowers himself with gold kryptonite, and then the universe resets. With Zod, if it's the story I think you're referencing, he doesn't actually kill him because Quex-ul kills him before the kryptonite can when Zod tries to throw him under the bus, but that's splitting hairs. The issue was terribly written, another gimmick story. The only reason he kills them is to give a reason for his "I will not kill" code in the post-Crisis universe. And it was utterly unnecessary. He kills them because without powers and without anyone else to interact with they *threaten* to find a way to get their powers back and come to his world to keep killing. That is what is called an empty threat. When properly written, Superman - the Big Blue Boy Scout - finds other ways.
@@GruffyddFO4 Even if you argue that he didn't kill Zod (but as you said, splitting hairs), he also killed Quex-Ul and Zaora. Though executed is more accurate, which was the entire point. He takes on the duty of being the judge, jury, and executioner because there is no one else who can. That IS him being Boy Scout Superman; doing what duty dictates and he has to, even if he doesn't want to. Same with Mxyzptlk. When it comes down to it, he will set aside his own principles for the good of others. That the universe resets, or whether you consider them gimmicky or poorly written, is irrelevant to the argument. Canonically, Superman does kill when necessary. And if the Snyderverse is considered to be outside main continuity (and I'd say it is), he definitely kills.
It doesn’t matter if you’re tired of hearing about The Mist. The fact is that it needs to be on this list. In fact it should be #1. It was a gutsy but unnecessary plot change from the book.
I’m not going to say the box is a perfect film but the ending is what MAKES IT. The man offers someone else the box at the same time she dies and it shows it was always a cycle of violence fandom greed
Dear WatchMojo: A SAD/DISTURBING ENDING IS SOMETIMES THE POINT. Somebody please explain to these people that not all movies end with “happily ever after”. For me, Superman killing Zod made him less of a Boy Scout, and more of a troubled soul, it made him more human. For Butterfly Effect, the depressing ending is the whole point! The boy in the striped pajamas is supposed to be a gut punch, and no, It doesn’t create sympathy for Nazis
It did make Superman those things. And that's the point. Superman is not those things. If you want troubled, human, morally grayer characters, there are plenty of them out there. Some early Marvel characters like Spider-Man were specifically created as a departure from characters like Superman, and for those characters it works. Changing Superman to be that way negates the character.
@Rhinox-89 There are some great ways to make Superman "interesting" that don't make him Not Superman. They didn't bother coming up with any of them, because Snyder has no idea what to do with a superhero who isn't dark, edgy, or morally ambiguous. For a great example of a really good story that features Superman done right, check out Kingdom Come.
I thank you for not saying the word cannibalism in the movie Mother. I’ve never seen the movie but I have curiosity when I watch clips from other movies. This one pretty much traumatized me
Would You Rather is a great movie, the ending didn't ruin a thing. Actually most of these movies weren't ruined by the ending, they just become bummers.
@@ForrestFox626 Oh, you're talking about that movie. I thought you were talking about Would You Rather. Yeah, Truth or Dare had really dumb characters. I agree.
Huh? The Butterfly Effect had 2 alternate endings, and the one where he strangles himself in the womb was great if you asked me. That was the only way to end the curse was to just take himself out before he had any chance to screw it all up........again. It was demented and that's what I liked about it. The ending where everyone lives happily ever after was less interesting.
I hate Pay it forward due to it's unnecessary ending, but it is a confusing ride due to it taking place in two different times. Time 1 is that the boy starts and time 2 is Pay it Forward is halfway across the US and a reporter tries to find the origin. Spoiler ending the reporter finds the boy getting killed on the school playground.
The problem I've seen discussed with the ending of TBITSP is that we're meant to believe it's a tragic ending not because all of these Jewish people were murdered but because they also accidentally killed an "innocent" German boy.
Ruined? I don’t think the movies were ruined, I think it’s just that a lot if people think that all movies, have to have a cookiecutter happy ending. Witch is BS. I loved the directors cut of The Butterfly effect, it makes sense. Life is not always sunshine and roses, so I don’t think films should be that either.
Danny Boyle's film "Yesterday" should be added to this list, an apparently good idea they didn't know how to end. Also add "Get Out" - especially knowing how Jordan Peele initial and more relevant ending got scrapped! I was very happy to see both "Splice" and "High Tension" on this list, complete nonsense final plots. I do however really like the ending of James Bond "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", it shows how he's a human like anyone else, and also can experience loss, it was tragic but this ending made it stand out from all the other predictable Bond movies.
The butterfly effect ending it’s great; it’s the most hopeful they could’ve got. Yeah it’s bittersweet but Evan wanted her to grow up happy and be free of trauma; he also got to have a life without pain.
Started with Man of Steel which has been explained to death, with Last Night in Soho being on the thumbnail. Not everything needs a happy ending, cause that's how life is, it didn't ruin these movies
The Devil Inside. That’s my answer. Reasons; One of the Worst Endings of All Time in Cinema History. What the F*** was the Director Thinking?! A freaking bad Cliffhanger. Worst Acting of All Time in Horror History. Last but not least that no one would mention is that the Awful Ending became a parody in the underrated opening of A Haunted House
Killing in defense of others is not murder, it's justifiable homicide, and it's something they should give medals for. If Superman let Zod kill people when he can stop it, he's basically an accomplice.
Man of Steel? I'd say that Superman killing possibly thousands of innocents by destroying half the city was more disturbing than the ending to be fair.
the butterfly effect ending was great. because earlier in the movie we learn his mom and multiple miscarriages, and him "going back to kill himself, could mean every single one of her kids, did have the power and ended up doing the exact same thing.
Reminder in the comics Supes, while not proud of it, executed an alternative dimension Zod after the latter and his cronies genocided humanity in their home dimension. Supes simply exposed them to kryptonite and left them to a slow death.
The difference is that it was a regret of his he swore never to utilise again, even forcing him in a bad situation with the xenomorphs in _Superman/Aliens._ In _Man of Steel_ he seems unphased after the scene is over. What should be a heartbreaking moment has no lasting implications for the Big Blue Boyscout.
A bad ending can ruin a movie, but a controversial and/or so called unhappy ending is not necessarily a bad one. Conversely, a film that ends happily isn't always the right ending for a film. The original Planet of Apes from 1968 had a heartbreaking conclusion, but it was absolutely brilliant and has become legendary. it appears as though the films referenced in this video had some or unhappy or even tragic resolutions, but that quite a few of them actually worked better than some Disneyesque end where everything's wrapped up in a neat little bow and everyone lives happily ever after.
IDK why people had a problem with Superman having no choice but to kill Zod in order to save people from being killed. In the comocs over the years, Superman has killed 19 times. Some of those he has killed include: Dr. Light, General General Zod, Quex-Ul, and Zalora. Also, Mister Mxyzptlk, Doomsday, Joe Chill, Kalibak, his father Darkseid, Wonder Woman, The Joker, Green Arrow, The Black Canary,Captain Marvel (Shazam) and Batman. Just for reference, Superman has been killed by Wonder Woman, and no surprise Batman.
The trouble with the life of David gale, is that it was based on an utterly faulty premise, that death penalty advocates would stop supporting the death penalty if it were proven that an innocent person had been executed….in 2003…. Even with the film starting in 1994, the first death row exoneration in the US via DNA had already been done in 1993…. You can find many death penalty advocates, being okay with a certain percentage of innocent executions…
As far as the Man of Steel is concerned, giving the fact that Zod would have murdered the innocent, there was no other way to stop him than killing him. This is reality. Too many fan boys want Superman to be the character that never kills. Fine for the funny books, but in reality it would never happen like that. John Byrne (who revamped the character back in 1986-7) did a story where Superman executed (by kryptonite poisoning) three Kryptonian villains who had slaughtered six billion people.
I remember when Supes found out someone caused an explosion that took the life of a child. So he literally scooped the guy up from the cops and proceeded to drop the mofo from like 200 feet from the ground. He found out he had lead in his brain but still, Supes dropped him like a overdue library in a return box.
0:57 Murder? They were battling each other for their lives. Murder is a premeditated killing of one human by another. As neither were human, it cannot be murder, let alone how it occurred.
Exactly. Also, it's made pretty damn clear that this "murder" may have betrayed the character of Superman, but the film recognizes that and Superman's breakdown was the best possible way to respond to this development.
These movies were NOT ruined. A lot of the endings were great. And a "disturbing" ending does not ruin a movie... WatchMojo REALLY missed the mark with this video
For the woman in black, the ending is true to how the original play ends. Though in my opinion, the play is way more scary amd suspenseful. The film uses music that gives away jumpscares. But is still very faithful to the play.
For me, one of the most disturbing endings gotta be Midsommar. The protagonist staring out to the distance and losing her mind to the cult is one of the most unsettling views ever.
I have seen most of the movies on this list, and disagree that the ending ruined them. Tho I hated the ending of Glass, It wasn't because it was "disturbing" it was because it was pointless. Ok, Truth or Dare was a cop out. ok, High Tension is stupid. not disturbing, tho. I'm convinced you just don't like some endings.
Bad start. Superman did *not* commit murder. You said yourself it was an innocent family. Killing in defense of others is not murder. What made you think it was? Unless you're actually arguing that he should have let the family die, and never stop Zod, then I don't know what the people who think this ending was controversial are on about.
Superman does not kill, its key to the character, as core fundamental as batman not using guns...there will always be another way... You can break that rule, if done well, for example Batman shooting Darkseid with the bullet he used to murder Orion (his bio son), to save all reality from antilife/mandrakk... and Batman "dies" in the process, and its recognised as a sacrifice.... The scene is meant to make you feel the tragedy of the situation, but rather than Zod acting out of the cold corrupted rationality that's defined his character (in both the movie and in general media), its a thoughtless rage... Contrast it with the last bat on earth, where Superman and Lex Luthor fight with words over good vs evil, under the threat of instant death, and Superman wins definitively (luthor admits it) but rather than let his oldest enemy die, he sacrifices his life to save him... thats who Superman is. Its why his counterpart killing the joker in the injustice universe is so horrific...
I'm still shocked how many people think the ending of Man of Steel was bad because "Muh Superman wouldn't do that" and call it murder, when it's clearly not.
0:58 so stupid. Supes has killed in the comics before. This was the beginning of his superman career and sent him down the path to never kill again. The ending made the movie better
Can't watch the video because you don't know how to use time stamps but what about a disturbing ending ruins a movie? What if that was the whole point? Someone at mojo doesn't understand cinema and needs to pass the reigns to someone who else
The problem with the Man of Steel ending wasn't that Superman was forced to kill Zod, but rather that it was VERY poorly executed: 1. Superman was controlling Zod's head, but had ZERO control over where his eyes aimed. Zod could have just glanced to the right and zapped those people. 2. If we presume Kryptonians can only look straight ahead when using their heat vision, there was NO reason for that family to stay in that corner while Superman was holding Zod. You can clearly see at 0:48 that they had an unobstructed, easily recognizable path to escape while Zod was still blasting straight ahead. Literally nothing about this scene made sense. Poor writing, poor set design, poor blocking by the director.
i like that you are sparking conversation about these movies again but like many people said a sad twist or death at an unexpected time does not ruin the movie , especially if you actually know the reference of it or its impact on the future of a franchise
am I the only one that wanted to stop watching The Man of Steel when Jonathan Kent told his young son that he should have left those kids to drown I know he didn't say it in words but it was heavily implied the ending was just another dour in a bad Superman Movie .
@@MelodySnowleopard I agree this movie ruined Superman for me good thing that Zack is now gone ruining movies somewhere else and I hope the new movie redeems it.
Despite the controversial endings, I loved Last Night In Soho, The Woman in Black and Pay It Forward (although, rooting for Spacey when he punched out a child rapist is incredibly ironic.)
Agreed about "Identity"! As others have said in these comments, tacked on happy endings are bad; but not all horror/thriller movies need to have twisty/down-beat endings, either. d-:
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Night of the Living Dead (1968) When Ben Got Shot in The Head mistaken him for a zombie.
"Man of Steel" 0:22 wasn't ruined by its bad ending, because it was already a bad movie!
The Mist
Some movies have unhappy/disturbing endings, which is fine. But this film's ending was unnecessarily harsh/cruel.
@@ma53jg "The Mist" did have a cruel ending, but that didn't ruin the movie. Far from it, in fact it was the best part of "The Mist"!
A slow burn approach to building a sense of despair can work really well if done in an interesting way, but unfortunately most of the movie is rather boring. But the ending was great, and is the best part of an otherwise disappointing movie!
Ruined? A lot of these endings are the entire point of the movies. Last Night in Soho's ending in particular is fantastic, but yeah I just really don't get what this video was going for. Sad movies exist and if you're left feeling empty or sad that doesn't mean it's ruined.
Agreed, and I have never heard anyone say Boy in the Stripped Pajamas is "contrived" or "sympathetic to the Nazis".
Most of these just seem to suck and I have no interest in watching any of them other than Striped Pajamas
Last night in soho is the reason why i clicked on this vid, cuz i saw it when hovering over the video and i liked that ending. Funny enough i recommended that movie to a friend litterly yesterday. But i also didn't per se dislike the endings of 'truth or dare' and 'would you rather' either.
Yeah out of 30 of the movies I agree about 2 ruined it and some were bad but not ruining, and some weren’t bad just sad.
@@kpierce1111 for to love adding movies to the list that had the same endings as books. Did they expect a change for the sake of a happy ending?
VERY Important note: It is NOT "murder" when you are defending yourself or other innocents.
Also, did we forget what happened to Zod in the previous movie he shared with Superman? Oh yeah, that's right, Superman killed him.
@@TheKarishi Yeah lol He didn't even need to k*ll them either! He removed their powers!
Correct... it was as justified a homicide as could ever be possible, clearly in defense of others after exhausting all options and giving Zod tons of chances. A lot of this video is way off the mark.
No. Murder is murder. Society punishes some forms and not others, but it doesn't magically transform when you do it to stop someone else from doing it. There's philosophical debate to be had about reasons and justifications, but murder is murder.
@@Jmonkeh Murder is the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another. Keywords being "unlawful" and "premeditated". You might be thinking of homicide. Homicide can be lawful and/or not premeditated. Even permitted as in the case of self defense or during wartime.
The boy in the striped pyjamas needed the disturbing ending for its impact, and, in my view, did not detract from the horrific act of the genocide committed by the Nazi regime in the second world war.
So they both died in the end, then again major of Jew were kill in those camp
Agreed.
They obviously haven’t read the book because that is how the book ends. The only difference is that in the book the parents didn’t know what happened to their son, while in the movie they figured it out right away.
Plus wasn't there a dark ending either the boy dying from grenade shrapnel?
Think it is based on a book so we had already an idea how it will end. Edit Checked and it ends worse, they enter the gas chamber and just his clothes are found. They keep searching for him and his father finds after an year the hole in the fence
Last Night in Soho’s ending was just as awesome as the rest of the movie
That movie was dark, weird, but oh so good. Thomasin Mackenzie and Anya Taylor-Joy stole the show.
I beg to differ.
The ending to 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' explains the reason why Bond does not let any Woman 'in' (so to speak). This was repeated in Casino Royale (Daniel Craig) but George Lazenby did it first and set the tone for the rest of the Bond films (as in the Books). Not 'Ruined', just misunderstood.
... A sad or downer ending doesn't ruin a movie. A contrived plot twist or an undeserved deus ex machina ruins the movie. The weird idea that all movies have to have some kind of upbeat/optimistic ending truly ruins movies.
Or predictable ending, like Would You Rather.
This video was written by someone who doesn’t understand that good storytelling doesn’t always need a happy ending.
That's not what they're arguing. Many of their picks are poor or ill thought out, but many are correct. It's case by case, but they aren't saying ALL movies with less than happy endings don't work. They are right abut The Butterfly Effect directors cut for example. It's just goofy.
@@AgentOccam are absolutely nuts. That is literally the best part of the butterfly effect. It is the whole point of the entire movie and to try and say that that wonderful ending that perfectly done ending was something that made it goofy or bad is just asinine and most critics agree with me. It is absolutely what they are arguing here and it absolutely laughable almost every single movie on this list is made better by its ending not worse. Whoever wrote this video needs to be fired immediately!
But it does get old literally every horror film can't be original. The monster/ entity always has to pop back up at the end.
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This list was made by a channel that needs to keep making lists after all the interesting and good ones have been made already. And of course increasing engagement by making people argue or angry is the cherry on top.
What made the ending to The Butterfly Effect so great is that when Evan and his mother visit the fortune teller, she tells them that Evan should have never been born. His mother later explains that she had three failed pregnancies before he was born. In the very end of the movie, we hear a voiceover of the mother saying that she's had four failed pregnancies, showing us that her life goes on despite Evan dying in the womb and the cycle continues.
Last Night in Soho is one of my favorite movies, the ending shocked me I don't think it ruined the movie 😭
it didn't shock it was friggin ovious that old lady was sadie, "this is london, people die all the time!" like come on!
@@motor4X4kombatyou done yet?
@@Jackattack359 you?
@@motor4X4kombat yeah, you
I’m with you 100% on that.
This whole list is just terrible. Those endings is what made the movies. Big failure on mojo
Correct. No Mist on the list either.
What do you expect it’s watch mojo. Nothing of actually quality comes from here
Nah, it's a mixed list with some very dumb calls (Superman does not even commit murder, for example), but some of these endings were dumb.
@@AgentOccamhe literally snaps Zods neck. That's killing someone, which can also be called murder. But I agree the list sucks though has a few good points.
@@evanprince3875 When you kill someone in defense of yourself or others, it's not considered murder. People use the words kill and murder interchangeably, but while all murders are killings, not all killings are murders.
Besides, Clark killed Non in Superman II back in the 80s.
"The Box" should have used the endings from either the original short story or the "Twilight Zone" adaptation.
"If you push the button, someone you don't know will die."
Short story: Husband dies. "Do you really think you knew your husband?"
Twilight Zone: The man reclaims the box and tells the wife he'll make the same offer to "someone you don't know", implying that each person kills the previous person who pushed the button.
Such a great Zone episode! :)
Oh, I like that short story ending, they should have have done THAT!
Most of these entries are supposed to be disturbing endings! The Son and The Boy In The Striped Pajamas are dark movies and they’re supposed to have gut-punching endings, they’re not meant to be feel-good endings! Jeez, WatchMojo, you’re blowing it!
The boy in the striped pajamas had a “great” ending in that it really got you thinking, it shocked the heck out of me, and it has stuck with me ever since I saw it.
The problem I've seen discussed with the ending of TBITSP is that we're meant to believe it's a tragic ending not because all of these Jewish people were murdered but because they also accidentally killed an "innocent" German boy.
The entire point of Boy in the Striped Pajamas ending is to show the horror of the Holocaust. The ending could not have been LESS of a gut punch if it wanted to convey this properly.
30.) Man of Steel 0:22
29.) Knowing 1:10
28.) Sunshine 2:04
27.) Would You Rather 2:58
26.) Mother! 3:39
25.) Spring Breakers 4:25
24.) On Her Majesty's Secret Service 5:16
23.) Beau is Afraid 6:12
22.) Last Night in Soho 7:16
21.) The Butterfly Effect 8:11
20.) Glass 9:04
19.) 47 Meters Down 10:11
18.) Serenity 11:11
17.) Truth or Dare 12:16
16.) The Son 13:26
15.) The Entity 14:26
14.) The Number 23 15:29
13.) The Box 16:38
12.) The Woman in Black 17:33
11.) The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 18:38
10.) Secret Window 19:31
9.) Sucker Punch 20:09
8.) Knock Knock 20:51
7.) Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension 21:28
6.) The Descent: Part 2 22:19
5.) Remember Me 23:02
4.) Splice 23:41
3.) High Tension 24:27
2.) The Life of David Gale 25:10
1.) Pay It Forward 26:04
YOu are doing the Lord's work
Glad to see on the comments that most people agree that Last Night in Soho should not be on this list.
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas. I don’t know if that ending “ruins” the movie….I mean it’s a movie about the Holocaust. I doubt there’s many ways to end this movie in a good way. Even if both boys had survived it would’ve still had the tragedy of the reality of the Holocaust and all the many people that hadn’t survived. Even if only Bruno had survived and Shmuel had died you still could’ve called it tragic but it’s still somewhat expected. Because this moment is supposed to show the darkness and horrors of the Holocaust. It’s horrible that both boys died when one of them didn’t even “have” to be there but I’ve never seen it as “sympathizing with Nazi’s”. I’ve always seen it as now that the Nazi has lost his son maybe he’ll realize how truly terrible the things he has committed are. The fact that he and so many other people have killed countless innocent children, as well as their mothers and fathers and now he knows what it’s like to have your child ripped away from you and killed in a brutal way….He might understand in the smallest degree possible just how truly horrible and awful the things he’s been doing are. It might help him see that the Jews are humans too and he’s killing their children. I don’t know. I never thought that that ending was terrible. It showed the darkness and horrors of the Holocaust which…you can’t make that seem any less dark than it was. You can’t ignore how truly horrible that event was.
The problem I've seen discussed with the ending of TBITSP is that we're meant to believe it's a tragic ending not because all of these Jewish people were murdered but because they also accidentally killed an "innocent" German boy.
@ But that’s what I was saying. Realizing that they killed their own son might make at least this small family realize how terrible and dark what they’re doing is. The sadness and pain they feel they have caused that sadness and pain to so many other people. Maybe they’ll start thinking differently, start treating the Jews as people because they realize just how terrible they’ve been treating them now with the fact that their son was accidentally killed the same way that they’ve been killing the Jews
@@rubygracemoseley8144 I agree. The ending showed that some people need to learn these lessons the hard way. They have to lose something near and dear to them before they understand their place in the misery.
Last Night in Soho wasn't ruined by the ending, though some aspects are a little muddled.
Agreed
Agreed. There were moments that had me terrified/disgusted, but it was a stellar movie.
Beau is Afraid’s ending explains the opening shot. It makes the whole film come full circle. Also though it costs him his life, if you listen very closely before the credits roll, you hear his mum break down in tears knowing she can never experiment with her son again. Also mother!’s ending was on point about humanity & what would you rather? Them leaving the house & Him finally listening to mother????? Have a look at the state of the world
For Truth or Dare, she should’ve dared the entity into ending the game and leaving them alone
The ending of Woman in Black I thought was pretty good. It was the ghost's way of showing gratitude for Radcliffe's character going out of his way to right the wrongs done to her.
Gratitude? By killing him and his son?
@@DerpDevilDD Tbh, he was miserable without his wife even though he loved his son. In the end, she didn't keep his son, he allowed them both to move on together. It's more bittersweet. It's sad but the three of them are together in the end at least.
For "Knock Knock," an alternate ending had been created: Reeves' character, after his life went to Hell, tracked down his dog with a GPS tracker. He followed it to the house where another man was being tortured in the same way, with one of the girls holding the dog.
He puts on leather gloves, then walks up to the door and knocks. The girls, startled by the unexpected visitor, look to the front door and nervously ask, "...Who's there?"
I was able to get a sneak preview of Remember Me and the entire audience groaned out loud and boo'd when they revealed the date on the chalk board
i love the ending of remember me,and donnie darko,and watchmen.
More movies have been ruined by unconvincing happy endings...
How about just bad or lazy endings? regardless of happy or not?
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas has a sad ending because it dealt with how many people suffered during the war and how life is short for the innocent and hoping history will never repeat the tragedy again
The problem I've seen discussed with the ending of TBITSP is that we're meant to believe it's a tragic ending not because all of these Jewish people were murdered but because they also accidentally killed an "innocent" German boy.
@@mustlovebooknerdwhy do you feel the need to post the same comment multiple times?
Henry Cavill’s Superman’s scream, having realized he’s the last Kryptonian alive with Zod’s death he himself carried out, was a redeeming quality to the movie’s end.
yeah true, but couldn't he have done anything else to prevent that family from getting fried?
@@ellnats like...what exactly? It's like saying cops should try to shoot a gun out of someone's hands when he's pointing it at someone. Easy to say, almost impossible to actually do.
@@jonw8694Have the family be smart enough to move
@@jonw8694 couldn't he try to fly him out of the area? im just asking a question
@@jonw8694fly up...not fight in the city....things multiple heroes have done but thts wht u get when u get Snyder's usual nihilism
Last Night in Soho is awesome, ruined is a strong word. No it’s not just because my profile is my artwork of Anya Taylor Joy in that movie. This does not deserve to be the thumbnail 😂
look im an anya simp just like the next guy, but man that ending was insanely predictable... seriously the director made hott fuzz the movie that mocks the obvious suspect trope in mistery film and this movie went with the most obvious reveal since shot one, i think a scooby doo episode would have a better pay off than that
@@motor4X4kombatnot to mention the horrendous CGI that felt so out of place on such an otherwise beautiful shot film
Its only you who find it okay tho lol
I thought it was a very good movie. Some class music and styling. Definitely not ruined.
The premise of the movie was great, but the twist at the end was lame and unoriginal. I would have liked it better if Sandy had in fact been murdered and Ellie had solved her murder, bringing her soul peace and her murderer to justice.
Sunshine did not disappoint. You disappoint.
I love it so much I have the dvd. The part where the ship tells them there’s not enough oxygen to support them all and they discover that they picked up a new passenger was creepy as hell.
@@jsmalls9575 Completely agree.
Sunshine is one of my favorite movies from start to finish. I watch it regularly.
I'm sick of people harping on about the end of Man of Steel What was he supposed to do, let Zod kill the family? In which case everyone would be bitching about instead.
Well, he could have flown Zod away, covered his eyes, superspeed jumping in front of Zod's heat-vision blasts, told the family to run away in the clearly open space, etc.
Agreed, too many options to chose from and he chose the worst one@@multitudeofidols
You act like it really happened. Snyder was supposed to write a story that actually portrays the character. Not write the character to fit into the dark and brooding world because that's the only kind of movie you can make.
Agreed, plus it was Superman's first real fight against other super beings. He was working on instinct, not strategy.
Zod would never have stopped and it made Superman less boring
Does someone want to explain to WatchMojo that not every movie needs a happy ending to be considered “good”?
The Christopher Reeve Superman kills Zod in Superman 2. Zod's death just happens offscreen as he is thrown into a chasm in the Fortress of Solitutde.
Nope. They survive, and are led away by police (who somehow get to where the FoS is, but that's a different issue). In the theatrical version, this happens off-screen, and we never know. But in the extended version (not the Donner Cut, that's a third version where they never die because they were never released from the PZ because time travel) we see it happen in the background after the climax.
Sure, you can claim that the theatrical version is the "real" version, and since we didn't see them hauled off it didn't happen. But if you insist that anything we don't see didn't happen, then they didn't die in the theatrical version either, because we have no idea how deep the "chasm" is. Maybe it's basically just a holding cell, we don't know.
So, our three options are 1) We don't know, 2) Hauled off to prison, 3) Time travel. Since 3 is such the odd duck out, we can dismiss that as canon. So what's left? We don't know, and hauled off. Only one of those is definitive.
Between the novelization, the televised version, and the original script, the three kryptonians were never killed. I mean how deep do you think the Fortress of Solitude is? I always knew they were thrown into a snow drift and jailed later.
@@GruffyddFO4 If you're gonna go by canon, Superman has killed. Specifically General Zod, even. And he killed Mister Mxyzptlk back in the Silver Age era, and Doomsday in the infamous "Death of Superman" comic. Then there's the creatures he's killed, like the Kryptonian dragon.
So while Christopher Reeves' Superman may not have killed anyone (except his corrupted self in Superman 3 and Nuclear Man in Superman 4), the idea that Superman never kills is simply not true. He just doesn't do it as a general rule.
@@Curu82 I've addressed this in other comments, but I guess you didn't see them. Superman *when written properly* does not kill *people*. Yes, he's killed creatures on rare occasions (I'd count Doomsday among these, as it was written during that terrible 4-issue gimmick story). But almost every time he's killed a person it's been either an "Elseworlds" story, or they were about to reset the universe the next issue. For example, when he kills Mxyzptlk, he then out of remorse depowers himself with gold kryptonite, and then the universe resets. With Zod, if it's the story I think you're referencing, he doesn't actually kill him because Quex-ul kills him before the kryptonite can when Zod tries to throw him under the bus, but that's splitting hairs. The issue was terribly written, another gimmick story. The only reason he kills them is to give a reason for his "I will not kill" code in the post-Crisis universe. And it was utterly unnecessary. He kills them because without powers and without anyone else to interact with they *threaten* to find a way to get their powers back and come to his world to keep killing. That is what is called an empty threat.
When properly written, Superman - the Big Blue Boy Scout - finds other ways.
@@GruffyddFO4 Even if you argue that he didn't kill Zod (but as you said, splitting hairs), he also killed Quex-Ul and Zaora.
Though executed is more accurate, which was the entire point. He takes on the duty of being the judge, jury, and executioner because there is no one else who can. That IS him being Boy Scout Superman; doing what duty dictates and he has to, even if he doesn't want to.
Same with Mxyzptlk.
When it comes down to it, he will set aside his own principles for the good of others.
That the universe resets, or whether you consider them gimmicky or poorly written, is irrelevant to the argument. Canonically, Superman does kill when necessary.
And if the Snyderverse is considered to be outside main continuity (and I'd say it is), he definitely kills.
THANK YOU for not spoiling the entire movie with the intro/title to each number on the list! 🙌🏼
FINALLY The Mist was not mentioned. Watch Mojo is obsessed with that film lol. Yes we know the guy shot all those people in the car for nothing....
That was an intentional part of the tragedy of the plot...
The ending was heartbreaking 😢
It doesn’t matter if you’re tired of hearing about The Mist. The fact is that it needs to be on this list. In fact it should be #1. It was a gutsy but unnecessary plot change from the book.
I’m not going to say the box is a perfect film but the ending is what MAKES IT. The man offers someone else the box at the same time she dies and it shows it was always a cycle of violence fandom greed
Dear WatchMojo:
A SAD/DISTURBING ENDING IS SOMETIMES THE POINT. Somebody please explain to these people that not all movies end with “happily ever after”.
For me, Superman killing Zod made him less of a Boy Scout, and more of a troubled soul, it made him more human.
For Butterfly Effect, the depressing ending is the whole point!
The boy in the striped pajamas is supposed to be a gut punch, and no, It doesn’t create sympathy for Nazis
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It did make Superman those things. And that's the point. Superman is not those things. If you want troubled, human, morally grayer characters, there are plenty of them out there. Some early Marvel characters like Spider-Man were specifically created as a departure from characters like Superman, and for those characters it works. Changing Superman to be that way negates the character.
@@GruffyddFO4 oh no they made Superman…..interesting🤣
If they hadn’t, every viewer would have been bored
@Rhinox-89 There are some great ways to make Superman "interesting" that don't make him Not Superman. They didn't bother coming up with any of them, because Snyder has no idea what to do with a superhero who isn't dark, edgy, or morally ambiguous.
For a great example of a really good story that features Superman done right, check out Kingdom Come.
@@GruffyddFO4 Superman actually does kill General Zod, Quex-Ul and Zaora in Superman 22; did that also make him "not Superman"?
On her Majesty's Secert service wasn't ruined by the ending. It's the best bond ending there is.
I thank you for not saying the word cannibalism in the movie Mother.
I’ve never seen the movie but I have curiosity when I watch clips from other movies. This one pretty much traumatized me
Would You Rather is a great movie, the ending didn't ruin a thing. Actually most of these movies weren't ruined by the ending, they just become bummers.
Except all the characters are idiots
@@ForrestFox626 No? Not really.
@@MysteriousPerson1991 The guy who cheated on his girlfriend didn't have to take a dare. He could have picked truth
@@ForrestFox626 Oh, you're talking about that movie. I thought you were talking about Would You Rather. Yeah, Truth or Dare had really dumb characters. I agree.
@@MysteriousPerson1991 Oh. My bad, wrong movie
Huh? The Butterfly Effect had 2 alternate endings, and the one where he strangles himself in the womb was great if you asked me. That was the only way to end the curse was to just take himself out before he had any chance to screw it all up........again. It was demented and that's what I liked about it. The ending where everyone lives happily ever after was less interesting.
I don't feel Would You Rather was ruined by the ending. That was the point... she was put through Hell for her brother and it was all for naught
General Zod is my favorite super villain. That being said, I didn't mind that Superman killed him off. He did it because it was necessary.
Whoever wrote the script must've just learned the word "dour."
I hate Pay it forward due to it's unnecessary ending, but it is a confusing ride due to it taking place in two different times. Time 1 is that the boy starts and time 2 is Pay it Forward is halfway across the US and a reporter tries to find the origin. Spoiler ending the reporter finds the boy getting killed on the school playground.
Completely disagree with ‘the boy in the striped pyjamas’
The problem I've seen discussed with the ending of TBITSP is that we're meant to believe it's a tragic ending not because all of these Jewish people were murdered but because they also accidentally killed an "innocent" German boy.
Isn’t the ending of The Entity meant to say that the psychological trauma of being raped will always haunt the victim?
Ruined? I don’t think the movies were ruined, I think it’s just that a lot if people think that all movies, have to have a cookiecutter happy ending. Witch is BS.
I loved the directors cut of The Butterfly effect, it makes sense.
Life is not always sunshine and roses, so I don’t think films should be that either.
Danny Boyle's film "Yesterday" should be added to this list, an apparently good idea they didn't know how to end.
Also add "Get Out" - especially knowing how Jordan Peele initial and more relevant ending got scrapped!
I was very happy to see both "Splice" and "High Tension" on this list, complete nonsense final plots.
I do however really like the ending of James Bond "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", it shows how he's a human like anyone else, and also can experience loss, it was tragic but this ending made it stand out from all the other predictable Bond movies.
I wholeheartedly disagree about Man of Steel. Finally, a Superman who SOLVES PROBLEMS!
The butterfly effect ending it’s great; it’s the most hopeful they could’ve got. Yeah it’s bittersweet but Evan wanted her to grow up happy and be free of trauma; he also got to have a life without pain.
Thanks for so interesting and valuable video as always ❤❤❤
Started with Man of Steel which has been explained to death, with Last Night in Soho being on the thumbnail. Not everything needs a happy ending, cause that's how life is, it didn't ruin these movies
The film NEVER CRY WOLF (1983) has a bummer ending but it works.
The Devil Inside. That’s my answer.
Reasons;
One of the Worst Endings of All Time in Cinema History.
What the F*** was the Director Thinking?!
A freaking bad Cliffhanger.
Worst Acting of All Time in Horror History.
Last but not least that no one would mention is that the Awful Ending became a parody in the underrated opening of A Haunted House
Killing in defense of others is not murder, it's justifiable homicide, and it's something they should give medals for. If Superman let Zod kill people when he can stop it, he's basically an accomplice.
Yep, I was about to say the same. Whatever you may think of that scene it most certainly does not show Superman committing a murder.
Boy you really got this one wrong. Most of the list has endings that made sense to the story
Man of Steel? I'd say that Superman killing possibly thousands of innocents by destroying half the city was more disturbing than the ending to be fair.
26:42 it wasnt outta nowhere. they used chekhov's gun. Early in the movie you see the psycho kid sneak his knife into school
I don't give a fuck what some people say, I loved the horror element in Sunshine. That movie goes hard.
Glass made me angry like few movies have. The crossover of great movies, then for that ending… It felt disrespectful.
So basically, any movie with a downer ending is "ruined" ... typical
Yeah, I’d say forcing every movie to have a super happy ending ruins a lot of movies.
Like loading all your food with corn syrup - might taste yummy but not actually what’s best for you.
the butterfly effect ending was great. because earlier in the movie we learn his mom and multiple miscarriages, and him "going back to kill himself, could mean every single one of her kids, did have the power and ended up doing the exact same thing.
i wouldn't use ruined for these endings . some of these are the best part of the movie
I'm glad you had number 11 on your list. Although VERY sad, it is truthful and one of my favorite movies.
Reminder in the comics Supes, while not proud of it, executed an alternative dimension Zod after the latter and his cronies genocided humanity in their home dimension.
Supes simply exposed them to kryptonite and left them to a slow death.
The difference is that it was a regret of his he swore never to utilise again, even forcing him in a bad situation with the xenomorphs in _Superman/Aliens._ In _Man of Steel_ he seems unphased after the scene is over. What should be a heartbreaking moment has no lasting implications for the Big Blue Boyscout.
A bad ending can ruin a movie, but a controversial and/or so called unhappy ending is not necessarily a bad one. Conversely, a film that ends happily isn't always the right ending for a film. The original Planet of Apes from 1968 had a heartbreaking conclusion, but it was absolutely brilliant and has become legendary. it appears as though the films referenced in this video had some or unhappy or even tragic resolutions, but that quite a few of them actually worked better than some Disneyesque end where everything's wrapped up in a neat little bow and everyone lives happily ever after.
IDK why people had a problem with Superman having no choice but to kill Zod in order to save people from being killed.
In the comocs over the years, Superman has killed 19 times. Some of those he has killed include: Dr. Light, General General Zod, Quex-Ul, and Zalora. Also, Mister Mxyzptlk, Doomsday, Joe Chill, Kalibak, his father Darkseid, Wonder Woman, The Joker, Green Arrow, The Black Canary,Captain Marvel (Shazam) and Batman. Just for reference, Superman has been killed by Wonder Woman, and no surprise Batman.
The trouble with the life of David gale, is that it was based on an utterly faulty premise, that death penalty advocates would stop supporting the death penalty if it were proven that an innocent person had been executed….in 2003…. Even with the film starting in 1994, the first death row exoneration in the US via DNA had already been done in 1993….
You can find many death penalty advocates, being okay with a certain percentage of innocent executions…
As far as the Man of Steel is concerned, giving the fact that Zod would have murdered the innocent, there was no other way to stop him than killing him. This is reality. Too many fan boys want Superman to be the character that never kills. Fine for the funny books, but in reality it would never happen like that. John Byrne (who revamped the character back in 1986-7) did a story where Superman executed (by kryptonite poisoning) three Kryptonian villains who had slaughtered six billion people.
I remember when Supes found out someone caused an explosion that took the life of a child. So he literally scooped the guy up from the cops and proceeded to drop the mofo from like 200 feet from the ground.
He found out he had lead in his brain but still, Supes dropped him like a overdue library in a return box.
The Evil Never Dies Scene From The Grudge (2020)
Honestly, the ending of Pay It Forward was not a twist. It was an inevitability. And, personally, made the entire film less than it should have been.
0:57 Murder? They were battling each other for their lives. Murder is a premeditated killing of one human by another. As neither were human, it cannot be murder, let alone how it occurred.
Exactly. Also, it's made pretty damn clear that this "murder" may have betrayed the character of Superman, but the film recognizes that and Superman's breakdown was the best possible way to respond to this development.
I pretty much said What the F*** at the ending of 47 Meters Down
Respect Suckerpunch! You get it or you don't!
"Last night in Soho is Edgar wrights first foray into horror". So, we're just ignoring Shaun Of The Dead, and to some extent Worlds End and Hot Fuzz?
These movies were NOT ruined. A lot of the endings were great. And a "disturbing" ending does not ruin a movie...
WatchMojo REALLY missed the mark with this video
For the woman in black, the ending is true to how the original play ends. Though in my opinion, the play is way more scary amd suspenseful. The film uses music that gives away jumpscares. But is still very faithful to the play.
For me, one of the most disturbing endings gotta be Midsommar. The protagonist staring out to the distance and losing her mind to the cult is one of the most unsettling views ever.
It was disturbing because it encouraged, rpe, drugging men, and then killing them while blaming them.
Never watched the film, but Florence Pugh’s character’s chilling smile was enough to have me on edge.
Didn’t Superman kill the bad kryptonions including General Zod at the end of Christopher Reeves’s Superman 2
I SWEAR TO GOD IF NEITHER BURIED NOR THE MIST ARE ON HERE WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING LOL
edit: HOWWWWWWW
The Mist is always brought up in fact it was mentioned in a video very similar to this
I have seen most of the movies on this list, and disagree that the ending ruined them. Tho I hated the ending of Glass, It wasn't because it was "disturbing" it was because it was pointless.
Ok, Truth or Dare was a cop out.
ok, High Tension is stupid. not disturbing, tho.
I'm convinced you just don't like some endings.
Bad start. Superman did *not* commit murder. You said yourself it was an innocent family. Killing in defense of others is not murder. What made you think it was? Unless you're actually arguing that he should have let the family die, and never stop Zod, then I don't know what the people who think this ending was controversial are on about.
Superman does not kill, its key to the character, as core fundamental as batman not using guns...there will always be another way...
You can break that rule, if done well, for example Batman shooting Darkseid with the bullet he used to murder Orion (his bio son), to save all reality from antilife/mandrakk... and Batman "dies" in the process, and its recognised as a sacrifice....
The scene is meant to make you feel the tragedy of the situation, but rather than Zod acting out of the cold corrupted rationality that's defined his character (in both the movie and in general media), its a thoughtless rage...
Contrast it with the last bat on earth, where Superman and Lex Luthor fight with words over good vs evil, under the threat of instant death, and Superman wins definitively (luthor admits it) but rather than let his oldest enemy die, he sacrifices his life to save him... thats who Superman is. Its why his counterpart killing the joker in the injustice universe is so horrific...
Please look up the definition of homicide
I'm still shocked how many people think the ending of Man of Steel was bad because "Muh Superman wouldn't do that" and call it murder, when it's clearly not.
Shout of that singer Sandy. I don’t agree with her actions but I totally UNDERSTAND. 😅
0:58 so stupid. Supes has killed in the comics before. This was the beginning of his superman career and sent him down the path to never kill again. The ending made the movie better
ending of would you rather is superb
I'm actually surprised that My Girl, Snowpiercer, and Krampus aren't on this list.
Not sure if this counts but 😊“Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within” left me pretty bummed with how futile it felt.
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@@BlackHatCinephile spam
Number one should be The Mist!!
Can't watch the video because you don't know how to use time stamps but what about a disturbing ending ruins a movie? What if that was the whole point? Someone at mojo doesn't understand cinema and needs to pass the reigns to someone who else
The problem with the Man of Steel ending wasn't that Superman was forced to kill Zod, but rather that it was VERY poorly executed:
1. Superman was controlling Zod's head, but had ZERO control over where his eyes aimed. Zod could have just glanced to the right and zapped those people.
2. If we presume Kryptonians can only look straight ahead when using their heat vision, there was NO reason for that family to stay in that corner while Superman was holding Zod. You can clearly see at 0:48 that they had an unobstructed, easily recognizable path to escape while Zod was still blasting straight ahead. Literally nothing about this scene made sense. Poor writing, poor set design, poor blocking by the director.
'Knowing' & 'Man Of Steel' Weren't Ruined By Their Endings Though. 🤷🏻♀
Nor was the stryped pajama. For it and man of steel, it actually elevated the film.
@@Oble_Noceda True - Elevated The Stories.
Mother too. I mean the whole movie was disturbing as it goes on.....
Yeah, Man of Steel was ruined by a lot of stuff, not just the ending.
i like that you are sparking conversation about these movies again but like many people said a sad twist or death at an unexpected time does not ruin the movie , especially if you actually know the reference of it or its impact on the future of a franchise
am I the only one that wanted to stop watching The Man of Steel when Jonathan Kent told his young son that he should have left those kids to drown I know he didn't say it in words but it was heavily implied the ending was just another dour in a bad Superman Movie .
Changing the Kents and their morals/ethics fundamentally changes Clarke. Period.
@@MelodySnowleopard I agree this movie ruined Superman for me good thing that Zack is now gone ruining movies somewhere else and I hope the new movie redeems it.
Despite the controversial endings, I loved Last Night In Soho, The Woman in Black and Pay It Forward (although, rooting for Spacey when he punched out a child rapist is incredibly ironic.)
Superman killed Zod in defense of an innocent family. That is not murder.
1:50 So they would have been better off leaving the kids to die on earth?
Seriously, Watchmojo, y'all need to check yourselves on what "ruins" an ending. Not everything ends with sunshine and rainbows! 😤
At least this is something animated films had that live action couldn’t achieve. Anxiety, uncertainty, and doubt.
The fact Identity and The mist weren't on here is criminal.
Agreed about "Identity"! As others have said in these comments, tacked on happy endings are bad; but not all horror/thriller movies need to have twisty/down-beat endings, either. d-:
@@fisheyenomiko what's wrong with Identity's ending tho?