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What we’ve been talking about With the Glasgow Film Festival about to start, we got thinking about endings. What are the classic final scenes from movies? Here are some reasonably flawless spoiler-free movie denouements

Reservoir Dogs! So iconic! And probably the only film ending

which had me literally on the edge

of my seat.

Some Like it Hot: ‘Well, nobody’s

perfect’. Best final

line ever.

Monsters, Inc. always makes me

cry buckets of happy tears. The door!

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I’m generally not a fan of downbeat endings but I make an exception

for The Mist. The whole film plays out in a minor key so a

happy resolution seems

unlikely; but even now, after a dozen or so viewings, the final scene sucker punches

me every time.

For an ending where you think things might turn out OK-ish only to be dragged into a living nightmare, it has to be the original Carrie.

Has to be

Vertigo. Two people look all

set for love,

redemption and happiness. A

second later it’s just horror and utter despair.

The final scene of Alan Parker’s Vietnam War movie Birdy is a beautiful mix of the comedic

contrast between the weird kid and the jock, and the terrible notion that in his quest to fly, Matthew Modine’s Birdy may just end up killing himself.

Take your pick from Certified

Copy, Inception or Lost in Translation because ambiguity

is far more satisfying in the

long run.

Don’t Look Now: you may

never trust someone in a red mac again.

Smurfs 3D: The Lost Village: I

don’t want to give

anything away, but against all odds, our brave, blue friends find

a way to make the impossible

real. Britney Spears

provides the score. Five bags of

popcorn. 

A Boy and His Dog which I watched at the tender age of about 13, not knowing the first

thing about it. It was

the first film that made me realise that the whole world

could be turned on its head in an instant. 

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, when you learn that

even if you know better, you’d still make the same mistakes all over

again if you had the chance.

La La Land and that final ‘what if’ scene when you see what could have been if only they’d made it work. Ryan Gosling,

that incredible soundtrack and the

set just get me every time.