Some of my favorite movies have horrible endings. China Town, Dead Snow, Das Boot, The Thing, Paths of Glory.
A horrible ending is perfectly acceptable for a horror movie. We Americans are spoiled rotten with constant happy endings. Buckle up buttercup, it's only a movie.
I like movies with non happy endings i.e. The Thing, Scarface, I Am Legend. There are others, but the endings have to make sense. This ending was tacked on for shock value period. Jane's character was tenacious and didn't give up throughout the entire movie until they ran out of gas. Really? You come through all of the crap that you do and decide all of the sudden to do a 180 and kill your son and yourself? Really? No impending doom, no realizing along the way that we're going to run out of gas so maybe try to get into another vehicle, no resilience whatsoever. That ending was mind-numbingly atrocious. I watch the movie until right before they run out of gas and put in the fan made ending where it leaves it open-ended for you to decide what happened next with the world still shrouded in the mist. That's still a not so happy ending, but at least it's an ending that doesn't feel like you just got punked.
shareGet over it. The ending fits fine.
shareEveryone has their breaking point. He was tenacious throughout the film because he was hopeful that tge most hadnt spread past the town. By the end it was obvious that that wasnt true and that the world was gone. There was nothing left to be hopeful for.
shareNaw, the ending was crap. They had to wrap it up. Funny in that once it got out, the rest doesn't matter. Know several who didn't watch it for years because they knew how it would end. Daraboner screwed himself with that 'twist' ending. What a joke. P.S. No sequel for you sucker! Moron.
shareYou need to re-watch the scene again. They drove from Maine to Pennsylvania when they ran out of gas.
Drayton's(I think that was his name) leadership was constantly getting people killed.
His plan was to drive away from the Mist and leave the town. They drove through several states and the mist was still present.
Right after they drive by the giant Cthulu, they run out of gas in the middle of nowhere.
They start to hear screeching echoes of inter-dimensional monsters getting closer and surrounding the Land Cruiser. They realize that theyre *beep* Drayton, is left with 2 old geezers, 1 crying woman, and his young son. Everyone is dead weight.
In desperation, a unanimous decision was made by the group to commit suicide before being violently killed by horrible 4th dimension monsters.
Drayton, being a natural leader, decides to spare everyone a gruesome death and shoots them mercifully. As a leader, he calculated the risks and made the decision that seemed right in the current situation.
The movie focused on the horror that the characters created, instead of the corny ass CGI monsters.
The ending for this movie is perfect.
You might like Michael Haneke
In continuation with the thread's theme, I'd suggesting starting with Funny Games
Not happy? Return watch Walt Disney movies, let these kinds of things for real moviegoers!
shareAmericans used to be able to produce films with great endings too, in fact some of my favourite 'European Endings' have been American films from the early to mid 70s - Vanishing Point and Thunderbolt and Lightfoot to name two. Others would describe them as bad or stupid, but that's only because they can't handle reality and so need the schmaltzy focus group endings that have ruined Hollywood pretty much since the 70s.
'Well I've got two words for you - STFU'