Do you guys love happy endings?

[ZenfoldorVGI]

Munkeh111 said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:
Happy endings are crowd pleasers, but they often aren't true to the message, or theme of a film/game. I prefer whatever ending is appropriate for the experience, and I don't go for the casual audience ending being the absolute best, and the "I paid for it so it better be happy" is the very reason their is a disconnect between the academy best picture choices and ticket sales.

Movies like Transformers, Spiderman 3, and Pirates are huge successes, with happy endings. The movies are audience friendly. Movies like There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men don't have audience friendly endings, but they are far superior films to the former ones I've mentioned(imo).

It's this disconnect that causes critics to snub their noses at the casual audience, and also causes the casual audience to hate critics for being stuck-up pricks.

That does not have a proper endings, it just stops suddenly and you think, why has it ended? It has no conclusion, the baddie gets away, the old cop is retired, and nobody lives hapily ever after, and nothing is concluded, it is not a proper ending

That's because the end of the movie was related to the moral theme of the picture, and not the actual storyline. Tommy Lee figures out that this world isn't the same as it used to be, that the good guy doens't always win anymore, that almost everyone is evil now, and there's nothing he can do to change it, like the old marshalls that once roamed the American west.

 

He see's his father calling him, waiting for him, because his place isn't here on earth anymore.

 

That's why he retired.

 

If "the bad guy got shot" ending had panned out, the whole moral theme of the movie, right down to the title of the film would have been compromised. Just like another Coen brothers film, Barton Fink, it has an ending relative to the theme of the picture, with little closure on the actual storyline.

 

That's why most casual movie goers wouldn't enjoy either of those films. The ending. However, that movies unwillingness to relent to the casual movie mantra of cliche endings is one reason its the best picture of the year.

 

imo, that is.