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re: Movies that had happy endings that shouldn't (there will be spoilers)
Posted on 5/13/17 at 7:41 am to athenslife101
Posted on 5/13/17 at 7:41 am to athenslife101
I fricking hate Million Dollar Baby ending. After all that she gets sucker punched and breaks her neck on a stool? Really?
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Posted on 5/13/17 at 7:44 am to elprez00
It probably has been like that to keep the stakes alive. But the Transformers lesson is still in play. Having the balls to kill Optimus prime and 90% of Generation 1 doesn't have the cynicism profit motive anymore.
But Thanos being Thanos they can't avoid that or risk capping the story off with another Age of Ultron.
But Thanos being Thanos they can't avoid that or risk capping the story off with another Age of Ultron.
Posted on 5/13/17 at 8:04 am to Bigtime92
I love this movie but can't watch the last 30 or so minutes. Most of the time I prefer a darker ending but shutter island is a movie that i would have like a happier ending.
Posted on 5/13/17 at 11:36 am to Bigtime92
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Law Abiding Citizen - they really tanked the ending on this one. Clyde should have killed everyone.
Saw this about a year or so ago
Pissed me off that he didn't kill everyone. That would have made for an awesome ending
Captain America Civil War: Captain America or Bucky should have died. frick them for hiding the fact that Bucky killed Ironman's parents
I was mad in fracture ?that Anthony Hopkins character didn't get away with murder. I still don't understand how Ryan figured out that the gun was swapped out.
Posted on 5/13/17 at 11:43 am to DJ3K
Bucky should've died. No one cares about him anyway.
Posted on 5/13/17 at 12:00 pm to athenslife101
The Martian. Matt Damon should've spun out into space forever til he died
Posted on 5/13/17 at 12:01 pm to athenslife101
Dark knight rises. Batman never should have figured out autopilot and instead should've sacrificed himself over Gotham. How touching. Not some lame shite where he actually runs into Morgan freeman at some random arse Italian cafe and they don't say a word to each other. bullshite.
Posted on 5/13/17 at 7:53 pm to athenslife101
Fury. SS solider should've killed Norman under the tank.
Posted on 5/13/17 at 8:09 pm to floyd of pink
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he actually runs into Morgan freeman at some random arse Italian cafe and they don't say a word to each other. bullshite.
You mean Micheal Kaine, you know, the guy who played Alfred. The same guy who told him earlier in the movie that he wished Bruce had never come back, that he used to have fantasies about catching a glimpse of him in a cafe in Italy, living a happy life instead of being tormented by the loss of his parents. It wasn't random at all.
This post was edited on 5/13/17 at 8:11 pm
Posted on 5/13/17 at 8:36 pm to Merck
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Posted on 5/13/17 at 9:09 pm to floyd of pink
quote:Yeah... except for the fact that it's Batman.
Dark knight rises. Batman never should have figured out autopilot and instead should've sacrificed himself over Gotham
Not that he should be able to figure everything out all the time, but the point is, Batman (and Superman, James Bond, etc) are perennial, continuous characters that span across generations. You don't kill them off in a movie, because there is a very real risk that you ruin the character forever after, or at the very least ruin the actual movie's chances at syndication.
Our great grandkids are going to watch a Batman movie (or whatever form of media it will be). Nobody is going to tolerate killing him off.
Posted on 5/13/17 at 9:57 pm to Scoob
The only answer is The Abyss. Great movie til the aliens show up at the end.
Posted on 5/13/17 at 10:06 pm to Willie Stroker
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Also, Darth Vader should have successfully murdered Luke Skywalker. There's just no way a wildly inexperienced nube would defeat a much more experienced and naturally talented Vader.
I think you're missing half the point of this thread. It's not just scenarios that are wildy unlikely (the common "hero defeats a much more skilled foe"), it's the idea that a movie was made worse because they decided it needed a happy ending. Star Wars was an unabashed good vs. evil hero movie. Everyone knows and expects the hero to prevail. It would have been a worse movie to suddenly turn dark.
Passengers could have had a cerebral sci-fi ending (Jennifer going through the same agonizing situation as Pratt) and it could have been an instant classic. But instead it went for feel-good box office glory.
Posted on 5/13/17 at 11:09 pm to illuminatic
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Chris Pratt should have died shutting down the reactor forcing JLaw to live alone for years until she broke down and woke someone else up staring the whole cycle over. Just my opinion. I hated the ending to that movie!!
Holy shite this would have changed my whole perspective on that movie- it always seemed kind of fricked up that she forgave him at all-- or at least within the time given in the film.
Posted on 5/13/17 at 11:13 pm to Cap Crunch
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This really goes back to the books, but Harry Potter. He should have had to actually die to defeat Voldemort. It was a cop out to have him come back.
Storywise that might have been better- plus there's a reason Frodo leaves at the end of LOTR- you can't have the destined hero stay after all that. That said- this would have scarred an entire generation like nothing I can think of- I mean it's like if at the end of Huck Finn- Huck comes across Tom Sawyer's drowned corpse- you don't take a generation's coming of age hero with a tragic death.
Posted on 5/13/17 at 11:14 pm to LordSaintly
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Hollywood doesn't like it when the bad guy wins.
One of the reasons the Usual Suspect sticks with us as more than just a great twist ending movie.
Posted on 5/13/17 at 11:18 pm to TouchedTheAxeIn82
Age of Ultron and Winter Soldier
I hate the pussificatiom of the stories. Actual people should have died. Making all of those on the ships evil was dumb.
Also, Ultron should have demolished some actual cities.
I hate the pussificatiom of the stories. Actual people should have died. Making all of those on the ships evil was dumb.
Also, Ultron should have demolished some actual cities.
Posted on 5/13/17 at 11:19 pm to floyd of pink
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Not some lame shite where he actually runs into Morgan freeman at some random arse Italian cafe and they don't say a word to each other
Alternatively it's the tragic delusions of Alfred as his dementia sets in.
Posted on 5/13/17 at 11:21 pm to athenslife101
Jurassic park
Posted on 5/13/17 at 11:26 pm to cfish140
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fricking hate Million Dollar Baby ending. After all that she gets sucker punched and breaks her neck on a stool? Really?
I actually watched this movie for the first time a few weeks ago. And then that happened I was like "seriously? You gotta be fricking kidding me. No one gives a shite about the other boxer who who did that too her?". I wasn't a fan of the ending either
This post was edited on 5/13/17 at 11:26 pm
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