10 Movie Endings That Get Worse The More You Think About Them

You're not supposed to linger on these bleak-ass endings.
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[@Nx57ytre]

The older I have become, the more I have defended Snake Plissken's actions.

[@salvadordollyparton666]

i always thought it was blissken... plissken is so odd. and yeah, i've been hoping for the apocalypse basically since the first time i watched mad max, and every year i just wish even harder that this is finally the one.

[@danielmiller3596]

How DARE society shift back to agrarian work‽

[@gregorehorror]

As a kid who got abused, that idea with Cameron on Ferris Bueller absolutely freaked me out the more and more I thought about it after I saw it at 12

[@beanbean78]

Hilarious

[@missmoanypants]

Yea, Cameron definitely should have let Ferris take the fall for that. Damage to the car is one thing but destroying it would bring consequences that no amount of therapy would fix.

[@davidponseigo8811]

I'm very sorry you had that during childhood. My father was abused as a kid and he swore he wouldn't be like that and he wasn't and I have done my best to be a good father so the cycle can be broken.

[@davidponseigo8811]

Cameron would have just let Farris lose on his dad. He would have driven his insane.

[@MelissaBlue]

My thoughts exactly! My father and stepmother were emotionally, verbally, and psychologically abusive to me as a teen (escaped at 16 and over 2 decades permanently estranged). I remember a few times going into "discussions" with my father after doing something "wrong" with my arguments all lined up to face him. My planned points melted away really fast when he brought a similar list of points of Terrible Things and wouldn't let me defend myself. I'd go in feeling confident and end in tears and on the verge of suicidal.

[@HighHeelKnight]

I hated, hated, hated the ending of the first Kingsman movie. Billions of people all over the globe maimed and slaughtered each other, including their CHILDREN!!! All of the world's leaders and elite are dead, so nobody is in charge to handle the aftermath. There would be worldwide chaos for years, maybe decades. BBBUUUTTTTT... Don't worry about that. Here is Eggsy having booty bumping with a Princess (who doesn't yet know her whole family is dead). Then let's take a fun revenge stroll to the pub. Somehow... all is right with the world.

[@derekstein6193]

Not to mention the inevitable massive number of suicides that would result from average people coming to their senses and discovering they had unwillingly murdered their loved ones.

[@stevensauer8539]

Her whole family isn't dead. We meet some of them in the sequel.

[@HighHeelKnight]

@@stevensauer8539 First of all, the movie was not made with the assumption that there would be a sequel. The ending was the ending. The Princess's family was dead, She was in the jail cell because she was the only member of her family that didn't agree with Valentine's plan. Whether that family was four people, ten people, thirty people, or two people, those family members were dead. AND she would not know until after having sex with Eggsy. Imagine that post coitus conversation. 🤦 PLUS, the family's heads exploded. Not only was she suddenly an orphan, but she also had to offer her final goodbyes to a collection of headless corpses.

[@Code_Dee]

I mean yeah millions dead but Eggsy got to have butt as a reward so happy ending! /s

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Reasons why I refuse to watch movie...

[@davidjecmenek8943]

Superman blocking out the source of his own power was pretty wild

[@batmanwins5701]

He is like a solar battery though so he would retain his power while not in the direct sunlight.

[@RobertGreenwald]

The Truman Show’s ending is darker than it seems. Truman may have left the dome and entered the real world, but he is still the most recognizable person on Earth. He will never have a normal life. He will be followed and photographed and hounded everywhere he goes. The only money he can make is from either writing books and doing interviews about the world he just escaped, or by suing the makers of his show for what he would be owed both from profits and them robbing him of a real life. The mental toll the experience would have on Truman is likely to cause severe anxiety, depression and possibly suicide.

[@docgrey3826]

As far as 2012 goes, one word cannibalism. Rich people, the other white meat.

[@missmoanypants]

I definitely want a shirt that says “Eat the rich” on the front and “Rich people the other white meat” on the back.

[@okumabear]

two words. genetic bottleneck.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Reminder - Africa survived, though there would have been earthquakes etc so may dead but also many alive too.

[@euansmith3699]

@@Thurgosh_OG I don't know who Africa survived, as the Great Rift Valley is geologically active, and so would have kicked off along with the rest of the volcanic apocalypse. 🤷‍♂

[@christopherlee2515]

Silence of the Lambs (absent from list) has the same ending as Con Air. Hannibal hasn’t been reformed and plans to eat his next victim for dinner.

[@paulelroy6650]

why does lector have to be reformed though?

[@jamespope7669]

Lecter could never be reformed.

[@cameronhermann9400]

That was on purpose. Him being free was for the sequels, not a big problem

[@RH1812]

Ferris was the baddie

[@jamespope7669]

Cameron was suicidal, Ferris saved him.

[@johngardner4096]

The Full Monty - the main characters end up doing their show for a delighted audience... and the following day they are still unemployed, with unchanged prospects for the future.

[@camgold2154]

Perhaps Magneto's actions in Apocalypse are why he's founded Genosha as a mutant haven by Dark Phoenix.

[@drsamurai009]

From the first time seeing BIG in theaters, all the things you mentioned occurred to me as the movie ended. What about his mom, the woman who fell in love with him, the job and adult people he left in the world of toy development, and that potentially very dangerous Zoltan machine, to name a few? A whole lot of dark questions for what is almost a kids movie.

[@donnywilliamson5807]

especially sickening is that fact that his adult GF committed statutory rape.

[@andyrobertson7315]

2012- it's not even the fact that the survivors would have a lot of hard work to do, but would they even have the skills needed to grow crops, raise livestock, treat disease and injury.....

[@okumabear]

Also...7 billion human corpses...just rotting away for months.

[@thorodinson3597]

That's where the movie thought about that. The Chinese & Nepalese workers onboard would become the serf class. Their inclusion was the whole point of also bringing on the 1%ers. They could have grabbed people based on preventing genetic bottlenecks, skills, and ability to teach for a couple decades. Instead they chose the medieval option, where every non-military chump was going to learn the plantation life real quick. The military got an oversized chunk of seats too, as the assumed they would need to "secure their authority" over the tens of thousands of people expected to have survived by happenstance. Everyone really needs to read the after release interviews, and the plot ideas *for the planned sequel*

[@jamespope7669]

7 billion corpses. What if human remains make good fertilizer

[@trippyboi91]

American Psycho. Even if he didn’t do anything and it’s all in his mind… he’s still on the loose and ready to start at any time. What is his line? Where does the killer start and end? Also, what the hell is Jean gonna do?!?! She can’t quit.. but how can she work with this dude KNOWING what goes on in his head!!

[@earlleeruhf3130]

2012 and Escape from L.A. should have both had sequels showing how Mankind would deal and rebuild from globe disaster.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

2012 was going to have a sequel based on the ships arriving in the relatively safe and still alive continent of Africa.

[@trippyboi91]

US - Literally EVERYTHING. Main question tho: was the break out part of an experiment? Because you just have to feel like even if Red says the project was cancelled, someone still has to be watching. Otherwise Red wouldn’t have been the ONLY Tethered that got out. HOW DID SHE LEARN SO MUCH BEING DOWN THERE?!?!

[@BBAERSTANCE1]

That movie sucks

[@thorodinson3597]

She learned so much by just watching the others as they reacted to the real world. The real question should be how did her tethered twin, up top, not get info from the real her planning the takeover during “Hands Across America.” She should have still had those *powers?*

[@trippyboi91]

@@BBAERSTANCE1 def don’t agree but love your opinion.

[@trippyboi91]

@@thorodinson3597 maybe she got lazy and spoiled much like The Taylors. She could relax a bit after a while I felt.

[@shaunreinert5202]

I've been saying for YEARS that from Susan's perspective, "Big" is horribly terrifying.

[@IanM-id8or]

The true consequences of the end of Superman IV: The Quest for Something Vaguely Resembling a Storyline are that there would be no more Superman movies for several decades. And when there were, they kept not quite living up to the 1978 movie

[@TdubDee]

I feel like I haven't seen a whatculture video in a while, good to see you mate 'ow ya been

[@drewbieware]

I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but I really liked The Lady in the Water. Seen it more than once.

[@carouselcakes6237]

I love that film & I’m truly baffled by all the hate for it.

[@johnfronczek2658]

Are you sure the movies “2012” and “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace” deserves deep thought? P.S. My favorite M. Night movies were “The Sixth Sense” and “Unbreakable”.

[@linda10989]

I hope the girl what played Eggsy's sister wasn't traumatized during that scene. She was only 3yo I'm guessing?

[@davidjecmenek8943]

I stand with Snake

[@Marquisdre]

U missed that the highest elevation in Africa allowed people and animals to survive in 2012

[@stevensauer8539]

Someone wasn't paying attention at the end of 2012....

[@Thurgosh_OG]

That is normal for Whatculture.

[@williamestes629]

Why did I get the imagine of Nuclear Man flying up to Superman and flipping him off.

[@trippyboi91]

One more. Gone Girl. Just like Tanner said, they NEED a reality show because I’ve GOT to see what raising this child is gonna be like. Also, I’m under the strict belief that THAT IS NOT NICKS BABY. 🗣️GILLIAN! WE NEED A SEQUEL!!!

[@fabricdragon]

in the "escape from" series, i think its pretty obvious that the really vulnerable people were already dead. so... the whole "medical support" thing? its only the rich and powerful that would have any access to it. now Kingsmen... this is why Fanfiction is great- i have read a bunch of fan fiction that expressly deals with the aftermath of the murderous rampage

[@scloftin8861]

Con-air: Actually they do show that the character is changing. He doesn't unalive someone we fully expect him to take out. It's like he starts thinking instead of simply reacting. Escape from LA: Alternate Earth ... but can't say I'd have done any different. Yes, a lot of ceasing to exist. But then, archaeologically speaking, it's not the first time we've dropped the population radically. Natural causes previously, of course.

[@troylovel6714]

the thing about Con-air with garland green they merely show him playing with the little girl but iirc it does not show her parents/guardians so he could have killed them but i see your point as well. it has been a while since i watched Escape from LA so i do not remember if the Sword of Damocles permanently disabled technology or if it was temporary. if it was the first it merely means mankind is stuck without technology for maybe a few years on account of the knowledge of the technology is still available. if it is the second then it means the power could be turned back on. P.s. sorry about the rambling why i write it is a reflecting of how i think

[@euansmith3699]

At the end of "Surrogates", Bruce Willis's character kills millions of people. When he shuts off the Surrogate system, city streets across the world will become clogged with crashed vehicles as their drivers switch off. Aircraft, trains and shipping will be left without pilots and crew, adding to the carnage. Untended cooking will catch fire, and those fires will burn out of control, as the emergency services struggle to reach their firefighting equipment through the clogged streets. 🤦‍♂

[@aguasanta]

The serial killer from con air could be an excellent sequel.

[@dphilly179]

In a franchise like the original Superman series that seen Superman literally spending the world backwards blocking out the moon doesn't seem so bad

[@dylanogg347]

Also, where did Garland get that coat from?

[@DontSmileAtMe2005]

Eh, Charles is in love with Erik so I can give him a pass for forgiving him ❤

[@conradsutton1456]

Demolition Man- After the death of Simon Phoenix and recapture of all the other criminals. Society would gladly dive even deeper into that sanitized pseudo utopian way of existing regardless of Stallone and Learys characters influence.

[@thorodinson3597]

You would happily too, once you found out what the 3rd seashell was for. What universal wonders could rid the world of incels & hatred.

[@DarkAngelBluejay]

Escape from L.A. has another outcome not mentioned. Half the world was either in the middle of, or just entering winter. How many will freeze now without heat, or starve without food. How many can adapt to hunting, fishing, and farming within, at most, 4 months?

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Given the mess that world was in, they might be better off.

[@trippyboi91]

Midsommar: manhunt for Dani and the rest of the visitors? How long have the sect/cult gotten away with vanishing people? Has she lost her mind to the powerful hallucinogenics they served? Does she have to stay BECAUSE she’s the May Queen? Will she have a complete breakdown due to her decision? Does Pelle continue his pied piper schtick? What will become of the baby homegurl is having due to Christian? Most importantly, because of her sister, how will she continue in life??? Like she’s completely alone at the end of that film. Still… she chose right . Eff him 😂

[@davidponseigo8811]

In 2012 there is absolutely nothing saying that other humans and animals survived. Parts of Africa were not really damaged.

[@sandeman1776]

I feel like if superheroes and mutants were real, the regular citizens would have been pushed to extinction without all having Iron Man suits.

[@orlando-from-The-Bronx]

I don't think you have to reflect further on the ending of Escape from L.A. to get the full implications.

[@SilentJT3]

The 61 Ferrari 250 gt California Spyder is worth an incredible amount. In 2016, one of these cars sold for $17.16 million at auction. So yeah, a strong reaction can be assumed.

[@Mruiz0085]

Is ghosts of mars not escape from LA’s sequel

[@batlokoasekhamane4813]

Kingsman 2 should have delved into the carnage. It would have been unique in the genre and everything would have felt more natural than what actually came to be

[@Htx.lunatic]

I feel like in 2012, the scientists specifically said that Africa never flooded. So that would mean that the entire continent of Africa should still have all of its citizens

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Albeit with major earthquake damage.

[@SilentJT3]

And the possibility of a nuclear winter brought on by the yellowstone super volcano eruption.

[@rkline1701]

My theory on Ferris Bueller's Day Off is Cameron, even though he seems lucid, it's still in a fragile mental state. During the fight that ensues, Cameron finally cracks and murders his father

[@bigtiredpotato]

With Escape From L.A., that's the whole purpose. Snake is fed up with the human race's constant widespread violence via technological weapons. He declared humanity didn't deserve technology and he was right.

[@WolfsRain99999]

Psy Chotic gets worse the more you think about them.

[@noydb-1]

You left out the obvious one. The Truman Show. Truman leaves the domed world where everyone is an actor supporting his existence. He is now in the real world where billions of people think they know him and are his friend. Safe to assume the "Bank of Seahaven" isn't real and Truman has no actual money, or place to live once the set of the show has been shuttered. How long will it take for his "true love" that he knew for less than a day gets tired of an unemployed, broke man who is constantly hounded by the entire world wanting something from him. Will he have the skills to capitalize in this fame or be used for everyone else's gain while he ends up destitute. Even if he can be compensated by the producers that f'ed his life, how long will the money last. Will he have the skills to avoid being taken. And the psychological issues he will have adjusting to the real world, knowing nothing he remembers of his past is real. Not sure his "freedom" is a happy ending.

[@otakonjunkie]

We didn't really see anything bad happen to Africa in 2012. The series it was based on heavily implied that it was, for whatever reason, basically okay. And that the people on the arcs were going to have to deal with them.

[@holgerschrenk8827]

Independence Day: Yay, we defeated the aliens. All the major cities in every part of the world - gone (if not burned to a crisp they lay flattened under a humongous alien saucer). Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people - gone. Most of mankinds cultural achievements (arts, architecture, historical buildings, historical documents etc.) - gone. The political structure to organize the time after defeating the aliens - gone. The economic base to rebuild - gone. That's not how I envision a victory.

[@Mike__B]

It's ok in the Kingsman because Eggsy got to go to brown town with the princess of Sweden afterward. \

[@user-ig7xg5zr8y]

M. Night made one good movie...The Sixth Sense. Other than that he made good trailers for otherwise movies that sucked.

[@jreese2474]

X-Men writers fundamentally do not understand Magneto. After surviving 1930-40 Germany he never wants to go through that again and in the end adopts a mindset of do unto others before they do unto me. Many writers however simply think that being a holocausts survivor grants him blanket immunity for whatever crimes he may commit not understanding that he is a warning and a cautionary tale not a hero,.

[@paulelroy6650]

whos to say garland isnt changed. he doesnt eat the young girl he could have making he feels lucky because he now has the chance to be abetter person.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

I thought they put that scene in with Garland enjoying the fact that the little girl accepted him and treated him like a friend, that may have been the factor to change his ways.

[@someOldBaldguy]

Best M. Knight Shamalanalanala film is Signs. Yes I know the water thing is dumb, I still love everything else about it

[@troylovel6714]

with all due respect i disagree in my opinion M. Knight Shamalanalanla is highly overrated. granted i have only seen a few of his movies [aliens allergic to water, i see dead people, attack of the killer plants, black boy meets post-apocalyptic world, wanna be superman (signs, the sixth sense, the happening, after earth and unbreakable)] and i was unimpressed by all of them. the only one that had potential was in my opinion ruined by it main cast being a overrated and underperforming actor and his son who also was overrated.

[@someOldBaldguy]

@@troylovel6714 you had a lot to say to a random KZbin comment.

[@troylovel6714]

@@someOldBaldguy that is true but i meant you no disrespect. what i said was merely my opinion. plus the reason it appears to the ramblings of a mad man is because it is the ramblings of a mad man.

[@someOldBaldguy]

@@troylovel6714 lol fair enough. Good points

[@troylovel6714]

​@@someOldBaldguyfirstly i would like to say thank you and sorry for the ramblings of a mad man. i would also like to say two other things first the names in the brackets were because i could not remember the name of the sixth sense all that i could remember was i see dead people and the others were three to six word synapses of the movies. and secondly i have never been a fan of will smith and think that the movies that are good with him in them were because either a better actor propping up the movie or being animated and not realizing who will smith voiced. and when i say better actor i mean that in a literal sense. to me will smith is not that good of an actor but i am cognizant that there are people who feel like he is a good actor and that is their right. plus i think one of the other reason i am not a fan of will smith is the fact that he seems like a preppy city boy where as i am a couth uncouth country boy. and yes i know saying couth uncouth is a bit counterintuitive but what i mean is i have manners while being vulgar. again that is just my opinion.

[@NoticeVids]

Whats the movie at 05:11?

[@i.b.640]

Still Superman 4

[@NoticeVids]

​@i.b.640 it's goes from Superman and it says Warner bros in the corner, to a boat movie with a big wave and it says Sony Pictures in the corner, and then back to Superman with Warner Bros in the corner. So the middle movie is different.

[@troylovel6714]

i could be mistaking but i think that is the cruse boat from 2012

[@xtrafe5953]

from the king's man to kingsman...

[@danielmiller3596]

Middle aged people acting immaturely... meh. Fairly standard.

[@omegarican]

Unbreakable @ M. Night 👍

[@rickfalcon5572]

Hannibal Lecter at the end of Hannibal, anyone??

[@christopherlee2515]

Doesn’t have to be reformed. His final words proves he’s not reformed. Kind of my point.

[@alyzu4755]

Where would a third "Escape From" film take place, I wonder? Duluth? Toronto? Mumbai?

[@michaelhowell2326]

But Africa was almost untouched in 2012...

[@Anonmoose99]

Not to mention mass suicide shortly after.

[@TheMbeagan]

Last, hopefully

[@christopherlee2515]

Think you missed my point.

[@ginnungagapabyss5639]

Gone girl

[@trippyboi91]

THAT STORY IS NOT DONE MAN. Believe me. There HAS to be a sequel to this someday… I been BUGGING Gillian about this 🤣

[@ginnungagapabyss5639]

@@trippyboi91 I could definitely see it. She could do a lot in 18 years to keep him stuck with her.

[@trippyboi91]

@@ginnungagapabyss5639 a kid raised by Amazing Amy DESERVES to be seen. Also, how about this: do you REALLY think it’s Nicks child? I DONT. I swear it’s Desi’s.

[@ginnungagapabyss5639]

@@trippyboi91 I'm kind of 50/50 on it, she's obsessed with him, and the movie didn't really give us anything about what she was doing when she left. But she was gone for a while so maybe she got pregnant to trap him. IDK, but he's trapped either way. She could falsely accuse him of anything, and the world will eat it up. I'm not even sure if he could cheat anymore because everybody is watching him, and men accused of a crime will have that affect them until the day they are 6 feet under.

[@user-cd9pt7zm4l]

The village and signs are tied for second but I have to say that anything by him is my favorite.

[@geoffreyhawley503]

My favorite Shamaytan movie: Signs

[@Zed-fq3lj]

Snake was right 👍

[@lightbearer313]

In Kingsman the world leaders dying wouldn't have any significant effect, as standby leaders would take their place. All nations have procedures for replacing a leader if they die, as can happen in normal circumstances. 2012's biggest flaw is that the rich paid China to build the arks. What would happen in real life is that the Chinese military would seize the arks for use by the Chinese people. The rich paid for the arks with money that would become useless after the disaster, so what motive would the Chinese have for building the arks? The answer to that question is in the statement I made before it.

[@stevensauer8539]

I don't think there was any leftover money. Didn't they say the money all went toward building the arks in such a short period of time? Which gives even less motivation for the Chinese to not seize the arks. Although I don't see them doing it for the more than 1 billion Chinese people, but for Party leaders and significant VIPs. Only so much room on the arks, after all....

[@alexius23]

🎥🍿🎞🎬🧙🏻‍♂

[@IanM-id8or]

The human race sprang back from a near-extinction event which left 1000 individuals. The human race would spring back after the events of 2012

[@borisammerlaan7408]

"Escape from L.A. isn't a great movie" ... everything after that is invalid.

[@jamesbarton1969]

You have officially run out of material.

[@JO-jj9jd]

First

[@getaleneagnew9750]

Who has seen any of these movies (even once) and not thought about what would come after, i mean it's pretty much in your face

[@bryansummers3219]

Please either change your channel name to PratCulture or stop worrying about every possible detail in the most fanciful, fictional, fantasy movies. What part of your brain says "I'm upset that there are scientific inaccuracies in this movie about impossible events and nonsensical plot lines"? Yeah, let's apply reason and logic to a movie about "Superman".

[@bengreen6980]

Why don't you talk properly?

[@firstname4337]

all of these movies sucked anyway

[@troylovel6714]

respectfully i disagree Escape from LA is an awesome post-apocalyptic action flick, 2012 is a good disaster movie, Con-air is a 90's era action flick (set brain to chill mode), x-men apocalypse was ok. the other i have not seen