10 Movies That Should’ve Ended 5 Minutes Earlier

10. Psycho

This list would be remiss to not include such a famous movie- especially when it also includes one of the most condemning pieces of criticism Hitchcock managed to gain.

At the end of this beloved, classic film, there is one scene so heinous that one critic named it "arguably Hitchcock's worst scene."

Right toward the end we are forced to sit through several minutes of the psychiatrist telling us, in depth, what is wrong with Norman Bates.

Screenwriter Norman Stephano explained that this scene was there in all its expositional glory to make sure audiences understood Bates correctly, and didn't attribute his criminality to the wrong things.

Fair play, Norm- but did you have to make it quite so boring?

With the explanation in mind that audiences at the time wouldn't understand what Hitchcock was going for, the scene feels a little more acceptable. However, this doesn't take away from the fact that the ending would've been much punchier and more impactful if we'd skipped the psychoanalysis and gone straight to seeing Bates, sat in a white room, wrapped in a blanket and completely consumed by his Mother personality.