So many classic endings...missed Rosebud in Citizen Kane The crash at the end of Vanishing Point The Wicker Man ending, and not the dumb one with N. Cage! The flying car sequence at the end of Back to the Future The huge warehouse matt shot at the end of Raiders of the Lost Arc 'I've got an idea' - The Italian Job The freeze frame at the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Statue of Liberty sequence at the end of Planet of the Apes Carrie...need I say more...

We've only picked ten so far, though. More will be coming, but we'll be missing some of your suggestions: Butch and Kane are probably a little too far from our remit...!

Yeah, Terminator 3 had real balls as far as endings go. Really good choice. I could point out a whole lot of Takashi Miike films, but the last five minutes of the first Dead Or Alive definitely cinch it.

'One foul swoop'? Wake up, boys! If you do some more, don't forget Planet of the Apes...

What do you mean "A Boy" was the last of the great post-nuke sci-fi epics? What about "Mad Max"?! Come on! Wake up, people!

also classic endings - Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Ring, seven, AVP, They Live, videodrome, Incredibles, The Decent and even War of the Worlds - so so many good film endings

Ron - I meant in the dystopian sci-fi sense ( Zardoz , Logan's Run , The Omega Man , Soylent Green , etc). Star Wars did kill that sub-genre, you gotta admit.

Martin: Ahh, right. I get it now. Rushed to judgment thanks to my love of all things Max. Sorry. Back to Tomorrow-morrow Land with me.

Rob: you put They Live in the 'B-Movie badness' category in another thread, but you like the ending? Fair enough, really; the only other one of your suggestions that I would have definitely put in if I had thought of it was Videodrome , which is, admittedly, a Sid Vicious of an ending.

re: 'B-Movie badness' - I have a love for all things b-movie and They Live ( along with Robot Jox which i mentioned in the other thread) are all superb..as they know that they are not meant to be serious Hollywood money making masterpieces and appeal to a certain audience..ie..us, however the likes of Batman and Robin and Dredd are supposed to appeal to the masses...doing it painfully badly. They Live is great though isnt it...Roddy Piper, ya cant beat him :-)

We all have one dark secret - a film universally thought shit, except that we love it. I don't love Batman and Robin , but I don't care how bad it is because I consider Batman Forever even worse and had by then given up on the franchise anyway. However I do love other ill-regarded films besides Dredd and intend to write about them here in the future. So what cinematic disaster is turned face down in your movie collection, Rob? Let's hear it :)

cinematic disasters I have on dvd - oh thats a tough one. I would count the 'Specials' as a dvd not worth even being a beermat, along with John Carpenters Vampires, erm John Carpenters Ghosts of Mars, Nightbreed, Hellraiser 3, Mutronics the Movie .... yup you guessed it I have bought a lot of cheap tat in my time!

Awww, I like John Carpenter's Vampires , and I certainly wouldn't even mention it in the same breath as Ghosts Of Mars .

Fight Club Planet of The Apes Sixth Sense The Mist Oldboy Back to the Future The Great Dictator The Shutter (original version) Terminator