Why has it always to be a happy ending?
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Why are there so few movies with a bad ending?
Why has it always to be a happy ending?
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because they drug the masses and most people like a good trip and not a bad trip.
The Man Who Sleeps
Night Moves
The Hunt 2012
Eggers has 3 movies, and none of them have a happy ending.
>OP admitting he doesn't even watch movies
the same reason they add sex scenes to movies
check out blue valentine
Literally any movie with a male protagonist trying to achieve satisfaction in life :
>Wolf of Wall Street
>Scarface
>Goodfellas
And etc and etc
im not biting that
Art immitates life
LOL. I think you misunderstood what he was saying. He was trying to say every movie has a happy ending.
For me, it's an absolutely soul-crushing movie that still has a bittersweet ending.
Perks of being a wall flower
There's this as well. All realistic coming of age movies are depressing, because everyone is reminded that real life isn't good.
because people don't like bad endings. personally I hate them, but I will admit The Mist has the best bad ending I've ever seen.
>people don't like bad endings
I don't either. My favourite movie has a happy ending. People who like bad endings probably have good lives.
i have a good life and I hate bad endings and drama and bad things in general. I literally only watch feel good happy ending stuff with traditional heroes and villains, and refuse to watch anything where good guys (or animals) die or expectations of good triumphing over evil are subverted, etc.
>i have a good life and I hate bad endings and drama and bad things in general
Interesting. I can only assume you're a moral person. If you don't want to see bad things even in media, it means you'd rather those things never happened (movie or not). Good job.
I feel the opposite way, that a good ending is insulting to people with bad lives. It takes relatable circumstances that we were exploring through this fiction and then instead of arriving at a meaningful conclusion it slaps us in the face with an absurd, naive, delusional and empty fantasy.
>a good ending is insulting to people with bad lives
Seriously? That should only insulting if you're not capable of empathy. Me and someone else buy lottery ticket; He wins instead of me. Am I sad? Yes, but I'm also glad for the other person.
That's why I can enjoy a happy ending. That's probably incomprehensible for someone like you. It basically means you're a bad person. Which is good, because we probably don't watch the same movies.
Lmao nice bait
It wasn't bait. Reply after I filter the thread, and keep in mind I have the rest of the board filtered too. Enjoy the company of whoever these people are.
It's basically saying
>here's these characters going through an awful situation that you can relate to
>so how does this resolve and what meaning can you derive from this portrayal?
>UNICORNS AND RAINBOWS 😀
it's a slap in the face.
>People who like bad endings probably have good lives.
To a certain degree I would say I had a bad live. I dont want to see unrealistic movies in which the good guys always win and everything is happy and nice. Thats not real. I dont need people to lie to me. Show me real life which can have good endings but mostly this is not the case
how can you not like bad endings. that's weird.
How is it weird? If someone's whole life is a bad ending, then they won't want to see another one. I want to see people end up happy, because I'm not.
how can you enjoy people suffering and everything sucking? sadism and masochism are harmful mental diseases.
>sadism and masochism are harmful mental diseases.
Not really, and they're completely normal. I think the only problem is when a person is too much of one of those. Let's say someone wants to kill you, could you kill them instead? If not, then you better hope there's someone who can kill them, and that's why sadism is necessary.
For example: A police officer shoots someone dead. You might think "how can a person do that?" It's because that person is capable of being sadistic. If you aren't capable of sadism, you're just a victim. To say sadism is bad, is very feminine.
you're literally highlighting why sadism is bad. and no, law enforcement is not full of people who just want to kill. killing in defense is a necessary evil to protect from the true evil of sadism.
>killing in defense is a necessary evil
I utterly reject your pathetic framing
that is not 'necessary evil', but necessary VIRTUE
Lord of War.
Blow Out didn't have a happy ending iirc
The Mist
Threads is a fricking miserable ending
My mom died so I can't watch sad movies anymore. I know what real sadness feels like and entertainment put it on a pedestal as poetic and "a way to get strong". The truth is horrible things happen to you and you don't get stronger, you get weaker. Learning to cope isn't the same as becoming a wise adult.
Normal people that have parents and people to help them in their life, that never knew hardship, are stronger than me. More social, more full of life and joy. I can't relate to fake sad stories anymore.
Americans. They are children addicted to candy.
Be the change you wanted to be.
Because most movies follow a checklist of "things that people like and give more money" and good endings is likely near the top. They also require less work to pull off successfully compared to bad or ambiguous ends.
It's only in the horror genre where it's flipped and bad endings are expected.
The Brown Bunny
Brazil by Terry Gilliam, especially since the movie was almost ruined by the studio by making it have a happy ending in the end.
brazil
who's singing over there
a scanner darkly
under the skin
Interesting you put A Scanner Darkly, I was going to use that as an example. I'm getting to there's levels. A Scanner Darkly is downbeat as frick but there's a tiny hope, they think he'll be able to make it through the rehab and tell them about it.
Then I get to all out depressing endings such as Requiem for a Dream or Vivarium. Those hit me different than A Scanner Darkly.
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest maybe.
Just off the top of my head.
Escapism
Hyena has a pretty brutal ending