13 Movies That Should've Ended 5 Minutes Earlier

9. (500) Days Of Summer

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How It Ended: Tom and Summer have a heartfelt discussion at a park bench, after which Tom attends a job interview and meets an attractive woman who agrees to go for a coffee with him. Her name? You guessed it, Autumn.

How It Should've Ended: The final meeting with Summer was such a perfectly uplifting, achingly human note on which to end the film, and springing for an over-extended happy ending just felt greedy.

Plus, the whole Autumn thing is pretty cringe-worthy even though it's supposed to be firmly tongue-in-cheek, and Minka Kelly, the actress who plays Autumn, is distractingly terrible in the scene.

As superb as the film is on the whole, it just went a little over-indulgent in the final stretch.

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