[Narrator]: Whatever happened to going out on a high note?
Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we'll be counting down the Top 10 Worst Movie Endings.
[Bilbo]: Is there any chance of seeing that old ring of mine again?
[Narrator]: Please be advised: major spoilers ahead, there's no fixing this one.
[Jones]: This is not the Mitchell-Hedges skull. Look at the elongated cranium.
[Narrator]: Kicking up our list is the Indiana Jones film that went away from the spiritual and straight into the sci-fi.
While we can stomach a lot, this film nuked the fridge big-time when the crystal skull
awakened a generic alien who proceeded to melt Cate Blanchett's brain.
Even worse is the image of Indie witnessing a spaceship flying off, not into space, but rather another dimension.
[Jones]: Where did they go? Space?
[Oxley]: Not into space. Into the space between spaces.
[Mutt]: I don't understand.
[Capa]: Welcome to Icarus Two.
[Narrator]: The sun is dying and the only people that can reignite it are astronauts that hope to do so with a massive nuclear payload.
[Capa]: Just remember it takes eight minutes for light to travel from sun to earth
which means you'll know we've succeeded about eight minutes after we deliver the payload.
[Narrator]: As if this weren't pressure enough, the first ship to try mysteriously vanished.
[Capa]: The air, it's full of dust...
[Searle]: Human skin.
[Capa]: What?
[Searle]: 80% of all dust is human skin.
[Narrator]: Now, this is a cool setup.
Unfortunately the solitary cabin feverage tone of the film is completely uprooted in the final act,
when the deranged captain of the missing ship reappears and turns the film into a kind of slasher flick.
[Pinbacker]: He told me to take us all to heaven.
[Narrator]: Imagine how confused you'd be if you stepped out to go to the bathroom when that happened.
A bad movie ending can be the result of any sort of bad decision.
This entire film revolves around the fact that everybody thinks that Julianne Moore's kid never existed
even though she believes very strongly that he did.
[Paretta]: You knew my son, your baby's had him a thousand times.
[Eliot]: Oh honey, I don't know what you're trying to say.
[Paretta]: I'm saying that you knew my son, you talked to him, you saw us come and go,
you took him to a Mets' game and you bought him a hat, he always wore that hat.
[Eliot]: Would you please stop scaring me!
[Narrator]: With zero percent of the film having anything to do with aliens,
you can bet that audiences were pretty upset when it was revealed that extraterrestrials were responsible.
[A friendly man]: You need to forget!
[Narrator]: Seriously dumb.
[Reggie]: Most people say, "Hey, what's wrong with you, Reggie? Why you only working out on one side of your body?"
I tell them it's like an experiment.
[Narrator]: So, "The Village" was bad, but we were willing to give Shyamalan the benefit of the doubt and believe that that was an aberration.
[Ran]: Mr. Heep is here. He has a friend. She's beautiful!
She's not feeling that well, so she's lying down in my room.
[Vick]: Why is she here?
[Narrator]: However, the struggling director proved that that failure would be his new norm with this incredibly bizarre movie.
Though it has a fair amount of interesting characters, the story never really picks up, especially when the entire finale
was quite literally about wolves, tree monkeys and waiting for a nymph to be carried away by a giant eagle, J.R.R. Tolkien style.
And we don't even see that
Lame.
[Walter]: Of course, things didn't really start here.
[Narrator]: In this psychological thriller, Jim Carrey's character finds a book entitled "The Number 23".
It tells the story of a detective who murdered his own girlfriend.
With an increasing amount of things in common with the character
and the eponymous number seemingly popping up everywhere in his life,
his sanity begins to unravel as he pulls at each thread of the mystery.
[Walter]: ...killing me...
[Narrator]: But, as it turns out, he's written the book before giving himself amnesia, of course.
[French]: Whoever wrote it knows you very well, and only they can give you your answers.
[Walter]: You wrote it.
[Narrator]: Great job, Hollywood, altering your movie's original ending, despite leaving the support for that ending throughout the picture.
The twist is supposed to be that the darkstalkers were thinking and compassionate creatures
that were merely out to rescue their own kind.
Instead, Smith goes out with a bang and his friends find a safe haven, to have a happily-ever-after-style ending.
Not only does this make for a disappointing end to a disappointing movie,
but it completely undermines the message of the source material
[Anna]: Dr. Robert Neville dedicated his life to the discovery of a cure and the restoration of humanity.
[Abrams]: The Ukraine, a country of some 52 million people, is at an almost total blackness tonight
in the wake of a series of freakish lightning storms of catastrophic proportion.
[Narrator]: Okay, so now let's that the same problem in the other direction.
Arguably, Steven Spielberg was set up to disappoint from the start by choosing to remain stringently loyal to the original source material.
This means that germs defeat the aliens, not humans.
So they've mastered interplanetary travel, but Purell is completely beyond them.
[Movie narrator]: From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate and drank, they were doomed.
[Narrator]: I guess war of the flu season or common cold of the worlds weren't catchy titles.
When Superman failed to save Lois Lane, they decided to cheat instead of showing some spider-man style cojones.
This involves Superman nonsensically using his super speed to reverse the rotation of the globe and turn back time, cause that's how it works.
We're pretty sure that would just kill everything else rather than save the one life,
but, you know, what we can expect from a continuity that has to invent a new substance, in order to give its hero a weakness.
[Luthor]: I told you.
[Attar]: Take your stinking hands off me, you damn dirty human!
[Narrator]: Rebooting a classic and then toying with its twist ending, now that's bananas.
You maniac!
Maybe that would have worked, had Tim Burton's final scene not went for shock value over logic.
Returning Mark Wahlberg to earth, out of nowhere and for no reason humans have been replaced with monkeys,
and even the statue of Abraham Lincoln has been turned into a monument of his defeated monkey foe. Sheesh.
This calls for another reboot
Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions:
[Movie narrator]: David thought it was the happiest day of his life.
All the problems seemed to have disappeared from his mommy's mind.
[WJBP News]: The quiet South Hartford community was leveled by tragedy as three clergy members were found dead.
[Narrator]: Taking the top spot is this found-footage horror flick centred on demonic possession.
Here, signs point to the realization that Isabella isn't quite herself.
[Rossi]: Help me, please!
[Narrator]: When the priest realizes that the hospital can help her, he decides to get her an exorcism.
[Rawlings]: She's waking up. Not much time, Michael, we have not much time!
[Narrator]: However, a scuffle in the car leads to the driver getting possessed and then veering into oncoming traffic,
then everyone's going around in the car and it's horrible and BAM!
Movie is over and you're left with...
a website link?
Woah, I hope you pirated this, not that we condone that.
Agree with our list?
Which movie ending pissed you off the most?
God damn you all to hell!
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