Favorite movie endings

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Can’t believe this hasn’t been mentioned yet. One of the most iconic film endings ever. The medal ceremony from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

 
Damn Yankees … forgiveness, trust, repentance, learning what’s really important …
one of the best MARRIED people’s love story endings in film.

Rocky … Though he achieves his more modest goal of “going the distance” with a greatly
superior foe … as soon as the fight is over, Rocky just wants his love.
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              The movie audience must strain their ears to hear the results of the "split decision"
               to find out "who won?!!"    But the scene of the valiant hard working hero who gave his
              all looking for his lady as his friends mob him (regardless of the verdict) aided by some
              the greatest music in film history ... is unforgettable.
Dumbo - After tearing your heart out by skewering prejudice and injustice with our innocent baby elephant being persecuted and separated from his mother who defended him and was jailed … to the strains of “Baby Mine” (possibly the most tear jerking song in the world) … faithful little Dumbo
really CAN fly and happily flies circles over the nicer-now circus train on its way to the next town.

" … when I see an e-le-phant Flyyyyyy!" BRAVO (outright prolonged applause) 😄 - yay!
 
😆 Rocky IV is “another whole movie” of course.
Made during the end of the “cold war” … perhaps a warmer part of it.

If you’re going to use stereotypes … by gosh … go whole hog for the entertainment of it.
You can atone for them later by having the hero give an unintentionally funny over-the-top PC speech at the end. 😐?!!

Rocky was a masterpiece, a low budget movie that interspersed humor throughout
had gritty photography of many places you’d never go to and several little vignettes
building this unknown character’s life challenges, difficulties, and efforts to begin a love affair in the midst of that seedy, dark neighborhood … while making a living as a hired thug.

Rocky II was probably made due to demand. The public wanted more of that character … and a rematch which he’d then WIN. It was still good, as now the Creed character was taking Rocky seriously (instead of totally dismissing him … which made the first movie plausible) and determined to punish him for ruining his reputation even though Creed WON the Rocky fight.

Subsequent Rocky movies each did have SOME little thing that made it not a total rehash of the earlier ones … but the “villains” became more comic bookish as time went on, the hero gets ready to inspiring music deal became more expected than the original movie’s “my God, he might Win!” tease accomplished.

I did find Rocky IV to be cringeworthy at times. And the political speech with not so glib Rocky
in front of the Politburo in Moscow with a picked audience that somehow had the hair to
abandon their superhuman homeboy and root for Rocky … looked like a preachy but obscure political point being made to the audience … at the expense of the movie.

Also, In Rocky III and IV … the “villains” were so superhuman … I had a hard time buying the fact that Rocky could actually beat them. Even with another “they didn’t take him seriously” and succumbed to the old “Tortoise and the Hare” mistake. 🤭

The end of Rocky II was also far fetched (nothing like it has ever happened in a boxing ring) but the well made film leading up to it … plus the satisfying result for fans of the first film … kind of mitigated it.

I DID remember an astounding end to a NASCAR race once where the two leaders collided, and spun around shy of the finish line, and labored furiously to limp their mutually but differently disabled car(s) over the line before the distant 3rd place car passed them both. So the fantasy did get a plausibility bump from me … cos’ I wanted to.
 
One of my favorite’s is the ending to “A Fistfull of Yen” from “The Kentucky Fried Movie.” Nice homage to the Wizard of Oz at the end…

 
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The interviews of the real people at the end of the last episode of Band of Brothers is pretty great. I’m not crying, you’re crying.
 
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