Top 10 Worst Ways to End a Movie
These are some of the worst ways I can think of to end a movie.The Spongebob episode about the Krusty Krab ended with the narrator saying "The secret Krabby Patty formula i..." then credits.
It's a pretty lazy way to end any movie.
Even though it's not a movie, Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans is a great example of how killing off the main character at the end can ruin something.
That happened in a recent film. Not saying what it was.
Especially if a sequel will never be made.
Done to death in horror movies, especially Unfriended...
One of my least favorite cliches, this is just a cheap way to pull an ending to a movie out of thin air.
While the Shrek movies used this method a lot when concluding their stories, it's been done to death in many other animated movies. Most of the time, I'm fine with it if it's relevant to the plot or well-executed. However, other times it just feels tacked on and more like kid-pandering. That means you, The Emoji Movie...
No movie I can think of has done this yet, but still, it would be a cheap way to end a movie.
Protagonists learn and change like normal people. If they don't learn or improve, then they're terrible protagonists.
If this happens in a movie, you know you screwed up.
Imagine that you're watching a movie, and you understand the plot before the ending. Then, the movie concludes with a 10-minute monologue explaining the entire plot, giving you the exact same information that you already found out yourself.
There have been enough Michael Bay movies like that.
Some movies do deserve an ending where the protagonists achieve what they set out to do and are rewarded. Many great works like "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Lord of the Rings", and many of the Mario games have happy endings and wind up praised.
Yes, there are darker endings that work as well, but happy endings are sometimes deserved depending on the genre of the fiction.
Like what happens in every Disney sequel from Wreck-It Ralph 2 onwards. Even Frozen 2 had this.
This happens in Earwig and the Witch where it ends with Erica Wigg seeing her mother and that's it.