What is your greatest film ending scene?(it could involve end credits or not)

[choombaz]

1970 Beneath the Planet of the Apes Voiceover: "(The planet Earth) is now DEAD!"
Roll credits

Great call. I remember seeing that as a kid and being horrified by the ending,

 

[Lordscum]

Dirty Harry when he throws his badge into the river.

The Statue of Liberty scene at the end of the Original Planet of Apes.

Star Trek II the Wrath of Kahn when you see Spock's Photon Tube on Genesis and know that he will be back,

The end of Warrior when both brothers after the fight are embracing and you see the father outside of the cage knowing the family is gong to heal.

 

[Mondragon]

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High Noon ...

, High Noon, ... Westerns may have the greatest percentage of great endings of all genres.

Dirty Harry when he throws his badge into the river.

 

[shells075]

Need I say anymore.

 

[Cap'n Cook]

Se7en.

 

[choombaz]

Thought of another one. The ending of The Iron Giant I always found exciting and moving. Incredible animation, terrific Michael Kamen score.

 

[punisher1974]

Thought of another one. The ending of The Iron Giant I always found exciting and moving. Incredible animation, terrific Michael Kamen score.

I love the Iron Giant. Very well done movie.

 

[pixletwin]

Amadeus. “Your merciful God. He destroyed his own beloved rather than let a mediocrity share in the smallest part of his glory. He killed Mozart and kept me alive to torture! Thirty-two years of torture. Thirty-two years of slowly watching myself become extinct. My music growing fainter. All the time fainter. Until no one plays it at all. And his…

I will speak for you father. I speak for all mediocrities. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

Mediocrities everywhere, I absolve you all,”