Favorite Endings

Well call me bored, here's a "for the hell of it" post.


Here are a few of my favorite movie endings.

Unforgiven
My favorite western also has one of my favorite endings. William Munny finds that his friend Ned has been killed by Little Bill and decides to enact his grim revenge. The systematic method that Munny uses to take down 5 men in the bar outside which Ned's body has been posted as an example is brutal and fantastic. This man has spent the entire movie attempting to deny his history of alcoholism and violence (see how I avoided using the phrase history of violence! yay me!) and the murder of his closest friend has washed all that away. Between Eastwood's final interaction with Gene Hackman ("I'll see you in hell William Munny" "Yeah.") and Eastwood's warning to the town threatening to kill everyone in the town if they don't change, Unforgiven truly has one of the greatest endings.

Iron Man
Robert Downey Jr. plays a pitch perfect Tony Stark (so much so that he is better than any version I've ever read in the comics) and ends the movie on the perfect note. Instead of trying to fool everyone into thinking he's not Iron Man by saying that Iron Man is his bodyguard (S.H.I.E.L.D.'s suggestion and the cover used often in the comics), Stark just comes out and says he is Iron Man. Beautiful.

Batman Begins
Jim Gordon: Now, take this new guy. Armed robbery, double homicide. Got a taste for the theatrical. Like you. Leaves a calling card. [hands Batman a Joker playing card]
Batman: I'll look into it.
Perfectly sets up the Dark Knight and is freakin' cool!

The Empire Strikes Back
The original dark ending. Luke finds out his greatest foe is his father, Han's frozen in carbonite, and man, Luke lost his hand! Everything goes to hell for the rebellion in this movie and it is glorious.

How about you, the people who don't read this? What are some of your favorite movie endings? Comments section!

Wizard World Philly

Over the weekend I attended Wizard World Philly and had a blast. Let's recap:

Saturday:

- Started off with checking out artist alley. Picked up a kick ass print Phoenix print by Marvel Zombie cover artist Arthur Suydam and got it autographed by said artist. From there I proceeded to Powers artist Michael Avon Oeming, got a couple autographs, and got a great Iron Man sketch.


- I went to the Secret Invasion panel, which was decent. Saw the gorgeous cover for Secret Invasion # 6. I also jokingly asked for a Secret Invasion Nextwave tie-in, which Marvel Editor In Chief Joe Quesada took seriously and said that they would love the book back whenever Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen want to do it again. After the panel I had a long convo with Amazing Spider-Man and Avengers: The Initiative writer Dan Slott about how great Marcos Martin's art has been in ASM and he told me a good amount about what's planned for the future of ASM and The Initiative (best news being that Martin will return on art and John Romita Jr. will be one of the rotating artists on the book after his first arc with Slott). Slott also did an impression of a DC Final Crisis cover by putting two pieces of paper of most of his face, which was pretty funny considering the people filling the room were there for the Final Crisis panel.

-Went to the Cup O Joe panel later that day where it was announced that Marvel is officially doing a comic book adaptation of The Stand! If it's as good as the Dark Tower has been at Marvel I am in for quite a treat. Also got Joe Q to sign my sketch variant of Invincible Iron Man!


- Finished the day at the Chris Claremont retrospective, which was extremely interesting. He discussed his legendary X-Men run and his fantastic Dark Phoenix storyline, as well as how he did not want to resurrect Jean Grey.

Sunday:

- Attended Marvel's "Prize Or No Prize" panel, which was a blast. It was basically trivia for prizes. Kate was with me on this day and got to answer a question before me (twas Runaways oriented). The prizes built up through a 12 question endurance test, then I got my chance to win it all (including an advance copy of Secret Invasion # 3!). All I had to do was name 12 mutants depowered on MDay.

I answered 10 and choked...

HOW DID I FORGET THE BLOB!?!?!? And Rictor from X-Factor? COME ON!

- Final panel I went to was the Marvel: Your Universe panel. It was a fun discussion on Marvel books and what we like and dislike about them. Dan Slott told us a hilarious Spidey story from when he was 7 involving Spider-Man signing comics at a 7-11, Spidey coming up in the back of a pickup truck and Slott camping out and being amazed by all of this. Overall it was a really cool discussion and it was a nice ending to a great geeky weekend. Plus, I got a George W. Bush Skrull shirt, does it get much better than that?