and shall we toast to welcome to watch
mojo
and today we're counting down our picks
for the top 10
underrated endings in movies do you
think i might be switched off because i
don't function as well as i'm supposed
to
you're okay are you
i don't think so me
i've got a light for this list we'll be
looking at those movies that aren't
necessarily known for their great
endings
but that nevertheless wrapped up
perfectly and left us with that
indescribably special feeling at the end
where all we could say
was wow do you think we've missed some
underrated moving endings on this list
let us know down below in the comments
and of course as
always beware of spoilers ahead
number 10 storm's coming a serious man
part indie dramedy part biblical
allegory based on the story of job
the coen brothers a serious man is a
seriously hard movie to pin down
and fully understand these questions
that are bothering you larry
maybe they're like a toothache hmm feel
them for a while
then they go away i don't want it to
just go away i want an
answer and much of the film's enigmatic
power comes from its ending
mazel tov it was it was it was wonderful
yes it was thank you such a time of
narciss
after pummeling larry gopnik with bad
news throughout the entire run time of
the movie
the ending offers little in the way of
closure or reconciliation
with the tornado heading his way and
upon receiving bad news from his doctor
larry like the rest of us can't seem to
make sense of what it all means
and what it was all for we can't discuss
them over the phone
i think we'd be more comfortable in
person
can you come in
when no now it's good not all endings
are hollywood endings and leave it to
the cohens to illustrate that point
better than anyone
number nine faint whistle prisoners
here's another film whose ending is
steeped in uncertainty
and whose story is all the more
satisfying because of it now i know you
can't promise me anything understand
that
but i'm asking you to be sure be 100
sure
not all endings are happy and life
rarely ties itself in a neat little bow
for our sake
pray for the best prepare for the worst
yeah the broody twisty film prisoners
from director danny velnev
is a perfect testament to the murkiness
of life reminding us that closure is
hard to come by
and that it doesn't immediately offer us
a break from our pain
in the final moments we hold our breath
and hope that keller dover's whistle can
be heard
it's a nearly silent ending save for the
faint whistle
and as such it can be overlooked as
nothing too spectacular
but when done right the understated
non-ending works
wonders number eight bittersweet
symphony
cruel intentions ah the sweet sounds of
justice
which in this case are expressed in the
melodic orchestral notes of the verve's
bittersweet symphony
what is going on don't you people have
any respect
how do you end a movie about ruined
lives by ruining even more lives
in cruel intentions a high school
melodrama based on the french book
le liaison d'angelos dangerous liaisons
from the late 1700s
lives are ruined in spectacular fashion
what brings this film together so well
is that for most of the run time
our dual villains of sebastian and
catherine seem to be getting away with
it
when shall we toast to
my triumph
it's not my choice of toast but it's
your call but their monopoly on cruelty
and winning sexiness runs dry in the
film's final moments
leading to a montage style cascade of
bad outcomes for them
justice is a dish best served to catchy
music
number seven what's really going on
annihilation
is it possible these were hallucinations
i wondered that myself
but they were shared among all of us
it was dreamlike on the heels of ex
machina
writer director alex garland brought us
annihilation
and that's an apt title for this movie
because plain and simple
its ending annihilated everything we
thought we knew up until that point
you are okay
are you
i don't think so is kane a clone has
lena been annihilated by the alien force
known as the shimmer
listen if you know what's going on here
let us know in the comments
but until then we'll just praise this
sci-fi flick as a story that leaves us
with more questions than
answers because sometimes that's a good
thing it came here for a reason
it was mutating our environment it was
destroying everything
it wasn't destroying
it was changing everything it was making
something new
number six family dinner a history of
violence
this david cronenberg movie is a roller
coaster ride from beginning to end
i think he wants us to leave mr bugatti
do you know what he does when he don't
like people mr fuggity
yeah i'm scared we should leave before
he goes all dirty hairy on us
what starts off as a relatively quiet
rural set story
quickly escalates into a shoot-'em-up
mobster movie
and despite the tonal stretch it all
works to great effect
in this family we do not solve our
problems by hitting people oh in this
family we shoot
them the brilliant acting from the small
star-studded cast certainly helps but
it's the movie's understated ending that
really pushes it over the top
in the film's final moments after a
series of grisly murders
most of them committed in self-defense
the family led by the invasive and
mysterious patriarch played by aragorn
we mean viggo mortensen sit down to a
norman rockwell style dinner where on
the surface
everything seems calm and idyllic of
course the scene belies the rocky family
dynamics lurking just underneath the
surface
number five life in reals cinema
paradiso
understated endings never really get the
credit they deserve
and that's especially true of our next
pick cinema paradiso is a beautiful
retrospective film
about the power of nostalgia and the
magic of movies
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and the ending is so utterly sad and yet
hopeful
that it quite honestly can't be fully
expressed in words
as the now famous director salvatore
watches the reel of formerly censored
romantic scenes
made and left to him by his old friend
now deceased alfredo
tears stream from his eyes and he
finally makes peace with his tumultuous
past
the scene is at once nothing special and
yet a perfect
homage to the power of films and their
ability to touch us on a deep
human level
number four grand finale gran torino
as far as we're concerned this whole
film is underrated
thank you get off my lawn
clint eastwood was in his late 70s when
he made this and it's as sharp
poignant and engrossing as any of his
best work
the sacrificial ending fits so
seamlessly into the story's narrative
that it's hard to imagine the movie
ending any other way
don't worry about tao tom's got not one
second for you
and clint's transformation from racist
curmudgeon to sympathetic hero
makes for one of the more interesting
character arcs in recent film history
me i've got a light
full of grace
after watching gran torino it's hard to
imagine how the movie
and specifically the ending could have
been any better
number three test complete ex machina
this movie's ending shocked the pants
off of us when we first saw it
stop stop
ava i said stop
not only does it bring together so many
elements perfectly
from nathan's hubris to caleb's naivete
to ava's desire to live and just be
another human
it does so in a brief highly effective
way
please stay here
stay here
from the cheeky glance that ava gives to
caleb as she essentially
leaves him to die in that fishbowl of a
room to her disappearance in the sea of
people at the very last moment of the
film
there's something so poetic and
understated about alex garland's quiet
masterpiece
that it just sticks with you long after
the credits roll do you think i might be
switched off because i don't function as
well as i'm supposed to ava
i don't know the answer to your question
it's not up to me why is it up to anyone
number two
zachary's story cloud atlas
the more things change the more they
stay the same cloud atlas is a
particularly hard movie to end
mainly because there are so many story
lines that need to come together in a
way that doesn't feel rushed or
forced our lives are not our own
from womb to tomb we are bound to others
past and present just
ending the movie on a semi-coherent note
is a pretty massive
feat in itself but the interlocked plots
come together in such a tightly wound
inextricable knot that it's a pretty
amazing magic trick to watch
so much of the film centers around our
need to tell stories
and keep certain ideas and legends alive
despite our father's best wishes and
despite government backlash
for what no matter what you do it will
never amount to anything more than a
single drop
in a limitless ocean
what is an ocean what a multitude of
crops
that's why ending the movie by
recounting yet another story makes so
much sense
you're going to tell us about the
worksmanship and the big sleep
all the next next oh your grammy tells
the next next wave better than me
complex doesn't have to mean complicated
before we unveil our number one pick
here are a few honorable mentions
explosive ending
ready or not because it's not always
about the understated ending
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ingrid goes viral ingrid goes west
because
even narcissistic sociopaths need a
happy ending sometimes
if you don't have anyone to share
anything with then what's the point of
living
yeah so i guess i'm just making this
video
so you guys can see the real me at least
once
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number one the eyes of god crimes and
misdemeanors
it's one thing to have a down ending in
a movie and tragedies have been around
at least since ancient greek times
but what separates the ending of crimes
and misdemeanors from most other movies
is that it's played off as totally
upbeat
then you have then you have tragedy but
that's fiction that that's movies i mean
i mean
you see too many movies i'm talking
about reality
i mean if you want a happy ending you
should go see a hollywood movie
as judah rosenthal played by martin
landau realizes that he's succeeded in
getting away with murder
we the audience are still waiting for
him to face the moral reckoning and
crisis of conscience that he and all
likelihood deserves i mean people carry
awful deeds around with him
what do you expect him to do turn
himself in
i mean this is reality in reality we
we rationalize we deny or we we couldn't
go on living but woody allen being woody
allen doesn't give us some great
moralizing spiel in the end
and chooses instead to let his main
character walk away scot-free
without a guilty thought in his head
that takes
you know what see what i mean it's
tragedy plus time
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