Do you guys love happy endings?

[rocketpig]

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

Both of those films have conclusions, just not outright "get the bad guy/win the battle" endings that may appeal to you personally. Both are perfect conclusions for the individual characters in the movie. Hell, even the titles of both films play directly into the ending and where each character's trials and tribulations during the film have ultimately lead them (Jones retiring, Lewis killing his nemesis).

Personally, I'll take the endings of There Will Be Blood or No Country For Old Men over a Pirates of the Caribbean or Transformers any day of the week because they make you think not about the ending, but the course the characters took to reach that point and why they ended up in the situations they were in at the end of the movie. Not everything needs to be tied up into a neat little bow and too many directors give the audience far too little credit for having fully functional brains.