THE FIVE BEST MOVIE ENDINGS OF ALL TIME IN THE HISTORY OF FILMS
Movies are a very subjective subject-plus it’s fair to say that most people like an ending to a movie. Call it "anti-Sopranos"syndrome.
Some guys like foreign movies with their subtitles and a complicated, yet boring plot while other guys prefer the Three Stooges with their eye pokes and the slight hint of a plot.
Personally, I lean heavily towards the genius that is Stoogedom but this is about classic movie endings-I’ll skip the Stooge film ending where the boys get airmailed to Heaven via a bungled and tragic experience with dynamite.
So, with all due respect to Moe Larry and Curley’s curiously haphazard and lethally stupid handling of TNT- here are the five best movie endings of all time.
Number Five on the list is ‘Shane’. You simply can’t compile a list of classic movie endings without including a “Cowboy Rides into the Sunset” ending. This one is the best-Shane keeps his horse pointed west even though the kid he befriended is calling him back. That’s after ridding the town of every lowlife within gunshot range-but Shane did what Western heroes do best. He never looked back.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWdPmapuOd4&feature=related
Number Four on the list is ‘Crazy Larry Dirty Mary’. On the surface, this is a pretty basic 1970s car chase movie punctuated by an endless series of police cars pursuing a vintage 1969 Dodge Charger. Peter Fonda starred in it but don’t let the presence of the king of bad 60s biker movies stop you from seeing it. Because Susan George is also in it and she had quite a run of gratuitous nude scenes in the 1970s.But all bad B movie actors aside, this plot ends rather abruptly and explosively – into the side of a fully loaded freight train. Larry and Mary never saw it coming and neither did the audience. Pure genius.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33jL8m3wr40&feature=related
Number Three on the list is ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’. Another Western but this time it was made in 1969 so the heroes really connected with a young anti-establishment, counterculture audience. Butch and Sundance breeze through robbery after robbery until they make a big mistake and move to
Number Two on the list is ‘Vanishing Point’. This movie is another 70s car chase movie but it was the first and the best. It’s a very simple plot-Kowalski (only one name) is a delivery guy driving a 1970 Hemi Dodge Challenger across 3 states while under the heavy influence of illegal drugs. Clearly not a message you’d see today but it was the early 70s.Kowalski inevitably attracts the attention of 50 different police forces with his reckless antics but this is a 70s movie with an anti-hero so… if you’ve read the last 2 paragraphs the ending shouldn’t be a huge surprise. Hemi Challenger meets heavy equipment in head on collision at over 150 MPH in one of the best endings ever seen on film-and that’s the only way it could end…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHbFOt9n_cc
Surprise-Number One is ‘Braveheart’. No cowboys, no cars-just a collection of the wildest looking warriors that ever defended a noble cause. Maybe it’s my inner “Scottish Guy” coming out as a direct descendent of Highlanders- guys that fought with William “Braveheart” Wallace but that ending has to be number one. The sword tossed in the air, those kilt-wearing, wild eyed maniacs charging the British invaders to defend
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