“Backrooms stopped being scary. I was just waiting for it to be over at that point.”

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“Fuck ‘the power of love will save you from a fucking supermassive black hole’ bullshit.”

Plot summary: Earth is suffering from several things, including dust storms and starvation. This leads a group of astronauts, including Joseph “Coop” Cooper (played by Matthew McConaughey), to travel through space in search of a new home for humankind. 

How it ended: Cooper enters a black hole and lands in a 5th-dimensional tesseract, where he can see his daughter, Murphy “Murph” Cooper (played by Jessica Chastain/Mackenzie Foy), and send her quantum data via Morse code to her watch. She uses that data to save the planet. Cooper wakes up at a space station, now 124 years old, and leaves to find Dr. Amelia Brand (played by Anne Hathaway) on the planet Edmunds.

Plot summary: Elisabeth Sparkle (played by Demi Moore) is a fading celebrity who has just turned 50. Because of her age, her producer fires her from her long-running aerobics TV show. In an effort to become a 'younger, more beautiful, more perfect' version of herself, she purchases a drug off the black market, which leads to severe side effects. 

How it ended: Elisabeth and Sue (played by Margaret Qualley), a younger woman who's formed from taking the substance, begin to hate each other and fight for control. Sue tries to create another version of herself using the leftover serum, but it fails and instead creates a mutated monster named Monstro Elisasue. The monster eventually becomes nothing but a puddle of blood (along with Elisabeth and Sue) and is then cleaned up off the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 

"Law Abiding Citizen. Clyde spends the entire movie being ten steps ahead of every law enforcement agency in the country, only to lose in the final ten minutes to a basic plot trap because the writers refused to let the anti-hero win!!"

Plot summary: Criminals break into Clyde Shelton’s (played by Gerard Butler) home and murder his wife and daughter while forcing him to watch. The prosecutor Nick Rice (played by Jamie Foxx) doesn't want to lower his high conviction rate with no evidence, so he makes a plea deal with the murderer, who pleads guilty in exchange for a smaller charge in exchange for giving up his accomplice. A decade later, Clyde takes matters into his own hands, targeting Nick and the corrupt justice system.  

How it ended: Nick discovers that Clyde has been using a tunnel to get in and out of his solitary confinement cell to plant a bomb under City Hall. Instead of taking the deal to stop what he's doing and surrender, Clyde dials the bomb anyway. It turns out that Nick planted Clyde's own bomb inside his cell, and it goes off with Clyde inside the cell, holding his daughter's bracelet in his hand. 

Plot summary: After Thanos (played by Josh Brolin) successfully used the Infinity Stones to wipe out half of the population, the Avengers put together a plan to travel through time to prevent him from doing so. 

How it ended: While trying to fight Thanos, Tony Stark (played by Robert Downey Jr.) uses the Infinity Stones to defeat Thanos, sacrificing his life. After his funeral, Steve Rogers (played by Chris Evans) passes the Captain America name (and shield) to Sam Wilson (played by Anthony Mackie) and goes to live in the past with Peggy Carter (played by Hayley Atwell), the woman he loves.

Plot summary: FBI agent Lee Harker (played by Maika Monroe) is assigned to a serial killer who's tied to decades of family murder-suicides known as Longlegs (played by Nicolas Cage). She uses her psychic intuition to discover a personal childhood connection to the killer and her mother.

How it ended: Agent Lee learns that her mother, Ruth Harker (played by Alicia Witt), was the one who delivered cursed dolls that forced the fathers to kill their own families. To save a young girl, Lee kills her possessed boss and mother. She tries to shoot the remaining evil doll, but her gun clicks as she runs out of bullets, leaving the young girl stuck in a trance. 

Plot summary: Set in 2057, humanity is at risk of dying due to a global freeze. A crew sets out on a mission via spaceship to take a bomb to the dying sun as a means of reigniting it. 

How it ended: Captain Pinbacker (played by Mark Strong) believes that it is God's will for humanity to die and attempts to stop the mission. Robert Capa (played by Cillian Murphy) fights through Pinbacker to reach the bomb chamber. He then activates it and plunges with it into the heart of the sun. The sun then comes back to life. 

“Man, the ending of Marty Supreme genuinely shits on the entire rest of the movie by how bad it is. Marty constantly ruins the lives of like five people in that movie. And even when he has to choose between having his shot at glory or sticking by his girl and kid, he chooses wrong. I love it when he wins the tournament, but when he gets back, he’s supposed to confront the consequences of his choices, not be rewarded for constantly being a fuck head. He literally abandoned his family, but we’re supposed to be glad he wants to be a dad now???? Uncut Gems did it right. Howard wins his game, but loses everything in the process.” 

Plot summary: Following table tennis player Marty Mauser (played by Timothée Chalamet) on his quest to win the world championship. Throughout the film, he abandons his responsibilities and damages several of his relationships, all in pursuit of becoming the greatest table tennis player. 

How it ended: Marty finds out Rachel Mizler (played by Odessa A’zion), the married woman he's having an affair with, is pregnant with his baby, but leaves for Japan to try and compete in the World Championship anyway. After finding out he's too late to enter, Marty is forced to lose the exhibition match that was set up by Milton Rockwell (played by Kevin O'Leary), but refuses to follow through. Instead, in front of the audience, he demands a rematch, which he wins, and flies back home. After going home and arriving at the hospital, Rachel gave birth to their child while he was away, and he held his newborn child in his arms.

Plot summary: Peter Parker (played by Tobey Maguire) is bitten by a radioactive spider and is given superhuman abilities. He now has to navigate life while fighting crime in New York City — specifically, the Green Goblin, aka Norman Osborn (played by Willem Dafoe).

How it ended: Peter leaves Norman's funeral with Harry Osborn (played by James Franco), promising to get revenge on Spider-Man. Mary Jane Watson (played by Kirsten Dunst) then tells Peter that she loves him and wants to be with him, but Peter rejects her because he feels it's better that way to keep her safe. 

Plot summary: The story follows a man convicted in 1995 for murdering the members of his team during a journey to the Jersey Devil. 

How it ended: Throughout the movie, documentary filmmaker David Leigh (played by David Beard) follows the 1995 expedition to prove that the person convicted, Jim Suerd (played by James Seward), isn't the actual killer. However, it is revealed that David is the actual killer when data expert Shelly Monarch (played by Michele Pulaski) fixes the damaged footage. He then kills Shelly and finishes narrating the documentary.

Plot summary: This movie follows Naomi and Logan Wallace, a mother and son (played by Piercey Dalton and Dylan Minnette), who move into a relative’s vacant house that is up for sale. During their stay, an anonymous intruder hides in the home and harasses them during weekly open houses for the home.

How it ended: The movie ends with both the mother and son being killed by the intruder. The killer, aka The Man in Black (played by Edward Olson), is never revealed. 

Plot summary: This film follows an Alaskan town that becomes filled with vampires as they enter a 30-day-long polar night. 

How it ended: The town sheriff, Eben Oleson (played by Josh Hartnett), realizes the survivors cannot defeat the lead vampire, so he injects himself with vampire blood to become a vampire and gain superhuman strength. Although he is able to defeat the lead vampire and the surviving vampires leave the town, he dies as the month-long darkness ends, and his body turns into ash because of the sunlight. 

Plot summary: Andie Anderson, a magazine writer (played by Kate Hudson), and Benjamin Barry, an ad executive (played by Matthew McConaughey), date each other while both having secret agendas. Andie is trying to get Ben to dump her in 10 days for an article she’s writing to be taken more seriously at work, and Ben is trying to make her fall in love with him to win a work bet and prove he can pitch campaigns to women. 

How it ended: After they both realize they’ve fallen in love with the other and find out that the other had ulterior motives, they break up. Andie quits her job and leaves for Washington, D.C. Ben reads the article she published and realizes she actually loved him and that he wants to be with her. He chases her down and stops her taxi in the middle of traffic, where they express their feelings and share a kiss. 

Plot summary: Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) is dealing with the struggles of being Spider-Man and being a normal teenager. He reunites with Gwen Stacy (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld) and discovers a group of Spider-People who protect the multiverse. Miles learns that a tragic event is supposed to happen to every Spider-Man — his being the death of his father. 

How it ended: Miles refuses to let this happen and tries to save his dad. Spider-Man 2099 ( voiced by Oscar Isaac) and the other Spider-People try to stop him, but Miles somehow ends up in another universe where he sees an evil villain of himself known as The Prowler. 

Plot summary: Annie Graham (played by Toni Collette) and her family unravel dark, occult secrets about their ancestry after the death of Annie's secretive mother, Ellen Leigh (portrayed in an uncredited appearance by Pat Barnett Carr). The family is then secretly targeted by a supernatural cult attempting to pass a king of hell named Paimon into a male bloodline host. 

How it ended: It's revealed that the cult is run by Ellen, who orchestrated the family's tragedies. Annie’s child, Charlie Graham (played by Milly Shapiro), dies, and her other child, Peter Graham (played by Alex Wolff), becomes possessed and accepts his fate as the new King Paimon. 

Plot summary: Tasked with solving three unexplained paranormal events, Phillip Goodman (played by Andy Nyman) is devoted to unmasking fake psychics. 

How it ended: Phillip eventually discovers that each of the paranormal events is connected to his own life and that the investigations are essentially manifestations of his own guilt and trauma from killing someone in a hit-and-run. 

“Perfectly good movie, great acting performances all around, well-paced in my opinion, and then they drop an ending that is such a fucking goofy stinker that the movie instantly becomes a joke. Literally took the intrigue and mystery from the story and hamfisted it in such a way that you can’t do anything but laugh at how silly it is. 

It completely ruined the movie. My advice for those who still want to watch it: turn the movie off once Emma’s character goes into the closet.”

Plot summary: Two young men, Teddy Gatz and Don (played by Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis), kidnap powerful CEO Michelle Fuller (played by Emma Stone) because they believe she is an alien who is trying to destroy Earth by killing honeybees and forcing humans into submissiveness. 

How it ended: After being kidnapped and tortured, it is revealed that Michelle is an alien emperor. Teddy is killed, and Michelle tells the other aliens that the human experiment has failed. She then pops a bubble over an Earth-shaped dome, which kills all humans and leaves the planet to the bees. 

“Backrooms. Stupid dinner scene. Stopped being scary. I was waiting for it to be over at that point.”

Plot summary: Backrooms follows Clark (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor), a furniture store owner, and his therapist, Dr. Mary Kline (played by Renate Reinsve), as they discover a dimension of liminal spaces accessed through the store's basement.  

How it ended: Clark becomes trapped in the Backrooms and is confronted by a terrifying version of himself that he is convinced understands him more than people in real life. The other version of him shows how he became consumed by the Backrooms. Mary manages to escape, but it's implied that the Backrooms created a copy of her, as the film ends with us seeing a version of Mary sitting in a replicated room in the Backrooms. 

Plot summary: Two twin brothers, Smoke and Stack Moore (played by Michael B. Jordan), return to their home in Mississippi to open a juke joint. Their night turns sideways when they are confronted by a supernatural evil (vampires) that wants to turn them all into vampires to build a family. 

How it ended: Sammie Moore (played by Miles Caton) slams his silver guitar into Remmick's skull, causing him and all of the vampires to be defeated as the sun rises. Smoke takes out the KKK members and dies while envisioning his dead wife Annie (played by Wunmi Mosaku) and their baby. Sammie leaves for Chicago. In a post-credits scene, Sammie is shown older (now played by Buddy Guy) in 1992, a successful blues player. Stack and Mary (played by Hailee Steinfeld), now vampires, visit him, and Stack reveals that Smoke spared his life on the condition that he allow Sammie to live in peace. 

Plot summary: In a dystopian future, people are now able to buy organs via credit. If they fall behind on payments, a company called The Union is sent to repossess/reclaim them, which almost always kills them. 

How it ended: Remy (played by Jude Law), the organ repossessor, suffers an injury on the job and wakes up to find an artificial heart installed on credit. He struggles to make payments and can no longer bring himself to harvest organs. Now classified as a delinquent, Remy goes on the run, and Jake Freivald, his former job partner (played by Forest Whitaker), is assigned to hunt him down to reclaim the heart. Remy is able to break into the Union headquarters and destroy the computer, wiping out his financial debts. In a twist, it's revealed to be a dream happening in his brain, as he is going through a permanent brain death procedure after being caught. 

“Aliens abducted their kids for... some reason, and nobody can know about it for some reason. And they get rid of anyone who knows about them. Then somehow the parents get their kids back from the aliens? This is the only time I remember being mad at the ending of a movie.”

Plot summary: Telly Paretta (played by Julianne Moore), a mother grieving the loss of her 9-year-old son, who died in a plane crash over a year ago, is being told by her husband and psychiatrist that she never had a son and is hallucinating due to trauma. Telly teams up with another parent named Ash (played by Dominic West), who also lost their kid in the same plane crash, to find out the truth behind what happened to their children. 

How it ended: The reason Telly was almost losing her memories of her son was because an alien overseer tried to erase all of her memories. Since she refuses to forget and her bond with her son is too strong to let her, the alien fails and goes back into the sky. Afterward, everything goes back to normal, and Telly is reunited with her son. 

Plot summary: Him is about Cameron Cade (played by Tyriq Withers), a young, up-and-coming quarterback who suffers a major head injury before the draft and is then invited to train at an isolated desert training compound run by Isaiah White (played by Marlon Wayans), a famous, nearly retired football star. 

How it ended: Cam discovers that the success behind Isaiah's team and his supernatural healing ability is due to blood rituals. He is then forced to fight against Isaiah to the death and realizes that his head injury and his whole life were manufactured by the team owners and his own father. He kills the corporate executives and walks away, choosing his own destiny over exploitation. 

“I challenge you to find a single movie or show where someone online hasn't put together a fan theory that the main character is dreaming the whole time, always with some evidence they find compelling. Doesn't that inherently prove that the whole trope isn't meaningful and that any hints or easter eggs are a waste of time? Particularly in the case of Shutter Island, the whole conspiracy mystery was intriguing. I had no idea what the resolution would be, but I trusted that it would be a satisfying payoff. Instead, I never got a payoff at all; I got a rug pull that insulted me for investing in the narrative I'd been shown.”

Plot summary: Shutter Island follows U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) as he investigates the disappearance of a patient from a psychiatric hospital. During his search, he discovers that the island and the investigation are connected to his own past.

How it ended: Teddy realizes that he is actually the patient, Andrew Laeddis. His wife (played by Michelle Williams) had several mental illnesses and ended up drowning her three children. After learning what she did, Andrew killed her. The guilt and trauma led him to create Teddy Daniels. 

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