Happy endings that aren't happy the moment you think about them - Happily ever after...or is it? Deconstruct the shit out of happy endings in media.

[Butterschmalz]

Say no more: Schindlers list.

 

[The handsome tard]

E.T

I mean, lets face it, Elliot's life isnt in for a happy one. He literally helped U.S government "property" escape and I really doubt there wont be repercussions for him and his family. Without mentioning that Elliot will bet a person of interest because of his exposure and possible psychic bond with E.T. They will never leave them alone, ever. Their best option is to flee the country and change their identities but even that may not work.

 

[Ace of Clubs]

Titanic: She dies in her sleep and goes to the side of the 1 night stand she had instead of the man she married and had children with for like 70 years.
Proving she was just as shallow and wrong as the upper class guy she threw away for that 1 night stand on the boat, then she also chucked away a valuable jewel that could have kept her family in the green after she passed away. She was a selfish women, who clearly did not value anything else but her own feelings.

V for Vendetta(movie version): V dies and passes on the soul of anarchy to Evee. But left a vast power vacuum in the the state he just tore down. Now as history has shown. When this happens, the one to replace the guy you just deposed needs to prove his power is solid. They do that by being an even more bloodthirsty despot. To say to every other upstart don't mess with me. What V did was plunge the country in to endless civil war, warlords and all the fun things that come with that. None of these issues are ever countered by Moore in any of his writings. Because well he is an old commie fuck and thinks the default outcome would be communist utopia that is perfect in every way.

 

[TheHarbinger]

Titanic: She dies in her sleep and goes to the side of the 1 night stand she had instead of the man she married and had children with for like 70 years.

She has a loyal husband who broke his back to give her everything from hard work despite the fact that she was hoarding a billion dollar necklace. She repays him by getting railed by some random twink (maybe God correct DiCaprio's sexual orientation in the afterlife?) she met on a cruise ship when she was a teenager for all of eternity. While her horrified children realize she never loved any of them and denied them generational wealth purely out of spite. And this is how they spend the entire afterlife.

Proving she was just as shallow and wrong as the upper class guy she threw away for that 1 night stand on the boat, then she also chucked away a valuable jewel that could have kept her family in the green after she passed away. She was a selfish women, who clearly did not value anything else but her own feelings.

If you watch Titanic enough you will end up rooting for everyone on the ship to die horribly and miserably. None of the characters are likeable. They are all shallow narcissistic scum and absolute losers. It's the exact opposite of Cameron's Aliens where the crew are mostly likeable and relatable and you root for them to live.

She also could have given the jewel to charity or to a museum and raised a billion dollars for basically any public venture.

 

[fake farts]

Titanic, but not for the reason most fags cry about. For the very much more real reason that she was sitting on a goldmine with that necklace and never sold it, using the money for her and her family. But hey, richfag James Cameron got his muh symbolism, right?

Well, at least the post above me mentioned it. Most faggots are too busy crying about who she fucked rather than the far more stupid mistake.

 

[cybertoaster]

Its clear titanic would've been much better if big tiddy rose just stayed single for the rest of her life so the ending is she being reunited with the only man she loved instead of being a narcissistic slut, but I guess the idea of a woman staying celibate for the rest of her life didn't work with the female test audience.

But here's the thing, the dude has a HEART DEFECT. He shouldn't go into space! You need a clean bill of health to be an astronaut!

Did you even watch it? he proves he didn't have a weak heart after all when he beats his genetically superior brother in the race and even saves him from drowning.

That's the whole point of the movie, and there wasn't an apartheid for the un-enhanced humans they just didn't get the good jobs anymore because they assumed they weren't capable enough. Also couldn't get insurance and stuff because companies just assume they are weaker and more prone to disease.

The scene gives off strong pedo vibes and is a lot more disturbing than the filmmakers probably intended.

Heh, you really don't see it that way when you're a kid eh? but yeah it was probably some coomer producer's idea, the kind that still wishes he had been molested by an older woman when he was a kid.

the Kens will go right back to being 2nd class citizens and subjugated by their oppressive matriarchal overlords.

"And that's a good thing!"

Only to be told that your new persona is too violent and incompatible with living inside with everyone.

Did you even play the game? he gets kicked out because him being in the vault talking about the outside would make people want to leave too, specially the young.

And eventually the Vault is abandoned slowly

Once again, did you play the games at all? in the first the vault just goes back to normal but in the sequel it gets assaulted and all inhabitants kidnapped by the enclave.

 

[TheHarbinger]

@cybertoaster

he gets kicked out because him being in the vault talking about the outside would make people want to leave too, specially the young.

You get exiled because you are too powerful for the Overseer to control. He sees you as a political threat. Hence being thrown out. This is talked about in Fallout 2 and the Fallout Bible. Your character returns as a legitimate candidate to run the Vault. It is literally done to protect the entire control group and Vault experiment that the Overseer is a part of. The Overseer lies to you is the actual ending. He wants to remain the boss.

in the first the vault just goes back to normal but in the sequel it gets assaulted and all inhabitants kidnapped by the enclave.

In both Fallout 2 and the Fallout Bible there are large groups of people who leave Vault 13 right after the evens of Fallout 1. Some follow the Vault Dweller to Arroyo and some just settle out into the wastes while others remain in the Vault for generations until the Enclave overrun it. Vault 13 does not just go back to normal immediately. There is some dialog that suggest that the entire Vault not only killed the Overseer but actually abolished the position of Overseer entirely. Meaning that Vault 13 never actually return to the way that the control group had them organized.

 

[AnOminous]

Aliens, at least in retrospect. It ends with Ripley defeating the xeno and saving Newt, only for us to find at the beginning of III that she just died anyway.

An opposite example: The Road. Sure, the kid just watched his dad rob someone (who tried to steal from them) stark naked in a deadly wasteland to a certain miserable death, and then die himself, but he encounters a new group of people. It's subtle but there are signs of hope. Odds are still not good at all, but there are still good people in the world who care about life, shown by the fact they have a dog that they did not eat, and were willing to help a stranger (something that does not happen anywhere else in the film).

Arthur, with Dudley Moore. Sure he got married to the woman he loved and still got to keep his inheritance, but now she's married to a hopeless falling down drunk. It was also probably not a really great moral message that you can be drunk 24/7 and still get everything. My parents weren't pleased my brother and I for like a month after seeing it would pretend to be a drunken Arthur.

 

[Kulee Baba]

Did you even watch it? he proves he didn't have a weak heart after all when he beats his genetically superior brother in the race and even saves him from drowning.

That's the whole point of the movie, and there wasn't an apartheid for the un-enhanced humans they just didn't get the good jobs anymore because they assumed they weren't capable enough. Also couldn't get insurance and stuff because companies just assume they are weaker and more prone to disease.

Interesting I guess that is the intended message of the film, arguably just could have been presented more clearly because I'm not the only one who complained about this.

The way I took it he HAD a heart defect and if could go wrong well his heart would blow out. But that doesn't mean he had a weak heart just was more likely for it to happen. Like how many adults today need Heart Valve replacements that doesn't mean they're weak they just have a risk factor.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

I find that in most post apocalyptical settings the hero is more often times worse than the villain. Usually the villain has most of the dwindling human population under control and the hero character ends up either killing them or dooming them in the long run regardless whatever if that population had a choice or not.

The musical Urinetown actually does address this. The evil water corporation is defeated and everyone can use as much water as they like… and then the twenty-year drought that necessitated water rationing in the first place kills them all.

V for Vendetta(movie version): V dies and passes on the soul of anarchy to Evee. But left a vast power vacuum in the the state he just tore down. Now as history has shown. When this happens, the one to replace the guy you just deposed needs to prove his power is solid. They do that by being an even more bloodthirsty despot. To say to every other upstart don't mess with me. What V did was plunge the country in to endless civil war, warlords and all the fun things that come with that.

To be fair, the comic makes V a much more ambiguous figure. He is, as his name suggests, only out for revenge. It’s far from clear what will happen in future. Certainly there’s no suggestion that anything better will replace it, and the arrival of a new V at the end rather implies that things haven’t changed much.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Titanic: She dies in her sleep and goes to the side of the 1 night stand she had instead of the man she married and had children with for like 70 years.
Proving she was just as shallow and wrong as the upper class guy she threw away for that 1 night stand on the boat, then she also chucked away a valuable jewel that could have kept her family in the green after she passed away. She was a selfish women, who clearly did not value anything else but her own feelings.

It's hilarious how the film is being recontextualized with the boomer mentality - "I'll fuck my entire family and its generational wealth for a token gesture basking at the time I was young".

Thread tax: Tengen Toppa - The heroine dies, the hero lives alone his entire life and so is Yoko, that every person she loved died.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Titanic, but not for the reason most fags cry about. For the very much more real reason that she was sitting on a goldmine with that necklace and never sold it, using the money for her and her family. But hey, richfag James Cameron got his muh symbolism, right?

Well, at least the post above me mentioned it. Most faggots are too busy crying about who she fucked rather than the far more stupid mistake.

Thumbtanic's ending was better

Even the ending to Philippine spoof 'Tatay Nic' was more uplifting

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

It's been a million years since I watched it and I was never a huge fan to begin with so I may have missed something, but Donnie Darko

The whole point of the story is that Donnie surviving a the start of the movie is him averting fate and has a ton of bad consequences for everyone, the main one being his girlfriend's death, and him at the end of the movie choosing to die as he was "fated to" prevented all the tragedies.

But among all the bad things that his survival caused was also a pedophile getting exposed. Doesn't Donnie's death mean that, yeah, a bunch of bad things don't happen anymore, but the pedo gets away with it?

The way I saw it he got a chance to live out his life and teenage hopes/fears with everything in it necessary to make him accept that he would die.

 

[AnOminous]

None of these issues are ever countered by Moore in any of his writings. Because well he is an old commie fuck and thinks the default outcome would be communist utopia that is perfect in every way.

The movie version was absolutely shitty American liberal politics and Moore detested it. It doesn't remotely represent V's views. V actually did want anarchy and didn't care about the destruction or arguably even the ultimate outcome. The ending part is true though and in both, it's pretty likely that absolute chaos is going to result.

 

[Ace of Clubs]

The movie version was absolutely shitty American liberal politics and Moore detested it. It doesn't remotely represent V's views. V actually did want anarchy and didn't care about the destruction or arguably even the ultimate outcome. The ending part is true though and in both, it's pretty likely that absolute chaos is going to result.

Both versions of the story have 0 solid plan behind them. Moore is the idea's guy of political writing. It annoys me that he wrote V with a massive cop out. Oh well he is a true anarchist, he just wanted to burn it all down. That is all well and good, but V is never challenged about what comes after. No other character dares take his idea's down the critical thinking route. V is always in the right because Moore made him always right.
The film being disowned by him is just his gimmick. He did the same with Watchmen. Remember he took the royalty check for the studios to use his work.

 

[AnOminous]

Remember he took the royalty check for the studios to use his work.

I certainly don't because he famously didn't. He never thought films would be made of his other comics, so he signed over the film rights to adaptations and therefore couldn't refuse permission, but he instead let the other people who had worked with him collect the money, like Dave Gibbons for Watchmen.

He retains the rights to the characters themselves, though, so they can't create prequels or gay crossovers.

 

[Ace of Clubs]

I certainly don't because he famously didn't. He never thought films would be made of his other comics, so he signed over the film rights to adaptations and therefore couldn't refuse permission, but he instead let the other people who had worked with him collect the money, like Dave Gibbons for Watchmen.

He retains the rights to the characters themselves, though, so they can't create prequels or gay crossovers.

If he truly objected, he would have not let the films be made at all. Steven King took his name off many a movie as a protest, he sued to do it as well and argued because the story has very little to do with his story(Lawnmower man). He likes to keep up his image in the commie circlejerks he inhabits. So he can't been seen being the greedy capitalist pig we all know he is. The "he had 0 choice the capitalists took it from him" is pure cope.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

He retains the rights to the characters themselves, though, so they can't create prequels or gay crossovers.

Didn't DC make a bunch of gay ass prequels and crossovers with Watchmen like 5-10 years ago? I swore there was a "Before Watchmen" comic series and some DC vs Watchmen bullshit.

 

[AnOminous]

If he truly objected, he would have not let the films be made at all.

As I pointed out, and which you failed to read apparently, when he originally was negotiating over the rights to Watchmen and the other films that have had adaptations, he didn't think a film being made was going to happen.

So by the time it did, over a decade later, and he'd realized how bad they were (in his view), he'd already signed over the rights to film adaptations. He couldn't veto it. He could, and did, refuse to have a credit in Watchmen, which was really the only veto he had.

He can, and has, refused to even talk about doing prequels or dumb bullshit like a Batman crossover.

At least if you're going to criticize the guy have your facts straight.

 

[Kulee Baba]

The movie version was absolutely shitty American liberal politics and Moore detested it. It doesn't remotely represent V's views. V actually did want anarchy and didn't care about the destruction or arguably even the ultimate outcome. The ending part is true though and in both, it's pretty likely that absolute chaos is going to result.

What I hated so much was that in the movie the ending scene of the public was a protest akin to Kylie Jenner Pepsi commercial. Everyone just peacefully marching up and watching Parliament be blown up. Whereas in the comic the riots are destructive and barbaric, giving the message that Fascism and Anarchy are two side of the same coin.

As you noted the movie V is not an anarchist, he's more a general freedom fighter. The movie V should have wanted Parliament to be restored to its former glory. If I remember correctly the movie V even says something like "The future will be decided by the next generation." or some cucked shit.