End It Well: Good Movies Ruined by Poor Endings
End It Well: Good Movies Ruined by Poor Endings
There’s many things that make a good movie and there’s a lot more that make a great movie. One of the deal breakers between a movie going from good to great or falling away from good to a waste of the audiences time is the ending.
Sometimes it feels like the writer just ran out of ideas or had gotten the film’s plot so convoluted that when he realises the run time has breached the two hour point the ending is suddenly cobbled together and rushed through.
Perhaps the worst possible end to a film, and indeed any story, is for the main character to suddenly wake up and find it was all a dream. So we sat there and got involved in a story for nothing? What was the writer trying to say?
There’s other cardinal sins in ending films: losing the big game or fight (Tin Cup); after a film-long build up the bad guy
