Way too unrealistic i like movies where the ending isn't happy
Yes, I agree, it's unrealistic. It also creates a false sense of reality and hope in people.
Yeah the real world is often bleak most of the time happy endings are a fantasy that often don't happen
I just saw such a movie although the movie itself was horrible.
What movie
Same, but sheeple buy into the false hope jewllywood sells, thats how they make their millions. "Look, the nerd gets the girl in the end, that's gonna be some day!" etc.
Damaged (2024)
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How do you catch a brilliant monster? When a sadistic murderer surfaces in Scotland, terrified local authorities call on a Chicago police detective who investigated a killing spree with the same horrific pattern five years earlier. Samuel L. Jackson and Vincent Cassel star in this shocking...
In most of movies I support the villain instead of the hero.
most movies which I see with unhappy endings are British
oh and Arlington Road
Trap didn't 
Also Alien Covenant. That had an amazing ending!
But yeah usually they're happy.
Also Alien Covenant. That had an amazing ending!
But yeah usually they're happy.
i dont mind happy ending when theyre realistic. if john movie gets home at the end and come out of it with only a kfc its fine. if he come out of it 6'6 rich and taken, then it's unrealistic. an ending doesnt need to be overtly positive to be happy, a damn shame that slopwood doesnt fucking get that.
Yeah trueTrap didn't
Also Alien Covenant. That had an amazing ending!
But yeah usually they're happy.
Tbh
Same
Yeah it's all one big cope to appease to people for money
Never seen it
I think you'll like it
True, one my favourites is Threads (1984). It shows Britain at the height of the cold war, being annihilated by nukes from russia, and how the people deal with it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) based on the Orwell book is another good one.
The Elephant Man (1980) too.
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Interesting, never seen that one. Kill List (2011) and Damaged (2024) are 2 I have in mind.
I care less about if the ending is "happy" and more about the overall construction of it, if it "feels" like the end of a story, and (assuming it has a setting, character, or concept worth a shit in the first place) how much it either baits or shoots itself in the foot with regards to sequelization. A lot of types of stories end up in this weird limbo where they lack the catharsis of resolution without a "happy" ending of some sort especially in lower stakes stories. If AudienceInsert Mcbitchface doesn't get chad in the end there's nothing stopping her from just finding NewChad and thus the driving force of the narrative is still heavily in play and thus the story lacks catharsis, If Jason kills all the disposable sexhaver teens in the group he can just continue to hang out in the woods waiting for the next group or go out searching for more sex havers and thus the story lacks catharsis as the driving force is still in play by the end of the movie. With higher stakes and more fantastical stories often times they run into an opposite issue to the lower stakes stories where instead of feeling incomplete without a happy ending they end up *too* complete to make a justified sequel for, as an extreme example, if the world gets destroyed then there is no world to tell a story in anymore.
Yeah i suppose when it comes to movies with sequels there is more of chance the ending won't be a happy one so it can set something up for the next one
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