The conclusion to the third book of Pullman's
"His Dark Materials" story. A stupid fight. A stupid/thoughtless view of god not worthy of the rest of the story. It was a shame, I really really found the first two books to be wonderful.
The Mist has a mindfuck of an ending. ISTJ and ESFJ brothers were astonished + frustrated. I just laughed at everyone's reaction at the cinema.
Not necessarily bad, but very disturbing and fairly illogical.
Well, the whole movie is sort of illogical, anyways. Don't recommend.
That was one of those movies for me that was spoiled by my reading the novella years and years ago. Not only did my imagination do a better job at "filming the picture" in my head, but the ending of the story was far more provocative and poignant than the cheaper ending promoted by the movie; but, as with much of King's writing, things that work beautifully on the page just don't translate nearly as well into the cinematic medium.
They definitely did go for the "cheap shock value" in the movie ending, which is TOTALLY different from the tone set by the story. I think I was amused, surprised, and disgusted, while also being slightly admiring of the panache involved. ("Wow. They actually had the balls to do that.")
I guess Sopranos would fall into a 4th group, the opposite of 3, endings that didn't explain enough.
I think I read one of those top ten lists a few months ago (on a site comprised entirely of them, kind of like Cracked articles), where they discussed movies/shows with actual footage that was filmed/scripted but never shot or edited into the picture that would have changed the tone/ending of the story.
The Sopranos finale was one of those, and it involved a snippet that would have been tagged right on the end of the last scene of the finale, that would have entirely changed the ending.
RE: Lost.... I would agree in the sense of the entire last season or two (I think the best seasons were starting with Ben Linus' arrival under a pseudonym up through maybe halfway through Season 4.) The last season or two struggled, and the exposition of Jacob and the Man in Black was not worthy of the mystery preceding it. I don't really know what happened, it just lost its way somewhere...
But I would disagree about the very VERY ending. I think the very VERY ending (maybe the last fifteen minutes of the show) was about the best ending the series could have made, and the Jack sequence was exactly what I thought the ending was going to be ever since the first season or two. I think they knew that bit when they shot the first episode.
(And then of course, ABC proceeded to muck it up by adding those confusing pictures of the wreckage on the beach. That wasn't Abrams, that was ABC tinkering with things and in the process confusing some viewers.)