DISQUS

B.Shet · 5 months ago

I thought Man on Fire had a happy ending? I remember him saving the girl then handing himself over to the bad guys and you think "oh shit this sucks." Just then you see his wound and realize that he will die before ever being tortured by the bad guys, thus giving you your happy ending.

ERoBB · 5 months ago

I'm all for happy endings. But I completely dislike the notion that a character has to learn something for an ending to be happy.

I call that realism. Stupid bastards usually stay stupid bastards.

Otis Jefferson · 5 months ago

run run run run, run run run away...

david · 5 months ago

screw happy endings most turn out to be really cheesy more than happy

Cole_Abaius · 5 months ago

Finding out that you're both a total softy and a Talking Heads fan is happy ending enough for me.

srsly · 5 months ago

I think this rant is specious.

You speak as if there are no happy endings in movies these days at all. Star Trek - happy ending, UP - happy ending, Night at the Museum - happy ending.... 3 of the top 5 movies out right at this very second - happy endings all.

You also make it seem like EVERY movie should have a happy ending. What would be the point of great movies where morally ambiguous or completely non-happy endings are critical to the point like Resevoir Dogs, Do the Right Thing, and the mother of all un-happy endings - Old Yeller?

I agree with you that vacuous non-ending suck and if the director is going to take us on trip, there should be SOME kind of fulfillment at the end of the journey or else it feels like a complete waste of time but the idea that it has to be a "happy" ending is utterly ridiculous.. Ergo, i think the point of this rant should be about fulfillment rather then happiness.

srsly · 5 months ago

BTW - American History X hardly had a bad ending with a smart point. It was cliche and hackneyed. As for Lost in Translation, it did have a happy ending albeit ambiguously so.

HappyPalooza · 5 months ago

That's dumb. A movie doesn't HAVE to have a happy ending. Unhappy endings open up possibilities for different, more interesting storytelling. Sure, there should be a conclusion, but it doesn't always have to make you feel all warm inside. There shouldn't be any limitations on what a movie HAS to have at all, as a matter of fact.

Reebee7 · 5 months ago

"fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa"=Silence of the lambs?

I don't mind unhappy endings, depending on the film. Take The Break-Up. of course that's a film I want to have a happy ending. I want those two back together. yeah, yeah it's hinted, they wink at each other, I don't give a fuck, let's see them slobber all over each others faces as music plays and the camera pulls away revealing the crowded city that continues to move around them as they smooch. BAM! Romance. Good.

But nothing pisses me off more than pointless endings, and I'm beginning to loathe the 'second movie cliff hanger.' This is when there was a great standalone first movie, and then it got green lit for a trilogy. So the second movie ends with... nothing. See: The matrix reloaded, Pirates of the Caribbean... GIve me a standalone movie. Empire Strikes Back did it perfectly. Shit was bad, yeah, the story wasn't over, but I felt like that particular narrative was complete.

And on Lost in Translation, I really liked the ending to that movie... But that's just me.

bob123321 · 4 months ago

I like cheese