What other confusing movie endings should we feature next?

Film directing 101: Make a confusing ending and everyone will think you're a genius.

Pay attention to Inception... DiCaprio always has his wedding ring on in dreams. He wasnt wearing one in the final scene!!

The ending to birdman (at least the way I think of it) is that he did in fact successfully commit suicide, she looked down and saw his body, but as she was raising her eyes to the sky, she saw his soul. I think it adds more of a poetic feel to it

Half of these you just said "The director said the ending is whatever you think it is." You didn't explain shit.

What about "The Room" I wanna know the hidden mean behind "Oh hi Mark!" :V

Inception is pretty easy to decipher. 1. Cobb wouldn't have seen his kids faces if it were a dream. 2. The top wouldn't have wobbled if it were a dream. 3. It's implied with the gun placed on the table that he shot himself to escape limbo and wake up on the plane along with Saito.

Without a second thought "2001" is a must for confusing endings!

Every single one of these examples were either not explained or not confusing.

I swear to god if I hear someone question the ending about Inception one more time Imma throw a shoe at them

The Dark Knight was not complicated. Donnie Darko? Fight Club? Memento? Do movies that actually have answers for fucks sake.

The ending of Inception is the reality. In his dreams, he is wearing his wedding ring and in the real world he is not.

7:11 Only person that noticed that bird fall into the ocean? Even the timing is perfect!

"Mulholland Drive" needs to be understood in relation to his previous film "The Straight Story" an uncharacteristically normal film with broad appeal. It's main audience was aging Americans and became incredibly popular in that demographic. This demographic is also rather uninterested in keeping up with every film genre and current film being made and their directors like the yonder generations are. They saw a nice movie by a nice man who also made a new movie. They were advertising "Mulholland Drive" this way. I remember when I went to see it in my local theater, it was filled with nothing but whitehaired nice people thinking they were going to see another nice movie. When the film took its inevitable turn, I looked around and saw an entire theater filled with horrified people who all thought they had lost their minds. I suddenly realized what Lynch had done.

2001: A Space Odyssey had a pretty complicated ending.

Bird Man's ending was her looking to heaven...

Vanilla Sky is my favorite movie. I literally ball my eyes out the minute he looks up at the vanilla sky and says “Let them up there read my mind” and then he looks down and Penelope Cruz is standing there so beautifully lit and the beautiful Sigur Ros song starts playing. Ahhh I’m getting chills just typing it out. If anyone needs ANY kind of explanation for Vanilla Sky, let me know. I can tell you everything. I’ve seen it at least 10x and the original just as much

If you were confused by the ending to batman you should probably just give up on life, it gets a lot harder then that.

My sister and I watched Vanilla Sky for years trying to understand it, We eventually gave up and I believe we made the right decision.

If anyone was confused at the end of the dark knight rises, quit watching movies. That didn't need to be explained.

It seems no one at Looper actually watched Mulholland Drive.

i totally disagree on the dark knight and especially on bird man. About birdman, everything at the end scenes were perfect. The husband-wife, the father-daughter and the friend-to-friend relasionship are all better than ever. The same is true about the woman that wanted to destroy his play. Also all the paparatsi are all over him and finally the all known scene where he jumps out of the window and the girl watches him fly. Let me point out that she wasn't surprised or scared but she just smiled, totally what I would do if I watched my father fly. All that's true because it actually isn't, it's all in his mind. He was thinking how it would be if he had survived the shot but, news flash, he really killed himself on stage.

I actually really appreciate the thought that went into the points this video made apprised to the other videos floating around. Much more detailed! Nice.

i love you guys!! and the only reason i'm this overflowing with joy is that you included movie titles and their exact spots on video. this is just professionalism. as a person who didn't watch most of these movies and is totally scared of getting any sort of spoilers, i thank you from the bottom of my heart

2017: Batfleck's the wave of the future. 2018: That's cute.

The bird man ending has to be the ending that has made me the happiest of all the movie endings in all my life, I love the way of how when Sam see’s her father flying through the sky, making her enter into a delusional reality that her father is still alive flying with super powers and making her bond with him even more stronger than before gives me a smile all the time whenever I think about it, it’s always makes me happy to see the fact that he has succeeded on making himself a real super hero to the eyes of his daughter and to see that she now is on the same direction he was

thank you for remembering the incredible Vanilla Sky

I'm shocked Total Recall (original) didn't make this list as my family and I still debate the ending to this day. "Blue skies on Mars..." C'mon!!

Birdman: She looks up because she know's he is dead and no longer suffering.

I hate when movies end on a cliffhanger

Not exactly confusing. They just kinda make you think.

no country for old men wasnt confusing and what they talked about wasnt the ending

Mulholland Drive honestly is UNDERSTANDABLE (with some scenes that just can be said to be "Lynch being Lynch"). Though he will NEVER explain any of his films, he did have that insert that came with the DVD's that were like (I believe 9...) "things to look for while watching Mulholland Drive'. Though everyone should take away what they got from it (and some got none...) I do think there is a pretty solid story there.

Best way not to be confused by a movie ending. ...leave the theatre half way through the film..

I'm surprised that 2001: A Space Odyssey wasn't on this list. Perhaps too many people would be thinking...never mind the ending! Explain the whole film!! (But I love the film.)

Mulholland Dr is about a woman (the blonde) who comes to Hollywood to make it as an actress. She is going to get a job in a movie but the director's lover (the brunette) gets it instead. She's disgruntled so she hires a hitman to kill the brunette. It turns out she loves the brunette and feels guilty so she kills herself. The first two thirds of the movie are her dreams that take place between when she pulls the trigger and when she dies. The last third is the back story (in the real world) of how the suicide induced dream came about.

How isn't 'Enemy' on this list?

Film snobs love to praise movies with ambiguous endings. "The writer/director is so brilliant! By not having a definitive ending, it allows you to create your own and challenges your perceptions!" I'll let you in on a little secret: Writing satisfying endings is hard. So when an ending is left open/ambiguous, probably about 90% of the time it's because the writer/director couldn't think of a good way to end it, so they said "Fuck it. I'll just leave it open and people will think I'm some kind of genius." There was an episode of the sitcom Still Standing where the parents find a bunch of pictures drawn by their youngest daughter. where none of the characters have hands. They agonize over what this symbolizes and when they finally ask her about it, they ask if it's because she feels powerless and that was a way to show it. The little girl shrugs and says "I'm just not good at drawing hands." The only difference with open film endings is that the people behind them are happy to take credit for it being some clever decision that they made.

why did so many people find inception confusing??!!! It was beautiful and completely made sense if you paid attention. It's definitely not a movie to just watch from halfway in but if you actually pay attention it all makes sense as far as the ending goes, The ending was perfect it led us to believe that he died because his item was still moving but at the very end before cut to black the piece started to wiggle and slow down meaning he actually was still alive .

I love Birdman so much. Never seen a film like this. It's not simple but not a hassle either very well written.

I love how the actor of birdman is also chosen for the character of vulture in spiderman

Cloud Atlas? Although, when I watched that we didn't read the synopsis and thought it would be fun to watch something we didn't know anything about. We picked the wrong movie to do that to. Waited the whole movie to figure out what was happening, and we ended up more lost than your missing sock.

please do a video explaining LOST the polar bear the big statue all of it.

Inception - You never wake up into a new dream, you always just end up there mid stride. Birdman - You'll notice the hing point at his "attempted" suicide after his play. Suddenly everything turns around. In reality, he is actually dead and everything from the stage suicide forward is him coming to terms with passing on. Seeing his daughter finally accepting him with all his "powers" puts him at rest, even if it is all in his mind before he dies.

no fucking 2001: a space odysey? literally the most confusing movie of all time since it came out 50 years ago?

Lynch films arent supposed to be explained but felt.

I remember I was really confused by the ending to The Brady Bunch Movie! I mean...sure, they have the $20,000...but it was too late. The house was already up for auction. So Dittmeyer could simply outbid them! I was all so confusing!

To look for "an explanation " in the some of these movies is like to ask for an explanation for a musical piece. Movies are not just about the story, they also take us to an emotional journey. Mulholland Drive is one of my favorites. It shakes the viewer, and seeks to disturb. The confusion about what is happening adds to it. Like looking at a Goya painting, or at Guernica after being told your mom is dead.

“Bat fleck is the future” lol 😅

Didnt yall already make this?

You should check out the Peter Sellers movie Being There. Was always curious about that ending.

"...some leave their last scene amBIGuous to keep audiences THINKing..." The narrator's odd inflections are unsettling me. I mean, I'm Australian, so it's not the accent. It's the way he stops and starts and emphasises unexpected parts of words.

TECH SUPPORT!!!!!!

I loved vanilla sky it affected me like no other film other than donnie darko

Wasn't this video already uploaded by Looper a while ago? I recognized it because I saw the scene from Birdman as the thumb nail, the explanation to the ending is the only one that stuck with me after it and I still remember it without even seeing the movie. Idk I could have future vision or be insanely high but I need to know if this video is a re-upload.

The only good thing about Dark Knight Rises is that I get to make this joke: My favorite part of DKR is when Batman gives Catwoman a pearl necklace...

The Dark Knight Returns? Do you assume that your audience is made of a mentally challenged crowd? How about you do 'Enemy' instead? You know, a movie in which you probably need an explanation to understand it's brilliance?

“Batffleck is the wave of the future” Well... that comment didn’t age well did it?

I wish every narrator on YT would have an amazing voice like this guy...

I love your explanation for mulholland drive. All David Lynch movies and side projects are like that. Well maybe not Straight Story, but i think he did that movie to throw his fans a curve ball.

Birdmans ending gives me the chills when im just thinking about it. it is PERFECT!

interstellar ?, drive ?

3:45 im in love with that bug eyed face

At 11:05 - 11:09, can anyone tell me the movie this clip is from. It looks pretty awesome, but I can't find any further info on it. Thanks in advance.. ;)

i will rant if shutter island isnt on this list...

Danger Dolan, is that you???

7:11 That bird looks like it was just dropped in that scene, lol.

Here goes The Real Birdman explanation. Are you ready? Movie start showing him levitating and asking how we get here? But before that we see flaming meteor in the sky - thats the real begining. Then he just going back to work as usual. Mind work is not over. In this point all happening in his mind alone, he has already died - drowned in waters after medusas killed him. He did not get out of it. He is now working out his relationship especially with his daughter who he did not see - his biggest regret. In mean time his egoistic tendencies keeps coming back at him and distract him again as he fight with them all the time. He can't leave without sorting things out. Was it the great spectacle, the great performance on the stage the meaning of his life? No. Haven't you asked yourself if what we see is real? Was it not curious to you that he change scenery like in magic dream? From one place to another. One moment he is in bar talking with his biggest critic, he go out make few steps open next door and found his daughter in some place just there as if waiting for him. They both bashed his ego, helped him to realize he is not the centre of the universe. That he does not exist. They inspire him to look deeper for others to drop his tendencies. Even the scene where he shot himself in the head turns out to be ... he shot himself in the nose? Really? You still think its real? And when he get off the bandages mask that peculiar resambed birdman mask what we see? A purple nose? Thats it? Wheres gunshot wound from yesterday? Why he got any nose for that matter? The answer is: It's unreal already. Its all happening in his own mind. And when he get out of window, he flyed out and finally let go, droped self importance, and his daughter sees it. In this very moment we see what he see, as he finally percive her and see her happy. Thats liberates him.

Did I time travel? -laughing emoji- Cuz im pretty sure I watched this video a few months ago...

You guys really seem to be going in tge " screencrush " direction by recycling old videos and using new titles so you can continue to just keep pumping out as much content as possible. Quantity over quality I guess.

❤Vanilla Sky OMG…I just still can’t get over with this movie till this date. I know there are more popular and legendary movies alongside BUT…Let me tell you this piece of artwork is still (till this date sadly) underrated. Watched it years ago but my love for it still remains the same. The overwhelming emotions took over in the end that my brain couldn’t comprehend. I do recommend it…Highly.

We still think that Bale was the best Batman ever; he really exuded what the comic books seemed to portray.

What about Donnie Darko?????

I never understood any of Barton Fink.

I absolutely loved Vanilla Sky. Watching it with the commentary was great too.

Mullholand Drive - death (discovery of how one needs a lot more than talent to make it in hollywood) of a dream (to be a star) as told by a dream influenced by past reality (first half of the movie) of the dreamer (who lost her chance to be a big star to jealousy and is now reduced to putting out a hit for the sake of hate) and being left to nothing else but the realization of growing old and dying (being accosted by the old people who were previously supressed). Theres a whole flip flop flop flip of our memories interpreted by dreams interpreted by reality and what is selected from both to comprise our conscious memories and waking dreams. Bottom line, she tried, didn't make it, realized there was nothing left for her, ended it.

Predistination..hands down

In Birdman he could have just been standing on a ledge.

Mulholland Drive is easy to figure out. The first part is a dream by Naomi's character. The second half is her reality which includes hallucinations.

I enjoyed the info==Thanks.

Surprised the Life of Pi wasn't on here. It ended with a question. Was the story of fantasy, survival, and self becoming real? Or was the story of logic and survival real? It really makes you think because scientists don't want to here religion involved into logic, while religious folk understand science but put beliefs and faith into perspective and defy all logic.

Emma stone looking up at the ending i thought could be seeing his father go to heaven

"explanation kills art"

Vanilla Sky was a masterpiece. If I remember it correctly. I had to watch it for school at my University a while ago.

Yeah yeah yeah.... ending-up-to-audience's-own-interpretation-rubbish again and again.... just admit it - laziness, insufficient budget, trying to look witty or deep, ran out of idea, utilizing "abstracts" as veil for whatever I mentioned previously... seriously man, if everything requires audiences' own interpretation then you better give us a part of your pay check! Ambiguous endings are so super overuse and abused! Dear Mr Directors, We audience wants to see YOUR vision and world within your work! If films just want to act-smart and always using ambiguous ending then why the hell do I even want to pay and watch a work thats supposedly YOUR vision?!

No "The Shining"???

Mulholland Drive is very explainable. Naomi Watt's is the character we see late in the film, a washed up Lesbian actress whose Hollywood dream is crashing down all around her. She shoots herself and the entire first 2/3 of the film is the dream she has before passing on. In the dream her love who spurned her in real life is now completely reliant on her, the director who stole her lover is put through the ringer, the hitman she hired to kill her lover is a bumbling buffoon who couldn't possibly succeed in the hit she put out, the mafia controls Hollywood and picks who gets the roles therefore justifying her lack of success, and in the dream she is a Knockout actress that the casting directors love but the mafia conspiracy keeps her from getting the role. Also in the dream it starts to be about her career too much at one point and she has to course correct and refocus on her true love fantasy. The key represents her ultimate sin, putting the hit out, and the homeless trash person is her own darkside she is trying to repress in the dream.

i loved the explanation on mulholland dr

Primer

Three words The Bee Movie

Yeah, that's exactly how I saw Birdman's ending. I'm not that quick, so I was surprised so many people didn't get it.

Inception ending appendix: Anyways, this is to add on the Inception ending. Christopher Nolan said that you could pick your own ending and yours is right, but there’s one more thing. The main guy Cobb, forgets that it is a dream or reality. In short, he doesn’t care if he is in a dream or not.

Anyone else only watch this because they thought from the thumbnail it'd be about "Amazing Spider-man 2"?

What about Shutter Island? The ending remained a mystery. You don't know if Leonardo was really a cop or a psychopath.

I was confused by the end of Inception until I watched it again recently, and the clue is in sound. After the camera cuts to black, with that hint of a wobble, if you listen whilst the credits are running,, you can hear the top still spinning, and it goes on spinning all through the credits, far too long,, like it could in a dream. which indded was it's function

Cloud Atlas was the most confusing movie I've ever seen. Watched it 4 times and gave up on it. Duplicity took me awhile..

ugh the birdman ending explanation is wayyyyy too literal. I saw it as a surreal ending that perfectly tied together the themes of the film.

SPOILERS: I thought Mulholland Drive was one of Lynch's more accessible films. To me it was pretty clear. The movie opens with this beautiful, innocent young blonde girl from a small town in wholesome Middle America who has come to Los Angeles after winning a jitterbug competition to find fame and fortune in the big Sodom and Gomorrah of Hollywood and Los Angeles. A mysterious man singles her out for fame for no reason, threatening a director unless he casts her, despite the fact that she has no acting experience. But somewhere in the film, she changes, and we find a version of her that has committed suicide after a brutal breakup with a lesbian lover. The box is presenting us different versions of reality. Which one is real? I think the suicide was the real one, and the wholesome jitterbug girl was her fantasy, the reality she wished was true. She came to Hollywood with no experience in hopes of being discovered, hoping she was The One, rising to fame through amazing luck or destiny, but things went sour, and she committed suicide. The box shows us the other reality, the one she could live only in her dreams.

Mulholland Dr. is about magicians who can alter reality by choosing a different timeline. However, some magicians have a natural talent for doing this & spoiling the timeline agreed upon by the committee of magicians. At the end of the film a woman enters an ecstatic state and changes reality so that she won a dance contest instead of losing it. This is why the dancing figures at the beginning don't match up with their shadows & why lip sync seems to go wrong and things are out of order. While she is in the altered timeline, everything goes her way, but the other magicians try to put things right. Everything goes wrong and she ends up back in the approved timeline, but she tries to do it again which the magicians can't stand and two of them kill her.

i have one of those spinning tops and it has inception printed on the bottom.