Last week I was talking with my friend, who is a writer and director, about The Game, starring Michael Douglas. My friend said he enjoyed the "ride" of the movie as he was watching it, but in the back of his mind he kept thinking that the movie's ending was going to be hugely disappointing. And it was (for him at least).
A good ending is important in a movie, and Chris Null and his crew at Film Critic have put together a fun list of the Top 50 Movie Endings of All Time. (As you might expect, it has spoilers in it, so if you haven't seen one of the movies, read the entry for it at your own peril.)
13. Citizen Kane (1941) – Well, we kind of have to put this one on the list, don't we? One of the earliest examples of don't-spill-the-secret endings and also I've-been-robbed anti-climax, that little wooden sled explains everything and explains nothing about Charles Foster Kane, but it's the elusive piece of the jigsaw that drives one of the greatest movies ever made.
(BTW, Wikipedia says "rosebud" allegedly was a "nickname used by [William Randolph] Hearst to refer to the clitoris of his mistress", Marion Davies.)
