10 Recent Movie Endings That Pissed Everyone Off
1. Joker (2019)
Whether its Todd Phillips' mesmeric cinematography, Hildur Guðnadóttir's absolutely haunting score, or Joaquin Pheonix's Oscar-winning performance, Joker has established itself as one of the most important films released in recent times.
Joker follows the story of Arthur Fleck, a mentally ill failed comedian who descends further and further into becoming the nihilistic criminal we all know from the Batman universe. Arthur's tale is one of tragedy, constantly being beaten down by everything around him and yet continually trying to resist his struggles by clinging onto his comedy. It's his comedy that eventually leads him down the path of becoming the iconic Clown Prince of Crime.
It truly is a masterpiece, however you just can't escape the fact that this is a film that contains at least three different endings all bundled up into one sitting. From Arthur's assassination of Murray Franklin, his coronation as the Joker by Gotham's rioters to the final shots of him back inside a psych ward, there's this sense that the movie can't exactly decide where it wants to end.
Ending the film with Joker emerging from a crashed police car, huge bloody smile smeared on his face would have been the perfect closing shot as opposed to the scene of him running down a hallway.