De website Mania.com is zo vriendelijk geweest om deze top tien met de beste film endings ooit te posten, alleen moet ik eerlijk zeggen dat ik deze mening niet deel met de makers er van. Want waar is Scarface?? (cliche ik weet het) of La Haine?? Van de hele lijst was mijn favoriet:

8. Raiders of the Lost Ark

The irony of Raiders is that the Ark of the Covenant remains just as lost in that colossal warehouse as it was in the Egyptian desert. Spielberg married the notion to a slightly sinister comment about the secrecy of the U.S. government, as well as raising the marvelous question of what's in all those other boxes. (Crystal Skull ultimately answered it during its deeply underrated opening sequence.) Most importantly, however, it stressed the importance of Indy's growth and change as a character. In the beginning of the film, the Ark is everything to him; he's even willing to leave Marion in the hands of the Nazis to get it. By the end, he'd rather blow it up that let her come to harm: a change that heals not only the damage he did to her, but his own feelings of regret and betrayal. The last shot signals everything he's lost, but also the much more important things he's gained in the process. In light of that, we'll forgive him a last yearning backward glance as he walks away. (Apologies for the poor quality of the clip, btw. Raiders footage is few and far between on the interwebs.)