00:00The majority of films that you see in the cinema do a fine job of tying things up without too
00:04many
00:04issues, and if anything, they just fall into that mediocre but fine category. However, the films on
00:10this list actually seem like they went the extra mile just to piss the audience off. So with that
00:15in mind, I'm Ellie with WhatCulture, and here are movie endings that were profoundly insulting.
00:20Glass. After M. Night Shyamalan delivered a major return to form with 2017's terrific thriller
00:26split, fans hope that he cemented his comeback with Glass, the capper to his covert superhero movie
00:31trilogy, which started all the way back with Unbreakable. And all the ingredients seemed to
00:36be there, but then that ending happened. Though Shyamalan quite cleverly sets up a generic superhero
00:41movie showdown between Willis and McAvoy, only to subvert it by staging their final fight in a
00:46parking lot, what follows ensures that two of the movie's three protagonists suffer deeply
00:51unsatisfying fates. Mr. Glass, quite appropriately, has his bones fatally broken by the horde, but as
00:57for McAvoy's hulking supervillain, he gets randomly shot by an anonymous sniper, and Dunn is drowned by
01:03another no-named goon. Then it turns out that Dr. Ellie Staple wasn't merely a psychologist researching
01:10people deluded into believing they're superheroes, she also works for a secret society that aims to
01:16suppress, by any means necessary, the existence of superpowered people. But, in a final stinger,
01:22it's revealed that Glass recorded footage of the film's events, and it was uploaded to the internet,
01:27revealing the truth about superhumans to the world. It's almost impressive how far Shyamalan went to
01:33ensure fans wouldn't be sent home happy by Glass's ending. Though he's certainly subverted expectations
01:38in a number of ways, the writer-director has taught us several times before how surprises for their
01:43own sake just won't cut it. Ultimately, this just felt like a giant slap in the face.
01:47Pixels. There are so many questionable things in Adam Sandler's painfully bad, video game-themed
01:54comedy, Pixels. But nothing more than its final moment, which represents the culmination of Josh
02:00Gad's romantic arc throughout the entire movie. But the worst thing has to be, when Gad's characters
02:07crush Lady Lisa is destroyed, and then Q-Bert randomly decides to transform himself into the likeness
02:13of Lisa, and the two passionately make out. And then, they seem to get married and have babies.
02:19It's so creepy, it's almost unreal. But in addition to making no sense at all mechanically,
02:26it actively butchers an iconic video game character by forcing him into a weird sexual
02:31relationship with Josh Gad. Just why?
02:34Jurassic Park 3. It's not really much of a secret that the third entry into the action-adventure
02:39franchise was a deeply troubled production, with the script still being written during shooting.
02:44As a result, its actual ending wasn't shot until reshoots four months after principal photography
02:50wrapped. And this does explain why the Marines just show up at the end of the film, and we don't
02:54get
02:54the man-versus-dino battle, which was heavily teased throughout the events and even in the trailers.
03:00Instead, what we get is basically two minutes of nothing, and then the end credits start rolling.
03:05Sorry, what? We're only at the 18-minute mark. Have I missed something? It honestly might be one of
03:09the most insane anti-climax in the history of tentpole cinema. Given that the two prior Jurassic
03:14Park movies clocked in at over two hours each, for the threequel to last just 92 minutes and rush its
03:20way to a non-event to the conclusion is just an insult to anyone who ever paid for a ticket
03:24with
03:24high tension. High tension is a tightly wound, supremely violent horror film that is, for about 90% of
03:31its runtime, pretty good. And then it delivers an ending that not only unfurls the gnarly ride, but
03:36retroactively makes the rest of the movie worse. The bulk of the film is focused on two best
03:40friends, Marie and Alex, who are being pursued by a brutal serial killer. But at the end, the director
03:45just hurls out this wildly unnecessary logic-derailing twist that actually, Marie is the real killer, who
03:51is deranged and in love with Alex, and the stalker of the film is just a figment of Marie's mind.
03:56This instantly breaks the logic of countless scenes we've witnessed, namely a car chase now rendered
04:02impossible, and even if you argue that we're witnessing Marie's jumbled mental account of
04:06what happened, it's still a massive stretch to make sense of it all. It was bold, sure, but an insanely
04:12stupid conclusion to an otherwise great movie, and bad enough that it's probably sworn many off from
04:18ever watching it again. Next. The It Was All A Dream ending is never satisfying, and though countless
04:24films have tried to reinvent such a twist in clever and imaginative ways, it almost always comes off
04:29as lazy above all else. That's certainly the case in Nicolas Cage's 2007 sci-fi vehicle Next,
04:36where he plays Chris Johnson, a Vegas magician with the ability to see into the future, who ends up
04:41working with the FBI to try and stop a nuclear explosion on US soil. And in the final moments
04:47of the movie, it appears that Chris has somehow managed to use his abilities to both save his new
04:51lover Liz Cooper and prevent the explosion, except Chris made a mistake, resulting in the bomb going
04:57off, killing everyone in LA. And at this point, the movie flings the audience back to the movie's
05:02midway point, where Chris and Liz are laying in bed, revealing that the last 45 minutes of the movie
05:07have simply been one of Chris's premonitions. Clearly, this is a case of a script that thought
05:12it was far more clever than it actually was, because that ending was nothing more than a cheap
05:16cop-out. The Devil Inside 2012's infamous horror train wreck, The Devil Inside, delivered an ending
05:22so terrible, there were genuine debates about whether or not it was the worst movie ending in
05:28the history of theatrically released movies. The film ends with the remaining characters involved
05:33in a presumably fatal car wreck, and the supernatural antagonist's whereabouts is unknown, before a title
05:38card flashes up, imploring the viewer to visit a website to learn more about the investigation.
05:43Audiences were incensed, awarding it an F cinema score, while many patrons ask cinema chains for
05:49refunds, even despite sitting through the complete film. Quite rightly, viewers felt they'd been sold an
05:54unfinished experience, and it's an ending that's only become worse since, as the advertised website
05:59doesn't even work anymore. Fantastic Four
06:02Whether you blame volatile director Josh Trank or a meddlesome studio in the form of Fox, there's no doubt
06:08that 2015's Fantastic Four reboot is a deeply terrible film, filled with wrong-headed creative
06:15calls. It also is incredibly sad, because it teased a sequel that never came. The final moments show the
06:20team settling on a name after a battle against Doctor Doom. After The Thing, played by Jamie Bell,
06:25says that their progress has been fantastic, Reed Richards, played by Miles Teller, has a lightbulb moment
06:31and asked him to repeat it. Just as Richard prepares to announce the team's titular moniker,
06:36we cut to the film's closing titles. For starters, Avengers Age of Ultron did almost the exact same
06:41ending far more successfully barely three months earlier, with its Avengers Assemble tease,
06:46while Fantastic Four served up an agonisingly contrived attempt to conclude on a fist-pumping high.
06:51The Open House If you haven't seen the Netflix original horror film,
06:55The Open House, well firstly, well done, and secondly, don't. The premise is familiar enough,
07:00a mother and son move into her sister's for sale house, and are almost immediately assailed by a
07:05seemingly supernatural presence, but with an atmospheric execution, it certainly could have
07:09been an entertaining straight-to-streaming romp. As it turns out, the family is actually being
07:15tormented by a serial killer, who at the end of the movie tricks the son into accidentally stabbing
07:20his mother to death, and then strangles the son out in the forest. The final scene of the film
07:25sees the killer leave the crime scene and head to another open house to repeat his terror,
07:29And that is all. Just lazy writing, and no development making this 94 minutes of your time wasted.
