There is no such thing as a happy ending

GreenHell

Well there isn't (Fact)

I dunno about you but I am sick of the same old crap

I say revolution - some radical director pl change the status quo.

Jimi-Spandex

hey lo :7)

Personally I agree, I much prefer when the hero dies at the end or at least some variation on the usual sh1t. The only reason for this crap is stoopid American redneck 'will go to see it if it is popular'. (btw not every american is stoopid just so no one gets ****ed off with me) That is the reason I watch Manga(Japanese Animation) It rox cos of the waked out endings. Happy but not at the same time. Anyone who has seen Akira will know what i mean.

ThunderingMike

Ok yeah you have a point. Lets look at some manga endings shall we (warning I have put the name at the start of each so if you have not seen the manga in question , do not look at the ending :

• Akira : The city lays in ruins. Millions of sinners dead
  
• Violence Jack Part 1 : All the women have been raped and Jack is after killing the queer Demon thing.
  
• Patlabor II : We do not see it but as the film ends two giant blimps full of poison gas is plummet into a city.
  
• MD Geist : Geist unleashes thousands of Dooms Day Devices which destory mankind. Er...
  
  lastly...
  
• Ninja Scrolls : The ninja girls dead and the old man does'nt get any gold so Jubae goes drifting again.

Yes all in all you never really get a Manga/Anime with a happy ending.

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So the pope puts down the Badger and leans over to me and says , 'At TFC my son , I 0wnz j00'. Before I could speak in walks Dustin Hoffman in a giant Silk Worm costume and just then...it started to get weird...

Hobbes

The green mile - not a happy ending.

Arlington Road - Likewise.

ThunderingMike

Funnily though , sad endings almost leave a better feeling of satisfaction when you leave the cinema. For instance , the ending to Arlington Road is class and almost all of Terry Gilliams Movies have excellent but kind of sad endings.

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So the pope puts down the Badger and leans over to me and says , 'At TFC my son , I 0wnz j00'. Before I could speak in walks Dustin Hoffman in a giant Silk Worm costume and just then...it started to get weird...

Asuka

Hmmm funny i was just talking about that today. Film as entertainment should have a happy ending - it makes people feel good.

The thing is not to mix up entertainment films with films which mirror reality. These dont generally go for a happy ending, but a realistic or moving ending. Anime movies are totally different, i think that moving is the goal there, or possibly the implication that it is not in fact the end - the story goes on (it did in akira).

Personally, my current fav ending to a movie is Michael Collins - i saw it again the other day. The ending is moving, and then the funeral footage bit + music was *VERY* atmospheric.

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TwoShedsJackson

Ummmm, no-one has yet mentioned some films of the 90's that didn't exactly have happy endings.

Se7en: i'll say no more for anyone who still hasn't seen it. If you haven't just get it out and be gobsmacked.

Usual Suspects: ok i know this doesn't have a bad ending but it is highly ambigous, to say the least

but the Anti-Happy-Ending Award of All Time goes to........

Very Bad Things, the Cameron Diaz, Christain Slater black comedy from a year or two ago. Black doesn't begin to describe it. The classic feel-bad ending, I was in tears of laughter

Now if you haven't seen it yet, get it out at once - and if you don't like it don't ever talk to me if you meet me

TwoShedsJackson

Actually have you seen much of David Fincher's stuff, Greenhell? He's a director trying to do something different I think. Se7en, The Game, Fight Club, and *cough* Alien3.

metalchicken

I HATE SAD ENDINGS
I really do. Really.

Anyway, the two films with the worst endings that I can think of just now are Galipoli and Glory. They kill me. They really do.

Blitzkrieger

Glory wasn't a sad ending. In a way they got to do exactly what they wanted to do (lead the battle not die )

It's not like every good film has a sad ending. Look at Pulp Fiction - "Zed's dead baby."

I think that's the ending

plastic membrane

It is and it isnt. I think that the ending should fit in properly with the rest of the film. I like both happy and sad(bad,ambigous, whatever), but only if it fits in with the rest of the film. Glory was a good ending, heroic, yet not pat happy with the good guys winning out and living, ditto Braveheart, Wallace dies, yet the Scottish fight on, really good ending, inspiring, leaves you with a lump in your throat. The Usual Suspects, Seven, they're unhappy endings, but you still marvel at the fact that the makers decided to go for the dark ending, the mind f!ck. The best ending ever is 12 Monkeys. I still have no idea what the hell was going on, but there was something about it that was reallt touching and melancholy. Terry Gilliam is great like that.

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GreenHell

The best movie I ever watch was A bridge too Far - if you haven't seen it take 3 hours out of some sunday and watch it. Its an epic war movies jam packed with brillant actors.

The ending in it true to the story the Allies got their ass whooped - Classic.

ThunderingMike

**** Saving Private Ryan! A Bridge Too Far is one of the saddest war movies I ever saw. The look on Redfords face from the moment he steps on screen is one of complete dread. I hope his new flick is good.

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So the pope puts down the Badger and leans over to me and says , 'At TFC my son , I 0wnz j00'. Before I could speak in walks Dustin Hoffman in a giant Silk Worm costume and just then...it started to get weird...

gandalf

Yep I have A Bridge too far on DVD and its a bloody great film

Gandalf.

DeVore

What about Hamlet, just about everyone is dead at the end. So much so they have to bring in a tiny part character from the first act to conclude it.

Even Rosencrantz and Guildenstern end up dead.

Come to think of it Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead doesnt have a happy ending either (as the title might give away).

BTW, for those of you who HAVENT seen Titanic, it sinks in the end.

DeVore.

ThunderingMike

For **** sake Dev you might have warned us you were going to give away the bloody ending! *sigh*
Oh well , I guess I will just go watch 'A night to remember.' I think it is some sort of musical

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So the pope puts down the Badger and leans over to me and says , 'At TFC my son , I 0wnz j00'. Before I could speak in walks Dustin Hoffman in a giant Silk Worm costume and just then...it started to get weird...

GreenHell

But if you are a republican the ending of Hamlet is suitable right?

lucien

in the original of the film ariel the little mermaid she loses her soul and dies. now that sounds like a much better ending than the tacked on happy one that disney put on to it.

pat kenny

The ending to La haine was pretty dishartening.
With the most unlikely of the 3 guys getting shot.
But I suppose its not the fall that kills you.

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