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00:00You're the bravest kid I've ever seen. I'm gonna take care of this jerk. You go take care of your mom, okay?
00:06Welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the most
00:11Anticlimactic movie endings that left audiences wanting more obviously be wary of spoilers
00:18This isn't the end
00:21Number 10 now aliens Indiana Jones in the kingdom of the crystal skull
00:30No
00:32Nothing ruins a grounded film more than some literal out-of-this-world meddling while Indy's adventures have always leaned a bit into the
00:40Fantastical the appearance of actual aliens isn't just a toe in the genre. It's a hard left into full-on sci-fi
00:48I want to know everything I want to know
00:54We're talking
00:56interdimensional portals
00:57Resurrected aliens and honest-to-god flying saucers look the idea of alien treasure on its own
01:04Is it that bad but crystal skulls?
01:07Ham-fisted execution is so goofy. It deflates any kind of tension from the film's climax
01:20Don't think we want to go that way by the time the credits roll
01:23It feels like you just watched a Saturday morning cartoon not a big-budget blockbuster, and that's not a compliment
01:35Not into space
01:37Into the space between spaces number nine out of time Donnie Darko
01:44This
01:49Influential thriller begins and ends with the same jet engine crashing into a bedroom
01:54But the implications couldn't be more different
01:57Thanks to some muddled time-traveling hijinks the second crash landing kills Donnie
02:15I
02:17Essentially erasing the events of the film all together admittedly, it's an ending you won't forget anytime soon
02:23But once the novelty wears off you're left with an empty feeling of what was the point?
02:34After all Donnie Darko spends two hours masterfully building up its characters and world has a feel they have a wacko for a son
02:44I
02:49Feels wonderful
02:50Only to render them pointless at the 11th hour
02:54Despite its thematic heft this big swing of an ending feels more hollow than anything else
03:08Number eight broken web the amazing spider-man 2
03:14People in New York City and real rhinos everywhere. I asked you to put your mechanized paws in the air
03:20To catch you up to speed Gwen's dead Peter's practically given up and spider-man is missing in action
03:27It's a bold powerful note to end on or it would have been if the amazing spider-man 2
03:33Didn't continue for another five minutes
03:45In
03:47Order to avoid ending on a downer
03:50Rhino suddenly appears to cause some extra mayhem Peter picks up his web shooters swings back into action and right when the fights about to
03:58Start the movie cuts to black
04:05Instead of committing to Peters tragic circumstances
04:08The web slingers absence has left a hole in the heart of the city
04:11Believe it or not
04:12Even the New York City Police Department has joined the chorus of New Yorkers in hoping for the return of the web slinger
04:18We get a shoehorned happy ending that crams yet another villain into a movie that already had too many
04:24There's no great power or great responsibility here. Hey spider-man
04:29I
04:40Need come back
04:42Yeah, thanks for stepping up for me. Number seven flipping the board the game
04:49Instead of cake or presents Nick's birthday gift is the chance to play a game. I hate surprises sounds fun, right?
04:57This is all the game. All right, boo. Well as it turns out this game has some pretty intense rules like
05:05Gaslighting Nick training his bank accounts burying him alive and even making him shoot his own brother or so he thinks
05:16At the film's climax everyone pops out yells surprise and carries on like they didn't just put Nick through a horror film
05:27They claim it was to make him a better person
05:29But there's no excuse on the face of the planet capable of justifying this ending. Maybe we can go get some dinner
05:39You don't know anything about me
05:43So you tell me where you're from Oh
05:49Original
05:51Oklahoma, it's absurd silly and
05:54Retroactively ruins the two hours that came before it
06:00Number six you get a cure and you get a cure World War Z
06:07This war ends with Brad Pitt's Gary discovering a pathogen that effectively saves the human race
06:14On paper, that's a perfectly serviceable ending for a summer blockbuster
06:19The issue is that up until that point World War Z was a run-and-gun action thriller with more
06:26Explosions than characters. I'm running out of time. I need specifics. I need answers. I don't have answers
06:32All you can do is find a way to hide
06:37The film worked because it knew it was mindless popcorn
06:41Entertainment by abandoning that for a more character focused climax the movie's drama completely flatlines
06:47It stings even worse because they'd already shot a massive bloody final battle befitting a movie called World War Z
07:06But for some reason that's the ending that wound up on the editing room floor instead be prepared for anything
07:18A war has just begun number five to infinity and beyond Prometheus
07:27The whole point of a prequel is to explain a story's origins, but apparently no one told that to Prometheus
07:38Don't be a skeptic, right? There's something generating an atmosphere David
07:43Dr. Holloway is correct cleaner than earth. Actually, they were terraforming here now to be fair
07:49It does show off xenomorphs in the final frame of the movie before the credits roll
08:01Even worse the narrative ends on a cliffhanger with space explorer Elizabeth Shaw seeking out the mysterious
08:08Engineer homeworld for answers. We'd like some of those too
08:17Prometheus leaves way too much up in the air. Like why do the engineers want to seemingly destroy earth?
08:24How did this xenomorph come to be for a prequel that's supposed to clear up mysteries?
08:29Prometheus is inconclusive ending raises more questions than it answers
08:39I
08:40Number four chip off the old block
08:43Star Wars the rise of Skywalker
08:46Ray never needed an in-depth backstory
08:49Ray ho but did that stop rise of Skywalker from retconning her as a Palpatine? Of course not
08:56Ray the force will be with you
09:00always
09:03I
09:06Setting aside the distinct lack of foreshadowing this laughable reveal ruins one of the best parts of her character
09:17That she was a nobody Ray used to represent the idea that anyone could master the force
09:23But rather than committing to that empowering philosophy the rise of Skywalker spits on it
09:29So it can have a dramatic last-minute reveal
09:35To make matters worse the entire trilogy ends on an eye-rolling one-liner where Ray claims herself as a Skywalker
09:52For a galaxy far far away the Star Wars family tree is disappointingly small
09:59I
10:02Number three man machine and motherhood AI
10:06artificial intelligence
10:08Human beings had created a million explanations of the meaning of life in art and poetry and mathematical formulas
10:15Certainly human beings must be the key to the meaning of existence
10:20Ironically a film centered on humanoid Meccas grows an ooey-gooey heart in its final minutes go to her David
10:29She's
10:31Just waking up this instant as
10:34Nice as it is to see the robotic David finally received the motherly love
10:38He always craved the sentimental finale feels extremely out of place in such a gritty think piece
10:46Then again, this is Steven Spielberg and he's apparently a sucker for a happy ending whether it's earned or not
10:53Just look at the head-scratching decision to let Tom Cruise and his family walk off into the sunset at the end of War of the Worlds
11:07These aren't bad endings by any stretch of the word
11:10But totally they leave a lot to be desired and as the day wore on David thought it was the happiest day of his life
11:18all the problems
11:20Seem to have disappeared from his mommy's mind number two
11:24Abraham Lincoln Planet of the Apes
11:281968's historic Planet of the Apes never needed a remake
11:35Especially one that trades one of cinema's greatest twist endings for well, whatever this is
11:50In
11:53Place of the legendary Statue of Liberty reveal Mark Wahlberg's Leo goes back in time to see a monkey version of the Lincoln
12:01monument
12:12Not only is it a lame retread of an iconic moment
12:15But it fails to resolve any of the film's plot threads if Leo went back in time. How are the apes still in control?
12:29Don't ask us because the movie definitely doesn't explain anything
12:33It's a confusing mess of an ending that single-handedly turns a lackluster remake into an awful one
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12:56Number one further research required the devil inside
13:01There's a lot of genuinely bad movie endings out there
13:05But at least they got endings at all. The devil inside doesn't even have that going for it
13:11There's a car crash a fade to black and then a screen directing you to a website for more information on the quote-unquote
13:17Ongoing investigation no climax. No resolution to say it's frustrating would be a lie
13:24Imagine driving out to a movie theater buying a ticket and then leaving with homework if you want to know the rest
13:31Yeah, it's no wonder the devil inside's non-ending is often cited as one of the worst movie conclusions of all time
13:38Scary stuff indeed
13:40What's a movie ending that made you scratch your head?
13:44Well, it's the movie ending that made you scratch your head
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