Gods I can't stand Ayn Rand. You know I was once told to read Atlas Shrugged (not knowing what it was at the time) as an "introduction to sci-fi"?

Anyways my top anti-climactic story has to be The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Not the Disney one, the real one. The one where everybody dies and the protagonist (who is NOT Quasimodo mind you) makes off with not the girl, but the goat.

He makes off with the goat.

Goatosixuality is not a choice! LET MAN/GOAT MARRIAGE BE LEGAL!

*Sorry, I don't have much more to say other than other quips like this. *

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, the ending there was a bit on the anti-climatic side.
Half-Life's ending was lame.

Lonesome Road DLC for New Vegas.

Neon Genesis Evangelion... Until I watched The End of Evangelion.

The film "Limitless". I loved the film, but the ending svcked.

I agree.

The otherwise absolutely superb U.S. series the "Shield", I honestly had no idea how they were going to end the show of some seven seasons in a standard 50 minute episode format and they did it real good but it just seemed a little off; maybe I just miss it too much?

I take it some people did not wait through the beautiful music of the credits to watch the extra scene at the end. "The gray" is my favorite movie in the last 15 years when it comes to stand alone movies and I thought the ending was quite brilliant. The extra scene is only a few seconds long but if you payed attention to the movie it will tell you everything you need to know. I myself went to the cinema not just once but twice to see that movie. I decided to go to it again to support these kind of movies over the usual artless stuff that gets pumped out every year.

Yes the ending is abrupt but it is brilliant, if I had the power to change it then I wouldn't.

I definitely recommend seeing it in the cinema if you haven't already and you still have the chance. It is still good just on T.V. but having a large screen and a good surround system can add a lot to the atmosphere which is a large part of the movie in my opinion.

I didn't feel wholly satisfied after watching the final part of Forbrydelsen/Forbrytelsen/The Killing II. Other than that a great achievement.

I got bored after a few episodes. No Troells Hartman, no sale unfortunately.

I've found the Change (aka the Emberverse) series of books by S.M. Stirling to be very anti-climactic. In all fairness, the series isn't quite finished yet, but I don't think I'll even bother to get the next book. It started out really well but I think he should have left it as a trilogy instead of 10 books.

Strange, he normally does sit through all the credits. When I'm home and go with him we do anyway. Sometimes the guy with the bin watches them with us whilst he waits for us to go home

I'm seeing Chronicle tonight I think.

As a writer you sometimes get into a project thinking you have the material for a full story when you really don't. Sometimes you just have a really good setting, or character or a lot of inspired dialog and none of it adds up like you'd hoped. Usually in this case it's better to scrap it or really take the time to flesh it out, sometimes you don't do either... you just slap on an ending at some point just so you can have it completed and have that great setting or dialog on paper. Writing in this way is really more for the benefit of the writer than the reader; it can certainly help you keep thoughts organized and could lead to a later collaboration of ideas. But... since people will watch or read just about any half-baked drivel with even a modicum of imagination behind it... why bother?