10 Terrible Movies That Reward You For Staying Until The End
These films were all a waste of time... until right before the credits rolled.
Is there anything worse than a bad movie? Well, maybe getting hit by a bus, but still.
Actually, in many ways, it's worse when a movie stinks to high heaven and then gets its act together right at the end. "Why couldn't it have just been this good the whole way through?" audiences think, as they start to enjoy themselves for the first time in 90 agonising minutes or more.
These 10 pictures were all heading straight for the dumps until their big finales, which undid at least some of the damage caused by their unappealing lead-ins. Big action sequences, stellar character writing, and innovative film-making are all present in these stellar climaxes which made everybody glad they didn't get up and walk out of the theatre halfway through.
Does a good ending fully make up for a bad film? Absolutely not. These movies still wouldn't be described as "good" by anyone with more than half a brain, but they could have been much worse.
Do yourself a favour - just Google the ending scenes instead of putting yourself through the whole thing. You'll be glad you did.
Also, spoilers ahead.
10. Blue Thunder
Rather than a dodgy brand of energy drink, Blue Thunder is a 1983 movie starring Roy Scheider as a cop with a difference - instead of a truncheon and a little notepad, he's got a super-advanced helicopter.
Blue Thunder - which is the name of the chopper - was spun off into a TV show and a video game for the short-lived Action Max console, but unfortunately, it wasn't that great. A lot of the action was subpar, offering little more excitement than viewers could get on a weekly cop show. Not even Scheider, a double Oscar nominee, could turn it around.
Thankfully, the film remembered its own kickass premise right before it ended and provided viewers with a fantastic aerial chase sequence to close things out.
Frank Murphy, Scheider's character, does battle with Malcolm McDowell's Colonel F. E. Cochrane after he discovers he intends to use Blue Thunder for no good. The chase is incredible, as the two pilots dodge and weave their way through the sky in a battle of skill, ending with a cool move from the hero to finish things off.
If you like helicopters, then you need to check this out.