Favorite movie endings

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I liked the ending to “Saving Private Ryan” where the elder Ryan asks his family if he’s led a good life.

Can never get through that without tearing up.
 
Clark Griswold in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation: “I did it!”

LOVE THAT!
 
Certainly not the most wholesome movie ever, but I laugh out loud just seeing this image. Great comedic ending.

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The Godfather, Michael didn’t want to be a man like his father, but by the end of the film that is exactly what he has became and it is chilling.
Greatest movie of all time.

 
He was also excellent in Dog Day afternoon.

His later works, 😳. Godfather 3 does not even count among people that are truly fans of The Godfather. Scent of a Woman was probably one of his better ones as well. Loved the ending of that movie too!
 
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Bitwa Warzsawa (Battle of Warsaw). Polish cavalry charge crushing the Bolshevik invaders, followed by a victory parade, and scene of defeated Lenin and Stalin.
 
I love the ending to The Train. It’s not a happy ending, but it was satisfying. It features one of the best villain closing monologues ever:
Does it please you, Labiche? You feel a sense of excitement at just being near them? A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape. You won by sheer luck. You stopped me without knowing what you were doing or why. You are nothing Labiche, a lump of flesh. The paintings are mine. They always will be. Beauty belongs to the man who can appreciate it. They will always belong to me, or a man like me. Now, this minute, you couldn’t tell me why you did what you did.
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And Labiche, seeing the chaos and death this man and this war brought, did the only thing he could do.
 
Dog day afternoon was good, it also had John Cazale, the actor who played Fredo.

He was only in a handful of films before dying of brain cancer.

Dog day afternoon’s ending was not my favorite. But since it was based on a true story, I guess they couldn’t end it differently.
 
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I have mixed feelings about Steven King but Shawshank’s a high point. His miniseries Storm of the Century I found absolutely terrifying, maybe the most terrifying thing I’ve ever watched.
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Stand By Me is another solid King film adaption. And of course, the Kubrick version of the Shining. And the Green Mile is good too.
 
I actually hadn’t read the book and followed along pretty well, that said it was a nailbiter throughout the film and I don’t know having known what was going to happen (except for the ending as it was changed from the book) if it was the same experience for you, but I did thoroughly enjoy it for Stephen King film.
 
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With regard to last lines of a movie, for me, it would have to be The Maltese Falcon: “The stuff that dreams are made of.”
 
My issue with King isn’t the movies; it’s with some of his writing. The man IMHO has the greatest imagination I can imagine - he’s been cranking out the most remarkable stories for decades. My issue is that I think he often dilutes them with some gratuitious sex and lurid stuff. For example was the “It” novel any better because of the sex (involving teens no less)? I doubt it. I wonder if in 100 years King will be less Mark Twain and more Horatio Alger.
 
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