Poll: The Climax is in the Title

Results of 1,930 votes:

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   Back to the Future (1985)

    

   Even if he's not expecting to stay in the 50's, Marty's top priority during most of the film is to make his future parents fall in love. Once this is done, it's literally a race against the clock to g…
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   Se7en (1995)

    

   With John Doe's death, dies the seventh 'victim' and Mills' soul, forever shattered as the sixth one (although in an indirect way')
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   Saving Private Ryan (1998)

    

   For all the action and the tense and thrilling moments it provided, the climax is an emotional one about life value. Tragically, Ryan's life was cost the lives of soldiers who were no less deserving t…
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   Ratatouille (2007)

    

   The title is more than a play on word about the film's main animal species, it's the central piece of an original climactic moment, consisting on a food critic tasting a piece of ratatouille and havin…
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   There Will Be Blood (2007)

    

   Plainview believes in oil and money, the rest is made of abstractions, the worst of all, being religion, the cancer that gangrenes the progress. But Plainview, a pragmatic man, exorcises his misanthr…
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   Chinatown (1974)

    

   'Chinatown' resonates as a resurgence of Gittes' haunting past, when he failed to protect a woman and caused her death, and the tragic irony is that we get the meaning of "as little as possible&q…
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   The King's Speech (2010)

    

   There have been climactic speeches before, but only this one was no mystery for us and relied on the delivery rather than the content. While he's delivering his historical war speech, an inspiration t…
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   Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)

    

   The depth displayed in the second opus of the Bride's revenge journey allowed the climax to be more meaningful. Bea understood she had to kill Bill, less for the chapel massacre than to protect her da…
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   The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

    

   Just like Brad Pitt would say in famous perfume ad: "inevitable"
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    Soylent Green (1973)

     

    Soylent Green ' one of the mundane-looking processed food products distributed to the masses in this squalid overpopulated dystopia, and the one in most demand. At the climax, we find out what it real…
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    Saw (2004)

     

    After hours of psychological torture, Dr. Gordon decides to 'play the game' and finally get rid of his chains by sawing his foot, under the horrified look of his companion in misfortune. He owes his …
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    The Great Escape (1963)

     

    Steve McQueen jumping the barbed wire fence on a Triumph motorbike remains one of the most iconic cinematic jailbreaks, this scene has indeed the words 'great escape' written all over it.
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    The Sting (1973)

     

    Another case of a long build-up before the final chapter gets us to the 'sting' And what makes the ending work is the fact that it fools us, the viewers, as much as Lonnegan and Snyder.
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    Free Willy (1993)

     

    This one isn't much of a spoiler as it's already given away by the poster.
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    Rosemary's Baby (1968)

     

    The irony of Rosemary's condition is that she was both the most and the least likely person to know about the 'secret', carrying it but incapable to see it. And the moment where, dressed in her pajama…
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    Sophie's Choice (1982)

     

    The choice remains one of the most heartbreaking moments in cinema's history amplified by the genuinely frightened look of Sophie's daughter and her piercing cries while she's taken in the misty dark …
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    The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

     

    Col. Nicholson realizes he's been blinded by his military zeal all the time, when he helped building the bridge over the River Kwai and out of 'paternal' instinct, acted like a traitor when trying to …
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    Bicycle Thieves (1948)

     

    After fruitless attempts to find his bicycle, Ricci has lost hope as much as his bread-job and his pride, he's got nothing to lose anymore. If a thief could get away with it, so be it, he becomes, in …
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    They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)

     

    Depression is like a feeling of psychological claustrophobia in an agoraphobia-inducing world, too many people and not enough souls to reach you or to reach. The dance-marathon ballroom is the extraor…
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    High Noon (1952)

     

    Shot in real time, the film is punctuated with many clocks' close-ups indicating the time left before noon. The plot is a long build-up, carried by the score resonating with a growing solemnity, as th…
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    Don't Look Now (1973)

     

    The whole film is a sophisticatedly complicated puzzle whose only certitude is that this will lead somewhere, because the imagery contributes to a feeling of continuity. So when, the psychic lady pred…
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    Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)

     

    Another 'the title says it all' case.
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    Bridge of Spies (2015)

     

    Donovan plays the Cold War diplomatic game perfectly, learning how to be mild-mannered or authoritative. The chess game leads to the climactic exchange of prisoners on a bridge, making the title wor…
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    Last Tango in Paris (1972)

     

    All through the film, sex was a physical communion between two lost souls who met regularly in the same apartment, the only area where their identities didn't matter. Together, they embodied the most …
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    The Verdict (1982)

     

    The verdict gives its true meaning to the word 'justice', it is not about values, it's about faith, it's a blind faith which makes us take all the risks, because ironically, justice can only be accomp…